Taset of the Terrace Review:
Taste of the Terrace:
The participation exceeded the facility planning, people came, people ate, and music was played. The food was provided by many of the restaurants in Grand Terrace, and a few from near by on Mt. Vernon or Washington St. Californian (Mexican), Italian, Japanese, and Chinese Food choices were available. Oh and Do nuts for desert. There was a Bar, but not many options for drinks appropriate for children. Ice water would have been nice. It was nice to see who’s in the kitchen. Some of the restaurants just dropped off the food and their business cards while others provided a person or the owners of the business to provide the service.
Each person will have their favorites. So a culinary review will not be made. However the event as an event will.
This event was produced with contributions by local business, and attended by local citizens. It did not cause a traffic or noise problem, and it brought people together to break bread. I’d say it was a 9.3 of a possible 10.0. Yes, you’ll say I complain about everything. Not so. I do have some observations on what was well done and what could be done better. This is an annual event, so to those who are planning next years event knows you provided an event truly Grand Terrace and that is greatly appreciated.
The music was played at a volume where talk at the table was still possible. Volume control was greatly appreciated. So many citizens attended there was a need for additional seating. Folks were unable to sit and visit and socialize without feeling the need to vacate scarce seating. It was great that everyone showed up and the restaurants provided samples. Folks were eating out on the steps, and taking food home. The opportunity to socialize en mass was missed.
Success should build upon success and perhaps there can be seating in the Community room and the food set up in the foyer, or the City Hall Entrance and wrap around to the “Community Room” maximizing the use of the space for seating and gathering and chat amongst neighbors.
For those who need to avoid stairs the City may want to figure out how to open the other doors during public events such as this. Perhaps they can look into a way of closing off the “City’s Counter” in an attractive way (Perhaps a roll down net of some sort...) so access to handicapped persons is less problematic. Stairs are an impediment to many people, even to those who are not using wheelchairs.
Isn’t there an ordinance against the consumption of alcohol beverages on City property? Didn’t I see alcohol being consumed right there at City Hall? Children and adults attended this event. Many of the Adults in Grand Terrace live a Sober Life for one reason or another. Granted most were adults however it seems that City Ordinances should apply for the Chamber of Commerce as well as the common citizen? If the Chamber of Commerce has Private Meetings and Alcohol is serve, fine, but I’d suggest no on city property, and not at a Public Event where children attend. You’re sending mixed messages to the youth of the community.
The Cost of Fireworks a Bit of Information Excapes
All but seven cities in San Bernardino County — Adelanto, Chino, Rialto, Grand Terrace and parts of Colton, San Bernardino and Fontana — prohibit fireworks. County fire officials receive about 500 fireworks-related calls in the month around the Fourth of July, resulting in hundreds of pounds of seized explosives and hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage, said Tracey Martinez, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
Senior Center Move to take 6 weeks:
The Senior Center Move to it's temporary sight is to begin this Friday, and is to be expected to take 6 weeks.
IF these services are so vital to those being served why 6 weeks. Why isn't the site to receive the temporary buildings pre set for the receiving of the portables. OR have the food service at the City Hall for a Month... Perhaps rent a Mobile Kitchen to provide services.
No this city and the developer is not planning this well at all.
Should we say the closing of the Senior Center Predates the Court Date that has the very issue under consideration. Again, planning is questioned.
I feel sorry for all us seniors who will have to make other social arrangements at noon and so forth. I know new friends will be made in Colton, I just hope we organize and make sure any one who wants to go to the Other City to receive services and a place to socialize will be able to arrange transportation.
Paww..
Presume that you read through the front page of G.T. News and the statements via S. Bros. as to what they want and what is being offered.
If, everyone will read hard, the S.B. management wants about 350 parking spaces, which seems appropriate to me. The City of G.T. was offering a bit over 1/3 of that number, and Anita has available about 1/2 that number. Considering that whole area of the Proposed G.T. city center, that means the spill over will have to park in the streets. The new un-named businesses will not be allowed to generate traffic, for there is no place to park their customers. In short since, about 1 1/2 acres of secondary building cannot be built.
