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Sierra Army Depot Commander

Denies

Knowing Anyone from HSP Resources, Inc

The Commander of Sierra Army Depot, today, not only denies knowing anyone from HSP Resources, but states that he is not negotiating with any private entity party for leasing Army property.

SAID Chief of Staff Aric Manner also stated that the Army has no plans to lease the Amedee Army Airfield to any private party now or in the future.

Lassen County Quagmire

Will the Supervisors reject all bids

and

start over and do it right this time?

Will the Supervisors order the $40,000 mandatory  "Airport Use Plan" before they re-issue any more RFP's  to sell the Amedee parcels ?

BACK CHANNEL DEALINGS

How far did the Supervisors go?

The Draft RFP for the Amedee Airfield was "prepared to be issued" on February 1, 2014

HSP (Pezzuullo/Smith) then purchased land and mineral rights above the Army's Airfield

 from February 23, 2014 to April of 2014, for $450,000.  [Jack & Margaret Humphry purchased this land in 1950, at a tax sale, for $32.15]

SUPERVISORS:

The Amedee Airfield property is over 3,000 acres and is worth more than $450,000

Steve Pezzullo's HSP submits their RFP ($25,000) and states that they will trade the "One Stop" building in Herlong for the Airfield property and also states that they are negotiating with the Army for the Airfield itself.

Where does "US Mine" come in?

This is a "shell" corporation created in California, on April 23, 2014, to acquire the land around the airfield.

They put together 30 names to form this "dummy" corporation. They have no capital assets?

[........aka US Mine offers $35,000]

Guess where A. Scott Dockter claims his corporate residence is?

3090 Boeing Road, Cameron Park, CA

Dockter recently joined US Mine in October of 2014

We need to ask what Tom Hammond is getting, because none of this helps Herlong

WHERE IS COLONEL SLOSSON IN THIS SCHEME?

Supervisor Hammond asked the Commander of SAID to the December 9, 2014 Board Meeting[Video:Part 8] two days before the Amedee RFP is due. 

He made a lot of unusual promises

We have asked the US Army FOIA Officer in Warren, Michigan if Col. Slossen can enter into a lease/sale with anyone other than Lassen County. No response has been received.

Did the Lassen County Supervisors

Vote

to

take an Easement across the pool parking lot to the Small Sheriff's Boat House

at their November 25, 2014 meeting ?

NOW, LOOK AT THE PARCEL WITHIN THE  BLUE LINE

Their discussion was to approve an easement perpendicular to the Boat Storage building (this building actually sits at the bottom of the photo on a separate lot).  Chapman made a fuzzy motion (?) but the CAO failed to EVEN show the Supervisors or the public where this easement will be.

SO WHAT DID THEY APPROVE? WE DOUBT EVEN THE SUPERVISORS KNOW WHAT THEY VOTED ON.

[The BOS will need to give the HLVRA the Roosevelt school (Parcel B) in order to issue any type of Certificate of Participation securities]

Watch what they do, not what they say !

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS GIVE

CAO DIRECTION TO LOOK INTO

$4,000,000

"CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION"

Problem: they cannot do this because the County does not own the property !

The Lassen County CAO wants to use the COP as a financing tool for Capital Improvement Projects,

 projects that presently do not exist

Courthouse Renovation- $1,100,000

Community Pool- $1,100,000

BLM Bldg. Purchase- $1,700,000

Certificates of Participation are a lease financing agreement in the form of tax exempt securities. They can be marketable to private investors and are not considered DEBT. If you have to pay it back.......it's DEBT.

This action only requires a vote from the Board to proceed but the Board must first identify and add these Capital Improvement Projects to their budget before proceeding. Something the Board has been reluctant to acknowledge. This would expose the Supervisors to a level of scrutiny by the public.

"Certificate of Participation" Procedure

1. The City/County identifies the leaseable asset

2. The City/County leases/transfers the leaseable asset to HLVRA

3. The HLVRA leases the asset back to the City/County

4. The HLVRA names a Trustee to execute the Certificates of Participation to the public

The City of Susanville transferred "A" below and the County is attempting to transfer "B" to the HLVRA.

THE COUNTY'S Property, IS A PARKING LOT. 

TO INVESTORS, THIS IS A PARKING LOT

and will soon be given to the HLVRA

VIDEO:   Secret Ballots

Attending a Lassen County Supervisors meeting is like

sitting down at a poker game that you know is crooked.

Larry Wosick hands his secret ballot to the Clerk and asks the remaining Supervisors to do the same

Kan We Help has received a ton of e-mails, mostly outside the County, wanting to know if anyone has confirmed that Bob Burns still has a license to practice law.

Lassen County Counsel Bob Burns can be seen helping the illegal "SECRET BALLOT".  Bob Burns, has a license to practice but it is clear that he chooses not to

The Flim Flam Man is Gone

Wosick

Good bye and Don't let the door hit you in the As_.

......more about the meeting

While Wosick was going up the stairs before the Supervisors meeting, he was overheard saying that he was going to put Wayne Langston's name down on a piece of paper and pass it around to the other Supervisors. 

Wosick's last rotten act

Wosick did in fact try and appoint Wayne Langston to the RCD Board (Honey Lake Valley Resources Conservation District) via little pieces of paper. 

OF COURSE, THIS WAS ILLEGAL AS HELL.

The over 40 RCD customers that attended (standing in the hall) stressed to the Board that they need to appoint someone who will bring peace to the Board.

Wosick Puts a Thug on the RCD Board

Wayne Langston was a tyrant and a thug when he sat illegally on the LMUD Board. He actually had Agenda's that prohibited any public comment and the audience had to endure story after story of how he "beat" his child.

Burns turned the other way then when Brown Act complaints were filed and still disregards and disrespects the Brown Act today.

Langston was arrested by the CHP for a DUI.  District Attorney Bob Burns got him and Frank Cady off.

Water issues in Lassen County are escalating. Egan, Hemphill, Pyle.......all familiar names, all are accused of abuse of water usage

CAO Richard Egan Tampers With

Amedee Request for Proposal ?

Kan We Help printed & saved the Amedee RFP when the County published it on 9/18/23.

 The Original Resolution stated the RFP would be released "without modification" and yet when Kan We Help printed this same RFP from Lassen County's website, on 12/8/14, it had been altered. (4 pages had been deleted)

Exhibit "A", which defines the boundaries of the Parcels for sale,

was on page 69-71

These pages, of the legal boundaries, conflict with the

graphics included with the Amedee RFP

It gets worse.....CAO Egan sends Kan We Help a version, on 12/9/14, that has  14 pages  deleted.Mr. Egan's copy was not bate stamped.

The "County approved Amedee RFP" was bate stamped (each page numbered)

Several companies want to know why this was done and what exactly Lassen County is selling .

It gets worse.....CAO Egan sends Kan We Help a version, on 12/9/14, that has  14 pages  deleted.Mr. Egan's copy was not bate stamped.

The "County approved Amedee RFP" was bate stamped (each page numbered)

Several companies want to know why this was done and what exactly Lassen County is selling .

AMEDEE AIRFIELD PARCELS

BIDS

December 11, 2014

The public Request For Proposal to sell the 3576.49 acre contaminated surplus property

given to Lassen County in 2003 by the Sierra Army Depot

FIRST BID -$35,000

US MINE CORPORATION

Recently formed: 4/23/14         California corporate ID: C3669150

Recently formed: 9/12/12         Nevada corporate ID:  E0473932012-0

Scott Dockter moves around alot and seems to be a "FOR HIRE" CEO. His last job was at a web company called Port of Call. He left Port of Call on October 27, 2014 and is now with the newly formed  US MINE.

According to Nevada public records, the Company itself isn't worth anything

SECOND BID -$25,000

HSP RESOURCES, INC.

Recently formed:   9/25/13       California corporate ID: 201327010167

HSP bid is $25,000 but wants to swap the "One Stop" for the Amedee Airfield parcels. 

 HSP, coincidently,  purchased the mineral rights to the land north of the Amedee Airfield in April of 2014.

Pezzullo, coincidently made this same offer weeks after he purchased the township of Herlong.

Who wasn't invited to the Party ?

Two companies withhold bids until  RFP flaws are fixed

PUBLIC MISLED ON RFP

......everyone except HSP Resources LLC

Public record shows that Steve Pezzullo's HSP Resources LLC purchased the parcels above the airfield immediately after the RFP was issued in January/2014. This land would give them direct access to the electrical substation (which would save them hundreds of thousands of dollars to construct)

District 5 Supervisor Hammond and outgoing Supervisor Wosick show no reaction when Kan We Help exposes a parcel included in the RFP (electrical substation) that the Board voted to exclude.  Video

The Lassen County Supervisors tasked CAO Richard Egan to develop a Request For Proposal for the Amedee Airfield Parcels.

On September 23, 2014, the Board voted to approve Egan's RFP as it was submitted. 

 September 23, 2014 VIDEO.

[the Minutes of this meeting have been deliberately withheld by the County Clerk's office]

A Resolution was also passed, on 9/23/14, stating the RFP will be issued "without modification".

This is an important fact because Richard Egan sent Kan We Help a "modified" version of the RFP that deleted 14 pages of the original RFP

Lassen County Board of Supervisors

Must Reject

All Amedee Airfield Bids

on

December 11, 2014

CAO Egan and the Board got away with the Herlong One Stop sale, but they got caught with the Amedee Airfield RFP

Left to Right: CAO Richard Egan, County Counsel Bob Burns, District 5 Supervisor Tom Hammond

Corruption/Land Deals

Amedee Electrical Substation

CAO Egan and Lassen County Supervisors

intend to pull another

"Ooops, we didn't intend to sell that"

At public meetings, CAO Richard Egan claims that the Amedee Electrical Substation is not included in the RFP.

But it is clearly included.

Amedee Electrical Substation

Amedee Airfield Parcels RFP

Rigged From Day One

The Lassen County Supervisors placed the first RFP to sell the Amedee Airfield & surrounding parcels (most are contaminated with ordinances and explosives) on their  January 28, 2014 Agenda.

....and then proposed to quickly issue the RFP on February 1, 2014 with a bidder submission date of March 1, 2014.

 This gave Steve Pezzullo, and his partners (HSP Resources LLC) just enough time to buy the property above the Airfield, on February 22, 2014.

Steve Pezzullo, Larry Smith and Hal Hays paid over  $450,000 for the parcels contiguous to the Amedee Airfield Parcels on February 22, 2014, 25 days after the first RFP appeared on the Agenda.

The deal had been made

HOW MANY SUPERVISORS SOLD THEIR VOTES ?

At least three

Larry Smith or Steve Pezzullo or Hal Hays

GUARANTEED

THE AMEDEE AIRFIELD PARCELS

on December 11, 2014 ?

WHY YOU ASK......?   

1. On September 17, 2013, Jack Hanson & Larry Wosick and the County awarded Steve Pezzullo the Herlong township for $31,900 and immediately transferred the property to the newly formed (9/25/13) HSP Rescources LLC.

On November 25, 2014, Larry Smith of HSP Resources LLC (Hays, Smith, Pezzullo) came before the Lassen County Board of Supervisors and complained that he had wrongly been assessed at $528,000 for the township of Herlong, which he now has to pay $11,717.96 in property taxes.

HSP Resources has done little-to-nothing with this property that they promised to develop for the benefit of the Herlong residents.

Larry Smith claims that the $30,000 he has spent on Herlong was not worth it.

2. On February 22, 2014, five months after the Herlong purchase, Hal Hays (Hays Ranches LLC)  purchased the land above the Amedee Airfield parcels and transferred it to HSP Resources. The parcels ,in yellow, were purchased in 2014 and transferred to HSP also. As you can see, #16 and #17 are contiguous to the Amedee Airfield Parcels (Bids due on 12/11/14 @ 4:00 PM at the County Administration Building on Lassen Street in Susanville)

The property marked in yellow has been purchased by HSP Resources LLC, between February 2014 and April of 2014.

The glaring fact here is the majority of the Amedee Airfield 3576.49 acres is contaminated with explosives      and the only safe access to this  airfield property  would be through the parcels recently purchased by Steve Pezzullo and his partners (?)

The airfield itself can never be owned by a private party

3. Now we come to the charade put on by the Lassen County Supervisors on November 25, 2014, especially Supervisor Hammond. Tom Hammond seconded a motion by Bob Pyle to order an "Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan" at an approximate cost of $18,000. The motion failed from a lack of a quorum. Wosick, Hammond and Pyle do not want to restrict or delay any of HSP's plans by  waiting for a "building plan" around the airport. This is a mandatory plan that was never done. Supervisor Pyle has been on the Airport Commission for 20 years

WHAT NAME WILL PEZZULLO USE TO BID ON THE AMEDEE AIRFIELD PARCELS RFP?

HAYS RANCHES, LLC

HSP RESOURCES LLC

CEG INVESTMENTS

HUMPTY DUMPTY LLC

       EGAN LAND LLC

SUNSHINE FARMS INC

HLVRA Executive Officer

Ignores Public Records Requests

to

 Release Supporting Documents

for Payments to Staff

Jared Hancock, HLVRA Executive Officer has refused or cannot comply, after several requests to release documents that support reimbursements to Susanville "staff". Lump sum invoices are submitted and quickly paid. 

