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Voted into Office: Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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Page 1. Home Page-Citywide Issues
Page 2. If Stockton is Broke, Then Why Isn't San Diego?: by Steven Greenhut
Page 3. Vote: Most Excuses not to Vote are Irrelevant!
Page 4. Fredrick Sykes: Background (Sykes is a verb!)
Page 5. Citywide Department Telephone Numbers
(To peruse different pages please click on numbers at top right of each page)
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The Next Regular City Council MEETING Is Scheduled for
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 7 PM, Location: WC Council Chambers.
"The Change We Need, A Voice We Deserve"
"Together we can make West Covina a City that is neighborhood oriented and business friendly"
I am a retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff. I became
politically active when I observed that
We the people need to make intelligent use of our political rights, strengthen our memory and our resolve to verify what our leaders say!
We must “Vote”! Prepare to vote today so that when election day arrives you will have already voted by mail or that you will not forget to cast your very important vote. Constituents, please change your lifestyle, vote with high propensity!
Please, help me to help you.
First I served West Covina as a Community Activist, I also serve and work as a member of various Community Service Organizations for the betterment of the Community. I am asking for your support, both informative communication and financial donations for my campaign.
And now that you have elected me please give me and your local government your attention. My work is about our future, our quality of life and the direction of our City. At this time West Covina needs every resident working to solve our problems. See you all at the City Council Meetings!
Lucia Su ("Because I'm living here, I want to keep the city
in the most favorable conditions for us.")
Lucia Su currently serves as Co-President of Concerned Citizens of
Not voting and engaging your Local Government is to disregard and undermine your rights, your vested interest, the value of your property and your quality of life.
Let us look at what happens when residents fail to vote in the General Municipal Elections; the results are we get the government we deserve. The City of West Covina has a large silent majority that is not paying attention to their local Government (Tax Dollars). The cost is probably higher than most of us care to think. To see what we pay in salaries plus their benefits to our California Public Employees, Elected City Council/Community Development Board Members (a part time position) and City Staff/ Personnel please visit: www.sco.ca.gov.
Our budget deficit is an ever-growing force of destruction to our City! When you fail to budget you are not able to govern. Most of our problems are connected to decisions by our elected officials and our City has lost a great deal of tax dollars due to the economic downturn! So please whenever possible, shop, recreate, eat, work, conduct and create your business in
Please remember to encourage everyone to frequent our City because every penny of revenue is needed. At this time the City of West Covina budget deficit is somewhere between $3 Million to $13 Million.
The Super Majority of Four West Covina Elected Government Representatives (The City Council) reside in the South Hills area of our City. Fredrick Sykes is now the newest City of
The Six City Commissions are the Community Development Commission (Members of the City Council) and residents of the City are appointed by the Majority of the City Council to the present list of Citizens' Commissions - Community Services Commission, Human Resources Commission, Planning Commission, Public Arts Commission and the Senior Citizens Commission.
We have two Councilmembers who have been in office for over 20 years. I am not saying that in the past our leadership did not do positive things; I am saying that the present direction of the City is out of order and our representatives made some serious budget mistakes.
These two men authoritatively manipulate the
Many of us have come to these
abroad seeking a greater freedom of choice about how we live. Now
that we are here we all must understand that the Freedom we enjoy is
not free. The strength of the United States of America is fortified by
our ability to vote. America is a Republic! A group of indivisible
states in which the supreme power rests in the group of engaged and
involved citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives
chosen directly or indirectly by them. It (Freedom) was made possible
by hard work and sacrifice and that our freedom will be lost if we fail
to protect it with that same type of dedication, hard work and sacrifice.
