More than a year after it was requested by Council members Cecilia Martner and Ashley Costa, a thorough inform on the story of Lompoc Housing and Community Development Corporation's (LHCDC) loans and correspondence record is scheduled to be presented Tuesday at the final discussion of the stream City Council.
The chronology of loans postulated by the town to LHCDC was originally requested on Oct. 4, 2011. It has been behind multi-part times after town staff endorsed a expert be hired to create the inform from town archives when legislature members were discontented with the primary inform since it didn't add all LHCDC loans and properties.
The bulletin moreover includes two other things Martner requested be presented before her tenure ends in early December.
City Attorney Joe Pannone is scheduled to present data about the probability of fasten the county's debate review of LHCDC or endeavour its own debate review of town supports given to the nonprofit. LHCDC has not submitted an eccentric financial review since 2006.
Martner has gained consent of the legislature 4 times to confer the expenses of conducting a debate review of LHCDC, but to date review expenses have not been presented nor discussed in a open session. Last month, Martner mentioned the town was "stonewalling" data about LHCDC until after the election.
"The debate review should have been discussed a long time ago," Martner mentioned in October. "Now you won't obtain to know how possibilities will opinion on a debate review until after the election."
County Auditor/Controller Bob Geis mentioned Friday the debate review is move and protocols are being created by the County District Attorney to establish that archives recovered by finding warrants will be common with auditors.
A revised location outline is to town director discussed final December is moreover scheduled to be discussed by legislature members " the second piece Martner asked in October be brought back to legislature in a open event before her tenure ends.
One Martner-requested piece will assumingly not make the bulletin for her final full meeting.
Last October, Martner asked staff to hope for a breeze town process on monitoring and enforcing correspondence with sovereign and state regulations, and town contracts, to help stop future problems with agencies postulated supports by the city.
"I would unequivocally similar to to see the staff put a document in place that will residence what will come about when any group is in noncompliance and what are the definite stairs that the town contingency take to make them turn compliant," Martner mentioned at the time. "I regard the town staff has a shortcoming to generate a story on this situation and come up with a breeze of a process with definite stairs that will endeavor to scold what happened (with LHCDC)."
A breeze process on stipulate correspondence has not been presented to council, even though the legislature discussed elements of a process on mandate for financial audits in September when it approved the city's reply to the Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury's Report on LHCDC, entitled "A Failure of Oversight."
The legislature will moreover be asked to authorize the buy of a traveling bookmobile to reinstate the long-discussed but never-realized Charlotte's Web Children's Library envisioned by the late one-time mayor and town councilwoman Charlotte Benton.
Benton determined a certitude account to run and sustain a children's library on South I Street on home she donated to the city. In 2005, Benton's home was bulldozed when it was determined that converting the comparison home in to a library wasn't economically feasible. After 15 years of discussion and planning, and the incapacity to elevate the vital building costs, the Benton Trustees and the Library Foundation opted to search for a sailing children's bookmobile instead.
The legislature discussion starts at 7 p.m. in legislature chambers at Civic Center Plaza.