As you are aware, the City has been working on its State Regional Housing Needs Assessment allocation for years and yet many citizens seem unaware of the proceedings or the possible ramifications. The City has sent out flyers, held workshops and hired consultants but the Encinitas City Council feels that more should be done to get the public informed and involved.
On January 21, 2015 Council voted to allow a community based group to submit a housing map of its own making for consideration by Council in its deliberation on the Housing Element Update to stimulate public interest.
The Encinitas Taxpayers Association (ETA) has been following this subject closely and believes that there are viable options to City staff proposals that must be pursed. It will be submitting a notice of intent to pursue an independent analysis, study, proposal and map to the City Council at its February 3, 2015 meeting and will be asking to be appointed the official Community Based Housing Map (CBHM) Group.
ETA was formed in 1986 to watch over city government and has been doing so continuously since then.
The staff is recommending that CBHM present its report no later than March 18, 2015. This gives the Group only 45 days to get organized, solicit public input, gather the necessary data and prepare its report – a difficult task at best.
ETA has no choice but to post this plea prior to any Council appointment as every minute counts if more members of the public are truly to become involved. If the City does not accept ETA’s offer to become the official CBHM Group, all contact information from interested persons will immediately be forwarded to the group so named by the Council.
Anyone interested in knowing more about the City low income housing plans or wanting to participate in developing alternative solutions can reach me at my email address (Rbonde007@gmail.com or by phone at 760-753-7477. Membership in ETA is not required to participate in this endeavor.
Your assistance in getting this information out to your readers would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Bob Bonde, President
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Taxpayers Association accepts Muir housing challenge
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Cardiff's Don Quixote wakes up beneath a windmill with another headache and 'Boy' is he pissed!
ReplyDeleteTwo weeks removed from being completely politically undressed in his never-ending attempt at destroying the Encinitas Fire Department, the One-Man-Cardiff-Wrecking-Crew, the one-person Encinitas Tax Payer Associate, who demands to be addressed as 'Doktor' now has picked up the gauntlet and is trying to over-turn the housing element? No one is surprised.
Can Sheila, Pam, Bruce, Julie and the rest of the nut farm be far behind?
Frustrated because he killed his own taxpayer's organization when he took it back from Keven Cummins two years ago and manufactured the faux 'endorsement' of Tony Kranz and Lisa Shaffer for City Council before the ETA had even interviewed them: now, neither council person will give this old crank, er 'Doktor' the time of day. No wonder.
Bonde is only interested in political payback, period.
Watch the 'Doktor' grandstand tonight in city hall. That's what this letter is really about, Bob, not the city.
Bob's a good guy, even if he comes up with some ideas that will never fly (his recent fire department restructuring proposal).
DeleteHaving one more mode of citizen input is a good thing, and the city will surely exploit this with another bullet point on the list of things they did to solicit community feedback in the runup to the 2016 election.
45 days is not much time. It will be interesting to see if anything of substance can be produced in that time. It will also be interesting to see if the city is willing to fund or support this effort with money, meeting space, manpower, etc.
Bob, if you are listening, have a specific list of support requests for tomorrow's meeting.
It will also be interesting to see if this effort makes a good faith effort to adhere to state requirements, or if this becomes an irrelevant effort to change the RHNA allocation, or play shell games with how units are counted.
Bob works hard for what he believes. There is no doubt. We should all try to be welcoming and tolerant of others' ideas especially those that don’t correspond with our own. I’ve not understood much of bob's stuff, but that doesn't mean we can't gain from challenging our own ideas. If any of our ideas are "nutz" then it won't be hard for better alternatives to rise above.
Delete4tR: It had been years since I was involved in the organization when Bonde was given control of the ETA, because there wasn’t a new generation to carry the org forward.
In the absence of activity, we already had a meeting planned for this coming Sunday, for folks to discuss an alternative HEU plan. We will see if EU will post some info about that.
Gotta rush off to get my real work done.
KMC
7:03- Mikey, I suppose we will be subjected to your perjorative laden comments right up to the election. For all the ass kissing you do for the developer interests you'd think that you could afford to live in this town. Perhaps you can purchase one of the recently built "affordable" units, oh I'm sorry, they aren't available to the public.
DeleteWhat a cynical commentary! At least this guy has the civic responsibility to get involved and participate. Whatever one does, they will get hammered by someone with another agenda. One only hopes that there are more citizens that are willing to let their opinions be known.
ReplyDeleteBob's had over 5 years to get involved: he's the cynic. If in hindsight Kevin wants to forgive Bob, fine: but at the time of Bob's 'take-over of the ETA board and the trumped-up endorsements Kevin was quick and clear about his complaints directed at Bob's political dirty tricks and crocodile tears when Bob was called out for duplicity.
DeleteBob has no intention of finding a 'legal' solution to Encinitas finding a way to fulfill the Housing-Element mandate. There's a reason he and Audet and Sadomka were fined an enormous amount of money by the FPPC for the way they 'operate': this letter above is announcing that Bob will continue to twist-and-turn reality to suit his own personal political desires, the residents of Encinitas be damned.
The FPPC dropped its complaint against Bonde, Audet and GS. There was no fine levied against them, as they had corrected their bookkeeping errors. The litigation was by an out of area Republican operative, who used the system to get an overly high, coerced settlement from elderly defendants for plaintiff's attorney's fees, using what is called the private attorney general act, because the FPPC WOULDN'T PROSECUTE.
DeleteWhat that litigation was really about was a blatant attempt to squelch dissent and political diversity of perspective. The DA and the FPPC made sure that didn't happen again with a second FPPC complaint filed against different local activists by the same vexatious litigator. Because there was a token fine for errors made, the vexatious litigator could not again sue, civilly, under the private attorney general act.
This same vexatious litigator had committed similar errors, himself, and was years earlier fined by the FPPC much more than JK was more recently.
Votes are what matter, not opinions. I think that's why lots of folks don't speak up.
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I agree with Kevin on this one. Bob has given a lot to the City, and he has taken heat for it. I wonder how many people who post on this blog would do the same. Question for the committee-Will you be able to have access to the City Attorney for any legal questions. I was reading the Voice of San Diego, where the Mayor also gave the citizens a problem to solve in San Diego. However, since there is no city official on that committee, the city attorney of San Diego will not be available for asking legal questions.
ReplyDeleteWill any meetings come under the Brown Act?
ReplyDeleteAre meetings by non-elected citizen groups put in motion when elected representative are inept and fail to meet their responsibilities covered by the Brown Act?
ReplyDeleteOur town IS leaderless. That's why we have flamboyant personalities like Andreen stinkin' up the blogs and council chambers. He's still stinging from his failed attempt to get on the council.
ReplyDeleteNot only is our town leaderless, but the so called leaders are clueless.
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