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Featherbedding
AOL
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Follow the money. Last year city eliminated all full time fire department staff. Existing regular city staff then went on fire department payroll, with claims they are doing fire dept jobs. Now, Sheriff Dept patrols are cut with "savings" used to pay city staff, and a fire marshall to fine residents for, so called, weed abatement violations. City Council creates committee of developer friends (Spothelfer, Fernandez, Morgan) who determine City Hall has outlived it useful life and should be replaced. As a poster on another LHH forum said, you need to turn off your tv's Thursday night and get down to the City Council meeting and let the council know you want service for your tax dollars, not to be robbed and left to fend for yourself.
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Speaking Out
San Francisco, CA
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Why is the City Council allowing the expenditure of $19,200.00 for an assessment study for City Hall? This insanity has to stop! Why doesn't the city use the 3 (female and 2 males) in the planning department to do this and not spend $19,200.00? Appears the City Manager and Council do not think they are qualified. Why are Westerhoff and Bergman on this committee, is this a conflict of interest and unethical? It must be a joke that Paul Spothelfer is on this City Hall review committee. He is a "Handyman", this writer heard he screwed up the gyms bathroom and wasn't bonded? Did he or does he have home occupation permit and business license? Ray Fernandez runs his corporation out of his house, does he have a home occupation permit and business license? The City Council has allowed the City Manager to cut Sheriff services and has endangered this community. This is a small town of 5,200 residents. We do not need a new $40,000 accounting system and $20,000 in new laptops. How about buying paper and more pencils at the .99 Store?
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Correction
Arlington, MA
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The proposed City accounting system is not $40,000. It is $50,000!! With $13,000 annual "hosting" charges. This is the most expensive proposal of those presented to the city. What's going on? One of the reasons stated for new computers and accounting software, is the current server is 5 years old and "out of warranty". The city also already pays for periodic back-up of all files off site. Nice to be able to spend OPM.
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Watching
San Francisco, CA
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Can the City Manager and City Council FOCUS on one project before they jump and start another shopping spree!
FIRST repair the various roads that are falling down hillsides before you get on the new City Hall kick AGAIN! Why is a handymen and a developer on the City Hall Review Panel?
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LHHFascistWatch
Whittier, CA
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George Edwards was dead on at Thursday's council meeting in publicly shaming the three council members that voted to cut the Sheriff's contract. To further clarify what protection the city will have it is not a contract to have a car in the city 15 hours per day, but is for 15 hours of service in total of all deputy personnel in town daily, on average. For example the next time Mrs Vip decides to throw another public tantrum and summons deputies and three units respond and spend an hour on the call, that is three hours billed to the city. Assuming that one of the deputies was a LHH car, a total of two more hours of coverage will be taken from the number of hours a car will be deployed in the city. Time will be subtracted for all calls answered by outside units during the hours a car is not in town as well as any call that requires a second or more deputies respond including their time traveling to the call. As you can see, with those hours getting figured into the 15 hours of daily service, the city will more likely have a car in the city 12 hours a day or so on average and the other half on call with a long response from over the hill. Being that deputies work a ten hour shift, most likely the city will see one car a day for a ten hour period, with the occasional day that will see a car for 20 hours to complete the approximate 100-110 hours of service the city is buying per week. Perhaps this is why the City Manager and council want to talk about it in closed session.
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Answer Man
San Francisco, CA
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What happens if the Sheriff is needed beyond the contract monthly hours? Is the city charged time and half, double time? What happens in the event of a earthquake or natural disaster and the Sheriff is needed 24/7 for several weeks?
Why doesn't the City Manager and City Councl discuss this at the City Council meeting?
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LHHFascistWatch
Whittier, CA
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FEMA money would cover disasters, likely, hopefully, and the city does have a nice reserve.
If hours ran over it would be 'straight time" as the Sheriff's rate already figures into vacation time, sick time, overtime, retirement, benefits, court, secretary, detectives,etc.. behind it the time spent in town.
