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Ban the Cams Peitition qualified for November 2012 ballot!

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Murrieta Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2010

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New Senseless salaries

 Inland elected officials need to show sense and discipline and put an end to the mindless escalation of city managers' salaries. And Riverside and Temecula, whose top executives both have announced plans to leave their posts, would do well to lead the way.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/editorials/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_D_op_27_ed_salaries.1fc216e.html

Last Year 2010: Initiatives on November Ballot  for City of Murrieta.  The city council will NOT implement D & E as the voters approved.

 

Fox News link:

http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/politics/wastebusters-bring-big-changes-to-murietta-20101111

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The big red No signs popping up in Murrieta are sponsered by the Southwest County Taxpayers for Responsible Governement.  This group is NOT TAXPAYERS but Unions and special interest group. Please read the California 460 form: 

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Senator Ray Haynes

National Tax Limitation Committee 

Murrieta Taxpayers

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Read what the Californian said:
.... The three incumbents have helped shepherd the city through some tough economic times, shaving more than $7 million off the city budget, while protecting the city's emergency reserves and its police and fire services.  The job is not complete, though. More cuts undoubtedly lie ahead, and some creative thinking will be needed to keep them from cutting too deeply into essential services.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_716fbeee-a389-5081-88ed-7d45173a4c86.html

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City Council Member Lashes Out At Private Citizen

Bob Kowell knows he’s not the most popular person at Murrieta City Hall. His Murrieta Initiatives C, D, and E has drawn sharp criticism from the members of the city council.

Rick Gibbs is an entrenched city council member, and former mayor, of Murrieta. Mr. Gibbs was one of the eight candidates present at the Murrieta City Council Candidate’s Forum at The Colony at California Oaks on Tuesday night.

The audience was stunned when Rick launched into a personal attack against Bob Kowell during the forum, pointing Mr. Kowell out in the second row, proclaiming that Kowell’s initiatives were the result of jealousy over incomes, and anger that candidates of the past who supported Mr. Kowell’s initiatives did not win their elections.

As the drama unfolded, some people in the audience sat stunned, while others actually applauded Rick Gibbs’ unethical attack. Mr. Kowell simply sat there, refusing to take the bait, and allowed Mr. Gibbs to continue his personal attack against him without retaliating.

Rick Gibbs did not seem to realize what he had done wrong, and at the end of the forum brushed by Douglas V. Gibbs, a candidate that supports Kowell’s initiatives, without even a word, or a handshake, as Douglas extended his hand.

Outraged by Rick Gibbs’ behavior, Douglas V. Gibbs called Rick’s actions unethical, and uncalled for. “City Council members,” said Douglas, “are supposed to be serving the citizens of the city, not verbally attacking them. Frankly, I was surprised about what I witnessed. Rick Gibbs claims to be a stalwart member of the community, yet verbally attacked Mr. Kowell without provocation.”

When the forum ended, Rick Gibbs vanished quickly.

“If city council members are supposed to serve the people of the city,” Douglas Gibbs added later, “Rick Gibbs failed to serve as an example of service by attacking Bob Kowell. It is one thing to be against the initiatives, but it is another to personally attack someone verbally in front of all those people. Surely, the code of ethics he swore to uphold would not condone such actions.”

Douglas Gibbs also said he thinks Rick’s anger is rooted in not only his opposition to Murrieta Initiatives C, D, and E, but also in past disputes he has had with Mr. Kowell.

Bob Kowell indicated that he did not feel threatened by Rick Gibbs’ actions, but that Rick’s outburst was not consistent with the kind of behavior a city council member is supposed to portray.

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 SAVE MURRIETA – VOTE YES

Vote yes on Measures C, D and E
Murrieta City Council and City Manager is against these Measures on the November ballot. 

Vote Yes on Measure C - TERM LIMITS – 2 TERMS AND TWO YEARS OFF
The leadership must come from us, the citizens. Now!  We must pass term limits since our public servants have turned politicians. 

What is desperately needed is the brand of public servants our founders, authors of the Constitution envisioned—the kind of statesmen who go to serve the people, and their country. These were to be citizen public servants who would go to their country for a limited time only. They would temporarily leave their citizen pursuits to serve briefly then return back to their citizen lives. 
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Vote Yes on Measure D - LIMITS ON CITY COUNCIL COMPENSATION
 In the City of Murrieta PDF: Operating Budget Fiscal Years 2009/10 and 2010/11:

City Council Salaries and Wages for 2010/11 - $101,797 which breaks down to 20,359.40 each council person.  Page 39

Expenditure Type 2010-11 (page 37) 1100 - City Council

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-1 2010-11
235,806  251,500  280,492  250,614  255,895*

This is the approved Expenditure which breaks down to 51,179 each city council person per year.

