“Buffalo Chip to Cedar Hills for refusing to reimburse resident Ken Cromar $766 of expenses he incurred as he dragged documents out of city government that had been illegally withheld.  Cromar had to appeal to the Utah State Records Committee to force the city to comply with his open records requests under the state’s GRAMA law.  Government entities should have to shoulder the costs that are unfairly and deliberately shifted to the shoulders of private citizens in an effort to keep damning data secret.”

(Note:  The Daily Herald’s popular “Beehives & Buffalo Chips” series rewards good deeds with Beehives.  The Buffalo Chip award is less desirable.  This September 22, 2012 Buffalo Chip is the third for CH government leaders in recent months.)

City officials thought their emails, hidden on personal email accounts, would never be seen by Cedar Hills taxpayers. They were wrong.  State law requires all city business email, from whatever source, be provided to the City Recorder’s office.  Former elected City Councilman Ken Cromar (1994 to 2000) has served as an official researcher for Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government’s efforts to shed light on questionable financial and ethical actions, as a service to our community.

Now that the City has finally provided the damning emails, as compelled by the Utah State Records Committee ORDER, and as the thousands of pages are reviewed, we will post a series of articles, using the City Council, Mayor and leadership’s own words, from their own emails.

We can’t have a better future for our CH, if we don’t first learn from our past.

We have been ridiculed, stalled and maligned by CH government leadership for our efforts to get this information to you.  Their efforts to do so says much more about them, than it does about us, as the emails will prove.  So, finally, after over 200+ days of delay (10-days is the legal limit), Cedar Hills families will finally be able to learn here what has been going on behind the scenes, and decide for themselves the truth.

Please share this website with all your CH friends and neighbors.