July 9 SBC Sentinel Legal Notices

FBN 20210004680
The following entity is doing business as JM ROOFING 3685 N. E STREET #307 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405: JOB MARTINEZ AVALOS 3685 N. E STREET #307 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ JOB MARTINEZ AVALOS
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/04/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, Deputy I1327 NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 5/14, 5/21, 5/28 & 6/04, 2021
Corrected on 6/18, 6/5, 7/02 & 7/09, 2021.

FBN 20210004683
The following entity is doing business as MI GENERAL CONSTRUCTION 8274 CONCORD AVE FONTANA, CA 92335 MARIANO IRAHETA BAIRES 8274 CONCORD AVE FONTANA, CA 92335
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ MARIANO IRAHETA BAIRES
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/04/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, Deputy I1327 NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 5/14, 5/21, 5/28 & 6/04, 2021
Corrected on 6/18, 6/5, 7/02 & 7/09, 2021.
FBN 20210006164
The following entity is doing business as TAMMY LAMBERTON HILLIARD, LPCC 47 1ST Street, Suite A Redlands, CA 92373 [and] TAMMY LAMBERTON HILLIARD MA, MS LPCC 47 1ST Street, Suite A Redlands, CA 92373: TAMMY LAMBERTON HILLIARD A PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL COUNSELOR CORPORATION 47 1ST Street, Suite A Redlands, CA 92373
Mailing Address: PO BOX 8278 REDLANDS, CA 92375
This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION
BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ TAMMY LAMBERTON HILLIARD
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/10/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: 11/25/2020
County Clerk, Deputy C9754
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 6/18, 6/5, 7/02 & 7/09, 2021.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
ERIK H. BERLINER
NO. PROPS 2100624
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ERIK H. BERLINER
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by GAIL SELINGER in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that GAIL SELINGER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. No. S36 at 9 a.m. on JULY 15, 2021 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Filed: May 13, 2021
Attorney for the Petitioner: Jennifer M. Daniel, Esquire
220 Nordina St.
Redlands, CA 92373
Telephone No: (909) 792-9244 Fax No: (909) 235-4733
Email address: team@lawofficeofjenniferdaniel.com
Attorney for Erik H. Berliner
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel June 25, July 2 & July 9, 2021.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVSB2116266
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Marleina Reylene Fraire filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Leia Rey Panelli to Lola Rey Panelli
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 08/11/21
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S17
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,County of San Bernardino, 247 W. Third St., San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the The San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: June 11, 2021
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in The San Bernardino County Sentinel on 06/25/21, 07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210006656
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Lovely Dental, 130 S. Mountain Ave, Unit G, Upland, CA 91786, Dental Practice of Dr. A.F. Concepcion, 130 S Mountain Ave Unit 6, Upland, CA 91786
Business is Conducted By: A Corporation
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Anthony F Concepcion
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/23/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 05/04/21
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
06/25/21, 07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21

FBN 20210005115 The following entity is doing business as THEMINIBEAUTICIAN; MELSSHHECRETA; #LOOKFEELSMELLBEAUTIFUL; MDULAYSTOUCH; #DECKEDOUT; #LETSENHANCELETSNOTCHANGE, 13788 ROSWELL AVE., SUITE 136 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709: MELISSA M DULAY 2359 VALLEY VIEW DR. CHINO HILLS , CA 91709 Mailing Address: 2359 VALLEY VIEW DR. CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing. S/ MELISSA M DULAY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/13/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: APRIL 15, 2021 County Clerk, Deputy I1327 NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 5/21, 5/28, 6/4 & 6/11, 2021 & Corrected on: 06/25/21, 07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21

