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Letters to the Editor
Take a look at what people are talking about on our Letters to the Editor page:
Props to Whitburn for taking a closer look at building proposal
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The batch of potential City Council members says problems at CCDC have heightened their concerns over the high-profile developer.
Four new board members replace termed-out trustees at SEDC, inheriting an agency in crisis that is losing its leader and is facing a batch of lawsuits.
The agency calculated its payments into employees' retirement plans based on their total compensation, including $1 million in hidden bonuses and extra compensation received by staff over the last five years.
The redevelopment agency's attorney resigns after discovering financial ties to a downtown developer.
A nearly four-hour long deposition given last summer has played a lead role in revealing contradictions in the former CCDC president's public account of her business past.
The fallout from the Nancy Graham scandal spreads to another major downtown project as the agency probes a consultant's potential conflict.
Officials project big savings on the big project, but the money in the early years would come mostly from selling city-owned buildings.
With four of its nine members slated to be replaced, the SEDC board will this week consider millions of dollars in contracts and three high-profile lawsuits related to its outgoing president, Carolyn Y. Smith.
Former CCDC President Nancy Graham was required to annually disclose her financial interests and income. She didn't, but no one was looking.
CCDC announces it will investigate every downtown development project to determine whether its former president unduly influenced any.
Before the bonus scandal incited public outrage, few if any City Hall officials exercised oversight or questioned the redevelopment authority. The investigation's suspension came after testimony surfaced in which Graham acknowledged receiving money from the affiliate of a developer doing business with the city.
A year after loudly battling to a standstill with unions, the company is still quietly working toward approval for billion-dollar project on Chula Vista bay front.
The revelation contradicts the former CCDC president's previous statements and raises questions about whether she had a conflict in dealing with a downtown project.
Attention has focused on the former CCDC president's ties to a Florida developer with a project pending in San Diego. The other partner in the deal also had a CCDC project.
Two attorneys say the vote on the SEDC president's severance payment should've been done in the open, and one threatens to sue.
A termination agreement between SEDC and its president, Carolyn Y. Smith, could hamper the city attorney's effort to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses paid back to the city.
Profits from a developer in 2006 and 2007 bring into greater focus the finances of the former CCDC president and raise questions about whether she had a conflict in dealing with a downtown project.
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