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Judge Tony Mallery loses lawsuit

Andi Barone to receive $100,001+ all costs

In addition, Judge Mallery ordered to pay all Barone costs

Lassen County Superior Court Judge Tony Mallery files a Motion to Dismiss

Federal Case 2:16 cv 02114    

Tony Mallery claims that Executive Court Administrator Andi Barone was not injured by his actions

MALLERY'S  "MOTION TO DISMISS"

 READS LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1919 OR THE 1960'S

.....when women had no value

Judge Tony Mallery allegedly ordered Superior Court CEO Andi Barone and other court staff to perform illegal and improper acts.    Judge Tony Mallery is accused of altering & removing documents from case files, using Court clerks for personal business for his wife  

Other disturbing charges alleged in the Case: Yelling, Ranting, raising fists at Barone, loud, angry and belligerent badgering, intimidation, refused to follow Court protocol, removes court documents prior to hearings

It appears that other lawsuits may be filed against Judge Tony Mallery for similar bad behavior

Lassen County Times Continues

to

Suppress the Truth About LMUD

Sam Williams, Editor of the Lassen County Times, has suppressed the truth about LMUD's corrupt business practices. He continues to do a great injustice to the public and is the NUMBER ONE ENABLER OF GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION IN LASSEN COUNTY

Williams allowed the recent 12/20/16 front page article on the Honey Lake Power/LMUD contract to be published.  Honey Lake Power is in trouble and LMUD takes advantage of their crisis. LMUD convinces HLP that a 20 year contract is better than a 30 year contract by offering HLP less money and a promise to dump HLP when LMUD builds a proposed multi-million dollar substation in Wendel for NV Engery.   SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD BUSINESS DEAL...............?

The LCT could report the truth, but chooses NOT TO.

LMUD has been embroiled in deceit and deceptions since LMUD'S 2001 Arrowrock Hydroelectric scandal to cover up the disappearance of $8.7 million dollars. Kan We Help has documented the LMUD Boards lies and corruption since and continues to expose LMUD's bogus projects that have cost millions of ratepayers money.

The Lassen County Times protects corruption,

Kan We Help exposes the corruption

In 2011, Williams knew that LMUD didn't purchase the ATT property (Viewland) and covered it up. This cover-up goes back to 2007 when Invenergy came to town with a promise to give LMUD $40 million dollars worth of new infrastructure.  Invenergy convinced the LMUD Board to spend $40,000 for a "System Impact Study" for a 230kv transmission line. The "System Impact Study" was released at the November 26, 2013 LMUD meeting. Kan We Help requested a copy of this alleged study and was denied a copy.

LMUD signed a MOU with Invenergy on August 28,2012  that expired on February 28, 2014. This MOU was just as bogus as all Invenergy promises and the only entity spending money "on nothing" was LMUD.

At the December 23, 2013 LMUD Board meeting, the lies seem to escalate. The LMUD board revealed that they were considering signing a 15 year contract with Oski Energy (Wendel Energy Operations). This was a shell corporation based at 730 Sandhill Road, #250, Reno Nevada.

The concept of this  230 kv transmission line died a decade ago, like all of the previous years of LMUD phony projects and alleged agreements the LMUD Board has released attempting to present the 230kv transmission line as legitimate.

NV ENERGY CONTINUES TO LOBBY LMUD 

TO PAY FOR BRINGING THEIR POWER INTO CALIFORNIA

230kv VIEWLAND "BLM" SUBSTATION IS OUT/

 230kv WENDEL SUBSTATION IS IN.

OR IS IT

$250,000 for 241.88 acres

Look who has property in Wendel.........

LMUD Director Jay Dow

LMUD Director Fred Nagel

Hal Hayes (HSP Resources)

Larry Smith (HSP Resources)

Steve Pezzullo (HSP Resources)

......and other Nagel "friends"

Who will LMUD's proposed multimillion dollar

Wendel substation really help?

SPECIAL LMUD MEETING

"WEDNESDAY"

December 14, 2016

5:30 PM

65 S. ROOP STREET

SUSANVILLE

257-4174

AGENDA 9:   Major Ongoing Projects

VIEWLAND / WENDEL SUBSTATION

DEBT?  

LMUD has overcharged customers $10,000,000

New deceptions, new lies

Will history repeat itself ?

2001:  LMUD'S $8.7 Million Dollar Loss....Poof !

LMUD'S HISTORY OF SCAMS ON CONTAMINATED PROPERTIES

2004-LMUD's Richmond Road Substation

In 2004, LMUD illegally stored and transported toxic waste at their Richmond substation (420 Richmond Road, Susanville) and then forged Federal documents to move the toxic waste. The EPA fined LMUD $9,000

2006-Beterbide Land Scam

LMUD Director Fred Nagel & Frank Cady negotiated to buy property from their friend Jack Beterbide that Beterbide didn't even own. On January 26, 2006, Jack Beterbide purchased the Chestnut property from Robert and Gail Prosise for $120,000 and then he sold it to LMUD for $381,232 the same day.  The ground on the Prosise property and Beterbide's property was heavily contaminated with years of fuel and other contaminates .  LMUD relieved Beterbide and Prosise of a 20 year environmental disaster. The property was worthless and Nagel and Cady knew this.

Nagel helped his friends dump worthless property on the public

LMUD Director Jesse Urionaguena  was related to Beterbide and abstained from the vote to lease the property back to Jack  Beterbide and left the cost of the cleanup to the LMUD ratepayers

2011-Viewland Substation Scam

Fred Nagel and Bill Stewart lied to the public about purchasing the ATT property/equipment for a "Viewland Substation".

LMUD NEVER PURCHASED ANYTHING FROM ATT, BUT PLANNED TO BUILD A USELESS SUBSTATION ON THE LAND LEASED FROM BLM

ANOTHER LMUD SCAM GONE BAD..............

The only act that was legitimate was a lease with BLM for the surrounding land (40 acres). The problem: it was contaminated and could not be developed until LMUD cleaned it up. BLM was adamant about the cleanup before issuing any permits. LMUD could not afford to clean up the land without admitting they knew it was contaminated before they leased the BLM land.

LMUD has floated the lies about interest in a 230kv substation for over a decade.  Developers have come and gone with big promises about paying for this 230kv substation, but because there has never been a market the "idea or concept" was just that and never went further than an "idea or concept".

Once BLM would not let LMUD move forward with their "Viewland Substation", LMUD purchased 241 acres of land in Wendel for a substation that has no value to LMUD ratepayers. 

LMUD has been overcharging customers for many years to accumulate "cash" for the "Viewland Substation". Now they have over $10,000,000 in the bank and voted to take on debt to build this 230kv substation in Wendel. Why.......?

All LMUD Agendas show that "NO ACTION" was taken on this 241 acre purchase yet on November 1 LMUD recorded the purchase.......LMUD recently paid $250,000 for this land in Wendel, and has not provided one, NOT ONE, developer that is willing to pay for this boondoggle. 

Fred Nagel has lied for years that no LMUD money will be used to build any 230kv substation

THIS IS ANOTHER "ARROWROCK" SCAM

BUILT ON LIES AND DECEPTION

LMUD VOTED TO ISSUE REVENUE BONDS TO "FINANCE" A NVENERGY 230KV VIEWLAND PROJECT WHEN LMUD HAS SAVED (by overcharging customers for years)  $10,000,000 to build this

unnecssary substation

LMUD's new Viewland 230 kv substation in Wendel ?

Lassen Municipal Utility District negotiations for the original Viewland Substation [ATT property :APN 109 -010-04] first appeared on an LMUD Agenda on August 28, 2007. LMUD Frank Cady negotiated with Mickey Villella from ATT and Charles Wright from BLM.

The property was contaminated and sat on BLM property. BLM required the property to go through environmental studies before any development by LMUD.  LMUD allegedly paid various companies like Invenergy and Navigant and TANC to do studies for LMUD. Thousands of dollars were spent but NO STUDIES WERE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. LMUD allegedly purchased this land, in September/2011, for $2500 with the intention of building a 230kv substation.

There has never been any interest by Developers for the 230kv transmission line but LMUD pursued BLM for permits to build a substation. Permits that BLM was unwilling to issue according to the LMUD Minutes.

A substation that had no use......a substation that would just sit and do nothing.

The Public was dooped once again by LMUD

Lassen County Times misled the public again.

The LCT continues to be an enabler for corruption in this County

Public documents show that LMUD lied to the public about purchasing the ATT property/equipment. LMUD only contracted a lease with BLM for the "right of way" of the 40 acres.

Did LMUD attorney Eugene Chittock continue to broker this scam or was this Frank Cady and Bill Stewart's deal?  Regardless, the LMUD Board bought into it

There was no interest in the 230kv Line in 2004 when the concept was first marketed by Frank Cady and Bill Stewart and there is no market for it today.

230 kw transmission line-DOA

In 2016, LMUD was unsuccessful in buying the BLM 40 acres that surrounded their contaminated ATT property. LMUD was not willing to clean the property up and lost interest in developing this substation on March 22, 2016.  Talk then began on investigating a new site.

According to LMUD April 26, 2016 Minutes, Director Bowden suggested that LMUD drop the 230kv project and "concentrate on just what we need right now"

There were no discussions on developing the original Viewland substation for three months and then suddenly LMUD purchases a 241.88 acre site in Wendel for $250,000. This 230kv project was resurrected now as "two" substations to connect to NV Energy.  NVEnergy will not be helping with the financing. LMUD has even paid for all of the alleged "studies". 

LMUD has been overcharging their customers for years under the guise of "more reliable power" and accumulated over $10 million dollars of unrestricted cash, and the

LMUD Board recently approved taking on debt

to finance the 230kv  folly

Look at the 2012 unrestricted cash

Now look at the 2016 unrestricted cash

More Demolition for the 

20 year old BLM Building Lassen County purchased

 in July of 2015

NO FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM WILL BE INSTALLED.

Lassen County took the property "As-Is" without any inspections

September 22, 2015 Video Tour

Modern Building Construction makes great progress

on new community pool, in Susanville, despite bad weather

HLVRA votes "No" on diving boards (?)

FINAL

LASSEN COUNTY

ELECTION RESULTS

Supervisor Chapman says.... look the other way

while he fleeces the taxpayers JUST ONE MORE TIME

The bloviating, blistering, bafoonery of Supervisor Chapman gets one last chance to attack the Critics. Todays Lassen County weekly/advertiser gave Chapman a half page to blast his critics.

CHAPMAN HAD THE COUNTY CLERK ERASE THE 11/15/16  PUBLIC CRITICISM , WHICH IS ILLEGAL TO TAMPER OR DESTROY PUBLIC RECORDS OR PROPERTY (California Penal Code 594)

County Clerk Julie Bustamante has made it a common practice to erase Chapman's irrational tirades

Chapman did, in fact, bully the other Supervisors into giving him this Palm Springs vacation(over $3,000) this week to get "Supervisors" training at the CSAC Palm Springs Annual meeting. 

Chapman retires in 32 days. 

The truth: Chapman wanted to make sure his replacement David Teeter was placed on the CSAC Board of Directors and he thought the public owed him one last free vacation (he was entitled)

This Board has never respected the Brown Act, Public Records Act or any other law that requires them to be honest.    

Kan We Help told Supervisor Hammond a dozen times that he could not vote on the sale of the Herlong property. He did it anyway and the FPPC fined him $2500.  Would he do it again.....? You betcha. He just hopes he won't get caught. 

Lassen County Must be God's

Favorite Sit-Com

The Archie Bunker County on steroids

LASSEN COUNTY

WINTER COTTON BALLS

Lassen County Counsel Burns

and CAO Richard Egan

Notified of Alteration of

Board of Supervisors meeting audio

IT JUST KEEPS GETTING SLEEEEEZIER

Lassen County Board of Supervisors

November 15, 2016 meeting Audio CD Altered

The Public Records Act states that any audio, video or record that a public entity makes, of a pubic meeting, becomes a disclosable record to the public.

Kan We Help submitted a "Public Records Request" for a copy ($5.71) of the audio of the 11/15/16 Board of Supervisors meeting only to find that it had been altered. 

The CD clearly stops at the Supervisors 11:03 AM break.

According to the 11/15/16 Minutes the meeting continued at 11:08 AM. 

The Minutes also state this meeting adjourned at 12:46 PM, but the audio from 11:08 to 12:46 was deleted.

ONE HOUR AND THIRTY EIGHT MINUTES DELETED

What happened in that 1 hour and 38 minutes?

TIME:  11:08 AM

1. Milford Fire District appointment

2. Rate increase for Susan River Park Water Company

3. Chapman's appointment to the CSAC Board for 2017 (he retires in 2016; 44 days)

4. Marijuana discussion on State Proposition

TIME:   12:46 PM

[Clerk of the Board: Julie Bustamante]

Deputy Clerk of the Board, Susan Osgood, is responsible for the Board's Minutes and the Audio recordings.  This was a deliberate act of altering a public document.

This is not the first time this has happened and usually occurs when Supervisor Chapman has had a temper tantrum or violated the Brown Act. 

 Kan We Help has requested a second  complete copy of the recording of the November 15, 2016 Board of Supervisors meeting. 

Supervisor Jim Chapman's Last Sleeeeezy Act

Before He Leaves Office on December 31, 2016

Lassen County Supervisor Chapman gets to go to the CSAC party ($3,000 in Palm Springs) on November 28 for one last paid vacation. Supervisor Chapman leaves office on December 31, 2016. This expense does not serve the best interests of Lassen County.

November 15, 2016 BOS Meeting Minutes

Jim Chapman: a 40 year self serving career politician

Chapman told the public that the $3,000 trip for his successor, David Teeter, was warranted because it was training for "New Supervisors". The six day trip includes only a day and a half of "training".  

On October 25, 2016, BOS Chairman Chapman did not consider approving expenses for the second "New Supervisor" from District 1, but always intended to go to the CSAC party himself and bamboozled (?) the other four Supervisors to appoint him to the CSAC Board again with David Teeter as his Alternate.

....and the public would not notice that Chapman leaves office in 46 days.

