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Voters' Guide
our elected officials” density development along it!) they incur. While the RDA
(Opposite of what Maximus’ our beachfront, IBCC realized Even with incomplete data mirrors the City Council

MAXIMUS report says).


In an attack on candidate
early on that the best way to
protect our quality of life was
due to “missing city records,”
Maximus predicts the city
(same members) the co-min-
gling of assets and low inter-
Continued from page 1 Bill Medlock the IBCC faux to support good people to run will exhaust all its reserves est loans of the City’s reserves
newspaper stated: Medlock for City Council.” within three years. The rev- is ethically wrong. Shuffling
Offers Economic Stability. “Over the years the best of enue expected from a new funds back and forth to pay
unavailable. They may exist ”Either he doesn’t know that the best have stepped forward Seacoast Inn and a possible for ecotourism studies and to
with the city or on the city’s the city has a budget surplus to serve Marti Goethe, Mike new development at Ninth pay lobbyists to convince us
computer servers, but they and is economically stable or Bixler, Diane Rose, Steve and Palm would be insuffi- to vote for more taxes is about
could not be located during he is ignoring the fact.” (No Haskins, Mayda Winter and cient to overcome the City’s as crooked as a government
the course of this study. This such facts Maximus' Report Patricia McCoy. The past growing needs. can get!
lack of information may be says) fourteen years will certainly While the integrity of the Our City Council/RDA
related to the current staff’s “Most of all, Fred is proud be looked upon as a golden RDA is in question, the city has ignored its fiduciary
unfamiliarity with where the of how far our city has come era for IB government. The has elected to loan money responsibility to the citizens,
prior administrative services and wants to work with the vision, hard work, wise deci- from the limited reserves to property owners and taxpay-
director maintained records current council to keep us sions, and steady hands of a the RDA. It now appears that ers. Paying $30,000 for a
and files. moving in the right direction. succession of City Councils the RDA will be unable to report that does not have all
Thirdly, in prior years, the If you like what you’ve seen has transformed IB from a pay back those loans on time the facts to start with, is mis-
city maintained various happening in IB, then Fred is struggling financially due to delays in proposed pro- use of taxpayers money. Until
reserves or funds for emer- your man. He will bring a strapped burg to an admired jects and the withdrawal of all the missing financial infor-
gencies. In recent years, the fresh, strong voice to the little city on the move.” developer Horton on the mation is produced, any
City has used those funds and council. He will help build us (Transformed IB from a Ninth and Palm project. financial report is inaccurate.
reserves in order to balance its up, not tear us down. With struggling financially The RDA does not need a Patricia McCoy, Diane Rose,
budget. The city had use of Fred on the City Council, the strapped burg into a strug- vote to pass a bond measure; Mayda Winter, Fred McLean
those reserves only one time best is yet to gling financially strapped unlike the City Council or and Jim Janney should be
and as each is exhausted, they come!”(Bankruptcy or higher burg. According to Maximus School District. The RDA can held criminally responsible
are unavailable in the future taxes is the best yet to come, these supposedly steady- incur debt and interest with- until the City’s Records and
to resolve the city’s budget according to Maximus) handed IBCC leaders have out voter approval, however Financial Memory can be
shortfalls. Last year (FY2004- “As a fledgling organiza- been deficit spending since property owners will be legal- restored! If they cannot obtain
05), the city showed a new tion fighting high rise, high before 2003 and lying about ly obliged to pay off the debt SEE MAXIMUS, PAGE 8
$3,738,100 fund balance
reserve related to the city’s Political clique continues to abuse non-profit status
loan to the Redevelopment
Agency(RDA). The terms of By Ed Kravitz Beautiful and others seem to Winter is also illegal. scrutinized by the State
the loan provide for the city to also be actively involved The SBUSD Education Attorney General and the

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receive six per cent interest on lthough many I.B. with not only lobbying for Foundation which was co- Grand Jury. The officers of
the $3,738,100 loan balance residents may be legislation and grants, but founded by Dee McLean and SWIA have repeatedly
from the RDA, but the RDA dedicated volunteers also activly engaged in the Winter has been very active refused to disclose where
is not expected to make pay- for their favorite non-profit campaigns of IBCC in local politics, to the extent their money comes from and
ments on the principle bal- organization's stated mission, Candidates. that it self-perpetuates where it goes. SWIA’s attor-
ance next year. Thus it is mis- several groups may be vio- Are any of these groups incumbency by School ney Steve Haskins responded
leading to draw conclusions lating State Law. Might there just laundromats to redistrib- Board Members and the that they were only required
from a quick read of the fig- be a conflict of interest by ute tainted money back to the local IBCC candidates they to furnish a copy of their
ures appearing in the CAFR- having their members active- political worker bees and fly- support for City Council. income tax statement.
they must be interpreted in ly involved in lobbying or ing monkeys? Local School Board mem- Is SWIA laundering grant
context. posting campaign signs and By law, Non-Profit bers who belong to the money and redistributing it
So the city and the IBCC materials? Are some of these Corporations or 501(c)(3)s as SBUSD foundation “con- to its political supporters and
PAC knew they were deficit groups established just to they are called, are open to fessed” to removing the “I.B. its officers? We think so, but
spending prior to 2003. Lets self-perpetuate encumbency public membership. Anyone Voters' Guide” from news unless they furnish what
take a look at some quotes at the Council and School can join! Two years ago I.B. stands in 2004! Read the should be public informa-
from the PAC’s faux newspa- Board? resident John Carr attempted "Censorship In I.B." story on tion, there is no way to know
per from the 2004 Campaign SWIA, SBUSD to join SWIA. He was the Web at http://saveib.com. for sure.
season. Education Foundation, refused membership and Under a new law in By refusing membership
Imperial Beach Concerned Wildcoast, Bike Trail then arrested for trespassing. California it is now illegal to to anyone, they violated
Citizen’s 2004 Voter’s Guide Coalition, Environmental Limiting the membership of remove five or more copies State Law and should lose
“Today, Imperial Beach Health Coalition, Friends of SWIA to IBCC supporters is of a publication for the pur- their non-profit status. They
enjoys a measure of prosperi- the T.J. River Valley, Friends a violation of State Law. poses of preventing others are not a true wildlife group,
ty and fiscal stability because of the Otay Valley Regional Using a non-profit’s status to from reading it. but a front for the IBCC
of the careful, consistent Park, Friends of the South skim money from grants All of these and other Political Laundromat; until
stewardship of resources by Bay Wildlife Refuge, I.B. voted for by McCoy and local non-profits should be otherwise proven!
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