Downtown business owners — mainly those who run mom-and-pop
shops — will be at the Santa Ana City Council meeting Tuesday
night to protest what they say is an unfair tax.
Community Development Agency department head Cynthia Nelson is
the latest high-ranking official to abruptly retire. Council
members are starting to speak out.
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Reporter David Nazar details Pulido’s finder’s fee, Fletcher’s
cash out and the coalition of Latino groups that wants answers.
The coalition of groups outlined four examples of what they
believe is abuse of public funds and the public trust.
Brown gave a quick speech and stopped for an OCEA hot dog, but
otherwise blew off labor leaders and others who gathered at various
events Monday to celebrate his re-ascendance to the
governorship.
When former City Attorney Joe Fletcher left the city’s employ
last week, he walked with a total of $333,779 in severance pay and
unused vacation and sick leave.
Joe Fletcher is leaving the city’s employ with $142,000 in
severance pay along with a pension, unused sick and vacation pay
and, if he chooses, unemployment benefits. But city officials still
won’t say whether he retired or was fired.
The mayor confirms the retirement, which ends Joe Fletcher’s
14-year stint as the city’s top legal counsel.
The sale — in which Pulido had said he would earn a $500,000
finders fee — is now in jeopardy.
The Santa Ana mayor said at one point that he stood to earn
$500,000 finder’s fee in the deal.
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