Lassen County Superior Court

 Executive Court Clerk

Andi Barone

Amends her lawsuit

The lawsuit against Superior Court Judge Tony Mallery was amended to remove the California Judicial Council and the California Administrative office.

Judge Tony Mallery was elected in 2012 and his term ends in 2018. The complaint states that the abuses began upon taking the Oath.

 Mallery has yet to respond to the lawsuit.

2950 Riverside Remains Empty

CAO Richard Egan has made no progress

in repairing this old building

It was Richard Egan's decision NOT TO HAVE AN INSPECTION PRIOR TO THIS PURCHASE

SUPERVISOR CHAPMAN'S REASON

 FOR JUST SENDING

"HIS" REPLACEMENT, DAVID TEETER,

TO THE 6 DAY PALM SPRINGS

ANNUAL CSAC CONFERENCE........

to put him on the Board of Directors of CSAC

The new District 1 Supervisor gets skrewed.....what a surprise

Chris Gallagher was not informed of the Lassen County nomination

being made at this conference

LAST DAY TO REGISTER

 IS NOVEMBER 15, AND CHAPMAN DID NOT PUT THE EXPENDITURE ON THE 11/15/16 AGENDA?

Supervisors approve $3,000 all expenses paid

 Palm Springs vacation

for David Teeter

Check out what your $3,000 is paying for

Supervisors claim they may send District 1 Supervisor-elect to this 1 1/2 day training for the 6 days (?) but the deadline for registration is November 15.  The Supervisors do not meet again until November 15 and if they vote to send the new District 1 Supervisor the registration cost will increase because of the Supervisors poor planning. Neither Supervisor will be a County employee until January 10, 2017 and only then are they eligible to use "public" money.      NICE WAY TO START A TERM OF OFFICE?

The Supervisors could have approved sending, at the 10/25/16 BOS meeting, the District 1-elect Supervisor on this vacation but DIDN'T..........

In addition, Supervisor Jim Chapman never mentioned this when he arranged for his replacement David Teeter to attend this six day vacation  back in September.

Very little of the CSAC Annual meeting, in  Palm Springs, relates to new training for a new County Supervisor.

The upside: The fees do include two more training sessions (February 9 &10)

LMUD Director Fred Nagel's

Eagle Lake Scams:

Fred Nagel was not happy when Kan We Help exposed his schemes

Kan We Help exposed Fred Nagels Eagle Lake Home

was taxed as a "vacant lot" for more than 25 years because he didn't ask for a final Inspection which Nagel knew would have triggered a "re-assessment" of his property taxes.

Kan We Help exposed LMUD Director Fred Nagels scheme to help the Fruit Growers change zoning to help his business at Eagle Lake

LMUD Director Fred Nagel, schemer and scammer

14 years of deception ?

Frank Cady                                                                                   Fred Nagel                                                                      Bill Stewart           

LMUD Director Fred Nagel was collecting thousands of dollars from Willow Creek landowners in 2006 promising the ranchers that LMUD would provide power to them through the Hayden Hill lines. A TOTAL LIE.

The power, for Willow Creek, would be supplied by Surprise Valley Electric

Fred Nagel did not return any of the deposits

FRED NAGEL & FRANK CADY SIGNED THE $65,000 CHECK TO PURCHASE THE HAYDEN HILL 69 KV TRANSMISSION LINES ON DECEMBER 13, 2007 BUT THE PURCHASE AGREEMENT WAS NOT SIGNED UNTIL DECEMBER 17, 2007.

LMUD Director Fred Nagel Games the System

Nagel was elected to replace a Recalled Ward 1 LMUD Director in 2002 and quickly took advantage of the corruption that existed in LMUD.

One of Fred Nagels abuses, as a LMUD Director, is gaming the system. Nagel doesn't report any legal activity on his monthly "STATEMENT OF MEETINGS" report but secretly takes trips.

All activity that LMUD pays the Directors must be reported on these monthly statements. Nagel knew this and disregarded the law.

LMUD has overcharged customers a million dollars a year & has hoarded over $9,000,000 in "Unrestricted funds"

The current $ .13 per kwh rate should be reduced immediately to $ .11 per kwh

YOU WANT LOWER RATES?

REPLACE THE THREE LMUD INCUMBANTS

De ja vu:   In 2001, the LMUD Board accumulated over $8,000,000 in unrestricted funds and then allegedly speculated in the Market and then claimed they lost $8.7 million dollars. This loss was never investigated.

To avoid bankruptcy the LMUD Board proposed a 162% rate increase.  This attempt to increase the rates failed so the LMUD Board with the help of their attorney, Frank Cady, came up with the fake Arrowrock hydro scam as a smoke screen.

Subsequently, four members of the LMUD Board were recalled in June of 2002.  Fred Nagel was elected to replace Ward 2 Director Giannotti. County Clerk Theresa Nagel refused to place LMUD Ward 3 Director Wayne Langston (the Nagels son-in-law) on the Recall ballot. Langston was never on any LMUD ballot and never received a single vote

On October 26, 2007, LMUD Directors Nancy Cardenas, George Sargent and Darrel Wood resigned amid the corruption, abuses and mis-conduct of Frank Cady. This left Fred  Nagel and his son-in-law Wayne Langston who supported Frank Cady's actions.

The remaining Directors wanted to appoint the three new LMUD Directors but the appointments were made by the Lassen County Supervisors.

In the past nine years Fred Nagel has led this Board in scams that have cost the LMUD ratepayers literally over a million dollars.

Hayden Hill purchase

Beterbide Scam

....and 17 other Nagel scams in his 14 years on the LMUD Board

Fred Nagel has supported rate increases that have overcharged customers a million dollars a year for years to put into this super-fund that is UNRESTRICTED AND CAN BE SPENT FOR ANYTHING.

Lassen County Supervisors Hold

Special Budget Committee Meeting

 Today @ 1:30

Chapman was at the Post Office........and arrived late again.

Chapman  is telling the Probations Department Head that he would like the Ordinance for "fees" to be rushed through before he left office. Normally Chapman votes No on fees?

 Budget Agendas/Minutes

The newly elected Supervisors for District 1 & District 2

will take their Oath of Office

on January 10, 2016

Today and until they take the Oath they are private citizens

Supervisor Chapman, the Supervisor of "privilege" is trying to give "HIS" replacement David Teeter

a $2,800/6 day vacation

to Palm Springs (CSAC Annual Meeting) before he takes office on January 10, 2017

Will Chapman be joining him?

Kan We Help will check.............

Does  Supervisor Chapman Intend

to Resign Before October 25?

Unless Jim Chapman resigns and David Teeter takes the Oath of Office before October 25, David Teeter is not entitled to receive anything, including a six day vacation to Palm Springs

David Teeter will not be a County employee until January 10, 2017

Will the retiring County Counsel let this happen ?

Lassen County District 2 Supervisor Chapman will attempt to give his replacement, David Teeter

an early Christmas present:

All expense paid six day vacation to Palm Springs on November 29, 2016

Chapman submitted this expense on September 1, 2016. Teeter doesn't take office until January10,2017 and cannot receive any pay, benefits or entitlements until he is sworn in.

Chapman can do this, if four other Supervisors break the law and approve this expenditure at their 10/25/16 meeting

There will be an run-off election for District 1 Supervisor on November 8.

Where does the winner of District 1 get to go....?

David Teeter does business with Lassen County.  The Supervisors will vote on  this Conflict of interest for Teeter at the October 25, 2016 meeting (Agenda H-2).

If this is not approved, Lassen County can no longer do business with Teeter's business. 

If approved, Teeter can continue to do business with the County and would be required to recuse himself on any vote that would effect him and his business. 

NO MOVEMENT ON THE REMODEL

This old building just sits quietly

AND EMPTY

2950 Riverside

Lassen County Supervisors approved a $979,000 contract to United Building in September to remodel this 20 year old building

Lassen County CAO Richard Egan never had any inspections done prior to getting approval from the Supervisors to purchase this poorly maintained building. Now, the costs to repair and remodel exceeds the amount left of the COP Loan. 

CAO Egan recently asked for a one year extension to his five year contract that terminated in 2018. 

The Supervisors extended Egan's contract to 2019.

Hal Hays, Larry Smith

and

Steve Pezzullo

Stiff   Lassen County

According to the Lassen County Auditor HSP has not paid this $47,996.50 invoice that was due on September 11.

Will the County place a tax lien on the Amedee Parcels ? 

Lassen County CAO Richard Egan

 suddenly leverages an extension to his Contract?  

CAO's usually do this when they threaten to quit or have been  threatened with termination.  This additional year would be a "buy out" of more than $200,000. Egan was there to watch a previous CAO accomplish this.

Supervisor Pyle walked out and did not vote for Egan's contract extension

INCORRECT DATES IN AMENDMENT.

IS COUNTY COUNSEL OUT TO LUNCH?

Three months after the Supervisors hired Egan they had to amend his contract. For reasons yet to be explained, Egan wanted the title of CEO (Chief Executive Officer) but Lassen County only could hire a Chief Administrative Officer.  Kan We Help filed many complaints, with Lassen County, that there was NO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER POSITION AND EGAN HAD TO STOP SIGNING OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS WITH THAT TITLE.  Thus the need to have the May 13, 2014 Amendment. 

CAO Egan's original contract expires on February 25, 2018 .  Paragraph 2: Term states that Lassen County must notify Egan by February 25, 2017 if they did not intend to renew Egan's contract. 

If no notification was given by February 25, 2017,

Egan's contract is

automatically extended one year.

So why do they need this second amendment ?

Egan's salary is well above $170,000 now.

When will the Supervisors sneak in a pay raise for Egan?

KAN WE HELP WILL MONITOR THIS VERY CLOSELY

As expected, when the Lassen County Times finally gets around to exposing the Mallery lawsuit filed on September 2, they make it about

cookies and sodas

Judge Mallery does not have the temperament for a Superior Court Judge. That is the biggest flaw in his character. 

Judge Mallery abused his authority to the extreme

Judge Bastian Assigned to

Judge Tony Mallery

Discrimination/ Abuse of Authority Case

KWH is not saying this is a "dirty" Judge but it will take more than a scrubbing to make this Judge clean

Federal Case 2:16 cv 02114

The LMUD ratepayers might want to take a second look

at the LMUD Board election in November

District 1 Director (fred nagel)

 District 5 Director (jay dow)

.....time for a new attorney, new board.....?

...time to do the final clean-up of the LMUD Board

VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIMES

IN LASSEN COUNTY

 ANGRY

BECAUSE

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY DECLINES

TO PROSECUTE

(Why:  Her personal prejudices & she lacks knowledge & experience)

It is so bad, in Lassen County, the Sheriff's Department doesn't even bother to make arrests

HLVRA Has a Razor Thin Budget

to Open Pool

Despite Chapmans Stupid Statement...

"Public" Help is Not Needed

Chapman tells the HLVRA Board, at a Special meeting, that they don't need money from the public

Supervisor Chapman leaves office in December of 2016

The Judge Tammy/Tony Team

may do better on the upcoming new

"County Court"  TV series

HAVE TONY AND TAMMY AUDITIONED YET?

Has Judge Mallery depended too much on his "Peoples Court" training

 to be taken seriously for re-election in 2018?

DISTRICT ATTORNEY

STACEY MONTGOMERY

SEEKS SUPPORT TO RUN

FOR

TONY MALLERY'S SEAT ON THE COURT

Two other local attorneys putting "feelers" out there also

for Judge Mallery's seat.

This seat will be open in 2018.

Kan We Help offered the evidence where Chapman and Egan placed large amounts of money in small accounts to be transferred "quietly" into personal projects of the Supervisors and their friends

The cost on Lassen County's

office "acquisition" and "improvements 

 is now up to $2,453,628 not the $1,700,000 told to the public

{add an additional $500,000 to move the 4 departments in}

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

INTEND TO AWARD

A $1,000,000 CONTRACT

FOR THE REMODEL OF 2950 RIVERSIDE

TO

UNITED BUILDING CONTRACTORS

ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2016  (AGENDA H-3)

Only $1,383,690.34 is left of the loan

LASSEN COUNTY'S DECEPTION

TO THE

CONTRACTORS BIDS

Lassen County still has no intention of paying for a fire protection system (sprinklers). They intend to put a few fire extinguishers around this 17,000 square foot building

Time to Pay

When HSP Resources (Hal Hayes, Larry Smith and Steve Pezzullo) purchased the 3,000 + acres around the Sierra Army Depot for $25,000 and they promised to pay for the Airport Land Use Plan

Kan We Help has followed  HSP Resouces public land purchases since HSP Resources purchased the town of Herlong for $31,500 (435 Acres)

Kan We Help submitted a Public Records Request on August 31, 2016  for a copy of the Invoice sent to HSP Resources for the cost of the Airport Land Use Plan

and an Invoice was subsequently produced dated September 1, 2016

In August of 2011, the Army, not Sierra Army Depot, signed an Agreement with Lassen County to Lease-back the Army's Amedee Airfield for 50 years with an option of an additional 50 years.

HSP Resources will never OWN OR BE ABLE TO USE the Amedee Army Airfield in Herlong

The US Army TACOM, in Warren, Michigan,  decides who lands at this Airfield not the Sierra Army Depot Commander's  S T A F F.

The majority of the Amedee parcels Lassen County sold to HSP Resources are contaminated. The 2004 Remediation Plan must still be complied with.

On November 28, 2000, the Lassen County Board of Supervisors agreed to take 4788 acres of surplus Army land in Herlong. 435 Acres for the Town of Herlong

4353 Acres of hazardous munitions and ordinances surrounding the Amedee Army Airfield

THE SUPERVISORS REFUSED TO DISCLOSE THIS IN THEIR

AUGUST 19, 2014 RFP ?

 Kan We Help demanded that this contamination disclosure be included in future Request for Proposals that were publicly issued. They complied

Lassen County's Third

Riverside Building Remodel Bid

This is what is left of the $4,080,000 Lassen County borrowed

on June 5, 2015

The original purpose of this loan was:

to purchase the BLM Building on Riverside in Susanville 

 donate a million dollars to the Honey Lake Valley Community Pool

purchase/remodel/restore the Riverside building and move four County Departments into it...