Fredrick Sykes
Fredrick Sykes
Fred has spent his entire life working for the public:
Ø L.A. Co. Deputy Sheriff-33 years (Retired 2006)
Ø Planning Commissioner (2009-2010)
Ø Human Resources Commissioner (2008-2009)
Ø Vigorous advocate for the residents of
Join us in saying it is time for our Councilmembers to fight for the interests of the people they are elected to represent! Our City Council should serve and ensure fair and equal governance for every region and every person in the City of
Fred is married with a son who is a Deputy Sheriff and a daughter who is attending College, Fred knows the importance of family, governing around the needs of the Community and the expressed will of the residents.
Every part of our City must be ennobled so that our entire City can become stronger and more dynamic! Our streets and parks must be maintained and well kept for our enjoyment, for the stabilization of property values, retention of our community standards and as a positive legacy for the future!
When elected, Fredrick Sykes will:
Ø Pursue a true balanced budget that protects our Public Safety and City Services.
Ø Restore Live City Council Meeting Broadcasts and Internet Access to promote public education
and transparency. Improve and increase contact with the residents via Councilmembers on the move;
Councilmembers that visit your venue, your part of town, at least once every quarter of the year to
meet the residents and discern their concerns, up close and personal. Use equitable, comprehensive
governance and serve with honor, accountability and integrity.
Ø Reprioritize Public and School Safety. I will work to provide a safe path to and from school for our
children. Reduce crime, including Conflict-of-Interest and Profiteering by anyone elected or
appointed to office.
Ø Partner with School Officials and Businesses to rebuild depleted school funds.
Ø Contract City Services with best bid for the residents and eliminate "Evergreen Clauses".
Ø Focus on filling our vacant business properties and creating jobs.
Ø With fairness protect and assert the interest of all the stakeholders; including homeowners, renters,
youth, seniors, non-constituents and businesses.
"West Covina"
What will our City look like if we fail to maintain high standards in the maintenance of our City, our Municipal Code Laws and the planning of what we want our City to be in the future? The people you elect to the City Council have the sphere of control that affects your pocket book, the value of your property and the quality of your lives. In the last two City elections Fredrick Sykes received more votes than anyone other than the incumbents who were re-elected. Please elect a candidate that has a record of working for you!
Since June 2006 Fredrick Sykes has attended more City Council meetings than any of the present City of West Covina Councilmembers; not to mention that there have been the attendances at various meetings with Federal and State Representatives, Special City Council Meetings, City of West Covina Community Services Commission, Human Resources Commission, Planning Commission, Senior Citizens Commission, meetings with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, School Boards and Water Boards. More importantly Fredrick Sykes reported back to the community on what was discussed at all these Government meetings!
Thanking you in advance for your support!
Fredrick Sykes: For the People! When elected I will be a voice for the Tax Payers on the West Covina City Council.
Join Us:
Please, help me to help you.
When you run for the West Covina City Council in 2011 to place your name and campaign statement on the ballot in English only the cost is $1,100.00; for your name and campaign statement to appear on the ballot in both English and Spanish the cost is $2,200.00. The Lawn Signs can cost $5.00 ea. and political mailers, door hangers and flyers will cost many thousands of dollars. Most people have not considered the enviromental and financial impact from our methods of political campaigning because money talks and apathy is in vogue.
FPPC Campaign ID # 1300677
Contributions to West Covina City Council candidates are not tax deductible. They are limited to $500 from individuals, $1000 from Businesses and an aggregated total of $1,500 from Political Action Committees.
To donate via Pay Pal click below. Every amount is appreciated and brings us closer to our objectives; fair and equal governance Citywide.
Per California Government Code § 84300. (a) No contribution of one hundred dollars ($100) or more
shall be made or received in cash.
Donations can be sent by U.S.
Supporters for the Fredrick Sykes City Council Campaign
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Your donation in person works too; I have a goal - will travel.
If you wish to volunteer, have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me!
Direct: (626) 806-4272
Facsimile: (626) 581-2107
E-mail: fred.sykes@westcovina.org, fredricksykes@fredricksykes.com or fredrick.sykes@linkline.com
Please join our Campaign
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Professional Politicians and Political Machines can be both a positive and a negative. Unfortunately at this time the Political Machine, a Monopoly, controlling
ØØØEvery resident can be a nexus for positive change!
