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Question: According to the text, what is Toby Schindelbeck's observation about the police?

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Context 1: July | 2012 | Chico Taxpayers Association
Keep a Knockin’ but you can’t come in! Come back next Tuesday night and try it again! And be sure to bring plenty of your friends 
Toby Schindelbeck has finally been rewarded for his persistence – he’s been going before Chico City Council, asking that Finance MisDirector Jennifer Hennessy comply with city code and give a budget report at every meeting  City clerk Debbie Presson has informed him that this subject will be “discussed” at the August 7 council meeting 
But we know, it won’t be a very good “discussion” unless a bunch of people come in and demand some action  Toby has observed that issues like Corporate Personhood and the “single-use” plastic bag ban have drawn fairly small crowds – he estimates 25 – 30 people, and I’d say he’s being generous  The city has acted on these issues, with only that small fraction of the population in support  So, Toby believes there needs to be an even stronger presence to get a decent discussion on this matter, and I agree 
Like Toby and Stephanie Taber and others have been saying, the city code calls for a monthly budget report, with sticky details like receipts, etc, and Jennifer Hennessy admits she has not made such a report in the seven years she’s been with the city of Chico  Try not paying your taxes for seven years – you’ll get the same treatment as the man from Touch of Class Florist – 68 years old, and he’s being sent to PRISON  But Jennifer Hennessy and her boss Dave Burkland, and their overseer, Mayor Ann Schwab, get to flog the law right in front of everybody, and Ann just steps right into that little red convertible and drives off to her palatial estate in Forest Ranch 
The law is a piece of paper  It takes people to demand law enforcement  We’ve got a serious law enforcement problem in our town  The police say they aren’t paid enough to enforce the laws in the streets, and now Dave Burkland says, he just doesn’t have to 
And your mayor won’t make him either  He’s retiring, on more than $150,000 a year, for the rest of his life, but she’s up for election in November – time to take out the trash 
That meeting is scheduled for August 7, the usual time, the usual place  I’ll keep you posted 
Tags: Ann Schwab Chico CA, Ann Schwab for city council, Dave Burkand Chico Ca, Friends of Ann Schwab, Jennifer Hennessy Chico Ca
Stephanie Taber answers Quentin Colgan’s letter to the News and Review
I get complaints from friends and strangers, and it has also been my own experience, that the editor of the Chico News and Review is not always objective in deciding which letters received from the public will be printed in the paper and which ones won’t  Robert Speer has offered me excuses, but I have always found him to be disingenuous  For example – he told me he would only run letters that referenced an article or letter recently printed in the paper – untrue a million times over  He also told me he wouldn’t print letters that had already run in the Enterprise Record – also untrue a million times over  The man has his own reasons for running or not running letters 
David Little is more objective, but he’s got his faults too – once he threw out a letter from my husband and later admitted he had thought I’d written it and used my old man’s name  He just threw it out without even calling the phone number or e-mailing, just assumed I’d do something like that when I’d never done anything like that before, because he was mad at me over a snit we were having at the time 
I think Little gets his nose out at people personally, and Hell hath no fury, know what I mean? With Speer it can personal but I think it’s most often political  Suffice to say, they both carry what my dad used to call a “Shit List,” and if you’re on it, you don’t get ink in their rag 
Of course either paper is equally likely to print a total wad of lies or misinformation without so much as a google fact check  I will never forget the time Dave Little printed a letter saying the cops had been called to my house on a dog complaint  The letter writer insinuated that this was why I often wrote letters complaining about the cop contracts  I called Little and told him the letter was false, nothing like that had ever happened – but he wouldn’t retract it  I had to look the old man up in the phone book and call him myself, tell him he had been misinformed, and ask him to write a retraction  He apologized profusely and the apology was in the paper within three days  He wouldn’t tell me where he got the information, but later I found out he was a member of VIPS, and he still is  I think that’s something Dave Little could have looked into before he printed a story like that about me and my family, not to mention my dogs, but he didn’t see it that way  Poor journalism, is how I see it, and that’s what I’ve come to expect out of both the daily and the weekly 
So, pardon me if I was not surprised when my friend Stephanie mentioned to me that she didn’t think Speer would run her response to a letter from Quentin Colgan, regarding our current fiscal morass  QC made an argument he has been swinging around town lately – that Fire Station 5 had to be closed recently because the Tea Party forced the city to have a $150,000 election over Measure A 
The first problem I have with this argument is, the city is out a heck of a lot more than $150,000  The second problem I have is, I happen to know that over 8,000 Chicoans signed that petition, and there’s not more than 600 active members of the Tea Party  I also know the Tea Party didn’t sponsor the petition drive, nor were they the only people that marched out with those petitions  Colgan’s argument doesn’t make sense to me, but it’s amazing what kind of “facts” the general populace will believe if you just keep repeating them 
Some folks are trying to use the Tea Party as a target to rile up their peanut gallery, using Measure A as their rally call  They keep banging the same old drum  They refuse to have a rational discussion about the situation we’re facing, because it’s going to mean some sour beans for them and their trough-dwelling friends 
So, it’s up to a rational person like Stephanie Taber to lay it out straight for those who like facts  Stephanie attends the meetings, she reads the reports, she goes to the trouble of putting questions in writing for $taff, and then waiting persistently for an answer that practically has to be deciphered by a lawyer  She has followed this budget conversation since the day then-city-manager and first rat to jump, Greg Jones, expressed his grave concerns that we were headed straight for bankruptcy  She has followed the figures and checked the facts until she has forced these rats right to the wall – they have lately begun to dig their feet in and refuse to obey the sunshine laws, refusing to give the fiscal reports demanded by the city charter  Some people can try to run their little smokescreen of repetitive nonsense, but more rational people are finding out the truth  Thanks to Stephanie Taber for writing this letter below, which may or may not run in the Chico News and Review:
