I’ve been distracted by city of Chico improprieties lately – I have two requests for information that are being point-blank ignored by $taff.
Last week the clerk’s office posted the city council agenda with an item regarding the current Chico Police contract negotiations. The agenda report referred to a document –
“Section 1. That an amendment to the contract between the City Council of the City of Chico and the Board of Administration, California Public Employees’ Retirement System is hereby authorized, a copy of said amendment being attached hereto, marked Exhibit. and by such reference made a part hereof as though herein set out in full.”
that was not attached to the agenda. I had to ask for it. The clerk sent me the document later in the day – it turns out, last March, council signed a release, indemnifying CalPERS from any harm caused to the city by that agency.
The document clerk sent was not cut-and-paste and she did not provide me a link through which I could share it.
This is the second time I’ve had to ask for a document that was supposed to be attached to a report on an agenda. So, I wrote an e-mail to city $taff, asking why the document wasn’t attached to the agenda, as was described. They just aren’t responding.
Here’s an article Dude sent that might shed some light – thanks Dude!
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article184235683.html
Meanwhile, I’ve been waiting for airport commission $taffer Sherry Miller to post the video of the “special” airport commission meeting held last week. She had been posting notices of the meeting for about a month, saying, “As I noted in an earlier email, the meeting will be videoed and a link posted to the Airport Commission web page.”
I would have attended that meeting, but about half an hour previous, the heavens opened up for a dumper, and I thought, “well, she did say the video would be posted…” I was born here, I know – you think twice before you go out in a storm. I’ll never forget the time I went to an evening meeting, it was storming, public works hadn’t cleared drains, and not only the city building parking lot and courtyard but two businesses across the street flooded. I remember standing inside the lobby with a group of people, including then assistant city manager John Rucker, telling Rucker I had to walk on curbs to get in from the parking lot.
Miller also said, “In addition, the City Council Chambers are not under construction so the meeting will be held in the usual location at 421 Main Street in the City Council Chambers. This works out better for viewing the presentation.”
But the agendas page still posts the meeting at the old Municipal Building, “441 Main Street, upstairs…” In red.
So, if the meeting was held in the council chambers, why did she later claim that the video is not in the right format for posting or sharing? That’s the same chambers the council holds meetings in twice a month, and those videos are available the next day, almost without fail.
So, I’ve been asking her when that video will be available, and she’s just not answering.
Mutiny on the Good Ship Lollipop?
Chico Taxpayers Association 
There are so many bureaucracies and so little oversight. No wonder government is so expensive.
And John Rucker? Would that be the John Rucker that Nakamura canned back in ’13? Whatever became of him? I believe he was in his early 50s back then and went into retirement and started collecting his 6 figure pension.
You got that right! I’d direct you to the Special Districts page at publicpay.gov but I don’t want to give you a stroke.
And yeah that’s the same Rucker – now teaching at CSUC
How sweet is it to collect a six figure pension AND get paid to teach???
Well, maybe not so sweet for the tax payers.
If more people knew