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Kan We Help Files Brown Act Violation Against LMUD

2010: LMUD Board Spending Record Amounts on Legal Fees

SIX MONTHS OF LEGAL FEES

Wasting Ratepayers Money......The only thing the LMUD Board knows how to do......well

Led by Eugene Chittock and the LMUD Board,

LASSEN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT VIOLATES THE BROWN ACT - BIG TIME

LMUD meeting tonight at 5:30 PM

LMUD v  Kinross Gold Hayden Hill Mine Site

LMUD filed this lawsuit on December 15, 2010

NO REPORTABLE ACTION ON HAYDEN HILL, YET CHITTOCK FILED A LAWSUIT THREE WEEKS LATER. (Agenda Item 15 B was not identified as any type of litigation so it had to be discussed in open session. Kan We Help will file another Brown Act Violation against LMUD)

BROWN ACT VIOLATION - BIG TIME

LMUD placed the issue for the 69kv transmission line on their Agenda in May of 2009 (Closed Session Agenda 19 A2) as "Anticipated Litigation".  

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LMUD did not place this issue on their Agenda again until December of 2009 (Closed Session Agenda 13 B1). This was the only time the LMUD Board and its General Counsel identified the closed session as "Real Property" . LMUD now states that this is "Significant exposure to litigation"

LMUD failed to "properly identify" this closed session item after that. LMUD simply put this item on their agenda as "Update" but failed from January 2010 to November 2010 to disclose the nature and purpose of this closed session item. LMUD has never reported any "reportable action"

THESE WERE INTENTIONAL  BROWN ACT VIOLATIONS AND THEY KNEW IT

The Brown Act (GC 54956.8) allows for closed session for real estate negotiations, but they must be identified as such and placed in open session prior to adjourning for a closed session for this issue. LMUD did not do this for an entire year.

Lassen Municipal Utility District DID NOT DO THIS

they just filed another baseless lawsuit.

"Intentional" Deception by LMUD Attorney Chittock

Eugene Chittock places an item on the 12/28/10 CLOSED SESSION AGENDA  by using a

fake case number

and hides the fact that LMUD has filed a lawsuit without any previous public discussion by the Board

Kan We Help will post LMUD's case no. 51489

Chittock not getting fair share of pointless litigation

Congressman Tom McClintock,

A STINKING COWARD

The fully funded Bill gave the 9/11 emergency first responders health care for 30 years (most are so ill from breathing acid, concrete and toxic air they won't benefit from this Bill). The original Bill started at 7 Billion dollars.

Republicans wanted it reduced to 6.2 Billion dollars and then voted NO on it.

It was then reduced again to 4 Billion dollars for 5 years and it passed.

The coward, McClintock voted NO

Hug Your LMUD Employee

These "employees" are very special.

They keep our electricity on. If you can't hug them, a smile and a wave will do

If you see a LMUD truck, give'm a SMILE AND A THANK YOU

Kan We Help Obtains the Arrowrock Feasibility Study through the Freedom of Information Act

Kan We Help filed a Writ of Mandate in December of 2002 to obtain the Arrowrock Feasibility Study from Lassen Municipal Utility District.

Kan We Help had obtained evidence that LMUD had ended their involvement with the Arrowrock Memorandum of Understanding with the Boise Project Board of Controls in December of 2001, two months after the Feasibility Study had been completed and released.

LMUD, a publicly owned utility,  was involved with funding the "study" for a hydroelectric plant in Idaho and had spent in excess of $150,000 for the study and over $300,000 to their attorneys Frank Cady and Jaimee Jones.

 The LMUD attorney, Frank Cady and the LMUD Board refused to release a copy of this study. Kan We Help had received information from one of the contractors bidding on the project that it had been completed in October of 2001. In November of 2002, Kan We Help filed a Public Records act request for this document. When LMUD refused to release the document Kan We Help filed, in court, to obtain the document.

During the hearing, LMUD released the document to Judge Lazard who then refused to look at it "in camera" and then proceeded to declare the Kan We Help Writ "frivolous". 

CORRUPT JUDGES, CORRUPT ATTORNEYS

Judge Lazard was not re-elected to the bench in 2006.

Frank Cady was fired in 2008

and his partner Jaimee Jones was fired a year later, in 2009.

Judge Bradbury resigned after the exposure to a conflict of interest with the Frank Cady & Jaimee Jones fraud and other issues.

LMUD was awarded $30,922 in attorney fees

Judge Sokol Has 90 Days to Rule on Dyer Mtn. Issue After hearing Mountain Meadow Conservancy's lawsuit against Lassen County Board of Supervisors

Mountain Meadows Conservancy, based in Westwood, CA, claims that the public was denied the right to participate in some aspects of the review process

Mr. Crabtree represented Lassen County when this lawsuit was filed and recently earned his new position as Lassen County Counsel

Stand up for something, or Fall for anything

 AND CHITTOCK KNEW IT.

The choice is yours......................

Kan We Help Prepares Writ of Mandate to Obtain Public Records from LMUD

Kan We Help requested public documents on June 10, 2010. LMUD's attorney, Eugene Chittock claimed that they did not exist or were not in LMUD's possession.

THIS WAS A BOLD FACE LIE

On December 10, 2010, LMUD released the documents Kan We Help requested six months ago. Documents that their attorney

stated did not exist or were not in the possession of LMUD.

Instead of working with these two companies, the Lassen Municipal Utility District Board has been advised by Eugene Chittock to ignore the existing agreements with Sierra Pacific and Honey Lake Power and attempting to extort more money from these companies.

Sierra Pacific/ Susanville Biomass Plant

Honey Lake Power Biomass Plant

LASSEN MUNICIPAL SPENDING HUGE LEGAL FEES FOR NOTHING.... AGAIN

when will they learn?

Mountain Meadows Conservancy v Lassen County

Trial Starts December 15, 2010

167 Republicans

+

California Tom McClintock voted not to give 98% of Americans tax cuts

McClintock voted "NO" on H.R. 4853 which would extend the Bush tax cuts for Americans making $250,000 or less

Lassen County Moves "slowly" forward on new bus stop near Wal*mart 

Seniors and the Disabled petitioned the County to do this over a year ago (11/5/09).

Now they must endure a second winter in the freezing temperatures and unsafe conditions while Lassen County 'LOOKS AT IT'

Lawsuit filed on November 17, 2010 to stop Court Deal

Governor Schwarzenegger Makes Deal to Sell Court Buildings & contents to Company based in Mumbai

[Lassen County voted 60.62% for Schwarzenegger in 2003, 5167 voted for him.]......[17.66% voted for Tom McClintock, 1505 votes]

so this foreign company can rent the property back to the State of California

Lassen Superior Court wasn't the only court to recently purchase new computers and equipment that is not destined to go to the new Court House on Riverside Drive in Susanville. This is all part of a deal that Governor Schwarzenegger made as a GIFT OF PUBLIC FUNDS.

Happy Thanksgiving

Former  Deputy County

Counsel Traci Witry stated today that the State of California Filed an Appeal

to Judge Sokol's Ruling to Remove Serial Killer Herzog from Lassen County

Judge Sokol has more than this to worry about. A growing dysfunction with his court staff continues.  Judge Sokol's Court Clerks order instructions to attorneys that they have no authority to order, fail to file critical case documents prior to court rulings, give erroneous information to the public, allow attorneys to view "sealed" court documents without judicial authority.  The mounting complaints are being ignored by Judge Sokol or maybe they're not getting to his desk ?

This is just the tip of Sokol's problems. Judge Sokol rulings are for political reasons and today's friend could be tomorrows foe in Lassen County.

NOTE: Thank you for all of the cases and information. It is obviously a lot worse than we thought.

You can & should file complaints :

Commission on Judicial Performance, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 14400, San Francisco, CA 94102.

This will be a confidential formal complaint :

 Complaints Forms

LMUD Board Lies About $80,444 UAMPS Payback

Kan We Help called this Bogus affiliation between UAMPS & LMUD years ago.

LCT: July 19, 2009

Wayne Langston was kicked out of LMUD

The Utah based UAMPS has nothing to offer the Lassen Municipal Utility District ratepayers. This organization just came here to grease palms and drain our coffers.

The LMUD Board and General Manager never had any intention of this relationship benefitting the ratepayers. It has however, provided many VERY EXPENSIVE retreats and vacation meetings for Board Members and  Ray Luhring.

There will be no payback.

UAMPS does not have the money to pay back even if it is in 6 installments.

The LMUD Board's incredible lack of business acumen has led to yet another stupid fake energy scam.

UAMPS plan is to repay LMUD in "energy credits"

Presently LMUD is posting between $400.00 -$1200 monthly payments TO UAMPS for ENERGY?.

Kan We Help has not been able to find out what these small payments to UAMPS have really been for.

LMUD Minutes, September 28, 2010

Non-member LMUD attending NCPA parties again

However, Fred Nagels PSREC is an Associate Member. Did Ray Luhring and Bill Stewarts entourage attend as guests of PSREC?

Honoring our veterans should not just be  one day a year but should be 365 days of honoring those brave men and women that protect our way of life.

Susanville Golf Course Just an Albatross

Years of political exploitation and mismanagement.

 The Diamond Mountain Golf Course remains an albatross around the residents of Susanville's neck.

Budget in 2006: $154,000       Budget in 2011: $300,000

This golf course will never be profitable and the City of Susanville residents should know this by now.

Originally, portions of the golf course property was donated to Susanville as a tax evasion deal by the Nagel family. When Susanville sells a parcel of the golf course it has to pay the Nagel family. 

The article below is extremely  mis-leading and lacks MAJOR FACTS.

Follow the money and the names stay the same

You don't try and keep a boat afloat when  you know that there is no bottom to the boat and never will be.

The City of Susanville NEVER STOPPED OWNING THIS PROPERTY They stopped managing it from time to time.

The City officials that allowed Frank Cady to run the golf course have long been replaced. Cady was allowed to borrow$1.4 million dollars against City owned property which he defaulted on. The property was in default with the Plumas Bank loan. The new City officials worked out a "deal" to pay off Frank Cady's loan. It was either that or lose the property to the bank .

The City Manager/City Attorney talks about a lawsuit against the latest Manager. How STUPID.

[Peter Talia knows that he cannot be his own boss. He can take the City Manager's job OR he can remain the City's attorney. HE CANNOT BE BOTH]

Property better serves the community as a multi-use center

When a 9 hole golf course isn't profitable you don't expand it to an 18 hole golf course. What idiot in Susanville made that decision? Oh, that's right they have all "exited".

The golf course property could have many uses. A nine hole golf course isn't a bad idea but this property can be developed into a  "public" multi-use center also. An outdoor amphitheatre that the public can rent. A public swimming pool. A nature walk, etc, an archery center, a cultural center. Bring in different organizations and companies that can fund it. Turn it into a center where the entire community can use it.

the last thing susanville needs to waste money on is to initiate more lawsuits. that just makes attorneys richer and the public poorer.

more importantly, Susanville needs a leader that has vision. something so lacking now and in the past.

Lassen County Judge Sokol Grants Writ

to Remove Serial Killer, Herzog From Lassen County,

 a  political decision

Judge Sokol's ruling was  heard at 1:30 PM on 11/8/10  in Department 1 (the old court annex behind the main court house). Sokol's decision was not made on law. The Prison Department attorney stated that they were within their rights to bring Herzog to Lassen County but he really didn't seem to have the heart to fight it. Herzog will be moved.

Sokol makes political decisions and rarely follows any written law. He stated that this was a decision that was "FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY"

REMEMBER, JUDGES ARE ELECTED

Lassen County has been cursed with Bad Judges. They traditionally rule in favor of the politically correct thing to do or what "benefits" them or their "friends".

When Sokol rules that the sky is green, then the sky becomes green.

Don Sokol has a long history of controversy when he was a practicing attorney. He has business ties to Craig Kellison and LMUD's Frank Cady not to mention the "land deals" in this county.