Iff'n you will remember what I e:mailed your direction a good 3-4 weeks ago, the initial proposal of two biggie stores overwhelmed the parking spaces, and I had doubts that the smaller "One Big Store" even met the statistic. Once again, see, "Do as I say, not as I do" and the planning Dept. was trying to ram through a proposal with insufficient parking spaces. They were then going to lay blame upon the City Council for ever approving the new site. Kind of like receiving a speeding ticket, and blaming it on the Cruise Control. ....Wasn't my fault. I trusted the Know-it-alls. The City Council fell into the trap that they can't trust the public who outlines all the reasons why NOT to go ahead.
So, we get back to the original situation.
1, Does the planners remove all other stores on that site, just to meet the required parking space quantity? Does the city staff now hurry along and ask to condem even more property just to get the square area as required by any normal developer?
2, Does Staters downgrade their thoughts and build a smaller store, more suitable for the lot size?
3, Does the city staff go out an look for a vendor who will now fit the pad and parking specifications?
4, There was a mention that the city had to come up with a empty lot large enough to meet the desired parameters. Only lot I can readily think of is about where the O.A.C. was planned. 5, There was hint along an earlier situation caused by recent construction within Pigeon Pass. That being a biggie store within Riverside County, and being referred to as "The Grand Terrace Store" even though it is not. Then also, leave the present store in place, not upgrade, and we all get what we already have.
Item #5 would for my part be the cheapest way out for everyone concerned. The one I envisioned as being correct. Of course just looking over the five items noted above, and who do you think is to blame, and then will anyone up for re-election be considered again? Perhaps the G.T. News needs to run one of those full page ads on the backside, with Just Say No to Incumbants. Once they are gone, ol' Tom may not survive either, for who really made the decision as how to spend the city funds?
You and I do not often see eye-to-eye, but I think someone is going to figure out that G.T. is being run by a group of Non-professionals. My original statement. You are going to get your wish, but for now it looks a bit down the road. I am thinking here too that perhaps Jacobson had fell into the hype, and you could consider him either a victim of it, or an instigator. I was thinking here too, as have a friend who told me about a recent visit to Las Vegas. He seemed to be pretty lucky, for at one point was ahead by $1000. (Why didn't he stop then and there?) Later he admitted to coming home with about $50 less that he left with. Thus in his mind, he came out ahead. Apply this reasoning to Jacobson should he walk off today, and the property goes up for general sale. After all this time and effort, would he be ahead in some way or another? I think in perhaps 1-2 months now, even more information will appear in print as to how the G.T. center wasn't thought out all that well.
I notice that Warner Hodgen has been dressing up his Industrial lot in the NW corner of the city, including streets. Looks it is being prepared for sale now. He may be the smart one in this. S. Bros. may have been lead along, waited too long, and announcement as per newspaper comes at wrong time for City Council. - -Just before an election.
ALSO From the Email Inbox
Dear Citizens:\
You know by now I calls them as I sees them and I don't always agree with Council Member Jim Miller.
HOWEVER, I do appreciate Councilmember Miller's attempt to be deliberative and well informed. I hope you watched the April 11, 2006 Council Meeting.
You saw first hand the public is not alone in being ill treated by the Mayor, and City Staff. If this can happen to a council member, just imagine how JQ Public is treated.
Council Member Miller was cut off from making a motion to set aside the ESSCO decision. He was unable to regain the floor as the Mayor plowed through after allowing him to be cut off.
I am absolutely stunned that a delay in action got some support from a Council Member. Yet it was not from Herman Hilkey has often complained that the "BOOK" is not ready sufficiently in advance of the meetings, and to be forced to make a determination at the first review, and after Public Comment" is shoving a Scwhab and Staff Decision / Recommendation on the Council, yet he voted to push ESSCO ahead.