However I doubt that average over a month, or year that the time spent on calls exceeds 15 hours or whatever the settle on close to that.
There should be a few hours a day left over for patrol and traffic enforcement, but I would be about half the time the closest car is responding to a call from Hacienda Hgts or further depending on what's going on elsewhere.
Hacienda Hts has ample coverage, but it's a big area and most of Industry stations cars are north of Valley Blvd
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Jackknife
San Francisco, CA
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So a car carrier looks at a sign noting his tractor trailer cannot enter Hacienda north. He turns it around and jackknifed blocking traffic. Since the laundry list of goodies was spent at the council meeting, reducing Sheriff's service seemed acceptable for some reason.
It took hours before the Sheriff was able to show up or even be called. The Fire Department wasn't involved until they were informed that they were blocked in if a call came in. A citizen tried to help direct traffic.
What's wrong with this picture? Everything. The Fire Chief could not be reached at any if his contact numbers. He is one for three in attending emergencies. Yet he said that the use of volunteers "would be a step backwards".
The Sheriff would be first responder normally. But now they are off the clock. Roads are funneling traffic unwittingly into a trap and no traffic guards are present. Why? Because we as volunteers aren't welcome. The General Plan clearly states that the city will not work without genuine hands on desire for emergency volunteers. Case and point today.
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Not the Heights
Whittier, CA
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The car carrier that was stuck on Hacienda Rd. was not in The City of La Habra Heights. That section of road is unincorporated Los Angeles County and should have had CHP there to handle the incident. Did LASD contact CHP? Will LASD charge La Habra Heights hours worked to handle this incident that was not in the City of LHH? Did the Fire Dept. contact CHP? The Fire Dept. doesn't seem to have a problem billing people that have accidents in that stretch of road, even though they are not in LHH. Maybe some investigating needs to be done. Maybe the Fire Dept. needs to learn their boundaries instead of hanging out at 7-11 for Slurpees.
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LHHFascistWatch
Whittier, CA
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The county island across from City Hall which includes Janine Dr, Madalena, Esseverri, and Citrus have a unique reporting district number seperate from LHH City and any time spent here comes from the Industry Station Unincorporated patrol hours.
So, as long as the deputy dispositioned the call with the correct RD the city will not pay.
The way things are going, disincorporating the city might have benefits in fire, police, and chp services, and the Supervisors are real big on community general plans and advisory groups.
Levin, Clark, and the half-witted Chief are going to ruin City Hall to the point that it's disfunctional like Bell, Maywood, Montebello and Vernon.
As for the Sheriff, police logs are subject to the Brown Act. I hope one of the few citizens that pulls documents at City Hall all the time takes the initiative and checks the logs for response times.
BTW Document pullers, the Brown Act says you don't have to give your name or reason for request.
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Brown
Arlington, MA
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LHHFascistWatch wrote: Levin, Clark, and the half-witted Chief are going to ruin City Hall to the point that it's disfunctional like Bell, Maywood, Montebello and Vernon.
BTW Document pullers, the Brown Act says you don't have to give your name or reason for request. Levin, Clark, and Chief (who gets $100 per hour for a part time job he surely doesn't want to jeopardize) do exactly what the city council wants them to do. The council likes you to blame the city manager or chief, but they are not free agents. Yes, you are correct about the Brown Act, but the city is well known to ignore that, and short of having the DA set up a sub-station at City Hall, will continue to, short of residents filing suit (Hmmmm ?). Residents need to fill out forms to ask the time or get an agenda.
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Reader
San Francisco, CA
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If you pull a public request for the Sheriff log response times and do not fill in your name, how do you get the information mailed to you? Possibly you can set up an email address and get it emailed to you?
The city has emailed public request information before so this is not new for them.
The City Council wants the residents to blame everything on the nitwit staff.
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“Exclusive Investigation!”
Since: Jun 07
La Habra Heights
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Please wait...