There are currently no employees at the year-old Joint Powers Authority created to handle millions of taxpayers dollars to build and manage a community pool in Susanville, California.

Accountability + Transparency= Trust

After several requests by Kan We Help, the HLVRA has agreed to submit at least monthly financial statements.  

Honey Lake Valley Recreation Authority

meets today at 3:00 PM at the Susanville City Hall

New pool designs, New Costs

Lassen County Amedee Airfield Parcel RFP

Disingenuous Deceitful and "pre-determined" outcome

This will be Wosick's last scam. He leaves office on December 31.

Like Jack Hanson, he will help his friends/family as his last "Act"

Bids will be publicly opened at

4:00 PM on December 11, 2014 at:

Lassen County Administration Building

221 S. Roop Street, Suite 4

Susanville, CA 96130

HISTORY OF SCAMS: The Lassen County Supervisors did not announce that Larry Wosick, a sitting Supervisor, bid on the Herlong RFP. Eventually, all bids were rejected and the RFP was re-issued on June 4,2013.  The Herlong bids were due on July 25, 2013 and then opened and the township of Herlong was given to Steve Pezzullo. All of the Herlong parcels were transferred to the newly registered corporation, HSP Resources. 

Supervisor Wosick's friend was then awarded the property for $31,900.

HSP Resources has painted a few buildings and done a few repairs in the past year.

Wosick's previous bid was$25,000 which included the parcel "V-2".

May 14, 2013:  Board Meeting

Present:  Larry Wosick, Bob Pyle, Jim Chapman, Aaron Albaugh, Jack Hanson

The Board does not announce the winning bid for the December 18, 2012 Herlong RFP.

They placed the Herlong RFP on the Closed Session Agenda and announced that they had NO REPORTABLE ACTION.  There was no mention that Supervisor Wosick had bid $25,000 for all of the Herlong property.

Willis Dow had bid on one parcel (Parcel 4, along the railroad) and appeared at the meeting to complain about the way the  bidding process was handled.  Evidently he had been told, by the County, that his bid had been rejected.  

PUBLIC OUTRAGE GREW

The Public was outraged with the apparent collusion. 

Supervisor Albaugh tried to invoke the "Referee" clause to re-visit the sale. It was voted down.

On November 26, 2013, Steve Pezzullo offered to trade his recent purchase of  the township of Herlong for the Amedee Airfield Parcels

The Supervisors turned this offer down

THERE IS LESS THAN 0%

THE RFP FOR AMEDEE AIRFIELD PARCELS

WILL BE ON THE UP-AND-UP

0%

....and

Wosick delayed voting on spending $18,000 for the Mandatory  "Airport Land Use Plan" that will determine

WHAT CAN BE BUILT

on the parcels surrounding the Federal Airport.

(these restrictions would apply to any land within a 2 mile radius of the Sierra Army Depot airfield)

The airport itself can never be owned privately!

NO PROPERTY TAXES

FOR LARRY SMITH AND STEVE PEZZULLO'S

HSP Resources LLC ?

VIDEO:

The Supervisors, Hanson, Wosick, Albaugh & Pyle voted to approve Pezzullo's Herlong township purchase on September 17, 2013. Jack Hanson, Herlong's Supervisor, was recalled on September 10, 2013, but the Board delayed the Recall Election results so that Jack Hanson could vote on the sale to Pezzullo.

 After the four Board of Supervisors approved Steve Pezzullo's $31,900 bid for the township of Herlong, Pezzullo immediately (September 25, 2013 ???) recorded the Herlong property to  HSP Resources LLC (Hayes, Smith, Pezzullo).  All of the Herlong property was transferred to this partnership the same day and Hammond was assured that he would be the only food and gasoline vendor in Herlong.

(Unfortunately all of the partners are unknown).

HSP Resources is paying $1,383.12 property taxes on the $1,000,000 Family Resource building in Herlong (parcel V-2- APN 139-160-9811).

 HSP can sell this property, and probably will.......

Corruption/Land Deals

This building was valued by the previous Assessor at  $125,000  :(

Since October of 2013, HSP Resources has purchased

71 additional parcels.

According to public records, Larry Smith & Steve Pezzullo are paying $5,565 property taxes on only 11 of the 71 parcels .  The remaining parcels property  taxes were waived by the previous Assessor. 

When Supervisors Wosick and Hammond vehemently supported the very odd Re-zoning of Ag property in Herlong to a much more profitable "Town Center" zoning, HSP owned three adjacent parcels.  Just a hunch, but will HSP purchase the "Town Center" property now.

....KWH WILL MONITOR THAT PROPERTY....

A similar re-zoning gift was made before Jack Hanson was re-called. Hanson managed to re-zone his brother-in-laws (and partners) property  to "Town Center" before he left office .

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

VOTES ARE FOR SALE

Watch Wosick & Chapman:Trading Votes

Larry Wosick, Lassen County Supervisor

A REALLY BAD CHOICE

Julie Bustamante, County Clerk

A REALLY BAD CHOICE

Turkey Day at the Board of Supervisors

Unbelievable Meeting

What is the "going price" to buy these votes? free dinners, free vacations, re-zones, cheap county land, lower taxes, new cars/trucks..........   

Turkeys For Sale: Cost TBD or fair market value

      Supervisor Hammond    Supervisor Pyle          Supervisor Wosick   Supervisor Chapman

The November 25, 2014 Lassen County Board of Supervisors meeting was full of surprises.

1. DONATION

The Board of Supervisors rejected a gift from Kan We Help and did it with much animus but accepted a bouquet of flowers from Violet Stout (?).  Kan We Help was given a HP 4500 wireless copier to be donated to the Board of Supervisors meetings. In the past, the Supervisors have refused to make copies of documents, for the public at meetings, that were distributed to the Board. The last time this happened the Board approved a Resolution to place an item on the ballot and would not make copies for the public.

VIDEO:

The person who donated the copier came to the meeting.......

2. ASSESSMENT APPEALS BOARD

The Board of Supervisors agendized the "Assessment Appeals Board" to listen to public complaints about the property tax appeal process.

Larry Smith of HSP (In 2013, purchased the 435 acre township of Herlong for $31,500) came to the Board meeting to complain about the recent assessment on all of his parcels.

The Assessor "valued" 20 parcels of Mr. Pezzullo and Mr. Smiths property in Herlong, at $528,000.

[the range varied with the highest parcel assessed @ $1,633.12 and the lowest parcel assessed was $19.18]

What Larry Smith failed to mention is that the Assessor discharged (waived any property taxes) on 13 parcels because the assessed value was under $463.

This is a tax revenue for Lassen County

and will bring a total of

 $11,717.96 in taxes to the people.

Property taxes for 13 of their parcels were discharged (waived) because the assessed value was less than $463

Mr. Smith and Mr. Pezzullo have been collecting rent on the properties since November of 2013 and have never paid any property taxes. They raised the Post Office rent from $500 to $2,000 a month........

POOR MR. PEZZULLO AND MR. SMITH ?

Also, the Supervisors intentionally included a building worth over $1,000,000 in the sale (One Stop) which the County had previously used restricted funds to pay for a new roof and air conditioning.

Lassen County Supervisors sold this County building to Pezzullo & Smith (Parcel V-2) for $173,

and Bob Burns made sure they would not go to jail..

VIDEO:

  NEWS FLASH

When you take out a building permit

it goes to the assessors office

for a re-assessment of your property taxes

Does Mr. Smith or Mr. Pezzullo intend to

take building permits out

to improve his property

......still waiting Mr. Smith ?

3.   Another Boondoggle Scam

Are Supervisor Hammond and Supervisor Wosick in too much of a hurry to sell the Amedee Airport Parcels. What % of a Finders Fee are they going to collect from the Pezzullo group or will they all just  get new cars and trucks?

SNAG #1

The property being sold has the Sierra Army Depots airfield in the middle. The Army has a 50 year lease on the airport.  It cannot be sold to a private party. 

However there must be an "Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan". This "Plan" was never done. The Supervisors have been in discussion about paying for the "plan" for almost a year.  Wosick voted against the motion to have the "Plan" done because he traded votes with Chapman for something else

Watch this "unethical" discussion between Wosick and Chapman  

ANY POTENTIAL BIDDER

OF THIS PROPERTY

[RFP's due on December 11, 2014]

MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BUILD ANYTHING.

SNAG #2

The Lassen County Supervisors do not want to spend the $18,000 to have this "Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan" done and hope that the NEW OWNERS won't care if they can't build anything on the property.

The Supervisors are selling all of the Airfield parcels in one lump sale and will try and sneak in the airfield like they did with the Herlong "One Stop".

Kan We Help was able to force the Supervisors to disclose the fact that the property is "hazardous to human safety". New reports, recently acquired from the Department of the Army in Warren, Michigan states that the condition of the parcels are much worse than earlier reported. 

THIS LAND IS DANGEROUS. 

MORE HOUSEKEEPING NEEDED

MORE INTEREST NEEDED BY HLVRA

In October, Kan We Help submitted a request for the HLVRA to bring their website up to date with Minutes and Agendas. 

Now that all Agendas have been posted it appears that the February 18, 2014 Minutes were never approved.

Also, the June 17, 2014, July 1, 2014 and the August 5, 2014 Minutes were approved without a quorum

Community Pool

Lacks Funding

to

Proceed

The City of Susanville and the County

will not advance the

$3,500,000

for the pool  construction

Left to Right:  David Meserve, Larry Wosick, Brian Wilson, Nick McBride

Honey Valley Lake Recreation Authority meets AND DOES NOTHING, AGAIN.  Supervisor Chapman absent again.

"Million Penny" Donator pleads for the JPA

to do the right thing

Pool JPA Meets

on

Tuesday,

November 18, 2014

3:00 PM, Susanville City Hall

?NO ACCOUNTABILITY

FOR THE POOL MONEY ?

Susanville Dentist, Dr. Jim Hodges, asks the Lassen County Board of Supervisors why the Community Pool has not been put on the Capital Improvement Plan.

Maybe.......What the public doesn't know won't hurt them.........?

The Supervisors have hidden six pages of the County's Capital Improvement Projects from the public.  These projects still exist but the Supervisors don't want the public pressure to complete them. 

Maybe.......What the public doesn't know won't hurt them.........?

The Supervisors voted to donate $200,000 (of taxpayers money) a year to build a community pool at the old Roosevelt Pool site which closed in 2004. 

After one year, the JPA (Honey Lake Valley Recreation Authority) has been reluctant to release current financial statements.

The City of Susanville has donated $400,000 since the JPA was formed on November 18, 2013. The County has matched that amount and now is attempting to match the $1,750,000 needed for construction costs.  

ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK

Supervisors show contempt for Grand Jury Again....

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS TOLD TO

"PROPERLY" HIRE

A CHIEF PROBATION OFFICER

On November 12, 2014, after attempting to appear to comply with the Grand Jury recommendations, the Supervisors hired the same person (Jennifer Branning) they had appointed as Acting CPO.

[Hammond, Pyle and Wosick voted Yes, Albaugh abstained and Chapman voted No]

The Grand Jury stated that the "acting" Chief Probation Officer, Jennifer Branning, had received a 52% pay increase which is in violation of Lassen County's "Personnel Rules and Regulations". 

Jennifer Branning was earning $23.67 per hour. 

The Supervisors hired her today

at $39.17 per hour. 

On April 16, 2014, Lassen County CAO Richard Egan "created" a letterthat was meant to appear as though Presiding Judge Michelle Verderosa had penned it.  Judge Verderosa reacted by stating that she would no longer appoint the Chief Probation Officer in Lassen County. The County then was forced to create a new "Chief Probation Officer"  position.

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

HAVE NOT

LOCATED A FUNDING SOURCE FOR

THE HVLRA  COMMUNITY POOL

Another week goes by and the Supervisors have yet to place any item, on their agenda, for the $1.75 million dollar's needed for the County's portion of the construction costs for the pool

Design Options

for Community Pool

Offered to HVLRA

Site: Old Roosevelt Pool

ONE YEAR LATER:

Lassen County Supervisors have yet to find their share of the money ($1.75 million) for construction of the pool.

The HVLRA meets again on November 18, 2014 @ 3:00 PM, the Susanville City Hall

Option 1 cost: $3,867,482

Enclosed Pool for year-round use

Option 2 cost: $ 2,924,193

Not enclosed, for seasonal use

Lassen County's Former District Attorney and now County Counsel, Bob Burns

finally forced to tell the truth under oath.

LINK

Lassen County Disgrace

*THEY DID NOT DO THE RIGHT THING*

Lassen County withheld evidence, to the Grace Foundation, that proved the 36 Whispering Pines horses were removed from the Bennett property and given to the Grace Foundation for care. The County has refused to reimburse the Grace Foundation for over three years, claiming that they had no obligation to pay for the horses care.

