The last blog focused on Deceit: How City Leadership Has Repeatedly Misled the Community. Today’s blog is titled Time For The Guardrails! The competing goals are playing themselves out as the volunteer three-member Financial Advisory Board tries to implement a policy for the General Reserve Fund for the City. What are these goals? Obviously, theContinue reading “Time For The Guard Rails”
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Deceit
The last blog focused on the Broken Promises: The myth that City Leadership allocates resources to improve the lives of El Cerrito residents. This follow-up episode spotlights Deceit: How City Leadership Has Repeatedly Misled the Community Merriam-Webster defines deceit as a noun: de·ceit di-ˈsēt Deceit: the act of causing someone to accept as accurate or valid whatContinue reading “Deceit”
Broken Promises
The last blog focused on the MORE TAXPAYER MONEY, PLEASE, and the eminent ask for more taxpayer bailouts. This episode spotlights Broken Promises: The myth that City Leadership allocates resources to improve the lives of El Cerrito residents. A new Library, a Senior Center, better services — these things elected El Cerrito Officials mindlessly assureContinue reading “Broken Promises”
MORE TAXPAYER MONEY, PLEASE
The last blog focused on the unbalanced budget and the eminent use of general fund reserves to balance the budget. This episode spotlights on MORE TAXPAYER MONEY, PLEASE. When finding a solution to the operating crisis facing El Cerrito, the only plan coming from City leaders is more taxes. That’s not a plan, but unlimitedContinue reading “MORE TAXPAYER MONEY, PLEASE”
El Cerrito’s Unbalanced Budget – Part I of a series on Fiscal Responsibility
El Cerrito had long been flagged on the California State Auditor’s dashboard of cities in distress. The City ranked as the sixth most troubled on the 2020 list, and the audit laid out how it wound up in such bad shape. City Manager Karen Pinkos spent 12 years as Assistant City Manager before becoming CityContinue reading “El Cerrito’s Unbalanced Budget – Part I of a series on Fiscal Responsibility”
Conflict of Interest
In this town, things are getting worse. They have scheduled an event titled “Lunch with El Cerrito’s Mayor and City Manager,” where members of the public join them to have a conversation with Mayor Gabe Quinto and City Manager Karen Pinkos on the latest happenings in the City of El Cerrito, and what’s next forContinue reading “Conflict of Interest”
Press Release Gone Bad
Last week, the Council Members posted on social media. Then the City of El Cerrito issued a press release claiming victory over the financial crisis. Still, the State Auditor and the East Bay Times disagreed. On October 24, 2022, the East Bay Times article here said, “While this is the first year the cityContinue reading “Press Release Gone Bad”
El Cerrito Committee for Responsible Government (ECCRG) 