
For someone who claims to be fighting to trim back costs due to “extravagant spending” by previous city councils, Costa Mesa Councilman Steven Mensinger sure likes to spend more than he saves.

For someone who claims to be fighting to trim back costs due to “extravagant spending” by previous city councils, Costa Mesa Councilman Steven Mensinger sure likes to spend more than he saves.

Yesterday, Anaheim officials brazenly jumped over the line in order to conceal disclosable public records and refused to comply with a request from Voice of OC for email records. They did so by demanding $19,000 to provide 60-day old email records.

John Leos has announced he will again be seeking a seat on the Anaheim City Council this November. Mr. Leos is a lifelong Anaheim resident, an activist for local lobby reform and a champion for community causes affecting schools, parks and libraries. He is also a member of the Measure B Bond Budget Oversight Committee.

Adam Elmahrek at Voice of OC broke this story on Friday; Anaheim Official Orders Employees to Purge Records. The story leaves me wondering what’s next? These folks must be getting pretty nervous that people are poking around to see what they’re up to.

Well, 2011 is just about behind us and a presidential election year is just ahead – time flies. Let’s look back at some of the 2011 stories we covered here in no particular order. We can debate which one is…

Contract employees operate in a virtual grey area. In this arena their compliance with regulations is obscured because there is no direct supervision… You’ve got contract employees dishing up hefty amounts of work to other outside contractors and themselves.

In the spirit of not just pointing things out about Santa Ana City Council when they get something wrong, the release of the Meeting Agenda for September 19th has a couple items that demonstrate an attempt at change.

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