 Warning: THIS VIDEO IS GRAPHIC

                                                                                                    Whispering Pines

The Grace Foundation made a plea for help at the January 28, 2014 meeting  Video link: Part 1@ 4:39 mark . The plea for help fell on deaf ears and the County Supervisors did nothing. The Supervisors met in closed session many times and knew that they were obligated to care for these animals (reimbursements to the Grace Foundation) until the disposition of the Bennett case.

The letter below was withheld from the Grace Foundation

Honey Valley Lake Recreation Authority

Met on November 4 and

Presented Options for the Susanville community Pool

ABSENT: Supervisor Wosick. He has  resided outside his District since January. He resides  in Reno.

The two public entities that make up this Joint Powers Authority (City of Susanville and Lassen County) have yet to secure any money to construct this community pool.  The costs now exceed $3 million. 

The JPA was asked to begin being accountable for the $800,000 now in its' treasury. Jared Hancock showed resistance to this type of accountability.  President Brian Wilson asked Mr. Hancock to present a financial report at their next meeting on November 18, 2014 at 3:00 PM at the Susanville City Hall.

JPA's are notorious for pissing away money

JPA's don't think they have to be accountable for the people's money

On November 5, 2014, the City of Susanville Agenda Item 12 failed to inform the public that $1.75 million dollars will be needed to donate to the construction of the community pool.

The Lassen County Supervisors did not place this issue on their November 12, 2014 Agenda. 

County Clerk, Julie Bustamante

Leaves her daughter Nicole as an Election Officer

Replaces Bridgett Bustamante with her sister Cindy

This violates the Lassen County

Nepotism code

the only constant is change

VOTE

Lassen County Measure Z

 A Yes Vote will limit County Supervisors to 3 four year terms.

 This would limit terms regardless of whether the terms were consecutive

Trick THE PUBLIC or Treat?

County Clerk's Remedy

Bustamante has never felt compelled to follow the rules

Change her daughter's name (no one will ever notice)

BUSTAMANTE, MADDEN, MURRAY

and add another relative, Bridgette Bustamante

Lassen County Election Officer,

JulieBustamante,

 Hires Daughter Again

Nicole Bustamante Madden Murray was at the Westwood Precinct when the voting machine seal was broken and replaced

The County Clerk Claims Her Daughter Will Not Get Paid As An Election Officer

.....Bustamante has been there long enough NOT TO MAKE THAT STATEMENT

.....Has Bustamante been there too long?

Kan We Help Files Complaint Again

CAO Egan Resolves

Wolf Rescue Issue

On October 27, 2014, Lassen County CAO Richard Egan visited the High Desert Wolf Rescue in Ravendale and agreed to end the County's harassment and owner Debbie Valenta agreed to reduce the dog population in half by September of 2015.

The 20 year old Rescue, owned by 69 year old Debbie Valenta, has been under siege from the County for over a year.

[The County refused re-zoning requests]

Threats to kill the dogs, jail and seizures has been  hanging over Ms. Valenta's head.

highdesertwolves.com

The High Desert Wolf Rescue is the largest west coast wolf-dog rescue in the United States.

The Rescue is located in a remote area of Lassen County.

 25 miles from Highway 395 in Ravendale, CA

NOT A SINGLE PUBLIC COMPLAINT !

Rezoning Gift

Gets Well Deserved

"Stinky Award"

On October 21, 2014, Hammond, Pyle and Wosick vote to re-zone a single parcel  in Herlong a "Town Center" (in the middle of an agricultural zone).

What is unique about this political move by Supervisor Hammond, is that it made no sense at all. The owner of this property could have requested a simple re-zone from Agricultural to Commercial. 

The owner Lawrence Marion wants to build a mini-storage ?

This 10 acre desert parcel ( APN 139-060-33) sits 2100 ft from the Herlong airport.  This mini-storage would accommodate commodities flown in and out of the Herlong airport with little or no monitoring. The Owner claims he will build in phases (?).  He also plans to build a residence on the property.

This 10 acre desert parcel will be subject to the Herlong Airport Land Use Plan which limits the type of  construction. This parcel sits in the "Designated Safety Areas

So why the "Town Center" Supervisor Hammond ?

Simple: It adds value to this parcel

and Pezzullo's property increases in value.

The CAO claims that surrounding property owners (Steve Pezzullo too?) were sent notices

Mr. Marion purchased this property from Joseph and Lorayne White on May 23, 2005. The property was listed as "commercial" with manufacturing as a "use".  Mr. Marion paid $45,000 for this desert parcel with only a septic tank as an improvement. 

The value increases when you re-zone to "Town Center"

The Lassen County Planning Director Anderson and CAO Egan were in favor of expanding the new "Town Center" zone. 

The Wheels, they keep on spinnin'

The Lassen County Supervisors decide to go on a Scavenger Hunt

The Supervisors decided to table the approval of $1.75 million dollars, for the pool construction costs, until they could locate the cash. It was decided that CAO Egan, Supervisor Chapman, Supervisor Hammond and Auditor Karen Fouch would meet early next week and find the money.  The annual $200,000 donation to the HVLRA comes out of the "Tobacco Settlement" Fund now, but would be up to the discretion of future Boards to continue this donation.

Supervisor Chapman stated that February was unrealistic to begin construction.  Susanville City Manager, Jared Hancock is determined to keep the project moving forward. 

In the mean time, the HVLRA met at 3:11 PM (the meeting was held up due to a lack of a quorum), across the street at the Susanville City Hall,  and decided that a short mini-meeting was all they needed.  A quick sweep through a very short agenda and they went home.

The HLVRA pool board meets again on November 4, 2014 at the Susanville City Hall @3:00 PM to review pool designs. 

Honey Lake Valley Recreation Authority

[Pool Joint Powers Authority]

Plans to pay cash for Pool

$1,750,000 from the City of Susanville

and

 $1,750,000 from Lassen County

Shhhh.....even though the Agenda title is a bit mis-leading...

Supervisors still place it as the last item on the Agenda, hoping no one will notice?

Agenda item H-6

HLVRA Executive Officer, Jared G. Hancock sends both public agencies a request to consider

BROWN ACT SEMINAR

AB 1234 Ethics Training Well Attended

Sponsored by: LAFCO for Lassen County & Modoc County

General Principals for training

Trustworthiness

Responsibility

Respect

Loyalty

Compassion

Fairness

[Lassen County Counsel left before the Brown Act portion of the training]

Josh Nelson, Best, Best & Kreiger law firm, phone, 916-325-4000, email: joshua.nelson@bbklaw.com

BROWN ACT SEMINAR

October 17, 2014

Veterans Hall, Susanville

10:00-12:00

Hosted by LAFCO

All public boards and Special Districts in Lassen County are encouraged to attend

HLVRA

NEEDS A HOUSEKEEPER

Missing Agendas, Missing Minutes

A whole lot of cleaning up needs to be done on the Honey Lake Valley Recreation Authority. Board. This JPA was formed in 2013 to build a community pool in Lassen County.

THREE BROWN ACT VIOLATIONS   

A Quorum to approve the Minutes: 

three members that attended the meeting and can attest to the accuracy and correctness of the minutes

After a year, the Authority has not secured funds for the proposed $2.5 million project

NO POOL (HLVRA)

MEETING TODAY

The Lassen County Times erroneously reported that there was a pool meeting today.  No Agenda has been posted for an October 14, 2014 meeting.

The next pool meeting will be on October 21, 2014

......a concept that never reached Lassen County

LASSEN COUNTY

"CULTURE OF CORRUPTION"

The term "Good Ole Boy" system has been used to describe the male dominated government in Lassen County. However, a more appropriate term would be Lassen County's CULTURE OF CORRUPTION.

Old family names are predominant on ballots in Lassen County. Why not, they have lived in this county for years and have invested heavily in the political make up of Lassen County. Should they dictate the culture of corruption, absolutely. Are they responsible then for the level of corruption in Lassen County, absolutely

Abuse of the Opening Meeting laws and the fact that these violations are tolerated by local law enforcement is not all of the problem  .  Local newspapers that suppress wrong doing are equally at fault.  People that look the other way and ignore the greed that runs this County are to blame the most.

Democracy is not a spectator sport

On October 2, 2014, California lost a Champion for Honest and Open Government.

LMUD

LAMBERT LANE SUBSTATION

NOT ON LINE

....a little history

*LMUD Purchases $354,000 Transformers in 2009 for Lambert Lane that doesn't exist

These transformers disappeared

* Lambert Lane did not exist in 2009

LMUD purchases another $96,000 transformer, in 2013, for Lambert Lane Substation and hopes no one will notice

LMUD reported, on August 27, 2013, that the foundation work had begun.

On July 9, 2013 the foundation, fencing and underground work was complete

On July 9, 2013, LMUD calls for a planned outage at the Standish Substation and then the General Manager/Bookkeeper wants a "spare" transformer for the Standish substation

Spare part for Standish, no .......transformer for Lambert Lane

LMUD reported on August 27, 2013 that the foundation work had begun but the photo taken on August 23, 2013 shows that the foundation was complete, the "New" (spare) transformer had been delivered to Lambert Lane Substation, fencing complete 

So why lie ?

October 7, 2014: Lambert Lane Substation 

......with the Standish "spare" transformer

The Lambert Lane Substation is not online

LASSEN COUNTY HAS

HALF

THE REPRESENTATION

AT POOL JPA

Supervisor Wosick goes to one meeting and

Supervisor Chapman goes to the next.

The HLVRA ran into a problem at their October 7, 2014 meeting today. They had two meeting minutes to approve but NO CHAPMAN AND NO WOSICK.  This meeting had only two regular members present that had attended these two meetings.

 Wosick showed up at 3:15 but could not vote to approve the Meeting Minutes for the September 16, 2014 because he  attend only half of that meeting. That left only two members that attended the 9/16/14 to vote, three members were needed to take action to approve the 9/16/14 meeting minutes   These minutes were tabled. 

Wosick, Wilson and McBride attended the 9/19/14 meeting and could vote to approve the accuracy and correctness of the minutes. The alternate abstained from voting because he had not attended the 9/16/14 or the 9/19/14 meeting.   

10/7/14 Meeting: The alternate to the JPA sits on the far left, Brian Wilson, Nick McBride, absent were Supervisor Chapman and Supervisor Wosick.

The design company has been asked to design a pool for $2.5 million. 

The JPA does not have $2.5 million. 

No decision was made on financing the new community pool. Both Susanville members and County members will take the financing options back to their respective Boards to agendize the options to finance the pool. The JPA leaned toward asking each public entity (City of Susanville and Lassen County) to pre fund the money needed to build the pool.

They anticipate, weather permitting, to start the 6-7 months construction, in February 2015

UNEXPECTED AGENDA ITEM

The JPA's Agenda included a Closed Session item"

"Significant Exposure to Litigation"

Kan We Help Secretary Eileen Spencer asked Executive Officer Jared Hancock who their "legal counsel" was. He replied they did not have one.   Mr. Hancock stated that Mr. Burns will sit in on the Closed session.  The JPA has no agreement with Mr. Burns or any other attorney, other than a land acquisition attorney handling the property transfers.

Mr. Burns was allowed to sit in the Closed Session. Mr. Burns was a civilian and does not represent the HLVRA in any way shape or form ?

Kan We Help

 files complaint with LMUD :

LMUD FAILS TO COMPLY WITH

THE MANDATORY REQUIREMENT

OF PROPER PUBLIC HEARING

ON JUNE 24, 2014

Lassen County Community

Reminded: 

that you will get the pool you can pay for

DESIGN MEETING

PUBLIC MEETING:

September 30, 2014 , 6:00 PM , Susanville City Hall

Attorney Chittock ignored LMUD Brown Act Complaints

But when it concerns his daughter, well, it is different

Lassen Union High School Board calls it a

"MIS-STEP........(?).

Lassen County Clerk Bustamante

 Lied to the

Lassen County Supervisors and CAO

She spent $40,000 (not $27,800)

 and purchased the software

in July of 2014 not July of 2013

County Clerk Julie Bustamante asked the Supervisors, on July 23, 2013, [for a "one-time" cost of $27,000] to purchase a new agenda/minutes software program. Her request was approved.

Bustamante had fallen way behind in getting Minutes to the Supervisors to approve.

In 2013, Kan We Help gave the Supervisors a list of 14 Minutes that had not been approved over the last year and a half.  The Supervisors eventually placed these on the Agenda, one at a time,  to be approved but did not have a quorum to approve two due to changes on the Board.

DID BUSTAMANTE LIE TO THE CAO ?

Kan We Help has been inquiring about this software for over a year and most recently at the Supervisors meetings. The CAO stated publicly (early in 2014) that the IT people were training the County Clerks staff on this new software.

THIS WAS A LIE

Kan We Help requested a copy of the Purchase Order from the CAO

Kan We Help requested a copy of the payment to Granicus from the Audior

"No records existed"

Both offices said to ask the County Clerk

So......Kan We Help requested a copy of the purchase of the Granicus software from the County Clerk

Bustamante ordered  the $40,000 Granicus software on

July 9, 2014

What makes it even worse is that Bustamante has again fallen behind in taking care of the Board of Supervisors Minutes.

