Dear WPWMA Staff: I will not stop until the whole truth is exposed behind this WPWMA contract. If you want to make it about your intrepid blogger, it is party time.
For the benefit of the readers, the WPWMA Board was ready to go with a different provider than FCC. Late the Friday before Thanksgiving week, the staff released a report recommending the local affiliate of FCC to do services for the dump and composting. We did an expose’ on FCC. It showed PROVEN Bribery and Corruption overseas. Domestically, we saw proof of underbid contracts, severe issues at several of their facilities, toxic compost that was not completed correctly and several lawsuits related to FCC’s plants causing severe and foul odors all around the areas.
How did Staff Respond? What looks like an ego-feuled rampage where they met with the board members individually to pressure them in to moving the FCC contract forward. Some were said to have even made it about your intrepid blogger.
The Staff took the time to do due diligence on Green Waste/Zanker – that they did not do on FCC in order to assuage their bruised egos from getting torched by your intrepid blogger. That opposition research came out in the Jam-Down Board meeting where the board rubber stamped the recommendation of staff.
There is apparently a whole lot more than I have written about. 2021 is going to feature a demolition of the inside of the WPWMA. You will also recall that your intrepid blogger had to torch the staff of this district because they were preparing to give a no-bid contract extension to the Nortech people who proved they were overmatched by the requirements of this district. Then there is the small matter of the planned junkets to Spain by the WPWMA staff as well… (We have leaks all over the county, and people talk, a lot)
This bombshell hit my inbox:
It’s good to see you’ve picked up the latest on the WPWMA again. I’ve heard the City of Roseville has a separate action they are considering this Wednesday to strike (or further) their own deal with Recology, which I’d say is smart of them since I’d imagine that gives them a little more leverage than when they are represented by 1 seat at the WPWMA (where the County has 2) even though they comprise 40% of the revenue/customers. It will be interesting to see where this all lands. Thank you for your coverage of the issue.
There may be justice after all. If the City of Roseville charts their own path – the WPWMA will collapse. After the antics of the staff and the acquiescence of the board who rolled over for their demands, this may be the only answer to stop the rampage.
(WPWMA = Western Placer Waste Management Agency, FCC = Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, S.A. )
P.S. Please also note that George Soros owns 25% of FCC.
Thank you for exposing this corruption. As a Roseville resident, who can I talk to help make sure Roseville goes on their own, hopefully with the people who do our trash and waste now.
Here in Placer County government, we pride ourselves on manipulating the spirit of the law. We portray ourselves on the false image of leading and protecting the community with integrity, yet the real truth reveals itself just below the surface…
We got caught recently gerrymandering voting districts throughout the county and merely shrugged our shoulders to it.
Our employees recently agreed to a waste collection and management contract with a corporation that has a clear record of poor quality work, ethics violations and environmental abuse. It sounds as if the primary factor in our decision was a paid vacation to Spain that would be sponsored by the same corporation.
Our sheriff’s department shot an innocent father in a clear display of unwarranted excessive force, and we pressured his teenage son, the only witness to this event, to make false statements and concurrently denied his most basic civil rights to seek legal representation and contact his mother. Our deputies lied on the report and surreptitiously recorded private calls of the witness for our own intel gathering advantage. We nearly killed the victim, paid 10 million dollars, and only shrugged our shoulders. The victim lives today fully paralyzed.
Our jail facility beats inmates and the Sheriff acts like he doesn’t know.
Our DA “quit” in the middle of his term under suspicious circumstances. No questions answered. The #1 Deputy DA was fired immediately after in secrecy. We deny FOIA requests for the information that explains such a drastic series of resignations and terminations.
We secretly financially profit from the release of jail inmates into our communities. Our probation department claims these people are actively and aggressively supervised to maintain public safety, yet in reality the offenders run free and unchecked. We generate a “great deal of profit” from these programs.