AND

 remodel the former Superior Court Building on Lassen Street in Susanville vacated by the State of California...........

CHAPMAN IS MOVING MONEY ( $444,000) FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO PAY FOR HIS ELEVATOR

Lassen County could re-think the use of the Administration Building (on Roop) for relocating Public Works, Planning, the Auditor and the Supervisors Board room.

Kan We Help submitted this plan to the Board of Supervisors more than two years ago.   The bottom of the Administration building has been empty since the Court moved.   The Auditor's space (is street level on Roop) would accommodate a Supervisors Board Room (since their offices are right down the hall) and the Auditor could move to the empty space directly below (the existing staircase gives the Auditor access to the floor above)

WARD  4  LMUD DIRECTOR, RICHARD VIAL

DOES NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION

WARD 1 LMUD DIRECTOR, FRED NAGEL

 LIED WHEN HE STATED HE WOULD NOT RUNNING AGAIN

FRED NAGEL HAS BEEN DIRECTLY INVOLVED WITH EVERY LMUD SCAM FOR THE LAST TEN YEAR

IT IS NOT A PRETTY PICTURE

Supervisor Chapman Puts $444,908

in the

Courthouse Construction Account

for his elevator

Supervisor Chapman managed to put $444,908 in Fund 127 for his elevator despite the County needing every penny left of the $4 million dollar loan to renovate the Riverside property.

Where did he get this $444, 908 ?

He moved it from the $10 million General Reserve Account because there will be no $$$ left from the LCPIC loan which has been grossly mis-managed .

Richard Egan, as CAO, has authority to move money without permission from the Board or the Public. The Public will never see this money being moved into other accounts.

This $444,908 will silently & methodically find its way to Courthouse Construction (Fund 150/1501/3006119) for Chapman's elevator. 

The County now wants to spend $250,000 (ADA Compliance Study) to tell the County what they already know but have been unwilling to FUND ANY ACTUAL ADA COMPLIANCE.

Lassen County Budget Meeting

CAO Richard Egan makes adjustments to small line items to

be able to fund the Department pay increases + Egan claims he will take a million dollars from the County's $10 million Reserve

This County has been hiding huge amounts of reserve dollars in little used accounts so it wouldn't be noticed................Kan We Help noticed

District Attorney claims that the Public Defender Department will be minimized with her new software program and suggested that no new positions be approved for the Public Defender

Video of 8/23/16 Budget Meeting

Supervisor Chapman bores the staff with 15 minutes of worthless trivia

Supervisor Chapman still managed to put $444,908 in Fund 127 for his elevator despite the County needing every penny left of the $4 million dollar loan to renovate the Riverside property.

Last budget meeting (August 30, 2016) before the Budget is presented to the public

Lassen County Spends $250,000 to be in

 Compliance

with the

Americans with Disability Act

....look at Fund 150 below...it already has $200,000 in it ?....

The 1973 law was intended to bring all businesses in compliance by 1981. However, the law kept being amended and made compliance impossible. Now public entities that receive Federal assistance must be in compliance before Grants are approved.

SZS Consulting Group will not bring Lassen County into compliance. For $250,000 it will identify Lassen County deficiencies (previous studies have never been utilized) and train County staff on current laws.  The contract includes $25,000 for "public hearings"

The majority of Lassen County owned buildings do not comply with the ADA law

As Lassen County repaired or remodeled a few buildings they included ADA compliance in all public contracts, however the majority of County buildings have been neglected. Supervisors have been allowed to look the other way in lieu of pursuing their personal projects.

CAO Richard Egan intentionally failed to identify the "Account" line items for moving the $250,000 transfers.  Where will this money really be spent?

August 23, 2016 Board of Supervisors Meeting

Agenda H-1

Supervisors approved a tentative Budget (2015/2016) until the 2016/2017 Budget could be finalized

Can we assume the "Equipment" dollars (Fund 119/Budget 1191/Account 3006200) won't be used for this "Service Contract"?

Should  we assume $250,000, from Fund 119/Account 3007000, is being moved to Fund 150/Budget 1501/Account 3002300?

Fund 150/1501/3002300 has already budgeted $200,000. 

The transfer could have been $50,000 !

CAO Richard Egan decided not to include the entire packet which included SZS Consulting Group's Contract and Proposal. Instead Egan included just Public Works one page letter in the Agenda

We have obtained copies & will post the Contract & 60 page SZS Proposal 

HONEY LAKE POWER

The hapless LCT showcases Honey Lake Powers imminent demise

It can't cover its' costs with low natural gas competition. LCT acts like that is the whole story.... so PG&E rather than sustain a LEGALLY REQUIRED mandate to provide Green Power....which HLP does.

Worse yet, LMUD will let it die like they let Mt. Lassen Power die and have NO source of back up power when the Deer Creek PG&E lines go down again. 

BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY

Lassen County Airport Land Use Commission Approves

Amedee Army Airfield Land Use Plan

Supervisor Hammond did not recuse himself from the votes. He has two businesses in Herlong that will benefit from his vote. He also receives money from the County on his gas station in Herlong

L to R:  Representative from Mead & Hunt, Lassen County Planning Gaylon Norwood, LCALUC  Rep.Deborah Shockly

Lassen County Owns the Amedee Army Airfield but the Army has a 50 year lease with an option to an additional 50 years. 

The US Army TACOM, in Warren, Michigan,  decides who lands at this Airfield not the Sierra Army Depot Commander's Staff

Tom Hammond and the Sierra Army Depot representative Lori McDonald

continue to misrepresent private use of the Army's Airfield

Public Affairs Officer Lori McDonald and Chief of Staff Aric Manner stated that HSP could use the Amedee Airfield.........when they both were told that was not true

No representative from Sierra Army Depot attended the August 11, 2016 Vote by the Airport Commission

HSP (Hayes, Smith, Pezzullo) must now pay the County

for this $48,000 Use Plan

HSP purchased the land surrounding the Army's Airfield, from Lassen County, for $25,000

Kan We Help prevented the County from including the East end of the runway.

Pyle discussing business with Larry Smith. Supervisor Bob Pyle did not recuse himself.

Steve Pezzullo attempted to cover his face.

Lassen County Holds a Walk-through

of

2950 Riverside Building

for the

Third RFP

Bids due: September 1, 2016

4:00 PM @ 220 S. Roop Street, Susanville

Contractors showed up for yet another walk-though before they decide whether or not to bid on this project

Contractors continue to have the same concerns:

incomplete plans, questions unanswered and the County's $600,000 Budget

The only bid so far has been $1.4 million which the County rejected

Contractors were concerned that the Change Orders alone (for the unknowns) would exceed their original bid and of course....will Lassen County have the money to pay them

Lassen County purchased this building WITHOUT ANY INSPECTIONS

It is the County's intentions (according to the plans & specifications) to put a few fire extinguishers around the building.

NO FIRE INSPECTION ACCORDING TO THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL'S OFFICE

NO MONEY FOR A SPRINKLER SYSTEM

NO MONEY FOR SAFETY

Fire Suppression System for a 17,000 square foot building

Lassen County Pays the County's Volunteer Fire Departments

 *Firenet Fees Each Year

*fire 911 dispatch service

Chapman threatens to NOT PAY the Firenet Fees

and then asks the Volunteers to pay 10% of the fees

This has been Supervisor Chapman's Budget Policy for 40 years. He threatens to take personnel away or cut budgets to intimidate County Departments.

This is the same Supervisor that took $133,000 out of one of his orifices to pay for the third feasibility study for his "elevator"

......just because he could

This will be Chapman's last Budget

Susanville Attorney Eugene Chittock

Costs LMUD Ratepayers

$341,000

for

Frivolous Lawsuit

Eugene Chittock filed a lawsuit on January 27, 2011 so that LMUD would not have to clean-up their Hayden Hill 69kv transmission lines they purchased from Kinross Gold on December 17, 2007. 

This cheap suit filed a Motion to declare KWH a vexatious litigant on August 12, 2010 so that Kan We Help could not intervene on his intention to bilk the LMUD ratepayers. Chittock was paid $12,472 for filing this Motion.

Most *S.L.A.P.P. Motions like this are denied

*strategic lawsuit against public participation

This motion did not rise to the level of a vexatious litigant (7 or more failed lawsuits. Kan We Help filed 1 Writ of Mandate against LMUD for the Arrowrock scam), but Judge Bradbury signed it never the less. Judge Bradbury did not disclose that he was in business

with LMUD's   Frank Cady.

LMUD attorney Eugene Chittock lied to the public about

the Hayden Hill History...Why... for profit $$$

Public Records disclose that LMUD Filed an alleged Exemption to clean up the Hayden Hill transmission lined on

 December 23, 2009

NOT 2014

as stated by Eugene Chittock

to the Lassen County Times on July 26, 2016

If LMUD filed a "Notice of Exemption"

on December 23, 2009, there was no reason

for LMUD to allow Chittock

to file this lawsuit on January 27, 2011 to avoid

any clean-up

 LMUD's  liability ceased to exist on July 20, 2010

  Ratepayers paid $341,000 for Chittock's folly

....and he is still employed by LMUD?

County Counsel to Retire at end of 2016

Supervisors Looking for Replacement

Lassen County's Clumsy Attempt to Right a Wrong

Lassen County Community Development Commission

Does Not Exist?

Westwood Warehouse

The Lassen County Supervisors tried to move money and transfer property belonging to the Lassen County Community Development Commission,  WITHOUT CONVENING THIS COMMISSION.

A Commission they claimed, on March 31, 2016,  DID NOT EXIST.

After Kan We Help exposed that the "Community Development Commission" did exist, the County started moving backwards to correct this deliberate oversight.

Kan We Help exposed:

1. Supervisors approved placing $50,000 in a parking lot account (Fund 588) to repay the restricted USDA Grant,  hoping no one would notice. KAN WE HELP NOTICED.

2. Supervisors never intended to pay the the USDA Grant back. When Kan We Help asked for proof that this loan was re-paid the check was then written.  Public records indicate that the USDA check was written on June 8, 2016

The Westwood Warehouse, under the Grant, could not be used by the Sheriff's Department without re-paying the USDA Grant. Again, the Supervisors unilaterally took this action without convening the Lassen County Community Development Commission. The Supervisors hoped that no one would notice. KAN WE HELP NOTICED

3.  Supervisors moved the maintenance of the Westwood Warehouse property to Public Works due to the fact that the Sheriff's Department has no money to maintain a Sheriff Substation  at the Westwood Warehouse on Birch Street. 

4. On July 26, 2016, the Supervisors placed the Lassen County Community Development Commission on  the Agenda. But moved the meeting to Beiber (over one hour from Susanville).  Supervisor Chapman did not attend this meeting. Supervisor Albaugh Chaired the meeting. Discussion started on Agenda F Boards and Commissions before the Board of Supervisors convened as the LCCDC.  After this was corrected, a question was asked about Resolution 16-2016 deeding the Westwood property to the Sheriff.

Was this an error, if it was done twice?

Lassen County's Request to Change

Big Valley Basin

Groundwater Boundaries Denied

Modoc County Formally Rejects

the

Lassen County Groundwater Boundary Change Proposal

CAO Richard Egan did not place this issue on the Agenda so Modoc County and Lassen County residents could participate in the discussions. Egan brought this issue up under the last Agenda item: Board Information.  The Board was told to blame Modoc County's opposition to this boundary change.

 Egan announced that Lassen County's request to expand the Big Valley Basin groundwater boundaries was denied.

honesty and integrity

DOES NOT EXIST WITH THE LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

Supervisor Jim Chapman demands dishonesty

The Board of Supervisors Agenda includes a Consent Calendar which is intended for routine items.  Jim Chapman has abused this Agenda item more than any other Supervisor in the history of Lassen County.

On July 12, 2016, Jim Chapman placed two Agenda items inappropriately in the Consent Calendar.

The long term policy of complying with the Brown Act allowed the public to pull items for discussion in the Consent Calendar because the Board attempts to approve these alleged "routine" issues with one vote.

NOW, THE CONSENT CALENDAR IS JUST BEING ABUSED WITH ISSUES THAT ARE NOT by any stretch of the imagination......routine. 

Agenda item G-5 was pulled by Supervisor Hammond. This issue was NOT A ROUTINE ITEM.  Agenda item G-7 was pulled by Supervisor Hemphill. Agenda item G-7 was certainly NOT A ROUTINE ITEM (a vote to spend $1,000,000). A separate vote was taken on each Consent Agenda item (G-5 & G-7).

Supervisors Discussion on G-5 & G-7

The July 12, 2016 Minutes, prepared by Julie Bustamante,  however reflect these Consent Calendar agenda items being moved out of the Consent Calendar into Agenda H, Department Reports.

The County Clerk refused to correct this and is complicit in the deception

Deliberate Deception

These Consent Agenda items (G-5 & G7)  were deliberately moved into Agenda H (Department Reports ) in the Minutes by Chapman and Bustamante.  All the Supervisors were notified about this deliberate deception and not one stood up to correct it at the July 26, 2016 meeting in Beiber.  This action does not preclude Chapman's violation of Brown Act

TRUST.......THAT WAS GONE THE MINUTE CHAPMAN BECAME BOARD CHAIRPERSON

Lassen County CAO Issues

Third  Request for Proposal

  for the Remodel of the

"WHITE ELEPHANT"

@ 2950 Riverside Property

The Supervisors rejected the bid because they don't have the money.

 CAO Richard Egan suggests that the work be bid out in piece work and the County will be the General Contractor. The problem with this is Lassen County does not have ANY PERSONNEL WITH THE SKILLS TO DO THIS.  Also, Egan believes that it will be harder to track the money they spend.

GUARANTEED:

this decision will end up costing the taxpayers double and will delay occupancy until 2017. 

Julie Bustamante's Agenda Deception

Lassen County Clerk, Julie Bustamante

All Lassen County Supervisors have been notified that County Clerk, Julie Bustamante, intends to falsify the July 12, 2016 Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes.

July 12, 2016 Consent Calendar

Bustamante's Minutes reflect that these Consent Calendar Agenda Items have been placed in "Department Reports".

