[...] We are still waiting for a Sunshine Ordinance to be passed here in Encinitas. Our City Attorney is equally lax at following open government law specified in the CPRA and the Brown Act. Encinitas was successfully sued for CPRA violations by Kevin Cummins, in 2010-2011, when City Attorney Glenn Sabine (also City Attorney for La Mesa) wrongly withheld a road report, improperly claiming it was exempt as a “draft document.” Sabine’s office attempted to appeal the court’s ruling, with council’s approval, but the appeal was so frivolous that the Court of Appeal denied review!
Mayor Teresa Barth, and councilmembers Tony Kranz and Lisa Shaffer promised in their 2010 and 2012 campaigns that, were a new majority to be elected, they would enact a local sunshine ordinance ASAP. That has yet to happen.
Instead, our council has actually regressed on open meeting law, disallowing nonagenda item public comments at all so-called Special Meeting Strategic Planning sessions. The Brown Act defines regularly calendared meetings as those that receive at least 72 hours notice. Encinitas Strategic Planning Meetings are now being held, routinely, on the first Wednesday of the month, with more than 72 hours notice.
But because city practice has been to hold council meetings on the second, third and fourth Wednesdays of the month, Mayor Barth and City Manager Gus Vina, are using this contrivance of “special meetings” to discourage public participation and to disallow the normal practice of three minutes per speaker on all agenda items.
These are all unilateral policy changes and decisions being made by outgoing Mayor Barth, City Manager Gus Vina, who was given a vote of no confidence by Sacramento City Council, before being recruited, with the help of Barth, to Encinitas, as of July of 2011, and long overdue for replacement contracted city attorney, Glenn Sabine, our City Attorney since 2000. Sabine is far too set in his secretive ways, which include encouraging, despite public objections, inappropriate serial prebriefing of council members re upcoming agenda items.
Lynn Autumn
Leucadia
Thursday, May 8, 2014
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How embarrassing. Lynn signs Leucadia when she actually lives in Encinitas. KLCC sucks!
ReplyDeleteWe look forward to you picketing the Leucadia Farmers Market and Leucadia Glass, both of which are not in Leucadia by your definition.
DeleteOK…. it should be called Encinitas F market and Encinitas Glass.
Deletethe point is Lynn is the furthest thing from a true Leucadian. She is shallow, illogical, zero common sense, and does not walk the talk. No integrity. Besides that- she's not all that bad sometimes.
Her comments above seem somewhat accurate for once.
It's all Leucadia.
DeleteThe title to my home says I live in Leucadia. My property tax bills say I live in Leucadia. Leucadia 101 Mainstreet headquarters is south of me, and south of Leucadia Glass, on 101. The sidewalk in front of Yoga Bliss, south of me, is stamped Leucadia 101.
DeleteThe point is 8:24 and 8:49 is the furthest thing from a true Leucadian. CM, aka Crappy Marvin, is shallow, illogical, zero common sense, and does not walk the talk. No integrity.
If you want to talk about me, and not the subject of my commentary, and WC's post, please go somewhere else.
Speaking of Leucadia, found a cool article from 1990 below....
Deletehttp://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-10/news/nc-1893_1_leucadia-boulevard
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ReplyDeleteR word deleted
DeleteLOL. Thanks. That's still stewing elsewhere.
DeleteR word?? Republican??
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DeleteWhen did Barth get possessed by $tock$? She is a complete cop-out and has failed the community.
ReplyDelete8:49 Lynn does have integrity, so you obviously don't know her or have failed to see the tremendous good she has done for Encinitas or Leucadia if you prefer.
ReplyDeleteYour right . I see nothing good that Lynn has done for Leucsdia or Encinitas .
DeletePlease list her accomplishments beyond time wasting gadfly.
9:32 you are jealous - your insecurity is ugly.
DeleteThanks Lynn for watching the liars at city hall- Barth, Gaspar, Shaffer, Kranz, Muir- all lied on the ballot statement sent to voters on Prop A-
What is even worse is the Gaspar, Barth, Kranz, Shaffer, Muir ALL KNEW THEY WERE LYING-
they a disgrace to our community and to our schools- that is who Teresa Bart - the self proclaimed trust and transparency queen is- a liar. Geez, maybe she can get her dad to write another column and spin that
Yup…. as I knew. Her list of accomplishments zero, nadda, nothing.
