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Friday, July 30, 2010

Long Beach City Budget Focuses on Wrong End

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Took sometime tonight after a very long day of California Medical Board hearings, to start taking the proposed FY 2010 Budget apart. (Yes, I...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Sacramento Meeting of the California Medical Board

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Am up in very hot Sacramento for the quarterly meeting of the California Medical Board. I serve as a public member appointed by the Senate R...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Rest of the Lobbyists Reporting in Long Beach

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The City Clerk has corrected his release of documents relating to lobbyists who have registered under the City's new lobbyist ordinance....

Who's Is Lobbying Whom? The First Report on Who Is Lobbying in Long Beach

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Check out the report below I received from the City Clerk. It is the first filing of local lobbyists -- who they are and who they represent....
Monday, July 26, 2010

CBS Features 5th Council District Youth Work Program

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 Click on the link to view the news spot CBS-KCAL ran on the 5th Council District Youth Work Program http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=140118@...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Schipske Tried to Get Council to Do Pension Reform 4 years Ago

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Four years ago, in a land not so far away, I proposed several charter amendments that would have dealt with the current financial problems r...

Swearing In Remarks

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Swearing in Remarks
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Need to Dust Off Proposal to Find Corporate Partnerships for City Revenue – Let’s Do What San Diego Does

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San Diego has set out with an aggressive program to lure corporate America to pay up to be the “official” something of the City of San Diego...
Friday, July 23, 2010

July 23 City Manager Weekly Newsletter

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Friday Newsletter 7-23-10

Message from City Manager to City Employees Regarding the Budget

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Dear Employees: Today I released our Proposed Fiscal Year 2011 Budget, and Mayor Foster released his Budget Recommendations. To address o...

Budget and Bronchitis

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Council was given notice late Thursday that the release of the Mayor/City Manager Budget would be at a Friday press conference. Nothing new....
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Swearing In and Other Fun

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I was sworn back into office yesterday by my partner of 30 years, Flo Pickett. My dear friends, Bob and Lela Nelson, drove down from Stockto...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Thank you.

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Would like to thank the resident who sent this letter to the editor: Taking care of business The citizens of the 5th District in Long Be...

City Manager's Latest Newsletter

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Friday Newsletter Final

Reasonably Available Is Standard Used by Other Legislative Bodies

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Look at the LA Times today and you can read the latest polling on just how low elected officials are held. The feeling many Americans have i...
Friday, July 16, 2010

We don't need no stinkin meetings...we can phone it in.

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Hot off the press: Councilman Gary DeLong is off on vacation and will not be at Council this coming Tuesday as the Mayor and several council...

Schipske Launching Summer Youth Program to Clean Up Alleys

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For the second summer, Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske has brought on board to the 5th District team a group of 8 youth who will help clean up ...

Cong. Barney Frank to be Featured Speaker at Democratic Party of Orange County Truman Awards Dinner

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Congressman Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and author of the just passed financial consumer protection law...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

First it was cutting back on the number of council meetings...now it is changing how the Council selects a Vice Mayor

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Hot off the City Council Agenda -- the item proposing reducing the number of council meetings to two a month has been withdrawn.... now the ...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Things Candidates Did not Tell the Voters

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Several of my colleagues who also faced re-election in April are supporting a proposal to reduce the number of council meetings to two a mon...