ABANDONMENT OF AN FBN 20210004542 The following entity was doing business as GAMESTOP 5196 14190 BEAR VALLEY ROAD, SUITE C VICTORVILLE, CA 92392: GAMESTOP, INC 625 WESTPORT PARKWAY GRAPEVINE, TEXAS 76051 State of Incorporation: MN Reg. No.: C1969245 Mailing Address: 625 WESTPORT PARKWAY GRAPEVINE, TX 76051 This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION Date of Current Filing: 11/16/20 Former FBN#: FBN20200010537 BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing. S/ GEORGE E. SHERMAN This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 04/29/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: 06/11/2005 County Clerk, Deputy I6733 NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel April 16, 23, and 30 & May 7, 2021, & Corrected on: 06/25/21, 07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO20210005212 The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Alied Physical Therapy, 7365 Carnelian Street Suite #124, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730, Alied Five Star Corp, 7365 Carnelian Street Suite #124, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing. s/Suraiya Ahmed This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 05/17/21 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: 02/23/2006 County Clerk, NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). 05/21/21, 05/28/21, 06/04/21, 06/11/21 & Corrected on: 06/25/21, 07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21

FBN 20210004541 The following entity was doing business as GAMESTOP 3897 16232 FOOTHILL BOULEVARD, SUITE B FONTANA, CA92335: GAMESTOP, INC 625 WESTPORT PARKWAY GRAPEVINE, TEXAS 76051 State of Incorporation: MN Reg. No.: 1969245 Mailing Address: 625 WESTPORT PARKWAY, ATTN: Business License Dept., GRAPEVINE, TX 76051 Date of Current Filing: 11/16/2020 Previous FBN#: FBN20200010522 This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing. S/ GEORGE E. SHERMAN This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 04/29/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: 05/10/2007 County Clerk, Deputy C9754 NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 5/21, 5/28, 6/4 & 6/11, 2021 & Corrected on: 06/25/21, 07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MICHAEL EDWARD VASQUEZ
CASE NO. PROSB2100144
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of MICHAEL EDWARD VASQUEZ has been filed by ROSEANN BECERRA in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROSEANN BECERRA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held AUGUST 5, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. No. S36 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
Kimberly Tilley, Deputy
JUNE 15, 2021
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Filed: APRIL 1, 2021
Attorney for the Roseann Becerra:
R. SAM PRICE SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
300 E STATE STREET SUITE 620
REDLANDS, CA 92373
(909) 475 8800
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 2, July 9 & July 16, 2021.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: VIRGINIA L. HADLEY
CASE NO. PROSB2100158
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of VIRGINIA L. HADLEY has been filed by VALERIE CARESS in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that VALERIE CARESS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held AUGUST 18, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. No. S37 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
Judge Tara Reilly
JUNE 15, 2021
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Filed: June 15, 2021
Attorney for the Valerie Caress:
R. SAM PRICE SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
300 E STATE STREET SUITE 620
REDLANDS, CA 92373
(909) 475 8800
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 2, July 9 & July 16, 2021.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JAD OUSSAMA SIDANI
CASE NO. PROSB2100135
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JAD OUSSAMA SIDANI
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by
Marissa Navarrette in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Marissa Navarrette be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held AUGUST 2, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. No. S-36 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Filed: JUNE 25, 2021
Attorney for the Petitioner:
TYLER H. BROWN, ESQ. SBN 259620
BROWN & BROWN
1152 N. MOUNTAIN AVE, SUITE 210
UPLAND, CA 91786
Telephone No: (909) 982-5086
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 07/02, 07/09 & 07/16, 2021
FBN 20210006704
The following person is doing business as BELOVED LULU 3040 N. STODDARD AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405: AILEEN ROBLES 3040 N. STODDARD AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ AILEEN ROBLES
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/24/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, Deputy I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 10/30/20, 11/06/20, 11/13/20 & 11/20/20
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210006021
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Sharkey Financial, 7828 Haven Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730, College Planning Professionals, LLC, 7828 Haven Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
Business is Conducted By: A Limited Liability Company
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Stephanie Harkey
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/07/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21, 07/23/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210006127