Too many favors, so little time................

Lassen County Transportation Commission spends over $60,000 for "Pretty" new fencing that is NOT SECURE

Dan Douglas told the LCTC that the bus yard needed a new fence because of security reasons. Lassen County Supervisor Bob Pyle agreed. When a Kan We Help member asked if Pyle had even seen the current fencing, he responded, "Yea, I drive by it everyday."

One entire side of the bus yard is OPEN and UNFENCED.

Although this new fencing is in fact prettier it is even less secure than the old "uglier" chain link.

 In addition, the bolts are on the outside of the fence so anyone at any point on the perimeter can remove an entire section of the fence to gain access to the bus yard............or just climb over....which ever is faster.

SUCH AN INCREDIBLE WASTE OF MONEY

READ THE FINE PRINT....how was it paid for?

QUESTION: Who has a relative in the "fencing" industry?

or what else could have been purchased that would have been needed more?

Lassen County Supervisors Pass Over Traci Witry, Deputy District Counsel, for Top Job

Traci Witry attended Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego and was admitted to the Bar in 2000

Cursum Perficio

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Month

"Saving one pet won't change the world, but the world will change for that pet"

A Dog Story

They told me the big black Lab's name was Reggie, as  I looked at him lying in his pen. The Rescue was clean, no-kill, and the people really friendly.

I'd only been in the area for six months, but everywhere I went in this small town, people were welcoming and open. Everyone waves when you pass them on the street. But something was still missing as I attempted to settle in my new life here, and I thought a dog couldn't hurt. It would give me someone to talk to. And I had just seen Reggie's advertisement in the local newspaper. The Rescue said they had numerous calls right after, but they said the people who had come down to see him just didn't look like "Lab people", whatever that meant. They must've though I did. But at first, I thought the Rescue had misjudged me in giving my Reggie and his things, which consisted of a dog bed, bag of toys almost all of which were brand new tennis balls, his dishes and a sealed letter from his previous owner.

Reggie and I didn't really hit it off when we got home. We struggled for two weeks (which is how long the Rescue told me to give him to adjust to his new home). Maybe it was the fact that I was trying to adjust too. Maybe we were too much alike.

For some reason, his stuff (except for the tennis balls, he wouldn't go anywhere without two stuffed in his mouth) got tossed in with all of my other unpacked boxes. I guess I didn't really think he'd need all his old stuff, that I'd just get him new things once he settled in. But it became pretty clear pretty soon that he wasn't going to.  I tried the normal commands the Rescue told me he knew ones like "sit" and "stay" and "come" and "heel", and he'd follow them when he felt like it.

He never really seemed to listen when I called his name. Sure, he'd look in my direction after the fourth or fifth time I said it, but then he'd just go back to doing whatever. When I'd ask again, you could almost see him sigh and then grudgingly obey. This just wasn't going to work. He chewed up a couple of shoes and some unpacked boxes. I was a little too stern with him and he resented it, I could tell. The friction got so bad that I couldn't wait for the two weeks to be up, and when it was, I was in full-on search mode for my cell phone amid all of my unpacked stuff. I remembered leaving it on the stack of boxes for the guest room, but I also mumbled, rather cynically, that the "damn dog probably hid it on me."

Finally I found it, but before I could punch up the Rescue's number, I also found his bed and other toys. I tossed the bed in Reggie's direction and he sniffed and wagged, some of the most enthusiastic reaction I'd seen since bringing him home. But then I called "Hey, Reggie, you like that? Come here and I'll give you a treat". Instead, he sort of glanced in my direction, maybe glared is more accurate, and then gave a discontented sigh and flopped down with his back to me. Well, that's not going to do it either, I thought. And I punched the Rescue phone number. But I hung up when I saw the sealed letter from his previous owner. I had completely forgotten about that too. "Okay Reggie", I said out loud, "let's see if your previous owner has any advice."

I folded the letter and slipped it back in the envelope. Sure I had heard of Paul Mallory, everyone in town knew him, even new people in town like me. Local kid, killed in Iraq a few months ago and posthumously earning the Silver Star when he gave his life to save three buddies. Flags had been at half-mast all summer.

I leaned forward in my chair and rested my elbows on my knees, staring at the dog. "Hey, Tank" I said quietly. The dogs head whipped up, his ears cocked and his eyes bright. "C'mere boy." He was instantly on his feet, his nails clicking on the hardwood floor. He sat in front of me, his head tilted, searching for the name he hadn't heard in months. "Tank", I whispered. His tail swished.

I kept whispering his name, over and over, and each time, his ears lowered, his eyes softened, and his posture relaxed as a wave of contentment just seemed  to flood him. I stroked his ears, rubbed his shoulders, buried my face into his scruff and hugged him.

It's me now, Tank, just you and me. Your old pal gave you to me". Tank reached up and licked my cheek. "So whatdaya say we play some ball?"

His ears perked again. "Yeah? Ball? You like that? Ball? Tank tore from my hands and disappeared in the next room. When he came back, he had three tennis balls in his mouth.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,

It's about learning to dance in the rain......

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,

It's about learning to dance in the rain......

Tournament Benefits Non Profit Organization,

Lassen  High School Boosters

Susanville resident, Kurt Bonham, asks Attorney General to investigate Lassen County Non-Profits. Bonham believes that they are a "cesspool of non-accountability and malfeasance"

Bonham claims that he is an expert on this subject because he earned a living  doing business with Non PROFITS

There are 218 Non-Profit Organizations in Lassen County. How many are represented by Kurt Bonham?

Lassen County Chamber of Commerce Mixer

October 7, 2010

5:30-7:30 PM

608 Main Street, Susanville

For more information about NON-PROFIT activities

The Man Who Wanted to Be the Lassen County Auditor

His obsession with Kan We Help's "Bulletin Board" led him to try and destroy local Non-Profits

Kurt Bonham, thinks

"Non-profits are a cesspool of non-accountability and malfeasance".

Kurt Bonham posted this on September 10, 2010, on his blog. No one ever comments on this blog, so Bonham uses "Torabora" to a make his own comments. Since this posted, he has "closed the comment" section?

California Arts Day 2010

Saturday, October 16, 2010

10 am- 2 pm, Elks Lodge

Top of Main Street, Susanville, CA

Come celebrate California Arts Day 2010. Lassen County Arts Council will have artists on site to help children design their own CHALK ART to draw on the concrete walls in front of the Susanville Elks Lodge. Awards will be given for each age group

Preschool- 2nd Grade

3rd-5th Grade

6th-8th Grade

High School

Contact the LCAC at (530) 257-5222 for more information

This project is funded, in part, by the California Arts Council (a state agency) and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency)

First term, Congressman McClintock

Votes "No" on HR 4785www.votesmart.org

Less than two years in office and  McClintock has voted no on every Bill that would help the 4th District?

Fortunately, on September 16, 2010,  the Democrats passed this Bill 240-172

President Obama's Recovery Act Revitalizes the Geothermal Program

at the Department of Energy

Lassen County gets the benefit

President Obama's new Department of Energy head, Secretary Chu, has revitalized the geothermal program that President Bush had been closing out over his terms of office. President Obama re-strengthened this program with the Recovery Act. The Obama Recovery Act has made processes more efficient with great focus on communication. These Grants are competitive and whoever scores the highest receives the money.

These DOE grants are competitive and whoever scores the highest wins. These geothermal grants are funded in "Stage Gates". Once the companies reach  Stage 1, there is a review process that will take them to the next funding stage. All federal grants can be accessed on grants.gov

Pandering to Lassen County Prejudices but rides on President Obama's successes

FIRST TERM Congressman McClintock has voted "NO" on every issue before the House of Representatives that would create jobs in California and would help California businesses

Unfortunately, Tom McClintock has obstructed all economic measures to help Californians

"Unfortunately, government cannot inject a single dollar into the economy that it has not first taken out of the same economy", Congressman Tom McClintock, Lassen County Times "Where I Stand", 9/28/10
 

Ex-Susanville City Council member, Kurt Bonham, agrees

Non-profits are a cesspool of non-accountability and malfeasance.

There are 218 Non-profit organizations in Lassen County:  Lassen Animal Rescue, Lassen Humane Society, 4-H Clubs, Blue Star Mothers of America, Elks, California Teachers Association, Dreamcatcher Wild Horse and Burro, Grandparents Empowerment Media, Historic Uptown Susanville, Janesville Bible Camp, Lassen College Foundation, Lassen County Sheriffs Posse to name a few and LMUD's Bill Stewart's non-profit corporation,

Kurt Bonham posted this on September 10, 2010, on his blog. No one ever comments on this blog, so Bonham uses "Torabora" to a make his own comments. Since this posted, he has "closed the comment" section?  He's outlived his welcome in Lassen County.

Will Lassen County "Act" after

they see all of the faces

that have been hurt?

....the answer is NO

At the September 13 Transportation Commission/Agency meeting, after a year has passed, 96 year old Maryanne Slinkard and other seniors brought their concerns back to the Transportation Commission about the Wal-Mart bus stop.

These seniors have endured a  winter in the elements and it looks like they will have to endure another winter without any action by the three County Supervisors and two Susanville City Council members.

Susanville seniors petitioned Lassen County last year to move the Wal-Mart bus stop. This plea fell on deaf ears with the County and City of Susanville. The Wal-Mart bus stop was in a safe area in front of the Wal-Mart store

and was moved to Riverside Drive when the store remodeled last year. The bus stop was never moved back and became "unsafe" for seniors, the disabled and the public in general,  to use.

Lassen County Transportation Commission/Agency developed a plan to move the Riverside bus stop months and months ago.

There never was a plan to put the bus stop back in a safe place, in front of Wal-Mart

The present Riverside bus stop is unlit, no shelter and is filthy with trash and has no access for the handicap

KURT BONHAM IS NOT THE AUDITOR, HATES "DOGS"

AND EVIDENTLY... EVERYTHING ELSE ?

This poor guy is starving for attention, BUT WHAT A WAY TO GET IT ?

    Bonham has sent many filthy and mean things through the mail to Eileen Spencer over the years but threatening to kill her dogs and filing so many complaints with the Franchise Tax Board and Secretary of State against her animal rescue that they now considered him a

"NUISANCE COMPLAINER"

Kurt Bonham has been filing complaints against Lassen Animal Rescue since February of 2010.Every complaint is evidently taken seriously and Bonham spins a good yarn.

However, after seven months of his complaints and all of the fines Lassen Animal Rescue had to pay because of Bonham's false statements and crazy logic the Franchise Tax Board not only refunded all of the fines but declared Kurt Bonham's "logic" as a nuisance.  

 Evidently, Bonham never knew what he was talking about. 

Lassen Animal Rescue was informed that his complaints [sent to the Internal Revenue Service] were ignored because they lacked any validity. WHAT A SHAME. THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY TO GET ATTENTION.

Sent on 9/13/10

The brown color  is feces.

Kurt/Torabora hates Non-profits for some reason

There are 218 Non-profits in Lassen County and they all now know Mr. Bonhams' views on charitable organizations

Bonham answers his own postings under "Torabora"

"CONFLICT OF INTEREST"

Hmmmmm.....Yes it can

NUMBER 2

Mr. Hill was thrown into this position when major City of Susanville problems erupted like a boil, natural gas, golf course.....

City Manager Luanne Rainey had to resign

City Attorney, Kathleen Lazard resigned

The City Police Chief, Chris Gallagher.........left

The law does not allow a public figure to hold conflicting positions.

The law does not allow a person to hold 2 positions that conflict.

"CONFLICT OF INTEREST"

Hmmmm.......NO......THIS COULD NOT HAPPEN IN LASSEN COUNTY

NUMBER 1

LMUD's former attorney, Frank Cady was fired by LMUD in January 2008 and  filed a lawsuit in June of 2008 against his law partner Jaimee Jones.  This lawsuit exposed the CONFLICT OF INTEREST that existed the entire time Frank Cady was hired as LMUD's General Manager and Jaimee Jones was hired as LMUD's attorney.

