Random Reportings

ABSTRACT: Random Reportings on Attorney Michael Stamp and former Carmel managers, CARMEL MISMANAGEMENT? Letter by Carmelite Barbara Stiles and Special Tax Measure – Carmel Valley Fire Protection District are presented with COMMENT and NOTES on selected reportings.

• “On the plaintiff side, local attorney Michael Stamp…also represented several former Carmel managers who settled with the city around their terminations under Guillen.”
(Source: Six Degrees of Scandal The Monterey County domino effect, Kera Abraham & Zachary Stahl, Monterey County Weekly, August 27, 2009)

COMMENT: Attorney Michael Stamp is currently representing Carmel-by-the-Sea Human Resources Manager Jane Miller in her lawsuit against the City alleging sex-based and age-based discrimination, retaliation in the workplace and sexual harassment; Stamp represented Scott Miller, Jane Miller’s husband, in his lawsuit for wrongful termination against the City of Pacific Grove; and now we learn he represented “several former Carmel managers.”

• Letters
CARMEL MISMANAGEMENT?
By Barbara Stiles | Carmel

Highlights include, as follows:
“...four years of general fund surplus and reserves of $10.5 million” vs. City’s failure to pay “outstanding bills,” “Carmel’s roads, buildings and parks seriously lacking in repairs and general maintenance” and ”Carmel selling off valuable city assets like parkland, and cultural resources...”

City’s claim it cannot afford to rehabilitate or maintain Flanders Mansion is contradicted by the mayor’s facts.

City expenditures on lawsuits and election represent “an unconscionable waste of taxpayer dollars.”

• Special Tax Measure – Carmel Valley Fire Protection District
Measure F, 86% YES, 15% NO.

COUNTY OF MONTEREY
SPECIAL ALL MAIL ELECTIONS
August 25, 2009
Semi-Final Official Report 1a

Measure F
9/9 100.00%
Vote Count: YES 1,951 (85.53%) NO 330 (14.47%)
Vote Count Total: 2,281 (100.00%)

NOTES:
• Measure F, support for ambulance service by the Carmel Valley Fire Protection District, required two-thirds voter approval for passage.

• Passage of Measure F is anticipated to “bring the total ambulance-supporting fee to about $150 per household, which generates about $600,000 for the service.”
(Source: 9-1-Win Carmel Valley voters solidly back ambulance tax, Kera Abraham, Monterey County Weekly, August 27, 2009)

• The Carmel Valley Fire Protection District and the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea comprise Carmel Regional Fire Ambulance, a joint powers authority which provides ambulance services to Carmel-by-the-Sea and Carmel Valley.

• Consultants for the Carmel Valley Fire Protection District, which has a $1 million budget shortfall, “determined it was subsidizing the city by doing the billing, human resources and vehicle maintenance work for ambulance services," Fire Chief Mike Urquides says.
(Source: Poor Little Rich City Carmel balks on bills from ambulance district, elections department, Kera Abraham, Monterey County Weekly, July 16, 2009)

ADDENDUM:
Special Tax Measure – Carmel Valley Fire Protection District

An all mail ballot election on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 in order to submit a special parcel tax measure before the voters of the District.

The official ballot language of the special tax measure is as follows:

Shall a special property tax increase be approved by voters to fund the continuation of a locally controlled and operated Carmel Valley advanced life support ambulance within the Carmel Valley Fire District. This would amount to $7.50 per service unit per year, averaging an increase of $75 per dwelling, and a corresponding increase in the District’s spending limit, as established by Carmel Valley Fire Protection District Resolution 2009-05.