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The San Bernardino County News of Note from Around the Largest County in the Lower 48 States Friday, NovemberSentinel 8, 2013 A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Countywide News Service 10808 Foothill Blvd. Suite 160-446 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (909) 628-8436 Vote To Recall Him As City Attorney Brings Curtain Down On Penman Chino Hills Nearly 26 years after boosted him into a posi- cy of the city’s bankrupt- among the Democrats he Specifying Sale he stormed into office tion rivaling the power of cy filing, Penman’s role crossed swords with over as San Bernardino city several of the mayors he as the city’s defender in the years and he eventu- Terms On attorney, James Penman served with at City Hall, federal bankruptcy court ally ended his affiliation Encroachments was removed from office his political involvement compounded the im- with the party, declin- by close to a three-fifths played a role in his being pression that he was co- ing to state his political margin of voters in a vanquished this week, as responsible for the city’s preference on his voter special recall election on the city he guided was fiscal plight. registration document. November 5. buffeted by financial Formerly a Demo- He gravitated toward For more than two- problems that led it to crat who once bragged affiliations with Repub- and-a-half decades Pen- file for bankruptcy last about heading Students James Penman licans both at the city man played a significant year. for Kennedy at Cal State and county level. Nev- role in city politics, one city’s legal advisor. And When several of the San Bernardino, Pen- ertheless, his long term that went beyond the while his self-enlarged city’s largest creditors man created a hand- incumbency resulted in traditional place of the demeanor on occasion challenged the legitima- ful of lifelong enemies political sup- See P 6 Rossana Mitchell State Pension System Cites Constitution In Opposition To SB Bankruptcy The city of Chino The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States Hills has determined respectively, or to the people. –Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that there are fewer hom- eowners encroaching on The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted city-owned open space against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. –Eleventh Amendment than was previously be- to the U.S. Constitution lieved to be the case. is now striving to align claim of protection from cause of overspending, employees, last year filed Nearly three years SAN BERNARDI- itself with the state of its creditors under the a stagnating economy, for Chapter 9 bankrupt- ago, Chino Hills city of- NO—In the battle that California and citing bankruptcy code. dwindling revenues and cy protection. ficials began a somewhat is raging between the both the Tenth and Elev- The city of San Ber- escalating costs includ- While other large Cal- haphazard notification city of San Bernardino enth Amendments to the nardino, which has been ing overly generous sal- ifornia Cities that have process related to what and the state’s public Constitution in seek- in a precarious financial aries paid and benefits filed for bankruptcy they believed were as employees’ pension sys- ing to limit the city’s position for years be- provided to its municipal such as Vallejo See P 5 many as 300 instances of tem, the pension system property owners in the County To Knock Down Seven Houses In city who had encroached Sacked Chaffey College on public open space. ASB President Reinstated San Bernardino Mountains & Fontana Those encroachments In a relatively rare include trees, shrubs and than a week after he was of Enchantment; 23542 move, the county is ex- other forms of landscap- removed from that elect- Crest Forest Drive in pending $51,000 to raze ing in city-claimed open ed position in what is Crestline; at 31410 Ocean seven dilapidated houses space in the most benign now acknowledged was View Drive, 30827 Live in unincorporated ar- of the cases and consist an improper manipula- Oak Drive and 30738 eas deemed to represent of fences, walls, pave- tion of the Associated Live Oak Drive in Run- safety hazards. ment, swimming pools, Students of Chaffey Col- ning Springs; and at According to Tom hot tubs and structures lege’s governing board’s 35155 Vista Road in Ce- Hudson, the director of in more serious situa- authority by the college darpines Park. the county’s land use tions. Some of those administration. Tom Hudson Hudson said his de- services division “the improvements were un- Kevin Coduto At the prompting of nuisance.” partment “has deter- structures and improve- dertaken by the present Associated Students of The properties in mined by inspection In a significant rever- ments on the subject par- owners