Jan
16
Does this letter violate the Brown Act?
Filed Under 2012 Issues, City Council Meetings, Decency, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 4 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 1/16/2012) This is a followup to our post on Tuesday’s Council Meeting, “Council to Consider prosecuting Member Kusumoto.” When I read the following letter, I thought it was a diplomatic expression of a frustrated Council Member.
What do you think?
Time saving tip # 1: If you want to skip trying to figure out Council Member Kusumoto’s alleged Brown Act violations for yourself, scroll down to where I reprint the letter, bolding the 4 “violations” Ms. Levin used your tax dollars to “uncover.”
December 5th, 2011
To the Honorable Mayor Kenneth Stephens
City of Los AlamitosDear Ken;
After careful consideration and thoughtful prayer, it is best for the Council Majority that I Read more
Jan
14
Council to consider prosecuting Council Member Kusumoto: Agendas for 2 Tuesday Los Al Council Meetings
Filed Under 2012 Issues, City Council Meetings, Decency, Teamwork, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 16 Comments
(1/14/2012, Los Alamitos)The first meetings of the New Year gives our divided City Council a clear choice between making a new start by finding ways to work together, or to further waste our city’s resources on fighting battles that further divide the town they all call home.
M.L.King Jr. Day has pushed Monday’s 7 p.m. regular Council meeting back to Tuesday, and the need to fill five commission vacancies has added a special meeting at 5 to interview eight candidates, including four incumbents.
The agenda for the 7 p.m. Regular meeting includes:
- “Discussion of violations of law related to published letter [from Council Member Kusumoto] regarding Read more
Jan
7
Fleeced! Consolidated boasts of “Keeping [your]… Green!”
Filed Under 2012 Issues, George Briggeman, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 3 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 1/6/2012) When we got our quarterly newsletter in the mail today from Mayor Troy Edgar’s favorite Disposal Service, I couldn’t believe my eyes!
“Keeping it Green and Clean in Los Alamitos” screamed the headline.
At first, I thought it said “Keeping your green and keeping Troy Read more
Dec
30
12/30/2011 update: Mayor Edgar put out a second year-end plea for funds this afternoon. It’s been inserted in this post after the original e-mail:
(12/29/2011, Los Alamitos) I’ve been busy with visiting family this week, but thought I’d share an e-mail I received from our Mayor a couple days ago:
Dear Friend,
I hope you have had a great holiday and I wish you a Happy New Year!
I wanted to give you a quick campaign update and ask for your help on my December 31st fundraising reporting deadline in 4 days.
My campaign has been on a roll since we got started three months ago. We’ve raised over $200,000, picked up Read more
Dec
22
(Los Alamitos, 12/22/2011) Dave Emerson here. Thought some of our readers might be interested in the latest Press Release from our incoming Mayor’s Congressional Campaign. Unedited. From Mayor Edgar’s writer’s keyboard to your eyes:
ORANGE COUNTY – Last week, the Orange County Republican Party named City Councilman Troy Edgar their 2011 Tax Fighter of the Year.
Councilman Edgar has been a consistent defender of Orange County taxpayers, both in his role as a City Councilman and as Vice-Chairman of the Orange County Sanitation District. In his City, Councilman Edgar has led a real turnaround of Read more
Dec
15
New Mayor, emergency repairs, trash, expanded staff & more onMonday’s Council Meeting
Filed Under 2011 Issues, City Council, City Council Meetings, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 10 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 12/15/2011, revised 12/16/2011) Monday night, 12/19/2011, will be the last Regular City Council meeting of the year, the last for City Manager Stewart, and the last for the next four weeks. There’s no shortage of interesting items on the agenda:
- Yet another “Consent Calendar” recommendation to postpone the second reading of the proposed trash contract revision, probably to Read more
Dec
11
Time for Kusumoto & Mejia to un-recuse?
Filed Under 2011 Issues, Los Alamitos Priorities, Teamwork, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 10 Comments
(12/11/2011, Los Alamitos) Monday night the Los Alamitos City Council has their third scheduled Closed Session on the trash lawsuit in eight days.
Troy Edgar is starting to sound like a candidate for a peace prize, and I mean that in a good way, because there’s a lot of wisdom in his words:
We all think we are right. Whether we are right or not, the community deserves better. Going about it unilaterally doesn’t seem like it’s in the best interests of the city. If we can use this opportunity to heal things that are much deeper than a lawsuit, I say, ‘Let’s do it.’”
While some have questioned Mayor pro tem Edgar’s Read more
Dec
8
Council votes to appeal trash suit while pursuing settlement
Filed Under City Council, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | Leave a Comment
(Los Alamitos, 12/8/2011)Beginning at 7:30 this morning our City Council majority met in closed session with the City Attorney, City Manager Jeff Stewart, and incoming City Manager Angie Avery and for almost two and a half hours to discuss how to respond to Judge Banks ruling against the City. (Minority Council Members Mejia and Kusumoto had previously recused themselves.)
