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Posted on July 16 at 9:53 p.m.
Weird that the Third District Supervisor, Brooks Firestone, wasn't at this event...
And what is Garamendi doing campaigning for the Peripheral Canal at this moment? What an unrelated jab. We voted that down long ago.
Posted on July 15 at 9:25 p.m.
Not flooding due to issues of terrain and erosion. The right expertise for the right job, and this associate has it. Funny how you were accusing them of being some sort of junior clark a minute ago, RCM. Pretty much you are going to object to whatever knowledge the associate has. But they have far, far more knowledge than the pinheads at the top like Mike Brown, David Ward, and Salud Carbajal, who all probably can be bought for a few thousand dollars donation to their in-laws.
Posted on July 15 at 3:46 p.m.
Ph. D. granted in 2006 from UCSB's Geology Department. Who the deuce cares if they are a Registered Professional Engineer; the modeling of water flows and erosion are not engineering.
The proof of the pressure from above is in the e-mails, pressure without regard for the truth and the facts and the data in this case. Just heavyweight managers trying to intimidate their far better educated staff.
Posted on July 15 at 2:48 p.m.
The `associate' has a Ph.D. in Geology, focusing on the modeling of water flows, RCMeltzer.
The greedy and venal behavior of the top levels of our County management is legend. It is probable that they profit in numerous manners (delayed trusts, master leases, gifts to family members) that are just barely under the radar of all the usual disclosure.
Additionally, the tip the balances of all the EIRs in favor of their patrons by giving bad personnel reviews to honest underlings. This is well known, and anyone who conducts and honest review is risking their career and their livelihood.
Posted on July 14 at 11:04 p.m.
RCMeltzer... Management sure can decide pigs can fly, or that gravity points upward, or that the Moon is made of green cheese, or that you can get AIDS from a toilet seat. And the public can note the absurdity of these proclamations in forums like this one and beat the drum for the ouster of such ignoramuses.
Evidence? Here you go...
``In February, a civil engineering associate with the county’s flood control district pointed out “a fatal flaw assumption in the modeling approach” that Penfield & Smith took, according to Frye, giving him “even less confidence” in the work completed.''
Of course bigshots like Caruso and others want to squelch little people who just happen to know the truth. That's how you make money in this country, and then you use that money to feather the nests of management. Likely Ward, Brown, Black, Carbajal, and Baker have a nice delayed trust set up for them by Caruso that will trigger a few years after they leave their management positions. That is, the trust will kick in only if they successfully suppress the honest underlings who just want the truth to be in the EIR.
And in the end, if there are injuries and deaths due to flooding, Caruso will dump the cost on the taxpayer. Don't believe it? Go read about the Savings and Loan bailout of the 1980's, or the bailouts now underway for the housing industry. Or all the defense contractors who have successfully screwed the overseers of Iraq war procurement.
Our County is no different. Anyone who argues that the process delays them is simply shilling for a ripoff of taxpayers.
Posted on July 14 at 4:53 p.m.
Sure, Mr. Huglin, sure. Did you reassess you land too, or just the improvements?
The plan is simple: do a proper and honest flood control assessment, not one that is compromised by all the pressure from Mike Brown, or Huglin, or LA Lawyers.
Let competent and ethical underlings go about their job in an honest way.
It is Caruso and Huglin who are whining and not honestly facing reality.
Reality presents its own obstacles. To blame those obstacles on the County or the process is the real whining.
Posted on July 14 at 12:41 p.m.
sa1, right on. Mr. Huglin would regain some credibility if he'd volunteer to reassess his property at current market values.
It is never cheaper to try to evade honest evaluation of impacts. The flood control study just needs to be done right.
Mike Brown, the County CEO doesn't know squat about how to do that, nor does Dave Ward nor Dianne Black nor does John Baker; especially troubling is Carbajal's email. Delays are part of a reality-driven process, where real knowledge enters.
All those folks just know how to put pressure on ethical underlings to get goodies for their friends.
When the ethical underlings start to actually implement their ethics, they get bad personnel evaluations and eventually resign.
I hope Brown, Black, Ward, Carbajal, and Baker all consider their options, and have all their pensions revoked. They've been showed to be unethical.
Wonderful that the Indy uncovered all this (with help from others, of course). Pretty much every project in this County is covered with slime.
Posted on July 12 at 8:52 p.m.
What a friggin' sad waste of everything and everybody's time.
Travis Armstrong and the News-Press are just total jokes.
We need a real newspaper and great leadership like in the Storke/Chase days. That leadership came out of true consensuses formed by city leaders.
Now we have a News-Press led by sophomoric losers like Armstrong and McCaw. They've never built any great civic institution in their lives, but they can try to burn them down.
Posted on July 10 at 5:42 p.m.
Marc McGinnes has no evidence whatsoever that `it might cause people to choose methods other than bridge-jumping'.
There is plenty of evidence that suicide-deterrent fencing Caltrans plans to intall will stop suicide. See the Seiden report where 515 people deterred from jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge were studied; 94% of them did not go on to commit suicide another way.
How can the Independent uncritically repeat McGinnes?
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Posted on July 18 at 6:27 p.m.
And RPE is not necessarily the appropriate qualification for developing and judging the models used to estimate flooding danger. The models are not always developed by engineers, but are sometimes developed by scientists. After all, Isaac Newton was not an engineer and didn't have an RPE. However, an RPE definitely employs Newton's laws. But all this beating up on this person's qualifications is BS. As a Ph.D. in a very highly relevant field their view should be respected, and their points should be addressed on their scientific merits. Attacking credentials is a totally rancid screen for evading a scientific discussion.
Now I happen to have a fair amount of experience in SB County approval, and I can tell you, Frank Frost's catching of a briber trying to develop More Mesa was no fluke. The modern bribers now how to stay one micron outside the law. And so do all the highups in this County. It is all but assured that Caruso has the pertinent folks in his pocket.
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