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Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2009 06:25 pm |
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| City Manager Randy Oliver's mettle will now be put to the test, money will be limited and the process and the thinking on how to manage a city has to change, no more deep pockets. For a while at least.
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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 03:57 pm |
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El Mirage Road: Northern Avenue to Bell Road
Design Concept Report and Environmental Assessment
Public Open House Forum
5:00 to 7:00 pm, Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Dysart Community Center of El Mirage
14414 N. El Mirage Road, El Mirage 85335
(South of US60/Grand Avenue)
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Posted: Tue Oct 27th, 2009 03:05 am |
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Posted: Wed Oct 21st, 2009 04:30 am |
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Cities lost a lot of money that was in the Local Government Investment Pool, as I recall we did not have a lot of money in the pool., I don’t remember if the citizens of Surprise were ever told about the loss of our money in 2004.
Here it is over a year later and we’re just finding out about this now, probably would not have been told if there was no law suite.
Wonder if they invested our money in the same group that we lost money in 2004.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21st, 2009 03:55 am |
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| Who will take the hit on the loses on the two investments? Surprise city hall is running out of people to blame.
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Craig
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Posted: Wed Oct 21st, 2009 03:34 am |
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Posted: Tue Oct 20th, 2009 11:40 pm |
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I respect our City Manager Randy Oliver, my only concern is, that he is too smart for Mayor Lyn Truitt who now wants to become an actor like everybody else.
Apparently City Manager Randy Oliver according to the Arizona Republic is giving Mayor Truitt the slack that he needs to become one.
GOD BLESS America
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Posted: Mon Oct 19th, 2009 07:13 pm |
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Arizona Republic reported;
Surprise is officially seeking a chief financial officer.
Consent Item # 5 this Thursday. Put on the agenda by City manager Randy Oliver.
I move to approve appointing the City Manager or his designee, as Chief Fiscal Officer for the City of Surprise pursuant to A.R.S. 41-1279.07E.
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Posted: Mon Oct 19th, 2009 04:03 am |
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For what City Manager Randy Oliver is asking for in the consent items this Thursday, why do we need a Mayor and Council, lets elect the City Manager.
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Posted: Sun Oct 18th, 2009 08:37 pm |
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rvukanovich wrote:
Items included in a consent agenda
Routine, standard, non-controversial, and self-explanatory are adjectives that well describe consent agenda items. The following are some examples.
- Committee and previous board meeting minutes
- Office reports
- Routine correspondence
- Minor changes in a procedure (E-mail is added as an acceptable method of communication to announce a change in a meeting schedule)
- Routine revisions of a policy (Changes in dates or dollar amounts due to changes in laws)
- Updating documents (Address change for the main office)
- Standard contracts that are used regularly (Confirmation of using the traditional in-house contract with a new vendor)
- Confirmation of conventional actions that are required in the bylaws (Signatory authority for a bank account or acceptance of gifts)
They are taking over the City of Surprise, thru the consent items.
Read the consent items for the council meeting this Thursday.
None of these items need be elevated to the City Council for any action. Council doesn't understand their role vs the City Manager. They should be a policy making body and leave the day-to-day running of the city to the CM.
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Posted: Sun Oct 18th, 2009 05:18 pm |
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Items included in a consent agenda
Routine, standard, non-controversial, and self-explanatory are adjectives that well describe consent agenda items. The following are some examples.
- Committee and previous board meeting minutes
- Office reports
- Routine correspondence
- Minor changes in a procedure (E-mail is added as an acceptable method of communication to announce a change in a meeting schedule)
- Routine revisions of a policy (Changes in dates or dollar amounts due to changes in laws)
- Updating documents (Address change for the main office)
- Standard contracts that are used regularly (Confirmation of using the traditional in-house contract with a new vendor)
- Confirmation of conventional actions that are required in the bylaws (Signatory authority for a bank account or acceptance of gifts)
They are taking over the City of Surprise, thru the consent items.
Read the consent items for the council meeting this Thursday.
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Posted: Sat Oct 17th, 2009 05:42 am |
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| Indeed that is pretty nice, isn't it?
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Posted: Sat Oct 17th, 2009 05:38 am |
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I love that I can see them from my patio...
