Well, one great reason might be that they are continuing to lose their business licenses for minor details like failing to file, filing incomplete tax returns, or failing to pay the huge filing fees (like $50).  Or perhaps they just got on the wrong side of the Office of Attorney General or Secretary of State by doing this so often the public started to notice. . .. who knows.  I just noticed this recently — and then a few closer looks showed so much of this that I’ve had to sort them into generalized “court-connected nonprofit” categories.   These samples are from California only, and show approximately that when one category of service is closed down, the AFCC-inspired conferences make sure that the sails are set with different names (but all heading approximately the same direction) — expanding problem-solving courts.

• SUPERVISED VISITATION FIELD

— CALIFORNIA (casual search on the words “supervised visitation.”):

Business licenses:

Modify Search New Search

Charitable Status, same word search:

Organization Name Registration Number Record Type Registration Status City State Registration Type Record Type SUPERVISED VISITATION, INC. Charity Not Registered VAN NUYS CA Charity Registration Charity 1

• Family Resource Centers (81 listed in California):

(These are often functioning as supervised visitation centers too, so I thought I’d look.  They seem to have a hard time staying in business):

(those little#s at the bottom are how many pages of listings….)

And even in the up and coming field of:

• COLLABORATIVE LAW:

(more on this later, because what’s advertised on various individuals’ websites often isn’t found here, or under “dba” either, i.e. “doing business as.”)

If this is a non-profit, when is it planning to get registered as one, so we can appreciate the articles of incorporation and  “program service accomplishments” from the IRS 990s it’s going to file?

The address 300 Esplanade, Suite 1170, Oxnard, CA leads to Mr. Nelson and 5 other attorneys listed on his site (4 other man and one woman).   He lists among his professional accomplishments what I think is intended to be this nonprofit — only under a different name:

Mark Nelson – Nelson Comis Kahn & Sepulveda LLPState Bar Association, Board Certified Specialist in family law, with strong background in business and real estate. Twenty-nine years experience practicing in Litigation, Collaborative and Mediation Models. Web Site www.calattys.com   Member Since 6/1998

300 Esplanade Drive Oxnard, CA  93030-0238

Memberships / Noteworthy Activities

• Collaborative Family Law Professionals, Inc.    Co-foundlnq Director of non-adversarial alternative dispute resolution
  group involving specially trained lawyers, mental health professionals and accountants working with selected clients; President 2003,
  Director and Treasurer 2000-present

Nothing by this specific name seems to show up, presently, perhaps I’m missing it.  I think that the registered agent for a company probably ought to use that company’s name (or a fictitious name / dba) on the site, right?

How many of this bunch of “Collaborative Law Professionals” (Marin County site) stopped collaborating long enough to file THEIR incorporations and nonprofit statements?  As people at least dealing with attorneys (if they’re themselves attorneys, they are most likely AFCC members, and at least rub shoulders regularly with such), surely they know about these basic protocol:

California Collaborative Practice Groups

Collaborative Council of the Redwood Empire
Collaborative Practice Group of Contra Costa
East Bay Alliance of Collaborative Professionals
Sacramento Collaborative Practice Group
Collaborative Practice Silicon Valley
Collaborative Practice of San Mateo County
Collaborative Practice of Santa Cruz County
San Francisco Bay Area Collaborative Practice Group
Collaborative Divorce
Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association
Coalition for Collaborative Divorce
Collaborative Divorce Solutions
A Better Divorce
Collaborative Family Law Group of San Diego

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Anyhow (actually, I looked up several of these), moving on to my favorite category of court-associated nonprofits to poke fun at, perhaps because they’re such a model for others, the same phenomena is happening, I gather, with:

• PARENT EDUCATION FIELD:

Business License status:

Results of search for ” KIDS TURN ” returned 2 entity records.

