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Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
I never heard Goldsmith say that CCDC does not have to comply with the City Charter. CCDC and SEDC are subsets of the Redevelopment Agecy which does have to follow the City Charter. In any case the City Council is the ultimate Redevelopment Agency decision makers and they definitively have to follow the City Charters especially City Charter Section 225 - Mandatory Disclosure of Business Interests. <http://docs.sandiego.gov/citycharter/Article%20XI…> A great new source of Revenue would be to follow City Charter Section 225 (see Page 5) regarding Mandatory Disclosure of Business Interests, to destroy, then renegotiate the illegal Master Leases on publically owned properties, if the Lessees are hiding behind Delaware LLC status. San Diego has several Master Leases on publically owned land with differing Delaware LLCs, whose ownership is unknown including McMillin NTC LLC for Liberty Station, Manchester Pacific Gateway for the Navy Broadway Complex (NBC), Ballpark Village LLC (associated with Nancy Graham/Lennar Corporation), and Padres LP, a Delaware limited partnership for the City owned the Padre’s Park at the Park. According to the City Charter all these leases are invalid and can be renegotiated on the open market. Instead of the unfair leases made when the City Council was giving away our public assets, the City of San Diego can get the fair market value of our public Leases as new streams of Revenue to protect Public Safety workers totaling at least $100 million extra per year.— October 10, 2010 7:54 a.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd5/pdf/news/… Linked above is a September 17, 2010 Memorandum from Councilman Carl DeMaio and Councilwomen Donna Frye requesting an independent Audit of the 1992 Tax Sharing Agreement between CCDC Redevelopment Agency and the County of San Diego through the City Council's Audit Committee in which Carl DeMaio, Kevin Faulconer, and 3 other public members conduct public meetings with the Independent City Auditor. This 8 year old CCDC Redevelopment Agency mess will hopefully appear in the Audit Committee next month in late November 2010. The Council Members' Memorandum discusses possible ways to incorporate Homeless services into CCDC's budget and Financing priorities. Solving the homeless problem would drive up prices of condominiums in downtown San Diego, which increases Redevelopment Revenue. www.tinyurl.com/20100924 We have a Public Records Request into CCDC, the 10 days turn around time expired last month. Their legal department is looking our request over. Hopefully the City Attorney's Office will amend Legal Memorandum MS-59, which incorrectly states that Tax Increments funds cannot be used for social service facilities and programs including solving our Homeless problem city-wide. When this great news is confirmed by CCDC Redevelopment Agency and the City Council Audit committee, many problems facing the poor can actually be solved using Redevelopment Funds as was the original intent of California Redevelopment Law. The City Attorney should amend MS-59 ASAP so that our blight and our Third-World slum conditions in downtown San Diego can be cleaned up and Redeveloped.— October 9, 2010 7:21 p.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
Redevelopment is not a bad deal in itself, just bad in San Diego where the public get suckered by the downtown establishment to steal from the poor to give to the rich. http://www.californiacityfinance.com/ERAFbyCity10… Page 20 shows the Education Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) Tax Sharing Payments that CCDC and the Redevelopment Agency pay to the State of California . In addition 20 percent has to be set aside for Affordable Housing. Per the existing 1992 Agreement, currently CCDC has to give 13.1 percent of their Tax Increment for Pass Through Payments to the County of San Diego, Community College District, Unified School District, and County Office of Education. Starting July 1, 2011 the Pass Through Payments increase to 30.58 percent (see Page 8) of the Tax Increment in downtown. Instead of keeping all the Tax Increment money for themselves CCDC will have to give over 50 percent away off the top. www.tinyurl.com/20100924 Currently CCDC in theory has to give the County of San Diego $8.4 Million per year from the 80 percent Non-Housing set aside funds for many social services including Counseling, Educational, Training, Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation, Children's Services, and Health and Welfare Facilities and Programs. We have not been able to confirm if these public funds were ever deposited in an account in the County specifically for the poor and homeless from 1992 to the present. Starting on July 1, 2011 Pass Through Payments from CCDC to the County of San Diego the poor will, in theory, increase to $17.6 Million a year. This income can also be used as a source of funding to Resolve our Homeless problem city-wide. Before any talk of the Chargers or a new multi-purpose stadium, the City is obligated to solve this Health and Safety issue. Instead of crying poor, CCDC can give back the $228 Million in misappropriated Federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and Loans they stole from the Homeless, got caught and promised to pay back to the Office of Inspector General, then tried to resteal for the benefit of privately owned luxury condominiums and the beautiful new Hilton Hotel on the Waterfront and its promised Transit Occupancy Tax (TOT) that would go to the General Fund. http://www.sandiego.gov/iba/pdf/10_17.pdf— October 9, 2010 5:44 p.m.
