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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno councilmember who has held that presumption for little than 4 months is facing scrutiny pursuing an anonymous ailment that alleges a struggle of interest. The ailment alleges the councilmember voted successful favour of the 2025-2025 fund with the question of a "road diet" that helium initiated, which could payment his ain home's spot value.
Councilmember Brandon Vang, who represents District 5 for southeast Fresno, was voted into bureau successful April of this year.
The incidental prompted a ailment astir Vang to the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). In the anonymous complaint, which was sent to FPPC past month, it states that Vang voted connected a "road diet", which, according to Fresno, reduces the fig of question lanes.
In the complaint, it states that Vang moved to walk $100,000 successful payer funds to concern the roadworthy fare connected an "unusually circumstantial agelong of road" successful his assembly district. The question from June 10 called for studying postulation connected California Avenue betwixt Clovis and Fowler Avenues. The ailment establishes that Vang's location sits 2 houses successful from those roads.
Vang initiated the "budget motion" to money the roadworthy fare connected those roads, which Councilmember Miguel Arias seconded, according to documents. In the complaint, it says that Vang voted on with each members of the Fresno City Council to o.k. the fund with his question incorporated.
"Vang's determination to initiate and o.k. the fund question for a roadworthy fare survey volition person a worldly effect connected his spot worth arsenic it reduces postulation on a South Fresno arterial roadworthy by eliminating lanes of conveyance traffic," the ailment stated.
FPCC regularisation 18702.2(a)(7) prohibits a idiosyncratic successful bureau from participating successful governmental decisions successful which they person a disqualifying interest, with the bound for specified involvement to beryllium established wrong 500 feet of their domicile.
The ailment states that determination was an intent that Vang sought to utilize the fund item. It besides states that the roadworthy fare survey volition person a worldly effect connected his spot worth arsenic it reduces postulation on the southbound Fresno arterial roadworthy by eliminating lanes of conveyance traffic.
The FPPC sent a missive to Vang connected June 25 saying that they person not made a determination astir the allegations made successful the complaint. They requested accusation astir the allegations and required Vang to taxable a effect wrong 14 days of the missive being sent.
In effect to the complaint, Councilmember Vang wrote that due to the fact that the point was a portion of the budget, determination is simply a built-in objection to the struggle rules - arsenic his ballot was for the wide fund and not for the azygous point that "may payment him personally and incidentally."
The afloat ailment tin beryllium accessed here.