Board of Directors

Jeffrey Abadie — Partner, Sand Hill Advisors LLC
Gregory C. Abel, Esq. — Family Law Attorney, Whiting, Fallon, Ross & Abel, LLP
Gladys Ato, Psy.D. — Argosy University
Claire N. Barnes, MA — Executive Director, Kids’ Turn
Gerard F. Corbett — CEO, Redphlag LLC.
Leslie O. Dawson — Glenn & Dawson, LLP
Dr. Tara Fields — Therapist; Media
Raymond Jones, Ph.D — Retired from Notre Dame de Namur University
Steven Kinney — Pacific-West Regional Director; National Consortium for Academics and Sports
The Hon. Patrick Mahoney, Supervising Judge — San Francisco Unified Family Court
Halsey M. Minor — Principal, Minor Ventures
Ellen Winick Stross, Esq. — Family Law Attorney
Suzie S. Thorn, Esq. — Parliamentarian (nonvoting member) Family Law Attorney

Allison Thorson, Ph.D. – University of San Francisco
Stacey Welsh —  Wealth Adviser, United Capital Financial Advisers

Faculty Feats: Professor Allison Thorson (early 2011)

• Faculty Feats

by edoohan

Our second “Faculty Feats” focuses on Professor Allison Thorson and her work with Kids Turn, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping families dealing with separation or divorce.  Professor Thorson is currently serving on their Board of Directors and is leading a support group for parents going through divorce.

Professor Allison Thorson

I asked Professor Thorson how she became involved with Kids Turn:

“I first learned about Kids’ Turn (www.kidsturn.org) at a USF mentoring event.  I was at the event to meet with students and connect them with members of the San Francisco community.  Little did I know that I would be the person making connections that evening.  It was at this function where I met Gerard Corbett, Founder and CEO of Redphlag LLC, who is also a member of the Kids’ Turn Board of Directors.  As Gerry and I made small talk, I happened to share that my research generally focuses on family communication surrounding hurtful and or unexpected events.  Before I knew it we were exchanging business cards and making plans to connect again.  After learning more about Kids’ Turn, their programs, their mission, and meeting individuals associated with the organization in the weeks following my initial encounter with Gerry – I just knew I had to be involved.  I had never met a group of individuals this passionate about helping children and families in times of transition.”

You can read more about Professor Thorson’s research in an article for USF News here:http://www.usfca.edu/newsroom/Research/After_Infidelity__Trouble_for_Parent-Child_Relationship/

Congratulations to Professor Thorson for her service to this important organization.  It is great to have our faculty involved in the local community in this way!

Entity Name:	KID’S TURN
Entity Number:	C1657442
Date Filed:	12/29/1989
Status:	SUSPENDED
Jurisdiction:	CALIFORNIA
Entity Address:	1242 MARKET ST 2ND FLR
Entity City, State, Zip:	SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102
Agent for Service of Process:	CLAIRE BARNES
Agent Address:	1242 MARKET ST 2ND FLR
Agent City, State, Zip:	SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102

A Team of Advocates and Professionals

Attorney Suzie S. Thorn, was one of the first female family law attorneys in California. For over forty years, she has represented clients with dedication and professionalism. She leads a team of attorneys and professionals who are committed to protecting the rights, families, and assets of clients during and after the divorce process.

(from individual page on Ms. Thorn):   Currently, Ms. Thorn is a Trustee of the International Commission on Couple and Family Relations Trust, a United Kingdom Registered Charity, as well as a Member of the Board of Kids’ Turn, San Francisco, a charitable organization which endeavors to assist families and especially children through the rigors of the divorce process. …

Ms. Thorn, Brent Seymour and Yasmine Mehmet have earned designation as specialists in Family Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.  Ms. Mehmet came to San Francisco from Canada in 1996, and is a decorated, tri-lingual family law specialist.  Either she works out of two offices (including 1242 Market, here), or one of the websites is more current than the other, however it’s clear she is endorses Kid’s Turn; it’s listed under “Resources” on the Sansome Street law practice’s site: (for photo to the right).

Below is a list of resources related to family law matters. Please be aware that the Law Office of Yasmine S. Mehmet is not responsible for any information or advice received on or through these sites and will not be held liable for their content.

• San Francisco Bar Association
• Volunteer Legal Services Program – Run by the SF Bar Association
• California State Bar Association
• FindLaw – Legal resources
• Kids’ Turn – Non-profit San Francisco Bay Area program focused on helping children when their parents are going through separation or divorce.

