Peak Blasts Sheriff As `Full Of It’ – City Approves $31M Budget
Written by 991KBU on May 29, 2019
A 31 million city budget was approved by the Malibu City Council last night.
It includes a 2 point 6 million item … to enable the city to waive building review fees for homes that were burned down in the Woolsey Fire.
City council members say its important for the city to everything it can .. to keep the city fabric together after the fire.
Building permits fees are going to be waived … but only for people who lived in their Malibu home as a primary residence at the time of the fire … and only for people who have not sold their land since the disaster..
Plus there will be 2 point 3 million on other Woolsey Fire recovery costs.
For public safety … nine point one million dollars … the vast majority of that payment for sheriff’s patrols.
But a sizeable amount is going to pay off lawsuit settlements for abuse of citizens by sheriffs deputies … some of them sheriff’s deputies who are being put back on the force.
And last night ….councilman Skylar Peak blasted sheriff Alex Villanueva over that.
NEWSCART 75146 PEAK BLASTS
“The liability trust fund costs, which continue to to increase regarding to the sheriffs department, are a joke.
“And they need to get their act together.
“So I don’t know how best to do that, what they’re doing internally.
“But anything based on what the sheriff, on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is doing about it, but what they are saying at the contract cities meeting seem like complete BS, a campaign stunt.
“I think the guy is kind of full of it.”
Skylar Peak … blasting sheriff Alex Villanueva.
The lawsuit settlement costs are apportioned out to the 49 cities in Los Angeles County that hire the sheriffs office to be the local police agency .… like Malibu.
Back to the budget.
The city will be taking 3 million dollars out of the city savings account this year … because of the fire.
But that money may get replenished later this year when federal disaster money makes its way out of a political mess in Washington.
More on that in a minute …
Meanwhile …
