Daily Archives: July 6, 2010

iePolitics: In response to the question I posed to Supervisor Neil Derry . . .

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This is an anonymous response I received:

He gave back $200,000 in discretionary funds that Hansberger left him. He laid off Wanda Nowicki. Wanda’s salary and benefit cost is less than $300,000 so he appears to be planning to transfer more from his balance of carryover discretionary funds to cover the ongoing cost of his staff.

Perhaps Supervisor Derry you would be willing to confirm, deny and/or expand?  This isn’t aimed at you personally, but it seems like there is some of that fuzzy math going on up on the Fifth Floor.

InlandPolitics: So what do Mike Ramos and Rex Gutierrez have in common?

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  • Written by The Insider
  • Posted July 6, 2010 at 8:38 am

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While Rancho Cucamonga City Councilman and former San Bernardino County Assessor’s Office Inter-Governmental Affairs Officer Rex Gutierrez was allegedly doing city work on county time and county work on city time, what was our favorite San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos doing?

Well he had his own version of “inter-governmental affairs” on his mind. Yep, that’s right. He was busy with affairs for sure. You know the kind—fornication, copulation, making whoopee—not with the wife he tells these women he is divorcing, but with his subordinates.

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iePolitics: ARMC: Another Blatant Violation

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In writing this series about corruption at San Bernardino County’s only county-operated hospital, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC), there was one thing I could never understand about the situation and that is why does ARMC contract out over $28 million in services every other year but is not required to go through the RFP process even though many of these contracts are for a million dollars or more, well above the statutory limit for no-bid contracts.  So I asked an expert and here is his answer:

Contracting for Physician Services

There are two ways for a county hospital to contract for professional services.  The one that most academic-oriented hospitals such as ARMC uses is as follows: Continue reading →