I’d like to take this opportunity to respond to Quentin Colgan’s letter of July 12th; primarily because the costs surrounding the Special Election held regarding Measure A have been distorted  Yes, it did cost $150,000, but why? That’s the elephant in the room  The progressives on the City Council chose the method by which the election would be held  Per the City Charter (which is the City’s Constitution) Section 501 clearly states “The City Council may determine that any Special Election shall be held by mailed ballot” etc  That would have cut the cost by half, at least  But the Council chose the most expensive means possible, voting at the precinct  They were afraid that just telling the students they were being disenfranchised, which was an obvious lie, would not be sufficient to defeat it 
As to “it’s all the Tea Party’s fault”; I was the only signature to the Measure  I felt no need to consult the Tea Party before I took that action; but did enlist the help of many concerned citizens to gather the more than 8,000 signature required to put it on the ballot 
Toby Schindelbeck has called upon our Finance Director to adhere to Section 908 of the City’s Charter which states “(the) Finance Director shall submit to the Council through the City Manager monthly statements of receipts, disbursements and balances in such form as to show the exact financial condition of the City”  It does not state when you may want to or if you have time to; it says “shall”  No one on the Council or otherwise can remember when that may have happened last  If it was being done as the Charter states it would have been recognize that the City was facing a financial Armageddon and steps could have been taken much earlier in the fiscal year to avoid the closing of Fire Station 5 
Tags: Ann Sc hwab Chico Ca, Ann Schwab for city council, Chico Enterprise Record, Chico News and Review, Chico Tea Party Patriots, City of Chico, David Little, Friends of Ann Schwab, Quentin Colgan, Robert Speer, Stephanie Taber
City Art Director Mary Gardner is foisting a new “Art Tax” on us to pay her own salary
To mgardner@ci chico ca us, gerimahood@yahoo com, mcbergarts@gmail com
(Mary Gardner, city of Chico public arts director, city of Chico, Geraldine Mahood and Monica Berg of the Arts Commission)
I recently read your memo here
Chico-Arts-Building-Tax pdf
I think it’s despicable Ms  Gardner that you are trying raise revenues for your own salary by foisting a new “Art Tax” on new development 
Ms  Mahood, Ms  Berg, nobody wants eggsuckers like you telling them how to spend their money or what’s “art”  You people make me sick 
The Chico Taxpayers Association will fight this grab, as will other civic groups through the area  That’s why you’ve kept your efforts “under the radar” I assume – you don’t want people to know about this, because you don’t want to hear what they think about it  Or YOU!
You people need to get real jobs and quit sucking off the public teat 
http://www norcalblogs com/adhoc/
Sincerely, Juanita Sumner, Chico CA
Tags: Ann Schwab Chico CA, Ann Schwab for city council, Chico Arts Commission, City of Chico "Art Tax", City of Chico Arts Policy Manual, Friends of Ann Schwab, Geraldine Mahood, Mary Gardner, Monica Berg
Jennifer Hennessy is incompetent – she can’t do her job and Burkland says she doesn’t have to
I’ll never forget my first real job – a clerical position at a manufacturing plant  I would compare it to the story of the miller’s daughter  On the first day, I was told that the employee I was to be replacing would stick around for a week to train me  At noon that day, having shown me where everything was and how to use the coffee maker, she got up from her chair, smiled, and told me she thought I could “handle it,” then left  At one o’clock, the plant manager came over to my desk followed by several “production” workers  They brought cart loads of microfilm, on rolls, in little white boxes  I was to label all of those boxes, three carts, piled high  This job had gotten held up, he explained, it would be “great!” if it could go out today  Did I think I could get them done by 4 o’clock? I wanted to make everybody happy, so said I yes without thinking, and set to work loading the labels into the typewriter 
It was a disaster  I had never typed anything like those labels before – typing class had been all about letters and envelopes, columns and reports  The labels skittered all over the platen, getting glue all over the inside of the typewriter  About every 50 or so labels, the platen had to be taken out and cleaned with alcohol  I typed and typed  By 3 o’clock I knew I was in trouble  The production workers had come over to my desk to help me affix the sticky labels  We were nervous, labels were getting screwed up  At 3:30 the office manager and receptionist came back to my desk to help with the labels  I typed and typed, and tried not to cry 
We didn’t make it  The plant manager was flustered  The salesman who’d promised the job was really pissed off, he said mean things  I apologized again and again, they told me it wasn’t all my fault, but could I please be more careful what I committed myself to in future  I could tell they also expected me to get a hell of a lot faster, but they were just trying to be nice 
So, I got faster  I came in early in the morning and worked through lunch until I got better at my job  I had signed up for a typing job, nobody had described all the weird stuff they expected me to type  It started with typing and labeling, not only sticky labels, but microfiche jackets  They have a little quarter inch tall label strip across the top that chips and peels if you aren’t careful loading them into the typewriter, and strips or frames of 35 and 16 mm film that falls out in your typewriter  Then there were the three-part work orders, with carbon paper, and the three-part shipping labels, also with carbon paper  There were the mistakes – whole orders that had been indexed incorrectly, and therefore typed incorrectly, and therefore had to be corrected and typed all over again  I won’t describe what I had to go through to correct microfiche labels, it was too stupid  I hated doing that, so I asked for my own little “eye-loup” – a little magnifier that you hold up to a light to look at the tiny little page numbers on the film – to make sure the cards had been indexed correctly before I typed them 
I’m not perfect, but I know I’m competent, cause I kept that job for five years while I watched others get fired, for everything from showing up late to breaking expensive equipment to stealing  I was given new jobs and increased responsibility as time went by  I got good job reviews from my supervisors, and good raises  Morale was high, we liked our co-workers and our managers, we felt like a team  Our customers were nice to us too  We worked for cities and counties, hospitals, banks – anybody who needed to keep records  We were trusted to handle confidential records, like people’s medical records  As we handled these confidential files we were simply told, “Don’t look at them,” so we didn’t 
I left in 1984 in finish school  Over the next decade computers killed the microfilm industry, and the company went out of business 
