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4/30/2019 County Supervisors to hold special meeting on ‘building security’ Tuesday - News - vvdailypress.com - Victorville, CA
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By Matthew Cabe Staff Writer Posted at 12:01 AM
Discussion to include review of San Bernardino County’seffort to increase security since the Dec. 2, 2015, terroristattack
SAN BERNARDINO — The Board of Supervisors will receive an updateTuesday on the county’s ongoing effort to increase security in the wake of theDec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack here that left 14 people dead.
San Bernardino County spokesperson David Wert said the 1 p.m. specialmeeting will include a presentation on what has been accomplished in the nearly3½ years since the attack at the Inland Regional Center carried out by SyedRizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik.
The meeting, which was called for by 4th District Supervisor and Board ChairCurt Hagman, also will include questions and input from the supervisors, as wellas the public, according to Wert.
“Even though the attack didn’t take place at a county building, and even thoughthe county had already begun a security assessment, feedback the county receivedfrom county employees indicated a desire for heightened security measures andadditional training for employees,” Wert said by email on Monday.
Farook, who worked as a food inspector for the county’s Department of PublicHealth before the shooting, and Malik opened fire during a holiday party at theInland Regional Center shortly before 11 a.m. on Dec. 2, 2015. In addition to the14 people killed, 22 others were injured.
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Twelve of the 14 deceased victims were identified as county employees,according to previous Daily Press reports. The shooters were killed in a shootoutwith law enforcement later that afternoon.
At the time, the Associated Press reported that it was the deadliest terroristattack in the United States since 9/11. It has since been surpassed by the Pulsenightclub shooting in Orlando in June that left 49 people dead, not includingshooter Omar Mateen.
Since the attack, the effort to increase security has focused on all buildingsowned or leased by the county, according to Wert. It includes professionalsecurity assessments, improved security procedures, employee security and safetytraining, and physical changes to buildings to improve security.
Wert said county officials have conducted ongoing security assessments since theRiverside City Hall shooting in October 1998. Half a dozen people were injuredduring that incident, including Mayor Ron Loveridge and two Riverside CityCouncil members, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
A more recent phase of the county’s work began in the summer of 2015, monthsbefore Farook and Malik’s attack, that focused on the County GovernmentCenter in San Bernardino where the Board meets.
County employees, meanwhile, began requesting additional security personneland greater controls on access to county facilities beginning on the day of theDec. 2 attack, Wert said.
“The county immediately responded by identifying where the concern and needswere greatest and stationing the appropriate level of security — sheriff’s deputies,armed private security or unarmed private security,” he said. “Although theintensity and volume of employee requests eased off in the weeks and monthsfollowing the attack, employees still regularly express a desire for heightenedsecurity.”
The county launched a search for a security consultant to provide professionalassessments and recommendations for all facilities in February 2016, accordingto Wert. Contracts were awarded that May.
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Terry Thompson, director of the Real Estate Services Department, will presenton the discussion item, according to the meeting’s agenda.
The 1 p.m. special meeting will be held in the Temporary Covington Chamberson the first floor of the San Bernardino County Government Center, 385 N.Arrowhead Ave., San Bernardino.
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For Morongo Basin’s more than 100 homeless people, bathing, doing laundry, and receiving mail
represent challenges for which there are no simple solutions. But if all goes as expected at
tomorrow’s 10 a.m. meeting of county supervisors in San Bernardino, those activities will no longer
represent challenges. Reporter Mike Lipsitz has the details …
With the expected passage of item 78 on tomorrow’s consent agenda, Fire Station 35 in the
Panorama Heights section of Joshua Tree will become a day-use drop-in facility for area homeless.
The �re station, which has been closed for more than 15 years, offers almost 2,800 square feet of
space. The Family Assistance Program, which has operated in the area for more than 30 years, plans
to sign a �ve-year lease agreement with the county for $1 per year. Adjacent to a Morongo Basin
Transit Authority bus stop, the facility will be the �rst of its kind in Morongo Basin to make basic
services available to area homeless on an ongoing basis.
Agenda item 24 will add $50,000 to Reach Out Morongo Basin’s current allocation of $120,000 for
administration of Family Caregiver Support Services. And in a related matter, item 71 will bump up
Morongo Basin Unity Home’s allocation for those same services by $300,000 for a total of $1.4
million. Item 76 will authorize continued collection of various voter-approved taxes including
Wonder Valley TV4 and Yucca Mesa TV5 both unchanged from last year. That item also includes
Wonder Valley road maintenance which is slated for a 2.5 percent increase and totaling $32.31 per
parcel beginning July 1 of this year.
Tomorrow’s meeting streams online and to the �rst-�oor teleconferencing room in the County
Government Center on White Feather Road in Joshua Tree where public comment may be made via
live video link.
Supervisors will hold a special meeting and study session at 1 p.m. following tomorrow’s regular
meeting. County building security is the topic of discussion.
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By Garrett Bergthold Staff Writer Posted Apr 29, 2019 at 11:44 AMUpdated Apr 29, 2019 at 5:32 PM
Mother, aunt of 6-year-old Duke Flores of Apple Valleycharged with first-degree murder, will be arraignedTuesday
VICTORVILLE — San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department personnelbegan searching for the body of a missing Apple Valley six-year-old at a locallandfill on Monday, and authorities announced the mother and aunt of DukeFlores both had been charged with first-degree murder.
Twin sisters Jackee Raquel Contreras and Jennifer Rachel Contreras, both 29 andof Apple Valley, will be arraigned at the Victorville courthouse at 8:30 a.m.Tuesday on suspicion of the murder of Duke, Jackee’s son, said Kimberly Fuller,a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office.
The announcement came as law enforcement personnel equipped with three K-9units scoured the Victorville Landfill for Duke’s body on Monday. Detectivessaid during the course of their investigation, they obtained information that ledthem to believe Duke’s body had been placed in a trash bin. That resulted in thelandfill search.
“If he is not found today, the search will resume tomorrow,” said Sheriff’sDepartment spokeswoman Jodi Miller, adding there was no time frame for whenthe search would conclude.
