Tuesday, June 09, 2009

NevCity "parking fines monies" Union story, add'l info

Let's shed a little more light.

The Union ran a story in today's paper - titled Nevada City cash missing again — this time it's parking fines - which also addressed Nevada City's TRAN ("tax and revenue anticipation note"), money loaned to Nevada City from Nevada County's reserve fund -
In light of the poor economy and concerns about the city's stability in the future, supervisors requested the review [of Nevada County Treasurer and Tax Collector Chris Dabis's practice of making TRAN loans to our towns].

“Right now, with the way the economy is, I think everyone is concerned about everything. Things are going to get tough. It's like the beginning of a bad storm,” said District 3 Supervisor John Spencer [- implicitly - and, presumably in the meeting today, explicitly - questioning Dabis's actions].


Not mentioned in the story: Dabis is challenging Spencer for his County Supervisor seat. (from here)

And, regarding the parking fine money (which went into the general fund - "The funds aren't missing, Albaugh said") - I wish I'd had a Flip to capture Barbara Coffman's response when I asked her about this.

I guess I'm buying one.
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3 comments:

  1. Don Pelton6/10/2009 4:53 AM

    I do recommend the Flip Video. One of the first times we ever used ours, we got this:

    http://ncminetalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-of-proposed-idaho-maryland-mine.html

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  2. Anonymous6/11/2009 10:04 PM

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  3. Anna Haynes6/28/2009 9:37 PM

    (update, Dabis is no longer challenging Spencer, or so we are given to understand from the headlines at NCVoices.)

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