Message to Editor from reader:
It seems like all of the services to LHH are going down hill. Animal control leaves dead animals on the road, from hours-days before picking them up, after being called. A couple of years ago a resident called about a pig that had wandered near their house & died. Animal control responded after 3 hot days & numerous calls, this after the pig exploded!!
Now the Sheriff is “busy” and needs us to call just before noon to take reports. We can thank our CC for this.
EOM
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Lawless city
La Habra, CA
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What good really is the Sheriff in this town? They don't do anything, they are never present, they cannot come to town in any expedient manner and they are not interested in enforcing the law. So be done with them altogether. They are useless.
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Want Information
San Francisco, CA
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Will the City Manager, City Council, and or the Sheriff tell us exactly how their reduced hours are impacting our safety?
If the Sheriff works more than the 15 hours, they WILL bill each extra hour. Has the city really reduced the budget? The answer is NO, they are just telling us they reduced the budget, it is all smoke, mirrors and lies.
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LHHFascistWatch
Whittier, CA
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Lawless city wrote: What good really is the Sheriff in this town? They don't do anything, they are never present, they cannot come to town in any expedient manner and they are not interested in enforcing the law. So be done with them altogether. They are useless. The city is getting the level of service it pats for, and the council has deemed appropriate. The city is only paying close to half of what it would cost to have a 24 hour law enforcement coverage in town if the CITY should want that level of service. The blame for having a level of service not to your liking is not the Sheriff's fault. It's the city that determines what level of service they want, not the Sheriff.
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ABC
La Habra, CA
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XYZ wrote: Is this the same George Edwardz(s) that abused the 911 system to obtain police protection when he had a tiny scratch that he claimed was caused by an 80 year old? 911 is NOT to be used for non-emergencies. What a joke.
<quoted text> I was there too. He was being attacked by an angry mob of demented individuals, one an ex-cop. Yes, George could have defended himself against them, but the best course of action was that which he took. The outrageous attack became national news, and one impartially written report by "Perilous Nation" covered it best. Read it here: http://boycottlhhia.blogspot.com Here are a couple of examples of unnecessary Sheriff services. Two Sheriff cars and three deputies were called to a Parks and Rec meeting and remained for the entire meeting. They were called because someone had a camera and was recording the meeting. The Council and City Staff regularly use Sheriff Deputies as personal "muscle" to intimidate residents. Should this stop?
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nibbles and bits
La Habra, CA
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XYZ wrote: Is this the same George Edwardz(s) that abused the 911 system to obtain police protection when he had a tiny scratch that he claimed was caused by an 80 year old? 911 is NOT to be used for non-emergencies. What a joke.
<quoted text> XYZ wrote: Is this the same George Edwardz(s) that abused the 911 system to obtain police protection when he had a tiny scratch that he claimed was caused by an 80 year old? 911 is NOT to be used for non-emergencies. What a joke.
<quoted text> The official report lists Jeff Hintz as placing the first 911 call. Apparently George would not submit to molestation by John and Jeff. It was creepy to watch two very old men trying to get their way with a young man. If it had been me in the video capturing the attack I would be calling for help too. Also at the time there was concern John Pearce and Jeff Hintz might not be disease free. Hopefully both were STD free since the district attorney found testing of both unnecessary. You can watch the disturbing video at this site. http://youtu.be/GZyQA2858Dg
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DEF
Newport Coast, CA
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There was more police presence in La Habra Heights before the city incorporated. The CHP handled traffic issues and the Sheriff handled crime. Units from both agencies were present in the area every day.
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Brown Bagger
San Francisco, CA
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It's appalling we have had our Sheriff services cut, leaving us in danger. The Sheriff is having a closed door meeting with the City Council and staff on Thursday. Is this legal to discuss how the budget impacts public safety?
The staff enjoyed over $300 in lunches at the Hacienda Golf Club, WHY? Are they just flipping us off by spending tax dollars? City Council blesses everything staff does. WAKE up residents. You are being fleeced.
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