"OUR" city Attorney (A Schwab Hire), was useless to the council and public tonight. It is clear that Mr. Schwab's management of conflicting Planning Specifications, the General Plan, overlaid with the OAC Plan, and so forth has purposely put Mr. Schwab in a position to Dictate what is permitted to be built at his whim.
Remember Barney Karger being told not to plant a Willow Tree. Yet, ESSCO is in very short order getting approval, and the level of scrutiny is minuscule in comparison.
Are there any Council Members or Citizens ready now to be bold and put forth some ordinances which will close this dictatorship.?? No ED for Private Development, Limiting the RDA with the intent of elimination of its debt, and function, it is not working for the city. Clear and Fair Specific Plan, and no more Building by Special Ordinance.
Perhaps some one could get a look at the Police record of the calls to the dispatch. Savon Employees called to report the "strange customer" at 2:00, the call about the robbery was at 2:48 as reported at the meeting. The public and council are to believe that the phone call about the Stranger in Savon and the Report of the Robery were the same call? What were the real time of the first call from savon, and where was the officer when that call came in? What was the real call of the robery, and where was the officer when that call came in that it took ten minutes to respond? Where did the back up cars come from and how long did it take to get them here? The Council was told: The First Responder arrived at about 3:00. And an arrest was made in Rancho Cucamonga. Please give the name of the person arrested and a booking number. This report as presented to the Council does not add up.
If Tom Schwab got a reward a raise for his service to the city, there will be a recall of any council member who hold seats to 2008. Lets add it up. Debt, Lies, Law Suites,,, oh my .... we can go on but why...
You can bet there will be a suit filed on the ESSCO building. I don't have any particular gripe with the building. I have a gripe with the city's practices, and favor playing. As far as the statement a cement building cant look like Craftsman's Style... try looking at the California Hotel at Down Town Disney... looks like wood but it is concrete. IF the requirement is there make it apply, if your not going to apply it for one it should be removed for all. This includes the road. You want a wide road dumping into a narrow one? GADS... Tom Scwab is responcible for all of these problems and more.
You, nor the public should be treated as you were. Please know the public is angry about the treatment you received, and they receive on a regular basis. We aren't going to take it any more, are you? But don't worrie, the Members of the Chamber of Commerce are notified of Roads being closed, citizens have to wait.
Are you ready for action? Recall, and Specific Measures to Restrict the Dictatorship of Tom Schwab?
Email Gramps and I'll forward your name to the group you are interested in working with.
Gramps
May 2006: City Council Agenda, Actions, Reactions
Agenda and Minutes
CITY OF GRAND TERRACECOUNCIL MEETING AGENDACITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS MAY 11, 2006GRAND TERRACE CIVIC CENTER
Doug Jacobsen of Jacobsen Family Holdings LLC and Grand Terrace City Manager Tom Schwab still have dreams of Having "Plan A" which includes a LOWES and the Mega Stater Brothers Market.
The Pre-paid add in the Grand Terrace City News ran again with the drawing of Plan A and the Misrepresentations of a Magic Library which requires no extra funding or even a budget. Now it may be a fact that the add was purchased before the April 13th meeting. It would have been appropriate to edit the add IF there is an intent to modify the PLAN to exclude LOWES, and Jo Stringfield's Property.
No the Add was left to run as purchased. The result is , the PUBLIC BEING DUPED. There is no Library Planned in Plan A. There is no budget, or Library Negotiation to be presented to the County which Runs our Library. There is no real Net Benefit to the City Known. Gross receipt Estimates of an Increase in Tax Revenue do not even guess the extra costs to the city for Law Enforcement, Hazmat Clean up and so forth.
Look what Jacobsen has done so far. Sav-on, Not Built as presented. Sold... Prior to finishing the project. Liquor Store Dressed as a Drug Store.... Mobile Home Property was allowed to become a slum, and weed abatement not done on Town Center Property Owned or "Controlled" by City and Jacobsen.