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Cano’s Pool Service, 5394 Yale St, Montclair, CA 91763, Alejandro Lucas, 5394 Yale St, Montclair, CA 91763
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ Alejandro Lucas
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/10/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 05/31/2021
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21, 07/23/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210006127
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Cano’s Pool Service, 5394 Yale St, Montclair, CA 91763, Alejandro Lucas, 5394 Yale St, Montclair, CA 91763
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ Alejandro Lucas
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/10/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 05/31/2021
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21, 07/23/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210006763
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: POP Roxy Girls, 18018 Deerberry Way, San Bernardino, CA 92407, Mailing Address: 18018 Deerberry Way, San Bernardino, CA 92407, Keisha M. Harris, 18018 Deerberry Way, San Bernardino, CA 92407
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ Keisha M. Harris
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/29/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 03/01/2021
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
07/02/21, 07/09/21, 07/16/21, 07/23/21
Notice of Sale of Real Property at Private Sale
Case No.: PROPS2000150
In re the Matter of: THE ESTATE OF ISABEL FRANCO STOKES, Decedent.
Pursuant to Probate Code §§ 10300, 10304,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, subject to confirmation by this court, on September 8, 2021, at 9:00 a.m., or thereafter within the time allowed by law, Jaime Salazar, as administrator of the estate of the above-named decedent, will sell at public auction to the highest and best net bidder on the terms and conditions stated below all right, title, and interest of the decedent at the time of death and all right, title, and interest that the estate has acquired in addition to that of the decedent at the time of death, in the real property located in San Bernardino County, California.
This property is commonly referred to as 1476 Turquoise Avenue, Mentone, CA 92359, assessor’s parcel number 0298-073-10-0-000, and is more fully described as follows: The following described real property located in the County of San Bernardino, State of California: Lot 16 of Tract Number 2868 Soffel addition# 2, as per Map recorded in Book 39, page{s) 66 of Maps, in the office of the County Recorder, San Bernardino County, State of California.
The property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights of way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price.
The property is to be sold on an “as is” basis, except for title.
The personal representative has given an exclusive listing to REACH Real Estate.
Bids or offers are invited for this property and must be in writing, and can be mailed or delivered at any time after first publication of this notice and before any sale is made, to the attorney for the administrator: R. Sam Price Price Law Firm APC 300 East State Street, Suite 620 Redlands, CA 92373 (909) 328-7000
The property will be sold on the following terms: Cash, or part cash and part credit, the terms of such credit to be acceptable to the undersigned and to the court, 10 percent (10%) of the amount of the bid to accompany the offer by certified check, and the balance to be paid within thirty (30) days of confirmation of sale by the court.
Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to the purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance. Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer taxes, and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers.
The right is reserved to reject any and all bids.
The amount of overbid should at least be $237,800.
A 10% deposit by the successful overbidder in the form of certified check is a requirement.
The time and place for anyone wishing or seeking to contest the auctioning of this property or the process by which it is to take place is to make such a protest is August 10, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Department S36 before the Honorable Judge Hon. Michelle H. Gilleece.
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino
247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District – Probate Division.
For further information and bid forms, contact: R. Sam Price Price Law Firm APC 300 East State Street, Suite 620 Redlands, CA 92373 (909) 328-7000 sam@pricelawfirm.com
Filed: June 2, 2021
Selyna Razo, Deputy Clerk San Bernardino County Superior Court
S/Jaime Salazar, Administrator of the Estate of Isabel Franco Stokes
S/ R. Sam Price, Esq. Attorney for Jaime Salazar
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel July 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2021
FBN 20210006058
The following person is doing business as: CHERRY EXPRESS 790 E. FRUITVALE HEMET, CA 92543 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); NIGEL A CHERRY 790 E. FRUITVALE AVE. HEMET, CA 92543
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ NIGEL A. CHERRY, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/08/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/18/2021, 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021 CNBB24202101IR

