City unease over park performance

by Geoffrey Sakala on September 20, 2007

in News

Council angling for management shake-up
By SHELLY BLANCHARD, Editor – Grapevine Independent

The Rancho Cordova City Council, expressing frustration with management at the Cordova Recreation and Park District (CRPD), this week took the extraordinary step of pressing for change at the top.

Acknowledging that the CRPD serves a constituency that is wider than the city, council members offered help to their counterparts on the park board to establish and adopt “best management” practices they believe are lacking.

“We have serious concerns about the management of the district,” a letter signed by all five of the city council members said. “We believe the weaknesses of concern to our city are affecting park facilities district wide. Without significant management changes and improvement, we are concerned all the district’s parks will continue to lag.”

The letter does not identify their target by name, but appeared to be aimed at CRPD Administrator Greg Foell.

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September 20, 2007

Wind Spreads Morning Rancho Cordova Wildfire

Naj Alikhan – CBS13
Gusty winds hampered crews as they fought a grass fire near Rancho Cordova Wednesday morning.
“All it takes is an ignition source and some winds and we’re definitely not out of the woods on this,” said Capt. Jeff Lynch, Sacramento Metro Fire Dept.
With winds gusting faster Wednesday than this area has seen in [...]

September 19, 2007

Sheriff wants vote on cop tax

By Ed Fletcher – Bee staff writerPublished 12:00 am PDT Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A14
Would you pay more in taxes to put additional cops on the street? That’s the question Sheriff John McGinness wants to ask voters in unincorporated Sacramento County.
The plan is to add deputies so that the [...]

September 19, 2007

Rancho Cordova officials ask Elk Grove board to relinquish Sunrise Douglas

By Melissa Nix – Bee staff writerLast Updated 4:01 pm PDT Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The city of Rancho Cordova, which incorporated four years ago, wants to create a sense of community among its residents.
But the city’s efforts have run into a snag – a conflict over the Sunrise Douglas area and which local district [...]

September 19, 2007

Sunrise-Douglas schools should stay in Elk Grove district, study says

By Melissa Nix – Bee staff writerMonday, September 17, 2007
Schools in the Sunrise-Douglas area should stay within the Elk Grove Unified School District, according to a report from School Services of California, a firm that often helps districts with fiscal, management and policy issues.
The report was jointly commissioned by the Elk Grove and Folsom Cordova [...]

September 19, 2007

Rancho Cordova Teen Gets 6 Years For Fatal DUI

(CBS13) Moments before the judge handed down his sentence, Michael Dimitras publicly apologized.
“I just want to let everyone know that know how truly remorseful I am. I hope one day you can accept that,” said Dimitras.
Seconds later, he learned his fate — six years, four months in state prison.

September 19, 2007

The $50 million men

September 10, 2007 By Brooke Southall
Last March, Scott Hanson picked up his telephone, listened to an offer and promptly declined it.
Not that the soft-spoken principal of Hanson McClain Inc. was being rude. Mr. Hanson simply told the Genworth executive who made the cold call that it was premature to talk about selling his reverse-mortgage company.
The [...]

September 19, 2007

Aerojet lands defense deal

Published 12:00 am PDT Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page D4
Aerojet announced Monday that it has been awarded a $3.5 million contract with Raytheon Missile Systems to continue building rocket engines for the U.S. missile defense system.
Aerojet said the contract calls for it to continue ongoing work on engines that use a [...]

September 18, 2007

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