Greg Devereaux, 58, of Ontario, has been named county administrative officer as seen in Ontario January 13, 2010. (Gabriel Luis Acosta)
By Staff report
Posted: 02/24/16 – 8:42 PM PST |
SAN BERNARDINO >> Greg Devereaux, San Bernardino County’s chief executive officer, was elected as a fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration, where he will join a long list of national dignitaries, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Attorney General Dick Thornburg, former Cabinet Secretary Donna Shalala and former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar.
Chartered by Congress, the academy is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization established in 1967 to assist government leaders at all levels to build more effective, efficient, accountable and transparent organizations, according to a San Bernardino County news release issued Wednesday.
“This is a great honor and a great opportunity for the entire county organization,” Board of Supervisors Chairman James Ramos said in a statement. “Our CEO being recognized as one of the country’s top local leaders shows the strength and resilience of San Bernardino County.”
Devereaux was nominated to the fellowship by Mark Pisano, academy board member and retired longtime Southern California Association of Governments executive director.
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If this guy is one of the best God help us.
How much did this cost the county taxpayers?
Comment #1 is another in a long line of comments that are critical of Greg Devereaux, but fail to cite specific examples of his poor performance.
The next comment will probably be one that I have seen several times: Mr. Devereaux is a “cancer” who was brought to the county by “Ovitt the idiot.”
For an example of how to be critical and back it up, see some of my previous comments criticizing Mike Ramos.
@3 Why don’t you tell us what you see as a positive with the CEO?
Answer that and we can get started on the other issues!
3: so now you are telling us HOW we can express our opinions? What an arrogant and obnoxious jerk.
For those of us that have worked around deveraux we are well aware of his duplicitiousness, slimy, dictatorial, arrogant, condescending and disrespectful approach to daily activites. If you need more testimonials contact the city employees of ontario or fontana. They will give you an earful of what a classless jerk deveraux is and how glad they are that he gone. Nothing tells you more about a person than thise that worked for or around that person. Deveraux is pretty uniformly despised, hated and held in contempt.
Why don’t some one post up Devereaux’s notable accomplishments? I bet it’s a very short list for a person making his salary and benefits. If one was to post up these peoples real accomplishments that mean something you couldn’t fill a page. OoF doesn’t realize the CEO is part of the good old boy club. He really does believe there is independent thinking on the 5th floor. In one case there was. Albert Lamberto. There is no question Devereaux craps on employees. I bet he kisses Ramos and McMahons butt. Devereaux is clearly part of the CFS cover up and the Colonies case.
Greg Devereaux seemed to be in demand, climbing the ladder from City Manager in Fontana to City Manager in Ontario to County Administrative Officer. Somebody respected his abilities.
If the generic opinions of disgruntled former employees were the main source, everybody would have a 0% approval rating. They are but one of many considerations, and I give them a low priority.
The above comments include references to Mr. Devereaux being arrogant, disrespectful, and slimy.
I am very critical of Mike Ramos, and believe that he uses his position and taxpayer money to selectively prosecute his political adversaries. That’s being arrogant.
He holds a grandstanding press conference to announce a prosecution, but hides behind a spokesman who cannot comment on pending litigation as the case goes sideways. That’s being disrespectful.
He issues a statement stating that he is ready to take The Colonies case to trial, while at the same time trying to get the State Supreme Court to delay it. That’s being slimy.
How about some examples of how Greg Devereaux is arrogant, disrespectful, and slimy?
And #6, can you explain how Mr. Devereaux is “clearly part” of “the Colonies case?”
#3 Ovitt is a “Cancer”. Devereaux is an idiot. There I fixed it for you.
#7 since you were never a county employee, that puts you where on any list? You know enough to most likely get yourself into trouble.
Sgt. Milstar:
You got it backwards. The comment stated that Mr. Devereaux was the “cancer,” and Mr. Ovitt was the “idiot.”
Can you provide some examples of their conduct that supports these titles?
#9:
You are correct that I have never been a county employee. I have also never been prosecuted by Mike Ramos.
I call them like I see them, and I see Mike Ramos as a disgrace to the profession, and I see a lot of Greg Devereaux critics unable or unwilling to cite any examples of his conduct that supports their opinion.
For example, #6 claims that Mr. Devereaux is clearly part of The Colonies case. I am interested in seeing the explanation; my guess is that there won’t be one presented.
#5:
I am absolutely not trying to tell you or anybody else how to express their opinions.
What I AM trying to say is that until the Greg Devereaux critics provide some facts or cite some examples to support their opinions, I am going to consider these critical comments as sour grapes from disgruntled former associates of Mr. Devereaux.
If you have any facts or can cite any examples to support your opinion that Mr. Devereaux is “uniformly despised, hated and held in contempt,” I would like to hear them.
It appears OoF you can’t share any accomplishments either.
The CEO was part of a serious cover up recently, clearly a character issue.