Deletejust like her integrity.
Autumn, Braun, Marr it's still the same Lynn.
ReplyDeleteSome of you take a disliking to Lynn because she has focused on what the problems are at city hall. She is not afraid to name names. She is not afraid to bring up issues that are in fact in violation of the Brown Act. She is concerned with our lack of ability to participate in the public arena because of rule changes by Grandma Barth and her co-conspirator Gusalina Vina and Smirky Smile Sabine. I wish I had the guts to stand up there in front of this council and staff and tell them exactly what I think of them. Their ears would burn.
ReplyDeleteGrandma Barth?? You do reach a bit to try to come up with catchy names to slur people with.
DeleteThe trouble is while Lynn does represent some Leucadia residents and a few non Leucadian Encinitas residents, she doesn't represent all of us or even, I would hazard to say, the majority of us. I doubt a good majority of Leucadians even see this blog.
And while Lynn is sometimes right, if only partially, she is often wrong but once she takes a position she doesn't appear to ever reexamine it. We have all been in similar situations at times but Lynn has developed a career at it. After awhile it just wears on you and you want her to stop.
I'm sure she has good intentions but unfortunately many people just tune her out these days. There is such a thing as too much.
You know that you're hitting home when you attract critics.
Delete5:56 PM
DeleteNot really. More like a whiff. I'm sure your statement must give you some solace but often criticism is given because the statement/position is wrong. Nice try though.
Maybe. But she is as dumb as dirt and unable to learn.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't learn how to yield, quit driving. And stop all the nonsense about thinking you know about effective roadways.
10:03 your comments reflect that you are not receptive or willing to hear a different opinion.
ReplyDeleteMy primary strength is to listen to all comments and opinions. Once received, one evaluates and then concludes an opinion. My opinion after listening to endless posts/rants from Lynn is she has zero credibility.
ReplyDeleteYou are entitled to your opinion which may or may not be correct.
DeleteLynn signs her name to everything she posts. Anon 10:34 doesn't identify him/herself. As a passive observer of this situation, Lynn has credibility because she does the research and signs her name to her work. To attack personally takes no ability or courage at all.
DeleteNor does a personal attack take "credibility" Mr. Andreen at 10:34.
Delete7:56-
DeleteThat is a full on lie. Lynn definitely posts Anon quit often. She goes both ways.
You are 100% correct. Listen to Lynn yourself and you decide. Plus drive down Leucadia blvd. or Sante fe and see where you stop. Then you tell me if Lynn has her head on straight.
ReplyDeleteAre you incapable of staying on subject? You are obsessed with the r word and with Lynn.
DeletePathetic.
OK old council member who was kick off council for being WACKED!
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Delete11:46 pm No one has ever been kicked off the council. Get your facts straight.
Delete10:57am- One was kicked out of the mayors position which was a good thing. From what I hear she went bananas and total freaked all the time. Full on Wacko like Looney Tunes.
DeleteOne was removed a month early with three council members playing politically musical chairs. Another council member was running for Assembly and his campaign literature would look ever so much better if his title were "Mayor of Encinitas" instead of councilmember or former mayor. A "special meeting" began and Voila; the Mayor of Encinitas was running for Assemblyman.
DeleteSheila was a strong willed mayor and that rubbed some the wrong way. She accomplished much, but it was a pretty tough road with 3 council members and one reporter not liking her.
One evening she wasn't feeling well and I escorted her to her office for some medicine during a break at a regular council meeting. One woman jumped in front of her in the hallway and began bitching about something. Sheila raised her palm in the air and said "Not now, please." and we continued to her office. A few days later, the lady wrote a letter to the editor calling Sheila rude and claiming she had "flipperd her off"! Hey, I was right there for the whole momentary episode. That didn't happen. But crap from people like that, or the clown folk of yesteryear will do all they can to make someone look wacked. But oh God, forget it when a reporter goes after you.
Here is the last part of my letter to the editor, which wasn't included, as my commentary was edited for brevity:
ReplyDelete[ . . . Sabine is far too set in his secretive ways, which include encouraging, despite public objections, inappropriate serial prebriefing of council members re upcoming agenda items.]
These briefings constitute improper serial meetings, but Sabine incorrectly claims, as long as there's no concurrence, it's all good. Unfortunately for the public, many decisions are made before Council's public discussion, though a series of wink-wink, nudge-nudge briefing meetings with individual council members, when there is tacit agreement.