As of 3:30 p.m. Monday, Duke’s body had not been found, Miller said. At 5:10p.m., the search was called off for the day.
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The search area was said to be a 70-foot by 70-foot by 10-foot deep section of thelandfill, which contained an estimated 600 tons of material, the Sheriff’sDepartment said. Joining an unknown number of homicide detectives andlandfill personnel in looking for the boy’s body were 36 Sheriff’s Departmentvolunteers and 17 additional Sheriff’s Department personnel.
Jackee Contreras was set to be individually arraigned remotely by video on childneglect charges on Monday, with her sister’s arraignment on a murder charge setfor Tuesday, but the judge granted the prosecutor’s request to reschedule Jackee’sarraignment to Tuesday. She will be arraigned in-person as a co-defendant withher sister, officials confirmed.
A dozen family members gathered at the Victorville Superior Courthouse onMonday, including Duke’s father, who sported a T-shirt emblazoned with hisson’s image and the tagline “missing.” Prior to Jackee’s scheduled arraignment,the group formed a prayer circle in the hallway, where they asked Jesus Christ tohelp find Duke.
Jackee was arrested Thursday after deputies responded to a relative’s request toconduct a welfare check on Duke. Deputies then arrested Jackee for child neglectafter learning Duke had been missing for two weeks without Jackee reportinghim missing, officials said.
Authorities arrested Jennifer on Saturday on suspicion of murder after detectiveson Friday “gathered evidience and conducted mutiple interviews throughout theday with family members,” according to a press release.
Over the weekend, Jackee was subbooked on murder charges while in custodyon the child neglect charge, Fuller said. She was formally charged Monday.
Both sisters are being held without bail at the West Valley Detention Center inRancho Cucamonga.
Penal Code 187 in California law defines murder as the “the unlawful killing of ahuman being or fetus with malice aforethought.”
“Malice aforethought” involves “an intent to kill or to cause serious physicalharm, depraved indifference to human life, or an intent to commit anotherserious felony that results in a death,” according to the Webster’s New World
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6-year-old Duke Flores was missing from his Apple Valley home,the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said April 26,2019. (Courtesy of San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department)
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searching a landfill in Victorville for the remains of6-year-old Duke Flores of Apple Valley, whosemother and aunt were arrested last week onsuspicion of his murder, and now have each beencharged. The search was set to continue Tuesdaymorning.
“Following investigative leads, detectives believethat Duke was placed in a dumpster,” a releasefrom the San Bernardino County sheriff’sVictorville Station said. A search for the boystarted Friday, April 26, but deputies did not sayfor how long he had been missing.
“Detectives are now working with personnel at thelandfill in hopes of recovering his body,” therelease said.
The Sheriff’s Department said 36 Sheriff’sDepartment volunteers, three dogs and 17additional personnel from the Sheriff’s Departmenton Monday searched for Duke alongside landfillpersonnel.
Officials said the search was called off for the dayon Monday at around 5 p.m.
“The area being searched is approximately 70 feetby 70 feet and 10 feet deep, approximately 600tons of material,” officials said in a news release.“The search for Duke Flores will resume in themorning of Tuesday, April 30.”
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Saturday, deputies announced the arrest of Duke’smother, Jackee Raquel Contreras, 29, and aunt,Jennifer Rachel Contreras, 29.
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Detectives ask anyone with information on thecase to call Detective Narcie Sousa at 909-387-3589 or sheriff’s dispatch at 909-387-8313, orleave tips anonymously with WeTip at 800-782-7463 or the website at wetip.com.
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For ‘hard-to-count’ California, 2020census poses huge challenges and
carries big stakesBy Martha Groves | April 26, 2019 | CALIFORNIA NEWS, ECONOMY,
IMMIGRATION, POLITICS
Diego San Luis Ortega was a toddler when his parents brought him to
California from Veracruz, Mexico. Now 22 and a “Dreamer” who is
Diego San Luis Ortega—Visalia community college student, activist and Mexican-born Dreamer—says he plans to participate in the 2020 census, regardless of therisk to him as an immigrant. Photo for CALmatters by Endrich Sanchez
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Sarah Bohn of the Public Policy Institute of California says that if the state’s immigrant
communities are undercounted, “it would be entirely possible for us to lose a seat in
Congress.” Photo courtesy of PPIC
protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals policy, he is a political activist and a community college
student in Visalia who hopes to become a history teacher.
He is also gung-ho about standing up to be counted in the 2020 census,
despite the concerns of many family and friends that participation
could put their ability to remain in the United States in jeopardy.
“At the end of the day,” Ortega said, “if it’s to better my community, I’ll
do it. If I get hurt, I get hurt.”
The U.S. Constitution mandates an “actual enumeration” of each state’s
population every 10 years. The U.S. Census Bureau, part of the U.S.
Commerce Department, conducts the decennial count, which aims to
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determine how many people reside in the United States and where they
live.
The answers determine, among other things, how many congressional
seats each state will have for the coming decade and where hundreds of
billions of federal dollars will be spent on medical and nutritional
programs, the national school lunch program, housing vouchers, Head
Start, highway construction and myriad other programs. The
information also is used to redraw congressional and state legislative
district boundaries.
A signi�cant element of the 2020 census remains unresolved, awaiting
a U.S. Supreme Court decision: Will the Trump administration be
allowed to add a question about citizenship?
The administration has argued that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross,
who oversees the Census Bureau, added the question to collect detailed
data to enforce the Voting Rights Act. District court judges concluded
that enforcement of the voting law was a pretext. Many legal analysts
have concluded that the question was politically motivated, designed to
limit the political power of immigrant communities, areas that typically
prefer to vote for Democrats.
At issue is how the citizenship question came to be added and whether
Ross ignored administrative review processes. U.S. Solicitor General
Noel Francisco argued in part that the courts should not meddle in the
Commerce Department’s decisions regarding the census. President
Trump broke with the Justice Department’s of�cial line Wednesday,
writing on Twitter that “the American people deserve to know who is in
this country.”
