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Berg Abuses Power

By: Libi Uremovic, July 16, 2014| Original Article at Patch.com Transcript from the July 15th 2014 Beaumont City Council Meeting when Berg uses the Public Comment period to brag about past harrassment … more

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

By: Libi Uremovic, July 15, 2014| Original Article at Patch.com eaumont City Council Agenda Item 1.b: Recognizing Retirement of City Attorney Joe Aklufi. The Law Firm of Aklufi and Wysocki has assumed … more

No Bond Debt Without Voter Approval

By: Libi Uremovic, July 13, 2014| Original Article at Patch.com At the last Beaumont Council meeting there was a parade of speakers from the Beaumont Cherry Valley Recreation and Park District regardi … more

WRCOG vs City Statement of Decision

By: Libi Uremovic, July 10, 2014| Original Article at Patch.com The Court has released the WRCOG vs City of Beaumont Statement of Decision.  This 47 page document lists the legal basis for the Court’s … more

Beaumont Ignoring Taxpayers

Editorial, June 19, 2014 | Original Article at PE.com Litigation is almost always an expensive proposition. Litigating a nearly lost cause is an expensive folly. Yet Beaumont officials appear intent o … more

Persistence pays off – city releases internal audits at the request of residents

By: Julie Farren , June 20, 2014 | Original Article at Record Gazette After a heated discussion between Beaumont city council members and residents who have been pushing for years to have City Manager … more

Storytime for Adults … or how the City prepares and presents its yearly Audit

By: Ken, June 20, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com ..or how the City prepares and presents its yearly Audit for the time period BEGINNING July 1st 2012 and ENDING June 30th 2013 JUNE 13, 2014 Regu … more

Utility Authority Operates at Loss

By: Libi Uremovic, June 19, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com Page 58 Note 14 Contingencies & Commitments Beaumont Utility Authority: States that no lease payments were made to the City because … more

Loan to City of Calimesa

By: Libi Uremovic, June 18, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com The 2013 Audit Note 5: Notes and Loans Receivable states:  “The City entered into a loan agreement with the Ciyt of Calimesa for the de … more

Important Comments in the “Draft Audit”

By: Lloyd White, June 18, 2014 | Original Article at Patch Last night, under an agenda item titled “Budget”, the city council presented a “Draft Audit”. The City’s auditor sent a representative to ans … more

Agenda Items 7.A.7,8, and 9

By: Libi Uremovic, June 16, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com Item 7.A.7 RESOLUTION – COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT SEWER & REFUSE Item 7.A.8 RESOLUTION – COLLECTION OF NUISANCE ABATEMENT CHARGES It … more

Beaumont Appropriations Limit

By: Libi Uremovic, June 15, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com Agenda Item 7.a.17 Appropriations Limit The City is requesting to raise the appropriations limit from $59,025,952 to $60,680,272 in fis … more

Beaumont Investment Policy

By: Libi Uremovic, June 15, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com Beaumont City Council Meeting Agenda Item 7.a.18 – Investment Policy SCOPE: This investment policy applies to activities of the City of … more

Regional Means Regional

By: Gail Paparian , June 13, 2014 | Original Article at Record Gazette Regional means regional; not local or we will pay our share of what WE determine is the actual price. Confused? Let me try to cla … more

Mayor Knight: Face of Corruption

By: Libi Uremovic, June 6, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com Published: June 8, 2014 Updated: 11:09 p.m. Beaumont’s efforts to build roads on its own, ignoring a regional program its City Council a … more

The price of road to independence hits $43 million

By: Craig Shultz, June 8, 2014 | Original Article at The Press Enterprise Beaumont’s efforts to build roads on its own, ignoring a regional program its City Council agreed to embrace, appear to have b … more

State Controller’s Office Steps In

By: Libi Uremovic, June 6, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com I spoke with the State Controller’s Office today.  I am meeting with them at their office on June 17th. I was told that a Three-Person T … more

Bellmont

By: Lloyd White, June 2, 2014 | Original Article at Patch The $43 million dollar settlement against the City of Beaumont has awakened a lot of interest in many people who have not been paying much att … more

Duty of Citizens

By: Libi Uremovic, May 31, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com The Judge’s ruling was very clear; the entire CFD operation in the City of Beaumont was illegally established and maintained. The electe … more

Court orders City of Beaumont to pay $42 million to WRCOG

By: Julie Farren , May 29, 2014 | Original Article at Record Gazette The City of Beaumont has been ordered to pay $42 million, plus interest, to the Western Riverside Council of Governments (WRCOG) fo … more