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Tony Seitz and Julie Seitz, April 15, 2013 Kimberly Newkirk Cline and Michael Kevin Cline, April 15, 2013 Joyce Anne Polte and Loren A, Polte, April 15, 2013 Thomas Francis Harper and Wendy Joy Harper, April 15, 2013 Kerry Lynn Damore and Michael Anthony Damore, April 15, 2013 Kevin McPeters and Michelle McPeters, April 15, [...]
What: The El Dorado Hills Art and Wine Affaire Who: El Dorado Hills Optimist Club, El Dorado Arts Council and the El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce Where: El Dorado Hills Town Center When: Saturday and Sunday, May 11 and 12 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost: $25 per person for one day of wine tasting (21 [...]
The Board of Supervisors recently re-approved the County Czar position by changing the county’s ordinances and job descriptions to reorganize the various Building, Planning, Environmental Management and Transportation departments under the direction of Kim Kerr as the county’s head czar, a position for which she doesn’t have the proper education, experience or credentials. You can [...]
EDITOR: I find it absolutely disgusting that El Dorado County’s CAO Terri Daily and Assistant CAO Kim Kerr are trying to claw back the health retirement benefits promised to retirees of El Dorado County. Several ex-county employees stood up nearly in tears at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday describing how they have cancer and [...]
The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors got a look at what’s wrong in the county and what can be done to rectify the problems. Ron Wolsfeld from the Georgetown Divide presented a tutorial recently on steps the county can take to boost employment, particularly in the building industry, and maybe just fix a lot [...]
EDITOR: Isn’t it strange that when the county has been having budget problems and only had a surplus of $5 million a year ago, it magically finds $5.6 million to spend on new financial software? The county in this alleged time of financial distress also seems to create lavishly compensated positions for its top bureaucrats, [...]
The Transient Occupancy Tax will fund a new website promoting the county, an aggressive grant acquisition program and mini-grants to “fabric-of-the-community” groups. The Board of Supervisors also tacked an additional year onto six current arts and tourism contracts funded by the 10 percent add-on to room rates in El Dorado County. The decisions were based [...]
Some of the best and brightest are joining a popular program in its seventh year in El Dorado County. Many experts in their respective fields are being given an opportunity to broaden their horizons and learn something new, whether it be all the products and services El Dorado County offers, or introductions to the people [...]
What: ”An Irish Hooley!” featuring Slugger O’Toole and the Kerry Dancers Where: Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom When: Friday, March 8 at 4 and 7:30 pm. Tickets: $19-$29, premium $39 and students with ID $12 Information: Visit threestages.net or call the Three Stages ticket office at 916-608-6888, Monday through Saturday from 10 [...]
A brief glance at the Web pages that deal with the county’s Traffic Impact Mitigation fees may help explain why some members of the Board of Supervisors want to keep the issue on the cutting table. The most telling section gives comparison rates for each of eight TIM fee zones. The primary distinction between zones [...]
Local attorney Jim Brunello looked like a rumpled Uncle Sam last week as he pointed a figurative index finger at a room full of community leaders and delivered the message: “El Dorado Hills needs you.” A student of county land use dating back to the 1960s, Brunello has led the Economic Development Advisory Committee for [...]
The El Dorado County’s Board of Supervisors got a first look at its Department of Transportation’s proposed Capital Improvement Plan for 2013 during Tuesday’s afternoon board session. Under the county’s General Plan, the board is required to update the CIP at least every year and coordinate each update with the “five-year major review of the [...]
Information regarding who gets paid what in the county is readily available to the public through a couple of channels. The office of the State of California Controller, John Chiang manages a Website called Government Compensation in California at publicpay.ca.gov. Data there is gathered from reports submitted annually by public entities including counties, cities, special [...]
What the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors did on Dec. 4 was undone on Dec. 18. Tuesday, after considerable discussion and delay, the board rescinded its earlier approval of salary increases for two top department heads. The chief administrative officer had recommended 5 percent raises for director of the Health and Human Services Agency [...]
EDITOR: The Board of Supervisors last Tuesday clearly violated the Brown Act, as it was obvious the whole matter of creating a large bureaucratic super development agency had already been pre-decided behind closed doors. The item was so complex, the public in the audience was unsure what the board was actually approving, but one thing [...]
County Counsel Lou Green wrote the response quoted below to questions regarding action taken at Tuesday’s El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meeting. In a written statement county Auditor-Controller Joe Harn challenged a board decision to increase the salaries of Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Kim Kerr and Health and Human Services Director Daniel Nielson. Harn [...]
By a 4-1 vote, the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved creation of a new Community Development Agency. Supervisors John Knight, Jack Sweeney, Ron Briggs and Norma Santiago accepted Chief Administrative Officer Terri Daly’s full recommendation for restructuring the three county departments most involved in planning and development issues. Supervisor Ray Nutting said [...]
EDITOR: New county supervisors have work cut out for them. The CAO and assistant CAO spend too much time grandstanding for the board, empire building, and performing self-promotion through expensive self-promotional videos. The CAO’s proposed organizational management changes (streamlining) of county departments is a fictitious guise to saving taxpayers money. It’ll cost the County plenty. The [...]
Suppose they combined three separate county departments into one entity and called it the Community Development Agency. That is just what El Dorado County Supervisors, on Oct. 31, voted unanimously to “consider.” Recommended by the Chief Administrative Office, Interim Transportation Director Kim Kerr presented a proposal that would join Development Services, Environmental Management and the [...]
JERRY C. JURISICH, 48, of Placerville, by PPD on Aug. 23, bail listed as $2,500. KIMBERLY D. LORENZ, 42, of El Dorado Hills, by CHP on Aug. 23, bail listed as $2,500. JOHN W. TAYLOR, 40, of Diamond Springs, by CHP on Aug. 23, bail listed as $2,500. KERRISA A. BATH, 22, of Shingle Springs, [...]