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April 20, 2010
Riverside County charter plan to enhance local control moves forward
Supervisor Buster’s proposal to increase local control with a county charter gained the Board of Supervisors’ unanimous support at the board’s April 20 meeting. Almost all of Riverside County’s neighboring counties already have charter forms of government. Buster supports a narrow charter that would provide for local methods of filling vacancies on the board. Currently, the Governor fills those vacancies by appointment. County staff is preparing a charter and ballot measure that will go before voters for a final decision.
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March 31, 2010
Flexsteel Industries a furniture manufacturing firm
is recognized for success in the international marketplace
Supervisor Bob Buster recognized a local manufacturer for its decades of success and its commitment to remain and create jobs in the Riverside area.
Supervisor Buster joined other officials March 31 in presenting Flexsteel Industries, Inc., of Riverside, with the county’s Export Award. Flexsteel crafts high-quality furniture, exporting products to more than half a dozen countries including Canada, Indonesia and Australia. The company employs about 200 full-time workers at its plant near the Riverside Municipal Airport and plans to expand its local operations this year.
Supervisor Buster applauded the firm for its loyalty to Riverside and for increasing its workforce at a time when other employers are cutting back. Flexsteel has been in Riverside County since 1978 and also has operations in Santa Fe Springs and Hesperia. It manufactures furnishings for the home, which can be found at Living Spaces and other retailers, and also for use in recreation vehicles.
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March 2, 2010
Supervisor Buster
Receives American Medical
Association AMA Award
for Outstanding
Career Public
Servant
Dr. Rebecca Patchin Chair, Board of Trustees
American Medical Association and Dr. Nancy
Snyderman chief medical editor for NBC News, presented Supervisor Bob Buster with the Dr.
Nathan Davis Award in Washington D.C. This was in recognition of Buster's influence upon efforts to improve public health throughout the Inland area.
He was given the American Medical Association's national award for outstanding community service in local government. |
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February 13, 2010
Reform bloated county pensionsRiverside County put
on the brakes last
year when the
recession's shock
waves hit the local
economy. We halted
new hiring,
temporarily reduced
pay, used reserve
funds and offered
retirement
incentives -- and
the county still has
a $71 million
ongoing deficit.
The county must reform its outdated pension system, not just to survive the current downturn but to ensure future growth and prosperity.
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November 21, 2009
How to cut county spending
Taxpayers should be concerned that Riverside County is not balancing its budget. The public services
residents pay for
with property and
sales taxes are in
jeopardy.
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"A"
Street
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September 9, 2009
Supervisor sets
Dufferin meeting
Supervisor
Buster will discuss
concerns about the
closure of Dufferin
Ave. and plans for a
new access road in
the area at a public
meeting on September
24, 2009 from 6:30
p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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July 16, 2009
New Lake Mathews
Fire Station -
Groundbreaking
The Lake Mathews Fire
station is designed to blend into the natural landscape
of the community, the new Lake Mathews Fire Station will
be LEED certified. The
new 10,000 square foot fire station will replace the
decades old fire station on Cajalco Road and will also
feature a community center for public use and meetings.
The location of the Lake Mathews Fire Station will be at
16453 El Sobrante near Mockingbird Canyon Road. |
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July 8, 2009
Half-way parkway approved for Riverside's mid-county
Bob Buster is a
critic of the plan
to build the parkway
south of Lake
Mathews between
Corona and Perris.
"Officials should
concentrate on what
they can build to
relieve traffic
congestion, not
shoot for projects
that would take
decades to build".
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June 20,
2009
Do not reject
partial parkway
Pursuing the entire
32-mile parkway
subjects the entire
project to legal and
environmental
challenges. Those
challenges will
delay the new
parkway for years
and threaten to
derail the entire
project, leaving our
residents with no
traffic.
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Riverside County Budget News |
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July 9,
2009
Foul ball from Pacheco
Editorial North
County Times:
Our view: District Attorney's proposal to squeeze public defender's budget is wrong.
"He is unwilling to
make substantive
cuts in his
department's budget,
but thinks there is
enough time
available in the
public defender's
office ---- the
lawyers who oppose
his prosecutors in
the majority of
cases ---- to help
the county get a
little closer to a
balanced budget".
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July 3,
2009
DA'S proposal angers
public defenderSuggested cost-cutting measures in the courts and public defender's offices has intensified annoyance among some supervisors about District Attorney Rod Pacheco's political tactics as county officials continue working to cut $130 million for the current fiscal year.
Buster said that the
district attorney's
proposal was
diverting attention
away from the real
problem.
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June, 2009
Riverside County approves budget
Tavaglione and
Buster balked at a
request from DA Rod
Pacheco that the
county examine ways
to the screening of
defendants who
request free legal
counsel from the
public defender's
office.
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June 20,
2009
Feel Good spending
Supervisor Buster
promises to give
$500,000 of his
community
improvement funds
back to the county's
general fund.
The community
improvement funds
represent millions
of dollars the
county could put to
better use in a
tough budget year.
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June 3,
2009
Budget Delusion
The County can't
fund the DA's office
at boom-era levels.
"We must not let
hollow scare tactics
about public safety
jeopardize our
commitment to
long-term fiscal
solvency."
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June 2,
2009
DA analysis to get reply from county
The grand jury report said that the DA's office ties up the courts by taking cases to trail that could be settled and operates under a climate of fear.
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November 1, 2008
No easy path to deciding route of Mid-County Parkway
"There is no money in sight for this road," Buster said. "To put over all those threats of eminent domain around these people just is not right when we can expand Cajalco. ... I'm all for future planning, but this seems like the worst kind of planning."
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October 6,
2008
Strategies to deter
ER use for
nonemergencies
Supervisor Buster
wants Riverside
County Regional
Medical Center and
Inland Empire Health
Plan (IEHP), the
area's largest Medi-Cal
health maintenance
organization, to
study emergency
department use and
develop a reduction
strategy. |
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April 20 ,2008
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March 15, 2008
Santa Rosa Plateau's many trails
provide hikers paradise |
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