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San Diego jails have the highest rate of overdose deaths in the state of cali ..

Oversight board wants San Diego jail staff to be scanned for drugs The board that oversees San Diego law enforcement wants everyone who enters their facilities get scanned for drugs. KPBS reporter Kitty Alvarado has more

Six weeks ago I filed a public records’ request for contracts and payments to the City of Imperial Beach’s multiple lawyers and consultants on the payroll. So far the documents for only two consultants have been released.

AK & Company: Hired on March 21, 2019 to submit to the State any reimbursements the City might be entitled to according to SB 90. Ak & Company is paid $4,800/year, but the City did not include the report AK & Company was contacted to produce. AK & Company is based in Paso Robles.

Alec Foster Wheeler: Hired in 2015 and presented itself as a San Diego-based company and still uses the same employee, but company is now called Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions based in Chicago, Il.

In the last year Alec Foster Wheeler/Wood Environment & Infrastructure was paid $216,433.18 for ‘Watershed Coordination’, Monitoring Support Services’, and ‘Reporting & Assessment Services’, but no report of services was produced.

The Request for Proposals filed by the City on March 19, 2015 states: “The purpose of this Request for Qualifications/Proposals is to select a consultant to provide professional services for the implementation of the San Diego Bay WQIP for the duration of the Storm Water Permit R9-2013-0001.”

$1/4 million/year for ‘watershed’ seems a bit excessive for a town on flat ground in the southwest that receives less than 2” of rain/year.

portland claims it will take 3 months and additional staff to produce the CARES Act funding documents - if the information was never put into the computers, then the 'reports' the city is waving around are fraudulent ..

City of Portland Can't Produce CARES Act Funding Records | I.B. Reporting If all the "two staff members" have done with the Invoices and Receipts is to throw them in boxes, then send me the boxes and I'll create the General Ledger for the City.