Vote Yes on Measure E - LIMITS ON CITY ADMINISTRATION COMPENSATION

All city managers are being paid too much.  Murrieta city manager earns $210,011 per the Californian Newspaper.  The League of Cities published the salaries of all cities on 9-15-10 and Murrieta city manager makes $241,618.
They are only running cities while the governor is running the state of California which includes all the cities.  Visit:  http://www.cacities.org for a complete list of CA City Managers Salaries.

City of Oakland population 410,000 and city manager pay is $230,024
Murrieta population 101487 and city manager pay is $241.618!

Murrieta city manager makes more than:

State:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would be making $173,987 but has declined to take his salary
Speaker of the Assembly John A. Pérez  $109,584

Federal:
Majority Party Leader - $193,400
Minority Party Leader - $193,400
Speaker of the House - $223,500
House and Senate: $174,000 per year. 

U.S. President makes $400,000
U.S. Vice President makes $212,100
U.S. Chief Justice makes $212,100
In 2007, General Petraeus, head of the Iraq and Afghan American forces, made roughly $180,oo0 a year overseeing more than 160,000 U.S. troops.
 
Murrieta exceeds the maximum city manager salary for a city of our size. The average salary for a city manager in this area is now $172,207 per year (www.payscale.com). This salary is what a Harvard master’s grad in business with 30 years experience as city manager would be making. Murrieta’s city manager makes a monthly salary of $17,500 per month ($210,000 annually) according to the most recent newspaper reports and this with full benefits and bonuses on top of it.

Almost all City Manager salaries are a symptom of a run-away government that needs to be limited.
Sincerely yours,

www.LGPAC.com                    bobkowell@aol..com

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 MURRIETA: Council postpones vote on mandating E-Verify
10:00 PM PST on Tuesday, November 16, 2010
By JOHN F. HILL
The Press-Enterprise
The Murrieta City Council postponed votes Tuesday on two weighty issues: mandating that businesses verify employees' immigration status, and pursuing legal action over three voter-approved ballot measures.
Council members had planned to announce Tuesday whether they would take some or all of the ballot measures to court. But City Attorney Leslie Devaney said the council still was working through legal issues and had not reached a decision by the time its meeting started.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories

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MURRIETA: Residents call for open discussion of measures
Second closed-session City Council meeting yields no action on C, D and E
By NELSY RODRIGUEZ - nrodriguez@californian.com North County Times - Californian | Posted: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:14 pm
After a second meeting behind closed doors to discuss the legalities of implementing Murrieta Measures C, D and E, some residents called on City Council members Tuesday to hold the discussion in the open.
Council members met for their first closed session on the subject last week after Murrieta voters overwhelmingly passed the trio of measures in the Nov. 2 election.
They made no decision after that meeting, but City Attorney Leslie Devaney said at the time that she expected council members to choose a course of action during Tuesday's closed session.
Some portions of the measures might not be legal under California law, Devaney said, and council members have been reviewing their legal options to roll out the measures, or ask for a court-ordered delay until those legal issues are resolved.
However, Tuesday's meeting did not result in a definitive plan, Devaney said.
No action was reported from the closed session meeting.
Some residents, though, were not happy that council members were discussing the legal issues behind closed doors and called on them to allow the public in on the thought process.
"I find it very offensive that the city wants to take the supermajority taxpayers to court," said resident Diana Serafin, who spoke to council members during the public comment portion of the meeting. "Why are we angry? We want transparency." 

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/murrieta/article_9073fd9a-f63b-5327-9571-42ff3fb795d0.html

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 Murrieta City Managers contract.  Only 2 of 12 pages.

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Don't Mislead by Playing the Safety Card
During this last week, Anti-Measure CDE signs have sprung up everywhere. They infer that "safety" commands a "no" vote. These measures have to do with term limits, council compensation, and limits on city manager compensation in this time of high unemployment, official corruption, and a justified tax payer revolt. Indeed, if one limited the more than $300k spent per year on travel, meals, compensation, expenses, benefits, and other perks to the Murrieta upper management team, you could hire at least 3 firefighters or peace officers. Don't tell me that the measures promote a safety risk. The measures are only a risk to the financial interests of those who oppose the measures. As shown in Bell, the citizens' "safety" actually requires limits on what a city manager and council can take from us. Vote "yes" on the measures to protect your wallet.
www.nctimes.com

letters@nctimes.com

 « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « «  « « « « « « « « « « « «  « « « « « «« « « « Dear Colony member

The main topic at Murrieta’s Colony on October 12th was Murrieta Measure’s C, D and E. We, the proponents of the Measures, were not invited. I came anyway. All but two of the candidates, Douglas V Gibbs and Emilia Rychener, stood their ground as other candidates stated how bad term limits and compensation limitations (Murrieta Measure’s C, D and E) were for the City of Murrieta. Even though I support both Doug and Emilia, they ran for city council and for these measures, on their own. Emilia was a write in candidate in 2008 at my urging because other candidates couldn’t run at the time. No one has ever run on these initiatives before that time; these initiatives qualified in 2008.