FBN 20210006057
The following person is doing business as: BRUTE SERVICES 201 S. PENNSYLVANIA AVE. SP 78 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410 (COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); YESENIA D VALLEJO GARCIA 201 S. PENNSYLVANIA AVE. SP 78 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ YESENIA D. VALLEJO GARCIA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/08/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/18/2021, 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021 CNBB24202102IR

FBN 20210006509
The following person is doing business as: OPEN DOOR REALTY & INVESTMENTS 8291 UTICA AVE STE A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); ROSA M ESTRADA 8291 UTICA AVE STE A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ ROSA M. ESTRADA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/08/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/18/2021, 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021 CNBB24202103MT

FBN 20210005955
The following person is doing business as: MARIA’S HOUSE CLEANING SERVICES 1323 CLAY ST REDLANDS, CA 92374 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); [ MAILING ADDRESS 311 W CIVIC CENTER DR STE B SANTA ANA, CA 92701]; MARIA G MEJIA-GONZALEZ 1323 CLAY ST REDLANDS, CA 92374
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MARIA GUADALUPE MEJIA-GONZALEZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/03/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/18/2021, 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021 CNBB24202104CV
FBN 20210006154
The following person is doing business as: J & B LANDSCAPE SERVICES 4935 DENVER ST MONTCLAIR, CA 91763 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); JOSE LUIS BARRIOS 4935 DENVER ST MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JOSE LUIS BARRIOS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/10/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021 CNBB252021021SN

FBN 20210006113
The following person is doing business as: MR. ROOTER PLUMBING OF VICTORVILLE 15431 ANACAPA RD SUITE 1 VICTORVILLE, CA 92392 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); PINA ENTERPIRSE, INC. 25608 NILES ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JOSE PINA, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/09/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021 CNBB25202102IR

FBN 20210006109
The following person is doing business as: PUROSOLE 1334 CEDAR ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); FRANK J SCLAFANI JR 1334 CEDAR ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ FRANK J. SCLAFANI JR, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/09/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021 CNBB25202103MT

FBN 20210006063
The following person is doing business as: ROSAS MAINTENANCE 315 W H ST ONTARIO, CA 91762 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); FLORENTINO ROSAS 315 W H ST ONTARIO, CA 91762
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JUL 02, 2015
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ FLORENTINO ROSAS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/08/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021 CNBB25202104MT

FBN 20210006107
The following person is doing business as: SPARKLINE CLEAN DETAILING 827 S. TAMARISK AVE. RILTO, CA 92376 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); AARON M STEWARD 827 S. TAMARISK AVE. RILATO, CA 92376
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ AARON M. STEWARD, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/09/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021 CNBB25202105IR

FBN 20210005542
The following person is doing business as: ICED AESTHETICS STUDIO. 1705 E. WASHINGTON ST. SUITE 102A COLTON, CA 92324 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); [ MAILING ADDRESS 518 S. ALTHEA AVE RIALTO, CA 92376]; MANIDA T SON 518 S. ALTHEA AVE. RIALTO, CA 92376
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MANIDA T SON, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 05/24/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 06/25/2021, 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021 CNBB25202106IR
FBN 20210006609
The following person is doing business as: TAYS PEST CONTROL LLC 6087 PORTSMOUTH STREET CHINO, CA 91710 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); TAYS PORTSMOUTH STREET CHINO, CA 91710
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ OCTAVIUS DANIELS, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/22/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202101

FBN 20210006547
The following person is doing business as: COR COOKING 7206 GABRIEL DRIVE FONTANA, CA 92336 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); MEGAN R POTTS 7206 GABRIEL DRIVE FONTANA, CA 92336; SCOTT A IRWIN 7206 GABRIEL DRIVE FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JAN 24, 2019
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MEGAN R. POTTS, GENERAL PARTNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/22/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202102MT