Excuse me if I compare my experiences in the private sector with stuff I’ve seen coming out of our city $taff  I keep waiting for some professional behavior, some professional accountability out of the people who run our town, and I start to wonder if I will ever get it  For a couple of months now, Toby Schindelbeck and Stephanie Taber, among others, have been asking council and Finance MisDirector Jennifer Hennessy to provide a simple accounting of city finances, as is required by the city charter, and she just plain refuses to give it  City Mangler Dave Burkland won’t make her 
Last month she actually admitted, she is UNABLE to do it  At the June 5 meeting she admitted that she is incompetent to follow the city charter  She said that when she came to her position seven years ago, she “struggled” with doing such a report – something every house wife does – and went whining to then-city-manager Tom Lando, who apparently patted her on the head and told her she didn’t have to do it anymore 
I don’t know about you guys, but I go over my check book every month, just to make sure everything is straight  I’ve found big, dumb mistakes, in the 100’s column even, that could have caused big, dumb problems down the road  I’m no math instructor, like Mary Goloff, but it’s not exactly rocket science – you just add your deposits and subtract your checks and withdrawals  I’ll admit, when my kids were little, I felt like I never had time to do that, and stuff would get screwed up  So now that I’ve got time, I make it a regularly scheduled event, and it’s amazing how much easier it is  And, I can keep the figures in my head, I know essentially how much I can afford to spend when I’m at the grocery store, or what kind of activities we can plan  My husband and son are enjoying a weekend trip right now that is already paid for, thankyouverymuch 
But Jennifer Hennessy is unable to do that? And she has expectable stuff – over 80 percent of her budget is payroll  She doesn’t have that many emergencies  The biggest emergency she’s had lately, is that the state has taken back the fund she’s been mis-using – the RDA  She was paying salaries and benefits out of a fund that’s supposed to be reserved for emergency public works projects  In other words, she’s been dipping into the till to pay her own salary!
The mayor is to blame here, she’s the captain of our ship  Unfortunately, like the captain of the Costa Concordia, she’s abandoned ship for a party onshore  While she and her college chums bully their bag ban down our throats, our ship is sinking  We have less than $200,000 in our reserve fund, we have un-secured pension obligations totaling in the millions and growing every day, and we have $taff who are using blackmail to get their way – they are just refusing to do their jobs  Hennessy won’t give the report she’s required to give because it’s BAD  I think the mayor is completely behind her on this – Ann Schwab doesn’t want us to hear that report either  Would you?
Please write a letter to council demanding that Hennessy do her job, or get out 
Tags: Ann Schwab Chico CA, Ann Schwab for city council, bankruptcy, City of Chico, Dave Burkland, embezzlement, Friends of Ann Schwab, Jennifer Hennessy, malfeasance
Scranton, Pennsylvania cuts workers to minimum wage – only $130,000 in their cash reserves
I finally got a chance to watch the video of last Tuesday’s council meeting  It cut on me during the meeting, just after Walker and Goloff were mopping up their attack on Sorensen, and I didn’t get it back til yesterday  I have watched the video in bits and snatches  I made it to the noise ordinance conversation last night, but had to turn it off after Jessica Allen and a couple of her friends got up to demand their rights to be bad neighbors 
One thing I learned is that the city of Chico has less than $200,000 in the reserve fund  No, I did not forget a zero on that figure, that’s it – less than $200,000  Read it and weep – and then call them to ask what they did with that property tax check you just sent in 
You can look at the budget report here: http://www chico ca us/finance/budget asp
You see the millions the city takes in, in sales tax (over $17 million) property tax (over $11 million), even taxes on your PG&E, phone and water (almost $7 million), and your visitors’ motel rooms (over $2 million)  To me that seems petty – “bed tax”? Some people think it’s a good idea to shake down the visitors of your town, as if it’s not enough that they spend money on your motels, restaurants and shopping centers  It’s a common grab all over California, every city does it  A lot of distasteful things become “common” when no decent person stands up to say “enough is enough ”
In Chico, as has been oft repeated, over 80 percent of our budget is in salaries and benefits  That’s the elephant in the room, and everybody’s getting pretty hip deep in elephant shit around here  It’s a simple concept, no matter how convoluted $taff and council try to make it: if they spend all the money on salaries, benefits, and the Great Pension Stock Market Disaster, there’s no money left to pay for supplies to say, clean up leaks in the sewer and water lines that are causing the state to fine us by the day, widen the roads that we are required to widen because of the permitting of Meriam Park, etc  And you can just get used to those pot holes in the street out front of your house  Got bad neighbors? Get a lawyer 
What’s really frustrating are the reactions of the cops and fire – they act like they don’t get paid at all  Those guys take most of the 80 percent  They get overtime written into their schedules  According to Hennessy, both fire and the cops are over budget on their workman’s comp claims for at least the third year in a row  The city just slammed another cop contract past us without public review, and signed the new chief’s contract three days before it was made available to the public, and then only by request and a direct visit to the clerk’s office Downtown 
So, we will get another year of poor response times, bitching and moaning from cops and fire  Get ready for your homeowners and your car insurance to go up – the insurance companies know when your local police and fire departments are a pile of shit 
And don’t think I’m not wondering about all those suspicious house fires 
You can just forget about any of the services a city is supposed to offer  Try to get something out of the city clerk these days – if you can catch her in the office!
Well, here’s the story of Scranton, Pennsylvania – home of Michael Scott!
http://bottomline msnbc msn com/_news/2012/07/10/12659748-scranton-pa-slashes-workers-pay-to-minimum-wage?lite
The mayor of Scranton, when faced with a situation similar to Chico’s mess, did what needed to be done  Unfortunately, he waited until it was too late to do something rational  I’m afraid it’s come to that with our city council – if you think that scene between Goloff and Sorensen was rational, well, you deserve to live here 
Tags: Ann Schwab for city council, Bob Evans for city council, Chico City council eletions 2012, cities declare bankruptcy, Friends of Ann Schwab, pensions, phone tax, salaries, sales tax increase
Marysville council rejects sales tax ploy by retiring city administrator – where’s Chico’s knight in shining armor?
