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Town of Mammoth Lakes Update

 - Press release from the Town of Mammoth Lakes Town Manager Marianna Marysheva-Martinez’s Update: May 16, 2013: To the Town Council, Town staff, media and Mammoth Lakes residents and businesses: Below are highlights of noteworthy items from the past two weeks. Town Council: During the 5:00pm portion of the meeting, discussion of the Fiscal Year 2013-14 baseline budget continued. [...]

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Marysheva-Martinez responds to employee morale issues

Three more critical employees have left their jobs with Town of Mammoth Lakes government, morale has sunk and some say they fear the new Town Manager and her style. Marianna Marysheva-Martinez has sent workers two memos that speak to some of their fears. The Town Council voted to appoint Marysheva-Martinez to the spot of Town [...]

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Town Council passes restructuring, puts onus on police

For two months, they had talked about elimination of seven police officers, but last night three Mammoth Town Councilmen said they really meant a cut in the police budget – a $1.1 million cut. After more than three hours of talk Wednesday night, the Mammoth Lakes Town Council did approve their government restructuring plan which [...]

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Town of Mammoth and MLLA: mediation talks continue

“A chance for settlement.” That’s what Mammoth’s Assistant Town Manager said about mediation talks between the Town and Mammoth Lakes Land acquisition. Marianna Marysheva-Martinez said the court-ordered mediation talks Monday and Tuesday will now continue into Thursday (today). She called this a positive development. The details and nature of talks remain confidential. At stake – [...]

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Marysheva-Martinez will stay in Mammoth Lakes

Last week news surfaced that Mammoth’s Assistant Town Manager Marianna Marysheva-Martinez had applied for the City Manager job in Yakima, Washington.  This week, she withdrew that application and signed an additional year’s contract with the Town of Mammoth Lakes. A press release issued by the Town says Martinez has “demonstrated her abilities and capacities to [...]

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Marysheva-Martinez applies for city manager job in Yakima

Marianna Marysheva-Martinez works for the Town of Mammoth Lakes under a contract.  As she says, her duties are limited in nature.  Once the issues are done, she said, the Town shouldn’t need her.  That’s why she has applied for a job in Yakima, Washington. Sierra Wave website commenters revealed an article from the Yakima Herald-Republic [...]

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Mammoth Town Council has no comment on MLLA, approves $4.4 million internal loan

They spent an hour in a closed session Thursday, but the Mammoth Town Council said nothing in public about the recent offer from Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition to resolve the $42 million lawsuit debt.  Now, officials say they will speak openly to the public at their next regular meeting on April 4th. Assistant Town Manager, [...]

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Mammoth Town Council: MLLA offer, internal loan

In their meeting Thursday, the Mammoth Town Council planned to talk in closed session about the MLLA debt settlement offer and about internally borrowing  roughly $4.4 million to pay lawyers, consultants and a DIF fund imbalance. The money issues have deepened for the Town of Mammoth.  The Town Council faced analyzing the recent and somewhat [...]

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MLTC: council appointments and court hearing coming up

It’s official.  The Town of Mammoth has two councilmember-elects who will take seats on the Council June 20th. With all of the problems that face the Town of Mammoth, only two candidates signed up to run for two open seats – Mayor Jo Bacon and Michael Raimondo.  According to government code, the Town Council had [...]

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Town braces for decision on MLLA writ

When the Town of Mammoth Lakes and Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition go back to court on Friday, Judge Randall will decide if he will issue a writ on behalf of MLLA or not.  If the Judge does order in favor of MLLA, that will mean Mammoth has a short time frame for payment of the [...]

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MLLA presses court for $42 million

For some, it feels like the noose has tightened on the Town of Mammoth Lakes.  Thursday, in Superior Court in Mammoth Lakes, lawyers for the Town of Mammoth and for Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition spoke via phone conference in front of Judge Randall on MLLA’s request for a writ to force the Town to immediately [...]

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MLLA letter and Town response

On Tuesday, February 7th, Jay Becker of Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition emailed the following letter to Sierra Wave and other media.  Since then, Town of Mammoth officials have issued a press release and made statements about the Town’s intent to continue negotiations with MLLA.  That company, as we have reported, filed a petition with the [...]

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