But grassroots activists and social science researchers contend that if
the question is added, immigrants and their families—whether
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, says he wants to
add a census question on immigration to better enforce the Voting Rights Act. Photo
courtesy of U.S. Department of Commerce.
documented or unauthorized—would be less likely to respond or might
respond inaccurately because of fears that the information would be
used for immigration enforcement.
California and other states with high immigrant populations stand to
lose big. Migrants, particularly Latinos and Asian Americans, have
grown to fear the federal government after years of hearing anti-
immigrant rhetoric from President Trump and like-minded
Republicans.
“We think Californians will be less likely to fully answer the form if this
question is included,” said Sarah Bohn, director of research and a senior
fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California in San Francisco. “If
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there’s a bad count overall and immigrant communities are
undercounted, it would be entirely possible for us to lose a seat in
Congress.”
In lawsuits brought by dozens of states, cities and groups, three federal
judges at U.S. district courts in California, New York and Maryland have
issued rulings blocking the administration’s plan to add the question,
which asks: “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” The last time
such a question appeared on the form was 1950. Since then, citizenship
data have been gathered through surveys of a small sample of
households.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in U.S.
Department of Commerce vs. New York, a case challenging the
citizenship question as “arbitrary and capricious.”
Based on the justices’ questions, it appears that the court’s conservative
majority is prepared to back the administration’s plan, even though the
Census Bureau’s own statisticians project that as many as 6.5 million
people could go uncounted if the question is allowed.
The high court is expected to decide by late June, just as census forms
are to be printed.
Esperanza Guevara, 29, a graduate of Stanford University, has
experienced the census challenges �rsthand. She recently became the
census campaign manager for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant
Rights, or CHIRLA, in Los Angeles, part of a coalition that launched a
get-out-the-count campaign on Monday.
Guevara’s parents immigrated to California more than 30 years ago and
eventually became naturalized citizens, but they have never
participated in a census. “It took me getting this job and having a
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Esperanza Guevara, who is working on the census for CHIRLA, says her naturalized
citizen parents lived in the U.S. for decades and never took part in the headcount.
conversation with my mom for her to learn about this for the �rst
time,” Guevara said.
California has already earmarked $100.3 million for census outreach,
and Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed that an additional $54 million be
allocated. On a per-person basis, California is investing more than any
other state to get out the count, according to the Legislative Analyst’s
Of�ce in Sacramento.
Many factors conspire to make California the nation’s hardest-to-count
state. They include the high immigrant population, many residents’
limited English pro�ciency, the high number of renters and multiple-
family households with children 5 and under, homeless people, couch
surfers and those with limited access to technology. For the �rst time,
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Lisa Hershey, executive director of the Sacramento nonpro�t Housing California, says
the California Complete Count Committee needs “boots on the ground.” Photo for
CALmatters by Alex Matthews
this census is expected to be conducted, for the most part,
electronically.
The high stakes and California’s notoriously hard-to-count citizenry
have propelled dozens of grassroots, municipal and statewide
organizations to brainstorm strategies.
The California Complete Count Committee is an advisory panel of 26
members appointed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislators.
Similar organizations exist in counties, cities and regions including the
Central Valley and the Inland Empire in Southern California.
Using funds from the state or philanthropic organizations, groupsare plotting multiple outreach efforts. In rural areas of California,
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Communities for a New California Education Fund—a civil rightsorganization with of�ces in Sacramento, Fresno, Merced andCoachella Valley—plans to send teams door to door and to runphone banks. Language will be an issue for volunteers and staffmembers. The San Joaquin Valley, where many of the efforts will beconcentrated, has migrants who speak Spanish, Hmong, Punjabiand indigenous languages of Central America.
All of these programs are intended to spread the word that “by �lling
out the form, you are representing your community,” said Diana Crofts-
Pelayo, a spokeswoman for the Sacramento-based California Complete
Count—Census 2020, which is coordinating the census outreach
strategy. “Waiting for 10 years from now isn’t an option.”
The state complete count organization is partnering with county of�ces
of education, tribal governments and regional community-based
organizations to encourage people to participate.
Other groups will pass out census information to families who visit
social service agencies, hold town halls and sponsor mobile centers
where people will be able to complete the census online.
Cindy Quezada, director of research and special projects with the
Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative, has held meetings
in community centers, day care centers and people’s apartments. “If
you speak to people and help them understand [the importance of
participating], they get it,” she said. “[But] the inclusion of the
citizenship question will be a big deterrent.”
In the Los Angeles region, the Census Bureau plans to gather datafrom homeless-service providers and provide explicit instructions inmailed materials about including young children. Digital advertisingwill be enlisted to get the attention of renters.
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Karthick Ramakrishnan, who is directing the complete count committee in San
Bernardino and Riverside counties, says the U.S. Supreme Court “appears to be
weighing in on the constitutionality of the [citizenship question], not the wisdom.”
Photo by Carrie Rosema
Lisa Hershey serves on the California Complete Count Committee. “We
have so many boots on the ground right now … [because] we want to
identify where people might live,” said Hershey, executive director of
Housing California, a Sacramento nonpro�t group that seeks to �nd
housing for all Californians. In some areas, she said, properties might
house several families, living in garages, tents or trailers—knowledge
that must be gained from on-site visits.
Edward Kissam, a longtime researcher on immigrant issues and a
trustee of the WKF Charitable Giving Fund, which supports immigrant
integration initiatives, said the addition of the citizenship question
would put pressure on the Census Bureau to hire enumerators who
could interact “culturally and linguistically” with reluctant households.
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Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of political science and public
policy at UC Riverside who is directing the complete count committee
for the Inland Empire counties of San Bernardino and Riverside,
expressed dismay that the high court appeared to be leaning toward
approving the citizenship query.
“The Supreme Court appears to be weighing in on the constitutionality
of the policy, not the wisdom,” said Ramakrishnan, who is also
founding director of the university’s Center for Social Innovation.
If the high court allows the question, the next move would be up to
Congress, he added.
