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		<title>City Council Meeting Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/12/city-council-meeting-tomorrow-31.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City Council will meet for the third consecutive Tuesday tomorrow evening &#8212; 7pm at City Hall &#8212; largely to finish the business that was tabled during last week&#8217;s lengthy &#8212; and dramatic &#8212; evening. Beforehand, the council will meet in closed session and discuss the city manager and the possibility of another interim city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Council Meeting Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/12/city-council-meeting-tomorrow-30.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=9401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The city council will be reorganized on Tuesday evening &#8212; 7pm at City Hall &#8212; but the current council first will vote to terminate the NEO/AHSG contract for affordable housing (which goes beyond what former City Manager Charlie Long had suggested, which was to phase out the contract over six months). The reconstituted council, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Hercules council to consider phasing out affordable housing contractor</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/12/times-hercules-council-to-consider-phasing-out-affordable-housing-contractor.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/12/times-hercules-council-to-consider-phasing-out-affordable-housing-contractor.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Lochner reports&#8230; &#8220;The City Council will vote Tuesday on a proposal by interim City Manager Charlie Long to phase out Affordable Housing Solutions Group and bring the management of the affordable housing program back to City Hall, where it would be in the hands of the Planning and Finance departments.&#8221; The report includes an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special City Council Meeting on Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/12/special-city-council-meeting-on-tuesday.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/12/special-city-council-meeting-on-tuesday.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affordable housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[redevelopment agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sycamore north]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=9333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The lame duck council will meet on Tuesday &#8212; 7pm at City Hall &#8212; for one last hurrah prior to new councilmembers being sworn in on the 14th (a meeting solely dedicated to regalia). Three issues are on the agenda&#8230; Phasing out NEO/AHSG&#8217;s contract for affordable housing (and other services). Potential fixes for the Sycamore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Hercules mixed use project running out of money</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/times-hercules-mixed-use-project-running-out-of-money.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/times-hercules-mixed-use-project-running-out-of-money.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordable housing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=9250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another example of City Manager Nelson Oliva fleecing the city in the name of affordable housing&#8230; &#8220;In his weekly interim city manager&#8217;s report, posted on the Hercules Website on Friday, [Charles] Long says the project&#8217;s construction funds are &#8216;essentially exhausted.&#8217; With Sycamore North about 45 percent complete, the agency will need to invest $21.5 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Hercules finds place in study of spending on low-income housing</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/times-hercules-finds-place-in-study-of-spending-on-low-income-housing.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/times-hercules-finds-place-in-study-of-spending-on-low-income-housing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Lochner reports&#8230; &#8220;In fiscal 2007-08, Hercules used more than $640,000 in low- and moderate-income housing funds for planning and administration, including more than $390,000 on consulting services, researchers with the California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes found. Most of the $390,000 went to NEO Consulting Inc. D.B.A. Affordable Housing Solutions Group, which operated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Hercules City Council cuts affordable housing contracts</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/times-hercules-city-council-cuts-affordable-housing-contracts.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/times-hercules-city-council-cuts-affordable-housing-contracts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Lochner reports&#8230; &#8220;Tuesday&#8217;s council action underscored a shift in the city&#8217;s relationship with a company formed in the last decade by a then-Southern California consultant, Nelson Oliva, who came to Hercules in late 2003 to revive a housing program that had been dormant since a financial scandal that sent a former city employee to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Hercules interim city manager plans to slash consultant contracts</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/times-hercules-interim-city-manager-plans-to-slash-consultant-contracts.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/times-hercules-interim-city-manager-plans-to-slash-consultant-contracts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=9115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Lochner reports&#8230; [Interim City Manager Charles] Long will ask the City Council on Tuesday for authority to lop off $600,000 from NEO/AHSG&#8217;s scope of work. On his immediate hit list is a $150,000 community cleanup program; a $120,000 administrative support services program; a $90,000 wastewater-related consulting program performed by former City Manager Mike Sakamoto, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Council Meeting on Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/city-council-meeting-on-tuesday-22.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/11/city-council-meeting-on-tuesday-22.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affordable housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[push poll]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=9100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In closed session prior to Tuesday&#8217;s City Council meeting &#8212; 7pm at City Hall &#8212; the Redevelopment Agency will enter negotiations over the Sycamore North mixed-use project (currently under construction). Details over what will be discussed have not been provided, however NEO&#8217;s role (doing business as AHSG) in administering the affordable housing element of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent praise for NEO haunts incumbents</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/10/recent-praise-for-neo-haunts-incumbents.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/10/recent-praise-for-neo-haunts-incumbents.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affordable housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[joe eddy mcdonald]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kris valstad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myrna de vera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The four candidates for City Council were asked about the $1.1m no-bid contract awarded to NEO to run the City&#8217;s affordable housing department at the candidate forum on September 30. Again, while the two challengers &#8212; John Delgado and Myrna de Vera &#8212; stated their cautious disapproval of the no-bid contract (or the process), incumbent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>140 seconds the incumbents hope voters forget</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/10/140-seconds-the-incumbents-hope-voters-forget.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/10/140-seconds-the-incumbents-hope-voters-forget.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The four candidates for City Council sat down for a roundtable event hosted by the Contra Costa Times in late August. The statements made on the program partly formed the basis for the Times Editorial board&#8217;s call for voters to &#8220;take back control and remove incumbents from the Hercules City Council.&#8221; During the roundtable event, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Hercules consultant discloses financial interests</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/10/times-hercules-consultant-discloses-financial-interests.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/10/times-hercules-consultant-discloses-financial-interests.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[annex]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=8505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Lochner reports&#8230; [Mike] Sakamoto was Hercules&#8217; city manager from early 2002 until he retired in April 2007, citing a bad back. He came back to work for Hercules in October 2008 as a consultant, when the City Council awarded his firm, Municipal Management Enterprises LLC, a $100,000-per-year contract to administer the Hercules Municipal Utility. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Council Meeting Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/city-council-meeting-tomorrow-29.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/city-council-meeting-tomorrow-29.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City Council will receive a communication from the Promenade HOA on the lack of progress for the Intermodal Station and Hercules Bayfront projects &#8212; a unique change of pace from the typically formulaic agendas &#8212; at the next meeting on Tuesday, 7pm at City Hall. The City will also spend $583k on street maintenance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Nepotism questions linger in Hercules</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/times-nepotism-questions-linger-in-hercules.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/times-nepotism-questions-linger-in-hercules.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reporting continues&#8230; &#8220;Hercules&#8217; affordable housing contracts will go out to bid next year, and the &#8216;nepotism issue&#8217; with the company that currently runs the programs has been resolved, officials say. But the company&#8217;s new owners have been slow to amend the public record to reflect the new situation and their new principal place of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Transparency a key issue in Hercules council race</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/times-transparency-a-key-issue-in-hercules-council-race.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/times-transparency-a-key-issue-in-hercules-council-race.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordable housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Key&#8221; being a relative term; in this case, it depends on who you ask&#8230; &#8220;Valstad and McDonald [in the candidate roundtable discussion] each used the phrase &#8216;very successful&#8217; to describe, respectively, the affordable housing program overall and the Homeownership Retention and Loss Mitigation Program in particular. Regarding the grand jury report, Valstad said the issue [...]]]></description>
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