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Simi-Chats Fire views     See the October 1st Issue    -     Ox Jo Archives           10 - 17  Issue   

 

Sports Park as promised for the last 15 years....
 
What's Next?
----------- You are.

1
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There is going to be a Community Meeting at City
Hall, (305 West Third Street) on November 21, 2005
that you must attend to voice your concerns about this
project on a location that was pre-planned to be a
future sport park.  This is an important step in the
approval process.  If you and your family are being
impacted by the increased traffic congestion,
overcrowded schools, and overall less quality of life
due to the fact that our community is over developed
and under parked, you must attend this meeting. 
2.
You can write to the planning commissioning office
and express your concerns to them about this project.
You do not have to wait until November 21, 2005.

Address:
Planning & Environmental Services
305 West Third Street - 2nd Floor
Oxnard, California 93030

 
3. In order for this project to be approved, the City
Council needs to approve a change of zoning on this
lot.  You can write, call or email the members of the
City Council and express to them your concerns for
this project.  Here are their email:
Dr. Mayor Holden mailto:drtomholden@aol.com,
Andres Herrera mailto:andres.herrera@ci.oxnard.ca.us,
Timothy Flynn, mailto:timothy.flynn@ci.oxnard.ca.us,
John Zaragoza mailto:john.zaragoza@verizon.net,
Dean Maulhardt mailto:deancity@yahoo.com.

 

Mailing or phone:

City Council Offices
300 West Third Street, 4th Floor
Oxnard, CA 93030
Phone: (805) 385-7430 


Y O U R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N    I S   C R I T I C A L !!!!

 

 
Saviers Road Design Team

NO MEETING - Monday, October 31 (HALLOWEEN)

IMPORTANT MEETINGS THIS WEEK:

Tues., Nov.1, 6:30pm LNG Task Force, Oxnard Main Library, Room B

Tues., Nov. 1, 7:00pm Oxnard City Council

Wed., Nov. 2, 7:00pm Inter Neighborhood Council Forum (INCF) -- ELECTION MEETING.

Wed., Nov. 2, 7:00 to 10:00pm Oxnard Elementary School Board informational meeting on LNG, 1051 South A St., Oxnard - public invited -

Speakers include representatives from BHP Billiton, Edison, Department of Education and Environmental Defense Center

SAVE THE DATE:

Wed., Nov. 9, 6:00pm to 9:00pm Bilingual LNG Town Hall Meeting - Oxnard Performing Arts Center (Ventura Room), 800 Hobson Way, hosted by Oxnard Councilmember John Zaragoza and the City of Oxnard


Next meeting Saviers Road Design Team

November 7, 6:30 to 8:30pm

Puerto Nuevo Restaurant
 
 

RiverPark in Oxnard is pleased to announce that our first six neighborhoods are set to open their Sales Galleries this Fall and Winter. We would like to encourage members of the RiverPark Interest Registry to be among the first persons to visit our builder websites and join the neighborhood Interest Lists of their choice. Joining the Neighborhood Interest Lists is an important step towards receiving news and updates on impending Neighborhood Sales Events.

Currently, as a member of the RiverPark Interest Registry, you receive community-wide news and information on the future homes, schools, parks, shopping and restaurants planned for this Whole World In One Place. You can also learn more about each RiverPark neighborhood and view the first six neighborhood’s floor plans by viewing RiverParkLife.com today or by visiting the RiverPark Welcome Center and speaking with a Community Representative.

Thank you for your continued support of the RiverPark community and we are excited to share with you our first neighborhoods that will help to make RiverPark truly A Whole World In One Place.

 
   
 
   
 
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IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICES / PRIVACY POLICY :: Shea Homes :: Centex Homes :: Standard Pacific Homes

RiverPark Welcome Center :: 701 Town Center Drive :: Oxnard, CA 93036

 

 

Gentle Reminder:    K A T R I N A

Photos - Courtesy of Russ Aulds - Cleveland, Tenn. 


Daniel Cervantes - makes news and earns some harsh comments..........

Local Ventura lad
who "worked for Oxnard" makes news in the Star
Blog and Pix get this youth a Pink Slip

Read the Star Article (registration required)

Comments which appeared in just one day on the Star's Blog-Feedback.

Make up your own mind - were his FIRST AMENDMENT rights violated?

"♥heartless...."
Male
14 years old
VENTURA, CALIFORNIA
United States

  READ THE FULL MOLINA APPEAL.......

