[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Occupy wants a Charter County and a Public Bank]

[agnes at mcn.org]

Please come to F.B.Town Hall Tuesday Aug. 13th at 10 am to support Public
Bank of Mendocino County. I need a few more minutes than 3. Ann, Jessie or
Sheila? I need you to sign a speaker's card and cede me you 3 min.Please.
Agnes

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Subject: Occupy wants a Charter County and a Public Bank
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Mon, August 12, 2013 5:55 pm
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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Good Morning Supervisors and City Council Members.
My name is Agnes Woolsey and I am a member of Occupy Mendocino.


 In February 2011  Occupy Mendocino and Occupy Ukiah wrapped crime
scene tape around the front of the Mendocino County Offices in
Ukiah. We were carrying signs showing fraud in the
Clerk/Assessor/Recorder's office and got the attention of the
Supervisors. We spoke at their next meeting informing them of
fraud Big Banks were using including robo signing and MERS.

Occupy informed the B.OS. that the San Francisco Assessor, Phil
Ting, hired  an audit of 400 foreclosure documents and found 80% of
them had errors denoting fraud.  We delivered 500 signatures on a
petition for funding an Audit to the Mendocino B.O.S. and have yet to hear
of a response.

We informed them of the action taken by the State legislature
of Nevada which required Assessors to send Affidavits of Authenticity (A
of A) to banks and entities sending foreclosure documents to be
recorded. In the first month of enactment, the rate of foreclosures
dropped by 75% in Nevada.
       No action was taken to stop fraud by Mendocino County Recorder,
Susan Ranochak. She simply records  all foreclosure documents,
even those with robo-signing, those not paying transfer fees and those
stamped with MERS,(Mortgage Electronic Registration System) having no
chain of title. This is destroying the integrity of land titles and
property records in our county.

In January 2013 Occupy Mendocino urged the Board of Supervisors to apply
for a Public Bank license and to use Eminent Domain to take contracts of
foreclosed properties, re-evaluate them to market value and direct mortgage
payments to the county, creating a revenue stream and keeping revenues
local.
     Supervisor Dan Hamburg has charged Occupy to come
up with a proposal. He attended the Public Banking Institute
Conference in June along with nine of us from Mendocino County,
including John Sacowicz. With John S.,Occupy Mendocino has begun writing a
draft Mendocino County  Charter with a Public Bank to continue efforts to
stop foreclosures using Eminent Domain.
     We are dismayed at the lack of interest from some of the Supervisors,
while already the  City of Richmond has begun using Eminent Domain on
occupied foreclosures.   Richmond, as well as San Francisco, Berkeley
and Oakland are Charter Cities, this enables them to capitalize a
bank with the help of their treasurer.  San Francisco County lawyer
found that a Charter county  has more sovereignty than a general  law
county.
      We are asking individual Supervisors in this county to meet with us
to acquaint themselves with our  draft Charter. We would be willing
to amend the draft in response to them. When will the supervisors
take action to meet with public banking chapter members to discuss
the draft Charter for Mendocino County?

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey
P.O. Box 163
Mendocino, CA 95460
tel.707.937-2377