C1179677

02/16/1984

ACTIVE

SAN FRANCISCO BAR ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM

TIELA CHALMERS

Entity Number	Date Filed	Status	Entity Name	Agent for Service of Process
C2099226	01/04/1999	SUSPENDED	COMPOSERS AND LYRICISTS LEGAL AID SOCIETY, INC.	JEFFREY GRAUBART
C0338301	05/16/1957	MERGED OUT	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY	CLIFFORD SWEET
C0367310	01/21/1959	SUSPENDED	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF FRESNO COUNTY
C0353376	04/18/1958	SUSPENDED	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MONTEREY COUNTY	KATHERINE E STONER
C0354322	05/09/1958	ACTIVE	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY	ROBERT J COHEN
C0239653	10/14/1949	SUSPENDED	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF PASADENA	LAURALEA T SADDICK
C0354863	05/21/1958	ACTIVE	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO	ROBERTA SHOUSE
C0281422	12/28/1953	ACTIVE	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO	GREGORY E KNOLL
C0403086	09/28/1960	ACTIVE	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY	ANTONIO ESTREMERA
C0347936	12/19/1957	SUSPENDED	LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SANTA MONICA	DAVID M DURST

Charity Status (all nonprofits orgs. are required to as well register with the Office of Attorney General when they are doing business in the state — which I assure you this one has been — as are commercial or nonprofit fundraisers.  ON that front, things aren’t going quite so well):

In California, I just searched for “California Office of Attorney General Charitable Trusts” (or similar term), the “Registry,” to get to this:

http://rct.doj.ca.gov/MyLicenseVerification/Search.aspx?facility=Y  A search page with many fields pops up (this varies from state to state):

Record Type:	–All–  Charity  Fundraising Professional  Raffle
Registration Type:	–All–  Charity Registration  Commercial Coventurer  Commercial Fundraiser  Fundraising Counsel  Fundraising Event  Raffle Registration  Raffle Report
Secretary of State or Franchise Tax Board Number (numbers only):
Organization Name:
State Charity Registration Number:
DBA:
FEIN (numbers only):
Registration Status:	–All–  Awaiting Reporting  Closed  Closed – Inactive  Complete  Confidential Trust – Terminated  Current  Delinquent  Dissolution Pending  Dissolved  Exempt – Active  Exempt – Dissolution Pending  Exempt – Dissolved  Exempt – Form 990-PF Required  Exempt – Inactive  Expired  Extension  Inactive  Incomplete  Incomplete Financial Report  Merged Out  Never Registered – Dissolution Pending  Never Registered-Dissolved  No Raffles  Not Registered  Public Financing  Registered  Registered – Bank Trust  Rejected  Revoked  Suspended – Bond Canceled
County:
City:
State:	–All–  AA  AE  AK  AL  AP  AR  AS  AZ  CA  CO  CT  DC  DE  FL  FM  GA  GU  HI  IA  ID  IL  IN  KS  KY  LA  MA  MD  ME  MH  MI  MN  MO  MP  MS  MT  NA  NC  ND  NE  NH  NJ  NM  NV  NY  OH  OK  OR  PA  PR  PW  RI  SC  SD  TN  TX  UT  VA  VI  VT  WA  WI  WV  WY
ZIP Code:

and according to this page, the San Diego Kids Turn isn’t doing quite so well with its filings and compliance:

The incorporating articles for both organizations read identical except for the words “San Diego” in the latter one.  Details here show:

They are filing their 990s, at least did as of 2010, but apparently there was an issue with actual listing their donors, paying the $50 filing fee, and in short complying with what charities have to do in California, resulting in what would seem comical communications from the Attorney General’s Office to a nonprofit founded by people already doing LOTS of business with the courts, and full of judges (etc.) on their boards over the years:  Please send us the COMPLETE list, and also how about the registration fee?

This is happening in so many fields I’m going to have to categorize them by whatever the latest terminology fad happens to be.  Supervised Visitation was easier, so I’ll start there and in California.  Why not — after all, the state is nuts!

California is Just Nuts!

(but, with the USDA, forces farmers to treat “raw” almonds with PPO,

a carcinogen rejected by both the EU and the American Motorcycle Racing Association as unsafe

if they refuse to steam, irradiate, roast or blanch the life out of them before selling them as “raw” anyhow….)

AND, while it’s clear that California LOSES (or hoards) millions of $$ of child support and reportedly fails to collect $1 billion more, give or take some, and doesn’t know what its own vendors are doing, really, in some jurisdictions — (two letters:  “SF”) it has no trouble going after the real threats to society and miscreants — raw milk enthusiasts and organic gardeners.

