Sentinel-12-23-16

The San Bernardino County News of Note from Around the Largest County in the Lower 48 States Friday, DecemberSentinel 23, 2016 A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Countywide News Service 10808 Foothill Blvd. Suite 160-446 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (909) 957-9998 Barrios Reverses Mary’s Village Vote Again, This Time Jilting Valdivia Judge Forces By Mark Gutglueck the project so success- might prove to be a mag- Verizon To Do Nearly five months fully this summer that net for even larger num- after the San Bernardino he undid the initial ap- bers of homeless to flock Full EIR On City Council gave and proval. Without Valdiv- to San Bernardino. Mount Baldy then rescinded its ap- ia present, the council At the July 18 meeting proval of Mary’s Vil- found itself caught in the when the project was ini- Cell Towers lage, a transitional hous- spirit of Christmas char- tially considered, Coun- San Bernardino ing project for homeless ity. Thus incined, it gave cilman Henry Nickel County Superior Court men, the six members of no mind or homage to had promulgated the phi- Judge Gilbert Ochoa has the city council present the arguments that Vald- losophy that past efforts entered a ruling that Ver- to vote this week gave vivia and his council toward assisting the indi- Benito Barrios izon Wireless must com- a unanimous final go- colleagues Henry Nickel John Valdivia gent, itinerant, displaced plete an environmental ahead to the undertak- was the absence of coun- and Bessine Richards lodging where homeless and penurious had made impact report under the ing. cilman John Valdivia, had proferred earlier this men would be welcomed only the shallowest of California Environmen- Crucial to the passage who inveighed against year to the effect that the for an extended stay inroads on the See P 2 tal Quality Act before SBC Promised Industrial Representation On Tri-County Desert Water Board it can proceed with its A key player in San nel has learned. tural water users draw ral water recharge per under 24,000 acre-feet, planned installation of a Bernardino County’s Indian Wells Valley their water, as does the year but for three de- which still exceeds the cell phone tower in the representation on the straddles southeastern China Lake Naval Air cades has been using on estimated 7,300 acre-feet community of Mt. Baldy. joint powers authority Kern County, south- Weapons Station, the average 28,000 to 30,000 of recharge by 16,700 Since the early 2000s, that will ultimately for- western Inyo County Searles Valley Mineral acre-feet of water annu- acre feet. the fire department in mulate the rules, proce- and Northwestern San Company in Trona and ally. Last year, California In September 2014, Mt. Baldy has been dures and prerogatives Bernardino County. Un- the remainder of indus- Governor Jerry Brown, Governor Brown signed pressing for the estab- regarding the future derlying it is the Indian trial, commercial and in the face of a four- into law the Sustainable lishment of cell phone pumping, use and dis- Wells Valley Ground- domestic users in Trona. year running drought, Groundwater Manage- service in Mt. Baldy Vil- tribution of water at San water Basin, from which Historically, the In- mandated water saving ment Act, which requires lage and its rugged en- Bernardino County’s ex- the City of Ridgecrest dian Wells Valley Wa- measures throughout the local agencies to draft virons, which straddles treme northwestern tip and its outlying area’s ter Basin experiences state. Water use in the plans to bring ground- the county line between will come from the in- domestic, commercial, roughly 7,000 to 11,000 Indian Wells Valley Wa- water aquifers into bal- Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County dustrial sector, the Senti- industrial and agricul- acre-feet of annual natu- ter Basin was reduced to anced levels of See P 4 in the Angeles National Superintendent’s Explanation Of In Yermo, Community Services District Leader Forest. Academy’s Demise Angers Parents Perceives Justice In Judge’s Unfavorable Ruling After Supervisor Janice Rutherford was ger this week during a A somewhat uncom- represent. If a lawsuit elected in 2010, the fire forum at the Chino Hills mon circumstance has against the agency suc- department again ap- High School Audito- manifested in the Yermo ceeds, depending on the proached Town Hall rium in which he sought Community Services determination of actual requesting cell phone to explain to parents of District. and punitive damages, service in Mt Baldy. students currently at- Typically, officials the agency can see its With Rutherford’s help, tending Oxford Prepa- involved with a particu- operating capital di- elements of the commu- ratory Academy why lar public agency close minished significantly, nity and