I am not a member of the Chico Chamber of Commerce, but I check in to their website regularly to see what they’re up to  Sometimes I believe, they are the real Chico City Council  While our elected leaders frolic and cavort in their stupid committee meetings, the Chamber is working on a “Top 10 Economic Development Action List” 
Yeah, sounds great, until you consider, one of their “Top 10” is a proposal to raise the local sales tax 
One prominent member of the Chamber who might be able to fill us in on the discussion is Bob Evans  I’ve asked Bob where he stands on this tax increase, but he just keeps saying he hasn’t seen a proposal yet  Lately I have asked him if he would require Lando and the other sales tax increase proponents to get the legal number of signatures on a petition before he votes to put this proposal on the ballot, but he won’t answer me  His downright refusal to discuss the tax increase is frustrating to me – I want to believe Bob is a “fiscal conservative ” After all, he had some high and mighty things to say about his opposition to the phone tax  But, he knew the phone tax didn’t need his support to get on the ballot  It’s easy to posture as the good guy when you know others will achieve the end result you really want  Evans’ resistance to making a pledge against a sales tax increase is screaming in my ear like a fire alarm 
In Marysville, Mayor Bill Harris had no trouble making himself clear when his city mangler proposed a half-cent sales tax increase: “This will be viewed as the City Council coming to them wanting more money again ”
Well, the article mentioned, the city mangler is retiring, so I would also see it as his way of securing his f-ing pension, but nobody mentions that 
City councilwoman Christina Billeci echoed a sentiment I’ve been hearing increasingly in Chico – “We need to balance the budget with the revenues we have,” she said 
Other council members cited lack of support from citizens, including one councillor who claimed to have got “angry reactions” to the proposal  One council member said he might have supported the move before the June election, “But the cigarette tax was voted down, and that should have been a slam dunk,” he said  “I would see this as a waste of effort and money ”
The only council member who supported the notion, Head Start administrator Ricky Samayoa, made some pretty disparaging remarks about the town 
“There’s a lot of people that know there’s a lack of resources here for us to have a proper city and manage it,” he said  Oooo! A “proper city”! What a bitch! Does he have letters from constituents to support this statement, or is he just using “a lot of people” to describe himself and his co-workers? Not enough drive through coffee stands for you Ricky? Not enough 5 Star restaurants or pink boutiques? Sorry, we’ve never been ones for putting on the Ritz here in the North State, better get in your zip car and drive back to the Bay Area 
In the Enterprise Record story, Samoyoa further claimed that “continued cuts to maintenance and other aspects of the city’s budget hurt chances for an economic recovery ” I imagine Marysville has the same problem Chico has – too many $100,000+ salaries and not enough $20,000 – $50,000 workers  While he’s sitting down there under the air conditioner vent at Head Start in a fresh shirt and manicure, the streets are going unmaintained, the classrooms overcrowded, the police and fire departments underfunded – is that the problem Mr  Samayoa?
“The way we’re continuing to go, it’s just going to be a dying city, even if the economy picks up,” he said  Now, that statement doesn’t even make sense  This is a typical example of scare tactics  “The way we’re continuing to go…” You mean, paying $100,000+ salaries to fat bureaucrats, while cutting services to the public? Somehow I don’t think that’s what he’s talking about  ” …it’s just going to be a dying city…” Wow, what an idiot – obviously no knowledge of local history  Marysville has been through so many booms and busts, it ought to be called “Bouncyville ” If you get to know Marysville, you see it has everything needed to be a wonderful place to live, in good times and bad, regardless of carpetbaggers like Samayoa 
“Give folks the opportunity to have this debate,” Mr  Samayoa suggests  Sounds like the rhetoric coming from Andy Holcombe and the rest of the sales tax increase proponents  Hey, that’s a swell idea! People should talk about these things, hash them out  And then, if enough of them sign a petition to put such a proposal on a legal ballot, well, they can VOTE on it! But that costs alot of money – best for those who really believe in this cockamamie idea to get the petition first, show the need to spend all that money on an election  That’s what rational people would do, anyway 
But if you ask Holcombe to discuss the pending proposal, he denies there is any such thing  The only member of Chico City Council who is willing to discuss this proposal at all has been Mark Sorensen – thanks Mark  At least Mark has been good enough to answer our questions about the mechanics of such a proposal and getting it onto the ballot  Evans and Holcombe have both denied knowing anything about it, although Holcombe has made it good and clear he’d support raising the sales tax and Evans has been seen at Chamber discussions on the matter  The others have been mum to the public, but I’m guessing they will support it  Holcombe, Schwab, Goloff, Walker, Gruendl – and Evans? – are all banking on more revenues to rescue the city from the Shit Creek they’ve floated us up  Evans, while he will admit we’re in deep shit, will not offer so much as a suggestion of a paddle  He seems to be holding back until after he gets himself safely re-elected in November  Then he’s got a year to get that sales tax voted in and three years to make the public forget he had anything to do with it 
Well Bob, is that what you’re up to?
I’ll say, if he were at least honest, I might be able to hold my nose and support him, but this game he’s playing is a real turn-off 
Tags: Ann Schwab Chico CA, Ann Schwab for city council, Bob Evans Chico Ca, Bob Evans for city council, chico city council race 2012, city of Chico bankruptcy, city of Chico sales tax increase, Friends of Ann Schwab, Ricky Samayoa Marysville Ca
Council video feed still not available – $taff seems to have taken the Summer off!
I know, there’s probably a perfectly legitimate explanation for this  Debbie Presson isn’t sure why the feed is off, but she’s got somebody working on it  Not yesterday though, cause she was out of her office 
I’ll tell you what else is interesting – there haven’t been any of those morning meetings lately – in fact, it looks like all the committee meetings for July are CANCELLED  In fact, there hasn’t been an “Economic Development” committee meeting for months that I’m aware  For all intents and purposes, the city of Chico seems to be on Summer Vacation! How nice for them!
But, as you see, the town runs along without them  In fact, I’m wishing the public works department would also take a hike – they’re TOO BUSY right now, tearing up the streets Downtown  Oh well, the college students have “gone home” – what do we need Downtown for when the college students have gone home?
That seems to be the gist of if – the city of Chico is here to serve the college students  The rest of us can just get along – as long as we keep paying our taxes, nobody will bother us!