This is a link to a 2011 raid; I already blogged on part of the 2010 raid (?) on my “Milk Sucks” posts.  Where’s a SWAT team when you really need it?

Raw Food Raid: Armed Agents Bust Raw Milk & Cheese Sellers 

Assault on independent health accelerates as retailers charged with conspiracy, ‘mislabeling cheese’

CONSOLIDATED UPDATE: Multiple sources have confirmed the fact that all three individuals arrested– James Stewart, Victoria Bloch and Sharon Palmer– are being charged with ‘conspiracy’ related to the sell of unpasteurized raw milk products.

This reportedly includes sections of the California Penal Code Section 182a. Additional charges may also be pending, including a charge of ‘mislabeling cheese’ for Sharon Palmer, was arrested during a raid of Healthy Family Farms. As video of the raid on Rawesome Foods (also raided in 2010) demonstrates, Feds not only seized cash and raw milk supplies (much of which was also dumped out) but also mangos and other fresh, organic produce. Activists have planned a protest tomorrowoutside the L.A. County Courthouse to demand the release of the raw food retailers, each held on bonds reportedly exceeding $120,000.

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VIDEO OF RAID: Police Seize Cash, Produce, Dump Raw Milk

Moreover,  seems like we are always trying to create new disciples (fill in the blank)  — and try, contrary to the independent spirit that supposedly marks the U.S. — make sure no one teaches a contradictory one.  Yeah, sure! It looks like both Prop 8 and Stop SB 48 may be on the ballot next fall:

PROP 8

We (so to speak) passed Prop 8 banning same-sex Marriage.  Calif. has a reputation to uphold, and naturally protested it, then of course the “pro-family” (whatever that means anymore) protested the protest (see “protectmarriage.com”)

Not quite off-topic as the marriage/fatherhood promotion grants I’ve been blogging we’ve seen go to anti-gay groups that take their message to Africa…

The next stage in California’s Proposition 8 court case is set for September 6 when the Supreme Court of California will hear arguments on whether Prop. 8 supporters have legal standing under state law to appeal the overturning of California’s gay marriage ban.

Following federal Judge Vaughn Walker’s August 2010 ruling that California’s 2008 voter enacted ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, proponents quickly filed an appeal with the 9th Circuit. However, Vaughn Walker’s original ruling raised serious doubts as to whether Prop. 8 supporters, due to the particulars of how they came to defend the same-sex marriage ban, have the right to appeal.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/next-stage-in-prop-8-case-set-for-sept-6.html#ixzz1VWtjLYH9

SB 48 and “Stop48” and “FAIR”

Now there’s SB48 (Leno) which reads in part:

Pupil Instruction Prohibition of Discriminatory Content

Existing law prohibits a governing board of a school district from adopting instructional materials that contain any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of their race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, handicap, or occupation, or that contain any sectarian or denominational doctrine or propaganda contrary to law.

This bill would revise the list of characteristics included in this provision to include race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, and occupation, or other characteristic listed as specified.

Existing law requires that when adopting instructional materials for use in the schools, governing boards of school districts shall include materials that accurately portray the role and contributions of culturally and racially diverse groups including Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, and members of other ethnic and cultural groups to the total development of California and the United States.

That’s only 6 designations.  I’m sure there are students from almost every continent and culture stuck in California schools — have we got all basis covered yet?   What about Muslim-Americans?  Isn’t failing to name that as a protected category discriminatory?  President Obama didn’t forget this category, nor has the mainstream press — but no mention in to protect in the textbooks?  What about Middle-Eastern Americans?  In 2007 the Governor of Maryland “Executive-Ordered” into being a Commission on Middle Eastern American Affairs.   There is a “middleeastern.maryland.gov” just like at the federal level there is a “fatherhood.gov” (speaking of “executive-ordering into being,” 1995….). what’s with California — behind the times?  What about Latin-Americans?  And there were even some (around the time of the last census) demanding space as “Southern-Americans, as in Confederate  (per Washington Post, 2010):

Sins of Omission

Diane Ravitch explains why textbooks are tedious.

  Now “bias” is used to mean the appearance of any idea or term that references a specific aspect of a non-utopian society in any educational material. Under this bloated definition, anything that could potentially offend anyone must be excised from textbooks and standardized tests.

