Anderson City Council censures member Susie Baugh
Council members voted to censure Baugh and remove her from her committee assignments over allegations that she improperly used her elected position in connection with a proposed youth treatment facility project.
The Anderson City Council has censured council member Susie Baugh due to allegations that she violated legal and ethical standards and improperly used her elected position for matters tied to a proposed youth treatment facility.
A censure is essentially a formal rebuke and does not remove Baugh from office. Elected officials can’t be removed from office by other members of the legislative body, but they can be removed from committee assignments, which is what occurred for Baugh.
The decision to censure her was made at a regular meeting Tuesday night, with all four of the other council members supporting the censure.
The push to censure Baugh came from multiple council members who expressed concern that Baugh “attempted to misuse public funds based on false information” and “participated in, planned, and submitted a false official document to the State, violating legal and ethical obligations,” among other actions, according to the censure resolution. They also said she used her former mayoral title to solicit state funding for the project.
The project that council members were referring to is the Pathways to Leadership Campus, a proposal brought forth by the Redding-based Family Dynamics Resource Center and Anderson Community, a local church led by Baugh’s husband.
Council members said Baugh’s actions misrepresented the city and were self-serving.
During last night’s city council meeting, Baugh spoke for about 20 minutes in self-defense, denying the allegations. She also read multiple letters written in her support, including ones from her husband and another from Family Dynamics Executive Clinical Director and Supervisor Dr. Sandra Wilson.
Wilson’s letter asserted that Baugh had no involvement in the preparation or submission of funding application materials, saying that Wilson was the one who had mistakenly labeled Baugh as mayor in the application without her authorization. Her husband’s letter made similar statements.
Baugh also read a letter she had written, rejecting the assertions made in the censure resolution. She said she doesn’t plan to resign from her position as council member despite being encouraged to do so by some other council members and members of the public.
“I remain proud of my service to this community,” Baugh said in her speech, “and will continue to conduct myself with honesty, dignity and respect for both the office I hold and the people I serve.”
Council member Mike Gallagher pushed back against Baugh’s statements that she was not involved in the project’s application for state funding by pointing out that Baugh’s name was listed throughout the notes of the funding application, which also showed that she had attended multiple meetings for the project.
“You were involved,” he said. “It’s right here in black and white, like I can see your name, and you’re referenced as the mayor.”
Along with the censure, Baugh has also been removed from her committee assignments, including from the Shasta Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO, and AT HOME Shasta.
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It’s confusing to me how Susie Baugh could have profited from the proposed facility. Meanwhile, it seems troubled youth must be sent to jail or to a treatment facility as far from us (and their families) as possible.
Janet: Details available in the grant proposal outline that her husband was slated to receive up to $225,000 as the project manager for the campus.
WTG council members, shady Susie should resign. She’s all over the project of her husbands but voted against low-income housing because she said Anderson didn’t need that kind of people. She deserved more than censor.
I believe it. When my disabled brother moved to town so I could assist him in life, her comment was, “not the kind of people we’re trying to attract.” I was shocked.
I am shocked—SHOCKED!—that a MAGA politician and co-owner of a Christian nationalist church has been censured for deceit and self-dealing.
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That is, I’m shocked that allegations of child abuse aren’t part of the package. How did that box not get checked?
First of all people are fed up with lying politics Redding is plagued with it from the dirty d.a to the side picking police. I learned the best way to not get caught in a lie is to just not do it and keeping the lie going only proves you will take a stupid lie to the grave and expect everyone the allowance of your calling them too stupid to figure it out. Tehama County is overran with trash like that and the people don’t want it representing anything we have going on. There’s honest people that are ready to see complete change even if it means taking everyone out of there and either calling it a wash or maybe try with a new group. Either way some trimming must occur because there’s some who have none and some who have more than they need.