She has not posted:

4/22/14 Minutes

4/29/14

7/22/14

8/4/14

8/12/14

She has not presented Minutes to be approved:

8/19/14

9/9/14

9/16/14

9/23/14

Who is managing the County?

OUR VETERANS

A precious resource

Melody Brawley, Lassen County Director of Health and Social Services, agendized a report on Veterans affairs in  Lassen County for the Board of Supervisors September 23, 2014 meeting.  The Veterans Service Office is under Health and Social Services.

Click on photo below to see and hear the presentation

Above, L: Melody Brawley.              At podium: VA Director Todd Conner

The presentation was made by Veteran Services Officer Todd Conner. Mr. Conner operates the Veterans Service Office at 1205 Main Street, Susanville, Ca 96130. The office telephone number is 530-251-8192. This office serves over 3500 Veterans living in Lassen County and is open Monday through Friday.

The Lassen County Supervisors pay Veteran Todd Conner approximately $35,000 a year

The Supervisors were asked to "DO BETTER"

This issue is supposed to be on the next BOS agenda

A little history on the Susanville, Veterans Affair Medical Clinic

Lassen County

May Actually Get A Community Pool

The City of Susanville, under the great leadership of Jared Hancock, could keep this project afloat.  County Supervisors, however, could easily upset the progress by their incessant bloviating.  The Supervisors do not take notes during their meetings and literally start from square one when the pool issue, or any ongoing issue, comes up. The only Supervisor that retains "any" information is Supervisor Chapman.

September 23, 2014 BOS meeting: Part 8 @ 19:30

The Supervisors did state that they are considering transferring only 140 ft from the existing property line between the closed Roosevelt Pool and the old Roosevelt School.  They are still a couple of months away from the transfer.

Kan We Help will continue to monitor this process.

 Supervisor Chapman Makes a Motion

to give the HVLRA, a Board that he and Wosick sit on,

a 14,000 square foot building

Pool discussion very misleading

Community Swimming Pool

CAO Richard Egan indicates that only a portion of the Roosevelt School property would be given to the Pool JPA. The Susanville school district has leased the pool (Parcel A) to the JPA for $1.

ONE PROJECT.

YOU WOULD THINK

ONE PROJECT COULD BE DONE, IN THIS COUNTY, WITHOUT SOMEONE TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK

Roosevelt Pool  building sits on Parcel A, and is owned by a Susanville School District

Roosevelt School sits on Parcel B and is being used by Health and Social Services and the Sheriffs Office

WATCH THE CORRUPTION

WATCH THE LASSEN COUNTY

LAND DEALS

Public Officials Schemes are

well planned and well executed

KAN WE HELP REPEATEDLY ASKS

COUNTY SUPERVISORS

FOR FULL DISCLOSURE

 ON THE

AMEDEE AIRFIELD PARCELS

Kan We Help has repeatedly asked the Lassen County Board to disclose the fact that the East Shore parcel of the Amedee Airfield parcels are highly contaminated with ordinances, explosives and toxic waste.

Kan We Help informed the Board of Supervisors Kan We Help would file an action with the court to stop the sale unless the condition of the East Shore parcels (2004 CEPA/REMEDIAL ACTION PLAN)is included with any and all RFP's.

Kan We Help was confronted with

strong resistance to full disclosure

Supervisor Wosick told Kan We Help Secretary Eileen Spencer, on September 9, 2014 to stay home on Tuesdays and play bridge

September 9, 2014 BOS Meeting

The Supervisors have now agreed to include a full copy of the 2004 CEPA/REMEDIAL ACTION PLAN

Page 59 states the costs to clean up this hazardous area

The clean up will be the responsibility of the Sierra Army Depot

Lassen County Supervisors voted to include all of the Amedee Airfield parcels including the land leased to the Army

Kan We Help Objected

Lassen County Decided to

 Exclude

the Leased Property in next Draft

Lassen County Supervisor Chapman tells Dr. James Hodge:

If the public wants to know what capital improvements the County has, they can look in the County budget

[Capital Improvements are spread throughout the budget.  good-luck]

September 16, 2014: Rude & Evasive

Another Draft of the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) was presented at the September 16, 2014 Board of Supervisors meeting.  CAO Richard Egan was instructed to eliminate 80% of the actual Capital improvement projects from the spreadsheet.  The eight page spreadsheet suddenly became two pages. It wasn't like the need for the improvements disappeared. The Supervisors only wanted the public to see a small amount of work.

WHY THE DECEPTION?

Kan We Help Secretary Eileen Spencer was cut off by Larry Wosick when she asked why the Roosevelt Annex remodel made the cut.  This is a building that the Supervisors are planning to give away

The Supervisors plan to dump $675,000 into this old school and then give it to (HLVRA) Wosick and Chapman to sell to a private buyer.

Can you say P  E  Z  Z    U      L  L  O

Eight pages presented in 2014

CIP Spreadsheet reduced to two pages

This is going to be another "Herlong One Stop"

Lassen County Supervisors

should not worry about their critics

but

now should fear an

informed public

The arrogance of the Lassen County Supervisors Grand Jury response

clearly indicates there is no higher priority than their own interests

Lassen County Board of Supervisors Deceptions

are more than lies

Kan We Help asks for the truth and nothing but the truth

September 9, 2014 BOS Meeting

The public can view the entire 9/9/14 meeting at the Lassen County Scoop

"Reality"

.....continues to ruin Supervisor Larry Wosick's

life on the Board

1. Larry Wosick stays on the Board because some flunky attorney tells him he doesn't have to live in his District. He admitted moving out of his District on January 29, 2014.

2. Larry Wosick never disclosed the property he owned in Milford for 4 years. Wosick sold this property on January 29, 2014. This was his "alleged" residence to qualify to sit on the Board.  This "asset" was never disclosed on his 700 Form, never.

3. Larry Wosick represents one of his partners for the purchase of the  Amedee property. They want it cheap like before and will do anything, anything to make this happen

4. Larry Wosick knew about the new Interstate in 2012 when he purchased his Standish property in December/2012 after the "Surface Transportation Act" passed in June of 2012  and started pushing for the Herlong's sales.

He is just another dirty profiteering politician that can buy and sell anyone

......or can he?

Lassen County Supervisors

Reject Grand Jury Reports

....and chastise the Grand Jury ?

....Willful intent to defraud the public....

The Lassen County Board of Supervisors are

ABOVE THE LAW

Supervisor Wosick

Insults Women Only

He un-invites women to his Tuesday meetings

BOS MEETINGS FOR MEN ONLY

The only thing that didn't happen,

 Wosick's head didn't

  spin around

Take a look, Click here:    September 9, 2014 BOS Meeting

The Supervisors had done nothing with the Sierra Army Depot Surplus property in Herlong until Larry Wosick was seated on the Board.

Since then Wosick attempted to secretly purchase the township of Herlong for $25,000. That failed and he  and Jack Hanson set up Mr. Pezzullo to buy the 423 acre town for $31,900 and rezoned their own property. The Grand Jury acknowledged that there were conflicts-of-interest and a whole lot of quid pro quo's (favor for a favor)

Supervisor Wosick is obviously representing an outside interest for the Amedee property.  The last thing this scoundrel wants is for the public to know what he is doing.  Even though Wosick doesn't live in his district he will desperately try to stay of the Board until all votes are in for his personal interests. 

Mr. Wosick has demonstrated his contempt for women with his rude and insulting comments.  Facts were presented that the Amedee property is contaminated........and the insults flew out of this little man's mouth. 

WOSICK RULE

Wosick served only one term. Time enough to profit

STAY HOME, ON TUESDAYS,  LADIES OR COME AND SHUT UP

Kan We Help Prepared to File Court Action

to

Stop the County from selling property,

to the public,

without disclosing that the East Shore Parcel has explosives and ordinances

The Lassen County Supervisors have presented "six" Drafts of the "Request for Proposal" to sell the surplus property given to them in 2003 by the Sierra Army Depot.

Not one Draft included the disclosure of the Ordinance/Explosives that need to be cleaned up on the East Shore Parcel.

In the 2004 CEPA Report, the cost of the clean up was estimated at $2.4 million dollars.

The Lassen County Supervisors could have demanded and could still demand that the East Shore Demolition parcels be cleaned up by SAID. 

The Lassen County supervisors have never approached SAID to clean up the explosives  and make this property safe.

ONE DEATH COULD

      BANKRUPT LASSEN COUNTY 

Supervisor Chapman asked that the pages Kan We Help submitted, at the August 19 meeting, be attached to the next Draft of the RFP.

The CAO prepared six options for the Supervisors. The Supervisors chose to sell all of the property (A-2), including the East Shore Parcel.

Short Memories?

The Supervisors had selective memories or convenient lapses when they discussed including the Amedee Airfield parcels.

The Supervisors discussed the six options presented by CAO Egan and voted to include the extension of the Amedee Airfield that is part of the 50 year lease with the Army?

NOW WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC?

The contaminated and hazardous area was divided into 9 Assessor parcels and

could have easily been excluded from the sale

Tesla Battery $1.2  billion Megaplant

to be built in Reno

not Herlong

6,000 jobs for Nevada

Long List of Public Officials

Keeping Interstate 11 a Secret?

....while they purchase land along the proposed corridor and change zoning

Wosick attempted to buy Herlong for $25,000

Pezzullo and friend's  Herlong bid was accepted for $31,900

Jack Hanson/Bertotti zone change for their property along corridor

PAY ATTENTION

LASSEN COUNTY

This is a Quid Pro Quo County

Brian Dahle pushed for the approval of a $350,000 Grant for the Hawkins, Del Logging Company, and then received a $15,000 campaign contribution from the Hawkins

Interstate 11 was approved by Obama in June of 2012 and Larry Wosick purchased land along that corridor in Standish in December of 2012 and then voted on a zone change.

Steve Pezzullo was in bed with one of the Supervisors when he purchased the township of Herlong for $31,900. One building alone is worth $1,000,000. The value of this property could be effected by the new Interstate 11 that may run through or near Herlong.

Jack Hanson voted on zone changes that effect this area....for a close relatives benefit?

The Supervisors are pushing hard to sell the contaminated (ordinances & explosives) property around the Amedee Airfield

Not one word, of the new Interstate 11,

is mentioned in any of the

Lassen County Board Minutes.

Politics for Profit

Who are the real Pick-Pockets

of Lassen County

Supervisor Chapman's calls Auditor "Pick-Pocket"

but 

are the Supervisors the real Pick Pockets

Millions stolen from Herlong Federal and State Grants?

Grand Jury Findings sent to District Attorney?

AFTER TWO WEEKS.......

Lassen County Times

Continues

to

Suppress Supervisors Wrong Doing

LCT reporter turns a blind eye to the deception by Lassen County Supervisors

Supervisors decide not to disclose that the

Sierra Army surplus property (they are trying to sell)

 is a toxic dump with ordinance and munitions

ALL FIVE SUPERVISORS KNEW

THAT THIS PROPERTY

IS A $2.4 MILLION DOLLAR CLEAN-UP

Lassen  County Times

Big Part

of the Corruption Problem

 2013-2014 Grand Jury Report

Instead this corrupt paper

 reports, on the front page, the Grand Jury's comments 

on "road" conditions

and

deliberately suppresses

the

fact that the Supervisors repeatedly violated

the Brown Act

and

conflict -of- interest laws

with the Herlong Sale and much more

Kan We Help Files Brown Act Complaint

against the contemptuous

 Lassen County Board of Supervisors

QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Who makes the phone call to suppress

posting the June 30, 2014 Grand Jury Report?

2. Who makes the phone call to suppress FPPC violations?

WHO HAS THAT AUTHORITY?

Who has the authority to indict crooked politicians?

Who makes that phone call?

Grand Jury

finds that

Lassen County Supervisors

 guilty of

"Abuse of spending public funds"

This Board may be is the sleaziest Board

in Lassen County's 150 years

[The Lassen County Times enables these politicians by suppression of the truth]

Definition of Grifters: Lassen County Supervisors

If you did not endure the lies and deception at the Board meetings, KWH will provide the audio of any meeting, Free.  [Disclaimer: The Recordings may have been edited to protect the Supervisors and staff]

If you can endure watching these corrupt politicians you can watch these "unedited" meetings at the Lassen County Scoop. 

If you have attended these meetings,

we salute you.

Vomit bags should be a mandatory hand out before each meeting.

The fake "Verderosa" letter CAO Egan wrote

caused Judge Verderosa to take herself out of this rotten equation.

Click on Mr. Panzdown  for more......

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

THROW

MIDDLE FINGERS

UP

TO GRAND JURY REPORT

[the Grand Jury has referred their finding to the new District Attorney]

Kan We Help filed Brown Act Complaints against the Boards action on January 14, 2014.

County Counsel Rhetta Vander Ploeg advised the Board that they were not in violation of any Brown Act codes and the KWH complaint was ignored by then District Attorney Bob Burns.

The 2013-2014 Lassen County Grand Jury Report found the Lassen County Supervisors in

 violation of at least 8 Brown Act violations on January 14, 2014

On July 22, 2014, the Lassen County Supervisors

 Ignored Grand Jury Ruling

and

Repeated the same Brown Act Violations

They actually voted on a Resolution

"Sight Unseen"

"Southern Cascades Service District Initiative"

District  4 Supervisor Albaugh asked that an item be added to the meeting, at the July 22, 2014 BOS meeting, as an  "Emergency item". [Takes 4/5 vote to add an agenda item].

