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Save Fairfax From The Dangerous Encampment
From Joey Shull <[email protected]>
Date Tue 7/15/2025 6:43 AM
To Christine Foster <[email protected]>; Christine Foster <[email protected]> Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Joe Shull. From early 2024 to November of that year, I had to live in the homeless camp in Contratti Park after a serious injury. During that time I came to know one Shaylee Koontz. In the time that I knew her till even today, after having left California, I have received word and made observations of her behavior and mental state and to put it in the mildest/kindest sense she is not mentally healthy and cannot take care of herself.
She’s been known to commonly defecate /urinate/masturbate in public, steal from local establishments and individuals, abuse meth and drink hand sanitizer. She has assaulted various people (myself and friends included) and piles her refuse all around her “living space” (which consists of various dirty/damaged tents and odd mounds of rotting fabric.
It’s my estimation that allowing this to continue is bad for the health of Fairfax, if not bad for her own. Seeing the photographs of her “camp” nauseated me and broke my heart (I helped clean that camp the last time I was there). She is dangerous to her own well-being and to the well being of anyone around her. My personal feeling is that she should be put into mental health custody, evaluated and given treatment so that she can be put on a path to some kind of recovery and to give Contratti Park back to the people of Fairfax (Shaylee isn’t from there, even) and to the children that used to play there.
Thank you for your time
Please include my comments in the
Public Comments section for the July 16, 2025 Fairfax Town Council Meeting related to these items RE:
Special Town Council Meeting Item #1
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL -EXISTING LITIGATION
7)Shaylee Koontz v. Town of Fairfax
United States District Court, Northern District of California And
Regular Town Council Meeting Item
5. Adopt a Resolution to Amend the Land Use, Town Center and Safety Elements of the General Plan.
CEQA: Addendum to the 2023-31 Housing Element Environmental Impact Report” Regards,
Joseph Shull
Sent from my iPhone
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Public Comment for 7/16/25 Town Council Meeting
From Teliha Draheim <[email protected]>
Date Wed 7/16/2025 9:21 AM
To Lisel Blash <[email protected]>; Stephanie Hellman <[email protected]>; Michael Ghiringhelli <[email protected]>; Frank Egger <[email protected]>; Barbara Coler <[email protected]>
Cc Heather Abrams <[email protected]>; Christine Foster <[email protected]> Fairfax Town Council: I am writing to request the following letter be added to the meeting record of public comments for Open Time for Public Expression at the Fairfax Town Council meeting scheduled for July 16, 2025.
Christine Foster: Can you please confirm receipt of this email and acknowledge that my letter containing public comments for Open Time for Public Expression will be included in the Agenda Package for the Fairfax Town Council prior to the meeting scheduled for July 16, 2025.
Thank you,
Teliha Draheim
Mayor Blash, Vice Mayor Hellman and Council Member Coler:
I would like to notify the Council, and submit for public record, that local businesses have been harassed by the Town of Fairfax.
Fairfax Lumber & Hardware and Nave’s Bar reported that they were visited by the fire department for inspections after announcing their support of the recall of Mayor Lisel Blash and Vice Mayor Stephanie Hellman. Newly elected council member, Mike Ghiringhelli, also reported a visit from police at Deer Park Villa soon after he announced his decision to run for Fairfax Town Council. The owners of the Coffee Roastery have experienced unending harassment and citations for their strong support of the recall effort. These appearances and inspections do not appear to be random.
Healthy democracies view their citizens and local businesses as foundational to the community. Business owners have every right to display signage and allow signature gatherers in the vicinity of their business. Opinions on issues may differ, but any effort to interfere is a violation of our right to free speech.
Why then, are local businesses being targeted and boycotted? Vice Mayor Hellman has a documented history of using the power of her position to intimidate residents and those who disagree with her. She has written threatening letters to recall organizers and engaged in punitive actions against Fairfax residents. She was filmed rifling through and photographing the signatures of those who signed the recall petitions in front of Fairfax Lumber & Hardware. During this incident the police were called and a report filed. After the police left, Vice Mayor Hellman was seen rudely “flipping the bird” at volunteers collecting signatures. These actions have been perceived by many as election interference through intimidation.
It is clear that many actions initiated by recent Fairfax Town Councils have not been supported by the voters. A large portion of your constituency just demonstrated how deeply unhappy they actually are with your leadership by submitting 3,589 recall petition signatures (1783 for Blash and 1806 for Hellman), well over the required number to qualify for a recall election. On Monday signatures were verified as sufficient by the Marin County Elections Office.
In November 2024, two former council members were ousted, and two seriously unpopular rent control ordinances were voted out of existence by a majority vote. After the election, the people asked for a voice in selecting our temporary town treasurer and clerk, both elected positions. The three of you voted against the will of the people who took time to express an opinion.
We, the people, observe as three of you systematically hobble the votes of our two recently elected Town Council members, Frank Egger and Mike Ghiringhelli, and limit their ability to put items on the agenda without your approval. I would like to remind you, there is no “royalty” in a democracy. You were not elected to replace the will of the people with your personal ideologies.
During their election campaigns, many who now support the recall initially were some of the strongest supporters of those being recalled. The realization that we invested hope in a vision crafted not to serve us, but to use us, was painful. A quiet rage began growing within our community—awakening a kind of sacred defiance in refusing to be divided any longer by fear, manipulation, or power.