I just have to wonder, what are these $85,000, $95,000, $134,000 $taffers doing right now, and why do we need to keep paying them?
Tags: Ann Schwab Chico CA, Ann Schwab for city council, City of Chico, embezzlers, Friends of Ann Schwab, malfeasance
New police chief’s contract signed last Tuesday, made available to the public Friday – gotta love that “sunshine”!
Last Tuesday night we got a new police chief – Kirk Trostle  Only a month ago city manager Dave Burkland issued a statement – “police chief candidates not knockouts” according to the Enterprise Record  Trostle is a refugee from the Oroville police department, where, as chief, he certainly had his critics  He came to Chico only about a year and a half ago, from a department that was not without it’s problems  The council made their appointment without any elaboration – he was essentially the best thing they could come up with on short notice 
But shouldn’t we be able to negotiate a better contract with this man? Retiring Chief Porky Mike Maloney is getting over $165,000 a year, just in salary  He will be getting over $100,000 to retire, for the rest of his life, plus medical benefits  Frankly, I predict he’s carrying a colostomy bag within five years 
Have you seen Trostle’s contract? They signed it at council last Tuesday  But when we asked for it, they said we wouldn’t be able to look at it until Friday  I was invited to go down to the clerk’s office, at her convenience, 9 – 5, during MY WORK DAY, to look at a contract that had already been signed  Why in the hell would I want to do that? They don’t even offer you a decent cup of coffee 
So no, I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m guessing, it’s worse than Maloney’s contract  A fellow taxpayer went down Friday and reports he has the contracts, but has not given me any details  I don’t know if he had to pay for paper copies or what, but you can view it for free if you want to go down there  I’ll get back to you when I got something 
Tags: Ann Schwab Chico CA, Ann Schwab for city council, Chico Police Department, Chico Police Officers Association, City of Chico, Friends of Ann Schwab, Kirk Trostle chief of police chico ca, mike maloney retires at 50 what a pig
Mary Goloff and Jim Walker gang jump Mark Sorensen on the dais – just another lovely Chico city council meeting!
I’m sitting here in disbelief of the attack I just watched Mary Goloff and Jim Walker wage on Mark Sorensen at city council tonight  I couldn’t make the meeting, so I have been watching it via computer 
Sorensen had been challenged by a smarmy Jim Walker to list what changes he would make to balance the budget  Sorensen carefully began to explain that city funds had been depleted by millions over the last few years, with escalating costs leaving revenues in the dirt  He also explained that the lion’s share of our expenses are “operating costs,” meaning, salaries  He also carefully explained that there were programs we simply could not afford anymore, meaning, salaries 
Mary Goloff could be heard heckling him off microphone  If you or I did what she was doing we’d be asked to leave the room, possibly with police escort  But Mayor Schwab just sat there looking at Goloff, saying nothing  Goloff finally got on mike, interrupted Sorensen, and asked him to be specific  So, Sorensen offered housing, saying it had been a mistake to undertake so many housing projects, and he also specified the arts programs – such as the requirement that any capital project include one percent of the total cost of that project be added for art 
At this point Goloff began to interrupt Sorensen  She started heckling him about how “we all agree” that the arts are important, yadda, yadda  She just kept at Sorensen, not allowing him to answer any of her out-there questions, until Sorensen asked her to stop interrupting him 
After a quick exchange Walker butted in to attack Sorensen  Out of nowhere, Walker bashed Sorensen about wanting to spend more money on the police department, asking Sorensen where he would get the money to hire more police  This question was off base, Sorensen hadn’t even gotten that far before Goloff had completely derailed him 
Jim Walker is just sitting out his time, he seems to be enjoying himself at all of our expense  He, like so many “public servants,” seems to think he is elected to do what he wants, what seems like “the right thing” in his fairy tale mind, instead of carry out the law 
Mary Goloff seems to think she has been anointed Queen in some farcical aquatic ceremony to lead us all in the light of her cough syrup-induced wisdom  She seems to love the sound of her own voice, while here at my house, it sets off the hounds for blocks 
My computer started failing at this point, and I was unable to watch the rest of the meeting  I am going on vacation tomorrow, I’ll see you folks on the flip flop 
Tags: Ann Schwab Chico CA, Ann Schwab for city council, Friends of Ann Schwab
Turn that S*** UP!
We had a lively discussion down at the library yesterday about how we are going to fight the phone tax increase in November 
The key here is to inform the public  $taff has already done their best to make this measure confusing and deceptive, actually writing into the measure that it will lower taxes  They mean, they are lowering the rate half a cent, but of course, this half-cent will be an ice cube in hell when they apply the tax to all the new stuff this measure allows – starting with cell phones, texting, paging, and adding whatever new technology comes along  All the voter needs to know is, this measure will raise his/her taxes, noticeably 
Even people on welfare will pay this tax, even though they qualify for the rate-assistance plans offered by the phone companies – utility tax is based on the total bill, before the adjustment for the rate assistance  And, this tax includes those prepaid phone cards 
The hardest hit will be commercial customers  A friend of mine who owns a little manufacturing business in town tells me the city of Chico thinks all business owners are “rich sugar daddies” 
My friend always tells me, that while I am in these meetings Downtown, he is in Oroville or Redding or Modesto or some other town, dealing with his business  He says these towns have better, more workable $taff  He is among the business owners who have used the word “hostile” to describe Dave Burkland, and the city business climate in general 
We have to get the word out to people like my friend that NOW IS THE TIME to get involved  I like that band, Rage Against the Machine – they say, “it has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime  What better place than here, what better time than NOW!”
We’re fighting the city, which will use public money to fund this tax increase initiative  For example, they have already used $taff time to research and write the measure, and now council members and $taff will create the “for” argument to be placed on the ballot  Our city attorney makes over $190,000 a year in salary alone – Mark Sorensen figured the cost of an hour of her time, but I forget the figure  More than most people make in a day, is all I remember 
The city will turn over their arguments in favor in August – at that point we can take this dog and pony show on the road  Until then, let’s keep working  Thanks all!

