The Inglewood finance department is light four employees after recent departures of key personnel due to retirement and quitting.
David Esparza, served as Asst. City Manager and Finance Director, and announced today he is leaving the city.
Finance Supervisor Peggy Velasquez, and two other finance staff members have closed out their time with the City this week with one retiring and the other handed in his two week notice.
Another finance supervisor is scheduled to leave by March, as the City presents its 1st Quarter budget numbers to the public.
Sharon Koike is expected to serve as interim finance director.
Other retirements include members of the sound installation, housing, and code enforcement.
How will this affect the city’s pension liabilities, which the mayor has stated publicly multiple times it’s only “problematic” when you have a lot of employees retiring at once.
Last year the police department lost nearly a dozen officers due to their retiring.
Former city manager Mark Weinberg has received a short form agreement with the City, with employees fearing he is there to “clean house”, and work alongside administration to consolidate positions as the city’s finances appear to be dire.
“Why do we have a City Manager, two Assistant City Managers, and need to hire a “former” city manager as a consultant,” asked an employee who requested to remain anonymous.
The City is closed for the annual two week end of the year holiday, however the city clerk’s office staff will be working through the holiday if you are in need of assistance.
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David, please, Don’t forget your hat .
Recycling plastic bottles, cardboard and soda containers has great environmental benefits.
Unfortunately RECYCLING former or other city discards is this administrations favorite plan of action, second only to hiring the unqualified for significant pension eligible positions. The mayor’s former workmates and fan club members have benefited by his creating consultant positions or new job descriptions which should not be considered acceptable.
The disgraced David Esparza should not have been considered acceptable after his misappropriation of taxpayer funds which were intended to help those with housing challenges when he was in management at The City of Los Angeles Housing Authority. (See Gruel’s Audit).
Esparza’s salary and benefits alone have cost us between $300,000.00 $400,000.00 each year since 2013 -Not to mention the foolish dollars spent by either his lack of skills or his unwillingness to stand up for doing what is right if it meant standing up to James Butts.
The residents of Inglewood have already paid significant dollars to the mayor’s police buddies from Santa Monica and LAX not to mention his girlfriend(s) but now he seeks to dig back into his patrol days and hire the cities former police department analyst who was promoted to assistant city manager, retired, and then miraculously was Un-retired, then left again, and became the city manager at the City of San Bernardino who recommended Bankruptcy with no intention of paying into the retirement funds of past employees guaranteeing additional law suit fees and interest charges when the city was (as should have been expected) required to pay CALPERS!
The Chaos Esparza’s days as Chief Finance Officer will long be remembered for being the Department declaring there is a surplus when so many resident services have been cut to provide the foolish and outrageously generous bonuses to favored executives and the poorly managed overtime dollars in the police department. The truck load of poor decisions has brought the city of Inglewood to the foolishness of expecting residents to “register their properties”, pay additional fees for parking on our streets, and the insanely considered expectation that those who are eligible for free school meals pay for the “people mover” to benefit the billionaires sports wanna-be gods.
Enough !! Mark Weinberg every year since 2005 has received a pension from the residents of Inglewood …per State records that was $154,981.20 in 2020. Enough!
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The city needs a person with skills in accounting and money management ,
Equally important that person should have NO! NO! NOT ANY TIES TO THE MAYOR,! or HIS FRIENDS or be in anyway related to the Kroenke/Ballmer camps and let’s us not forget NO TRACK RECORD OF MISMANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC FUNDS !!
Okay that was for the Santa list wish —-getting real that will never happen !