“The House could play hardball with the administration and say: ‘We
will not give another dime for the 2020 census until you take that
question away,’” he said.
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Redlands Charitable Resources Coalition Inc.invites residents, both sheltered and not, to askquestions and share concerns at a communitytown hall on homelessness Tuesday, April 30.
The town hall is 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at University Hallat the University of Redlands, 1200 E. Colton Ave.
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nonprofit’s year-long City of Redlands HomelessInitiative. Input from this and previous events willlead to recommendations to the City Council inJune.
Speakers will include Tom Hernandez, chief ofSan Bernardino County Behavioral Health’s Officeof Homeless Services, and Kent Paxton, ahomeless policy adviser for San BernardinoCounty Board of Supervisors’ 5th District.
According to this year’s annual Point-in-TimeCount, Redlands has the third-highest number ofhomeless individuals in the county with 42sheltered and 141 unsheltered. Of the 93unsheltered adults surveyed, 65 were male, 28were female, three were veterans and six wereexperiencing homelessness due to fleeingdomestic violence, dating violence, sexual assaultor stalking.
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San Bernardino City Manager Andrea Miller listens to AndreaNeyses as she expresses her opposition to her during the publiccomment portion of a meeting of the San Bernardino City CouncilFriday evening December 21, 2018. Following a closed session ofthe city council they decided to take no action against Miller Fridaynight. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Fate of San Bernardino city manager could bedecided this weekThe City Council placed Andrea Miller on paid leave April 3
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San Bernardino city leaders could dismiss CityManager Andrea Miller Wednesday, May 1, abouta month after placing her on paid leave.
Policy makers are scheduled to discuss the matterahead of the public portion of the council meeting.
Miller, the city’s top administrator, was placed onleave April 3. Mayor John Valdivia, CouncilmanTheodore Sanchez and Councilwomen SandraIbarra and Bessine Richard voted for the move,which followed a bleak mid-year budget review.
Assistant City Manager Teri Ledoux has takenover day-to-day operations at City Hall in Miller’sstead.
“I’ll just do my best to keep things running,” Ledouxsaid earlier this month.
Miller had served as interim San Bernardino citymanager before leaving in 2013 to take a positionas executive director of the San Gabriel ValleyCouncil of Governments. She later served a yearas Covina’s top administrator before returning toSan Bernardino.
In 2017, city leaders unanimously voted to signMiller to a five-year contract worth about $270,000annually in total wages and benefits.
Late last year, two days after Valdivia, Sanchezand Ibarra were sworn into office, city leaders mettwice in one day to discuss Miller’s contract andtake action on terminating it “without cause.”
Ultimately, city leaders took no action.
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Even so, tensions at City Hall persisted, coming toa head March 27 at a budget study workshopValdivia scheduled after hearing “alarming” detailsin Miller’s mid-year budget review three weeksprior.
Councilman Fred Shorett said the intent of theMarch 27 meeting was to publicly flog Miller.
Following terse interactions between city leadersand public officials, the budget workshop wasadjourned and rescheduled for the night Miller wasplaced on leave.
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‘You are not a king,’ San Bernardinocouncilman tells mayor as tempers flareover scheduling of budget talk
Wednesday to fire the city manager.
According to Miller’s contract, a unanimous vote ofthe mayor and City Council is needed to removeher within 60 days of an election. A special vote-by-mail election for the vacant 3rd Ward councilseat is scheduled for Tuesday, May 7.
No such buffer is outlined in the city charter,however. According to San Bernardino’s governingdocument, the move simply needs at least fiveaffirmative votes from policy makers. CouncilmenFred Shorett, Henry Nickel and Jim Mulvihill votedagainst placing Miller on leave earlier this month.
City Attorney Gary Saenz did not immediatelyreturn a call requesting clarification Monday, April29.
The City Council meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday inCouncil Chambers, 201 N. E St., San Bernardino.
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An Upland employees’ union has declared no confidence in City Manager JeannetteVagnozzi. (Courtesy of Jeanette Vagnozzi)
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3 months after ‘no confidence’ vote, Uplandcouncil meets to review city manager’sperformance92% of the city’s non-public safety employees have said they do not trustCity Manager Jeannette Vagnozzi
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Three months after an overwhelming majority of employeesexpressed their lack of confidence in Upland City ManagerJeannette Vagnozzi, the City Council met early Monday, April 29,to review her performance.
The council discussed Vagnozzi behind closed doors for morethan two hours. In the end, the council emerged to announce ithad taken no action, but would revisit the issue at its May 13meeting.
In January, employees’ union officials announced 92% of themembership “voted in favor of the no confidence vote, citing thelack of trust, mutual respect and integrity.” Stalled contractnegotiations and 11 years without cost-of-living pay increaseshelped fuel dissatisfaction within the Upland City EmployeesAssociation, union officials said then.
The council appointed Vagnozzi in November, replacing formercity manager Bill Manis, who resigned. Vagnozzi had worked atUpland City Hall in various roles since 2015. Prior to that, shespent more than two decades working for the city of La Verne.
Since 2005, Upland has employed six city managers.
About two dozen residents turned out for the meeting Monday,which began at 8 a.m. Those who spoke at the podium during thepublic comment portion of the meeting were split in theirassessment of Vagnozzi.
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“I don’t know what’s going on, obviously, with the employees anddissatisfaction,” Heidi Hall told the council Monday. “There is avery dark cloud here in Upland. I really would like for you to allcome together and lift it. I know you can do it.”
Vagnozzi came in second to Manis during the 16-month interviewprocess that preceded the latter’s appointment, according toRalph Cavallo. Her appointment in November prevented anotherlong search for a top administrator, he told the council.
“Everyone knows Jeannette is more than qualified,” he said. “Idon’t know why we’re doing this.”
The fact thatVagnozzi’sappointment was oneof the last acts of alame duck councilremains an issue withsome city leaders andresidents.
