City Attorney's Apparent Dereliction of Duties????

Elsinore Magazine 2 April 17,2005

Elsinore Magazine has been reviewing the Lake Elsinore city attorney’s track record and found that since her tenure from 1997 she has been paid millions of dollars from the city. But Elsinore Magazine has not been able to establish a creditable record of benefit to the city or it’s citizens for those huge bucks of public funds paid. What the city attorney HAS done well, is to sit on or omit the true information that is reported to the Public. In the interest of ”Protecting the city”. For instance...... 1.) The Stadium debt report gave misinformation. Instead of owing approx. 22 million dollars, the actual debt is more like $38 million dollars. 2.) Low/Moderate Income Housing Funding (LMIHF) reported in January 2005 that $500 thousand dollars was said to be in the fund, then later $684 thousand plus.The latest figure is $1.8 million. Which is it Ms. City Attorney? Also, documented reports are on hand that show that the fund should be approximately $11 million plus to date. Now Elsinore Magazine has found out that much of the LMIHF funds were used to build the stadium and or pay down stadium debts and $38 million dollars are STILL owed on the stadium. How is this possible!! The stadium was supposed to cost around 10 million. Furthermore, Elsinore Magazine has found that none of these monies, to date, has ever been used for LMIHF housing (low income housing). Further reports are that the city coffers have lost approx. $15 to $20 MILLION dollars to a back basin flood plain development project behind the levee. This has taken place because of a UNDERCUT CHARGE OF $1.30/sq.ft. as opposed to the apparent CORRECT CHARGE OF APPROX> $8.00/sq.ft. per unit for LMIHF development. Elsinore Magazine is hopeful that the city attorney will respond to and take advantage of our comment section to correct us where we may have been in error.