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San Francisco bus workers making six figures in overtime

Written on 14 Jan, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Ten San Francisco transit workers received more than $100,000 in overtime pay alone in the last fiscal year. [SF Gate] Head of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency signal shop Khoa Trinh clocked nearly 2,000 hours of overtime at a... (Continue reading)

CHP chief was making nearly $500,000 before retiring

Written on 26 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 18 comments

California Highway Patrol division chief Jeff Talbott retired last year making $483,581 in salary and benefits. [Bloomberg] Talbott, 53, retired as the highest paid officer in the 12 most-populous U.S. states, according to a Bloomberg investigation. Upon retirement, he began... (Continue reading)

Supervisor’s zipper costly to county taxpayers

Written on 29 Nov, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 94 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN and KAREN VELIE Supervisor Bruce Gibson’s adulterous, long-term affair with a subordinate — his legislative assistant of six years — will cost county taxpayers $68,870 in annual salary plus benefits for a parallel county position she’s been... (Continue reading)

Gibson had affair with legislative aide

Written on 16 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 146 comments

San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Bruce Gibson admitted to having an affair with his legislative aide and said he plans to seek a divorce from his wife. [SLO Tribune] Gibson said the affair with Legislative Assistant Cherie Aispuro had lasted... (Continue reading)

California Attorney General files lawsuit against local air district

Written on 16 Nov, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 35 comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: See a brief of the California Attorney General’s lawsuit at the bottom of this story. By KAREN VELIE California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed a lawsuit in mid-October against the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control... (Continue reading)

City pensions worry Central Coast taxpayers

Written on 27 Sep, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

Sustainability of city finances has become a growing concern of late in California. Director or Research of the Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University Dr. Steven Frates spoke to San Luis Obispo property and business owners Wednesday on the state of... (Continue reading)

SLO firefighter accused of assault placed on leave

Written on 16 Aug, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 50 comments

By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo city administrators placed a firefighter who was arrested for allegedly beating a man unconscious at a local pub on unpaid administrative leave several months ago, city staff confirmed while refusing to provide the exact... (Continue reading)

Stockton seeks solvency by slashing

Written on 21 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Hoping to avoid becoming the latest — and biggest — U.S. city to enter bankruptcy, officials of the California Delta city of Stockton hope to avoid that eventuality by skipping payment of $10.2 million in debt service and slashing employee... (Continue reading)

California pension managers sticking with questionable bank

Written on 15 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

Representatives of the state retirement system say they are standing by JPMorgan Chase for now despite a recent $2 billion trading loss that has sparked two federal investigations and reignited calls for tougher bank oversight. [CaliforniaWatch] Both the California State... (Continue reading)

Oceano managers pay questioned

Written on 15 Jun, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 11 comments

OPINION By JULIE TACKER Oceano Community Services District (OCSD) will be “celebrating” the first anniversary of the hiring of its General Manager Tom Geaslen later this month. Geaslen worked for over eight months as “interim general manager” without a written... (Continue reading)