Barth has become far too close to Vina to remain objective. Sabine never has been objective. He now feeds Council what Vina wants to dish out.
Bully Marvy, you are an embarrassment and embarrass yourself with every posting. Your envy of Lynn's well earned respect in this town is so small minded. Will you ever grow a pair and be a real man? Real men treat women and their fellow man with how they would want to be treated, you know the golden rule and all that. No changing your style since it is so inbred into your character but you do yourself no good to continue with your attacks on our revered community defender. It is just so perplexing that you seem to like this reputation you reinforce daily here by your attacks on a truly dedicated citizen. We all make our own history and you sir certainly are making your own. May the light of self awareness visit you someday and show you a better way to live with and accept your fellow man and woman. Here is a last few words to consider for all the good it will do: Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear. [Mark Twain] Please take it to heart. Please.
ReplyDeleterevered community defender??!…. you hear that, thats no a train blast or a jet engine blowing up in your front yard…. that noise is the sound of our City Council laughing their ass off!!!!
DeleteGood one. You made my day.
Whoops, I meant at the last to say Here are a few last words, not here is. How do I edit and correct besides posting?
ReplyDeleteYou can't......it's forever in cyberspace to be brought against you by the intergalactic courts of proper opinion.
DeleteIn the future there will be the straights and the obtuse. Are you straight in thought, ideas and money??
Thank you, 4:38 and 4:42. Your kind comments are truly appreciated, because they are true. ~♥~ ✌~☺~
Deletescary…. you post an anon compliment to yourself and that thank yourself. I see you've joined the Loony Tunes Club at the KLCC with the infamous booted ex Mayor.
Delete-- Bully Marvy
Lynns opinion is important and yet not sharing the blame with Gaspar or Muir diminishs her credibility,makes one wonder?.
ReplyDeleteWhat I have said is Encinitas is equally lax in that a Sunshine ordinance was promised, as promoted by Barth, Kranz and Shaffer. Promises were made, and positions were taken re the right to vote on upzoning petition and initiative by those three, that were broken.
DeleteI have said, and I repeat, all of Council had terrible judgment to give Gus Vina an excellent evaluation. The subcommittee of Shaffer and Gaspar had said there could be a public process. Jace Schwarm then gave an unverified hearsay opinion from Liebert, Cassidy and Whitmore, the same law firm that gave the opinion that then Council Member Teresa Barth's harassment claims were not applicable because she wasn't an employee, and because her complaints were more about lack of civility by other council members, rather than reaching the level of harassment.
Although I put in public information requests, and I provided contrary case law, through Terry Francke of Calaware, the public was never able to engage in an online survey to encourage our input re evaluations of the City Manager and the City Attorney.
I don't feel it's productive to point the finger of blame. But we can point out injustices, and errors, broken promises, so that all of Council, and staff can finally learn from their repeated and repeating mistakes.
Lynn, you were lied to . Barth lied to you and all her supporters. What part of that don't you understand. Vote out the bastards and if you can't vote them out bang pots until they willingly leave....
DeleteDon't bang pots - you might make Muir hungry! You won't like him when he's hungry!
DeleteGuys, Lynn, WC, all, let's quit debating on whether we Love Lynn or not. Lynn is Lynn, her opinion is hers, and you can read it or not. Can we have a ban on all discussion Lynn?
ReplyDeleteThis is not anti-Lynn, merely that we're discussing individuals now, not the topic at hand. Let's get back to talking city issues, other than the R word, not Lynn, not Charlie Marvin, not Obama, not race etc..
-Mr Green Jeans
I appreciate Deputy Mayor Mark Muir's agenda item set for this coming Wednesday, May 14, the night of the full moon.
ReplyDeleteIt would be prudent for Council to establish a city employee hiring freeze, in light of the excessive $10 Million purchase price for Pacific View. Because Pacific View is such an expensive purchase, and because the City is adding to debt, which is increasing, yearly, with unfunded pension liabilities, because the backlog of deferred road maintenance is increasing, the City should enact a hiring freeze as Muir has proposed.
I would ask, additionally, that City employees making over $100,000 per year, would take a 20% decrease in their compensation, down to $100,000, so that if an employee were making less than $125,000, he or she wouldn't see a full 20% pay cut. Council should also consider increasing City employees' compensation to their own pension benefits, which pensions are far in excess of what the vast majority of private sector employees receive upon retirement.
