Our Mission
Accountable Tiburon is an independent civic oversight platform ensuring that adopted standards are applied consistently and that administrative processes remain transparent and verifiable.
Our Approach
- Procedural consistency
- Administrative process
- Neutral oversight
- Documented findings
- Institutional clarity
Neutrality Statement
Accountable Tiburon evaluates the process followed by the Town, not the merits of underlying neighbor disputes. Our inquiry focuses on procedural integrity rather than specific agency motives.
Governance Reform Roadmap
A structured four-phase model for administrative oversight and institutional accountability.
Standards and Framework
Focus: Defining the baseline
Establishing the controlling authority of written standards as the foundation for all oversight activities.
Process Review and Service Consistency
Focus: Auditing everyday interactions
Comparing actual administrative practice to adopted language and documented standards.
Targeted Structural Reform
Focus: Closing procedural gaps
Creating durable institutional safeguards rather than isolated corrections or individual remedies.
Preservation of Review Rights
Focus: Ensuring accountability remains intact
Protecting the public's right to verify government actions and access transparent documentation.
Documentation and Records
Public records, adopted standards, and administrative documentation.
Adopted Standards
Ordinances, resolutions, conditions of approval, and mitigation requirements.
Process Documentation
Administrative procedures, enforcement actions, timelines, and escalation pathways.
Public Filings
Correspondence, formal submissions, and governance oversight records.
Get Involved
Accountability works when residents participate. Here's how.
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Share What You've Seen
Have you had trouble getting a straight answer from Town Hall? Experienced inconsistent enforcement? Your experience is part of the public record we're building.
Attend Meetings
Show up. Public comment matters. Town Council meets regularly and items like the budget can be pulled from the consent calendar with resident requests.
View upcoming agendas →Spread the Word
Share this site with your neighbors. The more residents who are informed and watching, the harder it is for process failures to go unnoticed.
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What We Support
Technology that connects residents with Town government — transparently and accountably.
Track
Follow policy changes, enforcement actions, and meeting decisions as they happen.
Connect
Reach Town staff directly with transparency on response times and follow-through.
Research
Search public records, adopted standards, and filings in one place.
What We Stand For
The Town has to know its own rules, keep honest records, do what it promised, and apply the same standard to everyone — and residents deserve a straightforward way to check that it's happening.
Approved protections stay protected.
When the Town approves a protection through public environmental review — a wildlife corridor, open space, a tree buffer — it can only be narrowed or removed through that same public process. That process is where the unasked questions get asked: what does shrinking it actually do, and where does the displaced burden go?
Public records should show what's actually there.
As-built drawings and official maps are supposed to depict the real condition on the ground. A resident should be able to open the current drawing and see plainly how a site has changed — not turn into an investigator with no idea where to start.
A promise made is a promise kept.
The Town can adopt mitigation measures and conditions of approval, and then it has to perform them — particularly when skipping them lowers a resident's property value or safety. Adopting a protection and leaving it unperformed for decades is not a gap in the story. It is the story.
Ordinances are law, and the people enforcing them should know them.
The staff issuing permits should know what the Town's own ordinances and approved plans require. If the people applying the rules aren't sure the rules are binding, no resident can get a reliable answer.
The counter exists to serve residents.
Getting an answer shouldn't take argument, exhaustion, and the steady reframing of a resident's own question. Staff are there to help residents find the answer, not to outlast them.
There should be a real way to check.
Residents need a visible, trackable process to ask one question — "is the Town following its own ordinances and approved plans?" — and get an answer on the record. Equal treatment isn't a courtesy. It's the law.
Knowing the rules and keeping honest records is the job — not a favor to residents.
Why This Matters Now
A current example of the accountability gap — affecting every Tiburon taxpayer.
The Town Council has placed approval of the 2026/2027 municipal budget on the consent calendar — a procedural mechanism that allows items to pass without public discussion. Residents can request that it be pulled for full, open debate.
View the Town Council Agenda →Public Notification Failure — RSS Feed Does Not Include Upcoming Agendas
The Town's official RSS feed — the only automated way for residents and oversight tools to track upcoming meetings — does not include upcoming agendas. It indexes meetings only after they occur.
On June 17, 2026, the Town Council passed five budget resolutions on the consent calendar. The agenda was published on Granicus, but the RSS feed never listed it — before or after the meeting. As of June 18, the feed still shows June 3 as the most recent entry. A resident relying on the Town's official feed for advance notice of votes would have had no way to know the meeting was happening.
Transparent governance requires that published agendas be discoverable through all official channels before the vote — not archived after it.
Three Actions the Council Should Take Before Voting
Require a Proper Budget
Include actual financial figures, or at minimum current staff estimates, for the past three fiscal years — not outdated projections.
Demand an Audit Update
The Town Manager and audit firm must publicly commit to a timetable for the completion of overdue audits. Three years without a completed audit is unacceptable.
Establish a Financial Oversight Committee
Appoint qualified residents with real financial expertise, alongside relevant Council members, to independently review Town finances — not just a subcommittee.
Meeting Watch
We monitor the Town's public agenda feed so you don't have to.
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