In Facebook, Angela Valles says that "on Sept 6th @ 7 PM at VV City Hall Capt. Yoder will give a presentation on crime and the possible need for more police. Be there and be heard. http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/victorville-29808-house-party.html
Two teens stabbed at Victorville house party www.vvdailypress.com".
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Blogger Bob: Angela: First, we need more responsible parents. Second, unless we put a cop in every home that may have a potential gathering of kids with the potential for violence (sounds like profiling me thinks), this problem will not end (so knowing that will never happen) we have to consider another approach that we don't do--we need to do less drive by "law enforcement" and put officers on the street walking beats. Try redeploying existing resources and using more trained volunteer reserve officers (many of which are underutilized)...adding more cops increases union membership and political campaign war chests, but does not guarantee better community policing. The presence of law enforcement is a deterrent. Increasing the numbers of people that will take too long to respond will not help. Maybe an idea with potential except for the nasty four letter word, SEBA, the union folks that will have to sign off on changing the use of existing force levels. Third, what are you going to do about the Victorville Station's complaints about the DA's office not taking complaints being submitted and filing charges? Has that been resolved?
Showing posts with label City of Victorville v Homeland Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label City of Victorville v Homeland Security. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Brad Mitzelfelt @ the Helm -- Does Anyone Smell a Long Term & Coordinated Land Grab in the Making??
Some food for thought for our million dollar man, Brad Mitzelfelt:
1. Litigation between VVEDA [Victor Valley Economic Authority--a interim step to what was rumored to be Terry Caldwell's & Jim Cox's dream of creating a supercity for the High Desert, which absorbed Adelanto, Hesperia, Phelan & Apple Valley under Victorville's leadership's control] & Adelanto; the litigation between VVEDA & Adelanto ends after an election changes the council mix to a pro-Victorville cadre, the water consultant for the Adelanto side in the Adelanto v VVEDA lawsuit (the former 3rd in command in the US EPA) mysteriously dies in his home before the case was to come to trial and the new Adelanto City leadership appoint an attorney to replace the attorney battling for Adelanto; the newly elected Adelanto City team appears to cave on the VVEDA litigation over the base/water rights despite Air Force records showing the U.S. Government considered Adelanto to be the owner of the water rights under the former Air Force base footprint (and in fact paid them for the water used!); shortly thereafter, Hesperia & Apple Valley pull out of VVEDA; Victorville develops the base, gives access to water for the power plant, makes plans for a power plant, gives water rights to a bottling plant(& the beat goes on).
P.S.
(A) Brad Mitzelfelt mentioned in the most recent County Supervisorial District Redistricting Workshop on June 17, 2011, that the Victor Valley should stay together because of the serious dialogue "about becoming one city"--mmh...revival or a continued battle plan??
(B) I served on an George AFB closure committee in the early 1990s where there were reports of all sorts of dangerous chemicals in the water from engine degreasing, JP-4 fuel additives, etc. I was inexplicably dropped off the Committee when I raised concerns about whether the plume was being properly characterized, the extent of the plume, where it was leaking into, what type of contaminants were involved (benzenes) & about low level radioactive waste (from medical equipment) tossed into the rip rap below the golf course potentially presenting a threat to the Mojave River; bad news about the water is not what Victorville wanted to hear;
2. MWA (the Mojave Water Agency, with an elected board that is far too developer & realtor friendly in this blogger's opinion) snatches up the pumping rights in a lawsuit against everyone using more than 10 acre feet a year along the Mojave River, whether or not the farmers & ranchers on the river could afford $75,000 to $100,000 in legal costs defending their water rights against being taken by MWA restrictions being imposed (which most could not afford); MWA takes control of pumping rights, implements ramp down penalties to family owned ranches and farms that did not plant until market prices changed and by that effectively seized historically owned water rights without compensation;
3. Victorville attempts to annex land along the Mojave via LAFCO, which Mitzelfelt serves on;
4. Victorville & Mitzelfelt push for the land swap with CEMEX for barren land to the North of the river which will involve, in order for there to be development, water from the Mojave basin
5. Adelanto's Re-Zones barren desert within its zone (which does not have enough water to develop)
6. San Bernardino County Flood Control does not repair the damage caused by runaway waters in their channels in the Oro Grande area, but instead is looking at getting a FEMA grant to buy everyone out and move them; Brad is pushing for the FEMA grant?
