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Residents accuse city staff of hiding bid overruns for water‑sewer program; council asks for recordkeeping review
Summary
Public commenters at the Seal Beach City Council meeting said city staff failed to disclose that early bids for a sewer project came in far over estimates, raising Prop 218 and Brown Act concerns; council directed staff to return with updated CIP figures and a plan to track enterprise fund allocations and staff time.
Several residents used the council’s oral‑communications period to challenge the transparency of the city’s water‑and‑sewer capital improvement program and its Prop 218 process.
James Jensen told council that during the Aug. 11 vote on sewer and water rates the public and some council members were denied key bid information. “We were cheated that night, the public was cheated,” Jensen said, arguing that early bids for the first project had been received in mid‑July at levels much higher than…
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