FBN 20210006462
The following person is doing business as: SIRANDA’S HOME RENOVATION 563 FILLMORE PL APT E POMONA, CA 91768 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); FRANCISCO J SIRANDA 563 FILMORE PL APT E POMONA, CA 91768; MELISSA A SIRANDA 563 FILMORE PL APT E POMONA, CA 91768
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MELISSA A SIRANDA, WIFE
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/18/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202103CH

FBN 20210006323
The following person is doing business as: ACCURATE ORNAMENTALS 1891 DORJIL PLACE. APT F SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); JOSE C GUTIERREZ JR 1891 DORJIL PLACE. APT F SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JAN 28, 2021
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JOSE C. GUTIERREZ JR, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/15/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202104IR

FBN 20210006324
The following person is doing business as: VENTURE VINDICATION; FASHION SEVEN 0 TOW 13146 WARM SANDS CT VICTORVILLE, CA 92394 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); MIRZA HASSAN 13146 WARM SANDS CT VICTORVILLE, CA 92394
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MIRZA HASSAN, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/15/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202105IR

FBN 20210006321
The following person is doing business as: AMPELIO PADILLA’S BARBERSHOP 4639 RIVERSIDE DR CHINO, CA 91710 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS );[ MAILING ADDRESS 944 E. LEXINGTON AVE POMONA, CA 91766]; AMPELIO ENTERPRISES, INC 4639 RIVERSIDE DR CHINO, CA 91710
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ YOLANDO P. SALAS, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/15/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202106

FBN 20210006562
The following person is doing business as: EMPORIO SUSHI & MARISCOS 9765 SIERRA AVE. STE J-K FONTANA, CA 92335 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS );[ MAILING ADDRESS P.O BOX 3471 ANAHEIM, CA 92803] EMPORIO SUSHI & MARISCOS 3 INC 9765 SIERRA AVE STE J-K FONTANA, CA 92335
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ HERNAN A. URIARTE, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/21/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202107IR

FBN 20210006550
The following person is doing business as: SQUID’S TATTOOS 12756 CAMPHOR CT. RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); SYDNEY J BRIONES 12756 CAMPHOR CT. RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ SYDNEY J. BRIONES, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/21/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202108IR

FBN 20210006546
The following person is doing business as: MAX’D OUT KICKS 2225 PUMALO STREET #276 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); ADORTHUS CHERRY 2225 PUMALO STREET #276 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: APR 15, 2021
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ ADORTHUS CHERRY, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/21/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202109MT

FBN 20210006318
The following person is doing business as: EMPIRE TRANSPORTATION 14840 EBONY PL FONTANA, CA 92335 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); NINEONINE TRANSPORTATION, INC. 14840 EBONY PL FONTANA, CA 92335
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ EMMANUEL LIZARRAGA, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/15/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202110
FBN 20210006317
The following person is doing business as: THE TUTORING TEACHER 7619 SANDPIPER COURT RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); ANNA O’BRIEN-KINSEY 7619 SANDPIPER COURT RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ ANNA O’BRIEN-KINSEY
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/15/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202111MT

FBN 20210006413
The following person is doing business as: VIP SHUTTERS 845 W VALLEY BLVD #29 COLTON, CA 92324 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); JOSE M MORALES LEON 845 W VALLEY BLVD #29 COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JOSE M. MORALES LEON, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/17/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202112MT

FBN 20210006470
The following person is doing business as: ALCARAZ TRANSPORT 357 S ASHFOD AVENUE RIALTO, CA 92376 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); CARLOS H ALCARAZ VERDUZCO 357 S ASHFORD AVENUE RIALTO, CA 92376
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: APR 27, 2018
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ CARLOS H. ALCARAZ VERDUZCO, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/18/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202113MT

FBN 20210006610
The following person is doing business as: CORSINI COACHING AND CONSULTING 2492 TROJAN WAY UPLAND, CA 91786 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); JIREH’
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JULIA CORSINI VAZQUEZ, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/22/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202114