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Posted: Sat Oct 17th, 2009 05:30 am |
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| Valley Vista Homecoming game
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Posted: Sat Oct 17th, 2009 04:13 am |
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| Beautiful fire works, what were they for?
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Posted: Sat Oct 17th, 2009 04:06 am |
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The Citizens of Surprise have been Dunked long enough, it’s time to turn the tide.
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Posted: Sat Oct 17th, 2009 12:36 am |
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Hot molten lava I believe...
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Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 11:56 pm |
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| What kind of liquid is in the tank?
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Craig
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Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 08:30 pm |
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http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LilyShumLeung/65302
I bet former city employees and citizens would appreciate this...
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Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 01:00 am |
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| Check it out . . . http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LilyShumLeung
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Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 01:00 am |
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| Oops! Last edited on Fri Oct 16th, 2009 01:01 am by goldrush
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Posted: Tue Oct 13th, 2009 10:13 pm |
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Razenkn.
We might live in the same world, but I am not sure of the time frame.
You are saying that what was said between a Council Member and the City Manager in an open City Council Meeting is not verifiable, is third hand information and idle gossip.
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Posted: Tue Oct 13th, 2009 05:56 pm |
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When Councilman Richard Alton asked the City Manager what was the difference between a Forensic Audit and Accounting from a regular Audit he said he really didn’t know other then it might be criminally involved.
At the end of a regular audit it always state, based on what was given to us, whereas a Forensic Accounting goes behind the figures for their information.
If the City of Surprise only conducts a regular audit, it will only be lip service to pacify us.
So, here you go again, passing on third hand information that you aren't able to verify as fact. There is another name for that and it's called.....IDLE GOSSIP. Thought you were taking a respite and only going to post on your "wildly popular"  blogsite?? That was short-lived. 
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Posted: Tue Oct 13th, 2009 05:14 pm |
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When Councilman Richard Alton asked the City Manager what was the difference between a Forensic Audit and Accounting from a regular Audit he said he really didn’t know other then it might be criminally involved.
At the end of a regular audit it always state, based on what was given to us, whereas a Forensic Accounting goes behind the figures for their information.
If the City of Surprise only conducts a regular audit, it will only be lip service to pacify us.
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Posted: Sat Oct 10th, 2009 01:48 am |
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Fall Weather Friend wrote: Thanks Craig, so what do you think of it?
This was purely a PR move. I have looked through the pages, and as i said before there is no context. City staff is now going to get phone calls and emails wanting explanations on why we wrote checks to this one or that one. The more complex reports like revenues and department expenditures are going to do most people no good because wont be able to understand them or connect the dots. So i guess if this is how they want to do it then i guess they will have to spend their time, answering questions. Just look at the disbursements page. The questions that that page alone will generate are going to tremendous. The one i picked out is why did the city of surprise write a check to the city of surprise. Someone is gonna have to ask, but it wont be me.
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Posted: Fri Oct 9th, 2009 08:45 pm |
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Thanks Craig, so what do you think of it?
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Craig
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Posted: Fri Oct 9th, 2009 05:40 pm |
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Your money reports now on line on the city website. Have fun with it...
http://www.surpriseaz.com/index.aspx?NID=2429
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Posted: Mon Oct 5th, 2009 12:00 am |
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| The City Manager needs to spend a little more time minding the store.
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Posted: Sat Oct 3rd, 2009 05:19 am |
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| Several of the council members seem intent on comprehensive problem analysis and specific remedial action. Others will simply make a lot of noise while pointing a finger at someone else.
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Posted: Sat Oct 3rd, 2009 04:53 am |
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The four items revolving around this budgeting/financial mess have been added to the October 6th meeting beginning at 6 pm. At first it appeared that it was not going to be discussed. But late this afternoon the agenda was updated to include items 2-5. Now we as citizens need to show up at the meeting to make sure they understand that the citizens are paying attention. No need to speak if you don’t want but just showing up speaks volumes… http://agenda.surpriseaz.com/MeetingAgenda.aspx?meetingid=412
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Posted: Fri Oct 2nd, 2009 04:29 am |
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| C.M. Randy Oliver must think highly of Mr. George Kolb because even in this economy, he was hired above the midpoint of the pay scale, which before had to be approved by Council.
