Dear Mayor and Council Members: I was very pleasantly surprised to read the City newsletter for April 2015 and find an article by Councilman Rob Crawley presenting a candid and different perspective on the proposed need for pressurized irrigation metering in Cedar Hills.  Mr. Crawley’s comments were enlightening and persuasive. His perspective is in […]

We are sorry to report that there is another troubling development regarding records in CH discovered just today. Late this afternoon during a phone conversation with the City Recorder Colleen Mulvey, CHCRG researcher and former CH Councilman Ken Cromar learned the public records she is responsible to maintain and protect are stored on a city-owned server, the […]

If indeed Hillary Clinton has self-destructed her run for the White House, maybe she could move to Cedar Hills and run for Mayor?  She would fit right in!   Compare these two headlines from 2015 and 2012:   2015 – Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and AMY CHOZICK […]

Cedar Hills Mayor Eric Richardson, left, speaks during a press conference at the Cedar Hills Public Safety Building Feb. 21, 2012. Current Mayor Gary Gygi is on his left and was a council member at the time. Richardson resigned, admitted his guilt to bank fraud and served time in federal prison. The city council approved […]

Public to weigh in on Salt Lake City’s troubled golf system By CHRISTOPHER SMART | The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Feb 02 2015 03:00PM   Hearing » Unlike most of the city’s recreation programs, golf must be financially self-sustaining.   After months of jawboning about what to do with Salt Lake City’s golf system […]

Jerry Dearinger said it best, “Our goal is to save as much of the public record from destruction as possible.”  GRAMA requests result in a permanent record that the City cannot destroy.  It is city policy to destroy most public records after 12 months.  With modern electronic storage growing smaller and cheaper each year, CHCRG […]

Jerry Dearinger, leader in behalf of 26 other Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government (CHCRG) members who GRAMA requested city email & text records wrote to the City Manager on October 10th saying… “Non-completion and/or erroneous fulfillment of Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government’s April 9, 2014 GRAMA Request.  Proper fulfillment requested.” Sam Bushman & […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Daily Herald changes format of online comments Front Page •  Sunday – October 04, 2014 10:00 pm  •  David Kennard Executive Editor   PROVO — Our website will undergo a significant change beginning today. Readers who want to comment on news, columns, editorials, features, sports and all other content at heraldextra.com will be required […]

Why is Mayor Gygi holding secret meetings about Councilman Crawley and using the city attorney to hide public records? Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government (CHCRG) discovered in newly requested emails that Councilman Crawley is the topic of the Mayor’s “Secret Meetings With Council Members”.   This information was found within one-month’s worth of Mayor […]

No Records, No Signed Affidavits, No more Mediation Normally, getting a GRAMA request (freedom of information) usually takes 10 days or less. But in Cedar Hills, when asking for the Mayor and other city official’s email records, things suddenly get very, very complicated. In 2012, an GRAMA request for email records took over 210 days, but […]