Jacobsen and Schwab need to get it straight, WE don't want LOWE's. WE don't need more Liquor Stores, Bars, or businesses which will increase crime in Grand Terrace. These businesses are a net loss regardless of the "Gross Increase in Sales Tax Revenue".
Schwab needs to figure out where Grand Terrace Elementary School will move to before he Manages the Redevelopment of Grand Terrace to Exclude a safe place for children to live, and attend school. Schwab needs to figure out that 20 percent of Redevelopment funds must be spent so that Low and Middle Income People have safe affordable housing in Grand Terrace. NOT just Seniors.
Don't be DUPED, or DOPED. Jacobsen and Schwab are not making decisions in YOUR Best Interest.
Also Read the Post Under Town Center For Mixed Message Jacobsen Family LLC Holdings:
http://grandterracenews.blogspot.com/2006/05/may-2006-town-center.html
David vs. Goliath or More Slanted Reporting Blue by Gramps
10:00 PM PDT on Saturday, May 6, 2006
CASSIE MACDUFF Red by Grandpa Terrace:
A single holdout on two acres may have scotched Grand Terrace's plan to lure home-improvement giant Lowe's to the proposed 20-acre Town Center on Barton Road.
That would be a big disappointment for the little city of 13,000, whose hopes were pinned on the project to boost sales-tax revenue. Who are you representing as being Disappointed, Citizens Speaking at the Council Meeting were OVERWHELMINGLY against a Lowe's, and the use of Eminent Domain to force the transfer of private property to a private party. Sure we are looking for tax revenue... However any revenue projections should include cost projections which the activity would also bring to the city.
After threatening for months to use eminent domain to force holdout Jo Stringfield to sell, the City Council choked, lacking the political will to take such an unpopular step. Perhaps this is Good Judgement and Citizenship?
Developer Jacobsen Family Holdings LLC is prepared to build around her parcel with a center anchored by a new Stater Bros. supermarket. (An older, smaller Stater Bros. up the road will close.) The threats have gone on for more than a year now. Perhaps you should check the dates on letters sent out of the city in the year 2003 suggesting land owners sell or face the possible use of Eminent Domain... You fail to mention that the current location of Stater's has offered to remodel the current site to fit their standard Large Store. You fail to state that Stater's Indecision to Rebuild in its current location has left the current landlords to lose leasing opportunities.
All of the parties have agreed to back off of their highly public battle for now, while informal, low-key talks continue behind the scenes. The citizens against the Use of Eminent Domain, and those against having a Lowe's here in Grand Terrace hold that opinion independent of what Jo Stringfield decides. Lowe's is not a welcome import to Grand Terrace. Increased Hazardous Materials, Day Laborers hanging out near an Elementary School are not welcome by any one. Even some of the Eminent Domain Use Supporters are against the proposal of having a Lowe's in Grand Terrace. Please don't miss represent the citizens.
"We don't know what's going to happen right now," said Stringfield's lawyer, Robert Ferguson.
Stringfield's David-versus-Goliath struggle evoked a lot of sympathy. People could identify with a local girl who returned home wanting to save her modest property from a big development.
"This was kind of my safety net here," Stringfield, 58, said of her home last winter when I interviewed her there one evening. (Her lawyer won't let her talk now.)
She'd planned to live out her life there. Besides, where could she find a house on two acres as close to her job in downtown San Bernardino?
Stringfield had moved back into the house in 2002 after her mother died. While she was growing up, there was a corral on the property with two horses. Leisure time meant rides up nearby Blue Mountain. You may have better represented the facts by saying the years she lived there and the short period of time she had moved out as most adult do only to return when her mother needed assistance and finally passed away. Your depiction is prejudicial in tone and minimizes her attachment and contiguous visitation if not actual residency to the property and her parents as an adult.
The first she learned about Town Center, Stringfield said in December (You should have the Year of that Letter), was from an official letter about the city's development agreement with Jacobsen. It said if she was interested in selling, she should call a real estate company it named.