Being the CEO he could have launched a internal investigation in the CFS scandal and dealt with that Department head like he did with the Public Defender Doreen Boxer when her shenanigans got so far out of control it may have caused the suicide of one employee.
It’s ironic a man of the CEO’s experience that you seem to be impressed with can’t get a handle on some of these scandals, but at minimum the millions going out the back door in settlements.
Right now it clearly seems that “disgruntled” is bringing out these glarring scandals.
Most recent the Grand Jury issue.
As the the CEO’s involvement in the Colonies case YOU need to know who his friends and associates are in this case for starters.
If you don’t know or can’t pick up the phone and find out for yourself OH WELL!
You figured out who Repairmam and Red Anonymous is yet?
Kenneth Holtz:
It’s interesting that you would mention Red Anon in Comment #13. When I asked him to cite some examples of James Ramos living up to his campaign promises, he cited some new jobs, and told me that I should prove that James Ramos didn’t have something to do with creating them.
In this instance, I am not the one who is criticizing Greg Devereaux, so I do not see why it is my duty to cite his “accomplishments.” In my book, if YOU are critical of somebody, YOU should be able to back it up.
You at least attempted to do so, and while I would not describe the Lamberto situation as a “cover up,” it was definitely “serious” and his failure to disclose it until it was discovered was an extremely poor example of public administration. The BOS made it clear that this was inappropriate conduct on Mr. Devereaux’s part, and if something like that happens again, I will absolutely agree that he is being “arrogant” and “disrespectful.”
As to Mr. Devereaux’s involvement in the Colonies case, I am aware that he went to a West Virginia Football game with a Colonies defendant. Is that what you are referring to? If so, that’s old news. As I have said before, I suspect that Mike Ramos applied microscopic scrutiny to that trip, and would have pounced on anything even remotely inappropriate.
No, I haven’t figured out who Repairman and Red Anon are, but both of them have been conspicuously silent for an extended period of time. Perhaps Repairman finally recognized how ridiculous his Jeff Burum has two passports theory was, and has disappeared permanently?
Thank you for responding OoF.
Red and Repairman are both witnesses in Colonies case. They disappeared when they started getting questioned more specifically by ME. It eventually became to obvious they were not just citizens taking a position on the Colonies case.
Sorry I just thought you had something good to tell us about Mr. Deverauex.
It’s EASIER to ask what neat and wonderful things these appointed and elected officials have done in office than attack them absent things above and beyond things like the Lamberto matter. I beg to differ on the cover up.
Give it some time on future issues with the CEO.
I will say any person receiving a $192k a year retirement on TOP of his $310k salary with some obscene benefits in his mid to late 60’s is not working because they love public service in the true meaning of public service.
Never discount power is addicting.
You can be sure if some thing good comes up involving the CEO it will be posted.
Just remember Lamberto was Devereaux’s hatchet man and second in charge if Deverauex was absent.
You couldn’t possibly know how that works in the big scheme unless you worked within.
Kenneth Holtz:
So the prosecutors witness list in The Colonies case consists of:
1) An ***DELETED*** convicted felon who cut a deal to reduce his prison time,
2) Another convicted felon who cut a deal to reduce his prison time,
3) Red Anon, who criticizes the Boy Scouts of America and thinks Mike Ramos will be the next Attorney general,
4) Repairman, who says that Jeff Burum has two passports and refuses to admit that Neil Derry was never arrested.
If that is the case, I can see why the prosecution was trying to get the State Supreme Court to further delay the trial.
Can you explain why you feel that the Lamberto situation was a “cover up?”
The CEO covered up Lamberto’s arrest because if he had told the BOS right after it happened they would have ordered him to FIRE Lamberto because crimes of moral turpitude are an obsolute liability and distraction for a Human Resources employee who’s job is to prosecute employee terminations.
I mean serious OoF how much fun do you think a lawyer could have defending his client on a termination matter after issuing a subpoena to the HEAD of HR and grilling them on issues of disparate treatment? That is a NO BRAINER!
So instead of being fired, Lamberto gets to walk away with money in hand and most likely a nice recommendation from Devereaux.
Any employement lawyer can still get some mileage out of this debacle. They just need to subpoena Devereaux.
In case you haven’t noticed County Officials seem to get real concerned about being subpoenaed these days. They generally just don’t do very well on the witness stand. None to date have.
As to #1 ding ding ding that’s Red.
#4 is a high paid political hack who thinks he is smarter than everyone. Enough said.
#16
I’ve read Red Anon. and Repairman have been banned from this site.
@18 a wise decision in light of their intended purpose.
Hmm where did they go? The other blog. Protection was better there than here.
Who said Red wasn’t Red? Who defended Red for over a year?
Who snuggled up to the political hack?
But myself, OoF and Neil Derry are on the payroll. LMAO!
Facts be known the clowns in that circus have yet to make their bones in a controlled environment.
I should thank the FBI for exposing the manure of two of three players to date.
#19, I understand they were banned from the other site as well.