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No-Bid Contracts 2000 – 2009 – $79 Million Awarded Mostly to Beaumont City Staff’s Privately Held Companies
By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com State law requires that all government contracts go through the publicly bid process to ensure that taxpayer money is protected. Elected and Appointed … more
Beaumont Finance Director William Aylward Resigned on May 1, 2015 After 20 Years of Forging Financial Statements
Beaumont Finance Director William Aylward resigned on May 1, 2015 after 20 years of forging Financial Statements. The City’s books revealed that money was funneled to several private companies, includ … more
Beaumont Budget: Departments – In the last year Employees have decreased from 204 to 152
By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com Budgeting is the allocation of money to the different departments. The City of Beaumont has released their 2015/2016 Budget listing some departments t … more
Forbes: A Cautionary Tale For Bond Buyers & Beaumont Special Tax municipal bonds
By: Marilyn Cohen | Original Article at FORBES.com We are all aware of sticker shock. We are aware of those pesky gummed price stickers on things we buy. Your kids and grandkids grew up with stickers … more
No Action Taken By Beaumont Council – The Five Hour Closed Session Resulted in Kicking the Can Down the Road
By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com After a five hour Closed Session Beaumont City Council emerged with the announcement of ‘No Action Taken’. Item d: Evaluation of City Manager will be … more
BEAUMONT PROBE: In Inland cities, consultants bring benefits, concerns
By: Stephen Wall and Alicia Robinson | Original Article at PE.com When Menifee became a city in 2008, a consultant ran the show. A firm, Winzler & Kelly, hired experienced managers to make decisio … more
Blast From the Past: Beaumont Electric
The City of Beaumont Can Not Claim the Bidding Process is Fair when The City is Bankrolling Contractors. By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com Beaumont Electric is portrayed as a private-s … more
Where in the World is General Government Management Services?
Beaumont City Manager Alan Kapanicas’ Private Special Tax Consulting Business Has Vanished Off the Face of the Earth. I Wonder Why? By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com General Government … more
Govt Employees are Civil Servants, Not Civil Masters
Written By soon to be Beaumont City Attorney John Pinkney By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com THE HISTORY OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS In a democracy, government employe … more
Contractors Must Name Subcontractors to Qualify for Government Contracts
By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com The April 23, 2015 Beaumont Council Meeting had three (3) contracts on the Agenda regarding work on the Sewer Plant which created a discussion regardi … more
Council Transcript – Ten hours Before the Raid Kiernan McKiernan Stood before Council
By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com Ten hours before the office of Urban Logic Consultants was raided by the FBI and Riverside D.A.’s office Kiernan McKiernan stood before Council and pr … more
In the wake of FBI raids, critics call for firings, resignations
By: Craig Shultz and Erin Waldner | Original Article at pe.com In their first gathering since a regional corruption task force raided City Hall, Beaumont city leaders were hit with calls for firings a … more
FBI, Local Investigators Seize Records, Computers at Beaumont City Hall
By: Richard Winton and Veronica Rocha | Original Article at LA Times Federal and local investigators raided Beaumont’s City Hall on Wednesday, along with the home of the city’s top administrator, as p … more
Beaumont residents call for overhaul of city leadership
By: Natalie Brunell, KESQ News Channel 3 & CBS Local 2 Reporter | Original Article at KESQ News Channel 3 BEAUMONT, Calif. – Beaumont residents are demanding transparency from city leadership foll … more
Home of Beaumont City Manager Alan Kapanicas raided by the FBI
By: The Desert Sun| Original Article at desertsun.com The Palm Desert home of Beaumont City Manager Alan Kapanicas was raided Wednesday by the FBI, possibly in connection with a probe targeting the Be … more
FBI, DA’s Office Serve Warrants at Beaumont City Hall, Urban Logic
By: Renee Schiavone (Patch Staff)| Original Article at Patch.com Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Riverside County District Attorney’s office swarmed into the normally-quiet … more
FBI, DA Remove Documents From Beaumont City Hall, Office Amid Public Corruption Probe
Original Article at ktla.com The FBI is serving search warrants at Beaumont City Hall in connection with a public corruption probe, sources say. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed that agents were assisting … more
FBI, District Attorney’s Office Serve Search Warrant in Palm Desert
By: Renee Schiavone (Patch Staff) | Original Article at patch.com Search warrants were carried out in a raid by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office and the FBI in a total of three local ci … more
Corruption probe launched in Beaumont
Original Article at Inland News Today BEAUMONT – (INT) – City officials confirm that search warrants were served Wednesday at the Beaumont Civic Center, the offices of Urban Logic Consultants, and sev … more
URBAN LOGIC: Consulting firm long entrenched in Beaumont city affairs
By: David Danelski / Staff Writer | Original Article at The Press Enterprise Urban Logic Consultants, the company that is the subject of FBI and district attorney’s raids on Wednesday April 22, has pr … more