At the Community focused Strategic Planning Special City Council Meeting this past Wednesday, May 7, there was much discussion of "sustainable growth." Our city cannot sustain growing debt without cutting back on operating expenses.
We do support the purchase of Pacific View. and believe most citizens concur. But we don't want to bankrupt our city, or to force unwanted densification on the citizens who reside here, so that the City can rake in more development fees, property taxes and sales taxes. Expansion at any cost is not sustainable, with respect to taxpayer dollars, or our infrastructure, including traffic, road repair, and water resources.
We sincerely hope that with the pressure of the upcoming election, and with strong negotiations by Council, the Board of Trustees can agree to the proposed terms of purchase. It's rare for someone or some entity to agree to zero percent interest, but this is comparable to a loan made between family members. We are all neighbors in this community, like family. What is being proposed is public land, which was donated to Encinitas School District, 60 years before EUSD was formed, being transferred between one public agency and another, to benefit locals without incurring unnecessary additional debt service fees, which debt service would go to a bank, a for-profit institution, NOT to the general public.
EUSD should not try to gouge the taxpayers, now, but should be reasonable, agreeing to carry the $10 Million loan for an ongoing revenue stream, cooperatively and compassionately offering reasonable terms of purchase. Council and City Manager Gus Vina should ask, and insist, that Superintendent Tim Baird and EUSD do the right thing: carry the loan for 30 years at zero percent interest, to benefit the children, and the taxpayers, by helping to mitigate the excessively high $10 Million purchase price agreed upon for Pacific View.
Same old crap from the KLCC club. Its never ends.
DeleteLynn. You and others put pressure on the council to acquire PV. Does that make you PV "bullies"? Anyway, although it wasn't your idea to spend $10 million, you pushed them to find a way to buy it. So you have culpability in this. To try to come out of this smelling like a rose just won't fly. Whatever tradeoffs the council has to make to afford PV is partly your responsibility and the rest of the citizens of Encinitas can thank you for it.
DeleteI agree and great word "culpability". Lynn has zero common sense.
DeleteI don't fault Lynn or anyone else for wanting to keep Pacific View in the public domain for a community art, learning and cultural center.
DeleteWhen you are talking about culpability, you are speaking of assigning blame. Most members of our community feel the City could have negotiated a much better deal. Lynn and Andrew Audet and many others were pressuring Council, to get the best deal possible.
Teresa Barth and Tony Kranz have responsibility for failing to insist upon a better deal. Lisa Shaffer is also culpable, because she voted to purchase at $10 Million, when Council had many other choices, including threatening to invoke the Naylor Act and Eminent Domain, and following through on the threats.
Barth and Kranz, on their subcommittee, meeting secretly with EUSD's subcommittee, weren't willing to bicker and barter. They weren't spending money out of their own pockets.
5:40 PM
DeleteOf course the council shares the lion share of responsibility but those that beat the drums to find a way to acquire PV also share responsibility. While they did make recommendations on how to acquire it, whether they were realistic or not, I saw few comments about not going overboard. Actually, the comments I saw were saying spending $4.3M for PV was too much. Mostly they were saying we really, really want it so find a way. Maybe now you can make suggestions to the council of what to do without so the city can afford the $10M purchase.
Lynn,
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you ask your pal Muir to take a cut on his enormous pension while we're playing election year politics?
Your idea of getting employees to take a pay cut is a pipe dream. You know who most of the employees making that money is with OT? Hint, firefighters, lifeguards and public safety.
I don't think Muir and his pals are going to go for that move. And note, private companies don't offer pensions, it's called a 401k.
And we've already had the unwanted densification, to anyone who is late to the party see the development on Hermes, behind La Especial Norte and up off Leucadia Blvd. (Coming Soon).
Here's what it's going to take: Council people with the guts to battle against the density bonus, city hall cronyism and the just plain malaise city hall seems to be under. Everything else is just talk....
But didn't Muir recently pledge half his pension toward paying for Pacific View to honor his wife and her courageous stance against Baird and her colleagues on the EUSD board? That sounds very generous and community oriented.
DeleteMuir will forfeit half his pension when the sky is darkened with passenger pigeons.
