From the Email InBox: Focus on the Issues

From the Email InBox:

Dear Gramps:

The Library Issue needs to be taken to the County Board of Supervisors, and to the Chief Librarian of San Bernardino County. Listed below are court cases pending and their progress on the Court Calendar. It is important not to let the Personality of Brian Distract from the real issues pending in Grand Terrace.

Fireworks Ordinance will have to be revised to include the requirements of the Motion Approved at the Last City Council Meeting. Those are: That the Firework Supplier pays for one day of enforcement activity, the Sports teams pay a 3 percent surcharge to the city and the city provide for 2 days of enforcement. Note this still cost the city 4,000.00 to 8,000.00 to let the Sports Teams earn 16,000.00 makes enforcement more difficult, and puts everyone at risk. The motion also included the stipulation that the sports teams make effort to raise money some other way. Perhaps they should be held into account to report back to the Council as to their progress.

Plans for Occupants for the Town Center. To begin with there has not been a Plan B presented to Planning or the City Council. However, plans provided the court indicate there are plans to increase the number of Liquor Licenses well past the ABC standards. Given the location near the school, and the number of existing licenses in close proximity the apparent intended tenants of an additional Drug/Liquor Store, and a Chili’s Bar and Grill and a Mega Stater’s with a larger Liquor Section seem to be in conflict with the location and regulations, and the health and well being of the community on many levels.

Remember that Meeting that Jacobsen said would happen as the development plans evolved…? What Meetings? Who has indicated we need more Liquor Outlets near the Schools or on the main road?

Where are the Environmental Impact Plans for the Development of Plan B? Where are the replacement housing for the Middle Income Folks displaced by the Redevelopment Agency/Jacobsen team working with the threat of Eminent Domain to buy out property owners? None of these things have been published, what has been provided is half truths and out right fiction.

Miguel’s Owner, and yes even Doug Jacobsen have been ill served by their association with the City’s Redevelopment Agency and its Director.

AES Power Plant and the High School #3 are also important issues to keep track of.

Where is the Payment and Deposit Reciept for the Car that apparently Steve Berry aquired from the city without public notice of sale of city property? Which bank account did those funds end up in?


Case SCVSS131530 - CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE -V- CITY OF GRAND T
Re: Blue Mt. Senior Villas: Appeal not Compliance…

Viewed Date Action Text Disposition
01/26/2007 NOTICE OF COST TO PREPARE CLERK'S/REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPTS ON APPEAL FILED AND COPIES MAILED. Not Applicable

Case SCVSS144133 - CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE VS CITY OF GRAND TERRACE Town Center/Miguel’s and Connected Development Plan

Date Action Text

05/24/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8
HEARING RE: PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE (CEQA).

02/21/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8
MOTION RE: JOINDER IN MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS FILED BY REAL PARTY IN INTEREST MJSC HOLDINGS, LLC, SDG INVESTMENTS, LLC

02/21/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8
MOTION RE: JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS FILED BY RESPONDENT CITY OF GRAND TERRACE, GRAND TERRACE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

02/21/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8
MOTION RE: PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

Case SCVSS144406 - CITZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE-V-CITY

RE: Swertfeger’s Equipment Operations not being within Requlation or Permit Requirements. City Failure to provide oversight. (Redevelopment Agency has helped this business in the past.)

Viewed Date Action Text Disposition

06/07/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8
HEARING RE: PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE (CEQA).

01/31/2007
FILING FEE PAID BY SWERTFEGERS EQUIPMENT INC FOR STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR FILING RESPONSE

01/31/2007
FILING FEE PAID BY SWERTFEGERS EQUIPMENT INC FOR FIRST APPEARANCE FEES

01/22/2007
CREDIT CARD TRANSACTION ID NUMBER 013-0024038397

01/22/2007
FILING FEE PAID BY CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE AND OPEN FOR FAX FEE

01/11/2007
NOTICE OF BRIEFING SCHEDULE AND HEARING ON THE MERITS FILED BY CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE AND OPEN.

Case SCVSS138113 - CITIZENS-V-GRAND TERRACE Re: ESSCO
Plans Modified Case Settled prior to hearing, now it is about legal fees.

Viewed Date Action Text Disposition

03/13/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8 OSC RE: DISMISSAL

03/13/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8 MOTION RE: FOR AWARD OF ATTORNEYS FEES FILED BY PETITIONER CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE AND OPEN GOVERNMEN

02/02/2007 NTCE OF CONTNCE OF HRG ON MTN RECEIVED AND FORWARDED TO LEGAL RESEARCH FOR REVIEW Not Applicable

02/01/2007 FILING FEE PAID BY CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE AND OPEN GOVERNMEN FOR FAX FEE Not Applicable

02/01/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8 OSC RE: DISMISSAL - Minutes Continued

02/01/2007 8:30 AM DEPT. S8 MOTION RE: FOR AWARD OF ATTORNEYS FEES FILED BY PETITIONER CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE AND OPEN GOVERNMEN - Minutes Continued


Same “Group” of people brought to attention the Flaws in the Paperwork related to Manhole Builder’s Plan to build in a flood plain, in an area without sufficient roads, and at high risk of flooding. (Of course this too had no “Merit” and it was reversed or sent back to the Planning Commission and then refused.) This Case did not have to go to Court. Perhaps because Friends of the City Council and Chamber of Commerce live in the area and were also alerted to the problem being invited upon their doorstep.


Case SCVSS119897 - Complaints/Parties (Outdoor Adventure Center OAC) City Lost Case that it was said “Had no Merit” was filed by “Environmental Terrorists”.

Complaint Number: 1
Complaint Type: PETITION
Filing Date: 10/22/2004
Complaint Status: GRANTED 07/25/2006

Party Number Party Type Party Name Attorney Party Status
1 PETITIONER CITIZENS FOR A BETTER GRAND TERRACE , JOHNSON & SE DLACK
2 RESPONDENT CITY OF GRAND TERRACE HARPER & BURNS, LLP GRANTED
3 RESPONDENT GRAND TERRACE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY HARPER & BURNS, LLP GRANTED