FBN 20210006611
The following person is doing business as: GARMENTS OF PRAISE 2492 TROJAN WAY UPLAND, CA 91786 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); JIREH’S ENTERPRISES LLC 2492 TROJAN WAY UPLAND, CA 91786
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JULIA CORSINI VAZQUEZ, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/22/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/02/2021, 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021 CNBB26202115

FBN 20210006385
The following person is doing business as: RIVAS TRANSPORTATION 4620 LEROY ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); JUAN ANTONIO RIVAS ORELLANA 4620 LEROY ST SAN BERNARDINO,CA 92404
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JUAN ANTONIO RIVAS ORELLANA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/17/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021, 07/30/2021 CNBB27202101MT

FBN 20210006561
The following person is doing business as: H&J LAWN AND GARDEN 11535 RECHE CANYON RD COLTON, CA 92324 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); HECTOR M SALAZAR 11535 RECHE CANYON RD COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 08/05/2016
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ HECTOR M SALAZAR, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/21/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021, 07/30/2021 CNBB27202102IR

FBN 20210006609
The following person is doing business as: OBLIVION DESIGN 6387 REDHEAD WAY FONTANA, CA 92336 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); VALERY ADAMS 6387 REDHEAD WAY FONTANA, CA 92336; GLORIA BECERRA GARCIA 6387 REDHEAD WAY FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ VALERY ADAMS, GENERAL PARTNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/28/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021, 07/30/2021 CNBB27202103MT

FBN 20210006837
The following person is doing business as: ZORAM LUNA REALTY GROUP; ZORAM REALTY GROUP; ZORAM REAL ESTATE GROUP; ZORAM LUNA REAL ESTATE GROUP 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD #460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); ZORAM LUNA 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD #460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
The business is conducted by: OWNER
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ ZORAM LUNA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/01/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021, 07/30/2021 CNBB27202104MT

FBN 20210006905
The following person is doing business as: TOP DOG MOBILE GROOMING 7020 NOVARA PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); TAIYLOR V GWIN 7020 NOVARA PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91710
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ TAIYLOR V.GWIN, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/02/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021, 07/30/2021 CNBB27202105MT