of the proper- Chaffey College Cam- question are located at that the privately-owned sal, Kevin Coduto was cels are substandard, are ties. In others, they were pus Council Adviser 15348 Athol Street in the structures located on the reinstated as Chaffey a threat to public health completed by previous John Machado, who is Fontana area, 22825 Ju- properties are substan- College Associated Stu- and safety, and the prop- owners. answerable to niper Lane in the Valley dard buildings dent Body President less See P 9 erties constitute a public See P 3 In one of those cases, Michael and Kimberly County Renews Contract With Potomac Partners For Federal Lobbying Denton sued the city in The county of San or $144,000 per year. a 24-month contract ex- director of governmental through the county’s 2011 after the city’s code Bernardino has renewed In January 2012, when tension worth $288,000, and legislative affairs, website and distributed enforcement division in- its contract with Wash- the contract for lobby- which reestablishes the “The county of San Ber- to approximately 45 formed them in 2010 that ington, D.C.-based Po- ing with the company firm’s remuneration at nardino utilizes advo- federal legislative advo- the furthest extension of tomac Partners for lob- was extended, the con- $12,000 per month. The cacy services both at the cacy and public relations their backyard was en- bying in the nation’s tract cost was reduced contract calls for provid- federal and state level firms. A pre-solicitation croaching on city-owned capitol. to $11,000 per month, or ing federal legislative to advance the county’s letter was also circulat- open space and that they San Bernardino $132,000 per year. The advocacy services on legislative agenda. On ed a month prior to the had to remove their pool County first contracted $11,000 per month terms behalf of the county for July 22, 2013, a request RFP opening to ensure and spa along with land- with Potomac Partners were again extended in a two-year period ending for proposal (RFP) was the RFP was available to scaping that was already in 2009 for federal legis- January 2013 and again October 31, 2015, with released for federal leg- as many firms as prac- extant when they pur- lative advocacy services. in July 2013. two one-year options to islative advocacy ser- tical. The competitive chased their home on At that time, the contract The contract approved extend. vices. The RFP was RFP process garnered Hunter’s Gate Circle in called for the payment by the board of supervi- According to Josh open for approximately 11 responses from vari- 1999 from Gloria Vita- of $12,000 per month, sors this week calls for Candelaria, the county’s five weeks, advertised ous advocacy See P 2 gliano. See P 4 Friday, November 8, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 2 County Foreclosing On Baldy Mesa Tract The San Bernardino County The county has ini- sion on August 15, 2007, improvements for Tract county’s requirements. tiated foreclosure pro- to change from lot sales 17231 by November 20, “The county’s ability Sentinel Published in San Bernardino County. ceedings against a Hes- to developer build-out. 2009. to take legal action on The Sentinel’s main office is located at 10788 Civic peria-based investment On November 20, 2007, According to Gerry the road and drainage Center Drive in Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 and development com- the board of supervisors Newcombe, the direc- and water improvement A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with pany for 23 acres in the accepted the road and tor of the county public agreements expires on Countywide News Service Baldy Mesa area. drainage as well as wa- works division, “The November 20, 2013, pur- Mark Gutglueck, Publisher Real Estate Diversi- ter performance agree- county has sent several suant to California Code fied Funds I, LLC, lo- ments and securities, in default notices to the of Civil Procedure Sec- Call (909) 628-8436 cated at 15461 Ash Street the amounts of $152,000 Real Estate Diversified tion 337,” Newcombe to learn of locations where the Sentinel in Hesperia, in July 2005 (bond) and $84,000 with requests to bring the continued. “As of this is available or to provide news tips obtained tract map ap- (bond), respectively, to agreement to current sta- date, none of the re- 10808 Foothill Blvd., Suite 160-446 proval for the creation guarantee the required tus. However, the prin- quired road and drainage Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 of nine residential lots construction of the road cipal has not responded and water improvements [email protected] for lot sales only on 23 and drainage and water with the required docu- have been started, ac- 909-276 5796 acres located north of improvements for Tract mentation and securities cording to the approved the California Aqueduct 17231.