“We did have a changeof leadership, threenew council memberssince December,”Councilwoman JaniceElliott said Mondayafternoon. “Prior to thelast meeting of theformer council, they voted 4-1 – and I had the one vote that wasno – to hire Jeanette Vagnozzi as city manager. My dissent wasthat the new City Council should be the one to choose the citymanager.”
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VICTORVILLE — A second Cardenas supermarket is scheduled to opensometime this summer in the High Desert, which is good news for many whosay they love the brand.
The City of Victorville recently announced that Cardenas is remodeling a vacantcommercial building on Palmdale Road for its new store, which will include anew design concept to enhance the customer shopping experience.
The new store will occupy a building once used by Ralphs supermarket, near thecorner of Palmdale and El Evado roads, just west of Interstate 15.
The supermarket will include a “Tortilleria” with nixtamal style productsprepared daily, and a “Panaderia” with many traditional Mexican baked breadand pastry products.
Cardenas officials said each of their stores offers traditional flavors, fruits andvegetables from across the U.S., Mexico, Central and South America, and otherdifferent countries.
“If you are too busy to cook or need some food on the go, simply walk into ourkitchen department and pick up some comfort food and everyday favorites,” theCardenas website said. “For the widest variety of flavors, specialties and qualityproducts from Latin America, step into a Cardenas Market near you today.”
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April 29, 2019
California has more organized hate groups than any other state — it has chapters for street-fighting skinheads and black nationalists, Holocaust deniers and Muslim haters.
But the perpetrator of a mass shooting at a synagogue near San Diego on Saturday, lawenforcement officials said, was not a member of any of them.
Instead he was the product of a landscape that is both increasingly restive and fractured, wherehate groups have gone underground, avoiding social gatherings and concerts, and newcomersneed only the internet to become self-radicalized and violent.
[Read more here about how rabbis, imams and pastors must now take measures to prepare for thehorrors of mass shootings.]
Lone actors who come out of the blue present a daunting challenge for law enforcement, even in aregion where investigators have a solid grasp on extremist organizing networks. The attacker onSaturday, identified by officials as John Earnest, 19, claimed to have been inspired by last month’smassacre of Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, by a self-radicalized white supremacist andto have begun planning his attack just four weeks ago.
“This guy was nothing before,” said a local law enforcement official who requested anonymitybecause he was not authorized to speak about active investigations. “So how many others arehaving the same ideas?”
It is frustratingly hard to know.
On Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had thwarted a terrorist attack by a manwho had recently converted to Islam and wanted to exact vengeance for the Christchurch killingsby targeting white nationalists, Jews, churches and military bases. The suspect, an Americanmilitary veteran, aimed for “multiple targets” at several locations in Southern California,including Huntington Beach, the port of Long Beach and the Santa Monica Pier.
The F.B.I. also said it had received a tip about an online threat only minutes before the synagogueshooting in Poway, near San Diego, too late to stop it.
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Mr. Earnest, like the gunmen in New Zealand and at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last October, drewinspiration and support from the virulent bigotry that flourishes in online communities like8Chan, where layers of self-referential memes and jargon can appear almost indecipherable tooutsiders, making it that much more difficult to track and identify people drifting towardextremism.
Such forums offer “instant feedback,” said Keegan Hankes, a senior research analyst who studiesright-wing extremism at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“We’ve started referring to them as the apocalyptic community, these online groupings that aremarked by a sense of urgency” about the perceived threat to white dominance, he said.
Even so, Mr. Hankes said, the suspected Poway gunman’s own timeline of radicalization isremarkably fast, and should be looked at in light of whatever other factors existed in Mr.Earnest’s private life. “This happened over 18 months on 8Chan, according to the manifesto,” saidMr. Hankes.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, left, led the interment service. Rabbi Goldstein has called for the government to step inand pay for added security at places of worship. Hilary Swift for The New York Times
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Federal law enforcement officials said they have noticed a worrisome trend among both radicalIslamic terrorists and domestic terrorists: There is less time between the moment they fall underthe spell of dangerous online propaganda and the moment that they commit violence. Expertsrefer to this interval as “flash to bang.”
Monitoring social media for domestic terror threats is tricky, however, because hate is not illegal.The F.B.I. cannot open a terror investigation based on activity protected by the First Amendment.The Justice Department has long discouraged collecting information that might be consideredfree speech and surfing for content like what was published on social media by this most recentgunman, or that of the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman, said James W. McJunkin, a former topF.B.I. counterterrorism official.
That makes agents more dependent on tips from the public, such as those that came in minutesbefore Saturday’s shooting. “The F.B.I. thanks the alert citizens who saw and reported the post,”the agency said in a statement.
As of late last year, the F.B.I. was tracking about 900 domestic terrorism cases, while another4,000 fall under international terrorism, according to a senior bureau official. Two regions ofgrowing concern are the West Coast and the states around the Great Lakes, where the agency isseeing more arrests than in other parts of the country, the official said.
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Federal agencies have come under criticism for not giving sufficient attention to the dangers ofright-wing extremism. Earlier this month the acting homeland security secretary, KevinMcAleenan, announced the creation of the Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention,which he said would allow the agency to more efficiently coordinate resources with state andlocal communities.
Mr. Earnest is expected to be arraigned Tuesday on charges of murder in the death of Lori GilbertKaye, 60, and three counts of attempted murder, all four of which have been classified as hatecrimes. He is also charged with setting fire to a mosque in Escondido, about 15 miles north ofPoway, in March.
On Sunday, the rabbi of the synagogue, Yisroel Goldstein, called for the government to step in andpay for added security, like armed guards, at places of worship. On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsomannounced that his budget would propose to increase a grant program to help nonprofit groups atrisk of hate crimes pay for security measures, to $15 million from $4.5 million.
“The state will do what the federal government is not doing,” he said.
There was a heavy police presence on Monday as hundreds of grieving people gathered at thefuneral of Ms. Kaye.
“The hate right now in California, and the whole country, it’s worse than I ever remember,” saidJoseph Lind, 63, of La Jolla. “I’m not sure who to blame. Do we blame the parents? Do we blamethe schools? Do we blame the administration? I don’t know. I just don’t know if it’s going to getbetter or worse. Something like this shouldn’t happen in a community like Poway.”
