- Measure C officials reinstated Brooke Ashjian to the Measure C steering committee after being removed for alleged inaccurate public comments.
- Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer made it clear he wanted Ashjian on the transportation tax renewal committee.
- Measure C officials say Ashjian’s remarks about spending priorities were misleading and harmful to public trust.
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Updating a story from earlier today, officials reinstated Brooke Ashjian to a Measure C advisory committee, less than a week after his removal for “derogatory” comments about the process to renew the Fresno County transportation sales tax.
“I shared with (Parlier Mayor Alma Beltran) that I wanted Brooke Ashjian either reinstated or the notice rescinded. And to my knowledge, that either has occurred or will be occurring.” — Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer
The comments broke decorum guidelines, Fresno Council of Governments Executive Director Robert Phipps told the Fresno City Council last week. During the first steering committee meeting on April 26, Consultant Kendall Flint talked about not publicly disparaging the process…