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Board and CEO did this with full knowledge that over the years this individual actively <br />participated in and incurred lavish entertainment expenses with elected officials, consultants <br />and city officials in his efforts to secure new contracts and maintain company <br />revenue." (Rosenberg Answer and Counterclaim, at page 2. <br />Next is the question of the payment of Prevailing Wages. The State Department of Industrial Relations has <br />ruled that the installation work done by camera companies and their subcontractors is a Public Work, thus <br />must be paid at Prevailing Wage rates. The Department's website contains records of a Prevailing Wage <br />action involving Redflex in the City of Hayward, which closed its camera program in 2013, and the <br />highwayrobbery website contains records of another action involving Redflex, in the City of San Rafael - <br />which just ended its camera program, on March 3. Employees of the City of Oakland have confirmed the <br />existence of a current Prevailing Wage action in that City — again involving Redflex - but as of yet no <br />documents have become available to the public. <br />There are some recent program closures you may not have heard about — because they weren't reported in <br />the major media. Inglewood, which closed last month, is an example of that. So is South Gate, which <br />closed in September. (Both were Redflex customers.) Other 2013 closures in Southern California were El <br />Cajon, Escondido, Poway, Murrieta, and the City of San Diego. (The first three were Redflex customers.) <br />If your action today is to ask staff to bring back more information at a later meeting, I respectfully request <br />that you ask them to have the accident statistics re -run by independent personnel having professional <br />credentials in statistics. <br />If your vote tonight is to accept the present staff recommendation to let the contract expire without renewal, <br />and then sometime between now and June 2015 you decide to revisit that decision, I would appreciate it if <br />you would make a special effort to let the public know — well in advance - that the matter is coming back to <br />the council. <br />Regards, <br />Jim Lisner <br />I Viva Hermosa ! <br />�p <br />3/18/2014 1:26 PM <br />1:26 PM <br />