Dear Dear Jeffery McC

Your consternation about this blog and the use of the pseudonym is telling. As telling as your clear public attempt to use the City Council Meeting as a Means of Garnering business for yourself.

Here is it once again... The Issues and Comments and Opinions in this blog are those of people who have addressed them in front of the council at one time or another and were dismissed or the issue was allowed to die in the air of the Council Chamber. The Blog acts as a repository for the evidence and support documents of those issues.

Yes, there are further exchanges of ideas on those topics. Your welcome to contribute as well. As a matter of fact the Blog has had Steve Berry as an early contributor, until he was told not to communicate or even READ the Blog.

GrandPaTerrace is the clerk who posts other peoples contributions and the reader and clipper of news related to Grand Terrace.

How does this match an anonymous complaint to the DA's Office... well if an anonymous complaint to the DA's Office works wonders then more of our council and city staff would have been arrested, booked, and hauled into court. The Miller situation is entirely different. A case that could have been resolved by a negotiation and ruling on a point of order was inflated not by an anonymous tip a year a go, but by the actions of Steve Berry and his minions, when it looked like he was not going to be the subject of a Coronation as City Manager.

So Jeff, if there is an open contract with the city... then put in a bid. The suggestion that you get favored for being in GT is a restraint of trade and is exactly the type of question Jim Miller Asked and was not answered in Aug 2008. He asked and was not answered why a contractor was not allowed or considered qualified to bid on the flooring contract at the Senior Housing. The answer was the company was from "High Grove". He dared to press the point and asked to have a clear understanding and legal opinion if this was a proper exclusion of a potential bidder.

Immediately after that challenge of Steve Berry's authority the "City Attorney" wrote a letter to Jim Miller saying there "COULD be A CONFLICT" and with in a few weeks the "Anonymous" report came into the DA's Office. Follow the dots.... Then when it was clear Miller supported not having Steve Berry as City Manager... and all the other information came out on Steve and the Embezzlement Case Pending... as it has not yet been filed by the DA's Office. Berry in PUBLIC threatened the Millers... print that story and I'll have the DA's Office Charge Jim with Conflict of Interest. Enough Dots and you have a straight line...

It is not relevant how or who brought the question of conflict of interest to the DA's Office, it is of importance how the mater was inflated and by who, and who tried to use the case or issue as a means of extorting an action from the Council Member or his wife.

Perhaps you miss the point of the blog. Perhaps you get it now. These issues in the past would have been spoken in the Council Meetings and then swept under the rug never to be resolved or dealt with. There is so much under the rugs in Grand Terrace City Hall, it is a miracle that no one trips on the BUMPS and LUMPS. The slow burn of this blog has been that the issues remain in public view, and the actors find it difficult to exit the stage of their ill play.