Comments on: Fremont Mayoral Candidate Bio Boxes — Harrison

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:00:38 +0000

“Councilmember Harrison suggested the do nothing approach and simply let the existing contracts continue on a month-to-month basis for up to a year. This is the most direct approach to disaster – public relations and legal – possible. Avoiding this type of problem is the worst of all worlds. Although Fremont tends to wait for action to come to it without planning for it, this is the height of irresponsibility. This is not one toke over the line, rather a pound or two supplemented with a bit of hash and meth.”

http://www.tricityvoice.com/articlefiledisplay.php?issue=2010-06-08&file=Editorial+One+toke+over+the+line.txt

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:36:08 +0000

As you begin to finalize your choices of candidates, now is a good time to balance those sweeping generalizations about what swell people these are and how their “vision” and “financial responsibilty” will someday be put to good use for you and your community. But, those with memories beyond yesterdays’ campaign mailers know that the historic record reveals a very different reality –

Fremont surplus may doom future tax efforts
Article Last Updated:04/12/2007 07:12:05 AM PDT

WE SUPPORTED Fremont’s Measure L utility users tax on the November ballot, believing it was necessary to pay for essential services in tough economic times.
The majority of voters disagreed with us, however. And given the events of the past few months, it’s easy to see why.

When the $8-million-a-year tax was being pitched in November, city officials were projecting a $1.6 million shortfall for the 2006-07 fiscal year.

But the following month, after Measure L failed, they announced the city actually would have an $8.2 million surplus.

In February, the City Council increased City Manager Fred Diaz’s salary by 10 percent to nearly $250,000, and raised City Attorney Harvey Levine’s salary by 5 percent to $232,565.

Then last month, the surplus was pegged even higher, at $8.7 million, and city officials decided to spend more than a quarter of it by ending the policy of fire station “brownouts” and by hiring 10 firefighters and eight police officers.

It’s great that our public safety services are being funded better, but it’s also deeply suspicious that the city suddenly became awash with cash so soon after the tax measure failed.

In the run-up to the November election, opponents of Measure L blamed the city’s problems on poor management, saying that money was being misspent and that increasingly high compensation packages were draining Fremont’s coffers.

Others went so far as to suggest that city officials had plenty of money stashed away somewhere, or that they were trying to make things look as bad as possible by failing to complete routine maintenance projects until after the election.

We don’t put much store in conspiracy theories without evidence to support them, but the recent revelations are troubling.

Even City Councilmember Steve Cho had concerns about the timing of the announcement.

“Why didn’t we know this earlier? And should we have known this earlier? Why did we go out and propose the utility tax if we did know this?” he asked.

All good questions.

By: charlie C

charlie C — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:08:35 +0000

#9…Worble, sure thing but you might be the only one in Fremont who owns a bong.

By: worble

worble — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:32:33 +0000

Wow!! Charlie Tuna #8 calling the kettle black? Take another bong hit.

By: charlie C

charlie C — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:00:20 +0000

#6…I have to agree with the B in the box. Calguy…your your knee-jerk reactions are predictable and stale.

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:05:04 +0000

Ohh, gosh – West – you need to get out of your comfort zone, broaden your horizons a bit. . . .

Punjabi is a term of distinction and describes someone of great courage. We toss it around the team frequently when someone has accomplished good things . . . .

By: west

west — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:22:31 +0000

Punjab crowd, Could that be considered a racist remark??????

By: charlie C

charlie C — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:24:27 +0000

Boxie…Baseball, apple pie and…if we had gone ahead and built the A’s stadium the Punjab crowd that you refer to would have had to deal with embracing something that would have been very very foreign to them… and that might of forced them to (pretend) to assimilate to gain the political power they are trying to achieve. … agreed?

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:55:52 +0000

Wow !!!

At $540 bucks a plate, you coulda’ bought several season tickets or something . . . .

Billie is getting real chummy with the Punjab crowd!
Watch out ANU !!!!!!!!

Please Join:
Dr. Dharam & Vijay Salwan
Jack & Paul Ram
Dr. Goney Sandhu
Frm. Majority Leader Alberto Torrico

For a Special Dinner in support of:
Councilmember Bill Harrison
Candidate for Mayor

September 7, 2012
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
At the Home of Dr. Dharam & Vijay Salwan
2118 Harrisburg Ave., Fremont, CA 94536

Sponsor: $540, Host: $250, Leader: $100, Friend: $50

RSVP to: Dharam.Salwan@gmail.com OR 510.209.6283

By: charlie C

charlie C — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:35:58 +0000

#3 Not half as bad as the billions of dollars Vinnie Bacon et al drove out of Fremont when they opposed and killed the A’s stadium deal.