Frank Cady told the LMUD Board, prior to being hired, in May of 2005, that he could be General Manager and General Counsel?

IN JANUARY OF 2009, when it looked like Cady v Jones lawsuit was going to be heard at a public trial, Fred Nagel stated at the LMUD meeting :

"We need to get going right away to get though this transition period".

But LMUD didn't hire (10/30/09)their new General Counsel, the Eugene Chittock law firm, until the trial ended , when it looked like they may be implicated in the fraud. .

 The Cady/Jones trial was held in October of 2009 and the fraud was exposed and now is a public record. LMUD Director Nancy Cardenas testified at the trial, under oath, that she knew of the fraud.

Article from the Lassen County Times, January 2009

DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN, SUSANVILLE

"Pacifying" (aka assuages) and "Fooling" are two different words in the Dictionary

"THEY" ARE GOING TO DO IT AGAIN.

  All of Nagels "buddies" came out to support this Deal. Nagel wins again. Why........

WOW, Did it raise any eyebrows, at all, where all of this money went.

NO IT DIDN'T.

SO "THEY" ARE GOING TO DO IT AGAIN.

 The conflict of interest is not hidden here people.

Fred Nagel and Frank Cady were involved with the Susanville Public Golf Course scandal that left the City of Susanville holding Frank Cady's $1.4 million dollar loan that he defaulted on.

Nagels own golf course property

Nagels own golf course property

City of Susanville

LMUD Director and Rancher Jay Dow Wants Agriculture

 Electric Rates Reduced: He tried this

once before

Immediately after Jay Dow was appointed LMUD Director in 2008 (scandals made 3 LMUD Directors resign) he and Wayne Langston immediately attempted to lower "just" the Agricultural electric rates.  LMUD's attorney Jaimee Jones did not stop that vote. She allowed board members that were ranchers to participate even though there was an obvious conflict of interest. Jones, Frank Cady's law partner, was eventually fired within a year. The newly appointed LMUD Board members had just fired Jones law partner, LMUD's General Manager, Frank Cady.

Jones and Cady were law partners when Cady was hired to be LMUD's General Manager in 2005 and the LMUD Board did NOTHING.

2005 LMUD Board Members: Nancy Cardenas, Wayne Langston, Fred Nagel, George Sargent and Darrell Wood

Jaimee Richey/Jones Termination

4/10/08, Langston (middle) voted with Jay Dow to give the ranchers Kick Backs. Jamiee Jones, lower left corner didn't do anything to prevent rancher Jay Dow from voting on this motion. Jay Dow was the only Director to vote against Jones termination.

January 27, 2009,Jaimee Jones fired

 "IT'S NOT SINKING IN"  ?

The problem Mr. Langston is you've lied to the LMUD ratepayers too many times

The problem Mr. Langston is your Bogus Phony Studies have not convinced the LMUD ratepayers that you can tell the truth.

LMUD's BOGUS STUDIES

Take a look at the promises LMUD claimed that Invenergy made to upgrade LMUD's infrastructure.

LMUD/Invenergy-Wind Generation-terminated

ALL LIES......

BUT THE LMUD BOARD AND ALL MANAGEMENT STAFF TOOK MANY TRIPS TO COLORADO

January 6, 2009, LCT

LMUD WAS BROKE IN 2005

Wayne Langston and Frank Cady ran this little public utility into the ground in 2005.

Wayne Langston and the Gang of Thieves made some very bad management decisions  that put the public utility in a position of Bankruptcy.  The Arrowrock Hydro plant was created to cover up this multi million dollar debacle .

The 2005 LMUD Board, Nancy Cardenas, Wayne Langston, Fred Nagel, George Sargent and Darrell Wood knew they were at risk of being exposed to the many scams and scandals that have riddled LMUD since its inception in 1989.

After the $100,000  payoff to LMUD's General Manager Evelene Twitchell (for her silence), the LMUD Board had to act quickly to secure their secrets and try and stay out of jail. The decision was made to hire their General Counsel of 14 years, Frank Cady. He was best suited to fill this position because he was intricately involved in all of the scams.

However, Frank Cady could not be hired as LMUD's General Manager because he was their General Counsel. Frank Cady argued that he could be both. Kan We Help filed a complaint with LMUD and the FPPC.  Frank Cady then set up a straw entity to make it appear that he had sold his interest in his law firm to his partner, Jaimee Richey/Jones. . LMUD Director Nancy Cardenas testified under oath, at the Cady/Jones trial in October of 2009, that she knew of the fake sale and deception. If Cardenas knew, Cady's best friends Nagel and Langston knew and lied under oath.

60 S. Lassen, Susanville, CA

Kan We Help filed a complaint with the Grand Jury in regards to the phony sale. Public records disclosed Judge Bradbury, US Magistrate Craig Kellison and Frank Cady owned 60 S Lassen Street in Susanville.  Part of the deception was to have Frank Cady sell his interest, of the office building, to Jaimee Richey/Jones and then a few days later Craig Kellison sold his interest to Frank Cady. The group waited until January 2006 to pay off Judge Bradbury's interest in "60 S. Lassen". Judge Bradbury suppressed Kan We Help's Grand Jury complaint.

NOW, Wayne Langston wants the public to believe that they are going forward with a Memorandum of Understanding with WAPA for a defunct project.  Take a look at the position LMUD was in with WAPA in 2006

The tragedy, with LMUD,  is that they feel empowered to continue these scams because they have the protection of the Courts, the District Attorney and an attorney, Eugene Chittock, that knows how to keep them out of jail ($$$$$$$$)

 LMUD Ratepayers are powerless

LMUD JUST SIMPLY

CANNOT TELL THE TRUTH

TANC  (Transmission Agency of Northern California) abandoned this EIR on July 15, 2009

(LMUD Director Jay Dow's Ward and LMUD Director Fred Nagel owns property in Wendel) cannot survive if the Nature Energies Bio mass plant in Susanville is re-opened.

JAY DOW AND FRED NAGEL DID NOT ATTEND THE JULY 27, 2010 MEETING

This "idea" depends on bio-mass generation companies being able to stay in business in Lassen County. Two conflicting problems exist. The Bio Mass plant in Wendel has stated that it

Are LMUD Directors ignoring all of their "Interconnection Agreements"?

 LMUD attorney Eugene (Chip) Chittock recently claimed that LMUD has never had any "Interconnection Agreements" with anyone.

ooooops?

NOTE:   TRAVEL will be involved, lots and lots and lots of TRAVEL and the LMUD ratepayers will get NOTHING FOR THEIR MONEY, EVER

Article from Lassen County Times, 9/14/10, page 14b

California Judges now can be rated by the public.

BAD Judges in California can be removed

BAD Judges in California can be admonished Click Here to find a California Judge that has been in trouble

as a judge and why he was removed as a judge  is not disclosed.

 This website allows you to add judges also.

The big problem in California is that the California Bar Association does not disclose, to the public, when a Judge has been in trouble.

Take Judge Richard Ryan of Placer County. He was removed as a judge but the California State Bar Association does not report this on their "public search" website.   

Former Judge Ryan is now a practicing attorney, but the fact that he was removed

Butte County's Judge Stephen E. Benson was admonished in 2006 for misconduct but there is no public record easily obtainable. The public can recuse, formerly reject a judge to hear their case, for this reason

Shasta County's Judge Gregory Caskey was admonished in 1998 for misconduct but there is no public record easily obtainable. The Judge returned to private practice in 2007. 

PHASE II COMPLETE

Lassen Rural Bus connects with Plumas County

"Simple" is the optimum word here

................only, only....... in Lassen County

There are 7.2 Billion people that occupy our planet, 1.5 billion are Muslims

Rep. McClintock Voted NO on HR 1586, but California will get $1.2 Billion despite Rep. McClintock voting "NO" on every Bill presented in the House.

He hurts California.

Congressman McClintock Rides on Coat tails of Democrats

He hurts Lassen County

UAMPS......good for tourist dollars

..........................and LMUD Board ego's

Ray Luhring COULD NOT name one project (if his job depended on it), not ONE UAMP'S PROJECT that LMUD dollars  didn't go down the toilet  

UAMPS IS FOR BACK SLAPPING $$$$$   AND EGO BUILDING  $$$$$$ and monthly trips to Utah, for Ray Luhring and "certain" selected friends

GOOD LUCK IN TRYING TO GET THAT wasted MONEY BACK, RATEPAYERS

Cady may still have his big gun........

Did Frank Cady lose his
"Back-up Team" ?

Lassen County, a plate of spaghetti...........................

In 2005, Frank Cady had relatives in the Attorney General's office and in the California Public Utilities Commission when he and Jaimee Jones put together their phony sale of their law office to obtain public contracts.

Frank Cady and Jaimee Jones were able to fake the sale of their law firm with the help of the LMUD Board, Wayne Langston, Fred Nagel, Darrell Wood, George Sargent and Nancy Cardenas, and Judge Bradbury. The Lassen County District Attorney, Bob Burns just looked the other way when Kan We Help's complaints were filed. Judge Bradbury buried the Grand Jury complaint filed by Kan We Help.  

Jaimee Jones & Frank Cady  Commit Fraud and still practice law ?  Why aren't the LMUD Board members being charged by the District Attorney? Why haven't Jones and Cady been disbarred............Sorry, that was a really  silly question.

Cady and Jones set up a "straw entity", in Jones name, so that it would appear that he had sold the property to Jaimee Jones . U.S. Magistrate Craig Kellison then deeded his ownership (1/3) of 60 S. Lassen Street to Cady after the phony sale to Jaimee Jones. Judge Bradbury's interest was concealed until he was paid off in January of 2006.

Nancy Cardenas, George Sargent, Wayne Langston, Fred Nagel, Darrell Wood, Jay Dow, Richard Vial, Bud Bowden, Ray Luhring, Bill Stewart knew about this and DID NOTHING.

TOUGH OPPOSITION

TO

DYER MOUNTAIN RESORT DEVELOPMENT

Sierra Club, Mountain Meadows Conservancy & Sierra Watch File Lawsuit against Lassen County Supervisors

LMUD Boards have failed at EVERYTHING

except staying out of jail. 

NICE RECORD GUYS

Empty promises, Lies,

A history of Deception

But what great times they have all had, on our money

Who will "grease the palms" of LMUD Director Nagel and Dow more, Honey Lake Power or Sierra Pacific's New Owners.

Honey Lake Power: LMUD Director Nagel owns property in Wendel and this is LMUD Director Dow's Ward and residence (and election year for Dow)

Nature Engergies (formerly Sierra Pacific Industries): Has better attorneys?

[Nature Energies offers vacation meetings in Oregon, Honey Lake offers vacation meetings in Wendel]

LMUD JOINS NCPartyA  Again

NCPA knows how to throw the best parties, in the best places

and LMUD has a history of going to ALL OF THEM and they will pay for their FRIENDS TO GO TOO !

Chittock may not be as smart as Frank Cady but he will be very useful to Wayne Langston with his "Cady" like style and easy access to the Lassen County Judges.

Look for Chittock's invoices to significantly increase in the future.

Look for Chittock to be included in LMUD's "travel" club

NCPA HAS BEEN GIVEN HUGE AMOUNTS OF RATEPAYER MONEY BY THE LMUD BOARDS AND HAS GOTTEN,

ZERO, ZERO, ZERO

Take a look

LMUD spends thousands of dollars to send three people,

Bill Stewart, Keri Richards              and Ray Luhring,

 to the NCPartyA conference in 2009.

LMUD was not a member of NCPA

LMUD RATEPAYERS BEWARE:

The LMUD President, Wayne Langston, has never been on a ballot and has never received a single vote, has supported 

 phony studies, vacation meetings, phony energy projects that have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, tried to silence ratepayers at LMUD meetings and voted to keep Frank Cady.

