Even before I quit the Planning Commission, I wrote letters on May 7, 2005, to the city attorney about unapproved specified plan and no “CUP” conditional use permit on one big project.
On June 3, 2005, I wrote another letter that the Planning Commission was being compromised, the city attorney, City Council, and the city administrator were not giving any type of information to the Planning Commission. Nothing.
The residents of the city of Guadalupe were asking the Planning Commission all kinds of questions about what was going on. I, myself, could not answer any questions because I didn’t have the answers or information; the City Council and city administrator were bypassing the Planning Commission.
This is beginning to look and feel like the city of Bell in the Los Angeles area all over again. If this Guadalupe City Council doesn’t listen to the residents of the city of Guadalupe, we are going to lose a lot again.
Where is the City Council? The only time you see them or talk to them is when they are running for office.
I think the city administrator should go and let the City Council run the city. If this City Council doesn’t know how to run the city of Guadalupe they should leave the City Council.
The city has no money and yet the city administrator got a big raise.
This article appears in Jan 14-21, 2016.