PRESS RELEASE:   Thursday, November 15, the Cedar Hills Golf Course Financial Advisory Committee sponsored a Town Hall meeting wherein the committee reported the $550,000 per year average in taxpayer subsidies since opening.  (see www.CedarHills.org for the City’s posting) In 2001, the citizens were convinced by the City Council to vote in favor of bonding $6.4 million […]

Prison-bound ex-Cedar Hills mayor says he should have heeded wife By Dennis Romboy, Deseret News Published: Tuesday, Nov. 13 2012 5:36 p.m. MST SALT LAKE CITY — Former Cedar Hills Mayor Eric A. Richardson shared a long, tearful embrace with his wife after a federal judge sentenced him to prison for bank fraud Tuesday. “The […]

Folks are just plain tired of government that divides.  They are tired of government that is nasty with those seeking the truth.  And, they are tired of government that is less than honest with the taxpayers that pay their salaries. These “Dividers” know the truth, but know that if you did too, your support for them […]

From:   Eric Richardson [mailto:e_ric_hardson@yahoo.com] Sent:   Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:59 PM To:   Konrad Hildebrandt Subject:   Re: FW: Beer Tavern License at the clubhouse This could be controversial.  I am ok doing it, but not during election season.  I say wait until after the election then we can speak and make sure we are […]

On December 27, 2011, then City Manager Konrad Hildebrandt sent a post-Christmas email to all City Council members asking for their support against a citizen Angela Johnson’s request for documents about his suspicious $9,000 pay raise, and their help to “calm her troubled heart”.  He specifically mentioned his “CC” to Mrs. Johnson, in what some […]

Clear the air in Cedar Hills Sunday, September 30, 2012 – Daily Herald Editorial Staff — In Our Opinion “The Utah Public Records Committee was wrong when it ruled against Cedar Hills resident Ken Cromar’s request to be reimbursed $766 for city financial documents and e-mails, but not for the regular reason that the cost […]

Why was former Mayor Brad Sears involved in illegal secret Council emails — ironically about an Ethics Bill? This is the second in a series of postings of secret City Council emails that were illegally withheld from the public record until the Utah State Records Committee ORDERED the City to collect and provide them to […]

This is the first in a series of postings of secret City Council emails that were illegally withheld from the public record.  We believe that as you read the Series installment, you will understand why city leaders tried to keep the exchanges secret. First an explanation:  Utah State law does not allow for more than […]

“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 […]

Congrats to the Cedar Hills residents!   It required taking the City to the Records Committee, but finally we have been given “all” the email docs GRAMA requested March 5, 2012.   Last evening, at 7:00 p.m, city attorney Eric Johnson delivered the “final” box — 17.2 pounds of paper.  It is clear that it took today’s […]