Representatives from the Red Brennan Group joined the Z107.7 Up-Close Show last Friday (June 11) and discussed the continuation of the fight to get FP-5 repealed. Cassidy Taylor has the details… FP-5 is a highly controversial fire service tax…
In recent years the good-government, watchdog organization known as the Red Brennan Group has made a name for itself by calling attention to government waste and excess. The group often finds itself at odds with the county board of supervisors…
The reigning topics of last Friday’s Z107.7 Up-Close Show were Measures “J” “K” and “U,” with guest Tom Murphy of the Red Brennan Group. The measures, which were on the November ballot, called for changes to the way the County of San Bernardino…
Measures “J” “K” and “U” on this November’s ballot all called for big changes in how the County of San Bernardino is governed. “U” was defeated, Measure “K” passed with two-thirds of the vote, and Measure “J” just squeaked by. Now the county is…
Last year, property owners in the county’s more than 19,000-square-mile Fire Protection District 5 saw the new $157 per parcel fee added to property tax bills. First conceived of by County Fire administrators, the fee was to provide a steady…
San Bernardino County Fire Chief Dan Munsey will be the guest on Friday’s Up-Close Show. Munsey will discuss the FP-5 fire fee and the functions of the County fire Department. Tune in to Z1077 at 10 a.m. Friday to hear Fire Chief Dan Munsey…
FP-5, the controversial fee added on to property tax bills for expanded fire protection, has many local citizens working on a ballot repeal. Now the City of Twentynine Palms is taking definitive action to push back on those efforts out of…
When county supervisors meet in San Bernardino at 10 a.m. tomorrow the proceedings will be open to the public, as will be the video conferencing center in the County Government Building in Joshua Tree. In all cases, face masks and strict social…
When county supervisors meet in San Bernardino tomorrow the proceedings will once again be open to the public, as will be the video conferencing center in the county government building in Joshua Tree. In all cases, strict social distancing…
The first hour of the nearly three-hour long meeting of the Yucca Valley Town Council was a presentation by County Fire Chief Dan Munsey, who warned the council that if voters repeal the FP-5 fire fee in November, the South Desert region of the…
County Supervisors voted April 7 to put repeal of the Fire Protection Service Zone Five, or FP5, special tax on the ballot this November. Now there may be more bad news for the county’s cash-strapped fire administration. On Z107.7’s Up Close…
Tom Murphy, the spokesman for the Red Brennan Group, will be the guest on the Z107.7 Up Close Show tomorrow. Through the efforts of the group, county supervisors voted April 7 to place the repeal of FP-5 on the November 2020 ballot. In…
Last night’s meeting of the Twentynine Palms City Council resulted in some tough decisions in light of the COVID-19 economic reality. Reporter Heather Clisby has the details… the Twentynine Palms City Council and administrative staff wear…
County supervisors voted April 7 to put repeal of the Fire Protection Service Zone Five, or FP-5, fire fee on the ballot this November. Now there may be more bad news for the county’s cash-strapped fire administration. Reporter Mike Lipsitz has…
The final fate of the infamous FP-5 special fire fee will be on the ballot in the presidential election this November 3. That was the decision of county supervisors at yesterday’s meeting in San Bernardino. The $157 per parcel fire fee repeal…
No county action in recent memory has raised the ire of property owners like the $157 per parcel special fire tax imposed following a dubious “protest vote” in 2018. Now the measure, which has survived multiple lawsuits and attempted court…
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