DeleteMr. Green, your call is welcome and would be welcomed by all here. Convincing crappy to lay off the bullying and threatening posters with litigation well thats another story. We can all hope can't we? And let that hope spring eternal until those days become a reality.
ReplyDeleteI'm with the Green Opinionater here!
ReplyDeleteAll - Quit crapping on Lynn.
Lynn, quit responding to this crap.
Lynn supporters - quit with the inane comments of support
This betters no one, and overall cheapens an otherwise healthy blog
As the Queen of Hearts like to quip - "Off with their Heads"
- The Sculpin
Agree with the always sensible Green One & Sculpin!
DeleteInane??? Matter of opinion, I suppose....
DeleteSorry to disagree Sculpin but these are important matters and I often disagree with Lynn and her supporters. Just look how we now have to find $10M for PV. But I do agree that we should keep it civil, not just for Lynn but for the council and staff as well other commenters here. It works both ways. You don't need to call her "Gradma Barth" or whatever to register your disagreement. Stick to the particulars. Leave the personal out of it.
Delete"Grandma Barth" fits her to a tee. You don't have to look any further then her wardrobe to figure that out.
Delete7:03 PM
DeleteI guess that makes your comments all the more clever.
Lynn--
ReplyDeleteQuit with the senseless nontruths.
Well, that didn't take long.
DeleteThis reminds me of Leucadia Streetscape supporters:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/opinion/center-ring-at-the-republican-circus.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=MostEmailed&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article
More of lynns droll opinion get over it BORING !
ReplyDelete8:42 You don't know the definition of "droll."
ReplyDeleteYes I do ,IT'S LYNN STILL BORING
ReplyDeleteNo, you don't know the meaning of "droll." It's a particular kind of humor. Woody Allen's humor is often droll.
Deletedroll: amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
Woody Allen is a sick child molester. Anybody like that pervert is an idiot
Delete1:57, Woody Allen was given as an example of droll humor, not as a model of being a good husband to Mia Farrow, or a good parent to her adopted child.
DeleteYou are just oozing with bitterness. Do you really want to destroy this blog?
I thought the topic, here, according to WC's post, is open government, and how our Council has let us down on campaign promises?
1:57 It's extremely unfortunate that you are one of the far too many ignorant morons who display their deep stupidity on this blog.
DeleteRead this, jerk:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/woody-allen-speaks-out.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3As&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry990%23%2Fwoody%2520allen&_r=0
5:58,
DeleteWell if an accused child molester, who just happens to have married his teenage stepdaughter, claims he's innocent, he obviously is!
Especially if he's a celebrity!
Not that this is at all relevant to Encinitas, but it does reveal people's ideological blind spots...
The charges were found to be baseless, after a thorough investigation, before the case went to trial. Thanks for the link, 5:58.
DeleteYeag,,, right.. marrying your step daughter after raising her is normal right.
DeleteJust like sleeping with a bunch of 12 year old boys in your bed.
One perv is dead thank god. The other soon to follow. Now I know why his Knick name is Woody. Gross example of a human being!!!!
Yup. Just read it. of course the guilty claims they are innocent.
DeleteThe perv should hang. Not only for his gross phycologic atrocities, but for his stupid lame movies. My God that guy is pathetic.
We have identified a few more Darrell Issa voters! No wonder he keeps winning elections!
DeleteLet's hope that 1:57, 6:23, 10:34 and 10:43 are never called for jury duty and asked to make a fair judgment based on evidence.
DeleteKLCC sure is full of sick and wrong morons.
ReplyDeleteListen, let's discuss something important ... When does the In-N-Out open?? And will Gasbag cut the ribbon??
ReplyDeleteSame question. When is Gaspar available to be the CFO of a business and a mom for her kids?
DeleteHow many hours does she put into the City Council. position?
I'm told they are shooting for Memorial Day weekend or before June will be the Grand opening. Mmmmmm Burrrgerrrrr!
DeleteHey, you're going to die from something anyway so you might as well live a litttle. Everything in moderation.
She's a CFO of a corporation the same way I'm an astronaut...
DeleteGASbag looks too weak to handle the ribbon cutting job. Maybe they should feed her a few burgers before the ceremony.
ReplyDeleteBurgers with beef are cancer and heart disease.
ReplyDeleteWhat Fork over knives. http://www.forksoverknives.com
My point exactly.
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