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PHOTO BY RON MARTEL

Members of the POA Board and City Council come
together for a historic joint meeting at the lodge.
Historic
Historic meeting takes place meeting takes place

BY NANCY HORTON only Mayor Larry Greene, Councilman Jeremy Smith strict rules, such as only two City Council members
CONTRIBUTOR, THE FRIDAY FLYER and Councilman Randy Bonner were able to make it may privately discuss an issue and cannot tell the other
On Tuesday, Mar. 26, at 6 p.m. at the lodge, the from the city. members. Emails between more than two City Council
POA Board and the Canyon Lake City Council met The first order of business was to recognize Spen- members are prohibited and considered serial meet-
for the first time in a noticed meeting. For many years, cer Massicot, Student of the Month; the Urban Craft ings. City documents are passed at meetings as Ordi-
residents had been asking for the two boards to meet Eatery, a restaurant in the Towne Center that was nances, which become City law, and Resolutions.
and discuss items of mutual interest. It has long been named Best Casual Restaurant by the Inland Empire The POA, established in 1968, is a private non-
thought that there may be economies in both budgets if Magazine; Ron Carson, an employee of the POA for profit corporation governed by the Davis-Stirling Act.
some activities can be combined. Legal opinions held 31 years who is retiring; and POA Director Mike Har- While it has some of the same rules, there is little or
up the decision to meet jointly. ris, for his thousands of volunteer hours on committees no enforcement. The governing documents are bylaws;
Councilman Jeremy Smith made it a goal during and serving as the president of the board. Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions; and Rules and
his campaign for city council last fall to make such a This first meeting was agendized to introduce all the Regulations.
meeting occur. It was a bonus that both POA General participants and generally inform the audience of ap- The POA has departments with employees, such as
Manager Eric Kazakoff and City Manager Chris proximately 30 people to the organization of the POA Member Services, Accounting, Operations, Security,
Mann were i n attendance. While all five and the city, which are very different. The city, incor- Compliance, HR, IT, etc. They all report to the general
POA Board porated in 1990, a general law city, is governed by manager, who is the sole employee hired by the POA
members the Brown Act. The Fair Political Practices Board of Directors.
were Commission was charged with investi- The POA has CCRs which govern what members
there, gating and fining any elected official may and may not do within their tract. Violators are
who violates the Brown Act. There are
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Great White to

perform at lodge

on Saturday night

Legendary rock band Great White on bass and Audie Desbrow on drums.
will make their debut in Canyon Lake “Their set will be a ride of an emo-
tomorrow night at the lodge. Lead sing- tional wave of sultry connections, arous-
er Mitch Malloy will be joined by Mark ing lyrics, and an all-out marathon of
Kendall on guitar, Michael Lardie on hard-hitting orchestrations,” said Doug
guitar and keyboards, Scott Snyder uuCONTINUED PAGE A17