Thursday, January 12, 2006

What Is The Secret?

Why is it when the City Council asks the Staff to do something, they get "backtalk". Leann Garcia has asked Staff to put the Council Meeting Minutes, Planning Commission Minutes and any other public information on the website. Staff just says, "we need to budget that for next year". What budget? There is enough time in a secretaries day to download onto a website. It's called "time" management. Perhaps Mr. Schwabb is having difficulty managing, or playing stupid. Quite frankly, I am tired of being treated like a dumb hick town by the Staff and the Developer.

In my opinion, I don't feel rental property should be bed taxed. Nickle and diming because other cities do it does not make it right.

What has happened to the OAC Development? The beautiful waterfall by the freeway with another mile of RVs. Perhaps the citizens of Grand Terrace can get together to plan the OAC and if acceptable by the people, we could quit spending thousands of dollars over and over again for contractors to develop ideas.

Who is checking the expenditures? Doesn't the City answer to a higher authority?

Why is it all negotiations are held behind closed door. Why don't citizens have the same opportunity to purchase City property as City Employees do for 10 cents on the dollar.