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Beaumont Bond Summary – 30 Bonds Totaling $321 Million with $22 Million for Expenses and $64 MIllion Discounted
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Beaumont’s Mello Roos Bonds can be divided into two sections: the Sewer/Wastewater Bonds and the Liens on Private Property Bonds. All bonds have a ‘Sou … more
Beaumont Just the Facts: City Attorney
‘Rules of Professional Conduct’ Cited for City Attorney. Is this a Freudian Slip? By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com The City of Beaumont has posted the following ‘Just the Facts’: JUST … more
Controlling Bonds is the Duty of the Treasurer, not the City Manager
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Below are a list of California State laws regarding the keeping of Agency Bonds. There is supposed to be a book recording the bond transactions and it … more
Beaumont’s Mello Roos Violations
City Violates Three Basic Areas of Mello Roos Laws to Illegally Acquire Bond Debt By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com The City of Beaumont is attempting to acquire $175 Million in Bond De … more
Beaumont Council Meeting December 16, 2014: A Learning Experience
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Let’s review what we learned from last night’s Council Meeting. BOND DEBT We learned that Bond Debt takes precedence over everything else. We learned t … more
December Beaumont Council Meeting – What’s On the Agenda, and What’s Not On the Agenda
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Attend the Beaumont Council Meeting Tonight at 6:00 pm or watch live: http://www.ci.beaumont.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=212 WHAT’S ON THE AGENDA: Seven (7) A … more
Let the Developers Beware – Beaumont City Manager Alan Kapanicas Profits from Bonds Sales, Not Promise Keeping
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Beaumont Council Agenda Item 4.a Increases Developer Mitigation Fees. One might ask why Developers would continue to pay mitigation fees to a city that … more
Beaumont Defrauds Public with ‘Just the Facts’ about Illegal Four Seasons Ballot
City Incorrectly quotes California Government Code in an Attempt to Justify Four Seasons’ Illegal Ballot By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Like RDA, Mello Roos has to be removed from ou … more
City Internal Controls Review Bid For Proposals Focuses on Procedure instead of Staff
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com REVIEW OF INTERNAL CONTROLS A Public Records Request produced the Request For Proposal (RFP) that was allegedly sent out to Auditing Firms: INTRODUCTIO … more
$2,682,463 Contract to AECOM was a $172,870 Contract Awarded to Utility Partners On August 19, 2014
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Agenda Item 3.g: AECOM to design, construct, and deliver 719kw solar photovoltaic facility at the Wastewater Treatment Plant: http://www.ci.beaumont.ca … more
Why Beaumont Didn’t Simply Refund the 2005 Four Seasons Area 7 Bond
The City Can’t Qualify for an Interest Rate Low Enough to Refund the Bond By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Four Seasons Area 7A is part of the original 12 developments listed on the fi … more
$175 Million In Bond Debt to Build 7,000 Houses
The City of Beaumont is attempting to acquire a total of $175 Million in Bond Debt for Seven parcels of land that have no Will-Serve Letters By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com The City o … more
Increase Mitigation Fees and ‘Deposit-Based’ Fees
Seems a Bit Greedy to Raise Mitigation Fees when City Staff Steals it All Anyway. By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Agenda Item 4.a: Fee Update City is increasing Mitigation Fees and wa … more
Alan Kaparnicas and Urban Logic Profit From the Bonds
Beaumont City Manager Alan Kapanicas Is A Bond Salesman By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com The December 16, 2014 Beaumont City Council Agenda contains seven (7) different attempts to acq … more
Fraudulent Ballot Approval Will Get Orozco and Lara 10 Years in Prison
A Fraudulent Ballot Plus Targeting Seniors Equals Lots of Prison Time. By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com On December 2, 2014 Beaumont City Councilmen Brenda Knight, Jeffery Fox, Mark Or … more
Beaumont Mayor Knight and Manager Kaparnicas Violate Additional Laws
Knight and Kapanicas Conspired to Perpetrate a Fraudulent Election Targeting Senior Citizens. By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com As a group; the Beaumont City Council committed several f … more
December City of Beaumont’s Special Council Meeting
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com The City of Beaumont has announced a Special Session on December 11th at 6:00 pm. There is no Subject of Discussion for the Special Meeting. The ‘Agend … more
Union Bank Transfers Beaumont $5 Million to Pay Wastewater Bond
$5 Million Taken From Mello Roos Reserve Bond Fund Accounts to Pay 2001 Wastewater Bond. By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com The November General Ledger and Bank Statement show the transf … more
Beaumont City Manager Alan Kaparnicas – Lies, Prepayment, and Gobblygoop
By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com At the December 2, 2014 Council Meeting Beaumont City Manager Alan Kapanicas spoke about financing and prepaying. As usual, most of what Kapanicas said … more
City of Beaumont Advertises for Planning Commissioners
Posted on Friday and expired on Tuesday By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com Posted on: December 4, 2014 Planning Commission Vacancy Notice is hereby given that the City of Beaumont is see … more