[Bill Cummings]

Thanks Margie. I have been looking for this follow up after the meeting with the Mayor.
Bob, Can you say to what extent the new Mayor is up to speed with the shady, underhanded and suspicious goings on at the glider port and Sheri Lightner's appearance on impropriety.
Is it possible that Sheri is afraid to rock the boat that has someone with too much corrupt power at the helm? (Not talking about the new mayor here.)

[Bob Kuczewski]

Thanks as well to Margie for posting these!!!

It takes Margie many hours to download the full video from the city's web site and then painstakingly go through the whole meeting to find the few minutes related to the Gliderport. Then she has to snip that out, upload it to YouTube and finally make the post here in our forum. That's a super super effort that she makes for each of these posts. Thanks very very much.

With regard to Mayor Faulconer's position, he was on the City Council for years before being elected as Mayor earlier this year, so he certainly knows what we've been requesting. But he's dodging it by throwing it in Sherri Lightner's lap. Here's a reply from the person he's designated to handle this:

I will reiterate my initial response to this request. As far as reinstating or creating a new Torrey Pines City Park Advisory Board, we are deferring to Councilmember Lightner since this is in her district. Should she decide move forward with it, we will help as appropriate.

As I said in my speech, I think Torrey Pines should be considered a city-wide resource, and the Mayor should be held responsible for what happens there. But if the Mayor wants to put it in Sherri Lightner's lap, then at least we have one person who we can hold accountable. That's a big step forward from the time when former mayor Jerry Sanders refused to meet with us at all and his departments just pointed fingers at each other.

With regard to the corruption, I can only speculate that it's been inherited from former Mayor Jerry Sanders who now heads the local Chamber of Commerce. Sanders was former police chief (before becoming mayor) and David Jebb was a former police officer. I speculate that they knew each other and that's why Jebb has gotten such a sweet deal from the City (literally millions of dollars have been made from his free lease of our City property). It's hard to know if this deal resulted from "professional courtesy" between police officers or if there was something more sinister involved. In Jebb's book (which he labels as a "novel") he writes in the first person - as it it were himself - about a police officer who was given free reign to operate outside the law. Here's a quote from Jebb's book:

To my surprise, the captain stood and leaned over his desk, knuckles planted firmly on the blotter. "We'll cover your a** to the limit, Blue, as long as you keep your mouth shut about our agreement and as long as you don't get caught operating outside department policies or the law. If you get caught, we'll deny ever having this conversation."

If that bears any resemblance to what really happened, then the corruption in the San Diego Police Department has very deep roots. Jerry Sanders endorsed the current mayor (Kevin Faulconer) during his election, and it's hard to know how much Faulconer is indebted to Sanders.

[majiemae]

Another Tuesday spent at the San Diego City Council and... yet another viewing of his slides [NOT].

[tomsines27]

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Hi Bob, I do appreciate the warnings. When I learned to fly, I had enough close calls to know flying is dangerous! I have no intention of building some strange device, and jump off a cliff to see if it works. I'm a very slow methodical inventor, I calculate every risk carefully. Also, I have been following the progress of hanggliders for years. I know they are dangerous. One of the things I hope to do is make them less dangerous. So, let me ask you again, for a slow flying fixed wing hangglider, what is the approximate balance point along the cord of the wing? Remember the horse and buggy days, they thought they had the ultimate form of transportation, then along came Henry Ford.
Tom

[tomsines27]

Hi Bob, Sorry, I meant the static balance point
Tom

[Bob Kuczewski]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the continued discussion.

I've responded to your posts in the topic you created for this discussion (see "hangglider" at http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1577). It looks like you might have accidentally posted your questions to this topic about the Torrey Pines Gliderport.

With your permission, I'd like to consolidate the posts in that topic.

Thanks,
Bob

[majiemae]

Sherri's Legacy

With all of those advisory boards, you'd think they'd find room for one more - especially one that could save lives - but I digress...

For your viewing pleasure, Bob's continuing plea to have the Torrey Pines Gliderport over-looked properly - in order that all pilots would have a better and safer flying experience.

[Bill Cummings]

Thanks Margie,

Councilmember, District 2, (6 years) Edward Harris’s legacy along with the previous mayor, the current mayor, and Councilmember Sherri Lightener (sp?) will be known as turning a blind eye and a deaf ear toward their constituents.

Not allowing slides to be seen by the public viewers at home on TV can by no stretch of the imagination be accidental.

Bob,
Is it a violation of the open meetings law when they do not show the audience at home slides on the TV channel that the public taxes to the City of San Diego pays for?

[Bob Kuczewski]

Thanks Margie

Ditto!!!       

Councilmember, District 2, (6 years) Edward Harris’s legacy along with the previous mayor, the current mayor, and Councilmember Sherri Lightener (sp?) will be known as turning a blind eye and a deaf ear toward their constituents.

Amen.

Not allowing slides to be seen by the public viewers at home on TV can by no stretch of the imagination be accidental.

Bob,
Is it a violation of the open meetings law when they do not show the audience at home slides on the TV channel that the public taxes to the City of San Diego pays for?

I think it is a violation. The purpose of the video record is to relay the content of what was said and presented. As you mention, if the City is able to pick and choose what will be shown it clearly deprives the public of the benefit of their own video equipment (those cameras belong to us ... We the People).

54950. In enacting this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares that the public commissions, boards and councils and the other public agencies in this State exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business. It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly.

The people of this State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.

I don't know how to proceed on this issue yet. So for now, I'm just building a track record of their violations. I want to be sure that the evidence of their intentional suppression of information is so overwhelming that it cannot be denied.

[Bill Cummings]

It's time for this thread to get back up near the top so people coming here from the Oz Report don't miss it.