No amount of political “spin” or council propaganda can erase the pain of permitting six storied buildings in residential neighborhoods that will forever change the face of our town, or the pollution of our parks by illegal campers at the expense of families, or wasteful spending on costly consultants and pet projects at the expense of town maintenance, and now the apparent abuse of our local businesses.
Public trust has been exploited, but within this erosion of truth and trust was an awakening. Mayor Blash and Vice Mayor Hellman have been dealt the contemporary equivalent of a tar and feathering by the people of Fairfax.
They have been shown the exit door. Retaliatory actions against the people and local businesses will only sink them further into the tar pit. To quote Fairfax author Annie Lamont, “When you find yourself in a pit, don’t start to furnish it.”
Sincerely,
Teliha Draheim
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Public Comment on Agenda Item #2 Receive Fiscal Year 2023-24 Audit Report Fairfax Town Council July 16, 2025 Meeting: : Please provide all details related to the previously unrecorded 2019 Fairfax $210,000 loan that is described in the Fairfax FY 2023/...
From todd greenberg <[email protected]>
Date Tue 7/15/2025 11:02 AM
To Michael Vivrette <[email protected]>; Talia Friedman <[email protected]> Cc Heather Abrams <[email protected]>; Christine Foster <[email protected]>; Linda Kenton <[email protected]>; Fairfax Town Council <[email protected]> 1 attachment (2 MB)
Item-2.-FY23-24-Audit-Report (1).pdf;
Public Comment on Agenda Item #2 Receive Fiscal Year 2023-24 Audit Report Fairfax Town Council July 16, 2025 Meeting:
Dear Town of Fairfax Finance Director Michael Vivrette and Town of Fairfax Treasurer Talia Friedman,
Please provide all details related to the previously unrecorded 2019 Fairfax $210,000 loan that is described in the Fairfax FY 2023/2024 Audit that is to be presented on July 16, 2025.
Please provide the terms of the loan, including:
1) the loan recipient(s),
2) loan provider,
3) the intended use of the loan,
4) the actual use of the loan,
5) repayment terms,
6) details of any payments that have been made
7) interest rate(s),
8) penalties
9) the actual loan documentation
Please provide details and reasons as to why this loan was not previously recorded.
The existence of this previously unrecorded now apparently $267,574 "loan" raises major questions related to the FY 2023/2024 Audit that is being presented as Agenda Item #2. Receive Fiscal Year 2023-24 Audit Report at the July 16, 2025 Fairfax Town Council Meeting. As such, I ask that the above requested information be provided to Town Council Members and to the public prior to the July 16, 2025 Fairfax Town Council Meeting,
Please also provide any correspondences and journal entries and accounting entries related to or mentioning this loan. I understand that this last request might take more time to research.
Please provide all currently available information to Town Council Members and the public prior to the hearing of Agenda Item #2 on July 16, 2025.
Sincerely Concerned,
Todd Greenberg
PS: for ease of reference, the wording from Agenda 2. Receive Fiscal Year 2023-24 Audit Report ,is pasted below and the yet to be accepted FY2023/2024 Audit is attached. "During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, the Town determined that there was a loan that was entered into
by the Town in fiscal year 2019 that the Town didn’t record. Consequently, the Town recorded prior period
adjustments as follows:
FY 2023 Prior year
previously correction FY 2023
reported restatement restated
General Fund
Loans receivable $210,000 $210,000
Unavailable revenue (210,000) (210,000)
General Fund - impact on fund balance
Governmental Activities
Loans receivable $210,000 $210,000
Net position $57,574 210,000 267,574
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ADDITIONAL Public Comment re July j16, 2025 Fairfax Town Council Meeting: Agenda Item #2 :Receive Fiscal Year 2023-24 Audit Report From todd greenberg <[email protected]>
Date Wed 7/16/2025 3:00 PM
To Christine Foster <[email protected]>; Linda Kenton <[email protected]>; Heather Abrams <[email protected]>; Fairfax Town Council <[email protected]>
Additional Public Comment
re July j16, 2025 Fairfax Town Council Meeting:
Agenda Item #2 :Receive Fiscal Year 2023-24 Audit Report Dear Town of Fairfax Finance Director Vivrette and town of Fairfax Treasurer, Talia Friedman, Town Manager Heather Abrams, and Town Council Members,
During the presentation of tonight's late arriving Town of Fairfax FY 2023/2024 Audit, please provide the public with both written and verbal details and a total of the Federal Funds funds expended during FY 2023/2024 and past Fiscal Years.
Expenditures of Federal Funds and pass through grants and other types of Funds in excess of $750,000 or $1 Million expended (depending on the year), require that the Town to perform a "Single Audit" in compliance with the State of CA's "Single Audit Act".
Given that the FY 2023/2024 Audit notes a previously unrecorded 2019 Loan in the amount of $210,000, that is now even larger, but not clearly detailed to the public, there is real cause for concern about the Town of Fairfax's Finances, a demonstrated need for greater transparency, and for further and complete disclosures to Town Council Members and the public.
I urge you to provide this necessary data to the public tonight, and for the Town Council to not accept this Audit, or the Proposed Budget unless this necessary information is made clear.
Sincerely Comcerned,
Todd Greenberg
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