Next, will Bustamante add agenda items that don't even exist ?

Will her next attempt be to add Agenda items to Minutes that were never even on any Agenda

Kan We Help Exposed the Failure of the Supervisors

to

Convene the Community Development Commission

for any action on the Westwood Warehouse property

• they moved Grant money w/o convening the LCCDC

• they paid off a USDA loan w/o convening the LCCDC

463-475 Birch Street, Westwood

APN 125-010-47 & APN 125-010-48

Public Records indicate that the LCCDC never met to approve any pay back of the $50,000 USDA loan or transfer ownership or use of this property

Richard Egan claimed that the Community Development Commission was dissolved

Click on link below & scroll down to "Business/regulations" at bottom of page

Lassen County Codes

Kan We Help has stayed on this story and now the Supervisors are being forced to take care of the "unfinished" business with this Commission........but went out-of-town to do it?

The Lassen County Supervisors are Cowards in the worst way

They put the SEIU Unfair Labor Practice Complaint issue in "Closed Session" and then take their show out of town to Beiber on July 26, 2016

On April 13, 2016, a SEIU representative asked in Public Comment the Fund & Budget their members are paid from.  The Supervisors refused to disclose that very "public information"

On July 12, 2016, a SEIU representative again asked in PUBLIC COMMENT  for the Supervisors to get involved.  The County has refused to recognize the SEIU Labor Union. The Union is asking for a $ .50 raise for these in-home care givers.

Chapman attempts to belittle this presentation as inappropriate

Let's look at September 8, 2015 last year when one of the Sheriff's Departments contract negotiations broke down and was pushed to an impass

WATCH THIS VIDEO:  PLEAS FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT   

 Sheriff Deputies, Jones, Mineau and McGarva

 plea their case in     PUBLIC COMMENT

Lassen County Refuses to Bargain

With long term health care workers

SEIU Local 2015 files Unfair Labor Practice complaint against Lassen County

Cindy Vonseca, from SEIU, Local 2015, is a member of a 300,000 member Union that represents long term health care workers. These workers help seniors and the disabled stay in their homes.

The Union wants a $.50 raise and Lassen County refuses to recognize the Union workers and will not bargain with their Union.

Listen to how Supervisor Chapman treats the people that help our seniors and disabled.

Where is the shame, Mr. Chapman, when these same people helped your own father?

Think about this Mr. Chapman: Some day they will be emptying your bed pan...............

Bustamante Just Doesn't Care

The regularly scheduled July 19, 2016 Board of Supervisors meeting was cancelled. But still no Notice to the public on the Supervisors website recording this canceled meeting.

What a tangled web we weave when first

we practice to deceive

The regularly scheduled July 26, 2016 Board of Supervisors

meeting has suddenly become a

"SPECIAL" meeting in Bieber ?

Kan We Help has informed the County Clerk that Agenda Item G-2, in the 7/26/16 Consent Calendar, fails to report, in the July 12, 2016 Minutes, that Consent Calendar G-5 and G-7 were pulled by Supervisors for discussion and had a separate vote. Instead, the County Clerk has placed these two items incorrectly in "Department Reports"

(Agenda G, Consent Calendar,  illegally prohibits the public from pulling any of the Consent Calendar items for discussion; Brown Act Violation 54954.3)

BUSTAMANTE HASN'T CARED

ABOUT HER JOB

IN A

LONG, LONG, LONG TIME

It is just a paycheck

Lassen County Clerk

Fails to

 Post July 19, 2016 Meeting Notice

Julie Bustamante fails to respond to Kan We Help's questions

Two Lassen County residents drove (from Doyle) to attend the July 19, 2016 Board of Supervisors meeting in Susanville and the  doors were locked

JULY 19, 2016 WAS A REGULARLY SCHEDULED BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING

LASSEN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT LAWSUIT DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE

HAYDEN HILL PROPERTY WAS A

FRAUD FROM DAY ONE

Nagel, Stewart and Cady were fraudulently  taking $30,000 checks  from individuals that were told they were going to get LMUD POWER. 

Fred Nagel knew before he took money from the Willow Creek landowners that LMUD could never provide power to Willow Creek [ Willow Creek was not in LMUD's territory]

LMUD Director Fred Nagel & the LMUD Board, Frank Cady and Bill Stewart purchased the contaminated Hayden Hill Gold Mine. This land purchase was outside LMUD's Territory (Surprise Valley Electric territory). Nagel/Cady and Stewart then concocted this scam of selling power to area land owners for a fee of $30,000.

This person was found dead, from a gunshot,  in his home in Southern California

The owners, Kinross Gold, were required to remove their power lines and restore the land when the mine was closed, but sold this HUGE LIABILITY to the scam artists.  Surprise Valley Electric Cooperative, who supplied the power to the gold mine, told LMUD they would not be involved.

LMUD Attorney Eugene Chittock advised the LMUD Board to file a lawsuit against Kinross Gold to dump the property back to Kinross Gold.

The lawsuit failed and cost the LMUD ratepayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and LMUD still owns this BOONDOGGLE.

The mandatory clean up alone will cost a fortune

Lassen Municipal Utility District has a history of buying "contaminated" property & less than honest business dealings

This frivolous lawsuit, filed by Chittock on January 27, 2011, was based on LMUD claiming the LMUD Board had no knowledge of the land purchase...............but then this June 11, 2009 LMUD letter was discovered.

Surprise Valley Electric NEVER agreed to take part in this scam on any level

The LMUD ratepayers might want to take a second look

at the LMUD Board election in November

District 1 Director (fred nagel)

District 4 Director (richard vial)

District 5 Director (jay dow)

.....time for a new attorney, new board.....?

...time to do the final clean-up of the LMUD Board

LASSEN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT'S

HAYDEN HILL LAWSUIT

 DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE

FRAUD FROM DAY ONE

Nagel, Stewart and Cady were fraudulently taking $30,000 checks  from individuals that were told they were going to get LMUD POWER. 

Fred Nagel knew before he took money from the Willow Creek landowners that LMUD could never provide power to Willow Creek [ Willow Creek was not in LMUD's territory]

LMUD Director Fred Nagel & the LMUD Board, Frank Cady and Bill Stewart purchased the contaminated Hayden Hill Gold Mine. This land purchase was outside LMUD's Territory (Surprise Valley Electric territory). Nagel/Cady and Stewart then concocted this scam of selling power to area land owners for a fee of $30,000.

The owners, Kinross Gold, were required to remove their power lines and restore the land when the mine was closed, but sold this HUGE LIABILITY to the scam artists.  Surprise Valley Electric Cooperative, who supplied the power to the gold mine, told LMUD they would not be involved.

LMUD Attorney Eugene Chittock advised the LMUD Board to file a lawsuit against Kinross Gold to dump the property back to Kinross Gold.

The lawsuit failed and cost the LMUD ratepayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and LMUD still owns this BOONDOGGLE.

The mandatory clean up alone will cost a fortune

Lassen Municipal Utility District has a history of buying "contaminated" property & less than honest business dealings

This frivolous lawsuit, filed by Chittock on January 27, 2011, was based on LMUD claiming the LMUD Board had no knowledge of the land purchase...............but then this June 11, 2009 LMUD letter was discovered.

Surprise Valley Electric NEVER agreed to take part in this scam on any level

The LMUD ratepayers might want to take a second look

at the LMUD Board election in November

District 1 Director (fred nagel)

District 4 Director (richard vial)

District 5 Director (jay dow)

.....time for a new attorney, new board.....?

...time to do the final clean-up of the LMUD Board

$62,682.50 Elevator Study Invoice for

Jim Chapman's New Boardroom

Finally Paid

In 2015, the Lassen County Supervisors approved a contract to Lionakis to do a "study" on installing an elevator at the old courthouse on Lassen Street for Supervisor Chapman's new Boardroom. 

Chapman pushed for his new Board room to be completed before he leaves office in December/2016.

Kan We Help reminded the Supervisors over and over that no money was budgeted for this and the Supervisors should concentrate on finishing the 20 year old recently acquired 2950 Riverside.

But the Supervisors approved  the Lionakis $133,000 contract anyway, but never paid Lionakis.

Public Records show that Lionakis was finally paid $62,682.50 on June 16, 2016.

The taxpayers received a $62,682.50 "slideshow" presentation

One Bid was received for the remodel of 2950 Riverside: $1,433,709

September 22, 2015 Video Tour of 2950 Riverside

The Joint Powers Authority, HLVRA,

 Wants the $80,000 Annual Payment

from Lassen County

for the

Community Pool by August

THE COUNTY DOES NOT HAVE IT

According to Lassen County CAO Richard Egan, the HLVRA has asked Lassen County to pay the annual payment early in August.

However, the original conditions have changed since the Lassen County Supervisors voted to take out a $4,080,000 loan  to build the new pool and purchase a building. 

The Supervisors grossly deceived the public about the use of the "loan"  and now have no money to pay the $80,000 this year or future years for annual maintenance support for Community pool (yet to be completed)

.....or remodel their new Riverside building..........

When Kan We Help asked what the annual payment would be, on the loan, the Supervisors refused to disclose the amount. This payment is due on June 4 of each year until 2035.

According to Lassen County CAO Richard Egan, the HLVRA has now asked, for the Supervisors, to pay the annual payment early in August of 2016.

The original conditions have changed since the Lassen County Supervisors voted to take out a $4,080,000 loan to build the new pool and purchase a building. The Supervisors can no longer use the Fund 169/Tobacco Settlement Fund to pay for the HLVRA annual payments.

THE FIRST PAYMENT WAS JUST MADE ON THIS LOAN

This annual $300,000 loan payment

will take

all of the Tobacco Settlement Fund each year

The Supervisors told the public the County's annual HLVRA support payment would be paid from the Tobacco Settlement Fund.  There is no money left in this Fund

The next Tobacco payment from the State: APRIL/2017

THE LASSEN COUNTY AUDITOR STATED THAT, AS OF JULY 12, 2016,  THERE IS LESS THAN $1,300 LEFT IN THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT FUND

ANYONE WORRIED ABOUT THE 2016/2017 LASSEN COUNTY BUDGET?

Lassen County Supervisors Hide

the

$1,359,015 Bid

to Remodel the Riverside Building

in the Consent Calendar (this Agenda item is "illegally" not available to the public)

Kan We Help warned the Supervisors

many times about the cost to remodel 2950 Riverside

Purchase Price: $1,300,000 (assessed @ $1,000,000)

Remodel cost: $ 1,433,709 (bid does not include a Fire Protection System)

Purchase Agreement

September 22, 2015 Video Tour

Supervisor Chapman continued to push for his elevator which wasted $133,000 of this loan.

After 7 months,  "Lionakis" has never been paid.

Chapman hired this firm for $133,000 to do a study on putting an elevator in the old courthouse on Lassen.

Kan We Help Submits Comments and Concerns

 to the

 Lassen  County Airport Land Use Commission

on Amedee Army Airfield

July 7, 2016: Last day for public Comments to be submitted

Public Hearing for Vote: August 11, 2016

Lassen County Airport Land Use Commission

Attempted to Meet @1:30 PM, on June 30, but

Only Three Commissioners of the Seven

Showed Up for the  1:30 PM Publicly Noticed Meeting:

a quorum is four

Lassen County Planning Department Staff member Gaylon Norwood called the two Lassen County Supervisors on this Commission, District 1 Supervisor Bob Pyle and District 5 Supervisor Tom Hammond. Norwood was unable to reach Supervisor Pyle. When Supervisor Hammond was reached he claimed that he had forgotten about the meeting.

The "public comment" period for the Amedee Army Airport Land Use Plan ends on July 7, 2016.

NORWOOD CLAIMED THAT THIS PUBLIC MEETING

WAS NOT REQUIRED AND WOULD NOT BE RESCHEDULED

 Supervisor Hammond showed up at 2:15 PM and the meeting was convened.

Kan We Help Secretary Eileen Spencer asked the Commissioners to look at Section 2.2.2  This section would allow major land uses such as residential development (2.2.2 (g)) within the 2.8 mile Area of Influence of the Commission.

Any of the actions listed in Section 2.2.2 would need to be reviewed by the ALUC (Area Land Use Commission), however Supervisor Hammond asked that Section 2.3 be removed in its' entirety.

Sierra Army Depot representatives were present and told the Commissioners that they would be open to sharing the Army's airfield.

Of course, this was a

total lie

 and they both knew it.

If adopted, this Land Use Plan would also allow

daily Army aircraft landings

from 2 to 20 in Herlong

Lassen County Pays Off  RBEG Grant

Allowing the Sheriff's Department

to

Open a Westwood Substation

Lassen County Supervisors voted to close the "Business Parks" in Westwood and Bieber and transfer the maintenance of these buildings to Public Works.

The Lassen County Auditor announced that Fund 588 would be closed and the remaining balance of approximately $20,000 would be transferred to the "General Fund".  These funds are RESTRICTED and cannot be placed for general use, but they did it anyway?

In 2015 and again in March of 2016, Kan We Help challenged the $50,000 suddenly being placed in Fund 588. It appeared the Supervisors never intended to convene the Community Development Commission to legally take any action on the Westwood property. After Kan We Help challenged this action again, a check for $50,000 was sent to USDA to repay the Grant on June 9, 2016.

This warehouse, in Westwood, can now be used by Lassen County unrestricted.

Kan We Help suggests the remaining funds that were moved to the GENERAL FUND be used to move the Sheriff into this building............ASAP

Chapman's Budget  Meetings

Are Abusive, Intimidating,

......and shameful

The Sheriff's Department presented

 an issue of urgency for Lassen County

at the Budget meeting on June 21

 and needs a budget increase of  $172,000

NOW

for  upgrades  to the

"911" Dispatch System

watch the video

Video

Supervisor Chapman tells the Sheriff that he will bring this topic up at the Agenda Committee on Wednesday, June 22.