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Common demon-inator. Brad Mitzelfelt (who sits on all the key boards, panels and commissions). What super Mensch(-es) does he serve? No one has ever done an in depth investigation into Brad Mitzelfelt's masters. Mitzelfelt is slick--in the middle of corruption & conflict of interest investigations, his wife gets reportedly a $80k/yr county job (she has now "quit"), he spent discretionary funds for political photo shoots for years (thankfully that just ended by a vote of the board), he muffles/chills potential critics (reporters) in the media by hiring them to serve on his field staff at salaries 2 to 3 times more than what they were getting paid working for their former employers, he was Postmus' chief of staff during all his tweeking & hospitalizations & aided in the cover-ups of the real Postmus. During the Colonies settlement process, who do you think ran the office and lobbied the other two members of the Board & their staff, yet Kirk gets prosecuted & Brad Mitzelfelt doesn't? Maybe its time for the mainstream media to ask the hard questions and quit lobbing soft pitches. Besides, what's with the bowl cut?
1. Litigation between VVEDA [Victor Valley Economic Authority--a interim step to what was rumored to be Terry Caldwell's & Jim Cox's dream of creating a supercity for the High Desert, which absorbed Adelanto, Hesperia, Phelan & Apple Valley under Victorville's leadership's control] & Adelanto; the litigation between VVEDA & Adelanto ends after an election changes the council mix to a pro-Victorville cadre, the water consultant for the Adelanto side in the Adelanto v VVEDA lawsuit (the former 3rd in command in the US EPA) mysteriously dies in his home before the case was to come to trial and the new Adelanto City leadership appoint an attorney to replace the attorney battling for Adelanto; the newly elected Adelanto City team appears to cave on the VVEDA litigation over the base/water rights despite Air Force records showing the U.S. Government considered Adelanto to be the owner of the water rights under the former Air Force base footprint (and in fact paid them for the water used!); shortly thereafter, Hesperia & Apple Valley pull out of VVEDA; Victorville develops the base, gives access to water for the power plant, makes plans for a power plant, gives water rights to a bottling plant(& the beat goes on).
P.S.
(A) Brad Mitzelfelt mentioned in the most recent County Supervisorial District Redistricting Workshop on June 17, 2011, that the Victor Valley should stay together because of the serious dialogue "about becoming one city"--mmh...revival or a continued battle plan??
(B) I served on an George AFB closure committee in the early 1990s where there were reports of all sorts of dangerous chemicals in the water from engine degreasing, JP-4 fuel additives, etc. I was inexplicably dropped off the Committee when I raised concerns about whether the plume was being properly characterized, the extent of the plume, where it was leaking into, what type of contaminants were involved (benzenes) & about low level radioactive waste (from medical equipment) tossed into the rip rap below the golf course potentially presenting a threat to the Mojave River; bad news about the water is not what Victorville wanted to hear;
2. MWA (the Mojave Water Agency, with an elected board that is far too developer & realtor friendly in this blogger's opinion) snatches up the pumping rights in a lawsuit against everyone using more than 10 acre feet a year along the Mojave River, whether or not the farmers & ranchers on the river could afford $75,000 to $100,000 in legal costs defending their water rights against being taken by MWA restrictions being imposed (which most could not afford); MWA takes control of pumping rights, implements ramp down penalties to family owned ranches and farms that did not plant until market prices changed and by that effectively seized historically owned water rights without compensation;
3. Victorville attempts to annex land along the Mojave via LAFCO, which Mitzelfelt serves on;
4. Victorville & Mitzelfelt push for the land swap with CEMEX for barren land to the North of the river which will involve, in order for there to be development, water from the Mojave basin
5. Adelanto's Re-Zones barren desert within its zone (which does not have enough water to develop)
6. San Bernardino County Flood Control does not repair the damage caused by runaway waters in their channels in the Oro Grande area, but instead is looking at getting a FEMA grant to buy everyone out and move them; Brad is pushing for the FEMA grant?
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Common demon-inator. Brad Mitzelfelt (who sits on all the key boards, panels and commissions). What super Mensch(-es) does he serve? No one has ever done an in depth investigation into Brad Mitzelfelt's masters. Mitzelfelt is slick--in the middle of corruption & conflict of interest investigations, his wife gets reportedly a $80k/yr county job (she has now "quit"), he spent discretionary funds for political photo shoots for years (thankfully that just ended by a vote of the board), he muffles/chills potential critics (reporters) in the media by hiring them to serve on his field staff at salaries 2 to 3 times more than what they were getting paid working for their former employers, he was Postmus' chief of staff during all his tweeking & hospitalizations & aided in the cover-ups of the real Postmus. During the Colonies settlement process, who do you think ran the office and lobbied the other two members of the Board & their staff, yet Kirk gets prosecuted & Brad Mitzelfelt doesn't? Maybe its time for the mainstream media to ask the hard questions and quit lobbing soft pitches. Besides, what's with the bowl cut?
The (b)Rats Are Scurrying without a Clue?
