An altercation in Costa Mesa, more Brown Act problems in Santa
Ana, a lying social worker and an LA Times/USC poll on public
employee benefits.
Teacher claims Councilman Stephen Mensinger “chest bumped” him
during an argument last weekend over city outsourcing plan.
Mensinger denies it.
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More than 50 speakers took their turn at the podium at Tuesday’s
regular meeting, many accusing the council of “cooking the books”
to justify its outsourcing plan.
Last Wednesday local GOP Chairman Scott Baugh held up Costa
Mesa’s plan to drastically cut its workforce as an example for
others to follow. A city employee’s suicide the following day has
made that a far more complicated proposal.
Costa Mesa city maintenance worker Huy Pham, who committed
suicide at City Hall Thursday, is recalled by co-workers as
talented and caring.
While done in the name of good business, Costa Mesa’s mass
layoff notification violated basic principals that the corporate
world has developed for handling layoffs, experts say.
Maintenance worker jumped to his death from roof of the City
Hall building Thursday, the day he and more than 200 other city
employees were issued layoff notices.
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