 Decisions that keep your electric rate high

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS START THEIR SEARCH TO REPLACE COUNTY COUNSEL

Craig Settlemire quit to go to Plumas County

New Susanville Veterans Affairs Medical Clinic Holds Grand Opening 

Care and Service to America's Heroes

Over 150 attend the ceremony

New Susanville Veterans Affairs Medical Clinic Holds Grand Opening on August 18, 2010

Door to Door bus service is now available to our Veterans, call Lassen Rural Bus at 252-7433. Ask about the new Chester to Susanville route.

*Lassen County Times does not report on the Veterans Affairs Medical Clinic's Grand Opening, the week before or the week that it is held?

Three courts declare Frank Cady and Jaimee Jones LMUD invoices to be incorrect, $40,000 incorrect !

Yet, LMUD's new attorney, Chittock tells the court that Kan We Help is the vexatious litigant for challenging this for 7 years.

Frank Cady charged and was paid over $74,000 for the KWH v LMUD case. Three courts determined that Cady and Jones overcharged LMUD over $40,000. 

LMUD has never even attempted to collect these overcharges.

The LMUD's accountant, Bill Stewart alleges that LMUD has spent $149,000 fighting KWH. YOU DO THE MATH.

KAN WE HELP HAS FILED ONE WRIT OF MANDATE

IN THE PAST 8 YEARS, ONLY ONE

LMUD files SLAPP ACTION     Why?...... Chittock needs the money?

LMUD does not have a Chief Financial Officer

The LMUD Board gave Frank Cady and Jaimee Jones $285,000 to over $300,000 a year. WHY?

Kan We Help challenged this for years

and exposed the

 LMUD General Manager Cady/LMUD General Counsel Jones "true" relationship in 2005.

Jaimee Jones & Frank Cady  Commit Fraud and still practice law ?  Why aren't the LMUD Board members being charged by the District Attorney? Sorry, that was a really  silly question.

Cady and Jones set up a "straw entity", in Jones name, so that it would appear that he had sold the property to Jaimee Jones . U.S. Magistrate Craig Kellison then deeded his ownership (1/3) of 60 S. Lassen Street to Cady after the phony sale to Jaimee Jones. Judge Bradbury's interest was concealed until he was paid off in January of 2006.

Nancy Cardenas, George Sargent, Wayne Langston, Fred Nagel, Darrell Wood, Jay Dow, Richard Vial, Bud Bowden, Bill Stewart knew about this and the Board DID NOTHING.

Langston's boy Chittock can not change LMUD's history

no matter how many Vexatious Litigant lawsuits he files

LMUD tried this once before in 2003, but the complaint was filed with Frank Cady's former business partner Judge Stephen Bradbury from BKC (Bradbury, Kellison,Cady).  Bradbury's response....he sent it back to his friend and did nothing

Plumas County Transportation Commission approved Lassen Rural Busses going into Chester [three times a day/6 days a week]

Marty Byrne, PCTC

Co-operation....................

                                                    Larry Millar. LCTC

Veterans can now use the busses in Plumas County to get to the New Veterans Medical Facility in Susanville 

Tom Robinson, Army First Division, Fort Riley, Kansas is the first Veteran to use the Door-to-Door Bus Service

Greener $$$$$$$$$ pastures outside Lassen County

Lassen County Superior Court Provides Help

 for those........... not represented by an attorney

Access to Justice Center, Law Library,

Mobile Access Center

LMUD attempts SLAPP action again

 Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation actions typically are to scare the public.

LMUD's Board and General Counsel Chittock only want the public to succumb to fear and intimidation with the threat of legal costs . [LMUD minutes state that Chittock urged the LMUD Board to take this action....$$$$$$$$$$$$$ yet Chittock testified that the LMUD Board came to him]

LMUD wants to force everyone to get an attorney so as to discourage anyone from filing anything against them. This violates a constitutional right  to represent yourself. In Small Claims court you are not even  permitted to have an attorney present.

Complaints were filed with Cady's former business partner Judge Stephen Bradley (Bradbury suddenly retired after the Cady v Jones lawsuit in October 2009) but no sanctions were issued against attorney Frank Cady. In fact Judge Bradbury has always ignored Frank Cady's unethical behavior ? Could Bradbury or Frank Cady have influenced Chittock to file this latest LMUD "idiot" action?

House of Representatives Vote on HR 1586

 Gives the States $26 Billion of Stimulus Dollars

Lassen County's Congressman McClintock voted NO, NO, NO

$16 Billion to restore Medicaid to the States

$10 Billion for teachers, police officers and fire fighters

$6.7 billion dollars was cut from tax cuts that Corporations used to move American  jobs to foreign countries. 4.2 million jobs have been moved out of the United States. U.S. companies have sent their customer service and human resource departments to Manila, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan.

LMUD BOARD FILES ACTION IN SUPERIOR COURT THAT WILL END UP IN FEDERAL COURT

LMUD THREATENS THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF EVERY CITIZEN IN LASSEN COUNTY

CRITICS BEWARE:

This ill-advised board  expects the courts to issue a ruling that

NO LAWSUITS CAN BE FILED AGAINST LASSEN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT

or any other public entity................

Guaranteed, there is no judge that stupid

[the right to redress your government..............GONE]

Even Frank Cady would not have done something this stupid

Everything is not well in paradise

.....and more to come 

Plumas County Counsel was replaced by Lassen County Counsel, Craig Settlemire

.....and more to come

Freeloader and Bully...

.........demonstrated performance King Langston

Free booze, free vacation meetings, free health care

Never elected  Ward 3 LMUD Director Wayne Langston

Only politics allow other utility customers to vote in LMUD's elections.

Only politics allow other utility customers to run for the LMUD Board

Only politics keeps Wayne Langston off any ballot. Langston's mother-in-law, County Clerk Theresa Nagel, started this in 2000 for her son-in-law,  and no one has the guts to correct it, including the District Attorney. Including the current County Clerk.  LANGSTON HAS NEVER RECEIVED A SINGLE VOTE, EVER.

Freeloader and Bully...

Langston DUI       Langston Appointment  

Langston, illegal from day one

.......why citizens formed Kan We Help. TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR PUBLIC UTILITY'S HISTORY

Langston's Reign

All Candidates for the November 2, 2010 Election must file papers with the Lassen County Clerks office by August 6, 2010

This includes all Special Districts and the Schools

Never elected  Ward 3 LMUD Director Wayne Langston and Ward 5 LMUD Director Jay Dow will have to file papers by August 6 to be elected for another four year term.

Jay Dow was appointed (after three LMUD Directors resigned)  by the Board of Supervisors, because he would represent the ranchers in Lassen County. Dow' s first order of business was an attempt to lower the ranchers electric rates...............

LAFCO determined that LMUD has no jurisdiction over the other utility companies in Lassen County.

Only residents that live and vote in LMUD's service boundaries can vote for the LMUD Board. 

This is how it is done for Sacramento Municipal Utility District and East Bay Municipal Utility District elections.  The three Municipal Utility District's in California are governed by CPUC, Division 6. 

This is also the reason all County offices must be on the ballot whether or not anyone runs against them. The governing law requires that all candidates must be on the ballot.

Only politics allow other utility customers to vote in LMUD's elections.

Only politics allow other utility customers to run for the LMUD Board

Only politics keeps Wayne Langston off any ballot. Langston's mother-in-law, County Clerk Theresa Nagel, started this in 2000 for her son-in-law,  and no one has the guts to correct it, including the District Attorney. Including the current County Clerk.  LANGSTON HAS NEVER RECEIVED A SINGLE VOTE, EVER.

Freeloader and Bully...

.........demonstrated performance King Langston

Langston DUI       Langston Appointment  

Langston illegal from day one

PLUMAS COUNTY TRANSPORTATION  COMMISSION

AND

LASSEN COUNTY TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION

agree to the new Chester bus stop

Plumas County Veterans and the general public will be able to catch a ride from Chester to Westwood (Lassen County) and into Susanville. Veterans will transfer "free"

to the Veterans Affairs new medical facility on Bella Way at the Wal.Mart store.

Bus Schedules are being formulated and will be released to the public soon.

NEXT: Phase III-Sierra County

Business Marketing Incentives (?)

Have you seen these........

sign of the times.....................

PLUMAS COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ARROGANT OR JUST STUPID

Plumas County Counsel is being replaced by Lassen County Counsel, Craig

Settlemire

Lassen County Times Reporter, Ruth Ellis, Rarely Reports Accurately...when she does show up for a meeting she is late or doesn't show up at all. WHY DOES THE LCT PUT HER STORIES ON THE FRONT PAGE

Her FRONT PAGE stories are less than accurate AND sanitized

FACTS NOT IN THE "7/20/10" ELLIS STORY:

At the July 12, 2010 LCTC meeting, Lassen County Supervisor Jim Chapman asked the County's Transportation Planner, Dan Douglas, if the 2 new busses are "in-service". Douglas replied no.

Douglas did not order the radios required to put these busses in service. All inspections were completed months ago. These busses just needed radios, radios that were not ordered.

These BRAND SPANKING NEW busses have been sitting in the Bus Yard for MONTHS.

Despite Dan Douglas delaying these busses from being put in service, THE PUBLIC WILL SEE THEM PARADED DOWN MAIN STREET IN SUSANVILLE DURING THE FAIR PARADE ON 7/24.

Phase II-Plumas County

Now all we have to do is coordinate public transportation in all five counties.

The new Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility opened in May of this year without service to the "front door" for our Veterans.

After six months, Kan We Help knocked down all of the "roadblocks" set up by Lassen County and the Susanville City Council. and got "FRONT DOOR" bus service, for our Veterans, to their new medical facility.

The 7,000 sq. ft. Veterans Medical Facility [at 110 Bella Way in Susanville, CA] will serve 32,000 Veterans in five counties. Presently, our Veterans have to travel to Reno, Nevada using private cars and vans.

Now all we have to do is coordinate public transportation in all five counties.

Kan We Help member and Secretary, Eileen Spencer, attended the Plumas County Transportation Commission today to ask that the Lassen County buses be allowed to pick up passengers in Chester to ride back to Susanville and that this issue be placed on their August 16, 2010 agenda. This Plumas County Transportation

Commission was not even aware of this new facility.

During the brief KWH presentation, County Supervisor Meacher picked up a magazine and put it in front of his face and County Board of Supervisors Chairperson Sharon Thrall, picked up a small document package and put it in front of her face. And we thought Lassen County was bad.... .........Susanville Mayor Kurt Bonham and County Supervisor Lloyd Keefer are no longer on the Lassen County Transportation Commission.

The Chairperson, John Larrieu, Mayor of Portola, said he would place the issue on the August 16, 2010 Agenda but this issue should have been brought up at the Board of Supervisors meeting.  Spencer explained that she had gone though this process in Lassen County and had spoken to Plumas County's Public Works Director "Marty" a month ago. Spencer was told that any changes to the bus schedule had to go through the Transportation Commission before going to the Board of Supervisors.

"Marty" told the commission that he was supposed to get a letter from Lassen County's Dan Douglas about letting Lassen County busses come in to Plumas County via Chester instead of by the Hamilton Branch bridge. After months, Mr. Douglas has yet to send the letter, any letter!

 Phase III-Sierra County, Phase IV-Modoc County, Phase V-Tehama County

Will Bud Bowden (Ward 2) and Wayne Langston (Ward 3) be on the LMUD ballot in November?

Governing law of LMUD requires all candidates to be on the ballot and states that the candidate with the most votes wins.

...........same is true for county, state and national elections..........

Grease the Palm &

 You Can Do Business with the LMUD Board

Maybe Langston is not interested in luxury vacation meetings in Portland, Oregon

Calgary, Squaw Valley, Idaho, Utah, Colorado offered more...................