Oxnard's Former Finance Director was fired from his position because he could not play games with the citizen's money and he could not agree with the shell-game being played by City officials with public funds. 

Molina had one court hearing and some points were agreed upon, but to continue his case, Mr. Molina has set forth an appeal to be heard in a higher court.

READ his Appeal here - Exclusive on the Ox - Jo

 DO WE GET A SECOND CHANCE ?
In early 2004 I wrote an article for the Kaptibahay (an Oxnard newspaper that caters to the Filipino community) regarding the City of Oxnard's proposal to put a commercial ball park in our currently quiet and tranquil College Park.  I warned the local residents of College Estates, who are mostly Filipino that if this proposal for "Big League Dreams" goes
through, then life as you now know it will be changed forever.  I warned of the increase in traffic, especially on Rose, Channel Islands, and Bard.  I warned of the late night games, the noise, the lights, and the change from the now peaceful neighborhood.  I did my best to get people informed,
involved and to get folks to leave their homes, just for one evening, and attend City Council meetings to express their concerns about the City's proposal.

Well, sad to say, I saw no residents from College Estates show up at the Council meetings.  No one from the local neighborhoods, aside from some of the regular council attendees even bothered to voice their opinions on the
proposal.  I did my best to make it an issue in and around the College Park neighborhoods and to keep people informed via my web site (www.oxnard-journal.com). Additionally, I mentioned the proposal at the monthly Inter-Neighborhood Council Forum meetings.   I did everything I could to motivate folks to be aware, become involved, be active and to have
a voice in their city.

So, with this article, I say, sadly, that no one cared.  Now, it appears the City has solidly made its arrangements.  The Council has all the rubber stamp votes in place to bring Big League Dreams to College Park and all the work I did to get the Filipino community involved in their local issues has
fallen by the wayside.  So, when the ball park comes in, and your traffic is worsened, and you can't sleep at night because of the bright lights and noise, you will only have yourself to thank.

I am not giving up on trying my best to inform and motivate, because, inevitably there will be more issues.  My hope is that the reaction will not be the same.  I am counting on people not being apathetic in the future, even though folks would rather close their gate or garage door and soak themselves in the glow of a big screen or flat screen TV.   We need to get our heads out of the proverbial sand.  We need to know what is going on and take the chance to change our reality.

As for the Big League Dreams, there will be a few more sessions in the Council and a few more votes.  Why should the Council concern itself with anything?  To date, no major numbers of ordinary people from the community
have come forward to say anything.  So the Council is planning on no resistance, no opposition, and no voices to tell them otherwise.  To date, this has been the case, but I am sending out a second warning to the residents around College Park and Oxnard College.  This second warning is for you to be awake, ask questions, find out who is in your Neighborhood
Council and get involved civically.  There are a tremendous number of good things happening in Oxnard.  We need to make sure the things that aren't so good will not happen.  You hold the key to that door, and the future is literally in your own hands and in your own backyard.

Bill Winter ---------------------------
Winter is Chair of the INCF (Oxnard Inter-Neighborhood Council Forum) and is a regular contributor to the Kapitbahay
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Taxpayers:  Has anyone noticed that under consent calendar for Oct 11, 2005 the City Council is proposing a compensation for the Mayor and Council members?
The agenda isn't on the web yet so I can't get the details of this item. -- Is this to be over and above the amount of the monthly "stipend" they already get which was increase last year? Or is this even more money on top of the current payments?

Is anyone concerned about where your tax dollars go?

/s/ Phil Molina

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oX Jo is Watching Out for You......

  MARTIN JONES' TAKE
ON COLLEGE PARK
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College Park would be another instance of the councils plan to give a way another resource of the city and deprive its citizens of parkland. 

Three consecutive Grand Jury investigations of the city owned golf course demonstrates that the council is at least inept or in the hands of knowing operators.  The golf course has lost approximately 15 million dollars of the taxpayers money. 

The theater is even worse.  Now comes forward Big League Dreams.  How many millions of the tax payers money will the council use to provide BLD  an opportunity to enrich their bank account at the expense of the citizens.  It is a double edged sword. 

On one side of the blade the citizens lose about 30 acres of parkland and on the other the taxpayers money will be used to build the facilities BLD will use.  At a cost of millions of dollars.  The City Council of Oxnard has been described in many ways.  Most of which can not be used in a family newspaper.  Inept is the least offensive.


