Friday, July 21, 2006

Review of the Key Issues:


THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU OWN A BUSINESS OR HOME IN
GRAND TERRACE











The above documents and the Lack of coherent Explanation by the City Management or City Council Members, and the Lack of adequate Guidance, Correction, and Oversight of the City Manager and City Management Staff specifically Planning department and the Planning commission and the City Manager/RDA Director has caused the rising desire to Replace and hold accountable those Council Members who have consistently erred in their responsibility to the Citizens of Grand Terrace.

Issues:

Lack of insistence on competitive bids for all contracts over 5,000.00 per year as required by State Law.

Lack of Public Notice at the sale of RDA property, and City Property.

Allowing the Part Time City Planner to work for a No Bid Contract Winner.

Improper purchase of the House provided to the City Manager.

Improper use of RDA funds, and the Issue of Bond Debt to HIDE the purchase of Cars for the City Manager, and other non authorized expenditures of RDA Funds.

improper association with Developers, including the threat of use of Eminent Domain LONG before it was authorized by the City Council.

Acceptance of Plans which result in being liable in court for failure to comply with California and Federal Environmental Law Requirements.

Failure to keep current plans on file with the State of California.

Failure to document or account for city assets.

Acceptance of Contributions to the City's Activities from people and agents of persons with issues before the Planning Committee, and City Council.

Failure to disclose the true income and debt information for the City in terms of City, RDA and COMBINED... The NET VALUE OF ASSETS plus expected tax income - Total Liabilities and expenses. THE DEBT or NET VALUE REAL Surplus of the CITY...

Failure to investigate a Replacement for the City Manager. NOT even considering other applications as they consider his contract to be without an end date.

Failure of the Council to Instruct the City Manager PUBLICLY not to LIE to the Council or PUBLIC as in the case of the claim he saw the Leases SIGNED leases at Stater Brothers.

This is not a Recall of Personality, it is a Recall due to error, and the repeat of errors, and the projection that the majority of the Current Council will persist in these errors, or let them continue to be perpetrated upon the Citizens of Grand Terrace, putting the very City at Risk of Failure.

The improper association with Terra Loma and the City and City Council and RDA.

These are all issues asked and not Answered by the City Manager, and thus the City Council who is accountable to the Citizens.

Council Member Miller is not being held into account this time. He is new to the task and is in the discovery mode himself.

HOWEVER, Council Member Herman Hilkey, Council Member Bea Cortez will be held into account this election cycle.

Therefore we humbly request that the Citizens Sign the Recall Petition to Recall Council Member Ferre, and Recall Council Member Garcia so the Citizens may have the opportunity or the best opportunity to set the Government of Grand Terrace on a Better Governance Track.