$38.9 Million Dollar Hall of Justice in Susanville, CA

Judge Sokol closes Court to hold Groundbreaking Ceremony today

@5:30 on Riverside Drive

                                      Judge Sokol's lovely wife, Debra sang the Star Spangled Banner

Lassen County Times View

However, the Judicial Council has budgeted (91.18.001) only $36,100 for the fiscal year 2010. The Judicial Council budgeted acquisition, preliminary plans and working drawings for 09/10. Nothing has been budgeted for fiscal year 10/11 for the $39,000,000 court house.

Under SB 1407 ($5 billion to fund 41 new or renovated court facilities) only five new Court houses were approved for 2010, Placerville, Hanford, Glendale, Ukiah and Yreka. These new courthouses will create 13,775 new jobs in California at a cost of $572,238,000.

History of the property the State of California purchased for the

"alleged" NEW COURT HOUSE.

Politics in Lassen County can be tracked directly to real estate transactions. 

If you have the inside track on a big business or government agency wanting to take up residence in Lassen County you have to have a politician in your pocket. Names like Mary Fallon, Kathleen Lazard, NST, Ridgely Lazard, Stephen Bradbury can be directly connected to the court property.

This is how it works: You buy the property before anyone else finds out. Then you start selling it back and forth to your friends to drive the market price up, then suddenly it is sold to Wal-Mart or the State of California 

1989-Robbins sells to Dunlap/Stoffel

1992- Dunlap/Stoffel sell this property to Robbins.

1994- Robbins sells to Ridenoure

2008-Ridenoure to the State of California

Eugene Chittock Working Overtime to Protect LMUD Board Members From Jail

Chittock files SLAPP Motion to

"Quiet" Kan We Help

Wayne Langston, Fred Nagel, Nancy Cardenas, Darrell Wood and George Sargent knew about the Frank Cady/Jaimee Jones conspiracy in 2005. Federal and State laws were broken.

In May of 2005, the LMUD Board members (above) voted to hire Frank Cady, LMUD's attorney, to be the General Manager and keep Cady's law partner, Jaimee Jones, as their attorney. The one problem, a huge CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

ON JULY 1, 2005,

FRANK CADY AND JAIMEE RICHEY LIED TO GET PUBLIC CONTRACTS and the LMUD Board knew it

On May 4, 2005,Kan We Help sent a complaint letter to Nancy Cardenas:

Cardenas, a County Department of the Treasurer employee, testified at the Cady v Jones trial in October of 2009,  that she knew of the lies in 2005 and  did nothing, absolutely nothing ? Was she an accessory to the crime?

On September 1, 2005, Kan We Help sent a letter of complaint to the 2005 LMUD Board: 

On September 9, 2005, Kan We Help filed a Complaint with the Grand Jury:

Judge Bradbury puts Jaimee Richey on the Grand Jury    The LMUD complaint was buried by Judge Bradbury

On October 13, 2009, Jaimee Richey/Jones admits the fraud

Cady and Jones set up a "straw entity", in Jones name, so that it would appear that he had sold the property to Jaimee Jones . U.S. Magistrate Craig Kellison then deeded his ownership (1/3) of 60 S. Lassen Street to Cady after the phony sale to Jaimee Jones. Judge Bradbury's interest was concealed until he was paid off in January of 2006.

  Lassen Superior Court Prepares

Groundbreaking for new court house on 7/14

However, the Judicial Council has budgeted (91.18.001) only $36,100 for the fiscal year 2010. The Judicial Council budgeted acquisition, preliminary plans and working drawings for 09/10. Nothing has been budgeted for fiscal year 10/11 for the $39,000,000 court house.

Under SB 1407 ($5 billion to fund 41 new or renovated court facilities) only five new Court houses were approved for 2010, Placerville, Hanford, Glendale, Ukiah and Yreka. These new courthouses will create 13,775 new jobs in California at a cost of $572,238,000.

DESIGN FOR LASSEN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

LMUD attorney, Chittock urges LMUD Board  to file a lawsuit against KWH........for what......oh yes, "Vexatious Litigation"

What's really funny, is the lawsuit will do absolutely nothing

..........In 2002, Kan We Help filed 1 *Writ of Mandate for the Arrowrock Scam

*LMUD continues to file useless motions (reason: greedy attorneys) and has, in the past 8 years, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.......all to collect a few thousand dollars.....vexatious,  stupid or Langston/Nagel vindictiveness? Hey, it wasn't their money, it was yours.

Since 2002, LMUD has paid out over a MILLION DOLLARS for their bad behavior.

Steve Trevino, Evelyn Twitchell, Frank Cady, Connie Devlyne, Paul Glau, Hazardous Waste Fraud, Phony energy projects (Invenergy, UAMPS, Arrowrock Hydro Plant, Project 500, Non-existent Generation projects).... to mention just a few.

Chittock Refines Cady's old practices. The LMUD Board must be in 7th Heaven.

Chittock has figured a new way to get more legal fees !

1. Chittock instructs Mr. Gartner to illegally  open a "court sealed" envelope to get copies

2. Chittock extorts $7500 from Cal Sierra Title for satisfaction of  the KWH Abstract of Judgment

3. KWH has filed many Brown Act Violations, in the past 8 years, forcing LMUD to try and act "legally".

4. Chittock has allowed Board members to hide their expenses.

5. Chittock advises LMUD Board members Nagel and Langston to lie about their knowledge of the Cady/Jones Fraud.

6. Chittock, Judge Bradbury and Judge Darlington conspire to extort money and then try and hide their actions by "vacating the ruling"

....................and there is soooooooooooooo much more.

File on Mr. Chittock, file on.

This would give Kan We Help and excellent forum to expose LMUD's corrupt practices. Has the LMUD Board considered the testimony from witnesses?

LMUD was allowed to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars hiding the Arrowrock Scam and they want to blame Kan We Help

LMUD spends thousands of dollars to send three people to the NCPartyA conference.

LMUD is not a member of NCPA

When asked, Keri Richards claims that there is good information at these parties but could not name one single benefit of this conference.

Claremont Resort in Oakland

$1386 for three rooms

$1800 Registration  for 3 events (1 reception, 1 lunch, 1 reception and golf as an option)

This does not include the cost of the airfare to Oakland, a rental car, parking fees and entertaining PSREC employees. LMUD knows how to Party Hardy. 

Keri Richards has attended many of these NCPA parties during the Cady years.

Bill Stewart attended with Richards again.

LMUD took a lot of criticism for spending thousands and thousand of dollars on these luxury weekends.

NCPA got monthly checks and promoted worthless energy projects to the LMUD Boards for these expensive useless meetings. Ratepayers got nothing!

Kan We Help exposed all of the NCPA Bogus Projects.

psrec/lmud/ncpa power plant - scam ii EXPOSED AND TERMINATED

CVP/NCPA "RESOURCE 500" PLANT SCAM   EXPOSED AND TERMINATED

Lassen County Counsel Gets Better Deal in Plumas County

Craig Settlemire accepts top legal job in Plumas County after he applies for an

 appointment for Lassen County Superior Court Judge?

He must have been told he wasn't going to get the JUDGESHIP

Kan We Help requested copies of all Lassen Municipal Utility Districts "Interconnection Agreements"

......and

    PUBLIC BEWARE: anyone who is interested in doing business with this public utility.....according to Chittock, LMUD has no Interconnection Agreements with anyone, ever? no power contracts, nothing except deceptions. lots of deceptions

.......none that they can find anyway. No Sierra Pacific Industries, No UAMPS, no Invenergy, no PSREC, no NCPA, no Arrowrock.

BACK TO THE OLD FRANK CADY DAYS......

Frank Cady and Jaimee Richey/Jones

 Conspired to Deceive LMUD Ratepayers to obtain public contracts

Jaimee Richey/Jones Trial Brief, Case 47131

Langston lied under oath, he knew of the conspiracy

Nagel lied under oath, he knew of the conspiracy

Cardenas told the truth, she knew of the conspiracy

STACKED COURT: Judge Stephen Bradbury brought in a person, to hear this case, that has an "INACTIVE" status with the California State Bar?

Cady & Jones set up a phony sale of the law firm

Kan We Help has been saying this for five years

.laws were broken

Where are the indictments, Mr. Burns?

On June 26, 2008, Frank Cady filed a lawsuit against his law partner for breach of contract. The trial started October 13, 2009. A ruling was issued on 10/15/09.

   Jaimee Richey/Jones Trial Brief, Case 47131

2005 LMUD Board members (Wayne Langston, Fred Nagel, Nancy Cardenas) knew about Conflict of Interest, the conspiracy and helped hide the truth....laws were broken

Jones and Cady's abuses peaked in 2007

HISTORY:

LMUD hired their attorney (Frank Cady) on July 1, 2005 to be their General Manager and fired him January 4, 2008.

Cady's law partner, Jaimee Jones, was hired by LMUD as their General Counsel (in November of 2005) even though strong objections were made by Kan We Help that there was a clear conflict of interest. LMUD fired Jones on January 27, 2009

Nancy Cardenas testified at the October/2009 trial that Cady participated in the hiring of his law partner. 

She covered up a crime.   Where   is   the   indictment,   Mr. Burns?

Kan We Help filed a Conflict of Interest complaint with District Attorney, Robert Burns that was ignored.

Kan We Help filed Brown Act Violations with District Attorney, Robert Burns but it ended up as a gesture of insincerity

On September 9, 2005, Kan We Help then filed a Grand Jury Complaint that was quashed by Judge Stephen Bradbury (Cady's former business partner)

Jaimee Richey (Shown in photo) and Frank Cady not truthful about partnership and ownership of real property and much more.............gross misconduct. Laws were broken.       Link to page 2-9

LMUD 8/31/05 MEETING  

Complaint Exhibits

ON JULY 1, 2005,

FRANK CADY AND JAIMEE RICHEY LIED TO GET PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

How much was U.S. Magistrate Craig Kellison and Judge Stephen Bradbury involved?

How much was Wayne Langston and Fred Nagel involved?

Is District Attorney, Robert Burns going to indict Frank Cady and Jaimee Jones?

Jaimee Richey/Jones Trial Brief, Case 47131

Dyer Mtn. Owner Cannot Pay His Taxes

$1,229,383.09

                                                                                              .

Susanville Indian Rancheria Provides Free Transportation To Westwood, Chester, Red Bluff and Redding

The public can ride the Lassen County Rural Bus to the Susanville Rancheria stop on Joaquin Street in Susanville to catch the free shuttle.

Local Veterans Get Door-to-Door Bus Service to New Veterans Medical Clinic in Susanville

Dial-A-Ride is a Lassen Rural Bus Service providing transportation for our  Veterans, from their front door to the front door of the New Veterans Medical Clinic (110 Bella Way, Susanville, CA) 

Call 252-7433

All Dial-A-Ride passenger trips are set at $1.75 per trip (one way). Veterans ride free to the new Veterans medical clinic (M-F) if they transfer from the Wal-Mart stop to the Dial-A-Ride bus.  The regular fare for general ridership for Seniors over 60 and disabled passengers is $.50.

Kurt Bonham is not the Auditor, Mayor or Lassen Country Transportation Commissioner...........

Lloyd Keefer is not a County Supervisor or Lassen County Transportation Commissioner............

The City of Susanville Sponsors    1/2 price

pet vaccinations at Fire Station on Main Street

Not Reality, but France's Truth

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Lassen County Times Editor, Barbara France

refused to print a "Letter to the Editor".

She wanted to delay publishing it for a week in order to "fact check" (censure) the information.

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The reporter that France sent, Ruth Ellis,  came at the end of the Transportation Commission meeting and then called Dan Douglas for her story? Dan Douglas did not even attend the meeting.