fire personnel the district is no longer ranks when allegations resulting in the wide- successfully persuaded sponsoring that charter or claims against that spread perception that Verizon to accelerate the school. agency are made. Even if the agency is not acting Michael Cint Wayne Joseph priority of an already- Oxford was founded members of a given gov- effectively, is squander- by Yermo Community planned Mt. Baldy cell Chino Valley Unified by Sue Roche in 2010, ernmental agency board ing public money, and is Service District Board tower site, according to School District Super- the principal at Rhodes are political rivals, they poorly managed gener- President Michael Cint hearing testimony by intendent Wayne Joseph Elementary School, share an interest in the ally. are eye-opening. Cint Verizon lobbyist Doug- ran into a buzz saw of the highest-perform- financial integrity of the For that reason, re- applauded a judge’s las McAllister. Although disbelief, denial and an- ing school in institution they jointly cent public statements finding that a See P 5 See P 13 the fire department, Start-Up Pecos League Yardbirds To Replace Mavericks In Adelanto Town Hall, and Ruther- Less than four months League, with a record of resulted in the team not points. That contract was the city and its taxpay- ford played an integral after the demise of the 82 wins and 58 losses. being allowed to play at entered into well before ers. They would make role in creating a sense High Desert Mavericks They swept the Visa- Stater Bros. Stadium in the Stater Bros. sponsor- the claim that the city of urgency and impor- and the exodus of that lia Rawhide in the first 2016 at all. ship that gave the stadi- had subsidized the High tance, the project to team from Stater Bros. three games in the five The Mavericks came um its subsequent name, Desert Mavericks by bring cell phone service Stadium, the City of game league champion- into existence in 1991, Subsequent redraft- roughly $600,000 per to Mt Baldy was spear- Adelanto has forged a ship series, arguably the when city officials were ings of the contract were year totaling more than headed by Verizon itself. deal with another profes- team’s best performance intent on using what- little better. Almost a $1.8 million between The first Mt. Baldy sional team, ensuring in its 25 year history. ever means or gimmicks quarter century later, a 2012 and 2015, covering cell phone tower was the stadium will not go As impressive was that available to draw people new set of elected Ad- an estimated $675,938 proposed to be sited at dormant in the upcom- the team carried all of into the city. Perhaps for elanto leaders would of the team’s rent costs, the fire station, which is ing baseball season. this off against a back- that reason, the terms of come to the conclusion $486,635 for city per- on property owned not This year, the Maver- drop of the ownership’s the Mavericks’ lease on the team’s owners – sonnel in support of by the county but rather icks were the 2016 cham- dispute with the City of the stadium lacked a cer- Main Street California, the stadium operation, the Baldy Homeowners’ A s s o c ia t io n , pions in the California Adelanto that had nearly tain definitude on many LLC – were exploiting $157,500 in See P 15 See P 3 Friday, December 23, 2016 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 2 San Bernardino against the project be- to 115 homeless men, project came back for The San Bernardino County cause of that consider- Mary’s Village had as its a second consideration Council Gives Ap- ation. “The people that proponent Mary’s Mercy by the council, which proval to Mary’s are in support of it don’t Center, which long ago by law has to reconfirm Village Homeless live there,” she said, add- established two similar all development proj- Sentinel Published in San Bernardino County. Residence from front ing that the city’s most facilities for homeless, ects and ordinances with The Sentinel’s main office is located at 10788 Civic page intensive commercial battered, troubled or dis- what is called a “second Center Drive in Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 area is within the Third located women and chil- reading.” Present that A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Ward and that putting a dren in San Bernardino, evening was Valdivia. Countywide News Service problem, squandered use that will serve as a one called Veronica’s Valdivia asserted that Mark Gutglueck, Publisher taxpayer money and in- magnet for the homeless Home of Mercy and Mary’s Village would vited other transients so close to the tax rev- another called Mary’s be bad for residents and Call (909) 957-9998 and vagrants into the enue producing assets in Mercy Table, which are businesses in his ward.

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