City Clerk Vicki Kasad Resigns

Elsinore Magazine 2

May 21, 2005

The City Clerk ended 18 years of employment effective May 31, 2005 by resignation. Ms. Kasad is giving up a lucrative salary of approx. $115,000.00 Per year, a deffered compensation of $5800.00 Per year, a fuel allowance of $4800.00 per year, a medical, life insurance, and retirement package worth approx. $65,000.00. For a total package worth of approx. $192,000.00 per year. It is not known by EM2, at this time, who will be her replacement. As City Clerk and head of Human Resources Dept. Ms Kasad is one of the city employees who BROKE POLICY (and RESOLUTION 88.1) and took advantage of a Health and Wellness Package to pay for family dental bills, thousands. It is not known what benefits she will retain upon her effective resignation date. Ms. Kasad is the 3rd highest ranking employee to leave the city under resignation. Former City Manager Dick Watenpaugh, who" just happened" to be at City Hall 1 week before Ms. Kasad's resignation, and his assistant Marlene Best, both left the city effective January 14, 2005. Mr. Watenpaugh is presently employed as interim City Manager, part time, in the City of Calimesa, near Redlands. Ms. Kasad will be accepting the positions of Assistant City Manager/City Clerk, also in Calimesa. Marlene Best accepted a position in the City of Calexico as City Manager.

JUST IN!!! EM2 has found out that a member of our Planning Department has or will soon be headed in a direction aimed right at Calimesa also.

"GEE!!! I WONDER IF HE FINISHED HIS CONTRACT WITH LAKE ELSINORE??"

Could it be that these so called appointments are controlled by persons in the Lake Elsinore area? These positions of city POWER it seems, or looks like, have been planned. After all, both of these cities are within 40 to 60 miles of Lake Elsinore and some of these people have to drive further just to get home. Wonder why they didn't take positions in cities closer to where they live or in the cities they live in ??

EM2 says that, HOPEFULLY, our City Council will stop waisting money and hire one of the EXPERIENCED and DYNAMIC INDIVIDUALS who applied (approx. 50 applicants) for the position of City Manager. Robert Brady has experience with being part of a Planning Department, but knows nothing about being a "City Manager." EM2 does not reccomend a person who has already tarnished this position, be APPOINTED to this position permanately!! How can you put a dishonorable person in a honorable position?? Especially, when a revelation has been released that the CITY of LAKE ELSINORE has a big time EXPENDATURE/REVENUE PROBLEM just recently found by the FINANCE TEAM.

We do not want the same things that have been going on behind closed doors to be allowed to continue at the TAXPAYERS EXPENSE!!!

MILLIONS!!!!!!!!MISSING!!!!!!!!!

Dearest CITY COUNCIL/CITY ATTORNEY, PLEASE, do not attempt to sweep these TRUTHS back under the rug. TAKE HEED, the truth will be exposed in detail !!!

Also Finance Director, Matt Pressey, PLEASE, do not try to "FIX" the budget, I suspect the "MAYOR" will ask you to "BALANCE" the budget to make the public think everything is just "hunky doorey."

Please, do not do what former City Manager Richard Watenpaugh did and use funds from pending developements that he was not even eligible to use. Hell, some developements were still on the drawing board when they got "RAIDED"and other developements were not even started yet.

We have seen the Health and Wellness Package decimated by some of the same city employees who were taking an incorrect amount of $150.00 per month,(Resolution 88.1 clearly states $100.00 per month), 2 years in advance. Then turn around and take the $150.00 per month also.

The Citizens are entitled to the TRUTH, there is no middle ground. SomePeople try to twist, bend, redirect, cover up, stall, blank and or block out the truth because of a decision they made to throw their ethics out the window. It is like EM2 said, "Hold on to your ethics, no matter what temptation arises in front of you, and all decisions made and actions taken will be automaticly correct with a benefit to all!!! Guess what? ethics held on to also guarantee that you will remain in the truth zone." Which is a darn good place to be!!!

Citizens, BEWARE , some of our officials do not tell it like it is!!! It is all to evident in many cities, that officials tend to skirt around and or circumvent the truth.

EM2 says that, "It is liken unto suffocation to suppress and force someone to live a lie !!!"