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AOC’s Jerry Pfab seems to want to add insult to injury….
February 6, 2013
From the You’ve got to be f—ing kidding me file comes this story out of the depths of the Death Star’s satellite office in Sacramento. You might recall that our courts are crumbling and are otherwise falling apart due to a lack of facilities maintenance. In fact, the total unfunded facility maintenance liability to California’s […]
More Construction Woes; Judge McMaster Editorial; ACJ News; Conference Signups
January 29, 2013
January 28, 2012 Dear Members and Others, By now, most of you should be aware that the Administrative Office of the Courts entered in to a “Private Public Partnership” for the building and maintenance of one courthouse in Long Beach that will cost roughly $61 million dollars a year for the next 35 years. Branch […]
The Long Beach PPP Courthouse Contract
December 28, 2012
Enclosed is the Long Beach courthouse contract executed between Mr. Robert Emerson of the Administrative office of the Courts and Mr. Stuart Marks of Long Beach Judicial Partners obtained by Mr. Michael Paul via the State Department of Finance. Note that the attachments are mostly larger than 8 megabytes each and that they are numbered […]
2012 – Riding High – A Year of Success
December 27, 2012
. Truth be told, we never left the saddle. As we entered into 2012 the first indication that CCMS was dead was on December 20th, 2011 when we announced with the assistance of Tonto (You remember him, the really nice house on the hill in Danville with the really nice yard that had been under […]
Courthouse construction? Frozen until further notice.
December 3, 2012
It should come as no surprise that overspending and spending someone else’s money without their consent doesn’t go over very well. In the case of the 1.8 billion dollar (2.3 billion dollar)long beach courthouse where both the AOC and Judicial Council took liberties, they’re getting their hands slapped. It is well deserved too. For those […]
The Long Beach boondoggle gets more press coverage
November 14, 2012
It is being referenced to in growing circles as the long beach courthouse boondoggle. At a 35 year operating cost of 2.3 billion dollars, money has yet to be appropriated by anyone to pay for it. The only money appropriated thus far for courthouses comes out of the existing courthouse construction funding provided for by […]
The AOC & Judicial Council’s 285 Rules of Acquisition
October 6, 2012
This came in the email from someone who declared themselves an AOC employee. JC/AOC’s 285 management rules of acquisition 1. Once you have trial court money, you never give it back. 2. The best deal is the one that brings the most kickbacks. 3. When using taxpayer money, always pay more than you have to. […]
The 1.8 billion dollar courthouse
September 18, 2012
Someone way more familiar with the Long Beach project dropped us a note overnight showing us the errors of our ways. Apparently, the AOC did not sign up for a 22 million dollar per year building which would represent just the costs of construction number and it is the costs of construction number that the […]
Long Beach Question: Much like everything else, who is going to pay for it?
September 17, 2012
It is no surprise to find out that JCW is firmly against public private partnerships for building public infrastructure because historically it has always been the people that lose when these projects shoot over budget. In California, examples abound of these failed initiatives that make private investors rich and fail to deliver on the […]
Meanwhile back at the AOC, money grows on trees
September 11, 2012
I don’t know what is more intellectually offensive – The AOC keeping 111 temps on their books or the October 16th, 4 hour meeting where everyone supervisor and above will be flown into San Francisco. Now if the purpose of this meeting was to issue pink slips, I could understand flying them in to fire […]
Council acts to reform bloated bureaucracy
September 4, 2012
It’s probably a combination of Justice Corrigan’s plea as well as the Alliance being cautiously optimistic about actual reforms taking place given the words exchanged and the votes taken. Here is the rub: Four of these items that came to unanimous votes in this judicial council session were shunned without so much as a […]
Pegasus Global Holdings Report is unexpectedly released
August 24, 2012
…on a Friday afternoon just before quitting time. Typical. Enclosed is the report for your perusal. We will comment on it more when we read the whole thing. Pegasus-Global-AOC-OCCM-Final-Audit-Report This is what almost 1/2 million buys. Edited to add: and it was worth it. Media release by the Alliance of California Judges this afternoon: The […]
The OCCM Train Wreck
August 23, 2012
You heard it here first even though Mr. Jones was officially, unofficially leaked the summary of the Pegasus Global Holding report. Of course, when you and I see the whole report in all of its gory detail, someone is going to wonder why we’re giving these stooges 6.5 billion dollars to shut our justice system […]
ACJ Letter to the Judicial Council, SEC &E&P committees
August 17, 2012
You’ll note an ongoing theme of AOC management. When someone releases a report that is highly critical of their operations, they close ranks, take down the dirty laundry curtains, go wash the dirty laundry curtains and put them back in the window and declare they built a new and much improved house with the […]
When you can’t maintain the buildings you have, build more of them.
August 16, 2012
Sounds like an absurd premise and yet in California’s judicial branch it is an absurd public policy. While California is mired in debt and has an unfunded pension liability that’s about half of the states’ annual budget, while draconian cuts directed at the house of (George) fraud, waste, abuse and public corruption that is the AOC […]
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