But, Chapman DID NOT SEE ANY URGENCY

AND FAILED TO PLACE THIS ISSUE ON THE JUNE 28 AGENDA

Everyone knows that the

 "KISS CHAPMANS RING"

 CEREMONY

MUST PRECEDE ALL REQUESTS

listen to Chapman's embarrassing outburst

Supervisor Chapman turns the annual

Lassen County Budget Meetings into a joke

Chapman makes it very clear that County Departments get nothing until they beg

.....its an "ego" and  "abuse of authority" issue with Chapman

SHAMEFUL

Lassen County Receives One Bid

on

2950 Riverside  Remodel

$1,433,709

There is $1,317,290.64 left

of the LCPIC loan

KAN WE HELP HAS SAID MANY MANY TIMES,

FINISH THE RIVERSIDE   BUILDING

 BECAUSE

THERE IS NO MONEY

FOR CHAPMAN'S ELEVATOR

Lassen County CAO Richard Egan paid too much for this old building knowing that it had major repairs. Egan told the Supervisors that he could buy and improve this building for $1,700,000.

The building was appraised at $1,000,000. Egan paid $1,300,000 and told the Supervisors that it would cost $700,000 to repair. The only bid on the repairs was $1,433,709

This does not include the cost of a "fire protection" system

Kan We Help posted a photo of deer eating in the "Community Pool" Site on May 1, 2016

But when KWH posted cows grazing in the pool site, on June 18, 2016,

the HLVRA suddenly scheduled a

GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY

at the site three days later

This $2,750,00 "seasonal pool" will open the Spring of 2017.  Between March and June of 2017

Over the years (since 2013) the pool got smaller

and the price got bigger

The HLVRA approved the design of the pool in December of 2015. That design has morphed to the above pool

WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP

LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

Left to right:  District 5 Supervisor Tom Hammond, District 3 Supervisor Jeff Hemphill, District 4 Supervisor Aaron Albaugh, District 1 Supervisor Bob Pyle

The Lassen County Supervisors will meet again today at 2:00 PM to discuss the 2016-2017 Budget.

 These five Supervisors almost pushed the Sheriff Deputies to strike last year when they refused to bargain with them.

 THAT CAN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.

There are not enough Deputy's to protect citizens in

 Lassen County any longer.

Call your Supervisor and tell them to fix the problems at the Sheriff's Department

1. Create upward mobility

2. Pay more or all of the Deputies health costs

3. Match the pay of the Correction Officers or pay more

DON'T LET THE LIES OF THE SUPERVISORS TELL YOU ANYMORE THEY ARE BROKE.

THEY HAVE $$ MILLIONS AND $$ MILLIONS TUCKED AWAY

Time to step up and keep Lassen County Safe

Lassen County Community Pool

Now Just a Cow Pasture

LASSEN COUNTY

2016

ELECTION 

FINAL #1 results

as opposed to the

California State Secretary report

Lassen County Clerk Julie Bustamante's term of office ends in 2018

She has made Lassen County elections a joke

Those that won, may not have won

Those that lost, may not have lost

FYI: Bustamante is going to certify this election "2 weeks after the election" 

UNPRECEDENTED

what was the hurry this time, Julie ?

Minutes After Kan We Help's 6/14/16 Post 

Lassen County Clerk Posts Election Result Report #16

2016 Election Results

County Clerk Julie Bustamante just found 55 more ballots

 that resulted in 366 more votes

Once again, her numbers are totally unbelievable

California State Secretary reports that Lassen County has 13,434 registered voters

Lassen County Clerk reports only 12,739 registered voters

Should the public be concerned with a 695 discrepancy ?

Lassen County Clerks Report #14 was issued on 6/13/16 at 3:18 PM

7044 votes cast..........?

When the Polls closed at 8:00 PM on June 7, 2016, that stopped all pollng or provisional votes being received. These votes included all ballots cast at the Precincts.

Lassen County Clerk needs to explain why votes cast at the Precincts continue to come in

 Report #12: June 10, 2016                    Report #14, June 13, 2016

Candidate        Polling    ABS/VBM      Candidate   Polling    ABS/VBM

Noyes                                   23                  29                  Noyes                     24                     29

Statti                                  200                156                  Statti                    222                   156

DeMartimprey                 230                 343                 DeMartimprey    260                   343

Gallagher                          285                 268                Gallagher              299                  268

Teeter                                512                   46                Teeter                    566                    46

Stovall                               111                   20                 Stovall                   116                    20

Montgomery                    254                   26                 Montgomery         284                    26

Dixon                                167                 253                 Dixon                     187                  253

Albaugh                           363                 458                 Albaugh                 418                  458

Lassen County Clerk

Continues to Count

Votes ?

California State Secretary reports that Lassen County has 13,434 registered voters

Lassen County Clerk reports only 12,739 registered voters

Should the public be concerned with a 695 discrepancy ?

Lassen County Clerks Report #14 was issued on 6/13/16 at 3:18 PM

7044 votes cast..........?

When the Polls closed at 8:00 PM on June 7, 2016, that stopped all pollng or provisional votes being received. These votes included all ballots cast at the Precincts.

Lassen County Clerk needs to explain why votes cast at the Precincts continue to come in

 Report #12: June 10, 2016                    Report #14, June 13, 2016

Candidate        Polling    ABS/VBM      Candidate   Polling    ABS/VBM

Noyes                                   23                  29                  Noyes                     24                     29

Statti                                  200                156                  Statti                    222                   156

DeMartimprey                 230                 343                 DeMartimprey    260                   343

Gallagher                          285                 268                Gallagher              299                  268

Teeter                                512                   46                Teeter                    566                    46

Stovall                               111                   20                 Stovall                   116                    20

Montgomery                    254                   26                 Montgomery         284                    26

Dixon                                167                 253                 Dixon                     187                  253

Albaugh                           363                 458                 Albaugh                 418                  458

228 additional votes found from the "Precincts" from June 10, 2016 to June 13, 2016

The latest Supervisors Race results as of June 13, 2016:

FYI:  Sacramento County with 462,117 votes cast

reported 100% counted on June 10, 2016

Lassen County Budget Talks Begin

Kan We Help will be providing video & the Minutes of this "public" Meeting

The purpose of the initial Budget meeting (with a very somber County Administrative Officer Richard Egan who arrived late) was to look at new County positions and/or reclassification of employees for pay increases

Undersheriff John Mineau made the presentation for Sheriff Dean Growden who was not present.  Mineau made it perfectly clear the Department needs to change if they want to keep staff.  He stated that if a Deputy is promoted to Sergeant they would lose $100 in pay.

THAT'S JUST NOT RIGHT

Also, CAO Richard Egan announced that yet another Veterans Affairs Representative will be leaving.

Future meetings will be determined at the 6/21/16 Board of Supervisors meeting

District 2 Voters Did Not Want A Cheater

Chris Montgomery, the District Attorney's husband, was short 272 votes

BUSTED

Chris Montgomery registered to vote in District 2 when he was living in District 3

Chris Montgomery filed Candidate papers for District 2 when he was living in District 3

Chris Montgomery moved into District 2, in a Pezzullo rental in April/2016

THE VOTERS SAID "NO WAY"

LASSEN COUNTY VOTERS TELL

THE JEFFERSON CULT

TO

GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTY

AND 

as you exit your campaign

for the State of Jefferson

DON'T LET THE DOOR SLAP YOU

ON THE ASS AS YOU LEAVE

Don't complain about government,

if you don't vote

Make your voice heard

VOTE ON JUNE 7, 2016

Kan We Help has exposed the Lassen County Supervisors decades old practice  of

 hiding millions of dollars in

 grossly padded innocuous budgets (postage, training, equipment)

AND THEN CLAIMING THEY WERE BROKE

FIX THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT

create an environment for officers to stay here; better pay, upward mobility, affordable health care

FIX COUNTY BUILDINGS

create and staff a capital improvement department staffed by professionals

FIX THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

create and staff a new DA department for prison affairs********protect law biding citizens first

LAWLESSNESS

Robbery is a civil matter

Vandalism is a civil matter

Assault is a civil matter

Rape is a civil matter

IN

RURAL LASSEN COUNTY

AT

 CRITICAL POINT

Will hiring more Deputies make a difference?

These small rural communities, in Lassen County,

have little to NO PROTECTION by  law enforcement
 

Local crimes against the people are being ignored by Deputies and the District Attorney

WAKE UP LASSEN COUNTY SUPERVISORS

Lassen County residents are not safe

Honey Lake Valley Recreation Authority

Does Not Qualify

 to be a

NON-PROFIT ?

Short sightedness, arrogance and an inexperienced Board

caused years of delays

Who will bail this project out?

Community Pool

or ...... Puddle Pool?

Construction begins........................?

Budget Cuts Should Typically lower the price, but

Pool Costs Have Escalated to $2,750,000

...but does not include the following

Chris Montgomery lied to run for Lassen County Supervisor

What will he do if he is elected?

Bob Burns County Counsel Department:

Reduced to Burns & and his Administrative Assistant

Stephanie Skeen was the last attorney to leave. This attorney has recently left Bob Burns to work for District Attorney Stacey Montgomery. 

On May 17, 2016, Lassen County Counsel Bob Burns asked the Board of Supervisors to allow him to review and update Lassen County's Municipal Codes. The Board gave no direction for him to start this project.

Last year, on August 28, 2015, Kan We Help told the Board their Rules of Procedures, Rules & Regulations conflict with their Municipal Codes & current laws.  The Board ignored Kan We Help and passed Bob Burns "revisions".

NOW, BOB BURNS HAS NOTHING TO DO AND WANTS TO REVISE LASSEN COUNTY'S MUNICIPAL CODES.....

KAN WE HELP OFFERED ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE WORK KWH SUBMITTED LAST YEAR.

THE BOARD TOOK NO ACTION

Lassen County Times.....Who are these people ?

Good luck in the June 3, 2014 election ???

Lassen County Public Works

Updates Supervisor Chapman's extravagant

Courthouse Elevator Project

5/24/16 BOS Agenda Item H-4 : Capital Improvement Updates

The Supervisors finally realize there is not enough money [from the $4.3 million loan] left to finish the Riverside property and Chapman's court elevator. 

Kan We Help has been critical of this Board slipping in Chapman's elevator when the County has not moved an inch in finishing the Riverside building that will house the District Attorney, Public Defender, Child Support Services and Probation departments.

Some are saying Chapman plans to cut the Sheriff's 2016/2017 Budget to fund his Elevator?

The court elevator project "has not been fast-tracked" as Supervisor Chapman wanted but is now projected to begin construction in February 2017.  Chapman wanted it done so he could "historically" claim to be the first Board of Supervisor Chairperson to have his PHOTO taken in his elevator.

KAN WE HELP IS WATCHING

EVERY PENNY

OF THE

$4.3 MILLION COUNTY LOAN

 VERY CLOSELY

On January 12, 2016, the

Plumas County Board of Supervisors

Saw through the fraud of the SOJ Cult

&

Voted Unanimously

NOT TO PLACE THE

STATE OF JEFFERSON ISSUE

ON THEIR  JUNE BALLOT

Lassen County Supervisors

Hammond, Hemphill and Albaugh

cost this County thousands of dollars putting

this Cult's issue on the ballot in June.

ALSO:

? FREE, FREE, FREE ?

Lassen County Counsel Bob Burns offered to help this Cult fight their "legal" battle with the State Legislature with Lassen County taxpayer dollars ?

KEEP IT CALIFORNIA[Keeping all 58 Counties in tact]

WESTWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

HOSTS LASSEN COUNTY

DISTRICT 1 SUPERVISOR CANDIDATES 

Watch Video

On May 17, 2016, District 1 Supervisor candidates Alex DeMartimprey and Paul Statti attended the question/answer forum hosted by Gail Brown of the Westwood Chamber of Commerce.

Alex DeMartimprey is a lifetime resident of Lassen County. His father was a Board of Supervisor Chairperson in 1989. DeMartimprey knows Lassen County and what the County needs, HONESTY, JOBS, HONESTY! 

Paul Statti wears a Tea Party dog collar that is connected to the racist Tea Party/State of Jefferson leader where ever he goes.  Statti who has demonstrated no aptitude for any elected position is representing the Tea Party and the State of Jefferson. Statti told the Westwood people, on May 17, 2016, that he has attended BOS meetings for over three years. Being generous, Paul Statti has been an infrequent attendee at the Board of Supervisor meetings. When Statti does attend a BOS meeting you will find him "texting".

STATTI KEEPS A CHAIR WARM .......THAT'S IT

Chris Gallagher was a NO SHOW .Chris Gallagher has a failed employment history.

Watsonville, Arcata, Susanville, Los Banos

When the ex-Susanville Police Chief left Lassen County he got into the same trouble as the Los Banos Police Chief.

THE LOS BANOS POLICE UNION FILED NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS

Marlo Noyes was a NO SHOW .

All five Lassen County Supervisors

Approve an Amended Ordinance

(Supervisor Hemphill secured a job for his wife in the past year at the Sierra Army Depot and Supervisor Hammond was fined $2500, by FPPC,  for voting on the Herlong transaction. Hammond owns two businesses in Herlong and has a lucrative contract with Lassen County to protect)

to open development

within the 2.8 mile radius of the

Army's Amedee Airfield

which they have no control over

This new Ordinance goes into effect in 30 days and was enacted to allow Steve Pezzullo and friends (aka HSP Resources) to develop within the 2.8 miles of the Army's Herlong Airfield.

District 4 Supervisor Hammond continues to lie to his constituents that the Army's Airport in Herlong will be a "PUBLIC AIRPORT".  The Army has a 50 year lease with Lassen County with an option of an additional 50 years (the lease was a condition of the transfer of Army land to the County)

Steve Pezzullo & friends have done absolutely nothing for the town of Herlong that they bought for $31,500 (and is selling off parcel by parcel) from Lassen County and the 3,000 acres of contaminated public land for $25,000.

Pezzullo now only has to deal with securing "permits" from the Lassen County Planning Department and wait for the inevitable  approval of the poorly written "Amedee Army Airfield Land Use Compatibility Plan" that has no enforcement capability whatsoever.  