Ms. France admits she did not call anyone. She did not call the Veterans Clinic, MV Transportation, City of Susanville, City of Susanville Attorney. NO fact checking whatsoever, and then she decided not to publish the Letter to the Editor

 Credibility, gone !

NOTE: Instead of publishing the "Letter-to-the-Editor", Ms. France proceeded to promote Dan Douglas's GREAT WORK (?) with several questionable articles. 

This man is a  Buffoon.

Who is he related to?

Why has he been put in this job?

Why is Barbara France protecting him?

Dan Douglas, County Transportation Planner

Kan We Help Gets FRONT DOOR  BUS SERVICE FOR VETS TO NEW Veterans Medical Facility

.....despite the shameful indifference by Susanville City Council members, Lassen County Board of Supervisors

and the Lassen County Times Editor, Barbara France

Not one member of the Transportation Commission has been to the new Veterans Clinic

Susanville Veteran Tom Robinson, Army First Division, Fort Riley, Kansas, was the first Veteran to ride the Lassen Rural Bus from his home to the front door of the new Veterans Affairs Diamond View Medical Clinic at 110 Bella Way, in Susanville, CA. According to the Clinic staff, more than 3200 veterans, in four counties (Sierra, Modoc, Plumas and Lassen), have been identified to use this facility. 

Dan Douglas decided:1) he will not route LRB buses to VA Clinic 2) no room for bus stop on Johnstonville Road, 3) drop Veterans off on side of building because there is no turnaround on the property. Mr. Douglas didn't do anything even after he was told that the original plans put a Turnaround in. It was his job to review the plans for this new clinic, he didn't do that. Then, he ignored requests for the rocks to be removed in front of the turnaround. HE JUST DID NOT CARE, probably because he saw the indifference by the Board of Supervisors and the Susanville City Council members. Just shameful.

  On May 17, 2010, KWH member, Eileen Spencer,  asked Susanville Fire Chief ,Ted Friedline to arrange for the rocks to be moved  that blocked the Turnaround. Safety Codes require a 20' clearance for firetrucks. This turnaround was included in the original plans. The plans have always been available to the public and public "officials"

Shameful, diabolical, contemptible, outrageous, disgusting, despicable, flagrant, scandalous, unworthy

  Six kings sit on their thrones: L to R: Doug Sayers, Kurt Bonham, Bob Pyle, Jack Hanson, Jim Chapman, Joe Franco ADD: Lloyd Keefer

Not a single Susanville Council member or a single County Board of Supervisor made a phone call, visited the VA Medical Center and actually were offended that their time was wasted on this subject.

They all should have been embarrassed not angry.

Jim Chapman and Jack Hanson did not like being criticized for their indifference. They intend to curb public criticism at future meetings. All because they got caught with "I don't care about this, now go away". Other speakers were given time enough to make their presentations, which was and is the right thing to do.

How arrogant these men were to dismiss this issue. How dare them.

Jack Hanson was the only one that yelled

at a speaker to divert the fact that he hadn't done anything in six months. All six men were offended that "this" subject was brought before them. Maybe they had better things to do. Maybe providing this service was just not important enough for the men on the Lassen County Transportation Commission

Mr. Robinson will not have to go to Reno for medical treatment anymore.

Mr. Robinson called "Dial-A-Ride" to take him home.

Susanville Biomass Plant/LMUD

..........reviewed and approved by Eugene Chittock and the LMUD Board

LMUD UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS

Public Records Request for a copy of a check issued to PGE for an interconnection fee study (?)

.......not signed (?)

..........unauthorized signatures(?)

Thousands of LMUD checks are mailed every year. The public is entitled to know if this was signed by authorized personnel

 Is there only just "one" reason why LMUD blocked the signatures ?

...perhaps a check was  issued but never mailed (?) (Frank Cady used to do that and the LMUD Board went along with it)

LMUD attorney, Eugene Cady Chittock instructs LMUD to hide signatures.

..........here we go again.................more to this story than meets the eye folks and we will give it to you!

Ray Luhring cannot approve any expenditure in excess of $10,000 without Board approval. This issue has never been placed on any LMUD Agenda.

Brown Act Violation:

 Renegy, Nature Energies, or the Biomass Plant have NEVER been on ANY LMUD AGENDA, EVER. Eugene Chittock, LMUD's attorney, condoned this.  This is right out of Frank Cady's playbook.

Honoring the Fallen Brave

Women and Men that gave everything for our freedom

Lassen High School band played the Anthems of the Marine Corp, Navy, Army,

Air Force and Coast Guard. Ethan Hagen sang the Star Spangled Banner for the event

Over 200 people attended the hour long Memorial Day event at Susanville's

 Diamond Crest Cemetery on May 31, 2010 to honor Lassen County Veterans

District 4, First term Congressman McClintock Votes NO for our soldiers, veterans and homeland security

votes NO, NO, Tom McClintockHell NO ?

HR 2892-Homeland Security Appropriations-voted NO

HR 2647-Defense Appropriations-voted NO

HR 2346-Defense Supplemental Appropriations-voted NO

LMUD's Black Magic Trick is BACK

It is called the LMUD Rope-A-Dope

The LMUD Controller has many years of experience in fooling the public.

Bill Stewart managed to manipulate almost a million dollars in LMUD's Employee health care account down to a few thousand dollars overnight.  

Bill Stewart was allowed to do the same with the Public Benefit Fund. One day there was three quarters of a million dollars in the fund and then practically overnight there was only a few thousand dollars in the account. Stewart refused to account for where the money went and refused public disclosure of all of the applications for this Public Fund.

Now he has the protection of his wife's employer, Eugene Chittock (LMUD's attorney)

Now, LMUD's Controller is up to his old tricks.

With a waive of his wand       (over the naive Bowden, Dow and Vial) Bill Stewart will magically and possibly illegally change the account.....name of the  "RATE STABILIZATION FUND" to "BOARD RESTRICTED FUNDS". 

keep up now, we don't want to lose you,

Now, watch the bouncing balls, Wizard Stewart NOW wants to move $1,500,000 from the RESTRICTED FUNDS TO "UNRESTRICTED FUNDS" (General Fund)

. Keep in mind that the Rate Stabilization Fund, by Resolution,  must remain at $3,000,000 and cannot be used unless there is a financial crisis.

Next, the $4,500,000 that LMUD claims is in the Rate Stabilization fund is made up of a Letter of Credit for $1,500,000 (?backed by a CD?). (WAPA required this Letter of Credit because of LMUD's financial instability).

If LMUD moves $1,500,000 into the General Funds (Unrestricted Account) TECHNICALLY, that leaves only $1,500,000 of real cash in the Rate Stabilization Fund/Restricted Funds. (CAUTION: you may experience a slight  blurriness at this point)

RESULT OF THIS UNETHICAL POSSIBLY ILLEGAL MOVE:

The Rate Stabilization money will "Poof".....disappear

The LMUD Board made the LMUD ratepayers suffer for five years of rate increases in order to "build up the Rate Stabilization Fund to avoid any crisis"

UPDATE: The Board did not listen to Bill Stewart and decided not to move the $1.5 million of the Rate Stabilization Fund to the General Fund.  This action was only temporary because they got caught. Once the Account Name (Rate Stabilization Fund to Restricted Funds) is changed (which is never done unless you are planning on doing something illegal), LMUD will find a way to take that $1.5 million dollars. The monthly Balance Sheet will be monitored very closely

Memorial Day this year is May 31, 2010

What are you doing to honor our Veterans?

What more can we be doing to honor our Veterans?

City of Susanville displays Banners

.......but Lassen County Supervisors and the Susanville City Council members don't lift a finger to make sure that our local Veterans that are serving or have served our country get a ride to the FRONT DOOR

 OF THE NEW VETERANS MEDICAL FACILITY IN SUSANVILLE.

Eileen Spencer, Secretary of Kan We Help, has been trying to get bus service, to the front door of this new facility, since last December

As this project neared completion, Spencer attempted to get the City of Susanville involved with providing a bus stop at the Veterans building. but was told that this is private property and that bus service is handled through the County.

Spencer attended the next scheduled County Transportation Commission, held in March of 2010. Spencer witnessed a deep apathy by this Commission that is made up of the Lassen County Supervisors and the Susanville City Council. The only Commissioner that showed any interest was Lassen County Supervisor Brian Dahle.  The Commission agreed to place this issue on their May 10, 2010 Agenda. The only decision that came out of the May meeting was that the County had decided to drop our local Veterans off, on the side of the street, near the Medical Facility.

After further research Ms. Spencer discovered that the original plans provided for a "Turnaround". This Turnaround was required by the Susanville Fire Department so that fire trucks can access the property and be able to get in and out. Not one City Council member knew this or brought it up at the May meeting. NOT ONE.

Then, for some unknown reason large boulders were placed in front of the Turnaround that prohibited the fire trucks from accessing this Turnaround. Susanville Safety Codes require a 20' clearance according to the Susanville Fire Chief. Susanville Fire Chief Ted Friedline ordered the boulders to be removed.

This blocked Turnaround is 60' in circumference. The  12' opening did not meet the Safety Code

Eileen Spencer submitted a "Letter to the Editor" on May 19, 2010 to let the public know about the resistance and sad apathy to our local Veterans by our elected officials. Barbara France refused to print this letter. In the same week, Editor of the Lassen County Times writes about her enduring "PAIN".  Her Editorials are always about herself, her family or her religion. When is it time to look past her personal news.

DOES MS. FRANCE THINK THAT OUR VETERANS SUFFER NO PAIN?

Barbara France refused to print this Letter to the Editor. She claimed that the "opinions" needed fact checking. Her Reporter, Ruth Ellis, who covered the Transportation Commission meetings didn't bother to write about the events at the meeting. NO FOLLOW-UP PHONE CALLS, no interest, NOTHING. Was the May meeting too controversial for her limited talents or  did she write the entire story and Barbara France cut it.  NOT GOOD EITHER WAY..

What makes some businesses succeed and

others fail ?

Most of Susanville's storefronts are empty. They've been empty for years and years. Occasionally you see new businesses move in but last only a few months. So what makes these local businesses succeed more than FIVE YEARS with Wal-Mart down the street? What is their secret?

Susanville Veterans Medical Facility

Now Open

Dan Douglas, the man of the hour.

Dan is in charge of Lassen County buses, routes, administration,  procedures and THE PERSON that made the decision to drop our Veterans on the side of the road.

Dan is the man Del Donoho, MV Transportation operates the bus line, reports to. Mr. Donoho was told to drop our Veterans on the side of the medical facility and not at the front door. 

Dan is the man Larry Millar, Dan's boss, listens to and "Dan",  is the man that doesn't have a clue what he is doing.

Lassen County Board of Supervisors and the Susanville City Council Members

NOT INTERESTED IN HELPING LOCAL VETERANS?

The new Susanville Federal Veterans Medical Facility opened on May 3 and after months of review these lazy "idiots" have not come up with a bus stop to the front door of the facility.

We did ask pretty please.....................but nobody cared

The Developers, the Soule's (Dale & Linda), always planned for bus access on the original plans so that our Veterans can be brought to the front door but the Lassen County Transportation Commission continues to sit on their thumbs.

Twelve foot opening violates City Safety Codes. Fire trucks need a 20' clearance. The opening is 31' across if the rocks were removed.

June 8, 2010 Election

[tired of fuzzy law?]

Lassen County District Attorney Burns wants to be our Judge

and/or

Lassen County District Attorney Burns wants to be re-elected

Frank Cady/Robert Burns

Frank Cady/Robert Burns

Frank Cady/Robert Burns

Frank Cady/Robert Burns

inseparable ?

Anyone catch the "Personal and Confidential" on the photo  below?

