Some of you may know my husband and I just bought a new car – in OROVILLE! Oroville Ford was really nice. Although I was treated nicely and professionally at Wittmeier, I would say, Oroville Ford was the best car buying experience we’ve ever had. My husband agrees.
I try to watch other towns around Chico – not just for the price of gas and groceries, but also their political scene. What other town nearby is having the same kind of problems as Chico? I mean, I’m asking, chime in folks.
I remember Oroville having a fuss over their rec district, going through a lot of money, some accusations were made about a district director using their influence inappropriately. But I don’t recall Oroville making any recent announcements about being on the rocks.
I just casually met their new city manager – Randy Murphy – when he stood up to offer the only constructive suggestions at the recent CARD aquatic center meeting. Murphy suggested an aquatic center should be a regional effort, with other cities and the county helping out. Murphy was not even thanked for that suggestion, CARD staff just waited for him to stop talking so they could go on exhorting the audience to support those amendments that lower the voter threshold for bond measures.
A letter writer in yesterday’s Enterprise Record says Murphy only makes $127,000 salary as manager of Oroville, comparing that to Brian Nakamura’s salary as Chico City Manager. I wondered what kind of benefits package Murphy gets so I looked at the city of Oroville website:
http://www.cityoforoville.org/index.aspx?page=1
Nice website. You’ll find the labor agreements at the Human Resources page, which you will find under “City Services” at the top of the main page. I didn’t read those yet, you know me – I was immediately distracted by the “Minutes and Agendas” button to the right. I had to look, and sure enough, O-ville has their minutes posted through September 17, 2013. I’m just saying.
Chico Taxpayers Association 
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