FBN 20210006907
The following person is doing business as: CREATIVE CUTZ & STYLES 1638 E. WASHINGTON ST COLTON, CA 92324 ( COUNTY OF PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS ); JEREMI J MASSEY 1638 E. WASHINGTON ST COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: MAR 15, 2016
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JEREMI J. MASSEY, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/02/2021
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 07/09/2021, 07/16/2021, 07/23/2021, 07/30/2021 CNBB27202106MT
AFFIDAVIT
Notice
of
NAHIM GOVERNMENT PASSPORT
Nation of American Hebrew Israelite Monarchy referred to hereafter as, “NAHIM”,
attests it was established January 1, 2013 in the San Bernardino County, the California State,
as an “Independent Sovereign Government”, authorized by ‘law to exist pursuant to,
“Luther v. Borden US !,12;.LED 581. 1st Amendment Article 1l, 10th Amendment, & 11th Amendment.
‘’NAHIM’’ attest, the NAHIM GOVERNMENT PASSPORT is our “OFFICIAL IDENTIFICATION.” We have created our passport for the purposes of traveling worldwide, by air, land or sea; afforded the protection of “SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY” under the laws of the United States Constitution. We are centered on creating friendly relationships and communication with other countries worldwide for the ‘purpose of ministering salvation and the gospel of our heavenly father who is ‘OUR KING” Yhoah Ehyeh the creator of the heaven & earth in their countries.
‘’NAHIM’’ attest, the NAHIM Govemment is “Not” affiliated with the U.S. Government, nor any of it’s law enforcement agencies, yet we share the same goals of “HONORING/OBEYING’ the U.S. Constitution. All of our passport holders. “ARE AMERICAN BORN CITIZENS”.
This Affidavit of Notice can.be refuted by “ANYONE” within 30 days in a court of law by affidavit using U.S. Constitutional laws “ONLY” signed under perjury and notarized in the presence of a notary public proving the NAHIM Government passport is by U.S. Constitutional law “UNLAWFUL.” Should NO ONE refute this affidavit within the given 30 days of receiving it in a court of law, it is then DECLARED”, THE NAHIM GOVERNMENT PASSPORT IS A LAWFUL “SOVEREIGN PASSPORT TO POSSESS UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS WHICH AUTHORIZES ITS EXISTENCE
AND USE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD.
Send your Affidavit of refute to:
E. Sog
NAHIM Government
General Delivery, San Bernardino, Ca 92402
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 07/02, 07/09, 7/16 & 07/23, 2021
FBN 20210005949
The following person is doing business as GARNISH PIZZA & GRILL 7890 HAVEN AVE. UNIT 15 & 16 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730:
NATION FOOD SERVICE INC 7890 HAVEN AVE. UNIT 15 & 16 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION REGISTERED IN CALIFORNIA C4264978
BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ PARVINDER SINGH
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/3/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: APRIL 10, 1990
County Clerk, Deputy I6764
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 07/02, 07/09, 7/16 & 07/23, 2021
FBN 20210006061
The following person is doing business as OPTIMA REEFER SERVICE 18960 CAJON BLVD SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407: OPTIMA REEFER SERVIC, LLC 18960 CAJON BLVD SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407
This Business is Conducted By: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY REGISTERED IN CALIFORNIA 202114810451
BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ JOSE F. VALENCIANO GUTIERREZ
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/08/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, Deputy
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 07/02, 07/09, 7/16 & 07/23, 2021
FBN 20210006059
The following person is doing business as OPEN DOOR REALTY & INVESTMENT 8291 UTICA AVE STE A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
ROSA M ESTRADA 8291 UTICA AVE STE A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 [and] RICARDO CASTRO 8291 UTICA AVE STE A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
This Business is Conducted By: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ ROSA M ESTRADA
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/8/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, Deputy
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 07/02, 07/09, 7/16 & 07/23, 2021

Special Notice!

Be advised the special meeting of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors scheduled for tomorrow, July 7, 2021 at 1 p.m. is to be held in the Robert Covington meeting chamber on the first floor of the county administrative building located at 385 North Arrowhead Avenue in San Bernardino.

The Sentinel previously reported that the meeting was to be held in the Magda Lawson Room on the fifth floor of the county administrative building.  That previous report was in error.

The board of supervisors at the Wednesday July 7 meeting is to discuss the appointment of a replacement for Sheriff John McMahon, who on June 18 announced he is resigning as sheriff, effective July 16.

