Comments by Jack Kirkpatrick
May 30, 2009
To Barry and readers - a misunderstanding? Barry - it was a title to the substance or content of the following paragraph. A "shout out" that you find offensive is CAPPED sentences or in a single phrase within a sentence to emphasize a point. Some tiles are all capped, others are bold and or capped... It depends on the context...! You or your readers may be offended, but you rarely if ever, see me use capped phrases in a sentence. Even MLA guide or Chicago Manual of Style recognizes the usage, but…
May 29, 2009
Parks & core programs represent the greater good & settling hmb lawsuit does not does not represent the greater good During these tough fiscal time the greater good has to be the focus of our core state programs. Parks are but one core program, but it isn't the highest on our priority list. HMB is not a core program or a core city (it is a bedroom and designation city). the bailout is a special interest matter: its a lawsuit settlement cause by one city's poor management of a land use issue…
May 29, 2009
Park & other program cutting has a lot to do with HMB Any money taken from any funding resource to settle HMB's fiscal problems stemming from the land/use fiasco could be money that could be drawn away from parks, education, healh care...! Remember, it was Jerry Hill that said moving money around accounts is a common practice in Sacramento. It is precisely this problem as a practice and diviation of the funding mission that has created our fiscal mess. All one has to do is to look at the Department…
May 29, 2009
Save state programs or save HMB? Why would anyone want to bail out HMB with $18 million to settle a lawsuit and with all the cuts in state programs coming? Why would we want to assume more debt by taking out one or more bonds totaling $18 million to settle a lawsuit? Why would anyone raid the various state and federal funding sources to bail out HMB? Save those funding resources. We do not have to spend money simply because there is money in many accounts. That money is not to settle lawsuits no…
May 20, 2009
HMB Receives $5 Million Insurance Settlements I reread carefully and was intrigue the June 14, 2008, article cited and find it misleading! "The city of Half Moon Bay has received $5 million from the Association of Bay Area Governments insurance pool. Although the city says at least six times in the three-paragraph release that the money will go toward its litigation expenses, this is $5 million that the city did not have before.... Since the city has already budgeted and spent the money for past…
May 20, 2009
*El Día de los Muertos * Was ABAG's $5 million insurance settlement earmarked to settle Chop Keenan lawsuit or was that insurance money used to offset HMB's attorney fees and/or to replenish HMB coffers in other accounts? If it didn't go to Keenan in an escrow account then HMB receive the proceeds for an unintended purpose, legal fees or replenishment other accounts that they borrowed from or something else untoward. It looks like cooking the ethical books and barbecuing the peoples senses who paid…
May 19, 2009
After today's thumping in the polls, the people have spoken about frivolous expenditures from the state legislatures and the executive branch. Paying off HMB's $18 million or is that $20 million has to be done NOW. If you don't, it will become $42 million and you can't say Chop Keenan didn't give you a break. ABAG is not the answer to settle a HMB's lawsuit or any lawsuit either. ABAG was not designed to expend their proceeds to settle lawsuits of this nature. ABAG money (taxpayers money) should…
May 19, 2009
Assembly Member Hill Advancing Political Gridlock or BUSINESS AS USUAL...! It was said “The legislature without the public prompting should stop all this “’…wiggle room [that] is created with loose language in legislation, semantic manipulations, backroom horse trading, and convenient butt-covering ‘forgetfulness.’” It is precisely this BUSINESS AS USUAL practice that is being perpetrated upon the public taxpayers so as to bail out HMB after losing a massive lawsuit. Assembly member…
May 18, 2009
The problem with the legislature and the executive branch is that they have too much flexibility to move money around and parse the release of monies that were not the interest of the laws governing the expenditure of funds. Until there is less flexibility, more transparency and a higher standard of ethics, the public is going to turn down more money for government as they should. The legislature without the public prompting should stop all this "...wiggle room [that] is created with loose language…
May 16, 2009
One could argue that Hill and Yee are neophytes at Sacramentoa politics, but nor new comer come to any position without asking serious questiond about resources, specialist and people who have been front and back yard players when it comes to programs and finances. Someone didn't do their homework and spun their wheels looking for a quick fix. It reminds me of the Pescadero school superintendent was too independent and went off on his own instead of conducting serious contacts with the experts at…
May 15, 2009