A makeshift memorial outside the service for Ms. Kaye. Hilary Swift for The New York Times
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California eclipses all other states when it comes to hate groups, according to the SouthernPoverty Law Center, which tracks them, and it has the largest racist skinhead population in thecountry, predominantly in Southern California, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
According to an audit released on Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League, a civil-rights groupthat has been tracking and fighting anti-Semitism for over a century, California led the nation inanti-Semitic incidents in 2018, followed closely by New York. In 2017, California also had thehighest number of anti-Muslim incidents, 871, according to the Council of American-IslamicRelations, a leading civil rights group. That was more than double the number in the second-highest state, Texas, with 395. New York had 232, and there were 145 in Florida.
California is the most populous state and has among the highest Jewish and Muslim populations.
One of the most deadly attacks in recent years came in 2015, when a husband and wife inspired byforeign Islamic extremists opened fire on a gathering at a government office in San Bernardinothat left 14 dead. The couple was not on the radar of federal authorities.
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The Anti-Defamation League’s audit found that more than 100 incidents in California wereattributed to anti-Semitic robocalls that Patrick Little, a white supremacist who ran anunsuccessful campaign for United States Senate against Dianne Feinstein, is accused of leaving.Mr. Little received 1.3 percent of the vote, or 89,867 votes.
On the calls, the voices of a man and woman accused Senator Feinstein of being an Israeli citizen,a common anti-Semitic trope insinuating that American Jews are disloyal to the United States.The calls promised that Mr. Little would “rid America of the traitorous Jews.”
A California law enforcement agent who monitors white supremacists said that the movementhas been extremely active in the state over the past three years, since a Ku Klux Klan rally inAnaheim ended in a bloody clash between Klan members and anti-fascist counter protesters.Similar skirmishes took place at the state capital building in Sacramento in summer 2016, as wellas in Huntington Beach, Berkeley and San Bernardino the following year. “It’s the most activeI’ve seen in my career,” the official said.
Southern California in particular has long figured among the nation’s most active regions forextremism, a dynamic driven in part by the region’s rapid demographic change over the past fewdecades, the lasting influence of white supremacist gangs in California prisons, and a tradition ofright-wing radicalism and anti-immigrant sentiment that goes back decades.
In the 1980s, Tom Metzger, a San Diego County resident and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon,who once led vigilante border patrols with David Duke, created White Aryan Resistance, a groupwhich later would be investigated by the F.B.I. for attacks on Jewish organizations and connectedwith the murder of an African immigrant.
In recent years, San Diego has been the center of gravity for the Western Hammerskins, achapter of the largest skinhead gang in the United States. In 2012, Wade Michael Page, a member,killed six worshipers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
A vigil was held for Ms. Kaye at Poway High School on Monday. Hilary Swift for The New York Times
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Identity Evropa, a white supremacist group that has since rebranded itself as the AmericanIdentity Movement, was founded by Nathan Damigo, a former Marine who was radicalized afterhe served a prison term stemming from robbing an Iraqi immigrant cabdriver after a drunkennight out in San Diego.
The state’s diversity has increased tolerance among many people who live and work close toothers who are different from themselves, but for others it has fueled a sense of alienation andthreat, said Lawrence Rosenthal, the chairman of the Center for Right-Wing Studies at theUniversity of California at Berkeley.
“California is obviously the largest state, and it is already majority minority. Which is thenationalists’ and the nativists’ nightmare,” he said.
Reporting was contributed by Adeel Hassan, Adam Goldman, Timothy Williams, Jennifer Medina, Tim Arango, Zolan Kanno-
Youngs and Candice Reed.
Follow Shaila Dewan and Ali Winstone on Twitter: @shailadewan and @awinston.
A version of this article appears in print on April 29, 2019, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: In Sea of Hate, Officials Strain ToSpot Threats
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Shocked by Saturday's mass shooting at the Chabad of Poway, Gov. Gavin Newsomproposed Monday to significantly increase funds for security at synagogues, mosques andother religious institutions in California that face threats of hate-motivated violence.
Newsom announced his support after the 14-member California Legislative JewishCaucus made an urgent request for $15 million to be budgeted this year for the NonprofitSecurity Grant Program, which only provided $500,000 last year.
The money would go to nonprofit organizations including religious congregations,private and nonprofit schools, LGBTQ organizations, and women’s health groups to payfor reinforced doors and gates, high intensity lighting and alarms, security guards andother protective measures.
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The funding announcement came the same day that authorities revealed they staved off aterror plot targeting Jews, churches and police officers, but it was not immediately clearwhether Newsom’s decision was influenced by that news. It also came before the Anti-Defamation League released a report Monday documenting that the number of Jewishpeople targeted in anti-Semitic assaults had tripled last year.
“We all must call out hate — against any and all communities — and act to defend thosetargeted for their religious beliefs, who they love or how they identify,” Newsom saidMonday. “An attack against any community is an attack against our entire state — whowe are and what we stand for.”
The governor said he will include the $15 million in his revised spending plan for thefiscal year starting July 1 that will be unveiled next month.
If approved by the Legislature, the funding would be the largest ever under the Nonprofit
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Security Grant Program. The money was first proposed by lawmakers earlier this month,but they said Monday that it has taken on new urgency since a gunman entered asynagogue on Saturday and shot four people, including a 60-year-old woman who died inthe attack.
Hundreds of applications for security grants have gone unfunded, including requests lastyear for $7.5 million.
The money has been provided during the last four years in competitive grants of up to$75,000 each to nonprofit institutions. The lawmakers said Monday that they want thegrants to be increased to up to $200,000.
The state has provided $4.5 million since 2015 — including $2 million that first year —while a related federal program has provided $12 million in security grants in California.
The increase is justified, lawmakers said, because of an increase in violent hate crimesincluding the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and a massshooting this year at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the bombings ofchurches and hotels on Easter in Sri Lanka.