Because most states require statewide adoption of textbooks, there is intense competition among the major textbook companies for the business of the states with the largest education systems, especially California and Texas. However, this competition only occurs among the four major publishing houses, each of which has taken over many smaller companies, and only one of which is American-owned. Because of the high cost of developing textbooks that meet the guidelines of the market (large sums have to be spent marketing textbooks to state Boards of Education), there is an effective barrier to entry in the textbook market. Furthermore, since California and Texas are the largest markets for which books are chosen by the state, only publishers who consistently win their approval can remain on the market. Thus, all it takes to forever banish a word or image from schools across the nation is a well-placed, vocal group to lobby the Board of Education in either of these states.

 

This bill would revise the list of culturally and racially diverse groups to also include Pacific Islanders, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and persons with disabilities.

I must be disabled — because no matter how hard I try, I cannot comprehend what makes California legislators, educators, or textbook manufacturers (oh — I forgot, the only North-American one is probably Scholastic from New York anyhow) think that children and youth can be completely immunized from racism, sexism, sexual-orientation-ism or religious bias OUTside the school system by sitting through artificially-engineered prose inside it.  Even if use of cell phones on-campus is banned, which some places, it is.

Anyhow, pick your team:  STOP 48 the California “FAIR Education Act” because it costs to much,

or STOP “STOP48.”  It could be overwhelming, EQUALITY CALIFORNIA (LAWeekly last month), if:

Some critics think it’s the wrong time to push for such an expensive ballot measure since a Prop. 8 lawsuit, in which a federal judge found the 2008 initiative to be unconstitutional, is still working its way through the appeals courts.

Gays and lesbians in California could be overwhelmed on the political front lines and financially if both the anti-gay history ballot measure and the pro-gay marriage initiative are placed on a 2012 ballot.

In 2008, gays and lesbians spent more than $40 million in trying to defeat Proposition 8, the successful ballot measure that banned legalized same-sex marriage.

Talk about conflicted!

California Schools 49th out of 50 in 2009

STATE DROPS IN LATEST EDUCATION RANKINGS (JAN. 15, 2009)

By WIRE SERVICES

Story Created: Jan 15, 2009 at 4:11 PM PDT

California ranks next to last in states where the adult population has at least a high school education, according to a report released by the California Faculty Association at Cal State Los Angeles.

Ranking 49th out of 50 states is an indication of the state’s deteriorating educational status in recent decades, according to “California at the Edge of a Cliff,” by Thomas G. Mortenson.

Mortenson is an independent analyst living in Iowa and a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington, D.C.

As of 2007, California ranked 14th in the nation in terms of college educated members of the workforce over 25 years of age, a drop from eighth place in 1981, according to the report.

“Other states have made greater gains in building a college educated workforce and moved past California,” Mortenson stated. “California is slipping toward educational and economic mediocrity among states on this critical measure of state competitiveness, prosperity and success.”

State tax fund investment in higher education has declined by 40 percent since 1980, according to the report.

Possibly because to say anything in a textbook is going to offend someone else who will start a referendum about it.  And of course we all know, the more money your pour into something — like the schools, or child support centralization and expansion, or the courts — the better off it is for everyone.

Take for example, San Francisco’s Superior Court system:  Obviously either someone hasn’t been pouring enough into it (where are Kid’s Turns profits when you need them, hey?) — either that or there are some holes in the accounting somewhere, and what’s been poured in doesn’t equal what’s coming out the other end…

But in the press, it is of course failing because, and only because, of a budget crisis:

• 
  

San Francisco court budget cuts will delay divorces

By: Ari Burack | Examiner Staff Writer | 07/19/11 4:00 AM

Buried: The Superior Court’s Meredith Grier goes through paperwork from open cases. The court will have a larger backlog thanks to cuts in state funding. (Examiner file photo)

It takes at least six months to get a divorce in San Francisco, and now unhappy couples can add at least a year to that, thanks to planned budget cuts to the Superior Court.

Katherine Feinstein, the Superior Court’s presiding judge, gave a dire outlook to reporters at a Monday news conference, reiterating the court’s plan to lay off 200 employees and close 25 courtrooms in late September.

The budget recently approved by Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature sliced hundreds of millions of dollars from state courts. San Francisco is facing a $13.75 million deficit, or 15.6 percent of its operating budget.

“We’re left with one painful, unprecedented option, which is a reduction in service that is so severe that it will, for all practical purposes, dismantle our court,” Feinstein said.

