Agenda Includes Rancho San Gorgonio Specific Plan and to Lease Two Fire Engines from Riverside County
The Banning City Council is considering Approving the Rancho San Gorgonio Specific Plan which includes Approval of the CEQA, Changing the General Plan, changing the Zoning, Adopting a Water Supply Assessment, and Approving Ordinance 1499, which, although it doesn’t say, is an agreement to acquire Mello Roos Bond Debt to finance the Developer and throw the burden onto the ‘future’ property owners just like Beaumont has done for 20 years.
The City of Banning has acquired a $42.7 Million Bond in 2005 to build Infrastructure including a Recycled Water Facility. There is no Recycled Water Facility and the City can only produce documentation showing $2.3 Million transferred to the City for ‘design’. The 2005 Bond was Refinanced in 2015, but the City refused to release any documentation to show Expenditures.
Federal Law requires Government Agencies to properly maintain all Bond Records. The Banning City Council can ‘promise’ the Developer Bonds, but if the Banning Staff and Council has misappropriated previous Bond Funds; there will be no Bond Funding in the Future.
Also on the Agenda is Resolution 2016-43: an Agreement with the Riverside County Fire Department to lease Fire Engines to “guarantee the City will have two serviceable fire engines”.
It’s a little hard to believe that the CEQA for the Rancho San Gorgonio Specific Plan is factual when the City has never built a Recycled Water Facility and doesn’t have the money to purchase their own Fire Engines.
It is illegal for forge government documents.
The CEQA requires a Title 22 Compliant Recycled Water Facility and points out the fact that there is not adequate Fire Protection.
The 2005 Wastewater Bond states that the City will have Recycled Water by 2010. The 2015 Bond claims that the City will have Recycled Water by 2020. The City can only produce $2.3 Million in Requisitions showing money transferred to the City for ‘design’.
‘Design’ was an old excuse Beaumont used to funnel money to Urban Logic. The Requisitions were signed by only the Finance Director. Federal Laws require two (2) signatures.