Martin Jones
Vice chairman of College Park
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FROM PHIL MOLINA:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

We the People won one: 
Oxnard finally has its municipal codes on-line. Below are the administrative duties of the finance director. So, why isn't the finance director submitting monthly financial reports to the City Council as required by the Oxnard municipal code and State law? You will recall according to Mr. Stan Klienman, former finance director, while under oath he stated that the reason he did not produce monthly financial reports was because the City Attorney, Gary Gillig told him not to?
 
SEC. 2-176.  FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING DUTIES.
     (A)     Pursuant to Cal. Gov't Code Section 37209, the duties imposed on the city clerk by Chapter 4, Part 2, Division 3, Title 4 of the Cal. Gov't Code are transferred to the director of finance.
     (B)     Pursuant to Cal. Gov't Code Section 40805.5, the financial and accounting duties imposed on the city clerk by Cal. Gov't Code Sections 40802 through 40805 are transferred to the director of finance.
     (C)     Pursuant to Cal. Gov't Code Section 34004, the duties imposed on the city treasurer by Cal. Gov't Code Section 41004 are transferred to the director of finance.
     (D)     The powers and duties of the director of finance include centralizing fiscal and accounting duties; controlling inventory; supervising the license collector in the performance of duties enumerated in Chapter 16; financial reporting; and assisting in budgeting.
     (E)     The director of finance shall promote, secure and preserve the financial and property interests of the city.
     (F)     The city manager may assign to the director of finance additional powers and duties not set forth herein.
(Ord. No. 2643)
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Hello Oxjo,

Appreciate your web site and check it pretty regularly.  Frequently I see comments about roads and (car) traffic, but rarely any discussion about making Oxnard an attractive place to walk or bicycle.  (These things don't just happen; it takes policy decisions to create the infrastructure necessary to attract people to walk or cycle.)   Oxnard has a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, but do you by any chance know to what degree the City is committed to implementing it, and on what timeline?

The Bike/Ped Plan calls for an aggressive implementation schedule, but the projects don't seem to be coming online very quickly.  One example is the Oxnard Blvd. Multi-use Path, which when approved by the City Council back in 2003, was supposed to be complete by May, 2005 -- five months ago -- but they haven't even started construction! 
I emailed Cynthia Daniels a while back, who said that it's still in process, that she is waiting for consultants' reports, etc.  To me it's extremely disappointing that the projects are so far off the projected completion times.  Do you have any insights for me, and others like me, who'd like to see Oxnard become more friendly towards non-motorized road users?

Best regards,
Frank.

PS. Davis, CA (LINK) was recently voted the most bicycle-friendly city in
America, thanks to 40-years of policies favoring bicycle (and ped)
transport.  Can we imagine a similar future for Oxnard -- with our
AWESOME weather? 
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Taxpayers:
 
In spite of Oxnard saying, the taxpayer is entitled to know financially what is going on financially from month to month. So why doesn't the City Attorney and City Manager insist on monthly financial statements being presented to the public?

Unique Aspects of the Governmental Environment

Public sector, governmental organizations are very different from their private sector counterparts in a number of ways despite current rhetoric to run government like a business. They also differ from not-for-profit organizations.

Generally, the unique aspects of governmental organizations are as follows:

  • They are public organizations.
  • They provide goods and services to the general public using funds typically secured from involuntary resource providers.
  • Decisions are made in a political environment.
  • Goods and services are generally provided without a profit motive.

Government in the Sunshine

The primary distinguishing characteristic of governmental organizations is that they are public organizations. Their very nature requires that business be conducted in view of the public. It is this very simple aspect on which the financial reporting objectives of governmental financial statements rest. Public governmental organizations differ fundamentally from publicly traded entities even though publicly traded companies are subjected to a high level of regulation and public scrutiny.

In some states, state and local governments are required to operate "in the sunshine" for all meetings in which decisions are to be made that do or may impact the public. This requirement to conduct business in a public forum is often a significant impediment to timely responses to sensitive issues. While billions of shares of Microsoft stock are traded annually, the Audit Committee is allowed to meet behind closed doors. In contrast, the city council of a town in Southern California and North Florida, serving as an audit committee, must meet in a public forum. Not only is the City Council of this California or Florida town required to meet in full view of the public but also to adequately and timely publish notice of such meeting and to provide minutes of the meeting to the public.

To fund the provision of public goods and services, governmental organizations are authorized to impose taxes at a number of levels and on a variety of items. This places individuals like you and businesses in the position of involuntary resource providers.