The Board was not given any copies of this Resolution, the public was not given any copy of the Resolution. Kan We Help repeatedly asked for the Board to recess and make copies of this Resolution prior to any vote.

The Board and Burns tried every trick in the book to keep the public out of the conversation.

Albaugh claimed that he just received a Resolution for the Southern Cascade Services District initiative on Friday, July 18, 2014.

Supervisors have been discussing this issue for weeks about the "deadlines" for this issue to be placed on the November ballot.   

It was District 4 Supervisor Albaugh's responsibility to get this on the July 22, 2014 Board of Supervisors Agenda.  If Albaugh failed to get the ballot resolution, to the Supervisors, by July 18, it could have been placed on the August 4, 2014 Agenda ( The County Clerk confirmed that the deadline is 88 days before the election, August 8).

THE Board CREATED A fake EMERGENCY AGAIN

AND

WE NEED TO ASK WHY THEY HAVE

SUCH CONTEMPT FOR THE  BROWN ACT and THE GRAND JURY?

Albaugh had plenty of time to make copies, from Friday to Tuesday,  but brought only one copy of the Resolution to the 7/22/14 meeting? Everyone , including Albaugh, knows that seven (7) copies were needed.  The Supervisors went into closed session to discuss this issue and could have made copies then.

This is exactly what Albaugh, Wosick and Chapman did with the first Resolution to get this initiative on the June ballot. The Grand Jury concurred.

and yet, this was all choreographed again.

THIS IS NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER

BOB BURNS HAS SHOWN TOTAL

CONTEMPT

FOR

THE BROWN ACT.

The Grand Jury released the 2013-2014 Report, after the Board of Supervisors responded to the complaints.

On Monday, August 4, 2014, the Lassen County Supervisors held Special meeting. They posted a phony Closed Session item on the Agenda so that they could cover up how they were going to handle the Grand Jury Report that was released to the public on 8/4/14.

The Lassen County Supervisors

They lie and never tell the truth

Grand Jury Report on the Herlong Sale

Grand Jury Findings referred

 to the District Attorney

The public outrage &  criticism

was validated

Richard Egan was used to manipulate this sale and was rewarded with a $176,000 job

Can the Lassen County District Attorney call for a Criminal Grand Jury to Convene?

YES

Stay Awake Mr. Egan.....

That coffee (?) is not going to help.

It's a Zzzzzzzzzzzzz  Moment

You have two idiots now

 that love to hear themselves talk

Kan We Help

Files Two Brown Act Complaints

with KWH  New Report Cards

This public Board acts in total contempt

Contracts, Contracts and more Jibberty-Goo

Mr. Burns contract: $126,000 a year ?

Why didMr. Burns confuse the Board and the Public [on Agenda item H-4]

It started with Supervisor Albaugh asking Mr. Burns about Agenda item H-4 and the meaning of the numbers (no $$$ signs) in his request. Burns made it appear that he was asking for $32,500 for two invoices that were not to exceed $5,500 each.

Now watch how Burns responded to the Board and to the public.

Mr. Burns famous Jibberty-Goo

Lassen County Supervisors

Vote on Resolution

"Sight Unseen"

"Southern Cascades Service District Initiative"

District  4 Supervisor Albaugh asked that an item be added to the meeting, at the July 22, 2014 BOS meeting, as an  "Emergency item". [Takes 4/5 vote to add an agenda item].

The Board and Burns tried every trick in the book to keep the public out of the conversation.

Watch Burns attempting to impress the Board with pure bullshit

Surprisingly Wosick ignored Burns dumb advice ?

The Brown Act allows public comment on every agenda item......"bar none" Mr. Burns

Albaugh claimed that he just received a Resolution for the Southern Cascade Services District initiative on Friday, July 18, 2014. Supervisors have been discussing this issue for weeks about the "deadlines" for this issue to be placed on the November ballot.    It was Supervisor Albaugh's responsibility to get this on the July 22, 2014 Board of Supervisors Agenda.  If LAFCO failed to get the ballot resolution, to the Supervisors, by July 18, it could have been placed on the August 4, 2014 Agenda (88 days before the election is August 8).

THEY CREATED AN EMERGENCY

AND

WE NEED TO ASK WHY?

Albaugh had plenty of time to make copies, from Friday to Tuesday,  but brought only one copy of the Resolution to the 7/22/14 meeting? Everyone , including Albaugh, knows that seven (7) copies were needed.  This is exactly what Albaugh, Wosick and Chapman did with the first Resolution to get this initiative on the June ballot.

This was all choreographed again.

The Supervisors went into closed session to discuss this issue and could have made copies then.  There was a recess before this was discussed. They could have made copies then.  What were they hiding?

  this gets the double stinky award

Kan We Help Secretary Eileen Spencer respectfully asked twice that the Supervisors be given a copy of this Resolution before a vote was taken. County Counsel Burns chirped that it was not necessary for the Supervisors to have a copy. Our illustrious Supervisors voted to approve Albaugh's Resolution  

Lassen County Supervisors

couldn't have

found a dumber candidate

for

County Counsel

A NEW LEVEL OF DUMB HAS BEEN BORN

Lassen County Superior Court

Presiding Judge Verderosa

Has Sit-down

with

Bob Burns

Burns looked silly making up lies

and CAO Richard Egan

click on Mr. Kot Withyur Panzdown for entire story

On April 16, 2014, Lassen County CAO Richard Egan made the decision to write a letter that was made to appear as though Judge Verderosa had authored it.

She didn't author it and Kan We Help caught him in a lie.  Judge Verderosa's signature has never been authenticated.

Egan placed this letter on the Board of Supervisors May 13, 2014 Agenda but had no intention of having any discussion on it. (Audio and video recordings confirmed that this Agenda item was never discussed or voted on)

Watch video: May 13, 2014 BOS meetng

 Chairperson Wosick just adjourned the meeting intentionally on May 13,2014, ignoring the last item on the Agenda. NOW WE KNOW WHY HE DID THAT !

As a result of this debacle, Judge Verderosa decided that she will no longer appoint the Chief Probation Officer.

 Lassen County Counsel Burns was forced to write a "soliloquy" on July 6th to create a new Ordinance for this position to be a County appointed position not a judicial appointment.

Enjoy watching Burns trying to justify the Fake Judges Letter

Burns response, to this screw up,  ended up similar to Vander Ploegs peddling a fake response to Kan We Help's objection to the County Administrative Officer being called various names other than his official position/title County Administrative Officer. [CAO Egan was signing different fake titles to official county documents]. You have to give both Burns and Vander Ploeg points for creativity.

Private Non-Profit

Asks for

Public Money

for Fake

Christmas Tree for Susanville

It gives a whole new meaning to "Save a Tree"

The Susanville Chamber of Commerce no longer wants to decorate "real" trees in downtown Susanville. Supervisor Chapman placed Agenda item H-2 on the July 8, 2014 meeting. 

Chapman suggested that this annual $2,000 donation be paid for through the Supervisors Discretionary Fund. Each Supervisor is given $4,000 to give to the public as a gift. 

Supervisor Hammond and Albaugh objected to this coming out of their "pot".  CAO Egan suggested that they raise the $20,000 Discretionary Fund to $25,000 to cover this donation.   Hammond and Albaugh reluctantly voted to approve this gift.

The fake tree will cost $15,000 a year to build. The tree will be purchased in parts each year until it reaches it's desired height.

The private non-profit Susanville Chamber of Commerce also received a $5,000 donation from the Board of Supervisors for the 150th Lassen County Anniversary event they are planning on 9/5/14.  IT WAS NOT DISCLOSED HOW THE SUPERVISORS WERE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS SINCE THIS IS NOT A BUDGETED ITEM.

The Westwood Chamber of Commerce planted a "real" tree to decorate each year as a community event.

District Attorney/County Counsel

County Counsel/District Attorney

County Counsel Contract

On May 16, 2014, the Lassen County Supervisors hired the current District Attorney, Robert Burns as County Counsel. Rhetta Vander Ploeg's contract was not renewed and her last day was May 16, 2014.

Robert Burns was not the County Counsel on May 7, 2014

His County Counsel pay started before he was hired

Robert Burns County Counsel Contract on page one states:

Bob Burns resigned as District Attorney on June 9, 2014

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Bob Burns Resigned, Quit, Stepped down

Bob Burns is a "New Hire"

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The County "promoted/transferred" Burns after he resigned?

PUBLIC UTILITY SOCKS AWAY

MILLIONS AND

INSULTS RATEPAYERS

WITH RATE INCREASE

LMUD

OVER SPENDS

ON INFRASTRUCTURE

FOR

NV ENERGY

and

Raises Rates on customers

didn't see that coming...............?

The PDCA was the phony formula Frank Cady developed

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

STALLING ON

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

* The Lassen County Supervisors, according to Lassen County Codes,  must demand that the CAO prepare and maintain a "mandatory" Capital Improvement Plan.

*According to the County's Audit, the Supervisors never released the fact there was $4,000,000 of discretionary money in the Budget. Each year the Supervisors claim there is a $3,000,000 deficit. Is this apparently a lie they intend to use again?

The County's infrastructure is crumbling and the

s u p e r v i s o r s

 do not know how to fix that ? 

YOU HAVE NO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

CAO RICHARD EGAN

ATTEMPTED TO

PASS  AN INTERNET C.I.P. "TEMPLATE"

OFF AS A

DRAFT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

FOOL US ONCE, SHAME ON YOU

FOOL US TWICE, SHAME ON US

CAO Richard Egan had Public Works present a copy of an internet sample of a capital improvement plan, at the July 8, 2014 Board of Supervisors meeting,  as the real deal. 

Striving to make a more perfect union

E Pluribus Unum

Voters Think Lassen County Supervisors

Just a Ceremonial Position

Kan We Help received, in the past two weeks, hundreds of comments by voters that the representation (by Lassen County Supervisors) is purely ceremonial.  The five supervisorial districts represent about 4500 voters each.

Recently the Supervisors were asked, "Name one thing you have done for your District".  Not a single response.

The Lassen County Supervisors hold three public meetings a month in which the public seems to perceive them as"Private Club" meetings that are inconveniently interrupted by voters. 

Kan We Help

Attempted to

Verify Judges April 16, 2014 Letter

Click on Mr. Kot Withyor Panzdown

Judge Verderosa did not respond to request to authenticate the 4/16/14 letter

Bustamante Refuses to Certify

Egan's April 16, 2014 letter

Julie Bustamante is the Clerk for the Board of Supervisors. She certifies all copies originating from the Board as being authentic. She refused to certify a letter that she knew the CAO wrote. The "Received" date has been  altered on the letter?

CAO Egan admits, on 6/24/14, that he wrote judges letter

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT THINK THAT THEY CAN DO THIS?

IS THE TRUST GONE?

NEW PAGE LAUNCHED

"Caught with your pants down"

Julie Bustamante's Last Term

? Cheaters Reunion ?

Julie Bustamante's daughter Nicole changed her waive from a single finger to all five fingers when she saw the camera. Bustamante's husband, daughter and Theresa Nagel attended the awards ceremony at the Board of Supervisors meeting for Bustamante's 25 year award.

Theresa Nagel (below), former County Clerk, never looked better as she chirped out,

"Bitch"

as her photo was being taken.

June 3, 2014 Election Monitored

Kan We Help had Poll Watchers at Lassen County Precincts

and

the Secretary of State sent a State Poll Watcher

Surprises with the Results?

No

There was little opportunity for election tampering, this time

Bob Burns

Just

A

Misfit

He can't be a judge, he can't be District Attorney and is just

a misfit as Lassen County Counsel

On June 17, 2014, Kan We Help asked Mr. Burns to identify the "Court" for the Grace Foundation lawsuit against the County and if he could remember to add that information to the Closed Session Agendas in the future.

 Burns response

Kan We Help was able to stop the practice of giving vague information on lawsuits against Lassen County on their Closed Session Agendas.

 The Brown Act requires full disclosure of lawsuits discussed in Closed Session. Lassen County had a bad habit of not only placing fake cases in Closed Session in order to go into a Closed Session, but stating only the Plaintiff and Defendants name.

The Lassen County Counsel actually

resisted full disclosure until numerous Brown Act Complaints were filed.

Now we have Bob Burns

He has refused to disclose

the name of the Court to the public

on the BOS Agenda

The June 24, 2014 Agenda

does not include the California Court that this lawsuit was filed in. With 58 County Superior Courts, Mr. Burns does not want anyone to have access to the Grace Foundation lawsuit against Lassen County. 

Starved to death in Susanville, CA

WARNING: this video is graphicWhispering Pines

JUSTICE FOR ANGEL

Angels Story

RAPE AND MURDER OF LASSEN COUNTY

WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS

NOT REPORTED IN LASSEN COUNTY TIMES

Rape is an entitlement to males in Lassen County

Angel's Mother and Grandmother ,

desperate for justice,

presented her story at the Lassen County Board of Supervisors Meeting yesterday.

