Above emails have had their entire email address removed. However, citizens who speak at a Council Meeting give their Name and Address during Public Comment as a condition of being heard as a citizen. The black city made redactions were not sufficient marking to prevent decoding some of the addresses. So, the intended redactions were removed by clipping them out so no one could read through the ink and get the email addresses intended to be hidden by marker.
City Council Member Appointment Meeting
6:00 PM
The January 11, 2011 City Council Agenda and Staff Reports are now available on-line.Click below for Agenda and Staff Reports.
http://ca-grandterrace.civicplus.com/archives/38/01112011%20Council%20Packet.PDF
Read post below for a quick study on who is a Candidate for Appointment.
A Request for Copies of Email sent to Council Persons Garcia and McNaboe resulted in the following documents to be sent to the blog for posting. Email was from 7 Individuals . one of which spoke at two of the meetings, one spoke between the two meetings on the topic. So the evidence provided it that there is additional input of 5 individuals via email contact, prior to making a decision to appoint a council member. Is this really your idea of a Lot Of or Many Citizens? (This accounts for some emails including the name of the Spouse as holding the same view.)
I find the document contents interesting on several levels. The Meeting where the appointment discussion was opened for Public Comment was on December 21st, 2010. The email dates are interesting. I'd like to say that if this is All of the communications received by the Council Members than they misrepresented the number of citizens communicating to them. The word "Many", "Several", implies more than 4 + Terry McGuire who spoke at the meeting as well as sent email.
PRE MEETING: December 16, 2010 Terry McGuire sent an email to all council members:
Terry McGuire spoke at the first meeting and expressed an interest in having Doug Wilson appointed. Then at the second meeting and in the email he sent December 16, 2010, he was insistent about his right to have a vote. He also suggested that the Voters had not had the opportunity to evaluate the FPPC action and resulting findings prior to the election taking place. This is wrong the FPPC decision was made prior to the election and the results were made public and Ms. Robles still got nearly 50 Percent of the vote. Some of the conflicts have been corrected and thus did not need to be acted upon by the FPPC. Those issues were not directed at unelected persons running for office at the time.
Terry McGuire, mentioned that the campaign was divisive and nasty and the city was split in half. Well folks this blog reported some uncomfortable facts that is true. However, Ms Robles, Mr. Stanckiewitz, and Mr. Sandoval did not publish the Halt Walt flier that was distributed in the dark of night. This was one of the few times the 3 responded with the same voice denouncing that flier. Statements made to the News Papers that Walt was some sort of bomb throwing temper bound person were made by Tom Schwab. Tom Schwab also was highly critical of Ms Cortes and her readiness prior to Council Meetings. The FPPC found that McNaboe and McGuire had done nothing wrong. The FPPC missed the point that the complaint was trying to address and that was the Relationship with ELECTED Officials (Walt Stanckiewitz and Bea Cortes) - The City's Relationship with the Chamber of Commerce- and the use of preferred mailing rates. To have these matters cleared is not an inappropriate action on the part of any citizen.
PRE MEETING: 12/16/2010 To Group Council from Don and Alice Hallwachs
The Hallawachs simply asked for an election.
PRE MEETING: 12/08/2010 To Garcia, Stanckiewits, McNaboe : From Mickey & Danelle Bubier
12/16/2010 To Garcia, Stanckiewitz, McNaboe : From Mickey & Danelle Bubier
FIRST:
Fears unrepairable damage done by past election but desires election to fill empty seat. The "Damage" done in the election, that only another election could start the healing process. It is time to look forward not backwards.
SECOND:
Wanted an election. If not an election some one who did not run for office. Claims to have seen ads where Walt, Bernardo and Sylvia were running together. (This is not factual, and a flier that was distributed was done without the support of Sylvia Robles Campaign) (The add or flier that was most widely distributed was the Nasty Flier "Stop Walt". That should not constitute justification for an assumption the three ran together.
Included in the same email was the perpetuation of a miss interpretation of the use of an allegory when Ms Robles suggested Highgrove be annexed. She was not suggesting that the county lines be violated and Highgrove be absorbed into Grand Terrace. No she was suggesting that certain services be looked at as being overlapping in our two closely nit communities. Services such as Transportation or the Metro Link, Blue Mt. Park, and yes possibly support for their Library, which is accessible to our citizens. As a financial or economic evaluation I think this overlapping service area, exchange of services makes since. Some of our seniors swap attendance at Senior Center Activities on a regular basis. There is a county line between the two communities, but there is no reason not to find areas where we can collaborate to the benefit of both communities.
PREE MEETING 12/14/2010 To McNaboe, Stanckiewitz (Request to send to all Council) From Burt Sueyiemezian
Supported the idea of having an election because the community is divided as a result of the past negative and full of hate campaign that preceded the vacancy. Fells that an election would unite the community. Of if an appointment is to be made it should be some one other than those who ran for election.
POST MEETING 12/23/2010 To McNaboe From Roxanne Williams
Williams wrote to suggest she had a possible resolution to the question. Being that she is seeking an appointment that may be the resolution insulated in the communication. She asked for an appointment to have a discussion at Mc Naboes earliest convenience.
For those who's candidates lost when Sandoval and Stanckiewitz won it seams their only place to vent it to be angry at Sylvia Robles and cast forward misrepresentations regarding her campaign and actions. The question should be who is being deviance? Which power base is going to win, those who published the "Halt Walt" materials, or those who feel it is right to question government actions, and try to correct errors of the past, and bring Transparency to the governance of Grand Terrace.
Doug Wilson attended the Unity Rally where Robles, Sandoval, & Stanckiewitz attended, so are we to conclude he was also running as a 4th member of a group? Robles did not attend the coffees held by Sandoval & Stanckiewitz she held her own events and directed her own campaign. This truth should be told and recognized. Linkage was not her doing.
Note to Mr. McGuire: Gadfly's as you call the folks who watch over our government are an aid to all the voters and citizens, even when they get it wrong, we all become better informed by their actions. I for one can learn from any example, good or bad.