San Diego to House Homeless at World Trade Center
http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd5/pdf/news/… Council Persons Donna Frye and Carl DeMaio have asked for an Audit into the 1992 Agreement between CCDC and the County of San Diego which will identify funds to solve our city-wide Homeless problem. San Diego has hundreds of millions of dollars sitting in the bank, and not working for the public. CCDC and the Redevelopment Agency is rich enough to fund everything including the 224-bed World Trade Center, and Father's Joe's planned 500 bed apartments in the East Village. http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-7663-w… The ticket ban cannot be lifted until San Diego builds at least 4,000 warm beds city-wide. These two projects would take care of downtown, and the other seven council districts could pledge 500 warm beds each. The money to build shelters for the Mentally Ill, Homeless, and Domestic Violence victims can come from the audit of the 1992 Agreement with the County of San Diego which will total @ $18 Million next year for pass-through tax increment funds. The acceptable uses for our public money include Social services with Counseling, Educational, Training, Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation, Children's Services, and Health and Welfare Facilities and Programs. Currently the County of San Diego Tax Sharing Percentage is 7.00% for a total of $8,396,958 a year. Per the 1992 Agreement, this income can also be used as a source of funding In Fiscal Year 2012 the Tax Sharing Percentage with the County of San Diego will increase to 14.70 % to approximately $17,633,612, which is an increase of an additional $9,236,654. It would be in the best interest of the City AND County of San Diego to make sure the increase Tax Sharing funding starting in Fiscal Year 2012 is used specifically for the Health and Safety of the Homeless, Mentally Ill, children, seniors, and Veterans sleeping on public streets and alleys in downtown.— October 6, 2010 8:40 p.m.
Times Highlights Malecot Indictment
http://www.sandiego.gov/auditor/pdf/qualcommauditreport.pdf Table 2 on Page 21 from the 2009 Audit of Qualcomm Stadium linked above shows the breakdown to pay off the balance of the 1997 Stadium Renovation Bonds issued in the amount of $68 million dollars. If the Chargers left in 2010, the Chargers would be 100% responsible for the outstanding bond balance of $54,670,000. From 2011 to 2020, the Chargers Termination Fees decreases from $25,820,000 [49%] to $3,490,000 [11%] of the total outstanding debt obligation. Table 1 - Stadium Renovation Bond Obligation Analysis. Date-Principle Balance-Chargers Termination Fee-City Obligation February 1, 2010 $54,670,000 $54,670,000 [100%] $ 0.00 [ 0%] February 1, 2011 $52,950,000 $25,820,000 [49%] $27,130,000 [51%] February 1, 2012 $51,110,000 $23,980,000 [47%] $27,130,000 [53%] February 1, 2013 $49,145,000 $22,015,000 [45%] $27,130,000 [55%] February 1, 2014 $47,030,000 $19,900,000 [42%] $27,130,000 [58%] February 1, 2015 $44,760,000 $17,630,000 [39%] $27,130,000 [61%] February 1, 2016 $42,325,000 $15,195,000 [36%] $27,130,000 [64%] February 1, 2017 $39,705,000 $12,575,000 [32%] $27,130,000 [68%] February 1, 2018 $36,890,000 $ 9,760,000 [26%] $27,130,000 [74%] February 1, 2019 $33,870,000 $ 6,740,000 [20%] $27,130,000 [80%] February 1, 2020 $30,620,000 $ 3,490,000 [11%] $27,130,000 [89%] * The estimate assumes that the entire Chargers Termination Fee payment will be used to pay down the balance of the Stadium Renovation Bond principle. The amount does not consider the disposition of the Stadium Renovation Bond Debt Reserve Account which has a balance of $5.8 million as of January 2009. The City taxpayers’ obligation to fund $27,130,000 in debt service for the 1997 improvements to the existing Qualcomm Stadium should be part of any cost analysis for a new stadium.— September 9, 2010 9:27 a.m.
