Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 17:44:02 Pacific Daylight Time
Subject: Public Comments - May 10, 2022 City Council Mee7ng Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 4:58:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: Richard Bruce
To: City of Trinidad
Discussion/AcEon Agenda Item #2- I want to reiterate my support for approving the amended STR ordinance which I detailed in my comments to the Council last month. Please keep the process moving.
Discussion/AcEon Agenda Item #5- I support the appointment of Jacques Beaupre to serve on the STR Advisory CommiQee. Jacques is a long 7me Trinidad resident with no connec7ons to the lodging industry. His appointment will bring the commiQee back into balance between residents and STR industry representa7ves. He is also one of the few Trinidad residents who have shown an interest in and aQended STR CommiQee mee7ngs.
RespecSully.
Dick Bruce
April 12, 2022
CITY OF TRINIDAD
ATTENTION: City Council, for April 12, 2022 Meeting
Do you know what extortion is?
Getting money through force or threats.
The City says, settle our litigation against your business for $5,000.00 or we are going to trial and it’ll cost you thousands and thousands more. Well I can’t afford that — not financially, and not morally.
The City is willing to waste my goodwill, hurt my business, hurt our guests, and waste ten’s of thousands of our taxpayer dollars in litigation, for what? More money?
Every resident should be saying: “That’s our money!” “This is over!” “We want every damn bit of evidence that the Council has to be made public. We want to hear what happened and why. We want to see how the Council wasted our money and hurt our businesses. We want to know everything before one more dime is spent for an attorney’s benefit.” Accountability shouldn’t sound bad. Unless some of the things being done, when exposed, might make them look bad, why hide anything? Transparency is not political. Why hide information?
Information is power.
Manipulating and hiding information in Closed City Council Sessions, expensive City litigation, and outright Council misreporting is certainly not being transparent. Why hide anything?
When litigation facts are uncovered, you’ll see the truth. If you don’t see it, you’re either delusional, or worse, complicit.
I misplaced my faith and trust in our city government. Trust has been broken, because they lied. Only transparency and fairness will lead to truth and accountability.
Councilman Jack West voluntarily and knowingly mislead and obstructed the truth and this needs to be publicly investigated by this City council.[1]
Without reviewing any evidence, the City Manager corroborated Councilman Jack West’s misreporting and further said he doesn’t see it as a violation. With this now evident, pre-judicial bias, and his being the City council’s employee, we are fortunate the City manager doesn’t preside over charges of councilmen ethics violations. Appropriately, he should only present them to the Public and City council at the next meeting.
I request the Council add an agenda item and publicly hear my formally filed allegations and review evidence at the next City of Trinidad Council Meeting as provided for in our City’s Code of Ethics.
Sincerely,
Mike Morgan, Owner
Trinidad Bay Bed And Breakfast Hotel
560 Edwards Street
Footnote:
1. MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL JOINT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL, PLANNING
COMMISSION, AND SHORT-TERM RENTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2020
PDF Pages 26 & 27 of 130, located at City of Trinidad website URL:
https://trinidad.ca.gov/sites/trinidad.ca.gov/files/library/01-26-2021%20cc%20packet.pdf City Council Comments included:
Grover: I want to hear if the Planning Commission needs more guidance from the City Council.
Johnson (Planning Commission): What was the result of the Board of Supervisors meeting on December 15, 2020 regarding considering limiting short-term vacation rentals for all but documented essential personnel during the Pandemic through an Emergency Ordinance or through Public Health Order? 12-15-2020 Joint Meeting Minutes
West: Trinidad residents called in. There was no action taken by the Board of Supervisors.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 16:54:37 Pacific Daylight Time
Subject: Please correct this error in the April minutes at tonight’s mee4ng. Please remind the council mee4ng transcriber(s) of our business’s lawful name — Trinidad Bay Bed And Breakfast Hotel.
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 9:26:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: Michael trinidadbaybnb.com
To: Trinidad City Manager
CC: City of Trinidad, [email protected], Steve Ladwig, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Innkeeper Trinidadbaybnb@iCloud, Mike Morgan
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Eli,
Please correct this error in the April minutes at tonight’s mee4ng. Please remind the council mee4ng transcriber(s) of our business’s lawful name — Trinidad Bay Bed And Breakfast Hotel.
They, like all City of Trinidad officials and employees, must use our full name per our cease and desist demand leTer the City and City aTorneys have received and abide by.
You correctly stated our business name, thank you. We have your video statement from the April mee4ng posted on our social media.
I will bring up addi4onal needed correc4ons to what has been aTributed to me tonight.
I’ll take this opportunity to also men4on my offense at the further disrespect I’m receiving from both Gabe and Jennifer. Par4cularly, their inappropriate, snide and unnecessary comments mischaracterizing my City leTers and emails. I can send a copy of Gabe’s video clip from April’s council mee4ng, and our (Tyler and I) encounter yesterday with Jennifer should be be addressed too.
Thanks for your 4me and aTen4on to these maTers, Mike
Sent from Mike Morgan, Owner
Trinidad Bay Bed & Breakfast Hotel
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