One of the Murrieta City Councilmen, Rick Gibbs, condemned these measures as a mean spirited attempt by me to get back at the council because of a misconception that 2 of “my candidates”, that supported these initiatives, lost in the past and that I was jealous over this and also jealous  because I never made over $60K a year.   Neither assumption is correct.

This same councilman stated that the 2 city councilmen, that were not reelected since 2003, were voted out before they were found guilty of corruption. They were voted out because there were revelations and undergoing investigations about corruption already in process and people read about them in the paper.

Just for your information, I have made over $60K a year., however, most private business owners don’t make $241K a year. It doesn’t matter how much money I have made anyway. I am disappointed that the private sector administration jobs make less than the public sector. The businesses that pay the salaries make less than the people that work for them. That is not right.

The city councilmen that are up for reelection said how sound the city was; yet the city still has closed store fronts and city hall is closed on Fridays to save money during this crisis. The city manager salary stays the same while regular employees make less. They say he took a 5% pay cut. The city says that the city manager makes $210K, yet the League of Cities says that they make $241K. Why the discrepancy?

The memberships for city councilmen that I speak of for these Measures are WRCOG and the League of Cities. Both centralize our rights as a city into a regional system that determines policy for our city while we have to pay for it. The Redevelopment Agency redistributes land for public and private use and seeks for low cost housing (sometimes in inappropriate areas) among other things.

These measures, especially Measure E, won’t destroy this city because the city manager makes less. Other cities will soon adopt similar measures, as well, and the State may impose caps on salaries. We will find someone from the private sector that will run this city for less and more efficiently. One of the candidates, Alan Long, mentioned that we would have to renegotiate the city manager’s severance pay anyway, if the city removes the 3 month city manager severance pay. With many stores in strip mall areas still closed, people losing their homes, and furloughs for city employees on Friday, that day has come.

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A Stink in El Segundo Over Cadillac Salaries
Cops earn $175,000, firefighters $210,000, in a town with few criminals or fires
By Paul Teetor Thursday, Oct 14 2010

The debate over skyrocketing government-worker salaries got nasty in El Segundo when a homeowner published the six-figure salaries flowing to the small town's cops and firefighters on his Gundo Blogger website — only to have a police captain track him down by phone at his UCLA job and chew him out.

 The uneasy homeowner, David Burns, tells L.A. Weekly that Capt. Robert Turnbull "called me from his office to complain about my blog. ... He insisted on talking about it right now. I finally had to hang up on him."

Burns then sent Turnbull an e-mail explaining his policy of separating his blog from his job as manager of emergency preparedness at UCLA.

In a response that would have unnerved many citizens, the high-ranking cop e-mailed Burns back: "I will continue to call you at work whenever I want, as you may do the same for me, since our numbers are publicly listed."

Turnbull vehemently objected to Burns claiming on his blog that the captain's total pay is $302,000, insisting it should be "only" $225,000 — the amount the city defines as Turnbull's "total earnings."  

read the entire article at:

http://www.laweekly.com/2010-10-14/news/a-stink-in-el-segundo-over-cadillac-salaries/

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KTIE 590 commercial for the Initiatives. 

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League of Cities City Managers' salaries.   

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Press Enterprise

Inland city managers getting big pay

$200,000-PLUS: Hefty paychecks are the norm for administrators who serve as cities' CEOs. 

Indio shocked cities throughout Inland Southern California two years ago when it raised the standard for city-manager pay by hiring Glenn Southard at $240,000 a year plus benefits.

Other cities quickly followed, and a salary of more than $200,000 a year is now common for Inland city managers.

In July, Southard broke another Inland pay ceiling when Indio's City Council agreed to pay him $300,000 a year, plus an immediate $30,000 bonus.

"Two years ago that would have been unheard of," said Bill Garrett, executive director for the California City Management Foundation, a professional association where Southard is a trustee. "The numbers are just going nuts."

A Press-Enterprise survey of 32 cities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties showed average pay has doubled in the past decade for city managers, far outpacing the raises given to other city employees. City managers are the behind-the-scenes leaders who supervise day-to-day city business and take orders from elected city councils.

Fifteen surveyed cities paid their managers more than $200,000 last year. Five years ago, none of them paid as much.....

 

 Read entire story at:

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_manager04.3c7c781.html

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