Context 3: Hugh Hilton Goodwin (December 21, 1900 – February 25, 1980) was a decorated officer in the United States Navy with the rank of Vice Admiral  A veteran of both World Wars, he commanded escort carrier  during the Mariana Islands campaign  Goodwin then served consecutively as Chief of Staff, Carrier Strike Group 6 and as Air Officer, Philippine Sea Frontier and participated in the Philippines campaign in the later part of the War 

Following the War, he remained in the Navy and rose to the flag rank and held several important commands including Vice Commander, Military Air Transport Service, Commander, Carrier Division Two and Commander, Naval Air Forces, Continental Air Defense Command 

Early life and career

Hugh H  Goodwin was born on December 21, 1900, in Monroe, Louisiana and attended Monroe High School there (now Neville High School)  Following the United States' entry into World War I in April 1917, Goodwin left the school without receiving the diploma in order to see some combat and enlisted the United States Navy on May 7, 1917  He completed basic training and was assigned to the battleship   Goodwin participated in the training of armed guard crews and engine room personnel as the Atlantic Fleet prepared to go to war and in November 1917, he sailed with the rest of Battleship Division 9, bound for Britain to reinforce the Grand Fleet in the North Sea 

Although he did not complete the last year of high school, Goodwin was able to earn an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in June 1918  While at the academy, he earned a nickname "Huge" and among his classmates were several future admirals and generals including: Hyman G  Rickover, Milton E  Miles, Robert E  Blick Jr , Herbert S  Duckworth, Clayton C  Jerome, James P  Riseley, James A  Stuart, Frank Peak Akers, Sherman Clark, Raymond P  Coffman, Delbert S  Cornwell, Frederick J  Eckhoff, Ralph B  DeWitt, John Higgins, Vernon Huber, Albert K  Morehouse, Harold F  Pullen, Michael J  Malanaphy, William S  Parsons, Harold R  Stevens, John P  Whitney, Lyman G  Miller and George J  O'Shea 

Goodwin graduated with Bachelor of Science degree on June 3, 1922, and was commissioned Ensign in the United States Navy  He was subsequently assigned to the battleship  and took part in the voyage to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before he was ordered to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island for submarine instruction in June 1923  Goodwin completed the training several weeks later and was attached to the submarine   He then continued his further training aboard submarine  and following his promotion to Lieutenant (junior grade) on June 3, 1925, he qualified as submariner 

He then served aboard submarine  off the coast of California, before he was ordered for the recruiting duty to San Francisco in September 1927  While in this capacity, Goodwin applied for naval aviation training which was ultimately approved and he was ordered to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida in August 1928  Toward the end of the training, he was promoted to lieutenant on December 11, 1928, and upon the completion of the training in January 1929, he was designated Naval aviator 

Goodwin was subsequently attached to the Observation Squadron aboard the aircraft carrier  and participated in the Fleet exercises in the Caribbean  He was transferred to the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D C  in August 1931 and served consecutively under the architect of naval aviation William A



ground_truth: Toby Schindelbeck's observation is that the police say they aren't paid enough to enforce the laws in the streets.

prompt_front: Now, answer the following question based on the text below, only give me the answer and do not output any other words.

Question: What is the dynamical behavior of the anisotropic order parameter following a quench to the critical point?

Read the following text and answer briefly.

Context 2: \section*{Dynamical Behaviour of $O$ in Lattice Gases}

The dynamical behaviour of the anisotropic order parameter  $m$ [see Eq ~\eqref{eq:def-m} in the Letter] following a quench to the critical point is well described by
the Gaussian theory for all the three lattice gas models studied, $i e ,$ driven lattice gas with either constant (IDLG) or random (RDLG) infinite drive and equilibrium lattice gas (LG)  In other words, in the short-time regime, $m \sim t^{1/2}$ [see Eq  \eqref{eq:mt}] and the Binder cumulant $g$ of the lowest transverse mode [defined in Eq  \eqref{eq:binder}] is zero in this regime  The alternative order parameter $O,$ however, distinguishes between the driven (IDLG, RDLG) and the equilibrium (LG) lattice gases  

In order to understand  this, we first write the phenomenological scaling form for $O$,  analogous to Eq  \eqref{eq:scalingass} in  the Letter,
\begin{eqnarray}
O (t, L_{\parallel} ; S_\Delta) = L_{\parallel}^{-\beta/[\nu(1+\Delta)]} \tilde f_O (t/L_{\parallel}^{z/(1+\Delta)} ; S_\Delta) \quad
\label{eq:Oscalingass}
\end{eqnarray}
We already remarked that, in the LG, this scaling form is not compatible with the prediction $O \sim t^{1/8}  L_{\parallel}^{-1/2}$ of the Gaussian theory   However, following Ref  \cite{AS2002}, it can be argued that, at short times, the only dependence of $O$ on the system size $L_{\parallel}$ is of the form $O \sim L_\parallel^{-1/2}$ which is very well confirmed by numerical simulations  Accordingly,  the generic behaviour of $O$ can be assumed to be
\begin{eqnarray}
O \sim t^{\alpha} L_\parallel^{-1/2}, \label{eq:O}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\alpha$ is a phenomenological exponent to be determined  This, along with Eq  \eqref{eq:Oscalingass}, implies $\tilde f_O(x) \sim x^{\alpha} $ Comparing the finite-size behaviour in Eq ~\eqref{eq:O} with Eq ~\eqref{eq:Oscalingass} one actually infers,
\begin{eqnarray}
\alpha &=& \frac{1+ \Delta -2 \beta/\nu}{2 \, (4- \eta)}  \label{eq:alpha}
\end{eqnarray}
This equation, together with the hyperscaling relation $\Delta - 2 \beta/\nu= - \eta$ in two spatial dimensions, shows that the prediction $\alpha = 1/8$ of the Gaussian theory [see Eq  \eqref{eq:Ot}] can be obtained only when $\eta=0,$ which is the case for the IDLG (exactly) and the RDLG (approximately) but not for the LG  

