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The Wednesday night board meeting of the Cameron Park Community Services District (CPCSD) was relatively sedate, with contracts and resolutions occupying most of the agenda. Approved was a five-year, $10.2 million, contract with Cal Fire for fire protection. The base cost for 2013-2014 will be $1.9 million plus a 2.5 percent escalator for years two through five. [...]
A decision to hire or not hire a permanent front desk person was sent to the Budget and Administration Committee for further study after a lengthy discussion by the Cameron Park Community Services District board on Wednesday night, Feb. 20. Currently the district is using temporary help to cover the front desk. General Manager Mary [...]
EDITOR: I would like to congratulate Vicky Neibauer on her landslide win. With Vicky on the board we will now have a budgetary expert who will work to bring fiscal sanity back to Cameron Park. Vicky’s 12-point margin over the incumbent who was supported by the good old boys should stand as a lesson for [...]
The ongoing conflict between some members of the public and the Cameron Park Community Services District (CPCSD) board of directors and staff continues to be a sore spot with every meeting a fresh opportunity for re-opening the wound. At the Oct. 17 meeting of the board, community critics complained about ongoing efforts to curb their [...]
EDITOR: At the special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cameron Park Community Services District on Aug. 29 it was voted, in closed session, on a four-to-one basis to extend the general manager of Cameron Park’s contract. I realize that Alan Clarke, Greg Stanton and Scott McNeil had to support the GM. If [...]
A presentation Aug. 15 at the evening board meeting of the Cameron Park Community Services District came with a mixed message. Provided by General Manager Mary Cahill, the presentation was on the topic of free speech, meeting conduct, permissible signage, preparation of board agendas, and district policies on all these subjects. She said she was [...]
The board of the Cameron Park Community Services District adopted a budget for the next fiscal year at its meeting Wednesday night. After three budget workshops, including one on Monday, and endless complaints from the public about deficit spending, the board voted 4 to 1 to accept a budget that has a projected deficit of [...]
EDITOR: Immediately upon opening the May board meeting, Cameron Park CSD Board President Shiva Frentzen read an e-mail written by board member Scott McNeil with district counsel, staff and the public present. McNeil had “safety concerns” for himself, staff, women and children who attend CSD Board meetings indicating he felt “intimidated” by Gerald Lillpop’s abrasive [...]
EDITOR: I would like to thank Scott McNeil for his attempt to stifle my public descent. One of the most frustrating things about being a property-owning, tax-paying, voting citizen of Cameron Park and going to the board meetings is watching the fiscally unsustainable spending that the CSD perpetuates. Due to Mr. McNeil’s efforts an article appeared [...]
Morgan Aasen, Judi Adams, Christina Kiley Michele Adams-D’Onofrio, Anna Elizabeth Adamski, Taylor Renee Agricola, Matt Aguiar, Nicole Alberghini, Ryan Jet Albertazzi, Tyler Alberts, Duncan Alexander, Meagan Allstead, Lauren Almeida, Katia Alvaro, Dalton Amolsch, Elizabeth Marie Anderson, Jami Anderson, Kelsey Anderson, Wade Anderson, Brooke Lorraine Andrew, Kasandra Andrews, Ryan Ansell, Arvind Rajan, Gabrielle Attisani, Forrest Taylor Bacchi, [...]
Board member Scott McNeil was once again the target of residents at the budget meeting of the Cameron Park Community Services District on May 14. It started when Board President Shiva Frentzen read an e-mail from McNeil, an e-mail he apparently thought would remain confidential. McNeil stated in his e-mail there were safety concerns at [...]
Dog owners are lining up on opposite sides of the fence in a dispute over whether or not to build a dog park on a half-acre section of Hacienda Park in Cameron Park. On one side of the issue are members of the El Dorado Dog Owners Guild (EDDOG) who have raised approximately $40,000 to [...]
In a surprise announcement, Scott McNeil issued a statement on Monday stating that he had decided to withdraw from the race for District 2 Supervisor. McNeil is currently a member of the Cameron Park Community Services District board. McNeil said his decision was based on this not being the right time for him to run, [...]
CAMERON PARK — Whether to park an RV and house trailer in front of a Cameron Park residential property in the air district was the question answered for residents from the Cameron Park Community Services Board of Directors — along with some drama during the discussion — in a recent meeting at the assembly hall [...]
CAMERON PARK — Scoldings from the public, a firing and a resignation — the Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors’ recent past might make someone think twice about joining these headline makers. Sean Tucker didn’t flinch. The 43-year-old husband and father of two happily submitted his résumé to the board after Director Rich Green resigned [...]
EDITOR: What has changed at the Cameron Park Community Services District since the November 2010 election? Actually the answer is nothing. What have Directors Scott McNeil and Greg Stanton accomplished since taking the oath of office? They both campaigned for change, saying that the residents wanted to see change. Well here we are, eight months [...]
CAMERON PARK — The Cameron Park Community Services District voted to add its newest member Thursday night, filling the vacancy left by former director Rich Green’s sudden resignation in May. In an unanimous vote, longtime Cameron Park resident Sean Tucker was elected to take Green’s spot on the CSD’s Board of Directors. “I am honored [...]
CAMERON PARK — In a surprise move, Richard Green resigned from the Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors at the board’s meeting on Wednesday, May 18. Following the Pledge of Allegiance, and before the board adopted the evening’s agenda Green said he would like to say something. He then stood up and read [...]
EDITOR: ”Cameron Park — A Special Place to Live.” It didn’t seem very special last night. Last night we attended our first and probably last Cameron Park Community Services District meeting. The format is such that the better part of the first hour was spent on open forum, which is an opportunity for the community to [...]
CAMERON PARK — Former Cameron Park General Manager Fred Smith has joined a handful of residents in the community in claiming his March 24 termination was in violation of the Brown Act. In a formal demand letter to the Board of Directors that voted 3-2 in favor of not renewing his contract, Smith writes that [...]