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Glendale Budget – Inter-Fund Loan Balance Disappears
The Glendale City Council approved the upcoming budget with a 5-2 vote. It’s a “balanced budget”, soon to be flashed around like a badge of honor in upcoming re-election bids by at least two of the people that voted for it. The major component of the current budget strategy involved removing, from the liability side, $39M of loans made…
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Glendale Public Speaking Violation for Harris?
We offered some answers to some narrowly celebrated criticism levelled by Justin Harris against Glendale First! involvement in recall activities for Glendale councilmembers Tolmachoff and Turner. He objected to wording in the 200 word summary on the recall petitions that emphasized the lack of public safety spending and poor response times. Officially Representing Glendale Police Mr. Harris is a Glendale police…
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Hirsch Monologue Ignores Facts
Glendale mayor Weiers opened the citizen comment portion (3:55 on video) of the June 23 Glendale (AZ) City Council meeting explaining the comment rules, including: Personal attacks against councilmembers, city staff, are just simply are not allowed. He continues: We will have a time limit tonight so it’s three minutes per person, we have a timer up…
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Sometimes You Just Have To Answer Back!
On June 23rd, 2015 at the Glendale City Council meeting Justin Harris, President Glendale Law Enforcement Association (GLEA) and Co-chair of Glendale Police Officers Association, stood up in the public comments section of the meeting to make comments about the Recall Committees for CMs Turner and Tolmachoff. (Click here for video) (Please note Harris is allowed…
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Recall Petitions Will Be Circulated in Glendale
There are now two committees in place to recall Glendale (AZ) Councilmember Bart Turner and Councilmember Lauren Tolmachoff. Both members were elected in the November 4, 2014 election. The committees were formed by four Glendale citizens. Reasons for Recall The 200 word summary, a required component when forming a recal committee, is intended to summarize the reasoning behind…
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Glendale City Council Recall Effort
Four sets of recall packets were retrieved from the Glendale City Clerk yesterday (June 15, 2015) afternoon by Glendale resident Larry Feiner. Mr. Feiner stood up at the June 10 City Council meeting and expressed his displeasure with the direction of Council. Go to the video (click here) and Mr. Feiner appears at 1:03:09. This preliminary…