THE APPEARANCE OF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST NOT AN ISSUE AT LMUD

LMUD's General Council, Eugene Chittock

Eugene Chittock's Office Manager, LMUD's Controller Bill Stewart's wife

(Bill Stewart approves and issues Chittock's payments)

LMUD's Dentist, Dr. Curtis Vixie

Dr. Vixie's Dental Hygenist, LMUD Director Bud Bowden's wife

*******

LMUD's Doctor, Dr. David Beckwith

Dr. David Beckwith's Secretary, LMUD Director Wayne Langston's wife

Lassen County Supervisors Named in Child Rape Case

First term, US Congressman McClintock

on Wrong Side of Issue for Lassen County

........or he just may not have done his homework

In 2009, Lassen County received $538,206 in PILT payments for 1,650,000 acres of federal land

The Western Counties Alliance is a Republican "talking points" group that monitors the "Payments in Lieu of Taxes" for western states that receive Federal subsidies for Federally owned lands in their states. Lassen County receives PILT funds.

In 2005, President Bush cut these funds to the Counties by one third.

2009

California received the second highest PILT payment for Non-use Federal lands in 2009, $34,397,858. Only New Mexico received more at $37,013,334.

In 2007, California received $21,026,411 in PILT funds

In 2008, California received $33,234,973 in PILT funds

In 2009, California received $34,397,858 in PILT funds

We should ask Congressman McClintock how he voted on this issue, since he has a record of voting NO on every spending issue since November 4, 2008.

The land owners in Lassen County should not be concerned with McClintock's objection to more PILT lands being designated but more concerned that Lassen County is not getting  their fair share of the Federal "Payments in lieu of Taxes".

Department of Interior PILT Disbursements

Lassen County received $538,206 for 1,650,00 acres

Los Angeles County received $1,243,691 for 708,500 acres

Fresno County received $1,739,068 for 1,500,000 acres

Imperial County received $3,093,802 for 1,350,000 acres

#########

Bumbling and Indifference....incompetence?

Congressman McClintock gets Headlines in the Lassen County Times for making statements in Herlong (not at the Susanville town hall meeting days before) because he received copies of what every other Congressman received to-date. ???????

WHO IS HE REALLY LOOKING OUT FOR.....................CORPORATIONS AND HUGE LAND OWNERS?

Do we deserve another DOOLITTLE?

Lassen County Transportation Planner, Dan Douglas chose a $200,000 Automated phone system for Lassen Rural Bus over buying two (2) badly needed buses.

On May 10, 2010, the Transportation Commission voted to reject the $200,000 ARRA FTA 5311 IVR Project  money. This project was chosen, by Mr. Douglas, over buying two badly needed new buses.  This Automated Customer Service and Operational Trip Reporting system would have allowed the public to listen to transit route information 24/7. 

The State Recovery funds would have paid for the $200,000 software for this system but after the "NO" vote, went back into the empty State coffers.

 Larry Millar, Executive Director of the County Transportation Department, told the Commissioners that the annual $14,000 upgrades would've had to  have been paid by the County. The Commissioners unanimously rejected this project and lost the opportunity to fund at least two badly needed buses due to Mr. Douglas's mis-management.

Dan Douglas.......In charge of our County buses.

Susanville's New 7,000 square foot Veterans Health Care Facility

110 Bella  Way, Susanville, California

Property owned and developed by Dale and Linda Soule

But, NO BUS STOP FOR THE VETERANS

Lassen County Transportation Planner, Dan Douglas, not the least bit interested in providing door to door bus service, for our Veterans, to the new medical facility at the Transportation Commission's March 8, 2010 meeting. Mr. Douglas claimed that there was no room (below) on Johnstonville Road for a bus stop at the new Veterans Medical Center.

At their March 8, 2010 meeting, the Lassen County Transportation Commission agreed to put the "Veterans Bus Stop" issue on their May 10, 2010 Agenda.

March 8, 2010, Transportation Commission meeting. Left to right:  Doug Sayers, Kurt Bonham, Bob Pyle,

Jack Hanson, Jim Chapman, Joe Franco (March 8, 2010)

Today, the Lassen County Transportation Project Manager, Cynthia Raschein ttold the Commissioners

that the "Developers" were unwilling to discuss the bus stop at the Medical Center but the County Bus could be routed to stop on the side of the veterans building ( Bella Way) and let the Veterans off there. Our Veterans then could walk down the sidewalk and around the building to the front door. Bella Way is a dead end street and the County would have to negotiate permission from the business, at the end of the street, to turn the bus around in their parking lot.  THIS WAS CYNTHIA RASCHEINS SOLUTION, FOR THE COMMISSIONERS, TO PROVIDE BUS SERVICE TO THE NEW VETERANS MEDICAL FACILITY FOR OUR VETERANS.

  Larry Millar

No one, absolutely no one (this includes all the County Transportation Commissioners, comprised of 3 County Supervisors and 3 members of the Susanville City Council),  thought this issue was important enough to look at the plans

                    that are available at the City of Susanville across the street.

Dan Douglas & Cynthia Raschein had two months to research

the Veterans Medical Facility bus stop issue for the May 10, 2010 meeting

KWH fact check:

The original plans call for three phases. Phase I is complete. Phase I provides for a 60' graded turn around that not only  Susanville fire trucks can turn around in but the County Buses can turn around in. This plan allows for the Veterans to be taken to the front door of the medical facility the day it opens........

The sixty foot graded Turnaround for traffic in Original plans

now blocked by boulders?

SHOULD WE PROVIDE "DOOR TO DOOR" BUS SERVICE FOR OUR VETERANS in LASSEN COUNTY?..........ask these people;

Dan Douglas (not at 5/10/10 meeting), Cynthia Raschein, Kurt Bonham (not at 5/10/10 meeting), Jim Chapman (not at 5/10/10 meeting), Chairperson Jack Hanson, Bob Pyle (not at 5/10/10 meeting) , Doug Sayers, Joe Franco, Brian Dahle, Lloyd Keefer

COUNTY TRANSPORTATION PLANNER,

 DAN DOUGLAS, ALSO IGNORED A PETITION SIGNED BY 63 CITIZENS

This petition asked for a safe bus stop at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart provided a kiosk here for their customers to wait for Lassen Rural Bus to pick them up. This kiosk was taken away when Wal-Mart began an extensive re-model.  Dan Douglas has made no real effort to replace this kiosk and placed the Wal-Mart stop on  Riverside Street. This bus stop is a disgrace and is not maintained or even considered for maintenance. Our Seniors and the Handicap have been given a dangerous place to wait for the County bus.
 

THE APPEARANCE OF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST NOT AN ISSUE AT LMUD

LMUD's General Council, Eugene Chittock

Eugene Chittock's Office Manager, LMUD's Controller Bill Stewart's wife

(Bill Stewart approves and issues Chittock's payments)

*******

LMUD's Dentist, Dr. Curtis Vixie

Dr. Vixie's Dental Hygenist, LMUD Director Bud Bowden's wife

*******

LMUD's Doctor, Dr. David Beckwith

Dr. David Beckwith's Secretary, LMUD Director Wayne Langston's wife

Politics Rule LMUD's Electric Rates

Fred & Theresa Nagel's son-n-law, Wayne Langston, will file, to run (in November/2010) for the LMUD Board,

but no one will get to vote for him or not vote for him.

Lassen County Times, December 29, 2009 

Ruralite-May 2010

Why the change of heart?

According to the CPUC and LMUD's  PDCA Policy, only the General Manager can present a "Rate Change" report to the LMUD Board

Bill Stewart has assumed more authority than was allowed under fired General Manager Frank Cady?

WHO IS REALLY RUNNING LASSEN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT?

LMUD rates reduced from $.14 to $.13 After the coldest winter in a long time...this could have been done a year and half ago when energy costs started to decline.

Motivation: The Nagel's son-in-law, Wayne Langston, is up for ?re-election? this year.

(Wayne Langston has never appeared on any LMUD ballot, ever. He was appointed to the LMUD Board because he needed free Health Care insurance and stayed on without ever being elected.) 

Langston was required to run for this office and his name had to be on a ballot. Langston was required, by law, to have his name placed on the ballot. His mother-in-law (County Clerk Theresa Nagel) refused to put his name on the ballot. As a result, Langston never received any votes. CPUC, Div. 6, 11654 states that a LMUD candidate for office must receive the highest number of votes to be declared the winner. You cannot achieve this without being on the LMUD ballot. All Langston had to do was vote for himself.

The County Clerk can declare a person that has no one running against them the winner if the governing law does not state they must be on a ballot and receive votes.  County Supervisors, District Attorney, Sheriff positions all need to be on a ballot even though they have no opponents. All LMUD candidates must be on the ballot, according to CPUC, Div. 6, 11654. Langston has never, ever been on a LMUD ballot.

CPUC DIVISION 6-11654

Frank Cady's bogus PDCA formula was approved in 2005 to by-pass public hearings that are mandated by the CPUC.

This illegal formula allows for increases of  "five" cent increments, but LMUD claimed for years that they had no way to reduce rates under this policy?

Cady and the Board first created a controversy (smoke screen) by proposing to raise the BASIC rate charge to $25.00. This created the public outrage they needed to then (a few weeks later) slip in the PDCA policy that let Cady raise the rates without any public hearing. SLEAZE, SLEAZE, SLEAZE. The rates then proceeded from $11.5 to $.14 without ANY LEGITIMATE REASON, without any public hearing.

Fred Nagel says that he is afraid of a lawsuit for not "agendizing the reduction of rates"......that's just CRAP. Nagel and Langston have violated the Brown Act so many times we stopped counting. Complaints have been filed and ignored by District Attorney Robert Burns for years.

What's new?  Nothing. Nagel has voted for the last five LMUD rate increases because he lives and votes in the PSREC District and the rate increases DO NOT EFFECT HIM.

FRED NAGEL, BILL STEWART AND RAY LUHRING ARE  FULL OF CRAP ....given the history of LMUD deceit,  their statements, in this article,  are an insult.

What.....the LMUD AGENDA was NOT APPROVED BY CHITTOCK? Eugene Chittock, asleep at the switch.................

This is not the first time Langston & Nagel have thrown out the law

Ahhhh, remember when?

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cancelled the Arrowrock License after Kan We Help  filed Motions to Intervene. No activity on this license for 12 years was the final reason FERC terminated this license.  The Boise Project Board of Control peddled this 60 MW project for 12 years to small unsuspecting (?) public utilities.

LMUD diddled with this phony 60 MW hydro project for five years (2000-2005), paying Frank Cady hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep it secret. Kan We Help exposed this scam in 2002 after discovering that the Feasibility Study that LMUD ratepayers paid for was a study that had been completed, in October 2001, by the Boise Project Board of Control (five irrigators in Idaho). The FRAUD: Frank Cady/Wayne Langston/Darrell Wood, Louie Templeton, Richard Parker, Marino Giannotti, Nancy Cardenas, George Sargent, Al Vazques, Fred Nagel   lied to the public about this Feasibility Study.

The public was told the money was going to pay for this study and that it would be released to the public when complete.

busted !!!!

On June 14, 2005, LMUD decided to withdraw from the Arrowrock Hydro Project.

The sad thing is, the LMUD Boards continue to perpetrate  phony projects on the public.

The LMUD Boards and General Managers have been unwilling to tell the truth about anything?

INVENERGY moves ahead on Wind energy but leaves LMUD behind

PSREC Co-generation plant, Invenergy Project, Project 500, all bogus........UAMPS will be no different 

Invenergy came into Lassen County, in 2007,  with big promises of a $40 million dollar investment in Lassen Municipal Utility Districts transmission lines. Frank Cady flew the LMUD Board members and the entire management staff  to Colorado for a vacation/meeting just before he was fired by the new LMUD Board (three Board Members quit because of the pending scandal with Frank Cady).

In late September of 2009, Invenergy completely pulled out on their "pie-in-the-sky" promises to LMUD.

LMUD spent thousands of dollars on this project. 

[HINT: When the LMUD Board votes to spend money on "studies", you can guarantee the vacation/meetings will increase and the Back room deals begin]

Invenergy never paid LMUD back for the $50,000 PGE study.

