The Forgotten War Teachers Hired a Consultant and Con 137 Unit SRO, So Affordable Funds Can Now Be Ducted Interviews with Ful Used for Moderate-Income Housing
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Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library COMMUNITY & ARTS CALENDAR Page 9-15 PLEASE RETURN TO MAIN LIBRARY FULLERTON PUBLIC LIBRARY 353 W. COMMONWEALTH AVE. FULLERTON, CA 92832-1796 Fullerton’s Only Local, Independent Newspaper * Est. 1978 (printed on recycled paper) # 336 MARCH 1, 2000 Controlling City Stockpiles Cable TV by Denny Bean $4-million in Many of the homes in Ful lerton have difficulty receiv ing TV signals from the nu Affordable merous TV antennas located atop Mt. Wilson. This may be due to Sunny Hills block Housing Funds ing the line-of-sight between roof antennas and the moun In 1992 the City was sued to force it to use tain. Some have taken mea 20% of it’s redevelopment money for low- sures such as placing their income housing. If the 4-mi llion in housing antenna on a 40-foot mast, funds the City currently has s tockpiled is not adding a signal booster, and used for affordable housing t will go to the may even have added a direc Orange County Housing Development Author tional control capability. So ity which will then decide how it is to be spent. when Comcast Cable TV ar “Of every property tax dollar coming back to rived, whether to sign up or us in the form of redevelopment funds, 200 not was a no-brainer. must be used for housing or the government It was about 12 years ago takes the whole dollar and gives us only 150 of that Comcast Cable Company it. If we want to control the 800 we have to took over control of the local spend the 200 on affordable housing. I don’t cable service from another like it but that’s the way it is,” explained Mayor company. Now that it is time Jones. According to Fullerton Redevelopment to renew the ten year contract Director Gary Chalupsky the city has met it’s with the company, the City low-income housing responsibilities with the The Forgotten War Teachers hired a consultant and con 137 unit SRO, so affordable funds can now be ducted interviews with Ful used for moderate-income housing. by David E. Teichmiller Reject District Proposal lerton citizens to gain insight Agreeing that the money had to be spent into their feelings about the somewhere Councilmembers unanimously I t was not called a war. It was called a “Police Action.” It Boardmember fears of pushing Fullerton service Comcast provides. okayed a plan that offers de was the first time the newly established United Nation flexed School District into a bankrupt situation Cable companies are not velopers, Community Multi- its muscle to stop communist aggression. The United States may be the cause of the apparent breakdown subject to pricing controls by “When a Housing Inc. an $805,000 sent nearly seven-million men and women in to stop the in friendly relations as teachers attempt to either the Federal Communi builder contribution in redevelop communist take-over. In three short years, over 55,000 raise their salaries from the longtime last cations Commission or the ment funds to assist their pro comes to Americans were killed and over 8,200 remain missing in postition to median among OC Districts. Public Utilities Commission, posed apartment complex. action. Yet today if you ask any American under the age of Fullerton Elementary School District’s nor can they be fired by the our City The now approved 5-story fifty about this action very few will know about it. That is offer of a 2-year contract, 1999-2000 mid City unless they are guilty of with a $24- (plus 1-level underground why those who were involved call it the “Forgotten War.” year raise of 5.47%, agreement to cap poor technical performance parking) mixed-use apart The place was Korea, the time, June 25,1950 and the North healthcare benefits at current levels, a raise and/or customer service. And million ment building on the corner Koreans sent over 135,000 troops into South Korea in an for the 2000-01 year equal to COLA (cost- then the City must take legal project & of Lemon and Common attempt to seize the southern half of the peninsula. The South of-living) plus a restructuring of the salary action against them and win. wealth was presented as an asks us to Korean army was over-run and without help the entire schedule was rejected by teachers Friday. This protection is provided upscale addition to down country would have fallen into communist hands. The United FETA (Fullerton Elementary Teachers As by federal law. One might contribute town. Nations called on the participating members to rush to the sociation) rejected the offer because the raise presume that this is to save $805,000; The first story of the build aid of South Korea, stop the flow of communist aggression 4s not retroactive to the beginning of the the cable companies their ing will contain 12,400 sq. and push the North Korean forces back to the original border. 1999-2000 school year. “The 5.47% raise huge infrastructure invest which we feet of commercial/retail While it was a United Na- 3 offered at mid-year is really adisguised 2.74% ment which would be imprac get back in space and already has pro tions operation, the United Only the South raise for the entire year, equaling even less tical to remove. Certainly, spective tenants including 4 to 5 States was the controlling fac Korean government than COLA ,” said FETA President Mimi they would be in a poor bar Starbucks and a dry-clean tor with the largest fighting Guadette. Also the teacher-requested 5.02% gaining position to sell their years; ing shop. Also mentioned force in South Korea. We not and it’s people really raise for September 2000-01 year was re facilities if they were forced Come on was 31-Flavors and a bagel/ only pushed the North Ko remember what the placed with a 2.84% cost-of-living raise. out by the City. Conversely, juice type establishment. In this is a rean army across their bor United States fight The District contends that its $11-million other cable companies might the upper levels of the 57- ders but fought them to the ing forces and our reserve fund (the largest reserve of any school bid against one another to gain foot tall building will be 192 good deal.” North Korean/China border. allies did for them. district in Orange County and $8-million the franchise since they ap- one bedroom apartment over what is required by law) is not enough pearto be financially success -Jan Flory That is when communist Any Korean War units with rents in the $ 1,200 China sent in their troops to to maintain the raise teachers are asking for ful. So the reason for the range. force our army and our allies veteran who returns although total cost of the desired compensa federal law appears to be a If the developer accepts the Redevelopment back to the original South to South Korea is tion package is estimated at $1.6 million per moot point. money, restrictions would be placed on 70 of Korean/North Korean border. given the V.I.P. year by District staff itself. Some citizens felt they had the units reducing the rents to around $ 1,000 per A stalemate lasted for almost treatment. After negotiations stalled earlier this year, no choice but cable because month and requiring tenants make no more than two more bloody years until State Mediator Draza Mrvichin was brought until this year ABC, CBS, a $46,500 per year income to qualify. The 2.41 - the Armistice was signed on in to help work out a solution Eventually, if NBC and the local channels acre site is currently home to several long July 27, 1953. mediation proves unsuccessful, the case will (5, 9, 11, and 13) were still empty buildings, parking lots and a few occu Those Americans who served in Korea came home to an go to “fact-finding” a lengthy process where not carried by satellite. We pied residential properties. Council approval of indifferent nation. We settled back into the mainstream of the District’s actual ability to pay will be were informed that these the use of the 20% Set-Aside Housing Fund American life. Some went back to school, finishing their explored. (more School news page 5) channels can now be obtained, money in the project also allows relocation interrupted education and all of us went back to work, raising but that OCN and public tele assistance estimated at $75,000 for those resi our families and leading productive lives. We asked for very TRANSIT TOPICS vision are still not available. dents whose housing accommodations would little and became the “Forgotten Ones.” Even in Memorial So there are alternatives to be demolished with the construction. Day services the Korean War is seldom mentioned. by Dick Hutchins our local cable company Public comments ran the gauntlet from not Only the South Korean government and it’s people really TOLL ROADS which may prove helpful in building at all to allowing an even higher den remember what the United States fighting forces and our 1 oil Roads have been coming under fire. controlling cost. sity than was being proposed. Although resi allies did for them. Any Korean War veteran who returns to Since gasoline tax money pays for the free Another person complain dents in an area roughly one block wide circling South Korea is given the V.I.P.