The Anti-Defamation League’s report on Monday, which came after Newsom’sannouncement, examined the 1,879 anti-Semitic incidents last year that the ADLidentified by combing through reports from police, victims and news publications. Thattotal was the third-highest since the annual accounting began four decades ago.
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The budget request endorsed by Newsom is not the only pending proposal to addresshate crimes.
Newsom said the budget he released in January also included $10 million for theMuseum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and $2 million for the California Museum inSacramento, which houses the Unity Center, to help increase educational efforts toreduce anti-Semitism.
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Newsom also said Monday that he will work with the Commission on Peace OfficerStandards and Training to make sure training is up to date in dealing with hate crimes.
Newsom noted that the Trump administration has made deep cuts in federal funding tocombat domestic terrorism. Newsom said that if the president will not take action toshield Californians from that threat, the state will “step into that position of leadership.”
“Anti-Semitism is on the rise,” Newsom said. “To be fair, it was on the rise before Trumptook the oath of office. But they have accelerated it. Hate has been weaponized.”
The Jewish Caucus welcomed the governor’s commitments.
“With the stark rise in hate-motivated violence, we must do more to secure gatheringplaces to prevent future attacks, and educate people on the dangers of anti-Semitism andhate of all forms,” said Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), chairman of the caucus.
Newsom told reporters at the Capitol that he was relieved that the FBI was able to thwarta potential terrorist attack in Long Beach, in part by having an undercover operationrespond to social media posts by the suspect.
The governor said such cases raise concerns about hate speech on the internet and theneed for such posts to be better policed by those who run social media sites. "I think itwould be in the interest of the (tech) leaders to come up here and work with us in acollaborative spirit so we don’t have to legislate," Newsom said.
The news conference by the governor and several legislators was held just hours after the
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state Legislature marked a day of remembrance for Holocaust victims from World WarII.
"We are all one humanity, and the fact that we forget that is part of the reason we need toremember it today," Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) said during thememorial ceremony on the Senate floor, noting she had relatives who died in theHolocaust.
Because the Legislature marked Holocaust Memorial Day during its session Monday,some Holocaust survivors and family members were at the Capitol and voiced supportfor the increase in funding for security measures.
Newsom was scheduled to attend a private event with the Holocaust survivors laterMonday.
“Another tragic shooting has hit home,” said Senate Leader Toni Atkins (D-San Diego),adding there is “No place in our community for hate. I believe San Diego is better thanthis. Our hearts are with the Chabad of Poway Synagogue families and our larger Jewishcommunity.”
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'A level of obstruction I've never seen before': Humboldt County auditor says she was blocked from auditing payroll
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By SHOMIK MUKHERJEE | smukherjee@times-
Karen Paz Dominguez, the Humboldt County auditor-controller,says county Human Resources has denied her office access topayroll documents. (The Times-Standard file)
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Karen Paz Dominguez, Humboldt County’s electedauditor-controller, is tasked with reviewingcountywide finances and accounts, serving as the“chief accounting officer” of the county.
For some time now, she hasn’t been able to fullycarry out those duties, leaving open the possibilityof serious financial misuse, she said.
In February, Paz Dominguez said she discoveredher office had been denied access to the county’spayroll documents, leaving paychecks for over1,000 county employees free from supervision oraudit.
Paz Dominguez knew the county’s payroll divisionhad been moved in November from the auditor-controller’s office to the purview of the HumanResources department. She had arranged to meetwith Human Resources director Lisa DeMatteo thenext day to iron out the transition process.
But the language of the transition, as approved bythe Board of Supervisors, mostly meant thatHuman Resources would oversee the preparing ofpaychecks, not that the department would retainfull and final oversight over payroll.
Now, Paz Dominguez found she was no longerallowed to view payroll documents to make surethey were legitimate, she said.
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payroll folders right away,” Paz Dominguez wrotein a Feb. 14 email to DeMatteo. “We are theinternal auditing function of the county and we willretain access to all payroll documents regardlessof where the ‘payroll’ staff moves to.”
“The information has now been jeopardized aspayroll staff has deleted and/or moved records,”Paz Dominguez continued. “The wholeimplementation of the move of payroll staff was sopoorly planned that I am now considering this athreat to the public’s interest.”
Twenty minutes later, she received a response.
“Good afternoon Karen,” DeMatteo wrote. “This isa great topic for our conversation tomorrow.”
But when the meeting took place, it didn’t amountto much, Paz Dominguez says. She laid out herjob description, telling DeMatteo the auditor-controller needs to see payroll to prevent errors oroversights in the accounting.
She says DeMatteo didn’t directly address whatshe said, instead offering only that she disagreedwith Paz Dominguez’s interpretation of how theprocess works.
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“What I’ve experienced in the auditor-controller’soffice (with Human Resources) is a level ofobstruction that I’ve never seen before,” PazDominguez said in an interview.
In California government code, the auditor-controller’s job is to “exercise a generalsupervision … over the accounting forms and themethod of keeping the accounts of all offices,departments and institutions” using county funds.
At a November meeting, the county Board ofSupervisors approved transferring the “humanresources functions” of the county’s payroll divisionto the Human Resources department, a move thatplaced staff positions in charge of payroll underHR’s purview.
Much of the staff report for the agenda itemconcerns the specifics of transferring staffpositions, including the various responsibilitiesbehind “running payroll” for the county. The staffreport makes no mention of whether the transitionwould limit the auditor-controller’s future access topayroll documents.
Without the auditor’s oversight, Paz Dominguezsaid, the door is left open to financial misuse ormisconduct. A fictitious employee could be createdand paid any sum of money, she said, and no onewould be able to audit the payroll and find it.
In response to the Times-Standard’s questionsabout the agenda item, the auditor-controller’saccess to county finances and Paz Dominguez’sversion of events, county spokesperson SeanQuincey sent an emailed statement.
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In it, Quincey writes that the auditor-controller has“access to all the county’s monies and accountsfor auditing functions within her office’s area ofresponsibility.” The county often uses outsideauditors for the county’s books and financialstatements, he said.
“That said, all county departments create andmaintain various financial and accountingdocuments and spreadsheets as a part of theirown operational functions,” he continues.
