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State of the Division: City Intends to Teach, Not Listen
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. City Intends to Teach, Not Listen. City Manager Daniel Valenzuela said in his state of the City. Speech: "We are launching several initiatives in an effort to encourage citizens to be more engaged in their city government. Those include the following:". 1 COSA University will be a citizens academy that we hope will spark interest. In serving on City boards and commissions. If you’re already interested, applications are available at cosatx.us/boards. There are many people working...
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State of the Division: City to Pursue Citizen Engagement
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Saturday, August 16, 2014. City to Pursue Citizen Engagement. Item 20 on this Thursday's City Council meeting is a discussion. Of new citizen engagement initiatives, including COSA University. Recent city council meetings have had ample citizen engagement. Crowds gathered to be heard on awarding the city's trash and landfill franchises, as well as several development projects. It used to be. I do hope COSA University offers an ethics class. By PEU Report/State of the Division. Seems to me that COSA Unive...
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State of the Division: City Staff Control Board Appointments
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Saturday, September 06, 2014. City Staff Control Board Appointments. The answer finally came as to why four board applications for the Animal Shelter Advisory Board never received any action, much less a response. City Clerk Alicia Ramirez. I work very closely with the individual board liaisons. To make these appointments.". Whenever I receive applications to serve on these different boards, the criteria, membership criteria says preferred. We don't always get individuals. Alicia Ramirez implied that Cit...
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PEU Report: Dutch Pension Fund Saw Carlyle's Fees from the Inside at AlpInvest
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Friday, August 7, 2015. Dutch Pension Fund Saw Carlyle's Fees from the Inside at AlpInvest. The Wall Street Journal broke a story. That is guaranteed to rock the private equity industry. The giant Dutch pension fund PGGM. Which manages over $200 billion in the form of the retirement assets of social workers and nurses, has said it will stop investing in private equity. Funds that refuse to make full disclosure. Of all fees and costs. AlpInvest to Carlyle in two stages. Whether PGGM remains one of Carlyle...
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State of the Division: Mr. Riley: The Spence Conundrum
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Mr Riley: The Spence Conundrum. San Angelo's Water Advisory Board is new and improved. A far cry from the rubber stamp version under former Water Chief Will Wilde and the non-entity under his replacement Ricky Dickson. The new Water Chief Bill Riley gave an update on the Hickory Aquifer. He deferred to Board members saying:. I know that most of you are more familiar with the Hickory Project than I am.". Riley went on to talk about Lake Iviie and E.V. Spence Reservoir. Two years ag...
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State of the Division: City Seeks Engineering Contractors & Water Master Plan Consultant
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Sunday, August 09, 2015. City Seeks Engineering Contractors and Water Master Plan Consultant. New City Engineer Russell Pehl and recently promoted Water Utilities Assistant Director Allison Strube. While Strube worked as a project engineer before jumping to Water Utilities. The City put out two Request for Qualifications, one for Infrastructure Engineering and Surveying Services. And another for a Water Master Plan. The anticipated scope of services shall include, but not be limited to, the following:.
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State of the Division: Grindstaff's Street Maintenance Talk Deja Vu
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Thursday, August 06, 2015. Grindstaff's Street Maintenance Talk Deja Vu. San Angelo City Councilwoman Elizabeth Grindstaff echoed points made by former City Engineer Clinton Bailey years ago. The. Her remarks to the West Texas Legislative Summit, which took up the abysmal state of our roads. The cost to maintain a street for 25 years under a five-year maintenance plan. The road base and surface fail, driving the cost to $140 a square yard to repair, she said. That's been San Angelo's past, which included.
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PEU Report: Huffington's Solace: Rubenstein & Conway's $30 Million in Vermillion
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Saturday, August 1, 2015. Huffington's Solace: Rubenstein and Conway's $30 Million in Vermillion. The Carlyle Group lost several investments in Spring 2008 prior to the Fall financial crisis. Carlyle Capital Corporation's failure resulted in a high profile investor suing Carlyle and its marketing co-founder. Forbes. Michael Huffington, the wealthy former Republican congressman from California, is suing the Carlyle Group and its co-founder, David Rubenstein, over misrepresentations and deceptions. The fir...
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PEU Report: Texas AG Faces Indictment for Securities Fraud
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Saturday, August 1, 2015. Texas AG Faces Indictment for Securities Fraud. Attorney General Ken Paxton is expected to surrender to authorities Monday following an indictment on multiple felony charges. Stemming from his involvement with a North Texas technology company accused of defrauding investors, according to multiple sources close to the case. A Collin County grand jury issued the indictment. Paxton faces two counts of first-degree securities fraud. He also misrepresented himself as an investor.
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