| (Nov. 17, 2020, 5:35 p.m.) -- LBREPORT.com (which first reported the impending proposed destruction of more than 30 years of City Auditor records, has successfully prevented their destruction until we and our volunteer records preservation team can review them and make copies/have copies made of history-preserving records.
After reviewing lists showing the hundreds of documents slated for destruction, LBREPORT.com used the CA Public Records Act to seek removal of the item from the Nov. 17 agenda or pull the item for separate voted action specifying that destruction of the records will be withheld pending completion of our record inspection.. At mid afternoon today (Nov. 17), City Clerk Monique de la Garza said that "similar to what was done in the past when a PRA [Public Records Act request] was submitted for documents scheduled for destruction approval on consent, the Council will approve the destruction item and put the boxes on hold pending review from parties filing the PRA. We started pulling the boxes requested and will be reaching out to schedule an appointment for review." On Nov. 11, LBREPORT.com (first again) reported that City Auditor Laura Doud was seeking Nov. 17 City Council approval to destroy over 30 years of City Auditor office records. We moved immediately to obtain lists (not linked publicly) showing the types of documents in 56 boxes of records currently slated for destruction, The item, nominally agendized by the City Clerk, says in an accompanying memo that the Clerk "worked with [the City Auditor office] to review the records destruction" and the "City Attorney and the City Auditor's Office concur" in the recommended destruction. [Scroll down for further.] |
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| The City Auditor documents now proposed for destruction span more than three decades of LB's history. The time period includes the loss of Disney Sea, the exit of LB auto dealerships to Signal Hill, the loss of the LB Naval shipyard, the loss/destruction of the amenity-filled Naval Station (demolished for a Port container facility), plans for the Aquarium (which hasn't performed as LB taxpayers were told), the "Queensway Bay Entertainment and Retail Project" (which didn't deliver a promised regional attraction), an LBPD "strategic plan" that included a "preliminary staffing strategy" to reach 1,024 officers by FY2000 (never delivered to taxpayers), years of city employee agreements that imposed generous city employee pension costs on LB taxpayers, the notorious 2002 "pension spike" (that 2006 Mayoral candidates Doug Drummond and Bob Foster both said left LB with "pension potholes"), and perhaps most telling: the Queen Mary in which years of operators/lessees were allowed to defer maintenance items that have now left LB taxpayers facing with millions in unbudgeted costs. (Doud is the only remaining citywide LB elected in office for the Queen Mary operations period from mid-2006 to the present.)
An initial quick check of the lists of City Auditor documents doesn't display these hot button topics. However, a closer reading indicates number of categories may pertain or otherwise reference some of these or other newsworthy LB civic matters. Developing. Further to follow on LBREPORT.com.
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