In a local paper I read some amazing recaps of what was going on locally:
(1) Financially distressed Victorville is going to sue our Homeland Security Department over the government's ending of the EB-5 visa program Victorville was using to raise capital[putting aside the loss of American jobs and the misdirection of City resources to help foreign investors over Victorville residents] suing Homeland Security is stupid!--the city's lawyers must think they can do what "Alan Shore" of "Boston Legal" fame occasionally did for clients--sue the federal government for principle's sake--yeah right, like that is going to last past a early termination motion brought by the feds [don't these City Councilpeople read the statutes which set out the discretion & immunities Homeland Security has? Oh yeah I forgot, they did not read the Redflex Redlight camera contract either]--WHAT A MONEY WASTE!!
Victorville should be firing their lawyers, not giving them more work! Thank you Councilwoman Valles for voting against the stupid lawsuit!
(2) Financially distressed San Bernardino County is in a fight with SEBA (the union for the District Attorneys, their investigators, evidence handlers, etc) over a pay & benefit cut and now seems willing to take back to the membership a pay and benefit cut proposal [duh....the entire legal community is going through financial crises...our costs increase, many people can't afford to pay for legal services except at a fraction of what they did just a few years ago, the delays mount getting cases to trial--if a 7% cut is all that is in issue--take it, move on, save money to make up the difference]--No one is saying the hard-working SEBA people don't deserve it--God knows they do but SEIZE THE MOMENT SEBA MEMBERS -- once those jobs go, it will be a long time before they start coming back! I remember when Arnold S. took over after the recall campaign and the CTA (California Teachers' Association) went to him first, cut a deal minimizing their losses and left all the other unions hanging without contracts or facing a scap over what was left. Maybe a lesson to be learned/taken to heart!
(3) Financially distressed school districts in San Bernardino County are footing the bill on more needless litigation [the "Public Safety Academy" Charter is now in litigation over the firing of the founder's wife]--putting aside the conflict of interest question, this expense will take away from the money for student services--is anyone investigating if there is an abuse/misuse of public funds here??]
The Charter School movement has had its distractors, but THIS CLEARLY IS A MISPLACED USE OF SCHOOL RESOURCES!!
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This list is partial--there are the lawsuits involving Kenneth Beck against the Thouvenell campaign (?), the Rancho Cucamonga public employee pension plan restructuring talks, the San Bernardino City public employee pension plan restructurting talks breakdown-- a lot is in play.
(1) Financially distressed Victorville is going to sue our Homeland Security Department over the government's ending of the EB-5 visa program Victorville was using to raise capital[putting aside the loss of American jobs and the misdirection of City resources to help foreign investors over Victorville residents] suing Homeland Security is stupid!--the city's lawyers must think they can do what "Alan Shore" of "Boston Legal" fame occasionally did for clients--sue the federal government for principle's sake--yeah right, like that is going to last past a early termination motion brought by the feds [don't these City Councilpeople read the statutes which set out the discretion & immunities Homeland Security has? Oh yeah I forgot, they did not read the Redflex Redlight camera contract either]--WHAT A MONEY WASTE!!
Victorville should be firing their lawyers, not giving them more work! Thank you Councilwoman Valles for voting against the stupid lawsuit!
(2) Financially distressed San Bernardino County is in a fight with SEBA (the union for the District Attorneys, their investigators, evidence handlers, etc) over a pay & benefit cut and now seems willing to take back to the membership a pay and benefit cut proposal [duh....the entire legal community is going through financial crises...our costs increase, many people can't afford to pay for legal services except at a fraction of what they did just a few years ago, the delays mount getting cases to trial--if a 7% cut is all that is in issue--take it, move on, save money to make up the difference]--No one is saying the hard-working SEBA people don't deserve it--God knows they do but SEIZE THE MOMENT SEBA MEMBERS -- once those jobs go, it will be a long time before they start coming back! I remember when Arnold S. took over after the recall campaign and the CTA (California Teachers' Association) went to him first, cut a deal minimizing their losses and left all the other unions hanging without contracts or facing a scap over what was left. Maybe a lesson to be learned/taken to heart!
(3) Financially distressed school districts in San Bernardino County are footing the bill on more needless litigation [the "Public Safety Academy" Charter is now in litigation over the firing of the founder's wife]--putting aside the conflict of interest question, this expense will take away from the money for student services--is anyone investigating if there is an abuse/misuse of public funds here??]
The Charter School movement has had its distractors, but THIS CLEARLY IS A MISPLACED USE OF SCHOOL RESOURCES!!
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This list is partial--there are the lawsuits involving Kenneth Beck against the Thouvenell campaign (?), the Rancho Cucamonga public employee pension plan restructuring talks, the San Bernardino City public employee pension plan restructurting talks breakdown-- a lot is in play.
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