Culver City’s latest redevelopment project is a brick building with no windows and one door.
After announcing last month the $435 million in redevelopment money dedicated to specific projects in the city, the City Council has placed itself and the entire city into this building, using this $435 million to seal up the door.
If the Gov. Brown eliminates redevelopment agencies around the state, the money will stop and all of the remaining $435 million will go to these projects.
We all have read where $1.2 million will not be going to the Culver City Unified School District, but they should receive additional money from the state if the governor is telling the truth.
But what of the millions of dollars the Redevelopment Agency gives to the city’s General Fund each year? The money that goes to the high-salaried managers, the outside law firms, the Police Dept., the Fire Dept., and the Parks and Recreation Dept.?
That money will have to come from the Culver City Reserve Fund that will be totally depleted by 2014.
In the Los Angeles Times last week, a state legislator was quoted as saying, “There are a lot of city councils asleep at the wheel,” in reference to the financial scandal in the city of Bell.
Who Sees Warnings?
Not to worry, citizens of Culver City. Your City Council is not asleep at the wheel. They are wide awake. Their only problem is that they have passed several signs saying “Danger! Bridge Out Ahead.” Still, they continue down the road to disaster.
What became of the outside attorneys to whom we pay millions each year for their guidance.
They still are there directing us down this dangerous road. They tell us, “Don’t worry. The bridge will be fixed by the time we get there.”
The only problem is these attorneys are not in the back seat. They are in a separate car a quarter-mile behind so they can turn around at the first sign of danger.
Mr. Smith, a retired Culver City police officer, may be contacted at scsinternationalinvestigations.com
