November 19, Monrovia police arrested Todd Lambert 34, a Monrovia fire fighter on one count of grand theft by embezzlement.
It is believed Lambert embezzled more than $50,000 from the Monrovia Firefighters Association union between July 1, 2007 and August 31, 2009, according to court documents.
This arrest came as no surprise to Monrovia City Watch considering [...]

Monrovia City Watch found out the settlement amount in spite of the city’s attempt to hide the facts by signing a confidentiality agreement with Ramirez.
 
Will the police officials who did nothing to stop the abuse be dismissed and sued for negligence?
 
Will Sgt. Daniel Verna be sued to recover the community’s losses?
 
In most other cities the [...]

 Every year the Monrovia Chamber of Commerce (MCC) receives close to $50,000.00 from the city’s general fund to provide specified contracted services to the city and businesses in the city…(see contract).
 
 Is MCC fulfilling the terms of that contract?
 

The contract calls for a business directory but the MCC only provides a Member Directory.
The contract calls for [...]

Yesterday, Dorothy Kelty emailed the CMF board this report:
 
 “7/9/09, Dear CMF Board, An incident report was filed with the PD tonight, regarding Lance’s attempted intimidation of me today, by threatening to call the police because I disagreed with his reasoning on withholding the addresses or city of residence on the Membership List and asked him [...]

At last nights council meeting a group of MFA personnel showed up wearing red T-shirts and not looking very happy. Their union leader went to the Podium to speak after the budget presentation to the council by city manager Scott Ochoa.
 
The tenor of the statements made by the MFA rep were not ones of friendliness [...]

City Clerk Linda Proctor announced at last nights council meeting that she would be retiring this October from her job as the City Clerk and the Elected Office of City Clerk.
 
In a statement to the council Linda said that she had planned to remain in her elected position after her retirement from her employed position [...]

It was agendized as the “2009-11 Fiscal Years Budget – Department Presentations”
 
Not much of a budget report.  Scott Ochoa would have been embarrassed if he had any idea of how his department heads should present a budget to the governing body whose job it is to approve that budget.
 
It was a show and tell about [...]

At the Last City Council Meeting, the Council, meeting and acting as the Redevelopment Agency, approved a loan in the amount of $150,000.00 to a new business called London’s Bar & Grille (London’s), 419 South Myrtle Avenue.  The terms of the loan called for the loan to be repaid with funds from the sales tax [...]

“From The City Manager’s Desk” Weekly Report- Friday, May 22, 2009
State Special Election Ends with a Whimper
  
“a Governor and Legislature unable and unwilling to make decisions or provide leadership because the electorate has spent the 30 years stripping them of authority.”

Scott with his typical, public servant mentality chooses to blame the people who make it [...]