Engage your local government! We can protest, petition, recall, request verbally and in writing. We communicate with our City Council at the ballot box. Voting helps you protect and assert your interest.
Please obtain and become familiar with the FPPC 460 and 700 political forms (see City Clerk) they will help you
understand recusal (disqualification), wrong doing, conflict-of-interest activity, certain forms of political corruption,
criminal conduct, traitors, political pawns, puppets and misappropriation of Public/Tax Funds. You will learn who is buying the loyalty of your elected Officials and just who is really in control of your government! Please learn to Vote for and support someone only after you have independently vetted and assayed all the Candidates. We
are not forced to vote for anyone; therefore, only vote for the person you trust to protect and assert your interest; ignore all others. To reverse our loss of transparency, our lack of diversity and diminished democracy just remember
the eligible public:
must vote and everyone who is available should attend the City Council Meetings every first Tuesday and every 3rd Tuesday each month at 7PM.
The Planning Commission meets every second Tuesday and every fourth Tuesday of each month at the same time and place as the City Council and that is in the City of
The volume, the speed and the power of the message "We are Watching" is predicated on how many residents get engaged and show a presence at City Hall. Should we fail to participate in the governmental process we will lose our rights, diminish our ability to control our government and become more like the Cities of
Source: Fredrick Sykes
Additional information on the City of West Covina Citizen Commission meetings such as the
Community Services, H.R. and Public Arts, Check
please visit the official West Covina Website at > www.westcovina.org
Need more information see page 5 of this website and or contact City officials >
E-mail: Andrew.Pasmant@westcovina.org
and or chris.freeland@westcovina.org
Go to the
1444 West Garvey Avenue South
City Council Chamber - Level One
West Covina, CA 91790
Write-City Hall
Mailing Address:
City of West Covina
P.O. Box 1440
West Covina, CA. 91793
In 2006 a Longtime
Please see the Joseph A. and Katherine M. Castucci Foundation!
The power of the Telecommunication Companies and other Special Interest Group's money is able to have our Representatives, from Congress down to our local governments, ignore reality.
The residents have a decline in democracy when these towers are installed without their expressed consent.
The concerns of the area residents are real and numerous! The economic downturn, 45% of America is unemployed (USA Today report by Dennis Cauchon), the rise in fuel cost , the decline of aesthetics of the City, a loss in the quality of life, the decrease in the value of our property, slope failure, earthquakes, storms, other powerful natural and human made disasters. Now we have the added concern with the
On the City of West Covina website are these very important words:
Only through citizen participation can your government build a better City.
On the Agenda of the City Council meeting of Tuesday, June 21, 2011:
The residents are already indebted to 67 Million for six baseball fields. Now Our City Council is proposing to add a golf course to the Big league dreams. The estimated cost is approximately Forty-Five Million Dollars ($45,000,000) for the Project.
Residents need to be watching City Hall because presently we are having difficulty paying our employees and bills pre golf course proposal of $45,000,000!
What are the West Covina residents getting in return for paying $67 Million ($57M for Morgage Debt and $10M for L.A. Co. Deferred Tax Agreement) for a baseball theme park (six baseball fields - Big League Dreams) without any profits or return until 2011?
I say that this is not the time for luxuriant spending; are we not still in an economic downturn? City Hall is now closed on Fridays and every department is very understaffed. At this time we do not have a full service City.
The Next Regular City Council Meeting Is Scheduled
for Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 7 PM.
Location: WC Council Chambers.
The next Scheduled Planning Commission Meeting:
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7PM.
Be cognizant of calculating Incumbents who
electioneer and campaign for re-election with
our tax monies!
Investigate, start with the Discover West Covina Newsletter, the Official City Website, City Staff, City Advisory Commissioners, The Castucci Foundation plus local area News Reporters and Newspapers.