“Sometimes two (or more) departments haveoverlapping responsibilities for the same monies oraccounts. This is typical, especially ingovernments where there are often a series ofchecks and balances around the spending ofpublic funds.”
He noted that payroll responsibilities had beentransitioned from the auditor-controller’s office toHuman Resources — a process that’s “stillongoing,” he said.
“So, this is an area where there are someoverlapping areas of responsibility that will likelyhave less overlap moving forward.”
At a November meeting, thecounty Board of Supervisorsapproved transferring the payrolldivision from the auditor-controller’s office to HumanResources. (The Times-Standard file)
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Because of county policy in responding to mediarequests, DeMatteo was not reached for commenton Paz Dominguez’s account. Neither was countyadministrative officer Amy Nilsen, who PazDominguez said has acted as a mediator betweenthe two parties.
Nilsen and other county staff advised PazDominguez to take DeMatteo out to lunch to settlethe conflict, Paz Dominguez said.
“It’s all ‘building relationships,’” she said. “Youshouldn’t have to take someone out to lunch to getthem to comply.”
Brian Muir, the auditor-controller for ShastaCounty, said moving payroll to Human Resources
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should never mean blocking the auditor’s accessfrom pertinent financial documents.
“She’s the chief financial officer,” said Muir, acounty auditor for two decades. “You can’t havepeople creating checks and not allowing theauditor to audit their work. That’s crazy.”
He and Paz Dominguez shared the samesentiment about the auditor-controller’s role: In theevent of a financial mishap, it’s their job on theline.
“I take it personally when someone stands in theway of me doing my job,” she said. “I can bepersonally liable for wrongdoing. You are not goingto sit there with me when I have to sit there withthe state auditor. You’re not going to be with me inthe unemployment line when I get booted off andlose re-election.”
Paz Dominguez was elected to her office last Junefollowing a tumultuous election cycleuncharacteristic of an auditor-controller race.
Weeks before the election, staff in the auditor-controller’s office authored a letter criticizing PazDominguez — then the assistant auditor-controller— for creating a hostile work environment in theoffice.
In the letter, staff members said Paz Dominguez“fostered an atmosphere of hostility, retaliation andbullying” in the workplace. The county publiclyreleased the letter after it was leaked online, butredacted the names of the employees who signedit.
Some of those employees worked in the payroll
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division, Paz Dominguez said.
“I started asking questions about payroll,specifically the security of documents and theaccountability of calculations,” she said. “That wasnot appreciated by payroll staff.”
She said she understood the backlash.
“It’s human nature,” she said. “When you have ajob and someone comes out of nowhere and startssaying all this stuff, you don’t like it.”
She speculated that the Board of Supervisors’decision to transfer the payroll division, whichoccurred while Paz Dominguez was on maternityleave, stemmed from the earlier hostility.
But none of that, she emphasized, should preventher from doing her job.
“The auditor-controller is just another form of lawenforcement,” she said. “If someone is activelyobstructing that, it’s a real problem.”
Shomik Mukherjee can be reached at 707-441-0504.
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By Brad Williams.
As California’s state legislators return to session, one of the issues they will be considering is legislation
that will allow the state to take full advantage of Opportunity Zones investment in some of the poorer
areas of the state. Opportunity Zones (OZs) provide a new tax incentive to spur private investments in
communities of need.
The program addresses a major challenge facing California and the rest of the nation — a profoundly
uneven economic recovery that is producing great wealth and income in a distinct minority of
communities, while leaving many others to struggle with chronically high levels of poverty and
unemployment, and lagging incomes. It addresses this inequity by incentivizing investment in
struggling communities through the tax code.
How the program works
Investors may defer federal taxation on capital gains by investing the proceeds through a qualified
opportunity fund (QOF) into an opportunity zone. Taxation of the gains rolled into the QOFs is deferred
until the taxpayer sells his/her shares, but no later than December 2026. In addition, 10 percent of the
capital gains rolled into the QOFs are excluded from taxation if the shares in the QOF are held for five
years, and by 15 percent if the shares are held seven years. Capital gains on the investments made
through the QOFs and held for at least 10 years are permanently excluded from taxpayer income.
The challenge facing California
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California has designated 879 OZs under the federal program. According to data released by the
California Department of Finance, the average poverty rate in these zones is 34 percent, and median
household incomes are $37,000, more than 40 percent below the statewide average.
Normally, we would expect California to be an attractive venue for federal tax-favored investments,
given its favorable location, proximity to major markets, and its overall economic strength and
diversity. However, California’s high 13.3 percent maximum tax rate on capital gains (nearly two thirds
of the federal rate) presents a major obstacle.
Unless California conforms to the federal law, much of the federal incentive will be offset by increased
state tax liabilities that would arise at the time of the investment, making California a less attractive
location for OZ investment than other states.
The benefits and costs of state conformity
Capital Matrix Consulting was commissioned to estimate the net economic and fiscal impacts of state
conformity to federal OZ law. Our detailed modeling approach and results are shown here. A key
element of our approach was to estimate the effects of state conformity on the after-tax rate of return
on OZ investments, and ultimately on the amount of incentivized investment occurring in California.
Key findings
We found that California conformity to federal OZ law would have major incentive-related impacts,
producing between $745 million and $1.2 billion in new economic activity related to 2019 investments.
In subsequent years, we would expect these impacts to moderate as deferral incentives lessen after
2021, but still remain in the $500 million to $700 million range.
The state would give up some tax dollars related to investments that would have occurred even in the
absence of conformity. However, these tax reductions would be highly leveraged: each dollar of state
revenue reduction would specifically generate between $10-$66 of private investment in low-income
communities in California. Local governments would benefit from significant additional taxes related to
billions of dollars in newly incentivized OZ investments and related economic activity.
California is one of few states that has not yet enacted legislation conforming to the federal program.
We know that Governor Newsom likes OZs. We believe that as legislators learn more about the
program, they’ll make sure California is part of this program.
Originally posted at the California Economic Summit.
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