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The group received donations from 130 individuals in its
apparently unsuccessful campaign to block the recall vote against
three Fullerton City Council members.
Mayor Tom Tait called a special meeting of the City Council for
Tuesday with hopes that council members will reconsider a deal to
divert $158 million in room tax subsidies to the developers of two
four-star hotels.
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City officials, responding to orders to purge emails, will study
storage costs. Open-government experts say emails must be kept two
years.
The extension for Republic Services comes after a $20-million
remodeling of the waste hauler’s materials recovery facility.
Waiving 80 percent of the city’s room tax could amount to a
$158-million savings for the project.
Partnerships controlled by GardenWalk hotel developers William
O’Connell and Ajesh Patel gave Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu at
least $6,800 in illegal contributions during his 2010 supervisorial
run, according to finance records.
Republic Services, the city’s trash hauler since the 1940s, is
seeking to extend its contract with the city for another 20
years.
Council members are set to vote on whether a hotel developer
should get 80 percent of the bed tax revenue that two proposed
high-end hotels would generate.
The campaign in Fullerton, led by developer Tony Bushala, is
hoping to place the recall on the June ballot.
Although Kelly Thomas is no longer the focus, angry rhetoric
continues, and there are even “citizen’s arrests” in the final
weeks before the Feb. 16 signature deadline.
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