By Kerry Henard
If God is in the details, as Gustave Flaubert is credited as saying, nothing says incompetence like Greg Snyder’s Public Works Department.
Category Archives: Information
Guest commentary: Government takeovers of water systems don’t deliver results — study
The City of Claremont has been trying to take ownership of the local water system from Golden State Water Co. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge recently rejected the takeover effort, finding that the city could not provide water at lower rates and would not invest more in infrastructure than Golden State Water.
A great example of Town planning
By Kerry Henard
You buy them books and they eat the covers. Try to guess how much of your tax money the Town spent to do this park improvement all wrong.
A look at Public Works
By Kerry Henard
How many times do you think employees of the Town — including those in Greg Snyder’s Public Works Department — have driven by these issues over the years without lifting a finger to fix them?
Update: Town likely using PR firm for political campaign use since 2016
- Further emails show Town PR firm, 20/20 Network, held secret
FLOW
meetings since early 2016 to combat Right to Vote on Debt campaign efforts
Last month, we alerted citizens to two leaked emails that were sent to us that had been sent out to certain people in the Apple Valley community, urging them to go to the Town Council and speak in favor of the Town’s multimillion eminent domain takeover of Liberty Utilities.
Say NO to government electricity
Government electrical power: A false choice
- Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) is a policy that enables local governments to aggregate (add up) electricity demand within their jurisdictions in order to procure alternative energy (wind and solar) supplies while maintaining the existing electricity provider for transmission and distribution services. In short, it adds a middle man to siphon off more of your money.
- Power providers like SCE are on track to meet the State’s climate change goals; however, they aren’t moving fast enough for agencies of the State. Cities and counties, want to form their own power companies because they want to move faster on climate change goals. They want to form Joint Power Authorities (JPAs) to compete with SCE. They claim they can offer a better rate for consumers, even though the power they will be offering is skewed heavily toward expensive subsidized
green power,
like wind and solar. This is a false choice for consumers.
Town of Apple Valley storm drain issues
By Kerry Henard
Despite months of warning about impending rainfall, the Town of Apple Valley for the second year failed to clean out its storm drains. Sure, the Town website says they clean out the storm drains, but here is the reality.
Does the Town of Apple Valley finish what they start?
By Kerry Henard
They start things, but do’t finish them. Whether it’s a bus stop, the Hilltop House, or even putting in gravel in a planter. No job too small for them to leave it partially done.
They never fix anything
By Kerry Henard
The Town of Apple Valley gets an F
for conservation and safety issues. Plus, they never fix anything.
Remember to vote no
on Measure F in June.