The East Village PLAN??
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_fHftxFXFhy… Hi All, Linked above is our solution for San Diego's Homeless problem. The main part is that San Diego is required by the Federal government to provide Emergency Shelter to everyone. Also we are challenging the City Attorney's Legal Opinion and Memorandium that Redevelopment Tax Increment Funding cannot be used for Homeless Shelters and Services. The plan is to get the Homeless community to ask the Feds, State, and County to force CCDC and the Redevelopment Agencies to take out loan to repay the $228 million in Federal funds they stoled from the poor, and then tried to resteal.— September 3, 2010 8:01 a.m.
Did Somebody Change the Charter?
With a new downtown library the public will get a wonderful resource consisting of access to all the public and government documents that that are currently housed in the Basement of the existing Public Library. These archived files are inaccessible to the General Public. For historic and research types, access to browse these off-limit public and historic documents will be a great resource for future San Diegans.— July 31, 2010 3:28 p.m.
Did Somebody Change the Charter?
San Diegans deserve a new public downtown Library. In order to stop detractors who worry about the 4,000 homeless taking over the beautiful new Library, Library supporters should help solve the Homeless problem by forcing the City of San Diego to buy the 26.64 acre Midway Post Office to first to get everyone off the streets and sidewalk, and finally as a Campus for Homeless Veterans and reintegrating veterans back into beautiful San Diego civilian life.— July 29, 2010 9:47 p.m.
Suit Challenges Lid on City Workers' Healthcare Costs
Taxpayers have to make sure that a secret negotiation is not made in Closed Session in order to bypass voters and not fight the Unions. All these issues should be decided. Any agreement to change Municipal Code 24.1102e requires a public vote in order to allow public debt without a source of funding. As David Wescoe stated at the public meeting, The Audit on the Pension system requires MC 24.1102e to be change, and the issue of lifetime health benefits for non-safety workers be finalized. The Unions are just suing first.— July 21, 2010 3:53 p.m.
Suit Challenges Lid on City Workers' Healthcare Costs
Ordinance O-17770 approved by the City Council on May 26, 1992 was specifically made to create a new system of bifurcated payments of retiree healthcare benefits between safety employees and non-safety employees within Municipal Code Section 24.1102e on Page 3 linked below. "General members granted CERS benefits by this section shall not, pursuant to Section 24.1201 and 24.1202, be eligible for City-sponsored Group Health Insurance for retirees." http://docs.sandiego.gov/municode/MuniCodeChapter… The Bifurcated lifetime benefits for safety versus non-safety employees is normal. The last thing David Wescoe tried to pull before he left San Diego is to retroactively change the Municipal Code to give non-safety retiree lifetime healthcare benefits because he said a technical mistake was made in 1992. https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_fHftxFXFhy… David Wescoe and the Unions tried to slip a change to the Municipal Code without evidence, and to bypass a public vote that would be required to change the Municipal Code to retroactively give lifetime healthcare benefit to non-safety workers, without a source of funding and without taxpayer approval to increase the public's debt. Please watch the video link below at Start Time: 2 Hours and 1 minute to End Time: 3 Hours and 21 Minutes, and the backup documentation linked above. http://granicus.sandiego.gov/ASX.php?view_id=3&cl…— July 20, 2010 1:57 p.m.