Takes issue with Calabasas leadership





The arrogance of money and power in government often signals an end to meaningful citizen input. Has this occurred in the city of Calabasas? You decide.

When a year-long effort by citizen volunteers to update the General Plan is usurped by city staff inserting, after the fact, their own recommendations, including halfamilliondollars a year disguised as “workforce housing,” which is not housing at all, rather a free money program with no payments or interest for a select few at city hall; when $41 million is spent on a palatial civic center that can’t even house its own oversized staff (Agoura Hills spent $10 million including the land); when another half-million is spent over six years on a forprofit film festival, but not onecent given to support a local nonprofit student film festival; when senior staff drafts a resolution with provisions that ignore fundamental constitutional rights, and the City Council adopts it (No. 2008-1127); when resident concerns for the future of their neighborhood’s rural character which the city once promised to preserve are ignored; with over $21 million in reserves, controlled from the top down by a brash, oligarchical clique of arrogant, selfanointed despots, it begs the question: Who has allowed this to happen?

Three City Council seats are up for re-election next March.
Toby Keeler
Old Topanga



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