The following is an open letter to San Simeon officials:
San Simeon’s general manager services and legal counsel are giving you bad advice. I have complained to you directly, with little to no response. Filing complaints is the only vehicle available to me to make you aware of these ill-advised practices. These continuing complaints to your board and outside agencies will hopefully make you aware that things are not okay in your small disadvantaged community.
For over 20 years, I have studied local community services districts and served as a director on one for four years. I have had a pretty good track record for finding corruption in several.
Over the last year and a half, I have become a student of your district. I have learned your policies and procedures, apparently knowing them better than you do. I am an advocate for the Brown Act, California’s “sunshine law” and transparency. I am fiscally responsible and have witnessed your contractors giving you bad advice.
Ultimately, your ratepayers pay twice: the first time when your contractors fail you and the second when they get paid to clean up the mess they created for your district.
In my opinion, your contractor general manager service,” with their pattern of blunders, is taking advantage of your disadvantaged community. The general manager doesn’t attend your Budget Committee meetings where he is legally and contractually bound to provide financial management for the district including all important rate setting....
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