On the other hand,  Eq ~\eqref{eq:alpha} predicts $\alpha = 1/10$ upon substituting the values of the critical exponents corresponding to the Ising  universality class (LG)  This is consistent with the numerical simulation results presented in the main text, see Fig  \ref{fig:ising}(b) therein 

\begin{figure}[th]
\vspace*{0 2 cm}
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=10 cm]{ /compare_binder pdf}

\caption{Comparison between the temporal evolution of the Binder cumulants $g$ corresponding to the $12^{th}$ transverse mode, $i e ,$ with $n_\perp =12,$ in the LG (lowest curve), IDLG and RDLG (two upper curves) on a $32 \times 32$ lattice  \label{fig:b}}
 \label{fig:binder}
\end{figure}


The emergence of this new value $1/10$ of the exponent $\alpha$ must be traced back to the non-Gaussian nature of higher fluctuating modes in the LG  In fact, even though the lowest mode behaves identically in all the three models we considered,  characterized by the same behaviour of $m$, higher modes show a significant difference in the non-driven case   


To illustrate this, we measured the Binder cumulants of higher modes which is defined  analogously to Eq ~(11), using transverse modes other than the first, i e , with $\mu=\tilde \sigma(0,2 \pi n_\bot/L_\bot)$ and $n_\bot>1 $  
 Figure \ref{fig:b} compares the same for all the three lattice gases for the mode with $n_\perp =12$ on a $32 \times 32$ lattice  Clearly, the curve corresponding to the LG (lowest, blue) departs from Gaussian behaviour $g=0$ (in practice, $e g ,$ $|g| \lesssim 0 005,$ corresponding to the shaded gray area) much earlier than it does for the IDLG  or RDLG (two upper curves, red and green respectively) 

Accordingly, the different dynamical behaviour of $O$, which involves a sum over all modes, can be attributed to the non-Gaussian nature of the higher modes in the LG  
Such a departure is not entirely surprising  In fact, for higher modes, mesoscopic descriptions such as the ones in Eqs  \eqref{eq:L-DLG} or \eqref{eq:g_evol} are not expected to hold, while the anisotropy at the microscopic level could be the mechanism leading to the Gaussianity of higher modes in the driven models 


Context 3:  Moffett and future Chief of Naval Operations Ernest J  King 

In June 1933, Goodwin was ordered to the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, where he completed junior course in May of the following year  He subsequently joined the crew of aircraft carrier  and served under Captain Arthur B  Cook and took part in the Fleet exercises in the Caribbean and off the East Coast of the United States 

He was ordered back to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida in June 1936 and was attached to the staff of the Base Commandant, then-Captain Charles A  Blakely  When Blakely was succeeded by William F  Halsey in June 1937, Goodwin remained in Halsey's staff and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander on December 1, 1937  He also completed correspondence course in International law at the Naval War College 

Goodwin was appointed Commanding officer of the Observation Squadron 1 in June 1938 and attached to the battleship  he took part in the patrolling of the Pacific and 
West Coast of the United States until September 1938, when he assumed command of the Observation Squadron 2 attached to the battleship  

When his old superior from Lexington, now Rear Admiral Arthur B  Cook, was appointed Commander Aircraft, Scouting Force in June 1939, he requested Goodwin as his Aide and Flag Secretary  He became Admiral Cook's protégé and after year and half of service in the Pacific, he continued as his Aide and Flag Secretary, when Cook was appointed Commander Aircraft, Atlantic Fleet in November 1940 

World War II

Following the United States' entry into World War II, Goodwin was promoted to the temporary rank of Commander on January 1, 1942, and assumed duty as advisor to the Argentine Navy  His promotion was made permanent two months later and he returned to the United States in early 1943 for duty as assistant director of Planning in the Bureau of Aeronautics under Rear admiral John S  McCain  While still in Argentina, Goodwin was promoted to the temporary rank of Captain on June 21, 1942 

By the end of December 1943, Goodwin was ordered to Astoria, Oregon, where he assumed command of newly commissioned escort carrier USS Gambier Bay  He was responsible for the initial training of the crew and was known as a strict disciplinarian, but the crew appreciated the skills he taught them that prepared them for combat  Goodwin insisted that everyone aboard has to do every job right every time and made us fight our ship at her best 

During the first half of 1944, Gambier Bay was tasked with ferrying aircraft for repairs and qualified carrier pilots from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, before departed on May 1, 1944, to join Rear admiral Harold B  Sallada's Carrier Support Group 2, staging in the Marshalls for the invasion of the Marianas 

The air unit, VC-10 Squadron, under Goodwin's command gave close air support to the initial landings of Marines on Saipan on June 15, 1944, destroying enemy gun emplacements, troops, tanks, and trucks  On the 17th, her combat air patrol (CAP) shot down or turned back all but a handful of 47 enemy planes headed for her task group and her gunners shot down two of the three planes that did break through to attack her 

Goodwin's carrier continued in providing of close ground support operations at Tinian during the end of July 1944, then turned her attention to Guam, where she gave identical aid to invading troops until mid-August that year  For his service during the Mariana Islands campaign, Goodwin was decorated with Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" 