Mayor Stephens, Mayor pro tem Edgar, and Council Member Poe emerged with a response that kept their options alive. As our incoming City Manager stated, “The Council unanimously directed the City Attorney to Read more
Nov
6
“A way forward?” An open letter to Troy Edgar
Filed Under 2011 Issues, City Council Meetings, Teamwork, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 2 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 11/6/11) About 3 and a half weeks ago, two days after Judge Banks ruled that our Council majority voted to “break the law,” I e-mailed Mayor pro tem Edgar my thoughts on the tremendous opportunity I felt the court’s ruling provided for him.
Troy has been quite busy lately organizing his bid for Congress, but I still hope he’d have time to respond, or at least consider taking a different approach this time.
I guess at Monday’s City Council meeting we’ll see exactly what approach Troy and his fellow majority members will take, but given the staff proposal for rewriting the law Judge Banks said they broke and Read more
Nov
4
Dancing on Brad Sheridan’s grave?
Filed Under 2011 Issues, City Council Meetings, Decency, George Briggeman, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 13 Comments
(11/4/2011, Los Alamitos) The agenda is now up for two City Council meetings this Monday, 11/7/2011, which include separate closed sessions.
Sadly, but perhaps not that surprisingly, the Council majority of Edgar, Stephens, and Poe appear ready to practically dance on Brad Sheridan’s grave just hours after his funeral Monday afternoon.
As you may know, two years ago Sheridan worked long and hard to try to get the City Council to comply with their own law (and with common sense) by awarding the trash contract to the lowest bidder. Instead, the Council majority voted to award the contract to the second highest (fifth Read more
Oct
27
OC Register’s “Total Buzz” on Edgar’s “possible path to victory”
Filed Under Dean Grose, Troy Edgar | 18 Comments
(10/27/2011, Los Alamitos) In a post this afternoon on the Register’s OC political blog, Politics Reporter Martin Wisckol noted that Long Beach Councilman Gary DeLong has raised an impressive $256,000, putting him on the National Republican Congressinoal Committee’s “On the Radar” list.
Wisckol had this to say about Troy Edgar’s chances:
It remains to be seen whether little-known businessman Troy Edgar will spend the $205,000 he’s loaned his campaign. He ranks at the bottom in terms of raising money from others, with $21,000.
But there’s a conceivable path to victory for Edgar if Read more
Oct
10
“The process was corrupted. . . NOW is the time”
Filed Under 2010 Issues, 2011 Issues, City Council, George Briggeman, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 7 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 10/10/2011)Note from Dave E. Last Friday I requested statements from the “Citizens,” from the City, from C.Mgr. Stewart, from Mayor Stephens, and from Mayor pro tem Edgar. So far the following is all I’ve received. I look forward to printing statements from our city officials, both elected and hired, once I receive them.
Citizen For A Fair Trash Contract press release:
On Friday 10/7/11 the Hon. Andrew P. Banks issued a ruling from the bench in favor of the Citizens for a Fair Trash Contract, stating the City Council violated their own City Ordinance in the awarding of the Read more
Oct
10
Judge rules Los Al City Council “broke the law!”
Filed Under C.P.L.A. & L.A.T.A., City Council, Decency, George Briggeman, Trash contraact, Troy Edgar | 29 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 10/7/2011, updated) This afternoon, after reviewing hundreds of pages of documents submitted to him by the attorneys for Los Alamitos, Consolidated Disposal, and Citizens for a Fair Trash Contract, Superior Court Judge Alan Banks ruled that, despite months of obfuscation by the city, Consolidated, and the best attorney’s a seven million dollar overcharge could by, the obvious is still true: The Council Majority broke the law when the awarded the solid waste disposal contract franchise for Los Alamitos businesses and residents to the fifth highest bidder. As a result, Read more
Sep
27
Troy Edgar running for Congress
Filed Under City Council, National Issues, Troy Edgar | 22 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 9/27/2011) Los Alamitos Mayor Pro Tem Troy Edgar is running as a Republican for the 47th Congressional District, which includes Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Cypress, most of Long Beach, and portions of Lakewood, Garden Grove & Westminster.
Organizing papers were fed exed to the Federal Elections Commission last Monday, 9/19 by Gary Crummit, Treasurer for Troy Edgar for Congress, operating out of 110 Pine Ave. in Long Beach, # 1110.
According to Open Congress Wiki, Mayor pro Tem Edgar is one of Read more
Aug
22
Your reporting & comments on Monday’s Public Hearing on Rossmoor Annexation
Filed Under 2011 Issues, Commission Meetings, Rossmoor, Troy Edgar, Your reporting & comments | 18 Comments
Pete Carvajal addresses overflow Rossmoor crowd tonight, "We're all neighbors"
(8/22/2011) The Los Alamitos/Seal Beach Patch thinks tonight’s meeting could be “quite rowdy.”
Los Al Councilman Troy Edgar says the Planning Commission’s intent is not to “go Read more