She wasn't interested, so she didn't call.
Next came phone calls telling her she "must call." She ignored them. Then she heard from the city, saying it had the right to use eminent domain if a deal couldn't be reached. The news landed like a body-blow. "I didn't think (they) could really come in and take your property and give it to someone else to make a profit," she said.
Jacobsen and the city began making offers, starting at $770,000 and going up to more than $1 million. She turned down every one.
They told her she could find a similar property in Muscoy or Bloomington, Stringfield said. But she knew about controversial redevelopment plans in both areas. Why leave the frying pan to get into the fire?
She couldn't beat the forces aligned against her, so Stringfield eventually offered to join them, drawing up her own development plan. If anybody was going to profit from the land, why shouldn't she?
At the most recent council meeting, Stringfield withdrew the plan; an informal cooling-off period began. (Actually, there has been another Council Meeting so it is not the MOST Recent Council Meeting, This is why you should have DATES in your article.. The last time this was brought to the public was April 13, 2006. The "Next Meeting" Mr. Tom Schwab was not there, and days later there were "officials" saying ED was off the table at Jacobsen's request.
City Manager Tom Schwab said Lowe's looks to be out of the picture, but the door isn't closed and the Town Center plan could still come together. Lowe's will bring protest even IF Jo Stringfield sells her land on her own terms. Today's Sav-on Car Jacking is an example of why citizens don't want a Lowe's or another "Drug Store" or "Liquor Store that also sells Drugs" in town. There won't be enough tax revenue to pay for enough protection from what that development will bring to town. The citizens know this.
I hope both parties leave the table winners, not losers. Something should be worked out that's acceptable to the city and to Stringfield.
It is acceptable to the Citizens for Stringfield to stay right where she is as long as she wants to... The City is made up of Citizens who Respect the Property Rights of Our Fellow Landowners, Female, or Person who "Returned" and Inherited the property. IT IS HER PROPERTY We get that. How is it the "Officials" don't understand that?
Cassie MacDuff can be reached at (909) 806-3068 or cmacduff@PE.com
Online at: http://www.pe.com/columns/cassiemacduff/stories/
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Sheriff Fails to Respond In Reasonable time to Sav-on Employees Call Results in Female Customer being robbed and car stolen:
Ok, here is the tick tock so far:
Hour 0 : Observant Sav-on Employees notice Suspicious Characters hanging out in Parking lot. Two guys hanging out one in a Mecerdes Benz, SUV. The other a tall Mexican that was hanging out in the store for a long time. The employees call the Sheriff to check him out and no one shows up for an hour.
Hour 1: Sav-on Female Customer was Robbed by the tall suspect in the parking lot and car jacks her Camery. Second Call to Sheriff Dispatch was made.
According to a witness to the events: the actual crime occurred about 3p.m. So first call I deduct was maybe about 2:oo pm. The Sheriff web site was check and there are no bookings by GT or L.L. at that time. Where were our Deputies? Where was the "Back Up". Was the call of suspicious characters so LOW on Priority that What Was the Higher Priority?
Unspecified time after 2nd report or call.
Two Sargents appear to take report. No Patrol Sheriffs
Our local Patrol nor Colton PD, nor the Loma Linda Sheriff Back Up to ours appeared in response to the first or second call. WHERE were they?
Have I missed anything? Please send details if you have any...
Inland roads on fast track
BONDS DEAL PASSES:
The region will benefit more quickly than other areas if state voters OK the plan.
10:00 PM PDT on Friday, May 5, 2006
By MICHELLE DeARMOND,
JIM MILLER and PHIL PITCHFORD
The Press-Enterprise
BONDS
Bonds are loans that are sold to investors, who make money off the interest.
How would the Legislature's bond proposal work? California would sell the bonds to investors, who would provide the state with the capital it needs to do these projects. The state would pay back the lenders the $37 billion plus interest over 30 years for a total of approximately $84 billion.
