Switzer, Donna
From: Fikes, Cathy
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 8:45 AM
To: Agenda Alerts
Subject: FW: Comment re item 24, 6-6-23 council meeting From: Dan Jamieson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 8:17 AM
To: CITY COUNCIL <[email protected]>
Subject: Comment re item 24, 6-6-23 council meeting
Comment re item 24, 6-6-23 council meeting
Dear City Council:
The proposed upcoming budget proposal includes four new positions at a cost of $687,000 a year for the city attorney's office.
Please stop this expansion of the city attorney's office.
The city attorney and the council majority have taken it upon themselves to engage in expensive frivolous litigation with the state. The city has already been hit with a $3.5 million legal bill from a prior housing case, and decided to pay out untold millions to the air show promoter. All this after giving city attorney Gates a raise after he drove out prior staff, which cost the city a large age-discrimination settlement.
Now we hear that, in order to save money, the proposed city budget will put residential street paving on a 12- year cycle instead of the current 9-year cycle.
This is unacceptable. Stop the expansion of the city attorney's office. Please stop wasting money on politically motivated lawsuits and taxpayer giveaways to favored interests.
Sincerely,
Dan Jamieson
Huntington Beach SUPPLEMENTAL
COMMUNICATION
Meeting Date**.... 6/6/23
Agendalem No: 24(23-481).
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