Presently our City Council is a part-time Council. Its members’ salary, under the city charter, is fixed by California’s Government Code. Measure C would alters this by allowing the Council, by ordinance, to decide...
The 8/6/2014 water rate increase was passed to eliminate a $10 million deficit. The GNP reported that city officials said this deficit was due to GWP, in the mid 2000s, continuing to make capital...
Professor Harry Zavos’ Analysis of the Water Rate increase proposed by Bartell and Wells. The increase will to be considered by the Glendale City Council on 7/22/2014. Below is the email and documents submitted...
Fred Fox wrote in the forum page of the Glendale News Press that he’s disturbed by the lawsuit questioning the appropriateness of transferring utility monies to support general government services. But, to him and...
The Glendale Coalition for Better Government, acting according to its mission to promote transparency, accountability, integrity and responsiveness in city government, has filed suit against the City of Glendale for violating Articles XIIIC and...
Glendale, at a considerable cost, retained a consultant, Wildan, to prepare a water utility cost of service analysis–a COSA–and, based on it, a water rate restructure and rate increase ordinance. The ordinance was adopted...
In 2011 Glendale’s government decided it needed more revenue for the water utility. It retained a consultant, Willdan, to prepare a Cost of Services Analysis (COSA) and based on that COSA to design the...
In June 2013 the Civil Grand Jury reported its survey of various measures concerning the fiscal condition of 88 Los Angeles County cities; it ranked cities accordingly on each. Glendale ranks well on some,...
During a city council meeting, Glendale Mayor, Dave Weaver, questioned the Gall that a single Glendale resident had in submitting a complaint to the grand Jury. On the subsequent meeting, Professor Harry Zavos, lectured...
Before the recent electric rate increase ratepayers were charged a basic rate consisting of two components: a fixed charge for having a meter (to cover costs incurred regardless of amount of power used) and...