PSREC has "two" representatives on the LMUD Board

LMUD Director Wayne Langston was a PSREC customer when LMUD gave PSREC the Prison and Herlong customers

LMUD Director Fred Nagel was and still is a PSREC customer when LMUD gave PSREC the Prison and Herlong customers

LMUD continues to "diddle" with UAMPS

Bottom line: No market for natural gas

UAMPS, JUST A PILE OF CRAP.

UAMPS, like the Arrowrock people, are looking for a naive utility board to sell their lies

(But General Manager Ray Luhring continues to enjoy his Utah vacations at the expense of LMUD ratepayers)

President Obama Signs Final Health Care Reform Bill

The Bill President Obama signed today includes historic changes in education making college education more affordable

1: Ends subsidies to special interest private lending companies

2. Doubles funding for Pell Grants to help more students afford a college education

3. Will cap a graduate's annual student loan repayments at 10% of his or her income.

4. Helps an additional 5 million Americans earn degrees and certificates over the next 10 years by revitalizing programming at our nation's community colleges

History of the property the State of California purchased for the "alleged" $39 Million NEW COURT HOUSE.

"Politics" in Lassen County can be tracked directly to real estate transactions. 

If you have the inside track on a big business or government agency wanting to take up residence in Lassen County you have to have a politician in your pocket. Names like Mary Fallon, Kathleen Lazard, NST, Ridgely Lazard, Stephen Bradbury can be directly connected to the court property.

This is how it works: You buy the property before anyone else finds out. Then you start selling it back and forth to your friends to drive the market price up, then suddenly it is sold to Wal-Mart or the State of California 

New Court house property:

1989-Robbins sells to Dunlap/Stoffel

1992- Dunlap/Stoffel sell this property to Robbins.

1994- Robbins sells to Ridenoure

2008-Ridenoure to the State of California

4.2 Acres near Wal-Mart (also previously owned by Robbins)

District 4 Congressman McClintock Votes No on "Jobs Bill" that would have brought money and jobs to Lassen County.

This guy votes "No" on EVERYTHING.

....fortunately the Democrats passed this bill. now let's see if this guy works to bring money and jobs into Lassen County after he voted NO on the JOBS  BILL?

1935 Social Security Act

Let's revisit the 1935 Social Security Act campaign. When the Act was passed it did not include women and minorities. Only white males. [284 Democrats vote for Social Security, 81 Republicans voted for it]

The taxes for Social Security were first deducted in 1937 and the first recipient was Ernest Ackerman. Mr. Ackerman paid five cents into the program and received a lump sum payout of 17 cents. In 2009 51 million Americans received $650 billion in benefits.

A citizen has to "apply" for Social Security.

Republicans took this new legislation to the Supreme Court twice, and lost. Republicans fought the mandate for all working Americans participation in Social Security. They lost.

......government returns your tax money to you and SOMEHOW THAT IS BAD...........The difference between Democrats and Republicans

How many Republicans, who voted against the Health Care Reform, have friends and relatives that receive Social Security benefits and will now benefit from this Health Care Bill?

How many Republicans will be able to keep their kids on their insurance policies until they are 26?

How many Republicans will be able to get health care for "pre-existing" health conditions?

How many Republicans will benefit from "no lifetime limits" on their insurance policy?

How many Republicans will benefit from the business tax credits for employee health care insurance?

How many Republicans, in Lassen County,  have applied for Federal Grant money or other government Entitlements?

Republicans: Call your Representatives and Senators and tell them you want "your money" spent on wars and tax cuts for corporations.

DO THIS NOW, BEFORE YOU BENEFIT FROM THIS HISTORIC LEGISLATION FOR AMERICA

Judge Sokol "Presiding" Judge

 in Lassen County Superior Court

House of Representatives Health Care Reform

Reconciliation Bill Passes

Votes: Democrats 220, Republicans 211

Read it yourself. Don't rely on Democrat or Republican  talking points

  Patient-protection Affordable Care Act , SB 3590

&HR 4872

Historic Vote on March 21, 2010

LMUD Board Members change Compensation & Reporting Rules

On February 24, 2009, the LMUD Board passed a new rule that required Board Member "reports" to be complete, detailed and factual.

Yet the General Manager and Accountant continue to approve "incomplete, undetailed and unfactual" reports. The General Manager, Ray Luhring allows certain Board Members to hide their expenses. He puts their expenses on his credit card, so that the public cannot find out how much all of these "meetings" are costing the ratepayers. This practice has been going on for 19 years. IT HAS TO STOP.

Sample:

Fred Nagel lied on this report

LMUD Board Members have History of Abuses

LMUD Board changes compensation rules

OLD 1990 RULE: "Meetings with constituents, speeches made at the request of outside organizations and meetings with community groups are not compensible under this rule"

If you look, at the past 20 years of Board reports, you will find that this rule was violated each month. Even though complaints have been filed over this issue, the LMUD General Manager and LMUD Board Members continued to abuse this rule.

NEW 2009 RULE: "A compensable day of service shall include: attendance at publicly noticed regular and special meetings of the Board of Directors, Board committee meetings, ad hoc committee meetings, other publicly noticed meetings where the Board member is representing the District, giving testimony on behalf of the District at legislative, legal, or other proceedings, meetings with LMUD staff or customers relating to LMUD business, conferences and organized educational activities or any other meetings or business reasonably intended to be in the furtherance of the business and interest of LMUD." (new language)

Lassen County Sheriff Steve Warren

will not run for re-election

Who Wants to be a Judge?

*Democrats need not apply*

Republican  attorneys can fill out the application on-line   Remember: This will be a political appointment

Who Wants to be a Judge?

*Democrats need not apply*

Republican  attorneys can fill out the application on-line   Remember: This will be a political appointment

The Nagel family still owns

 the Susanville Golf Course !!

Public records indicate that on April 28, 1968 the Nagels created a corporation, Lost Meadows Golf and Recreation Club, Inc.  for the property now referred to as Susanville's public golf course's BACK NINE.( This corporation was only needed temporarily and no longer exits. The Nagels created a trust to handle future deals)

On September 3, 1968, the City of Susanville passed Resolution 68-1023 that essentially was an agreement to purchase land from this corporation.   

On September 4, 1968, it was made to appear that  Fred Nagels parents gave the City of Susanville the property now known as the "Back Nine" of the Susanville City public golf course, simply not true.  

In the fine print, if Susanville wanted to use the property for anything other than a golf course, the property reverted back to the Nagels. Every time any property was sold off for residential reasons, the City would have to buy it from the Nagels.

Not a bad deal for the Nagels. The City is exempt from any taxation. The Nagels don't pay any taxes on the property while it is in the City's name. These "land deals" have been going on since 1968.

It gets better......May 30, 2006, Frank Cady (LMUD's General Manager) [Keep in mind that Fred Nagel is on the LMUD Board] files for change of ownership in the corporation managing the golf course, Sickles Golf Associates, Inc. (SGA was formed May, 24, 1999) . Presently, Frank Cady's SGA is a post office box at the UPS store in Susanville.

Cady then takes out a loan of $1.4 million dollars for improvements to the golf course. Plumas Bank and the City of Susanville both  approve Cady's use of the golf course as collateral for his loan.  

April 2007, one year later, Frank Cady suddenly defaults on his "million dollar" loan. NO ONE in the City of Susanville or Plumas Bank wants to know what Cady did with the money. NO ONE goes after Frank Cady's assets to pay back his loan. WHY?  

The Susanville City Council works out a deal  with Plumas Bank to settle Frank Cady's loan for approximately $300,000 (public money).  A trickle down scandal that left the City without a City Manager (Luanne Rainey) and City Attorney (Kathleen Lazard).

The Golf course now has its "Back Nine".  Surprise: the value, of this new "Back Nine",  is significantly increased and if the City wanted to create any new parcels to sell, the process starts all over again......they have to buy it from the Nagels first.

It gets better and better............

On March 3, 2010 the City approves Resolution 10-4614

A "deal" has been made with the Nagels

Kurt Bonham abstains from voting on this resolution but  "signs off" on this Deal

go figure?

Bonham continues to fulfill his usefulness to the Nagels and the Cady's

The public will never know how much went into "whose" pockets

Bonham may have been promised the County "Auditor" position for his role in this....whadaya think?

Kurt Bonham is not an auditor

What business is he really in?

Bonham "copyrighted" these photos on his website, why?

LMUD was served with the Federal

 Job discrimination lawsuit for Sexual Discrimination

 (2:10-cv-0286-MCE-DAD) on 2/3/10

Connie Devlyne, Krsto Knezevich and Paul Glau's attorney, Joseph Maloney,  filed their Federal lawsuit on February 3, 2010. Federal court records indicate that LMUD was served on 2/4/1010.

The LMUD Board and LMUD's attorney Eugene Chittock were well aware of this lawsuit before they had their February 23, 2010 Board meeting.

The LMUD Board identified this existing lawsuit on their 2/23/10 closed session agenda as "Significant exposure to litigation"

WHAT GAME IS LMUD PLAYING?

When will the problem children (Langston & Nagel) be removed from this board?

The LMUD Board's history continues to show gross mis-handling of the public's business

Evelyn Twitchell was paid $100,000 for her silence of Cady's actions

Steve Trevino was paid $622,000 . (LMUD's support of Cady's actions)

The LMUD Board has spent over $100,000 to collect $7,500 from Cal Sierra Title Company for the KWH v LMUD award.

LMUD has spent over $1,000,000 in the last eight years to cover up their huge management mistakes

That's just what we know about...............

We don't know how much they spent on the falsification of Federal Forms for illegally transporting hazardous waste

DOES ATTORNEY  CHITTOCK REALLY HAVE THE GUTS TO BE A "CADY" for the LMUD Board?

Langston & Nagel could do ANYTHING they wanted with the LMUD money, because they had Frank Cady to pull strings with the Courts and the District Attorney

The public really believes that LMUD's need for an attorney is to protect the public utility.

All Frank Cady (LMUD's attorney from 1985-2007  ) did was manage to keep the crooked board members out-of-jail. It took $200,000-$300,000 a year to do this.

IS THAT WHY CHITTOCK TOOK THIS JOB..........FOR THE SLEAZY PAYCHECK?

?????? Chittock used to be LMUD's biggest critic.

Now.....................?

LMUD Employees File Lawsuit for

Harassment

Paul Glau and two other LMUD employees recently filed a Harassment lawsuit against LMUD Board members Langston and Nagel & LMUD GM Ray Luhring.

Conflict of interest must be discussed in open session....oops....a Brown Act violation

Lassen County Times, 3/2/10

The LMUD Board's history continues to show gross mis-handling of the public's business

Evelyn Twitchell was paid $100,000 for her silence of Cady's actions

Steve Trevino was paid $622,000 . (LMUD's support of Cady's actions)

The LMUD Board has spent over $100,000 to collect $7,500 from Cal Sierra Title Company for the KWH v LMUD award.

LMUD announces phony UAMPS study for bogus natural gas project

LMUD pays for these studies but never releases them because they don't exist.

What does this money really pay for?

Quiz: Can you name the elected official that has been arrested three times for a DUI

and still holds an elected office?

e-mail the answer to: kanwehelp.exec.committee@frontiernet.net

98% answered correctly, WOW   2% answered incorrectly but that person has 1 DUI

LMUD WHINES THAT THEIR "CUSTOMERS" CAN'T PAY THEIR BILLS

SOLUTION: lower the "f_ _ _ ing" rates

LMUD has been and still is the worst managed public utility in the State of California.

The only time these so-called protectors (LMUD Board) will react is when they hear from 100, 200, 300 ratepayers.

9,000 homes are paying TOO MUCH FOR ELECTRICITY IN LASSEN  COUNTY

Lassen County ranches and businesses are paying TOO MUCH for electricity