How would taxpayers be affected? The money would come out of existing revenue to the state, not from new taxes. Financial experts expect the state to generate additional revenue during that time because of population growth, thus making it easier for the state to handle the debt.
Why do governments issue bonds? To fund projects they can't pay for all at once and to spread the cost over time instead of raising taxes.
Inland counties would be among the first to get road money from an unprecedented $37.3 billion bond package passed Friday by the Legislature, area leaders said.
If approved by voters in November, the massive borrowing package would be the largest in the state's history. It includes money for highways, schools, levees and affordable housing.
Billions of dollars would be available for Inland projects, such as road-widening work on Interstates 15 and 215 and Highways 60 and 91. Riverside and San Bernardino counties already have projects ready for construction and are eligible for special funds for traffic-congestion relief; both those factors help push the region to the front of the line.
"They want to see projects roll out and actually have an impact," said Eric Haley, executive director of the Riverside County Transportation Commission. "Projects that are ready to go get the early money."
The bond package is expected to receive strong voter support, especially in regions struggling with transportation gridlock such as the Inland area.
A poll by The Field Institute in February showed 56 percent of California voters liked the idea of issuing bonds to pay for new highways, schools and other infrastructure projects over the next decade.
The package includes four separate measures requiring voter approval: $19.9 billion for transportation, $2.9 billion for housing, $10.4 billion for education and $4.1 billion for levee repairs and maintenance.
"If you live in the Inland Empire -- we don't have to convince any of our voters how important transportation is," said Assemblyman Russ Bogh, R-Beaumont. "I think the provisions of transportation are extremely beneficial to the Inland Empire. ... I had hoped we wouldn't get shortchanged by Los Angeles and we didn't."
Roadway Rewards
Haley said one major beneficiary of the bond proposal would be a plan to extend carpool lanes on Highway 91 from Madison Street to the intersection of that freeway with Highway 60 and Interstate 215 in north Riverside.
Another such project could be the planned reworking of the interchange in western Moreno Valley where Highway 60 and Interstate 215 split toward the desert and Southwest County, respectively.
Both of those areas suffer from significant gridlock as commuters funnel to and from multiple Inland areas and Orange and Los Angeles counties.
The money also could help pay for renovating several interchanges along Interstate 10 through the Coachella Valley, Haley said. Desert transportation advocates have sought money for such projects in the past but were told that state funds were not available.
The portion of the bond that allocates $4.5 billion in congestion-relief money for areas with high job and population growth bodes especially well for the Inland area, Haley said.
Projects that could qualify for such funds include planned widening of Interstate 215 between Moreno Valley and Temecula and between Grand Terrace and San Bernardino, as well as the expansion of Interstates 10 and 15, and Highways 91 in western Riverside County and 111 in the desert.
The November ballot package also will include a measure to make it more difficult for the Legislature to take money raised by Prop. 42 and use it to balance the budget. That money from the state sales tax on gasoline is supposed to be set aside for transportation, and ensuring it stays there will provide a more stable source of road money, Haley said.
Houses and Schools
The region also stands to benefit from housing and education bonds in the package.
Among the programs outlined are some that would subsidize construction of low-income apartments in the Coachella Valley and down-payment assistance for first-time homebuyers in Fontana.
Frank Williams, founder and president of the nonprofit Housing Action Resource Trust, said if Californians pass the proposed bond measure, the Rancho Cucamonga-based organization will compete for funds to expand its mortgage-assistance program and support a new project to build affordable housing in San Bernardino County for teachers, firefighters and other public service workers.
Borre Winckel, executive director of the Riverside County Chapter of the Building Industry Association, said some parts of the Inland area would benefit from funding to stimulate residential growth in existing neighborhoods. The strategy, often called infill development, allows workers in those counties to remain close to their jobs and off congested freeways.
While Winckel predicted Inland residents would not see an immediate effect on commuting patterns, he said local governments must build a better jobs-to-housing balance into plans.
The education bond measure also would benefit Inland school districts that use matching state construction funds, Inland officials said Friday.