Current Superior Court Salary Schedule  (find Job # on list below, click here for Salary ranges for that particular #)

Most of the effects will be felt in civil cases, where litigants can anticipate years of delays, according to Feinstein. Reduced office hours for court clerks will make filing and obtaining information more difficult. Feinstein warned of long hours waiting in line just to pay a traffic ticket, and months to get a copy of a criminal or civil court record.**

**And that’s IF you are lucky and well-connected… and if you can afford it, or have a fee-waiver if you can’t .  When you finally get it, it may or may not be an accurate record, according to a Joseph Zernik, DDS — with the implementation of PACER (electronic docketing) there is now a dual system in place anyhow.  See:

Large Scale Shell Game Fraud by the United States Courts is Alleged Relative to the Implementation of PACER and CM/ECF

Dual Electronic Docketing Systems of the United States courts examined with focus on application at the Central District of California

By installing PACER AND CM/ECF, the US courts introduced a sea change in operations of the courts, with no legal foundation.” In a paper entitled “Notice of Electronic Filing,” Joseph Zernik writes, “The authority for implementation of CM/ECF is often cited as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which allow Local Rules of Court. However, the implementation….was not via Local Rules of Court.” Zernik goes on to note that “the detailed rules of implementation of PACER and CM/ECF at the Central District of California, for example, were only provided in an ‘Unofficial Manual’…”

“This is the biggest shell-game fraud in the history of the legal process,” states Zernik.

In other words, alleges Zernik, there are now two separate systems in place – one for the public and one for the elite tier of lawyers and officers of the court. In so doing, the public right to inspect public documents was severely mitigated. Specific court records, which used to be standard part of the public docket, were subject to restrictions, and public access is now denied to such records. The courts created two docketing and access systems, separate and unequal, and asserted the right to segregate persons into one system or the other. The spokesperson for PACER stated that while there were indeed two systems in place, one was for public access and one was for filing.

Apart from the obvious issues raised by such two separate systems Zernik uncovered further cause for alarm. When the court systems became computerized, the common law practices also altered, subtly and nearly undetectably. The prior procedure, which required that an authorized Deputy Clerk of the court stamp each paper “Entered” and endorse it with his hand signature to attest to the entering of documents into a given case docket, was altered with no legal authority.

to provide verbatim official records of all testimony and court proceedings in cases heard before the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, and during Grand Jury proceedings; and to do related work as required.

which reports to:

REPORTS TO

Court Judges, Court Commissioners, and Assistant Chief Executive Officer.

That gets interesting, because a JUDGE (I learned – after the fact) is quite different from a COMMISSIONER.  For example, in who pays the salaries:

985C  Court Commissioner = PAID BY THE COUNTY.

(Last Changed:  7/1/07)  $72.7830/hour  $5,823/biweekly 12,664/month $151,971/year

BUT the CCSF (City and County of SF) pays apparently benefits, @   $4.5498   $ 364  $ 792    $ 9,500/year

990C Superior Court Judge = PAID BY THE STATE (as opposed to all the others, above – – on the schedule)

(last changed 7/1/07)  STATE  $85.6269/hour,  $6,850/biweekly   $14,899/month   $178,789/year

XXXX

Presiding Judge . last changed 1/1/07. . . . (etc.) = $185,941/year)

This data from “SUPERIOR COURT SALARY SCHEDULE As of 9-4-10″

We have already, I believe, established that the citizens are paying through the nose almost everywhere, including paying public employees, allowing public employees to separately collaborate and form nonprofits with high membership dues, and then letting these nonprofits directly bill the local county (and/or city) to pay those huge membership dues, AND training fees.

The training conferences are great expeditions away from the noise and din of the local, irate, taxpayers or people protesting social service cutbacks, to collaborate on the next shapeshift and new name for their field of practice.

I became aware of this recently when I got bored with looking at who got the grants and tried to take a better look at what they were doing with them.  When one goes to the local comptrollers website and starts searching vendor payments (see last post) or, what gets even MORE interesting, vendor reports.  Like what the City’s own auditor has to say about the city’s processes, or lack thereof.

To basically summarize it, San Francisco basically doesn’t know what’s up with its own expenditures — but several reports are rather disturbing – in fact so disturbing that they will be published here, to place alongside the cries about  budget cuts.