He was succeeded by Captain Walter V  R  Vieweg on August 18, 1944, and appointed Chief of Staff, Carrier Division Six under Rear admiral Arthur W  Radford  The Gambier Bay was sunk in the Battle off Samar on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf after helping turn back a much larger attacking Japanese surface force 

Goodwin served with Carrier Division Six during the Bonin Islands raids, the naval operations at Palau and took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and operations supporting Leyte landings in late 1944  He was later appointed Air Officer of the Philippine Sea Frontier under Rear admiral James L  Kauffman and remained with that command until the end of hostilities  For his service in the later part of World War II, Goodwin was decorated with Legion of Merit with Combat "V"  He was also entitled to wear two Navy Presidential Unit Citations and Navy Unit Commendation 

Postwar service

Following the surrender of Japan, Goodwin assumed command of Light aircraft carrier  on August 24, 1945  The ship was tasked with air missions over Japan became mercy flights over Allied prisoner-of-war camps, dropping food and medicine until the men could be rescued  She was also present at Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945 

Goodwin returned with San Jacinto to the United States in mid-September 1945 and he was detached in January 1946  He subsequently served in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations until May that year, when he entered the instruction at National War College



ground_truth: It is well described by the Gaussian theory.

prompt_front: Now, answer the following question based on the text below, only give me the answer and do not output any other words.

Question: What was Hugh H. Goodwin's rank in the United States Navy?

Read the following text and answer briefly.

Context 3:  Goodwin graduated in June 1947 and served on Secretary's committee for Research on Reorganization  Upon promotion to Rear admiral on April 1, 1949, Goodwin was appointed Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet under Admiral William H  P  Blandy 

Revolt of the Admirals

In April 1949, the budget's cuts and proposed reorganization of the United States Armed Forces by the Secretary of Defense Louis A  Johnson launched the wave of discontent between senior commanders in the United States Navy  Johnson proposed the merging of the Marine Corps into the Army, and reduce the Navy to a convoy-escort force 

Goodwin's superior officer, Admiral Blandy was call to testify before the House Committee on Armed Services and his harsh statements for the defense of the Navy, costed him his career  Goodwin shared his views and openly criticized Secretary Johnson for having power concentrated in a single civilian executive, who is an appointee of the Government and not an elected representative of the people  He also criticized aspects of defense unification which permitted the Joint Chiefs of Staff to vote on arms policies of individual services, and thus "rob" the branches of autonomy 

The outbreak of the Korean War in summer 1950 proved the proposal of Secretary Johnson as incorrect and he resigned in September that year  Also Secretary of the Navy, Francis P  Matthews resigned one month earlier 

Later service

Due to the Revolts of the admirals, Blandy was forced to retire in February 1950 and Goodwin was ordered to Newport, Rhode Island for temporary duty as Chief of Staff and Aide to the President of the Naval War College under Vice admiral Donald B  Beary in April 1950  Goodwin was detached from that assignment two months and appointed member of the General Board of the Navy  He was shortly thereafter appointed acting Navy Chief of Public Information, as the substitute for Rear Admiral Russell S  Berkey, who was relieved of illness, but returned to the General Board of the Navy in July that year  Goodwin served in that capacity until February 1951, when he relieved his Academy class, Rear admiral John P  Whitney as Vice Commander, Military Air Transport Service (MATS) 

While in this capacity, Goodwin served under Lieutenant general Laurence S  Kuter and was co-responsible for the logistical support of United Nations troops fighting in Korea  The MATS operated from the United States to Japan and Goodwin served in this capacity until August 1953, when he was appointed Commander Carrier Division Two  While in this assignment, he took part in the Operation Mariner, Joint Anglo-American exercise which encountered very heavy seas over a two-week period in fall 1953 

Goodwin was ordered to the Philippines in May 1954 and assumed duty as Commander, U S  Naval Forces in the Philippines with headquarters at Naval Station Sangley Point near Cavite  He held that command in the period of tensions between Taiwan and China and publicly declared shortly after his arrival, that any attack on Taiwan by the Chinese Communists on the mainland would result in US participation in the conflict  The naval fighter planes under his command also provided escort for passing commercial planes  Goodwin worked together with retired Admiral Raymond A  Spruance, then-Ambassador to the Philippines, and accompanied him during the visits to Singapore, Bangkok and Saigon in January 1955 

On December 18, 1955, Goodwin's classmate Rear admiral Albert K  Morehouse, then serving as Commander, Naval Air Forces, Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), died of heart attack and Goodwin was ordered to CONAD headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado to assume Morehouse's position  While in this capacity, he was subordinated to Army General Earle E  Partridge and was responsible for the Naval and Marine Forces allocated to the command designated for the defense of the Continental United States 

Retirement

Goodwin retired on June 1, 1957, after 40 years of active service and was advanced to the rank of Vice admiral on the retired list for having been specially commended in combat  A week later, he was invited back to his Monroe High School (now Neville High School) and handed a diploma showing that he had been graduated with the class of 1918  He then settled in Monterey, California where he taught American history at Stevenson school and was a member of the Naval Order of the United States 

Vice admiral Hugh H  Goodwin died at his home on February 25, 1980, aged 79  He was survived by his wife, Eleanor with whom he had two children, a daughter Sidney and a son Hugh Jr , who graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1948, but died one year later, when the Hellcat fighter he was piloting collided with another over the Gulf of Mexico during training 

Decorations

Here is the ribbon bar of Vice admiral Hugh H  Goodwin:

References

1900 births
1980 deaths
People from Monroe, Louisiana
Military personnel from Louisiana
United States Naval Academy alumni
Naval War College alumni
United States Naval Aviators
United States Navy personnel of World War I
United States Navy World War II admirals
United States Navy vice admirals
United States submarine commanders
Recipients of the Legion of Merit



ground_truth: Vice Admiral.