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AG mayor seeks restraining order on public speaker

October 10, 2014
Mayor Tony Ferrara

Mayor Tony Ferrara

By DANIEL BLACKBURN

Arroyo Grande City Council members met Wednesday morning to “discuss” hiring a private investigator who  apparently had already started his job, and Mayor Tony Ferrara angrily asked for a restraining order on outspoken critic Otis Page.

According to the agenda, the council was meeting to discuss hiring a private investigator from Ventura to look into a employee scandal and alleged cover-up. However, city employees said the company had already been selected, the private eye was hard at work, and the meeting was a “sham.”

Several city employees said officers who had first-hand knowledge of a recent city government scandal were contacted for interview appointments by Sintra Investigations in the days before the special council meeting, which had only the one item on the agenda.

Sintra Investigations will be looking into the late-night City Hall rendezvous on July 3 between City Manager Steve Adams and a subordinate employee, Teresa McClish, as well as the council’s handling of the issue. The incident was first reported by CalCoastNews on Aug. 19, and since then numerous Arroyo Grande residents have expressed dismay at the response by Mayor Tony Ferrara and his council mates in meetings and in letters to council members.

Ferrara, responding to one resident’s email asking the council to approve an independent investigation, recommended his fellow council members not reply to the resident.

“No need to reply,” Ferrara said in an Aug. 21 email to council members Tim Brown, Jim Guthrie, Joe Costello and Kristen Barneich, and copies to Adams and McClish: “This is an FYI. I wanted you to know where I’m coming from. Not about to take this crap from anyone.”

About 25 citizens attended the rare morning session, many criticizing a “lack of transparency” by city officials, a failure to fire Adams, and the already-completed deal with Sintra.

Resident Page said both the meeting and selection of the investigator was “a sham” as the council had already hired the firm. Ferrara then ordered microphones and public broadcast television cameras to be turned off, and demanded that a police officer escort Page from the council chambers.

A visibly irritated Ferrara asked a nearby police officer if he could “get a restraining order” against the outspoken Page, a police department employee confirmed. Ferrara was then informed that it was unlikely he would be able to secure a restraining order against Page.

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Emails to Council PRA 09-22-14 by CalCoastNews


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Watching the SLO SPAN of the Wednesday morning meeting.


Mayor Tony (at all costs)Ferrara talks way too much and went out of his way to bring up that Mr. . Page was excused again and again.


My goodness, we are allowed to talk so much about things that do not matter and so little about the things that do.


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I read the Police Officers Association voted unanimously to endorse Jim Hill.


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where did you read that?


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It was posted on write in Jim Hill facebook page


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AAADADDYO—the fringe media is where all the most up to date information is………


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I received my absentee ballot yesterday and promptly filled the bubble and carefully, so it was very legible, wrote JIM HILL !!!


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This will go down in history as the “Arroyo Grande Tea Party 2014”


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Government parasites, like Ferrara, are slaves to Big Government.


The Big Thief (i.e., Big Government) has no power against a person who does not wish to be fed what does not belong to him.


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Mayor: “You want answers?”


Otis: “I think I’m entitled to..”


Mayoir: *You want answers?*


Otis: *I want the truth!*


Mayor: *You can’t handle the truth!*


[pauses]


Otis “Did you order the restraining order?”


Mayor: ” I did the job I…”


Otis: *Did you order the Restraining Order?”


Mayor : *You’re Goddamn right I did!*


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Those Crude Little Signs……and More….


Action Plan:


1. Make A Crude Little Sign

2. Inform Neighbors

3. Talk To Friends

4. Coffee Breaks

5. Shopping

6. E Mail Friends

7. Football Game this Weekend

8. Work

9. Offer To Drive Others To The Polls

10.Remind Others To Vote

11. Mail In Your Ballot

12. Focus On Improving Our Community

13. Ethics

14. Take The High Road

15. Vote

16 Community Events


Objective: People To Vote- It is that Simple- One on One- Person to Person- One Vote At A Time- Positive Encouragement – Over and Over- Clear Simple Message- VOTE {0} Name !


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ferrara, you are a hypocrite. You made outrageous accusations against Tom Runels and other sitting council members during the Walmart project years ago. Now that you are on the council, your behavior reflects what your accused them of.


Chi la fa l’aspetti


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Corruption is happening because SLO County has a useless and toothless Grand Jury???


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I’m not sure what point you are trying to make, but the Grand Jury has no enforcement power, They can only identify things that need attention from those that can cause change, like voters. That is how the system works.


Tony F was Board Chairman of the South County Sanitation District. The Grand Jury wrote a report about the problems there. Tony said the report was unprofessional and all wrong. When Debbie Peterson got on the board she and Guerrero out voted Tony and did what the Grand Jury had suggested, including forcing John Wallace and his company out. After that, lo and behold, the Sanitation District’s operating costs went way down. Tony has never admitted there was anything wrong.


So to say the Grand Jury is toothless is a little off the mark. By the way, there was an article in the Tribune last year that said this Grand Jury report was selected by the California Grand Jury Association as the best Grand Jury report in the state.


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I am not surprised by any of what you just shared……..can you forward where I can read that information for myself?


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