This so-called "Plan" does not address Federal Aviation restrictions for military airports but makes considerations as if it was a "public" airport

District 2/3 Supervisor Candidate

Chris Montgomery's page

has been the most visited KWH page for the last 8 days

Montgomery lived in District 3 when he registered to vote in District 2

Montgomery lived in District 3 when he filed his Candidate papers for District 2

Don't worry, he has the protection from his wife

who is Lassen County District Attorney

Kan We Help Submits Concerns

to Supervisors

Re: Amedee Army Airfield Use Plan

Area of Influence for the

"AMEDEE ARMY AIRFIELD LAND USE PLAN

The State of Jefferson Cult Complains

about Supervisor Chapman's Comments ....?

"If the Voters reject it (on June 7) then they need to get the hell out of the County"

How about all of the lies that have spewed  from these idiots over the past 65 years of this scam

How can you stop the "unstoppable"...?...........when nothing ever started?

XX    The Dos Equis Group   XX

Lassen County CAO Richard Egan approved the use of the Susanville Veterans Hall for the State of Jefferson cult members to hold a rally.  This rally could have been held at any Bar in town and looked the same. 

Check out the 65 year failed history of this Cult on Wikipedia

Supervisors Tom Hammond, Jeff Hemphill and Aaron Albaugh voted to place the "LEAVE CALIFORNIA" issue on the ballot for the people to decide if they wanted to leave the State of California.  This "gift of public funds" could have cost the Lassen County taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars and now these delusional old Hippies say that they have already gotten Lassen County "in" their group.

Paul Statti, candidate for Bob Pyle's District 1, is one of these

"State of Jefferson" gang, cult members.

Lassen County does not need one more

 Tea Party/Jefferson supporter sitting on this Board.

DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR JEFF HEMPHILL

HOLDS SUCCESSFUL AND MUCH APPRECIATED

TOWN HALL MEETING

AT THE

HONEY LAKE VALLEY GRANGE IN JOHNSTONVILLE

Video: District 3 Town Hall Meeting at the Honey Lake Valley Grange

Grange Officer Penny Artz introduces Supervisor Hemphill

Residents came early and the room was filled to standing room only by the time the meeting started

TOPICS:

The proposed Mental Health facility at the "Gables", new marijuana regulations,  Johnstonville Park 

NEW "CRV" ONLY

 RECYCLING CENTER

OPENS IN SUSANVILLE

Big Foot Recycling

702-040 Johnstonville Road   (next to Pardners)

HOURS:   10:00 AM  to 4:30 PM   Tuesday - Saturday

General Manager Nick Roetto    

Local Deer Enjoy

the Community Pool

in Susanville

Lassen County District 3 Supervisor

Jeff Hemphill

to hold a

 TOWN HALL MEETING

at

the

Honey Lake Valley Grange

LASSEN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

AND

COUNTY CLERK CONSPIRE TO CHEAT THE VOTERS

Chris Montgomery perjured himself  when he filed his Candidate documents on March 11, 2016

Chris Montgomery perjured himself, in January, when he changed his voter registration stating he lived at 250 S. Pine Street, Susanville

If the Montgomery's owned this house in January, which they did not, Stacey Montgomery would have been required to disclose this "rental income" on her FPPC 700 Form.

DISTRICT 2 DOES NOT DESERVE ANOTHER LIAR

Steve Pezzullo owns 250 S. Pine Street

Steve Pezzullo's renters left in March/2016

Steve Pezzullo's new renters:

Stacey & Chris Montgomery

The Montgomery's are using 250 S. Pine in their political ads

If Montgomery lacks ethics and honesty now,

just think what he can do as keeper of the District Attorney's Budget 

Lassen County Election Officer,

Julie Bustamante

she selects the laws to obey

Bustamante is tasked with determining a Candidates qualifications to run for office

THAT'S HER JOB

To test this enforcement obligation by the Lassen County Election Officer, Kan We Help Secretary filed Candidate documents for the Susanville Sanitation District with a Westwood address.  Election Officer/County Clerk Julie Bustamante promptly sent a letter stating that you need to live within the Susanville Sanitation District to run for this office.

Julie Bustamante has confirmed that  Chris Montgomery registered to vote

and lied where he lived

in January, 2016.

Montgomery  committed willful perjury.

Maybe this should go to the District Attorney.

......and Stacey Montgomery can put this complaint on top of Julie Bustamante's Perjury of her FPPC 700 form

Quid Pro Quo

[ you let my husband illegally run for office and I will throw out  your perjury on your FPPC form]

New Lassen County District Attorney

Stacey Montgomery

looks the other way on

 husbands perjury

On January 25, 2016, when  Stacey Montgomery filed her "Statement of Economic Interests" it did not list a Schedule B (Real Property owned). She and her husband, Chris Montgomery rented a home at 710-075 Sunnyside Road, Janesville.

On March 11, 2016, Lassen County District AttorneyStacey Montgomery and her husband Chris Montgomery lived at 710-075 Sunnyside Road, Janesville, Ca. (District 3, not District 2)

On March 11, 2016, Stacey Montgomery and her husband Chris Montgomery DID NOT LIVE IN DISTRICT 2, when Chris Montgomery filed his candidate papers falsely statingthat he lived at 250 S. Pine Street, Susanville.

ELECTION CODES REQUIRE THAT YOU LIVE IN YOUR DISTRICT 30 DAYS BEFORE FILING YOUR CANDIDATE PAPER

CHRIS MONTGOMERY FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THIS. HE COULDN'T EVEN REGISTER TO VOTE IN DISTRICT 2 UNTIL THE END OF MARCH and yet the County Clerk, Julie Bustamante states that Chris Montgomery registered to vote in District 2 in January of 2016 when he lived in Janesville District 3?

Public Officials Abuse

"Unchecked"

in

Lassen County

The public cannot expect the Supervisors to "police" themselves.

There is no incentive to do that. 

The Lassen County Board of Supervisors each trade votes to accomplish personal agendas. Overlooking abuses of other Supervisors so they will overlook their abuses.  A Quid Pro Quo, within the Board, has existed for a very long time. A practice that has become so accepted that new Supervisors coming in will believe that it is legal and moral to "help yourself".

Violations of ethics such as conflicts of interest, violating Board policies when it expedites a Supervisors effort to help a friend or just for personal gains is a standard on this Board, violating the Brown Act as though the law was non-existent and unenforceable.

Chapman's recent actions, as Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors, has become an accepted practice even though it is illegal and unethical. Some Chairpersons have chosen to go the straight an narrow and follow the law and practice honesty.

CHAPMAN HAS NOT

Chapman placed this item in the Consent Calendar so that the public could not comment. Fund 150-1501 did not have sufficient funds to pay for this work and would have required a 4/5 vote to increase this budget item.

If you place it in the Consent Calendar the public cannot comment that there isn't $189,792 in that Budget and that there is only $150,000 in the Susanville Memorial Building.

THE DECEPTION:

NO PUBLIC COMMENT WAS ALLOWED AND NO 4/5 VOTE LANGUAGE WAS INCLUDED IN THE "ACTION REQUESTED" DESCRIPTION. WHERE WILL THEY GET THE EXTRA $50,000 ?  

County Counsel, Bob Burns,  placed a $2,233.09 Settlement check from an Illinois class action lawsuit (which Lassen County was not a party to but simply benefited from) in Closed Session. This issue did not remotely fall under the Brown Act requirements for a Closed Session issue.

THE DECEPTION:

This was not a closed session item, so what did the Supervisors discuss?  This was a regular agenda item. The public was not afforded the right to comment.

Bob Burns announced that the Board left it up to him whether to deposit the check or send it back?

THAT IS NOT HIS JOB..............

Supervisor Chapman placed this item in the "Consent Calendar" to approve funding for the future 2016/2017 Budget ? This would have required a 4/5 vote by the Board and was not an item to  hide in the Consent Calendar.  Supervisor Hemphill did not recuse himself from this vote (Craig Hemphill receives this money).

THE DECEPTION:

THE PUBLIC WAS NOT ALLOWED TO PULL THIS ITEM AND NO SUPERVISORS PULLED IT FOR DISCUSSION. THIS WAS NOT AN ISSUE TO BE PLACED IN THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

 CRAIG HEMPHILL'S $79,117 2015/2016 CONTRACT EXPIRED ON JUNE 30, 2016 AND THIS ACTION EFFECTED THE 2016/2017 BUDGET. 

CRAIG HEMPHILLS PAY INCREASE WAS SLIPPED INTO THE CONSENT CALENDAR AND IS NOT  "Routine in nature"

Are the Supervisors now obligated to fund this in 2016/2017 fiscal year?  Sleazy way to "pre-fund" your budget?

Approving a future Budget item expense  not "ROUTINE IN NATURE". Bob Burns placed a 2016/2017 expenditure in the "Consent Calendar". This was not pulled by any Supervisor for discussion. The public was not afforded an opportunity to comment on Agenda item G-8

THE DECEPTION:

THE PUBLIC WAS NOT ALLOWED TO PULL THIS ITEM AND NO SUPERVISORS PULLED IT FOR DISCUSSION. THIS WAS NOT AN ISSUE TO BE PLACED IN THE CONSENT CALENDAR. THIS ACTION PROVOKES SECRECY AND ELIMINATES ANY SCRUTINY BY THE PUBLIC.

This Agenda items was one of those shady "land deals" Lassen County Supervisors are so famous for.

Previous Pezzullo deals resulted in giving him thousands of acres of public land for $56,500 and "Town Center" rezoning for property around Pezzullo's Herlong property and the One Stop building in Herlong which he gave back because he couldn't sell it 

This was not a "Consent Calendar" issue and was placed in the Consent Calendar to avoid public scrutiny.

The public was not allowed to comment on this and now we know why?

The Supervisors intentionally did not use the Valceschini/Cramer  name in the Agenda description. This was not a "ROUTINE IN NATURE" issue. The Valceschini/Cramer family  built a house on the 142 acres ten years ago and now, because of the restrictions on the 142 acre parcel, could not carve out another 5 acre "residential" parcel for ten (10) years.

  However,  the Cramer's are developing the "Cramer Ranch Estates" between these two parcels,  in which they plan to sell residential lots. What does Pezzullo or Larry Smith Realty have to do with this?   Steve Pezzullo attended this meeting and left after Supervisor Chapman refused any public comment on this "Consent Calendar" agenda item .

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED 

More public money for a study of Supervisor Chapman's "elevator" was placed in the Consent Calendar to avoid any public comment.

THE DECEPTION:

The Supervisors did not place any money, for any renovations to the Courthouse,  in the 2015/2016 Budget because they intended to purchase and remodel the building at  2950 Riverside in Susanville ($1.3million dollars for the old BLM building).

When the Supervisors borrowed $4 million dollars they told the public that they were going to use the money for the Community pool, purchase the old BLM building and remodel the Courthouse and Administration buildings.

With only $1.273 million remaining of the loan and the Supervisors have no idea the costs of finishing their newly acquired 2950 Riverside building, why

IS THE NEW BOARD ROOM AND "ELEVATOR" BEING FAST TRACKED OVER ALL OTHER CAPITAL PROJECTS?

YES, FOR ONE MAN'S EGO

This remodel of the old Courthouse's new elevator and Board of Supervisors new Board room is estimated to cost $1,000,000 according to Lionakis's report to the Board of Stupervisors

The so-called Chapman's Courthouse Square Modernization Committee never met and was disbanded in January of 2016.

Who did they meet with on December 1, 2015.....Chapman?

The Annual

Frank Cady

Worst Public Servant Award

2016 Winner

Jim Chapman

2016 Runner Up:  Stacey Montgomery

3rd Place Runner Up: Bob Burns

Kan We Help Challenges

 Supervisor Chapman's

Abuse

of the Consent Calendar

Chapman can rely on the fact that the Lassen County Times does not report on the Board violating the Brown Act and has suppressed all of the Board's abuses. From Larry Wosick not living in his District to Tom Hammond's conflict of interests.

KAN  WE  HELP CONTINUES TO  EXPOSE IT ALL

The Lassen County Times suppressed the LMUD abuses for 16 years:

the Hayden Hill land scam, Arrowrock Hydro Scam, Misappropriation of public funds, conflicts of interest

Lassen County Times the biggest enabler of corruption in Lassen County

An old career politician has reduced public meetings

to abuse, intimidation & personal agendas

Most politicians want their final term to be dignified, at least with a certain level of dignity anyway.

 Chapman will not accomplish this.

He has reduced the Lassen County Board of Supervisors to a "bully" pulpit. The public is more than aware of his rudeness and temper tantrums.

Will the four other Supervisors rein in Chapman's style of rudeness or will they just sit back and be told what to do?  Where's the representation for the other four Districts?

Chapman believes that the

PUBLIC'S MONEY is his to waste

Lassen County Supervisor Jim Chapman

Abuses Authority as Chairperson

At the March 22, 2016 meeting, Chapman threatened a member of the public when they requested to speak on an agenda item.

Chapman refuses to let the public comment on the Consent Calendar Agenda, claiming that it is "administrative" only

*At the April 12, 2016 meeting, Chapman puts 18 of the 27 Agenda items in the Consent Calendar. 8 of the 18 were pulled for discussion by the other Supervisors. So much for routine. 

*The Consent Calendar issues are supposed to be "routine in nature", but that is the last thing these "untouchables" are. The Consent Calendar is approved with one sweeping vote and Chapman, unlike Supervisor Pyle, will not allow any item to be pulled for a separate vote and discussion by the public.

At the upcoming April 19, 2016 meeting, Supervisor Chapman has placed

8 of the 12 Agenda items in the "Consent Calendar".

Consent Calendar Agenda item G-6

MORE MONEY FOR CHAPMAN'S ELEVATOR

A      LOT     MORE     MONEY !

Chapman paid $81,100 for a Slide show about his elevator?

Now, he has put an additional $ 132,505 for more discussions on his elevator in the "Consent Calendar".

When money is no object, why not

Presently this historic old staircase takes you to the second floor

Old Courthouse on Lassen Street in Susanville, CA

WHEN MONEY IS NOT A CONCERN

CHAPMAN'S ELEVATOR NOW TAKES PRIORITY OVER ALL COUNTY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

The "Lassen County Scoop"

Lassen County Scoop

discloses that

County Counsel Bob Burns

is so............ far out of his element

Former Lassen County District Attorney and now County Counsel Bob Burns placed a California Settlement Case illegally in Closed Session.  Burns claimed that this case was an "existing" case but in fact it was a copy of a Final  "Settlement"  Notice. 

