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The San Bernardino County News of Note from Around the Largest County in the Lower 48 States Friday, FebruarySentinel 16, 2018 A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Countywide News Service 10808 Foothill Blvd. Suite 160-446 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (951) 567-1936 Political Reformers Want Initiative To Reduce Supervisors To Part Time In The Chino A citizens group is Brennan Group, which in-house attorneys, ob- David Cohn rejecting the lenges of the legality or Valley Unified pushing ahead with is named after the late jected to several of the Red Brennan Group’s in- constitutionality of the a drive to qualify a government reform ad- provisions as unconsti- terpretation that the let- specifics in a proposed School District countywide initiative vocate who qualified a tutional and contended ter of the law and previ- initiative are properly Oxford Finds for the November ballot similar initiative for the that loading an initiative ous California Supreme taken up after sufficient that would reduce the ballot in 2012. Overall, with so many provisions Court decisions hold signatures have been Rebirth In The members of the San Ber- when the current effort violated the State of Cal- that those attempting gathered. Judge Cohn Form Of Thrive nardino County Board of was initiated in October, ifornia’s single subject to qualify voter initia- upheld the county’s pre- Supervisors to part time advocates wanted to put initiative rule. tives should be provided ballot challenge to the In a permutated form, status and impose on 13 reform proposals be- Over the last several with the opportunity to Red Brennan Group’s Oxford Preparatory them a commensurate fore the voters but were months there has been proceed to the signature initiative based on sub- Academy, which soared reduction in pay. thwarted when the of- much legal back and gathering stage irre- stantive issues. After the into the stratosphere of The effort is being fice of county counsel, forth on the matter, in- spective of government initiative proponents re- academic achievement undertaken by the Red the county’s stable of cluding a ruling by Judge objections and that chal- submitted the See P 16 only to come to a shat- tering and ignominious SACH Surgical Tech Identity Thief Exploited Victims At Their Most Vulnerable crashing to earth over By Mark Gutglueck aliases, has been identi- or to apply for and ob- a top-of-the-line late ity, it appears, he was a the last two years, has An unknown number fied by the Sentinel as tain newly issued charge model white BMW and Kenyan. And while he found rebirth of sorts in of patients who under- James Sannon. Sannon’s cards in their names, and by fraternizing, involv- served in the trenches the form of Thrive Char- went surgery at San An- mode of operation in- ultimately decamping or ing seeming aplomb and with the doctors at San ter Academy. tonio Community Hos- volved crimes executed otherwise hiding in plain social skill, with some Antonio Community Thrive, the full name pital may have been or in three distinct stages: sight. of the doctors at San Hospital in its operat- for which is Allegiance could yet be the victims a bold and audacious, Part cat burglar, part Antonio Community ing rooms as a surgical Science, Technology, of identity theft carried indeed, risky effort to conman, part fraudster, Hospital as if he were technician, he was not a Engineering, Art and out by a surgical techni- capture the personnel Sannon remains a man their professional equal. doctor. Math Academy – Thrive, cian formerly employed information of his vic- of some mystery. He Nevertheless, when His crimes exhibited a also referred to as Alle- there, the Sentinel has tims, followed by em- claimed to be from Paris those who spoke French certain flair and daring, giance STEAM, is to be learned. ploying that information and that his mother was encountered him, it was together with a sophis- located at the El Rancho The perpetrator, who to make charges against wealthy. He burnished learned that he could not ticated understanding of Elementary School cam- has used a number of the victims’ credit cards that story by driving speak French. In actual- the confidenti- See P 5 pus, where for the seven years ending last June Wildwood Canyon Radio Mayor’s Ploy To Sack City Manager Using the academically suc- cessful but financially Tower Application Unresolved Sexual Harassment Complaints Backfires challenged Oxford Pre- A decade after an nificant procedural his- The duel of sexual ha- ated by mid-January. her when she was speak- paratory Academy had Oxnard-based radio sta- tory, during which the rassment complaints that The charges against ing to him about harass- been located. tion operator first