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Posted: Thu Oct 1st, 2009 07:30 pm |
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http://www.azcentral.com/community/surprise/articles/2009/10/01/20091001gl-nwvinterim1001-ON.html
Start your google engine...
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Posted: Thu Oct 1st, 2009 05:13 pm |
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The City Manager's report to the Mayor and Council has no mention of what he has said to reporters.
Is the Council And Manager meeting to discuss what he has been telling the papers?
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Posted: Thu Oct 1st, 2009 04:21 pm |
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I don't like to compare, but when Joan Shafer was Mayor, she or the City Communication Director at least let us know what was happening.
This showed that as Mayor , she was in charge.
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Posted: Thu Oct 1st, 2009 03:45 pm |
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| The mayor and other council members are working to rectify problems in city finances and organizational functioning. Corrective action cannot take place in a day or two. They already have a meeting scheduled to work on problems and the CM is looking to reorganize the finance/budget function. GIVE THEM A LITTLE TIME TO WORK THROUGH THE SITUATION.
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Posted: Thu Oct 1st, 2009 03:15 pm |
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| In the City of Surprise where you have no over site committee's this will continue to happen.
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Posted: Thu Oct 1st, 2009 05:34 am |
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| Emails show Sandstrom knew about the overpayments as he discussed them with his HR director. I gotta agree with blogger jjoplin to the newspaper article that Sandstrom is a snake. Isn't it funny that Sandstrom was noticing his girlfriends pay! Gosh, do you think he had something to do with her last promotion also??? Cronyism of former City manager Rumpeltes, Sandstrom, Schrock and Hoffman.....its good they are all gone now. Lots of inappropriate promotions given the lack of real experience.
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Posted: Thu Oct 1st, 2009 02:31 am |
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New ACM announced tomorrow ?
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LilyShumLeung/64155
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Posted: Wed Sep 30th, 2009 10:11 pm |
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http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LilyShumLeung/64138
The latest
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Posted: Wed Sep 30th, 2009 09:47 pm |
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BV, you are having a conversation with yourself. Nobody asked. Geez, get a grip here. Isn't the Council having a special meeting on October 6th on this very issue??
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Posted: Wed Sep 30th, 2009 09:25 pm |
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Forensic Accounting
The integration of accounting, auditing and investigative skills yields the speciality known as Forensic Accounting.
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Posted: Wed Sep 30th, 2009 04:49 pm |
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| So far no one has suggested that they conduct a forensic accounting. Last edited on Wed Sep 30th, 2009 04:50 pm by rvukanovich
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Posted: Wed Sep 30th, 2009 03:22 am |
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http://www.azcentral.com/community/surprise/articles/2009/09/29/20090929gl-nwvresign0929-ON.html
Not many left now. What would make a high paid director of 12 years decide the grass is greener in el mirage ? I bet i know...
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Posted: Mon Sep 28th, 2009 11:10 pm |
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http://www.azcentral.com/community/surprise/articles/2009/09/28/20090928gl-nwvsandstrom0928-ON.html
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Posted: Mon Sep 28th, 2009 11:08 pm |
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Good or bad
It's called free publicity
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I see we didnt just make the news we made the front page of the valley and state section state wide. Ill bet we make some more list here real soon. Im thinking it wont be good ones though.
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Posted: Sun Sep 27th, 2009 01:58 pm |
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The Council has to tell the City Manager by the end of this Sept. if they will renew his contract next year, if they don’t, he gets an automatic 1 year extension to his contract.
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| The way the City of Surprise spends money, why would anyone be surprised that a few staff members wouldn't jump aboard. Last edited on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 01:06 pm by
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Posted: Sun Sep 27th, 2009 12:39 pm |
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http://www.azcentral.com/community/surprise/articles/2009/09/27/20090927overpayment0927.html
Well this just gets better and better every day... Cant wait for that bond to pass so they can mismanage that cash as well...
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| City Manager Randy Oliver has been making changes in Management, hope it's not too late. Last edited on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 12:19 pm by
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