Lassen County was never a part of this lawsuit but benefited from this Class Action lawsuit.

Bob Burns didn't know the difference...........

This case does not remotely fall within Government Code Section 54956.9 of the Brown Act. This lawsuit simply reflected a "final decision" by an Illinois Court.

Brown Act Section 54954.5 (a) allows for "existing" litigation to be placed in "CLOSED SESSION" if it would jeopardize service of process or settlement negotiations.

Burns took this issue into Closed Session for a $2,233.09 settlement check Lassen County received on a settlement received from the State of California. All that was required was for the Board of Supervisors to accept/reject this money. 

This was an Open Session issue and Burns did not know that ?

Settlement documents are discloseable and must be discussed in Open Session.  Burns did disclose the Settlement documents from his illegal Closed Session but violated the Brown Act by stupidly placing this in Closed Session. 

ALSO:

A member of the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) asked the Board of Supervisors, in Public Comment,  what Budget their contract is paid from. Bob Burns interrupted and advised the Chairperson not to answer?

THE BUDGET IS A PUBLIC DOCUMENT

KAN WE HELP BROKE THIS LMUD STORY IN 2006

....while the

Lassen County Times buried the

LMUD-Hayden Hill story year after year

...and now takes their "front page" story, today, from the archives of Kan We Help.

FRAUD FROM DAY ONE

Nagel, Stewart and Cady were fraudulently  taking $30,000 checks  from individuals that were told they were going to get POWER. 

Fred Nagel knew before he took money from the Willow Creek landowners that LMUD could never provide power to Willow Creek [ Willow Creek was not in LMUD's territory]

[ The Lassen County Times suppressed all facts relating to this Scam]

Lassen County Supervisor Jim Chapman Places

18 of the 27

April 12, 2016  Agenda Items

in the

Consent Calendar

Chapman will not let the public directly comment on these 18 Agenda items, which is against the law

Also:

Chapman skips putting the March 15 Meeting Minutes on the Agenda & instead places the March 22, 2016 Minutes in the Consent Calendar even though the record of the meeting was destroyed.

 No mention, in these contrived Minutes,

 of Chapman's "tantrum

The Audio of this meeting was destroyed so that Jim Chapman's threats to arrest a member of the public would be hidden. However, anticipating shenanigans,  Kan We Help taped the meeting.

ALSO:

Bob Burns is allowed to place a "Settlement" case in closed session. This is an Open Session Agenda item. If the Supervisors would ever hire a competent attorney, this would never happen.

Click on link below

Lassen County Scoop

Lassen County Times Editor Sam Williams

BLINDLY PREJUDICE

A "newspaper" (?) editor that wouldn't know a Brown Act Violation if it hit him square between the eyes

A "newspaper" that would not criticize the hand that feeds him; Lassen County's $100,000 Lassen County Times Budget

A "newspaper" that gets info from Chapman in Closed Sessions.

A "newspaper" that enables the corruption in Lassen County through suppression

"Chapman walks out of pool meeting ?"

.....Sam Williams failed to mention a few people walked out before Chapman when  it became too painful to listen to the perpetual circle of the sad, sad, discussion

Williams writes that there are "nattering naysayers" against the pool project.

There was a very supportive group, at the March 29, 2016 HLVRA meeting,  that want this community pool and has supported this project for 2 1/2 years of fumbling and bumbling from five men that have no idea what they are doing

What this so-called "Editor" omits is that Chapman leads this Board in delays and ignorance. In 2014, Chapman barely attended the meetings.

 The bad decisions, of a clueless HLVRA Board, is beyond frustrating.  

The real problem:

The HLVRA Board has no idea what they are doing.

L to R: Dave Meserve, Supervisor Tom Hammond, Susanville Councilperson Brian Wilson, Susanville Councilperson Nick McBride and Supervisor Jim Chapman

The "original" schedule:

JEFF HEMPHILL

A Supervisor for profit

Supervisor Jeff Hemphill either

committed perjury on January 29, 2015

or

 profited

extremely from his "elected" position in 2015

Lassen County Supervisor Jeff Hemphill submitted his 2014-700 form on January 29, 2015.  It consisted of two sheets  

Lassen County Supervisor Jeff Hemphill submitted his 2015-700 form on March 29, 2016. It consisted of SIX sheets.

In the past 12 months,  Supervisor Hemphill was able to secure a job for his wife at the Sierra Army Depot.

Supervisor Chapman Pushing Contractor

to Have His New Boardroom Finished

by *December of this year

*the original scheduled completion date was 3/21/17

Chapman has spent thousands of taxpayers dollars on many studies over the years [over $200,000] to have a new Boardroom. Presently, the Board meets at 707 Nevada Street.

This location does not have an elevator. 

 Chapman needs an elevator.

So Chapman pressured the other four to spend $ 65,000 for another study on just the "elevator"...........

The study Chapman doesn't want to talk about was the study done in 2014. It put the cost of moving the Supervisors and staff to a new location (the old courthouse on Lassen Street in Susanville) from $862,500 to $1,425,000.

After 8 months, the Supervisors have  not remodeled the offices for the District Attorney, Public Defender, Child Support Services and Probation in the old BLM building on Riverside.

Keep in mind that the Supervisors are going to use the same pot-of-money.

More than $800,000 for the BLM building and more than a $1,000,000 for the Board's new digs

???????????

There is $1,273,496.65 left of the Certificate of Participation loan and the Supervisors still are not even close to moving the four County Departments into the $1,300,000 building .

  THE SUPERVISORS COULD MOVE THE AUDITOR TO THE EMPTY OFFICES BELOW IN THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND REMODEL THE AUDITORS SPACE FOR THE NEW BOARDROOM, LEAVING STAFF WHERE THEY ARE.

........OOOPS, THAT IS TOO LOGICAL AND PRACTICAL & WOULD SAVE MONEY......

SCRAP THAT IDEA

ON JUNE 7, 2016

LASSEN COUNTY DOES NOT NEED TO ELECT

MORE BULLIES OR LIARS

On March 27, 2016, Chris Montgomery's Mother, Dava Montgomery, sent a very disturbing letter to Kan We Help in which she threatens Eileen Spencer and her family ?

On March 11, 2016, when Chris Montgomery filed his Candidate papers to run for District 2 Supervisor, he lived in District 3, at 710-075 Sunnyside Road, Janesville, CA

As of March 21, 2016, Steve Pezzullo owned 250 S. Pine Street, Susanville, Ca.  Chris Montgomery, under penalty of perjury, stated that he lived at 250 S. Pine Street, Susanville, CA 

Today, Lassen County tells Kan We Help

 the Community Development Commission was dissolved on December 29, 2011

Really...........?

The 2016 Municipal Codes lists:

Municipal Code Title 2, Chapter 2.58 Community Development Commission

Members: County Supervisors

Executive Director: CAo

There is "UNFINISHED" business

 with this Commission

#1

Must convene to authorize the repayment of the *$50,000 USDA Grant and change the "use" of the Commission's property at 463-475 Birch Street in Westwood

[* Given the very unethical past practice of the Lassen County Supervisors, Kan We Help will follow up with the repayment of the $50,000]

463-475 Birch Street, Westwood, Ca      

AND

#2

Lassen County CAo Egan and Supervisor Chapman

 throw out

  any semblance of following any laws

Can the public trust them now?

Could they ever trust them?

463-475 Birch Street, Westwood

This property is owned by the Lassen County Community Development Commission.

 This Commission never convened.

Members:

Jim Chapman, Tom Hammond, Jeff Hemphill, Aaron Albaugh, Bob Pyle

It would have been easy just to put this on the Agenda under "Boards and Commissions" and approve the change of use. Public Records indicate the Lassen County Supervisors NEVER MET to change the use of the Westwood Warehouse.

The public was told that only the "parking lot" was owned by the LCCDC

LIES AND MORE LIES

In 2015, the Supervisors intentionally placed $50,000 in an innocuous "paving" fund to secretly pay back the USDA Grant that limited the use of this property. Chapman was on the Budget Committee that made this decision.

 This "use" could not be for County boat storage.

 NOTE:

The Supervisors cannot blame this deception on the Auditor, Public Works, Planning, the Sheriff.

THIS DECEPTION IS THE

SOLE RESPONSIBILITY

OF THE

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

SWIM FREE ZONE

• 

• The site of the old Roosevelt Pool in Susanville

• and F U T U R E  site of an "undetermined" pool?

•  

•  

• After 2 1/2 years, the JPA Board  is again bogged down in deciding on Pool A, B or C. 

•  

• FLOOR PLAN OF POOL HOUSE

The JPA Board ignored the advice years ago to get the pool design completed, working drawings completed, budgets completed and when the cost was known........GET THE MONEY YOU NEED AND HIRE A CONTRACTOR.  

Of course that was not done and now they are bogged down again with Option A, B, or C. Empathy goes out to the General Contractor to have to put up with this Board.

Project Manager Jared Hancock suggested that the Board might want to allocate more money?   

Plan C effects the quality of the pool

Five Board Members that have no idea

 what they are doing

The Joint Powers Authority, Honey Lake Valley Recreational Authority Board: L to right, Dave Meserve, Tom Hammond, Dave Wilson, Nick McBride, Jim Chapman

This JPA Board did not listen to anyone and the fact that they had zero experience or knowledge of building anything is why the pool has not even started construction

After Jim Chapman threw yet another one of his tantrums and had a meltdown about the on-site well,

 no one had the heart to tell Chapman that they had to cut his elevator out the budget.

Questions for the

Lassen County District Attorney:

1. Will Stacey Montgomery prosecute her husband for Perjury or will the State Attorney General have to do it?

2. Will Stacey Montgomery send a "Cease and Desist Notice" to force the Board of Supervisors to allow public comment on all Agenda items or will the Attorney General have to do it ?

JUST DO YOUR F _   _   _  KING  JOB  STACEY

or resign

Hold your noseHold your nose

"Stephen" Pezzullo owns 250 S. Pine Street, Susanville, Ca.

Pezzullo purchased this property in a bank foreclosure in 2011

As of March 21, 2016

Chris Montgomery (KSUE broadcaster & the DA's husband )submitted his Candidates papers, on March 11, 2016,  to run for District 2 Supervisor

stating that 250 S. Pine was his legal address (under penalty of perjury)

Now, let's take a look at Pezzullo

Steve Pezzullo is a partner with Larry Smith and their HSP Resources (Hayes, Smith, Pezzullo)

 Pezzullo failed to get the Amedee Airfield when Kan We Help filed papers that stopped the Board of Supervisors from including the Army's airfield in the thousands of contaminated Amedee parcels of public property the Supervisors gave Pezzullo and his partners for $25,000.

Pezzullo retaliated by filing a complaint against the Assessor for excluding the Army's Amedee Airfield, in Herlong, from his sale.

The Herlong sale was recorded

without including the Army's Airstrip.

NEXT:  Pezzullo then filed a complaint against the Assessor for not living in Lassen
County when he ran for Assessor.

DA Montgomery attempted to prosecute the Assessor from Pezzullo's complaint. Fortunately, the DA's case fell apart in court when the case Montgomery filed was dismissed. 

Then there are Pezzullo's thugs

How do "case titles" get reduced to initials?

The public could not do a "search" and find cases against Stephen Pezzullo or Larry Smith

This case originally had a case title of SP vs FD and Kan We Help asked the Court to correct the Case title. It was changed but they mis-spelled "Steven"

WELL, WE COULD ASK

 FORMER DISTRICT ATTORNEY 

BOB BURNS WHY CASE TITLES ARE ONLY INITIALS..........

Lassen County

Brown Act Violations Stacking up

County Clerk Julie Bustamante destroys the County's Audio recording of the 3/22/16 meeting. She claims the recording was "unrecoverable"

County Clerk Julie Bustamante claims the Audio Recording

of the

Board of Supervisors

March 22, 2016 Meeting

 is suddenly

"unrecoverable"

Is this what happened, Julie? 

The County Clerk records the meetings

NOTE: On March 22, 2016, Jim Chapman refused to allow public comments on Agenda item B-4 and then threatened to arrest a member of the public who objected to his action

All in full view of County Counsel Bob Burns, CAO Richard Egan, Sheriff Dean Growden, all the Supervisors, the Lassen County Times (recording also), Department Heads and VETERANS........and the public

This old politician reminds Kan We Help Secretary that this is not a Town Hall meeting?

 Maybe Supervisor Chapman needs to be reminded that this is a PUBLIC meeting governed by the Brown Act.

If you put your head down, you get to ignore what just happened

                                                                                              Guess who came to the meeting?

Oops.....Kan We Help recorded the entire meeting,

Sorry Julie

Lassen County District Attorney

Receives Brown Act Complaint

District Attorney Stacey Montgomery's husband, Chris Montgomery,  is running for District 2 Supervisor on the June 7, 2016 ballot. 

Will she condone the Board of Supervisors violations and enable future Board members to break the law or set a precedent for future Boards that they must follow the law ?

Lassen County Supervisor Chapman

Gets Slapped with Another

Brown Act Violation

Bob Burns advice leads to more Brown Act Complaints

Listen:

illegal new Chapman rule: Public needs a Sponsor to comment on Agenda

The Consent Calendar Rule Section 5 E has been in effect for decades allowing full and direct comments by the public.

On September 8, 2015, former District Attorney and now Lassen County Counsel Bob Burns pushed Supervisors to change the rule to violate the Brown Act. The advantage for the Supervisors was to put the majority of agenda items in the Consent Agenda to eliminate any public comments.

Supervisor Pyle was the Chairperson in 2015 and ignored the new illegal rule 8 times. 

However, the old politician, Supervisor Chapman, knew the advantage of not letting the public *directly comment on the Consent Calendar Agenda and loaded the Consent Calendar with most of the Agenda. 

