Chairman Steve Kinsey will have to sit out the vote because he twice failed to promptly report private meetings with Banning Ranch developers. Chairman Steve Kinsey will have to sit out the vote because he twice failed to promptly report private meetings with Banning Ranch developers, including a multi-hour tour of the project site last December. The trust’s treasurer is Neil Brandom, a managing principal of Brooks Street, a real estate company that is partnering with Aera on the Banning Ranch project. The trust secretary is Philip Bettencourt, a real estate planner and public affairs consultant whose clients include Newport Banning Ranch, according to his website. Newport Banning Ranch spokesman Adam Alberti called the overlap between the trust and the developers logical.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 06, 2016 10:52 UTC