Click on photo below:

Everyone is listening except the CAO, Moving papers was more important ?

Burns is forced to listen

THE REASON FOR TERM LIMITS:

SUPERVISOR CHAPMAN

Just because you have gone unchallenged, Mr. Chapman, it doesn't make you right. Times are changing, get used to it.

Click on photo: Watch the arrogance of a 35 year "old veteran Politician"

Chapman attacks taxpayers for wanting a Capital Improvement Plan

Chapman tried to slip a Capital Outlay expenditure for a "back up" generator into an inappropriate account [Agenda 5/13/2014, Item G-7]He claimed that it had been there for years. Research found that was not true.

Chapman claimed that this generator had been in the budget for years. It has never appeared until the 2013-2014 budget. Why lie about something that can be so easily checked?

2012/2013 Criminal Justice Fund

Lassen County Auditor confirmed that the generator  should have been paid for from the Capital Outlay fund and not the Criminal Justice Fund.

HE GOT CAUGHT AND WAS VERY INDIGNANT.

Chapman was reminded that the Board approves the annual budget. When Chapman gets caught telling lies he ALWAYS blames it on staff.

Supervisor Chapman, now almost a comical character on the Board, fails to take responsibility for his intentionallies and actions.

Lassen County

Lacking in Basic Humanity

One would think that because of the $80 million farming and ranching industry, in Lassen County, there would be a modicum interest in the treatment of horses

NOT TRUE

Pete Heimbigner, Supervisor of Lassen County Animal Control, is in Court defending his actions for the horses that were starved to death under his watch [Case 30-2012-00612863-CU-RC-CJC]

Starved to death in Susanville, CA

WARNING: this video is graphicWhispering Pines

 And.....Pete Heimbigner, Lassen County Animal Control Supervisor,  continues to ignore the horrible conditions at the Lassen County Animal Shelter in Susanville

Even though the work has been budgeted to reseal the kennel floors and walls and remodel safety issues at the shelter, Heimbigner has refused to do it.

The remodeling budget just sits year after year, untouched and ignored

 Presently the kennels cannot be properly sanitized and put the staff and animals at risk

Animal Control Staff are at risk because the old kennel doors allow dogs to escape.

And.....Heimbigner plans to kill over 100 dogs in Ravensdale at the end of June  and put the owner Debbie Valenta in jail.

 Ravensdale is the home of the second largest wolf hybrid rescue in the United States. Heimbigner has harassed the Wolf Hybrid Rescue in Lassen County for months.

WHY?

It is Personal........

Heimbigner was asked to leave the property because he refused to step in to a bleach solution so as not to bring any contamination  into the dog area.

Lassen County's Official Attack dog

Heimbigner has been accused of strong arming other businesses in Lassen County.

Recently: Bulls Eye Recycling, Steve Pezzullo, Grace Foundation

Who the hell is allowing these abuses?

Richard Egan

Salary: $174,000

Benefits: $43,000

Highest Paid Lassen County Administrator

in

Lassen County History

Supervisors hired Egan to do a job

Egan accepted the job knowing full well what his duties were

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

HAVE

NO INTENTION

OF

CREATING A

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

Major Lassen County land owner/rancher and now County Administrative Officer has no intention of creating a "CIP"  for Lassen County.

Hide in Plain Sight

The June 10, 2014 Board of Supervisors  Agenda placed creating new positions, new titles, new pay at the end of their Agenda. Why? Because they do not want the public to be present.

Public Entities typically change titles of staff when they want to give HUGE pay raises. CAO Egan rewarded only Cheryl Douglas. Egan pulled Regina Schaap's new "job description" and pay raise. Julie Morgan, Assistant to CAO, was also not rewarded.

 The Supervisors approved Agenda Item H8. CAO Richard Egan requests that $102,000be added annually to the County's budget so he can hire a Deputy CAO. Someone to replace him when this rancher/CAO is........absent ?

THE CAO KNOWS THERE IS LOTS OF MONEY FOR HIM TO DO THIS

BUT

NO MONEY WILL BE CONSIDERED

FOR CRITICAL COUNTY

IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS

Until Certain conditions are met: 

Begging and/or Favors 

That is how Lassen County Government rolls

Lassen County Fails to Present

even a Draft

of the mandatory

Capital Improvement Plan

The County continues to approve new spending for Fair entertainment, toilets for the forest and various projects for certain Supervisors and scheduled budgeted projects just sit year after year.

All five Lassen County Supervisors play the "Board" game Monopoly,

but the public never knows which Supervisor gets to roll the dice.

The Lassen County Board of Supervisors voted to appoint newly elected

District Attorney Stacey Montgomery to fulfill Bob Burns remaining term

Lassen County

Animal Control

Hosts

Second Successful

Rabies Clinic

in

Susanville

Hundreds of dogs and cats get low-cost vaccinations on May 31 at Susanville's Memorial Park.  $8 rabies shots were available and pet owners could register their dogs for City of Susanville and County dog licenses. 

[The local paper does not carry this story ? They don't like dogs and cats................?]

 "Pardners", in Susanville, gave goody bags to all that participated. "Sit Spot" set up an agility training area for owners to take their pooches through and "Lassen Animal Rescue" distributed dog "dental" sticks to dog owners and provided staff for coordination. Susanville Police Department offered hamburgers and hot dogs. t

Three kittens and one puppy were adopted at the event.

District Attorney Bob Burns Resigns

and

Recommends that Stacey Montgomery

Be Appointed

to Serve the Balance of his Term

Lassen County

Elects

Election Results as of 6/5/14

  Stacey Montgomery, District Attorney

Diana Wemple, Auditor

Patricia Gunderson, Superintendent of Schools

Nancy Cardenas, Treasurer

Julie Bustamante, County Clerk

Jim Chapman is not the Auditor

Diebold Voting Machine Easily Changes Votes

In 2002, Kan We Help raised serious concerns that the election had been tampered with. It was documented that the voting machine memory card serial numbers did not match the serial numbers that were registered to the voting machines. The memory cards had been changed.

In 2002, Kan We Help caught Theresa Nagel and Julie Bustamante putting "white-out" (correction tape) on ballots. They just got their hands slapped ? 

THE TRUST IS GONE

BUSTAMANTE

Auditor

Jim Chapman

Treasurer

Brian Wilson

John Mallery

County Clerk

Julie Bustamante

District Attorney

David Evans

Civil  Servants Want Bigger Paychecks

Not Pool

Susanville Councilperson Brian Wilson

and Lassen County Supervisor Jim Chapman

are both on the Pool Committee.

Both want bigger paychecks and control of the County treasury.

If Chapman is elected to Auditor his paycheck will more than triple and he loses his seat on the Pool Committee.

If Brian Wilson is elected Treasurer his paycheck will quadruple and he loses his seat on the Pool Committee.

Each Budget Year

The Public Is Told

Lassen County Is Broke

Last September, the public was told that the County had a $3,000,000 deficit

THE TRUTH: $4,000,000 surplus

Why did they need to lie?

A 40 year career politician should have known and should have been truthful

Chapman doesn't have a clue but he will be available 24/7 for a Photo Op

Supervisor Chapman:

There was never a man

that knew so little

about so much

Supervisor Chapman was allowed

to talk about himself for 6:33  minutes

The FPPC does not allow an elected official to campaign at a public meeting

The Brown Act requires speakers to stay on topic: Term Limits

Listen to the audiences reaction..........

Click on photo below

ZZzzzzzzzzzzz............................ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....ZZzzzzzzzz...........

How many times did David Evans get demoted by Bob Burns?

&

"......instead of prosecuting them for what they were trained to do"  

Our Veterans are not criminals, Mr. Evans.

SHAME ON YOU, SIR

&

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED

BEFORE YOU CAST YOUR VOTE FOR

A NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Lassen County Clerk/Election Officer

 Julie Bustamante

Puts Wrong Meeting Time

on Supervisors Agenda

Kan We Help notified Bustamante's office last Thursday that the meeting time on the May 20, 2014 Board of Supervisors Agenda was incorrect and she refused to correct the date.

Chaos....

Supervisor Pyle, Albaugh and Hammond showed up after 9:00 AM ?

Chapman and Wosick were a NO SHOW

THIS HAPPENED LAST WEEK TOO.

IT APPEARS THAT THIS WAS NOT A MISTAKE

THIS WEEK IT BACKFIRED

Lassen County Audit Shows that

County Auditor,

Karen Fouch and her staff

have done

an EXCELLENT JOB

The firm of Price, Page conducted the annual audit for Lassen County

and were pleased to say that the County has

$4.8 million dollars

in discretionary funds available

POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING

NOT ALLOWED

Yet, (fppc ALERT) supervisor wosick allowed supervisor chapman to campaign for 33 minutes, at the may 13 board of supervisors meeting

Does Jim Chapman just stay in politics for:

A.  photo ops

B. bigger government retirement

C. recognition

D. to hear himself talk

E. all of the above

Jim Chapman is not the Auditor

NEW Lassen County Counsel

Out with the old

In with the new?

BUT SOME THINGS STAY THE SAME

Supervisor Chapman's

Willy Nilly

Budget Spending

....and he wants to be Auditor...get real

The May 13, 2014 Lassen County Board of Supervisors meeting uncovered a glaring problem with not having a Capital Improvement Plan. The Supervisors have placed no urgency on developing a CIP even though it is a MANDATORY County document. The CIP would prevent Mr. Chapman from creating his "rainy day" spending.

Supervisor Chapman has signed off on over 34 annual budgets and still doesn't understand that he cannot use money from any line item budget. Chapman defended the use of $115,133 from the Criminal Justice Facility Construction Budget (Fund 126-1261). Mr. Chapman stated that if they didn't use this money it would go away. That was simply NOT TRUE.  You will notice below that the $150,000 was placed there recently. Chapman placed this in the "CONSENT CALENDAR"  so it wouldn't be noticed. The Supervisors approve this Agenda item with one vote. This is a highly abused Agenda item.

Mr. Chapman's chronic habit of hiding his rainy day money has gone on for years. He gets away with it because he bully's the other Supervisors and former CAO's into thinking that this is the way it has always been done.

Kan We Help challenged the "inappropriate" use of this Fund.

The cost of a "back up" generator for the a "Courthouse Square Standby Power Project" (?) is an ACO expenditure (Accumulative Capital Outlay). Mr. Chapman, coincidentally, heads this Committee. If a "PLAN" was in place for the County's "priorities", Mr. Chapman could not have done this.

That's odd......there is no budget for a new generator, Mr. Chapman ???

The "upgrade" to the Courthouse Annex (the building that houses his office).

Take a look, on this page, and see if you can pick out one or two projects that are more important to complete

THE SUPERVISORS TABLED

ANY ACTION ON THIS

....and

THE SUPERVISORS TABLED DISCUSSION ON THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN ?

This Public Proclamation

for

Rhetta Vander Plug

Closer to the Truth

After Supervisor Wosick read the Boards Proclamation, Supervisor Pyle and many in the audience refrained from applauding Vander Ploeg

Watch Video

May 13, 2014

Also, Supervisor Pyle abstained from voting to approve the Boards hugely over-exaggerated proclamation of her performance

Vander Plug's staff was in attendance. Robert Burns was in attendance.

NOT ONE GAVE A SINGLE TESTIMONIAL.

Supervisor Jim Chapman

Doesn't want to be Auditor

He just wanted another forum to

trash

the

Lassen County Auditor

because she would not move money where he wanted it moved

This bloviating buffoon's time

has come and gone

Isn't it odd that Supervisor Chapman talks and talks and talks

to the point of monopolizing the meetings

but never creates anything except TALK

Is there life after being a Supervisor?

FOR NORMAL PEOPLE...........YES, THERE IS.

Lassen County Board of Supervisors

Forced to Amend

County Administrative Officer Contract

County can not use "County Executive Officer"

or

"Chief Executive Officer"

The problem: these positions do not legally exist

Full Details

The Lassen County Times

again failed to either

 OBTAIN Burns Contract

or failed to read it

Kan We Help has not received a "Thank you" yet....

These columns were published by an "anonymous author" ?

Some Career Politicians

Are Like Diapers

They need to be changed often for the same reason

David Evans Wants to be

District Attorney ?

David Evans ex-wife just wants

him to

pay Child Support

Brynne Evans was awarded a judgment for Child Support on 12/30/11 and the Judgment was entered in Lassen County on 9/17/12

....and what is David Evans opinion on "Dead Beat Dads" again....?

Lassen County Times

(5/6/14)

 thinks that

 Dwight B. Evans

is running against

Stacey Montgomery

for DA

Since Dwight B. Evans

does not exist

does that mean that Ms. Montgomery WINS ?

Why should we expect the Ballot to be correct?

David Evans

May 1 Speech:

Disturbing comments

about what Evans thinks about our returning Veterans

Click below or click on the photo to listen to Mr. Evans shocking opinion

"......instead of prosecuting them for what they were trained to do"  

Our Veterans are not criminals, Mr. Evans.