Lassen County Board of Supervisors Meeting:

Raise your hand, get arrested

The Brown Act allows for the public to address "directly" all agenda items

NOT IN KING CHAPMAN'S COURT

Supervisor Chapman is now violating the law at every meeting. 

kanwehelp.com  Secretary Eileen Spencer raised her hand to comment on Supervisor Hemphill's " $700 donation" in Agenda Item B-4 (Unagendized Reports by Board Members). Chapman had talked over Hemphill during his Board Report. Supervisor Chapman looked down when Spencer's hand went up and Chapman attempted to go on to the next Agenda Item.

Supervisor Chapman did not ask for "Public Comment" on Agenda Item B-3

 The old politician then threatened to arrest Spencer for "DISRUPTION"

Jim Chapman, a Bloviating Bully........

or just a miscreant legacy ?

Steve Pezzullo Rents

District Attorney Stacey Montgomery

250 S. Pine Street in Susanville

So Chris Montgomery Could Run in the District 2 Supervisor Race

When Chris Montgomery filed his candidacy papers, on 3/11/16,  to run for the District 2 Supervisors seat and stated that his address is 250 S. Pine Street, Susanville, CA., IT WAS A LIE

As of 3/21/16 this property was owned by Steve Pezzullo.

Steve Pezzullo ran an unsuccessful campaign for District 2 Supervisor in 2012

2016 Lassen County Supervisors Race:

District 1

Alex DiMartimprey

Chris Gallagher

Marlo Noyes

Paul Statti

District 2

Chris Montgomery

Connie Stovall

David Teeter

District 4

Aaron Albaugh (Incumbent)

Stacy Dixon

LASSEN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT

WANTS TO DISMISS THEIR

HAYDEN HILL LAWSUIT

LMUD VS   HAYDEN HILL/KINROSS GOLD

CASE 11cv0255

In 2007, LMUD Director Fred Nagel, Accountant Bill Stewart and General Manager Frank Cady wrote a check for $65,000 for a worthless piece of land. Frank Cady and Fred Nagel did not inform the LMUD Board that the land needed $300,000 worth of mandatory restoration from the gold mining and that Surprise Valley Electric had no intention of bringing power back down to the gold mine. 

LMUD Director Fred Nagel claimed that Frank Cady had no legal right to purchase this land even though the LMUD Board approved the purchase and  Fred Nagel  signed the check

Nagel 's remedy was to file a lawsuit on January 27, 2011,  to void the purchase.  After 5 years of shameful litigation and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent LMUD asks the Court to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice. The Court vacated the April 11, 2016 trial and granted LMUD a "Motion to Dismiss".

NOW LMUD WANTS TO RAISE THE RATES (SERVICE CHARGE), ON MARCH 22,

TO WASTE MORE MONEY ON THE 230KV FOLLY THAT DOESN'T EXIST AND WILL NEVER EXIST.

LMUD has amassed millions for this fake project and now they want to raise more money that will sit in their bank accounts.

Lassen County Supervisors

Intend to Expand the

Groundwater Boundaries

The old boundary excludes BLM property.

 The "proposed" new boundary includes BLM property ?

LASSEN COUNTY PROPOSAL

Information on submitting public comments

Lassen County Counsel Bob Burns

Constant Interruptions

and Bad Legal Advice

Lead to Two

Brown Act Complaints

Supervisor Chapman stated that they don't pay Mr. Burns to monitor Brown Act Complaints

IGNORANCE/CONTEMPT

MOST PEOPLE FIND IT EASY TO BE HONEST, RICHARD EGAN FINDS HONESTY AN INCONVENIENCE

Lassen County CAo Richard Egan placed the majority of the Board of Supervisor's Agenda in the "Consent Calendar" (13 items).  CAo Richard Egan has abused the "Consent Calendar" more than anyone else in the history of Lassen County government.   He places Critical/Controversial issues in the Consent Calendar hoping no one will notice, including Supervisors. This Agenda category is voted on with one sweeping vote.

Agenda Item: G-8

TRANSFER OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF COUNTY OWNED PROPERTY

FUNDS WERE "NOT" AVAILABLE WITHIN THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTS BUDGET

During the Budget process, Egan, Pyle and Chapman placed the $50,000 in PUBLIC WORKS  Fund 588/Budget 943/Account 3002800 (paving).

CAO Egan and Supervisor Chapman were quick, to deny,  that funds were being taken out of FUND 588 [PAVING], but Public Works Pete Heimbigner was quick to confirm the fact that the $50,000 is being taken out of "Paving" to pay back the USDA Grant.

The Sheriff's Department's budget is bare bones so $50,000 was placed in the the WESTWOOD PARKING LOT ACCOUNT, to pay back the USDA Grant, with the hopes that no one would notice

The Sheriff told Kan We Help that he has no idea how much money it will take to use and maintain the Westwood warehouse.

A similar stunt was performed when $142,000 was placed in the WESTWOOD LIBRARY FUND to replace the Library roof [ that was never done]. The Funds were used in Beiber

The apple doesn't fall

far from the tree

FACT: Donald Trump's father was arrested on June 1, 1927 with other KKK brawlers

[FACT: Trump's father was a slum lord that notoriously promoted race riots in the 1950's)

Lassen Supervisors pull money

out of their

anal cavity

$133,000 for Supervisor Chapman's  unbudgeted new Board Room

$120,000 of unbudgeted money for land in Westwood  3/8/16 Agenda H-2

$40,000 for unbudgeted Agenda, Minutes, Audio/Visual software for the County Clerk

$20,000 of unbudgeted money to remodel the County Clerks new "office".

BUT 

NO MONEY

 FOR THE

COUNTY "IN-HOUSE" SUPPORTIVE SERVICE EMPLOYEES

SUPERVISORS HAVE HISTORICALLY

DISSED THESE EMPLOYEES

Friends of Mountain Meadows

Working With

PGE to Restore

the Westwood Lake

Lassen County District 1 Supervisor Bob Pyle told the group this is a "private property" issue not a community issue

 PG &E owns the water rights to the Westwood Lake

Supervisor Pyle will not be running for re-election

Mountain Meadow/Walker Lake was drained, by PG&E on September 12, 2015 devastating the eco-system

...and Supervisor Pyle said it was a "private issue"

Friends of Mountain Meadows will be making a presentation at the March 8, 2016 Lassen County Board of Supervisors meeting. The next meeting of the group will be in  Westwood on May 18, 2016.

Lassen County CAO

Richard Egan's

Guaranteed Pay

ends today

Lassen-Modoc County  Flood Control

and

Water Conservation District

Meeting

District elects new Chairperson from Modoc County

District 4-Modoc County Supervisor

Modoc County has three women on their Board and soon to be FOUR

Left to right:  Vice-Chairperson (District 5) Geri Byrne, Chairperson (District 3) Kathie Rhoads, District 2 Supervisor Patricia Cullins

Approximately 30 attended the Flood District meeting at the Adin Community Hall, Modoc County

Lassen County Supervisors continue to abuse their positions on this Board

Lassen County CAO Richard Egan and County Counsel Bob Burns prepared the Agenda and  Kan We Help documented the intentional Brown Act Violations (2013-2016)

Left: Lassen County CAo Richard Egan     Right:  Modoc County CAO Chester Robertson

INTENTIONAL BROWN ACT VIOLATIONS

Brown Act Section 54952.6

1. September 17, 2013Note: Rhetta Vander Ploeg was County Counsel

The Lassen County Supervisors held a Public Hearing without any Modoc County Supervisors. They voted to approve the 2013/2014 Flood Districts budget without a quorum. A quorum is six (6)

2. October 8, 2013Note: Rhetta Vander Ploeg was County Counsel

The Lassen County Supervisors failed to Notice a Public Hearing for the Flood District Budget and  instead placed it on Department ReportsBrown Act Section 54954.6

3. July 15, 2014  Note: Bob Burns was County Counsel

The Lassen County Supervisors again hold a  Public Hearing without any Modoc County Supervisors and approved the 2014/2015 Flood Districts budget.  The budget was approved without a quorum

Lassen County Counsel Bob Burns advised the Flood District Board

 to Break the law

FIRST:

Lassen County CAo Richard Egan & County Counsel Bob Burns prepared the February 23, 2016 Lassen-Modoc County Flood District Agenda, placed the required Legal Notice in the Lassen County Times but told the Modoc CAO Chester Robertson that he did not need to take out a Legal Notice in the Modoc County Record (A weekly publication that is circulated on Thursdays)  Brown Act 54954.6.

SECOND:

Lassen County Counsel attempted to run the meeting with numerous interruptions.  Bob Burns told Chairperson Wills that he could "recess" the Lassen-Modoc County Flood Control Board and open the "Special Joint Meeting of the Lassen County and Modoc County Board of Supervisors" meeting scheduled for 2:00 PM

Audio of Joint County Meeting

BIG PROBLEM, YOU CAN'T DO THAT

BUT THEY DID

The Agenda for the Flood District had been approved with no additions or deletions and there was nothing on this Agenda that would allow another meeting to take place during the Flood Districts meeting. The Flood District would have to adjourn and reconvene, but Burns new the restrictions on that route. He then suggested something that he knew to be "illegal".

BOB BURNS SHOULD BE WORKING ON HIS RESIGNATION LETTER?

Immediately after the Flood Districts "recess" Lassen County Supervisor Jim Chapman opened the "Special Joint Meeting".

While the Brown Act allows meetings/discussions between public agencies, it does not allow a public entity to take action/votes outside its jurisdiction. This meeting was held in Modoc County so the Lassen County Supervisors could only "discuss" issues during this "Special Joint Meeting". Brown Act Section 54954 (b)

SLEAZY IS,     AS SLEAZY DOES

Lassen County Supervisors never intended to include the Modoc Supervisors ?

LASSEN COUNTY CAO RICHARD EGAN

PLANS TO HOLD YET ANOTHER

FLOOD CONTROL MEETING

WITHOUT THE

MODOC COUNTY SUPERVISORS

But where..... this meeting has been noticed for a Modoc County venue?

If the Modoc Supervisors cannot attend, the meeting must be cancelled

MODOC COUNTY SUPERVISORS

FAILED TO NOTICE

THE

FLOOD DISTRICT MEETING

ON

FEBRUARY 23, 2016 @ 1:30

Lassen County Supervisors

Properly Noticed the Flood District meeting

but

NOW cannot hold this meeting tomorrow, in Adin, which is in Modoc County

There is no  quorum !

Lassen-Modoc County Flood District

February 23 Agenda includes

[1:30 PM at Adin Community Center, 609 Main/Hwy 139]

adding the Districts responsibility

to include

managing the groundwater

within the Flood District

UNCERTAINTY LOOMS

OVER

LASSEN COUNTY'S RIVERSIDE PROPERTY

After six months of studying "space needs" and $37,335 later, the County is no closer to moving four County departments into the old BLM building at 2950 Riverside, Susanville.

The Supervisors told the public that this building could be purchased and remodeled for  $1.7 million. However the County paid more than the property was worth [$1.3 million] and the improvements that need to be made have far exceeded the original estimates.

The County has $1.3 million left of the Certificate of Participation loan 

MOST OF THE $1.3 MILLION WILL BE USED TO FIX THIS BUILDING........MAYBE ?

Lassen County CAO attempts to increase a budget line item that didn't exist

Kan We Help is watching the 2015/2016 Budget  very closely and told the Supervisors at the January 9, 2016 Board of Supervisors that Fund 100/Budget 0062/Account 3000131 did not exist

CAo Egan was quick to tell the Supervisors to ignore this comment because Fund 100/Budget 0062/Account 3000131 did exist.

WELL, IN FACT  THIS LINE ITEM DID NOT EXIST

It is disturbing that the CAO can move money from one account to the other without the Supervisors ever knowing. As CAO he has the legal right to do this, but there are rules on "HOW" he does it and "WHERE" he does it. 

The Westwood Library account is a good example.  $142,000 was moved into this account and spent (over a number of years) to re-roof the small library in Westwood, but the Westwood Library has never been re-roofed.

This is a $7,000 job.

The Parks Budgets have been mis-used also.

Supervisors Pay Records Altered

Kan We Help has been requesting the Supervisors pay records for several years and we were disappointed that

"someone" made a decision to alter the payroll records.

This is the document Kan We Help received, on August 31, 2015 last year. The pay record shows that Supervisor Chapman received a base salary of

$40,534.83. This equates to 80 hours a pay period (26 pay periods in a calendar year)

Without any pay increases during the fiscal year 2014/2015 Supervisor Chapman's total "gross" pay was $40,534.83

The Ordinance that regulated the Supervisors pay during the 2014/2015 fiscal year stated the Supervisors pay was $35,485

There is no provision for any other pay, including longevity "pay" ( a bonus that is included in the Budget each year)

Kan We Help requested the Supervisors Pay Records after the Supervisors gave themselves a raise. The request was delayed until February 10, 2016.

and now we know why

BELOW:

The data has been removed from their pay history

Why?

Because they lied

to the public

about their pay

Supervisor Albaugh's calendar year pay is above Supervisor Chapman's

Honey Lake Valley Recreation Authority

Has Dug A Huge Hole

For

Themselves [in more ways than one]

.......and that's about it

Did CAO Egan sleep through vote

Lassen County CAO Richard Egan

to award an engineering contract

for the courthouse modernization

Kan We Help asked for a copy of this $133,000 report that the Board approved on December 8, 2015

 and Richard Egan claimed that it didn't exist

Richard Egan issued the RFP, for this contract, without going through the Lassen Board of Supervisors to be approved.

The secrecy was necessary because the Board never budgeted for Court renovations in the 2015/2016 Budget.

THIS WAS A CHAPMAN BACK DOOR DEAL ?

Chapman is obsessed about getting the new Board room while he is Chairperson

and has announced now that it would be done before  he leaves office in January/2017

Lassen County Chamber of Commerce's

 Dream for Susanville Ended

The Chamber of Commerce is a privately owned business that represents the philosophy of  Republicans (not that this is a bad thing to represent a political party, but just a fact).

The Chamber often comes to the Board of Supervisors asking for money. Money for a fake Christmas tree for the town of Susanville.  Most recently, the Supervisors gave this business $5,000 to enter a contest.

This contest ended and more than $50,000 was donated and spent for this contest.