I.B.

Voters' Guide
Nov. 2006
Final Edition

Maximus report
shows council lied
Maximus Report vs. "2004 I.B. Concerned Citizen" Faux Newspaper
By Ed Kravitz other candidates and the Jim Janney who are seeking im manager is in place and the City is limited.
financial status of Imperial re-election? Where did $5.5 performing daily operations. Second, some of the sup-

I
spent several hours read-
ing over the Maximus
Financial Report and com-
paring it to statements made
in the 2004 edition of the
IBCC faux newspaper just
prior to the last election.
If the Maximus report is
true, then the IBCC knew of
the city’s real financial condi-
tion prior to writing lies about
Beach in its 2004 edition.
Even more troubling is the
observation by Maximus that
the City had incomplete
financial records which do not
appear to be on computer
server’s records. Heads would
be rolling if this was private
enterprise. Where is the
accountability of incumbents
such as Patricia McCoy and
million dollars in reserve Unfortunately, the prior porting documents, such as
funds go? incumbent was unavailable to future year budget models and
The City Council spent assist with this project. Thus detailed assumptions, are
$30,000 for the 20-page the institutional memory of SEE MAXIMUS, PAGE 6
Maximus Report. On page
two there are listings of limi-
tations on accurate analysis
due to “missing data.”
In the city of Imperial
Beach, there are additional
limitations that add uncertain-
ty to those projections. First,
the city is in the process of
recruiting its administrative
services manager. Until that
process is complete, an inter-

Censored by the Eagle Times

By Ed Kravitz I asked "Guy" if he would them over and have a few
send me an e-mail stating laughs at our anti-encumbent

E
agle & Times
Newspapers has
refused to renew our
six-week advertising contract
to include next week's pre-
election edition of the Eagle
& Times.
A telephone call on behalf
of Dean Eckenroth Sr. was
made by a display advertis-
ing manager who identified
himself only as "Guy" and
told us the paper would no
Grand Jury investigates I.B. City Council? longer advertise our Web site
SaveIB.Com in classified or
The amount of information we uncovered indicating cor- display advertising and that it
ruption at City Hall and with associated non-profits such as was their right and their deci-
SWIA and the SBUSD Foundation was so overwhelming, we sion to refuse publication of
filed a complaint with the San Diego Grand Jury. The Grand our Web site URL or other
Jury has full access to our Web site and this newspaper. materials.
those terms and he respond-
ed, "We don’t have to!”
before he hung up the phone.
The good news is, a LOT
of you are visiting our Web
site: more people than the
Eagle Times Web site. Tell
your friends about us. Invite
and anti-carpetbagger parody
of the 2006 Imperial Beach
Elections.
Check out Episode II of
The Wizard of No on the
SaveIB.Com Web site.
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