sought scale of the project has shrouds a deeper battle Elliott were laid out in ment she perceived to With Thrive function- clearance to erect a 140- been significantly re- over control at Adelanto declarations signed by have endured from an- ing from the same loca- foot high broadcasting duced. It is yet the posi- City Hall stalled this two city employees and other city employee. tion and with the lion’s tower in Oak Glen in the tion of the project’s op- week. an intern. One of those A second employee, share of those involved heights above Yucaipa’s ponents that the 38-acre In arranging in mid- declarations delineated one of Elliott’s secretar- in its creation having Wildwood Canyon Park, location Lazer Broad- December for three one employee having ies, said in her declara- in some way been af- the board of supervi- casting Corporation ac- woman to file allega- had drinks with Elliott tion that Elliot had made filiated with Oxford, it is sors this week fell short quired for the placement tions of impropriety with at a Rancho Cucamonga an unwanted sexual ad- not only perception but of resolving whether or of the antenna, despite regard to city manager nightspot in September vance toward her by at- reality that Thrive is a not the project, reduced the height and size re- Gabriel Elliott’s personal before he lured her to his tempting to kiss her. continuation of Oxford. to less than one-third ductions, is an inappro- comportment with them, home in an ultimately A third woman, a Vic- Some consider that a that height, should be priate one for such a use. Adelanto Mayor Rich failed effort at seducing tor Valley College coed good thing. Others see it approved in the environ- The original project Kerr anticipated that El- her. She also reported who was working at Ad- far less positively. mentally sensitive area. application was filed in liott’s departure from his that Elliott had made in- elanto City Hall as an in- The paradox of Ox- The project has a sig- 2007 when only See P 3 post would be effectu- appropriate remarks to tern as part of See P 18 ford is grounded in, and reflects the same Controversial Ex-Mayor of Banning Gets Berth On Redlands Planning Commission dichotomy, as the ser- Redlands has turned commission on January Botts Welding & Truck fodder for the Riverside Management, and Los pentine perambulations to a now-transplanted 16. They replaced Ken Service, Inc., and former County Grand Jury. He Angeles-based Pardee and traversions within and once-controversial Jeske and Jan Hudson chief financial officer for was closely affiliated Homes. the heart, mind, person- local politician from as commissioners on the Garner Holt Productions, with the development in- While he was lead- ality and character of Riverside County to seven-member panel. Inc. He was a member dustry, having served as ing the council, the city its founder, Sue Roche. serve on its planning Botts was elected to of the Banning Cham- a paid lobbyist on behalf misapplied $14 million The issue descends into commission. the Banning City Coun- ber of Commerce and a of Diversified Pacific in bond funds which the province of perhaps Bob Botts, who was a cil in 2006, campaign- founder of the Banning Communities, a resi- had been earmarked unanswerable questions: councilman and mayor ing as an experienced Cultural Alliance. dential developer, while for a water reclamation Was Sue Roche a truly with Banning for just shy and successful function- While in office in receiving substantial po- project to the construc- gifted and inspired edu- of 7 years before his sud- ary in the private sector Banning, Botts found litical contributions from tion of a police station, cator who possessed a den resignation on Octo- where he had been an ex- himself enmeshed in a the Building Association a move demonstrated to formula for stimulating ber 8, 2013, was appoint- ecutive vice president for series of contretemps of Southern California, have been in violation of students beyond the staid ed, along with Donn Pacific Savings Bank, and political scandals, Lake Forest-based Pro- Proposition 218. strictures of traditional Grenda, to the planning the vice president of some of which became fessional Community Prior to Botts See P 5 academic pur- See P 2 Friday, February 16, 2018 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 2 Thrive Academy To the Chino Valley Com- special needs students doses of parental in- The San Bernardino County Replace Oxford At munity and serve the and accelerated scholars. volvement, and constant coming generation of the El Rancho Campus In 2010, the Chino teacher-parent interac- community’s students? Valley Unified School tion, Oxford exceeded from front page Sentinel Or do those parents sim- District, at the urging of all expectations. Published in San Bernardino County.