Comments on: Fremont City Council and a sprinkler system that wasn’t installed

By: FremontGuy

FremontGuy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:40:31 +0000

My daughter attends Maroof’s school. She is an amazing leader, teacher and has the best schools in the area (we spent months researching before enrolling). This makes us mad that the City of Fremont doesn’t take responsibility or accountability. What a shame, Bill Harrison should step up, I’m not sure I want to vote for him if he is just interested in status quo! I hope things turn around for Maroof.

By: Anon101

Anon101 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:34:16 +0000

And SmallBusinessOwner, you make an excellent point!

For those who said that it was no big deal that FRED DIAZ secretly spent $100,000.00 of the publics money to an outside consultant – let alone the amount on staff time/dollars that went into the A’s PROPOSAL and wasn’t much, tell that to Maroof!

By: Anon101

Anon101 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:30:00 +0000

BTW: Applicants (those applying for permits) pay for ALL the staff time at EVERY CTCC meeting!

Sounds like Maroof didn’t get her monies worth!

By: Anon101

Anon101 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:26:42 +0000

For the record, in your main article Matt you quote Jill (who is actually Director of Community Development – not the Planning Director as stated -who reports to her) as saying that since the Department Heads will now be meeting once a week that the problem should be dealt with. NOT SO!

Every week there is what is called a the City’s CTCC meetings – which stands for City Technical Coordinating Committee. Line staff meets in the morning EVERY Thursday, and then the CTCC Executive Committee meets EVERY Thursday afternoon (unless there isn’t anything on there agenda).

Having said this, given the high staff turnover and the management of Current Planning (i.e., permits) it’s not hard to understand how this happens. NO BODY IS WATCHING THE RANCH; and staff moral is in the tank – because of a lack of trust and respect in the DCC, PD and those trying to manage entitlements.

By: SmallBusinessOwner

SmallBusinessOwner — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:14:00 +0000

This is nothing new. Small businesses have been suffering from costly city’s mistakes and incompetencies for years. Highly paid staff continues to dispense inconsistency rules, incorrect information, conflicting codes, talking from 3 sides of the mouth, the list goes on. Suggestions for improvements or complaints are met with routine run around or the usual silence. There is a total lack of accountability.

While the city mistreated its citizens and wouldn’t spend a dime to rectify its mistake, it is willing to shell out hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollar to put a welcome mat for out-of-town billionaires and their stadium project. Go figure.

By: Californiaguy

Californiaguy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:25:14 +0000

Yes, who is accountable?

By: Coyote Bill

Coyote Bill — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:23:54 +0000

Another reason to justify a CHARTER CITY, with District elections, if Bill wanted to get reelected He would have done more for Her.
Talk about the bureaucracy gone amuck. Question : after all the buck passing, who is accountable?