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Surveys Submitted by District 4 Council Candidates
Two candidates for the City Council District 4 seat have completed
the San Diego Citizens for Accountable Government candidate survey.
Surveys from the remaining candidates will be posted as they are
received.
 Dwayne Crenshaw
Jim
Galley
Bruce
Williams
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Councilwoman
Donna Frye Calls for City Investigation of "Likely Illegal
Acts"
In a memo to City Manager Lamont Ewell and City Attorney Casey
Gwinn, Councilwoman Donna Frye calls for an investigation into
the "likely illegal acts" described by KPMG in letters
in October. "I request that the City strictly comply with
all requests by KPMG and that no further efforts to restrict or
narrow this investigation be taken," Frye wrote in the memo,
which has been obtained by the Citizens' Budget project.
October 29 Memorandum
(.pdf)
KPMG
Letters Criticize City Officials for Inadequate Investigation
of "Illegal Acts"
A pair of recent letters from auditing firm KPMG to City officials
have sufaced, shedding new light onto the delay in the release
of the firm's audit of San Diego's 2003 financial records. The
letters, sent Oct. 11 and Oct. 27, blast City officials for failing
to conduct "an adequate investigation in order to conclude
that likely illegal acts have not occurred, or that appropriate
remedial action has been taken." Without such an investigation,
the letters say, the audit can not be completed.
October 11 Letter (.pdf)
October 27 Letter (.pdf)
Union-Tribune:
'03 Audit Stalls; City Told Probe is Deficient
A widely anticipated audit of San Diego's 2003 books cannot be
completed until city officials fully investigate whether "likely
illegal acts" related to the pension system and City Hall's
financial-reporting practices have occurred, according to the
city's independent auditor.
Union-Tribune
Article
USA
Today: San Diego Now 'Enron by the Sea'
City Hall's Web site proclaims it "the most efficiently run
big city in California." Howard Jarvis, architect of Proposition
13, California's landmark 1978 ballot measure capping property
taxes, once said that if all cities were as financially prudent
as San Diego, there'd be no need for a tax revolt. That was then.
This is now: a financial mess dragging the nation's seventh-largest
city toward insolvency, federal investigators looking for evidence
of corruption, a $1.7 billion gap in city workers' pension fund
and retiree medical benefits brought on by years of mismanagement
and alleged sweetheart deals.
USA
Today Article
Write-In
Mayoral Candidate Donna Frye Submits Survey
Donna Frye's completed San Diego Citizens for Accountable Government
survey of mayoral candidates has been posted. Frye declared herself
a write-in candidate for mayor earlier this month.
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