West Covina Youth Soccer
See www.wcysc.com
At the April 19, 2011
A different “T – Party”! Google: "National Tequila Party".
Support the
The Lions help the community, from the vision exam programs for our children to the meals on wheels for our senior citizens.
v All you can eat from various Restaurants.
v Silent auction for vacations, event(s) tickets, merchandise and all sorts of wonderful etcetera.
v Your choice of any movie that night or any time at your convenience to visit Regal/Edwards Cinemas. Tickets are $25.00 ($18.00 is Tax Deductible) live entertainment last year was by "Thief" >www.thiefrocks.com this year we have The Copper Canyon Band for more information please visit: www.coppercanyonwest.com and or www.westcovinalionsclub.com.When our elected officials focus on getting support for re-election and fail to budget; the same episode is happening in the City of West Covina as in Vallejo, California 94590.
Vallejo , Calif.
Jobs and senior services are being cut to the bone
by: Michael Zielenziger | from: AARP | April 30, 2011 What happens at City Hall is important to the entire City!
West Covina Please get engaged, don’t let our City be like the City of Bell,
The City Council terminated the Live Broadcasts and the Internet Access in June
2008; so now we are reduced to the best way for you to see what your government is
actually doing. You must be at the Council Chamber in person when the meetings
take place; however, this is not possible for some and a hardship for many of the
interested residents and other members of the public. We need to pay attention
when we have a City Council that has twice proposed a stealth Parking Tax on the
public property in front of our homes and plus we have the following:
Ø Contracts for City services are reminiscent of Indentured Servitude! Seven and 15 years
of dedication by the residents and City Administrators via an "Evergreen Clause".
Translation, these types of contracts are interminable (will last to infinity and beyond) and
there is no competitive bidding for the best deal for the residents! And these same companies
are the major source for the City Councilmembers Campaign Funds! That is why we Tax Payers
must pay more than necessary for many of our City services! For example Hacienda Heights
pays Valley Vista Services $17.50 each month for trash service while
Services $26.99 and the residents of the costal city, far from the dump, Redondo Beach pay
ØTax payers in W.C. are strapped with $57 Million Dollars of 30 year mortgage debt plus
$10 Million in taxes to L.A. County for Big League Dreams (Six beer league baseball
fields) with little if any returns and services for the majority of the residents! At this
time what we have here is an exspensive possession, that is built on a city dump and
toxic waste site, that we are not able to dispose of and the cost is out of proportion
to what it does for the Tax Payers. The $67 Million Big league Dreams annual
mortgage payment started at $1.3 Million in 2008 and will grow during its lifetime to
an annual payment of $2 Million and none of the proceeds will be given towards the
debt until sometime in 2011. Additionally, there is each years cost for maintenance,
the calls for Police and Fire Service. In 2011 we payed
due to the BKK Dump decisions.
Please See:
The Los Angeles County Cities Almanac 2011 Edition by Los Angeles Newspaper Group> langnews.com
The City of West Covina Ethnic Breakdown
African-American 4%
American Indian &
Alaskan Native 0.2%
Asian 25.3%
Hispanic 53.2%
Multi-Racial 1.7%
Native Hawaiian &
Other Pacific Islander 0.1%
White 15.3%
Other 0.2%
Please visit: www.sos.ca.gov. Look at the registration numbers and they indicate the apathy and a lack of voter due diligence. In other words 40,000 registered West Covina residents failed to vote!
Report of Registration as of February 10, 2011
Registration by Political Subdivision by County - See Los Angeles County
West Covina.
Registered Total - 49,505
Republican -13,375
American Independant - 1, 111
Americans Elect - 11
Green - 183
Libertarian - 203
Peace and Freedom - 292
Other - 344
Decline to State - 10, 678
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy Class #162 November 1973
The U.S. Census Bureau map:
1) Dark Green is where more people live;
due to four houses per one acre of
land, condominiums, apartments and
mobile home park in that area.
2) Light colors indicate few people live in that area.
Fredrick Sykes