"It makes our local funds go further," said Riverside Unified Deputy Superintendent Mike Fine.
For instance, a new Riverside school slated to be built in the next year or two, Citrus Heritage Middle School, relies on matching state construction funds, he said.
Politics and Pocketbooks
Local governments aren't the only ones that could benefit from these measures if they pass in November.
Gov. Schwarzenegger made infrastructure bonds the centerpiece of his 2006 agenda and has pushed for months to get the Legislature to approve a package.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is running for re-election in November, and the Legislature's passage of the bond package could buoy his campaign.
Friday's vote comes just two months after he and legislative leaders failed to craft a similar deal in time for the June ballot.
Although his original pitch was for $68 billion, Schwarzenegger praised the Legislature on Friday and called it "my strategic-growth plan."
The measures require his signature before going to the voters, and he's expected to sign them soon.
The deal that was passed pleased many of the state's Republicans, some of whom were leery of the original price tag. And financial experts have said the state's financial standing is solid and won't be harmed by taking on the debt.
"The state can afford this bond," said Bogh, the Beaumont Republican. "It's fiscally responsible."
Staff writers Kimberly Trone, Robert P. Mayer and Leslie Berkman contributed to this report.
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FYI.....
Southern California Edison and PAR, (Edison's contractor) will be installing 11,600 circuit feet of 653.9AR aluminum conductor to the vacant position of nine (9) existing steel towers in the City of Grand Terrace. This work will take place at 6:00 A.M., Sunday morning May 7, 2006 starting from SCE's Vista Substation located at 22200 Newport Ave., Grand Terrace, heading east to a point 900 feet east of Reche Canyon Road in the City of Colton. SCE has acquired a freeway crossing permit from Caltrans. Freeway traffic will be stopped for a short period of time to install ropes. Par will be using a helecopter to install rope over the freeway crossing.
The remainder of the project in the City will be done by climbing each tower to install pull ropes. Once the rope is installed, the rope will then be used to pull in the 653.9ASR wire in place on the existing metal towers. Street closures can be expected on Mt. Vernon and Vista Grande Way for three (3) to five (5) minute intervals in the morning hours. The project is expected to take a full day if not longer.
AND.....
Riverside Highland Water Company is upgrading the water storage facility at the corner of Palm Avenue and Preston Street. The project will involve a complete restoration of the facility inside and out. Palm Avenue street repairs should be completed within the next week. The water tank will receive a face lift incorporating new paint, electrical, fencing repairs and interior paving. The project should be complete within the few weeks.
GTTV Channel 3 Adelphia Cable is now showing the 3-D presentation of High School #3. See the proposed design, layout and landscaping for our first high school which is expected to be completed in 2008. The site is located near the corner of Main and Michigan.
Viewing times 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Channel 3 --every day with the exception of Thursdays.
http://www.cityofgrandterrace.org/about_city/news_bulletins.html
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We need to develop a new "message" (open government, good development plans etc.) we need a positive replacement message, and positive candidates-- WHO?
if the candidates do not have a natural following, they need a resume to advertise.
HELP: nominate candidates, WHO will
REFORM THE GRAND TERRACE CITY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
RECALL AND REPLACE THOSE ON THE COUNCIL WHO ARE DUPED BY CITY MANAGER TOM SCHWAB
CANDIDATES WHO STATE THEIR COMMITMENTS REGARDING THE FULL AUDIT OF THE CITY MANAGER'S ACTIONS.
CANDIDATES WHO COMMIT TO REPLACING THE CITY MANAGER WITH SOMEONE WHO SUPPORTS OPEN GOVERNMENT TO ITS FULLEST.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM LOCAL BUSINESSES WHO ARE TIRED OF BEING ABUSED BY THIS CITY ARE WAITING FOR GOOD CANDIDATES TO STEP UP TO THE CHALLANGE OF RETURNING GRAND TERRACE TO ITS CITIZENS.