SHAME ON YOU, SIR

Lassen County Registered Voters

Deserve  Honest      Elections For a Change

No more "White-Out" on ballots

No more pencils used on ballots

No more memory cards switched

No more audit tapes disappearing

No more qualifying your "unqualified" friends

JUNE 3, 2014

THIS WILL BE

 A "SOBER"

 DECISION

Herlong, California

No Taxes Paid by Steve Pezzullo & Co

A 483 acre township that was sold for $31,900

HSP Resources (Hayes, Smith, Pezzullo) have not pulled any Building/Remodel/Demolition Permits. Permits require the property value to be stated and then would then be taxed.

NONE OF HIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN ASSESSED.

(The Assessor has not placed a "value" on Pezzullo's town ( land/ improvements), therefore there are no taxes.....SWEET DEAL)

Supervisor Wosick was exposed for attempting to purchase this town for $25,000.

Very soon after Wosick's secret attempt to buy Herlong, his friend, Steve Pezzullo, was able to purchase this town for $31,900.

 As long as Supervisor Wosick (His permanent residence is in Reno, Nevada. He no longer even lives in his district. Maybe Rhetta Vander Ploeg will correct this. For certain Bob Burns will.....)sits on this Board  Pezzullo can collect his rents but will never pay taxes to Lassen County for his Herlong Town.

Lassen County Times

Deliberately

Misleads

Public

Kan We Help posted Mr. Burns new contract a week ago. The Board of Supervisors posted Mr. Burns contract in their April 22, 2014 Agenda.

There is no excuse for the "anonymous" misinformation printed in their weekly advertiser today.

Page 3, 5 (f) of Mr. Burns new contract

Burns Contract

ALSO FYI.....There has never been a "County Executive Officer" position created in Lassen County, ever......

Evidently, Mr. Williams didn't get the MEMO

Making up fake titles should be frowned upon by any public entity, everywhere

Kan We Help

Alerts

Modoc County and Sierra County

Lassen County sent out Agendas to Plumas County, Modoc County and Sierra County for the Quad County Meeting to be held on April 29, 2014. Only Plumas County publicly posted the Agenda.

Kan We Help discovered that Modoc County and Sierra County had not posted the 4/29/14 Agenda. The Brown Act requires that "Special Meeting" Agendas be posted no later than 24 hours before the meeting. Kan We Help Secretary, Eileen Spencer, notified Stephanie Wellemeyer of Modoc County and Michelle Burr from Sierra County this morning that they must post this special meeting Agenda before 10:00 AM this morning.

Both Counties were able to post the Quad County Agendas to comply with the Brown Act.

Glad We Could Help

SAM WILLIAMS

THE ENABLER OF CORRUPTION

RECEIVES THE

2014

DOUBLE

STINKY AWARD

2014 STINKY AWARD

,Sam Williams. Lassen County Times Editor, trashes websites Kan We Help and the Lassen County Scoop for not having the courage to include the author's name for articles submitted.

It so happens, Mr. Williams website has never revealed a single author on his website. Sam Williams deserves the DOUBLE STINKY Award not only because he enables the corruption in Lassen County but he is a hypocrite and suppresses the facts.

Vander Ploeg can leave you speechless.

When an ignorant person says things that are ignorant,

thereby advertising that they are badly informed,

there is not much more you can say

When you think she couldn't say anything dumber

Vander Ploeg gives a brilliant legal opinion on the

"incompatibility of Burns holding two public offices".

"It's all Good"

State Farm Insurance Agent

Brian Wilson

Claims

that the Secretary of State

has authorized

him to run for County Treasurer

SIMPLY NOT TRUE

This was purely a "political"  decision

made by the current County Clerk Julie Bustamante

An abuse of authority? Yes, one of many

Burns Rejected by Lassen County.

Supervisors Give him a job

Wosick couldn't get a second to approve Burns contract

Watch

Classic Quid Pro Quo

Chapman takes Bob Burns money and then supports hiring him as a County employee ?

Wosick's criminal complaint

set aside by Burns and then Wosick pushes to hire him

as Lassen County Counsel

Look on the Bright Side

District Attorney Robert Burns is not a Judge

Soon, he will not be a District Attorney

He has been demoted

and  is now delegated to

three days a month

 enduring

the

Board of Supervisors follies

For this, he will receive a modest stipend of:

$126,000 a year plus an additional $31,000 in benefits

His boss: Richard Egan

Lassen County Supervisors Build  Nothing

They talk and talk and talk and never build anything.  Lassen County Supervisors

  destroy the hopes of the dreamers  that  want something better in life.

Five MEN that talk big, to get elected, and then find controlling the $120 million dollar county  treasure chest  too irresistible and just end up helping themselves and their friends.

Lassen County Supervisors:

A DEMOLITION DERBY IN SLOW MOTION

Lassen County has a  40 year career politician that has forgotten that the $120 million  dollar County chest of gold belongs to the people and not him.

You have a first term Supervisor that saw an opportunity to scoop up pots of gold around the County and then he quickly exits-stage-left.

You have a first term Supervisor that talked big about cleaning up County government but found joining the "Club" was much more lucrative.

You have a first term Supervisor that was asked to step up and fill some big shoes and found that those shoes  just keep stepping in cow pies.

You have a veteran politician that has simply run out of steam after several lawsuits and more legal troubles coming.

Year after year, decade after decade, Lassen County has just been crumbling away.

The Supervisors have no direction except to further their own agendas, which has never

included the needs of the people. 

THE COMMUNITY POOL, has become just another Lassen County black hole JPA. Will it be built, probably not. It seems it was just a political stunt by a few local politicians to spring board to higher offices.

LASSEN COUNTY BUILDS NOTHING

THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN is a mandatory document that the Supervisors don't want. It would force them to set priorities before spending money. Their only priority has always been to help themselves and their friends get richer. 

LASSEN COUNTY BUILDS NOTHING

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT sounds really good when hardworking people write the Grants only to have the Supervisors give  it away and tell the people to just "forget about it. Let's just move forward".

 NO, the $5.4 MILLION DOLLARS the Supervisors SIPHONED off FROM HERLONG'S GRANT MONEY for salaries and alleged administrative costs is not going to be forgotten. 

 THE COUNTY'S AGREEMENT WITH THE SIERRA ARMY DEPOT, TO DEVELOP HERLONG, WAS VIOLATED.

SOMEBODY IS GOING TO ANSWER FOR IT.

Herlong CAO meeting

LASSEN COUNTY

 IS ONE

F_ CKED UP COUNTY

 Five cowardly supervisors

are going to hire Robert Burns

out of town, in Bieber.

They are going to let him continue to collect his District Attorney pay

Burns Contract

and

County Counsel pay ($126,000 will start when Burns is no longer DA)

 and

hired a separate law firm to do his job.

Supervisor Chapman believes that because

he can balance his checkbook

he can be County Auditor

Delusional ?

If you drive a car for 50 years that doesn't make you a mechanic

If you read books for 50 years that doesn't make you an author

30 years ago I did ......please Mr. Chapman, go fishing

All the public has to listen to is the last day of the Budget Hearings in 2013

Audio of 9/5/13 Budget Hearing

The "Envelope Licker" couldn't even use a calculator

Does he even do his own tax returns?

Auditor Karen Fouch attempted many times over the years to tell Chapman

YOU CAN'T DO THIS.

Now, Chapman no longer wants to keep his hand in the cookie jar,

he WANTS THE COOKIES ALL TO HIMSELF

THIS COUNTY NO LONGER CAN TOLERATE BAD BEHAVIOR

After decades of hiring and firing CAO's

Now, Lassen County has a CAO that has to have TWO titles?

The California Constitution determines the Title:

"County Administrative Officer"

Recalling

Lassen County

40 year career politician Supervisor Chapman

&

veteran politician Supervisor Pyle

is gaining support

Mis-appropriations of $5 million dollars of Federal trust funds is serious

Does this explain why Supervisor Chapman, all of a sudden, wants to be

 Auditor

and

 be "in-charge" of the BOOKS ?

COUNTY SUPERVISORS

SETTLE STONE CASE AFTER

CHAPMAN (is this why he's wants to be the Auditor?)

AND

 HANSON (RECALLED)

WERE ADDED TO THE CASE

TO

AVOID A PUBLIC TRIAL

Congratulations Mr. Stone.

We sincerely apologize for the sorry state of the Supervisors & all County Counsels that perpetrated this 

Press Release

Again and again,  hundreds of thousands of dollars have been paid out

 because of the bad behavior by these Supervisors

See Lassen County Scoop's documents on the settlement

Thomas Paine Rolling Over In His Grave ?

Lassen County Times Blog

is 100% Anonymous

No authors, Sam?

Lassen County Times

 Misleads the Public and Reports Stone Dismissed his case.

Sam Williams is an enabler of public corruption......still

"Oh, heavens no,that wasn't me"

Hey Sam,

Lassen County does not have a

County Executive Officer.

CRUEL PARTING SHOT

AT

LASSEN COUNTY

Vander Ploeg may believe she made the Supervisors look foolish, but they will have the last laugh

Rhetta Vander Ploeg hasn't been that great of an attorney but she should know that the "County Administrative Officer" is a California Constitutionally created County position.

Vander Ploeg even convinced former County Treasurer, Richard Egan, that he could use CEO (Chief Executive Officer) which is a position that does not exist.

County Counsel Vander Ploeg even put CAO/CEO in Egan's contract to make it look legitimate but the joke has gone far enough. Vander Ploeg has advised CAO Egan that he can sign public documents with CEO.

The County of Lassen has clearly followed the California Constitution when it created Title 2, Chapter 2.06.015

CAO powers and duties

NICE JOKE VANDER PLOEG, BUT IT MAY BE TIME TO SAY GOOD-BYE NOW

Any one that wants out of their County Contract could void it and ask for damages because the County of Lassen

does not have and never will have a position of

"Chief Executive Officer"

or even the newest title

"County Executive Officer". 

Watch March 24, 2014 video  Part 2: 2:51 mark

Watch April 15, 2014: Vander Ploeg convinced Egan that his title was Chief Exective Officer

KAN WE HELP has asked the Board of Supervisors, three times now,  to refrain from using the title/position (CEO) that does not exist.

If Chairman Wosick signed as President of the Board of Supervisors, the document would be rendered moot.

If County Counsel signed a County document as Chairman of the County Whoha Department, it would be rendered void.

 YOU SIMPLY CANNOT MAKE UP TITLES

Mr. Robert Burns

DON'T GO WHERE YOU ARE NOT WELCOME

How welcome would you be taking a job at the prison?

How welcome would you be by taking a job at Juvenile Hall Detention?

How welcome would you be taking a job with the Sheriff's Department?

How welcome do you think you will be taking the County Counsel job?

You belong with Frank Cady.

You would be welcome

STOP THE PRESSES

The author's name has been

omitted

from this ANONYMOUS COMMENTARY ?

SELF SERVING MESSAGE FROM SAM WILLIAMS

YOU WILL GO BLIND IF YOU  READ ANYTHING BUT THE LASSEN COUNTY TIMES

Sam Williams, April 15, 2014, writes

"I hope everyone who brings forward questions, issues and concerns for public discussion will at least have the courage and integrity to identify themselves

.....Why?  You don't. 

Sam's problem...nobody trusts his newspaper

Westwood Author's Book

Now Available on Amazon.com

Yes, there are recognizable characters

"The Untimely Death and Afterlife of Captain James Munroe"

by Mary Nation

??  LOYALTY ??

Bob Burns Own Staff

Thinks He Has Done a Bad Job as District Attorney

David Evans: "Now, is the time to take over this office"........

 Don't be fooled voters.....

this is just a mini version of Bob Burns

The real Bob Burns now thinks he can slip into the Lassen County Counsel position and still be the District Attorney.

The Lassen County Supervisors have shown no ability to hire a County Counsel that is competent

What Service Does A County Counsel Really Provide?

Quid Pro Quo.............you want something, I want something

Each one below, without exception, used this position as a springboard

and provided no benefits to Lassen County

CAO Kettleson and County Counsel Settlemire

CAO Settlemire and County Counsel Kettleson

CAO and County Counsel Richard Crabtree

County Counsel Rhetta Vander Ploeg

This attorney should never have been hired, in the first place. She has shown no interest in providing "any" service due possibly to her lack of interest or knowledge in the law.

One of her first acts was to secure a "County Counsel Support" contract for her friend, Sierra County, County Counsel Jim Curtis. Vander Ploeg will jump from Lassen County to Sierra County on May 16. Curtis's contract had expired and Vander Ploeg placed the renewal in the Consent Calendar hoping no one would notice.

Has anyone asked if Vander Ploeg was collecting this at the other end?

If she had an ethical bone in her body she would have resigned after Martin Nichols was fired.

Has Vander Ploeg been the most useless County Counsel Lassen County has ever had?

No, not if they hire Robert Burns

On July 10, 2012, Lassen County Times Editor wrote about Frank Cady when LMUD hired him as their General Manager:

"Attorneys, even veteran attorneys, obviously don't have the education knowledge or expertise to adequately serve in that position"

Also, pursuant to Gov't Code Section 1099, a person may not simultaneously hold two public offices if either of the offices exercises a supervisory, auditing, or removal power over the other office or body, there is a significant clash of duties or loyalties between the offices, or there are public policy considerations that make it improper.