Comment 5 by Jack Kirkpatrick on May 14 at 6:04pm • All my comments • Murky? Not anymore! AB 650/SB 650 failed to get out of the Senate Committee today and Hill and Yee were told the I-Bank isn’t the appropriate forum to borrow money. I am glad to see their end run raid on the bank ended. Tomorrow is mid-May and I wonder if the Governor will releases an update to his original budget based upon changes in the state’s revenues, and expenditures or wait intil Tuesday’s election results. Both…
May 14, 2009
Murky? Not anymore! AB 650/SB 650 failed to get out of the Senate Committee today and Hill and Yee were told the I-Bank isn't the appropriate forum to borrow money. I am glad to see their end run raid on the bank ended. Tomorrow is mid-May and I wonder if the Governor will releases an update to his original budget based upon changes in the state’s revenues, and expenditures or wait intil Tuesday's election results. Both the Governor and the Legislature better get cracking and get the budget settled…
May 07, 2009
If it Doesn't Fit, Hill and Yee must Acquit I wonder if anyone would want a bailout bond and will it be a municipal, tax free bond? Hopefully, if HMB gets the money, someone will sue the appropriate funding source for misappropriation if the source does not live up to the purpose and spirit of the funding source. The I-Bank is an inappropriate source and as was Proposition 84. I am sure legislator's, Hill and Yee, will pull a lot of bait and switch schemes to get HMB money by hook or crook. They…
May 07, 2009
Time to Rehabilitate Camp Glenwood and Log Cabin Ranch: Last night's escape: "Authorities are searching for three boys who walked away from the Log Cabin Ranch in unincorporated San Mateo County near La Honda Wednesday night, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office." The "inmates" not just boys, were placed there for rehabilitation using the "enlightened" process of the late 1950s. I reference the public back to a number of threads in this or other forum that speak about previous escapes…
May 06, 2009
I don't blame you for defending HMB and it citizens. However, this has entered well into a 2nd decade of unresolved wrangling. All expenses that the city incurred probably comes close, if not exceeds $18 million to date. It was a bad decision to go into federal court (or any court) where HMB thought that they would get a better deal. The city got a break when the judgement was reduced to $18 million - in retrospect, a good deal for HMB. Although land is less today, it should be assessed at the highest…
May 06, 2009
Stanton Hazelroth, Executive Director, CALIFORNIA INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK May 5, 2009 Dear Sir, Assemblyman Hill with the likely support of Senator Yee are up to their "How to beat the system" to pay off Half Moon Bay's $18 million lawsuit to Chop Keenan! Hill and Yee originally introduced AB 650 and SB 650 to settle a $40 million lawsuit that was negotiated to $18 millon to bailout HMB and tried to get Proposition 84 funds, but were thwarted. Hill announced that $10 million…
May 02, 2009
Political Machination and HMB Bankruptcy: It looks like Assembly and Senate members Hill and Yee are up to their "How to beat the system to pay off Half Moon Bays $18 million lawsuit to Chop Keenan! Today, it was announced that $10 million might be provided by the "California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to help settle the lawsuit." This bank was "created in 1994 'to promote economic revitalization, enable future development, and encourage a healthy climate for jobs in California'…
April 19, 2009
John: None of the other housing projects I cited were dismal failures at first. It took time and when they went down the tubes the homeowners, renters were underfunded to correct normal household repairs. In fact, there are a lot of examples from SF where residents didn't replace batteries in smoke detectors and then there was a fire with loss of life and the city had to pay up. If you go tho the housing projects where I work including Geneva Towers, the Pink Palace in the 1970s and early 80's before…
April 19, 2009
The value of the land should be appraised from the period of the time that HMB violated their agreement, not at today's market value or the value of the 1950's. That is fair and frankly, it was probably worth a lot more than $18 during the claim that was denied because HMB engineered the water problem and they should have to pay punitive and compensatory damages on top of the land value because HMB intentionally created the problem and then said, "Not us?" This case stems from the 1990 and that says…
April 19, 2009
Consider for a moment the long history of high density, low cost housing found in our major cities and even smaller towns that had a military housing turned in low cost housing after WW II (examples are SF and Lancaster, CA). It has been shown that low cost, high density housing has been a dismal failure and a nescience and breeding grounds for crime and drug usage. The Pink Palace and the Geneva Towers are good examples; there is Chicago and St. Louis that imploded there high rises and replaced…
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