Financial Reporting Objectives

Concepts Statement No. 1, Objectives of Financial Reporting, of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) identifies the objectives of external financial reporting by state and local governments. These objectives include the following:

  • To fulfill the governments obligation to be publicly accountable and enable users to assess accountability in the following areas:
    • Sufficiency of current revenues to finance current year services;
    • Compliance with the legally adopted budget and other finance-related legal/contractual requirements; and,
    • Service efforts, costs, and accomplishments of the governmental organization.
  • To satisfy needs of financial statement users relying on governmental reports as important sources of information for decision making related to:
    • Evaluating operating results for the fiscal period and
    • Assessing level of services that can be provided by the government and its ability to meet obligations as they become due.

Financial Reporting Objectives

Public accountability presumes taxpayers are entitled to know what their governments are doing and how, what they have done and how well, and what they plan to do and why. Citizens as well as legislative and oversight bodies almost universally use financial reporting to assess accountability in their governmental organizations.

Financial reporting is the primary channel through which governmental organizations communicate financial information to external users of the financial reports. Therefore, financial reporting by governmental organizations considers the needs of these users and the decisions they make. In addition, financial reports of governmental organizations should be

  • Understandable.
  • Reliable.
  • Relevant.
  • Timely.
  • Consistent.
  • Comparable.

These are some of the basic reasons why California's Government Code and the Oxnard municipal code demand that monthly financial reports be presented to the City Clerk and the City Council and why the City must demand audits from High Tides & Green Grass, Plaza Cinemas, Big League Dreams and other entities with whom the City contracts for services.

Phil Molina - Crusader for Public Finance Accountability.....................

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So life goes on in Oxnard - the good news is that we are all OK.

As for news ~ ~ ~ Stand-by.   The Oxnard City Council is Dark on 04 October since a large number
will be on junket to  San Francisco to get some civic City award which will sure be announced after
Tuesday......there is some noise afoot as Oxnard CC wants to put up a large sized apartment building
at the Plaza - just across from the new movie theatre - now if they offer free rent if you guarantee to see
at least three movies a week, one may consider moving there......will they get parking in the new garage?

Then the City of Oxnard is getting ready to re-do the Rice Road overpass which is currently a real "fuster cluck"
for all drivers who have had to negotiate the merging on the bridge and the lack of yielding drivers coming off the
southbound 101 to get onto rice towards Mugu. 


 

Model Car Show at Oxnard's Auto Museum
by Franz Tinio-Lopez

Oxnard, CA - The Murphy Auto Museum will host a Model Car Show on Saturday, 8 October from 9AM to 4 PM. 

There will also be a model car contest, model kits and accessories sales.   Point of contact for the show is Sam Freeman 684-1497, museum (805) 487-4337

 The Museum opened at its current location last June at 2230 Statham Blvd., Oxnard, CA 93033 is known for its diverse collection of cars. From 1903 to the present representing every decade. Its collection of Packard autos is another feature, there are 15 cars in the collection from a 1927 model to 1958.

 The first car that was collected in the museum was a 1948 Packard bought by Dr. Daniel Murphy from a collector in Long Beach who owned and drove it for 20 years. The oldest car is a 1903 Oldsmobile, which was driven in the Oxnard Centennial Parade. It is representative of a similar car driven by Holley Jean Leffler's grandfather across the USA from east to west in 1903. This was the year that the automobile was first driven across the continent.

 Admission to the museum is $6.00 for adults and $3.00 for children 12 years old and younger.

http://www.murphyautomuseum.com/

Support Franz Lopez Books on Philippines:
Visit the Philippine Marines
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BOOKS on the Philippines
http://www.geocities.com/pmcmssr/books.html

 

 

 

 

 


SEE THE ---- SEPTEMBER 2005 Issue of the Oxnard Journal.................................
 

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Council Meetings are televised
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Your child in Grade 1 ~thru~ 8
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             E-mail the Ventura / Oxnard Center for Details
 

 
Coming Events:

The First & Third Tuesday 2005
      Oxnard Screenwriters meeting
      Borders Bookstore Cafe
      7-9 PM

PHIL ROCKWELL is the stalwart group leader of Oxnard Screenwriters,
he can be reached via e-mail for more info on .

Group meets every FIRST & THIRD Tuesday at Borders Books in the Esplanade.  Be on time for 7 o'clock start. -- bring a sample of your writing....

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