"The consequence of holding an incompatible office is that the person is "deemed to have forfeited the first office upon acceding to the second Gov. Code Section 1099(b)

The Conflict:

When a County employee or elected officer breaks the law (i e: drug trafficking, embezzlement, mis-use of public funds, falsifying evidence or falsifying court documents or conflict of interest, etc.)

the District Attorney

decides to prosecute or not prosecute. 

Mr. Burns has no jurisdiction over Federal charges but he could influence an investigation

Attorney, Lawyer, Counselor, Solicitor

Lassen County definition of County Counsel duties: serving the government of Lassen County, and INDIRECTLY, THE PEOPLE

Historically speaking, the Board of Supervisors have never hired a competent County Counsel that serves the people first.

Their first choice, Frank Cady

Second choice, Robert Burns

[Has Robert Burns been groomed for human contact yet?]

Who the voting public hates. But worse, Burns thinks he has enough on the Supervisors that he will be allowed to stay and collect his District Attorney salary and the obscene salary for Lassen County Counsel. Let us not forget that he will increase his PERS retirement benefits. [This is similar to what Supervisor Chapman is attempting to do by running for Auditor which he is clearly not the least bit qualified for.]  

Existing: Rhetta Vander Ploeg

Who gets her legal opinions on Facebook and leaves her job as County Counsel only to be hired by Sierra County Counsel  James Curtis

  She managed to renew a Lassen County contract ( placed in the Consent Calendar) for legal services with Mr. Curtis before leaving.

Sweet conflict-of-interest ?

CIP Discussions May Lead to

Lassen County Offices Moving

 to a

 17,353 Square Foot Building

Local residents, that included Dr. and Mrs. Hodge, have succeeded in getting the Lassen County Board of Supervisors to focus on creating a Capital Improvement Plan. The CIP has always been mandated to be maintained by the CAO but the Supervisors have, in the past, failed to enforce that duty.

CAO Richard Egan told the Board that rather than wasting General Funds to repair old County offices it might be possible to buy an existing building by the new Court House that is being vacated. The old buildings can be sold.

Video: Part 7, 25.50 mark

Currently, the County offices are scattered all over the County in old facilities. This move would allow a Board Room to be in the same building as the County Staff, County Clerk, Assessor, Treasurer, Public Works, Planning.  This move will make a "ONE STOP" access for the public. The current building locations are old and in dis-repair and are costing the taxpayers thousands of dollars to maintain. CAO Richard Eagan is having a "NEEDS ASSESSMENT STUDY" done for the County that he said would be done in a few weeks. 

The Lassen County Supervisors all agreed that the CIP will give them a map for future capital outlays and a "plan" for the County.

Sheriff Growden and Melody Brawley, Director of Health and Social Services also asked to be included in the CIP.  All services that the Sheriff and HSS offer are located in old County owned buildings that are in dire need of repairs. Repairs that the County may not ever be able to get to.

Who will pee, in the cup, for Burns?

      Smallunmonitored rural airports

Those stinkin' truth baiters are gaining huge support from Lassen County voters and Sam Williams can't print enough lies or suppress enough facts, to help his friends anymore

County Counsel Position

Possibly Rigged for Bob Burns

The April Fools Day County Counsel phony interviews for County Counsel was unfortunate.

Watch the meeting

The Closed Session was an April Fools Joke

Wosick, Hammond and Pyle appeared so the phony meeting could take place. Albaugh, Chapman and Burns hid until the public was gone and the cameras were turned off.

Somewhere at sometime prior to April 1, 2014 the Board voted to hire Bob Burns as the next County Counsel.  The Board of Supervisors claimed four candidates applied. They claimed that three dropped out. It was evident that the position had been rigged.  Lassen County's reputation is safe and secure.... Liars.

The County claimed that they advertised in the Lassen County Times, California State Association of County's (?) and the California Association of County Counsels (?)

2012 advertisement for Vander Ploeg ??

Kan We Help was sent a copy of the 2014 advertisement

This is the 2010 ad they floated

for Rhetta Vander Ploeg ?

Notice the changes above they made for Burns.

Vander Ploeg was given $107,000 but no stated salary for Burns

Fear me...and don't Mess With Me.....?

Oh yea.....Mr. Burns

Kan We Help hasn't seen outrage like this

since LMUD raised their rates 160%

"Stupid is as Stupid does"

[ Definition: an intelligent person that does a stupid thing is still stupid]

Supervisor Wosick's vote to hire Bob Burns as County Counsel was a given. Quid Pro Quo ?  Burns had to agree not to prosecute Wosick for the Spencer complaint to get his vote. Burns did that for Wosick. [Wosick just borrowed $240,000 from his partner against his Motorcross. Is this for anticipated legal costs?]

Supervisor Chapman's vote was just plain stupid. He will be on the ballot in June, for the County Auditor position which he is clearly not qualified to hold, and he pulls this.  He will be lucky to get votes within his own District.

Supervisor Albaugh is just lost on this Board. He just says and does what Supervisor Chapman tells him to do. It is almost like watching a ventriloquist and his dummy.

Supervisor Pyle is just going to serve out this term, but he still could have done the right thing......but didn't

Supervisor Hammond was the biggest disappointment for his District. Hammond was elected to District 5 when Jack Hanson was Recalled last September and is now on the June Ballot, running unopposed. Hammond will win with his two votes.

The 2000/2001 Grand Jury agreed with Bob Burns that a public board cannot make an appointment in Closed Session;

except if the appointment is BOB BURNS.

Kan We Help will get that Brown Act Violation against Burns Closed Session appointment right over to his office...

Comments from Susanville and all over the County seem to all say the same thing...........

  PUBLIC OUTRAGE

Richard Egan was not the only person that lied about the April 1 Closed Session

 All five Supervisors Should Listen to the Peoples Advice

and

Hire

a honest, drug free, law abiding, competent

 County Counsel, for a change

Watch the meeting

The Closed Session was an April Fools Joke

April

Fools.................

The Supervisors had already hired Burns

Bob Burns 

@ 1:00 PM

County Administrative Bldg.

221 S. Roop Street, Susanville, CA

Burns takes care of his "friends"

Now, he wants a pay raise as a County Civil attorney

for a population that not only does not respect him but hates him?

Kan We Help will post the reason for Wosicks vote

Kan We Help will post the reason for Chapman's vote

Kan We Help will post the reason for Pyle's vote

Do the Supervisors really think Burns can keep them out of jail?

Can $120,000,000 of tax payer dollars

 buy almost anything ?

Robert Burns

Wants to Be

Lassen County Counsel

The public

does not want him

....BUT

THE SUPERVISORS NEED HIM

Bob Burns brings nothing to this job except more secrecy and more abuses. 

Wosick needs a "Bob Burns" in place while major investigations are ongoing. Wosick owes Bob Burns !

Wosick, Chapman, Hanson, Berttoti, Dahle, Pyle, Crabtree, Nichols, Vander Ploeg

 were all directly involved

with the Herlong dollars. 

Cleaning  up Lassen County

means taking out the trash

Frank Cady=  Robert Burns =Frank Cady

Lassen County deserves better

***BREAKING NEWS***

Lassen County Counsel Quits

2001 Grand Jury,

Lassen County Times

and

District Attorney Robert Burns

take firm stand against appointments

made in closed session

***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS

Supervisor Chapman's County Retirement  Benefit

based on his $36,000 annual salary

According to Election codes, Chapman is

100% not qualified

to run for County Auditor

but if he should win,

 it will triple his Retirement benefit

Chapman announced early in the year that he would not be running for re-election in 2016

County Clerk Julie Bustamante "qualified" her friend to run for the Auditor. She  has set a very costly policy for Lassen County

FAIR TO THE PUBLIC?

Hey, maybe if he doesn't win the Auditor Race, Julie will qualify him to be the next Sheriff ?

Classless Supervisor Wosick

[who has done nothing for District 3 and has just filled his pockets during his first three years]

Takes Cheap Shots at

Levitt Lake Watch video: Part 7@ 13:10 mark

and

Westwood  Watch video: Part 7 @ 17:34

Lassen County Counsel

NO SHOW AGAIN

Rhetta Vander Ploeg "calls it in" for the Board of Supervisors Closed Session on March 24, 2014

Lassen County Supervisors Are Set to Bungle yet another portion of the Sierra Army Depot Herlong Property

Watch video: Part 4 @ 16:18 mark, all of Part 5 & 6

Property surrounding the Army's Airfield

Supervisor Chapman wants a Resolution brought to the Board defining what is not to be sold. Chapman's suggestion is that a portion of the  property be set aside  so that the County can control access to the airfield (the upper right-hand corner of the map, "Amedee Airfield Road").

Supervisor Hammond replied the access is now being controlled by Army Military Police. The Army has a 50 year lease with the County for the Amedee Airfield with the option of an additional 50 year lease. The Army must approve the use if the County sells the property.

The Supervisors voted to sell the "worthless" property in "one" piece.

There is no public access to this remote property other than an un-maintained gravel/dirt road at the Southern tip of the parcel. Honey Lake is on the left and the Army base is on the right.

Kan We Help Reminds Supervisors that Lassen County has a

County Administrative Officer

NOT A CEO.

CAO powers and duties

Watch March 24, 2014 video  Part 2: 2:51 mark

Lassen County Treasurer

Must Return $402,230

to the City of Susanville

Note: Lassen County does not have a CEO

Miss "Land Use" Attorney

Rhetta Vander Ploeg

Makes Fatal Error

in Herlong

Transfers

Community Development Grant Money the  County used

 has restrictions

that prevent Lassen County from selling

certain LRA properties

What  a pickle Vander Ploeg has created for the people of Lassen County

At the September 11, 2012 BOS meeting and on the advice of Rhetta Vander Ploeg, the Lassen County Board of Supervisors abolished the LRA (Herlong, Local Reuse Authority) and transferred via "Quitclaim" all LRA property to Lassen County including the Herlong Theatre.  

Lassen County now directly took on the liabilities of the Federal Grant monies they mis-spent

The LRA Herlong Theatre was to be given to the Fort Sage Unified School District on February 19, 2013 but was pulled from the Agenda. A Quitclam Deed was prepared but never filed. 

NOW

what about the One-Stop Building........

Lassen County Counsel

Shows No Interest Whatsoever

in her JOB

and continues to pick up her paycheck.

Rhetta Vander Ploeg

Lassen County Counsel, Rhetta Vander Ploeg does not live in Lassen County and often comes in late to the Board of  Supervisors meetings or sometimes not at all. March 18, 2014 was no different.

The January 28, 2014 Board Minutes were being approved and Bob Pyle, who did not attend this meeting, moved to approve the Minutes.  Vander Ploeg said nothing, did nothing.  She may have been sitting in that chair but her mind was not in Lassen County. Watch:  PART 1: 21:47 mark. Supervisor Pyle could not make a Motion or a Second to the Motion, but could only abstain from the vote.

The hand out for the DRAFT RFP Amedee Airfield property was not included on the County's website and a notice was issued that the handout would be available at the March 18, 2014 Board of Supervisors meeting.  There were no hand outs available to the public. Rhetta Vander Ploeg didn't have one, but she came to this meeting with nothing and we can only assume she was unprepared even to attend this meeting that she is being paid for. Watch PART 7: 16:00 mark

The Board cancelled their March 25, 2014 meeting due to the fact the CAO could not attend. The CAO suggested scheduling a Special Meeting on Monday, March 24.  A Special Meeting requires a 24 hour Notice to the public (Brown Act 54956). Rhetta Vander Ploeg just sat there and said nothing when the CAO stated that a Special Meeting needed a 72 hour Notice. Watch PART 7: 16:00 mark

Rhetta Vander Ploeg announced that she is taking a position with James Curtis in Grass Valley.

This is the same James Curtis that she threw several Lassen County contracts too.

This is the same James Curtis that is Sierra County's County Counsel.  

Lassen County Clerk

Borders on

TOTAL DYSFUNCTION

Lassen County Clerk, Julie Bustamante, has fallen behind on the Board of Supervisors business. Meeting Minutes have not been approved for six meetings. Her staff is not even proficient with the old software so how can the public trust her with a new $27,000 software package she purchased last September that has yet to be installed.

Now, the Agendas have "This Agenda item pulled" listed for secret and unknown agenda items?  Only the Supervisors can vote to pull an Agenda item.  The real reason, the County Clerk does not understand her software.

At the March 18, 2014 Board of Supervisors meeting, Bob Pyle voted to approve the 1/28/14 minutes. The "Problem", he did not attend this meeting.  Over the years, the County Clerk failed to present over a dozen Minutes to be approved and the Supervisors could not possibly approve one, two year old minutes. When they were forced, by Kan We Help to address this, they approved all but one. They didn't have a quorum to approve the last one because of Jack Hanson's Recall.  

NOT A GOOD WAY TO RUN THE PUBLICS BUSINESS

Maybe, if Julie Bustamante ever visited her office, her staff might get some direction.

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