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	<title>Comments on: Tulare Cemetery is Served again</title>
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		<title>By: Yolonda Allen</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/05/04/tulare-cemetery-is-served-again/#comment-100857</link>
		<dc:creator>Yolonda Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 14:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/05/04/tulare-cemetery-is-served-again/#comment-100809&quot;&gt;Alex Gutierrez&lt;/a&gt;.

For the record, my comment was not meant to be an insult upon you Alex. It was meant to be a compliment. I attended college while working in a service job. My apologies that someone took it the wrong way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/05/04/tulare-cemetery-is-served-again/#comment-100809">Alex Gutierrez</a>.</p>
<p>For the record, my comment was not meant to be an insult upon you Alex. It was meant to be a compliment. I attended college while working in a service job. My apologies that someone took it the wrong way.</p>
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		<title>By: Yolonda Allen</title>
		<link>https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/05/04/tulare-cemetery-is-served-again/#comment-100835</link>
		<dc:creator>Yolonda Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 20:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/05/04/tulare-cemetery-is-served-again/#comment-100817&quot;&gt;Vicki&lt;/a&gt;.

You are a laughingstock. Your comments don&#039;t hurt my feelings nor make me feel inferior.  I&#039;m a successful business woman, can you say the same?

Have a great day!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/05/04/tulare-cemetery-is-served-again/#comment-100817">Vicki</a>.</p>
<p>You are a laughingstock. Your comments don&#8217;t hurt my feelings nor make me feel inferior.  I&#8217;m a successful business woman, can you say the same?</p>
<p>Have a great day!</p>
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		<title>By: Christi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 19:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yikes..and the plot thickens (no pun)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yikes..and the plot thickens (no pun)</p>
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		<title>By: Vicki</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vicki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 02:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yolanda is as uninformed and delusional as Chairman Avila. All Board members are to be educated on Cemetery laws, and the Chair is the point of contact for County Counsel and interacts frequently with that office and is informed of the law. 
The labor laws are easily searchable if a person is technologically proficient and wants to be informed - as Alex is. Your comments toward Alex and your reference to his service job are demeaning and mean-spirited - but then when you are an executive with a $5/jewelry business, I suppose it means you value your skills highly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yolanda is as uninformed and delusional as Chairman Avila. All Board members are to be educated on Cemetery laws, and the Chair is the point of contact for County Counsel and interacts frequently with that office and is informed of the law.<br />
The labor laws are easily searchable if a person is technologically proficient and wants to be informed &#8211; as Alex is. Your comments toward Alex and your reference to his service job are demeaning and mean-spirited &#8211; but then when you are an executive with a $5/jewelry business, I suppose it means you value your skills highly.</p>
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		<title>By: Yolonda Allen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yolonda Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 22:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/05/04/tulare-cemetery-is-served-again/#comment-100809&quot;&gt;Alex Gutierrez&lt;/a&gt;.

I couldn&#039;t agree more about Vanderpoel and one of his appointees. He reappointed Aguilar even though he and the Attorney General had received thousands of recall signatures. Aguilar continues to be the one board member who will never agree to anything brought before the board.

I didn&#039;t know that you studied labor laws in addition to your service job Alex. Good for you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2021/05/04/tulare-cemetery-is-served-again/#comment-100809">Alex Gutierrez</a>.</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more about Vanderpoel and one of his appointees. He reappointed Aguilar even though he and the Attorney General had received thousands of recall signatures. Aguilar continues to be the one board member who will never agree to anything brought before the board.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t know that you studied labor laws in addition to your service job Alex. Good for you.</p>
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		<title>By: Alex Gutierrez</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alex Gutierrez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 20:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our Tulare Public Cemetery District&#039;s (TPCD) Board of Trustees current Chair, Xavier Avila, and last years Chair, Steve Presant, need to be held accountable for their consistent complicity in the cemetery&#039;s mismanagement that has resulted in multiple profound problems. Our Tulare County Board of Supervisors (BOS), specifically Supervisor Pete VanderPoel, also need to start acting after opting to repeatedly ignore public grievances and have found excuses through County&#039;s Cousnel not to exercise the Tulare County&#039;s Grand Jury&#039;s 2020 Report Recommendations on the TPCD specifically regarding the BOSs power to remove TPCD Trustees.

&quot;There is an important exception to this rule, which is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment. It arises where there is a deprival of the &#039;liberty&#039; guaranteed all persons by that amendment&#039;s due process clause. The exception will be applied where the probationary employee&#039;s job termination, or dismissal, is based on charges of misconduct which &#039;stigmatize&#039; his reputation, or &#039;seriously impair&#039; his opportunity to earn a living , or which &#039;might seriously damage his standing or associations in his community&#039; .
&quot;Where there is such a deprival of a &#039;liberty interest&#039; the employee&#039;s &#039;remedy mandated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is &quot;an opportunity to refute the charge&quot; and &quot;to clear his name.&quot;&#039; He must be afforded &#039;&quot;&#039;notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case&quot; before the termination becomes effective.&#039;&quot;&#039; &quot; ( Lubey v. City and County of San Francisco, supra, 98 Cal. App. 3d at p. 346.)

https://www.lawpipe.com/California/Lubey_v_City_and_County_of_San_Francisco.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our Tulare Public Cemetery District&#8217;s (TPCD) Board of Trustees current Chair, Xavier Avila, and last years Chair, Steve Presant, need to be held accountable for their consistent complicity in the cemetery&#8217;s mismanagement that has resulted in multiple profound problems. Our Tulare County Board of Supervisors (BOS), specifically Supervisor Pete VanderPoel, also need to start acting after opting to repeatedly ignore public grievances and have found excuses through County&#8217;s Cousnel not to exercise the Tulare County&#8217;s Grand Jury&#8217;s 2020 Report Recommendations on the TPCD specifically regarding the BOSs power to remove TPCD Trustees.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is an important exception to this rule, which is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment. It arises where there is a deprival of the &#8216;liberty&#8217; guaranteed all persons by that amendment&#8217;s due process clause. The exception will be applied where the probationary employee&#8217;s job termination, or dismissal, is based on charges of misconduct which &#8216;stigmatize&#8217; his reputation, or &#8216;seriously impair&#8217; his opportunity to earn a living , or which &#8216;might seriously damage his standing or associations in his community&#8217; .<br />
&#8220;Where there is such a deprival of a &#8216;liberty interest&#8217; the employee&#8217;s &#8216;remedy mandated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is &#8220;an opportunity to refute the charge&#8221; and &#8220;to clear his name.&#8221;&#8216; He must be afforded &#8216;&#8221;&#8216;notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case&#8221; before the termination becomes effective.'&#8221;&#8216; &#8221; ( Lubey v. City and County of San Francisco, supra, 98 Cal. App. 3d at p. 346.)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lawpipe.com/California/Lubey_v_City_and_County_of_San_Francisco.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.lawpipe.com/California/Lubey_v_City_and_County_of_San_Francisco.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ruth Burcham</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ruth Burcham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 20:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Avila has lied and has made it a toxic invironment.  The grounds keepers No all the wrong he has done and let me tell you he has do a lot, but they will be fired if they come forward.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Avila has lied and has made it a toxic invironment.  The grounds keepers No all the wrong he has done and let me tell you he has do a lot, but they will be fired if they come forward.</p>
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