Tax Payers.... YOU have to PAY for Schwab/Berry AGAIN....
More of Tom Schwab's Accounting and Management comes to haunt Grand Terrace. Is the amount owed on this contract going to come out of his and the City Council's income? The Citizens are tired of paying for his errors in accounting and management practices even for those that his Mini Me Steve Berry just continued. Not knowing what to pay, would justify not spending money collected until all payments were made any intelligence above slime or mold spore would know this. To think Tom Schwab wants to be on the City Council, and that he thinks his "Managment of Grand Terrace" should be a source of professional pride is Sick. It is about time some one takes Mr. Schwab to court and tries to collect on his bad judgement and practices.
According to an article in the The Press-Enterprise, city manager Tom Schwab was quoted as stating that they estimate 30 drivers would run a red light, per day. The citations began September 2007. Under Schwab's Administration and carried forward under Steve I don't know how much to pay but I'll spend the Money Anyway's Administration. The Triad (Ferre, Cortez, Garcia), spent the money, on the recommendation of Schwab and Berry.
CITY OFFICIALS are not available to provide information because we have PAID SCHWAB to RETIRE and Berry to go away. Finance Director also should pay up as he should know how to fund a contract and pay it on time. This should come out of their PAY and RETIREMENT FUNDS. OR they should have been terminated with CAUSE and we would not be paying their RETIREMENTS
City Council will decide Tuesday whether to borrow money from the city's facilities fund to repay Redflex Traffic Systems, which has operated two cameras each on two intersections in Grand Terrace since 2007.
Redflex charges $12,513 to maintain the cameras, which tape and ticket anyone breaking traffic laws. Various codes dictate that about 34percent of the revenue from those tickets goes to Grand Terrace. The county, the state and the courts also get a cut.
There are two cameras at Barton Road and Michigan Avenue and two cameras at Barton Road and Mount Vernon Avenue.
According to the city's contract with Redflex, if the city makes less than $12,513 in fines, it must pay all of that revenue to Redflex, but does not owe more than it collects.
"The city became delinquent in contractor payments due to reporting and computational difficulties to determine the amount due to the contractor," Finance Director Bernie Simon wrote in a report to the Council.
Unsure how much money it owed to Redflex, the city set aside too little in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The city realized the error in May 2009, then decided in September that it could break even by June 2010 because of anticipated increases in revenue from fines.
Instead, fine revenue decreased and debt increased.
City officials were not available to clarify how they misunderstood the amount owed to Redflex or why they expected fine revenue to increase.
Redflex initially waived the city's late fees, but when the city missed the June catch-up date, the company announced it would charge 1.5 percent interest on all payments, retroactive to when they first became overdue, if it did not receive payment by Oct. 2.