Warren Arranged $1.1 M Severance To Silence Hunt About Her Bribetaking

By Mark Gutglueck
The political and legal time bomb that has been ticking in Fontana since July 2019 grew closer to exploding this week when California State Auditor Elaine M. Howle turned her full attention to the situation surrounding the abrupt departure of Ken Hunt as Fontana city manager two years ago, and the financial and administrative arrangements that were made to buy his silence with regard to the events that led up to his leavetaking.
The more sophisticated, exacting and intense focus now being applied from entities outside the clubby governmental establishment that pervades San Bernardino County is now threatening to detonate that bomb, revealing layers of corruption in Fontana’s governmental structure implicating Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren.
In the spring of 2019, Hunt had experienced a remarkable 19-and-a-half year run as Fontana’s city manager and was at that time the highest paid city manager in San Bernardino County and among the highest paid city managers in the state. He had nearly two-and-a-half years left on what was then his current five-year contract with Fontana that was paying him $352,136.35 in salary and other pay and $93,516.67 in benefits for a total annual compensation of $445,653.02. For the previous eight years, just as it had been with the administrations of the city’s three previous mayors, Hunt had a very good relationship with the administration of Mayor Warren, who had been a city councilwoman since 2002 and mayor since 2010.
In May 2019, however, Hunt came face-to-face with convincing evidence of something he had over the previous few years suspected but could not prove, which was that Mayor Warren was hip deep in graft, and was taking kickbacks from entities that were doing business with the city.
There ensued what was for Warren and Hunt a very uncomfortable June, during which both sized up the political, legal and situational reality they were confronted with. Warren at that point had a lock on the city council. She counted Councilman John Roberts, Councilman Jesse Armendarez and Councilman Phil Cothran, Jr. as firm and fast allies who would back her down the line on anything, including shedding Hunt as city manager if it came to that. Hunt understood the political situation and the authority Warren wielded in that regard.
Nevertheless, Warren recognized Hunt possessed information that might prove highly problematic for her if he unleashed it. Hunt was in a difficult position. It is never easy for a government employee to work at cross purposes to his political masters. There was no telling how politicians elsewhere, where Hunt might eventually seek employment, would look upon his having betrayed the last mayor he had worked for. Simultaneously, Hunt was acutely conscious that even if he kept what he knew under his hat, there was no guarantee the information would not surface eventually anyway, and that though he was not himself involved in getting paid off, questions would emerge about what he knew and when he knew it. If he was put in the position of insisting he did not know what was going on, he would look incompetent. If he tried to explain that he knew but had allowed himself to be overridden by Warren and her political authority, his reputation would be damaged in a whole other way he would not want to live with.
Warren was not willing to undo what had been done, nor untangle herself from the quid pro quos she had engaged in which had endowed her and her political war chest with a commanding amount of money that virtually ensured her reelection as mayor for as long as she chose to remain politically active. Hunt was no longer willing to go along. The only way out was for Hunt to leave.
What ensued was a deal, one that instantaneously conferred more money on Hunt than he would make if he remained in place even beyond what would have been the full duration of his contract as city manager. An arrangement was made so that Hunt moved off into a comfortable retirement while he remained officially on the city payroll long enough for him to achieve his 30-year milestone as a public employee. In return, Hunt’s lips were sealed.
In July 2019, Hunt and the city announced that Hunt was leaving. Hunt departed Fontana City Hall, never to return. To even casual observers, the development seemed odd and took residents by surprise, as over the previous two years there had seemed to be a mutual lovefest between Hunt and the city council, the members of which went out of their way to justify Hunt’s salary by speaking of what an outstanding job he was doing in running the city and how he was responsible for Fontana’s enviable financial position. Mayor Warren maintained an air of nonchalance when discussing Hunt’s departure, at first hinting without actually saying that it was Hunt’s wish to retire and that the city had merely accommodated him. When she was pressed on the matter and it was pointed out that Hunt’s contract called for him remaining in place until the end of 2021, the mayor adjusted her statement to say that Hunt had resigned. That begat further questions, since Hunt’s voluntary resignation, under the terms of his contract, would have absolved the city of having to provide him the severance specified in his contract. The resignation, Warren insisted, was voluntarily made so Hunt “could retire.”
Warren was unwilling at that point to explain why the city had assented to a severance payout it did not need to make. In 2018, for 12 months of service as city manager, Hunt had made $445,653.02 in total compensation, that is full pay and benefits. In 2019, when Hunt had worked six months and fifteen days as city manager, he was paid $464,584.53 in total compensation, an indication he was receiving a severance despite his voluntary resignation. Peppered with further questions, Warren became testy, insisting that it was a personnel matter and that the questions needed to stop. Shortly thereafter, she conceded that a deal with Hunt had been reached to allow him to leave as city manager in July 2019 but remain on the payroll until January 2020, at which point Hunt would achieve 30 years as a city employee, thereby enhancing his pension. “He’s happy, We’re happy. Everyone’s happy,” Warren said.
As it turned out, however, that wasn’t the half of it.
The city had buried the fact that while Hunt was to remain on the payroll through January 31, 2020, the separation agreement he had finalized with the city on July 12, 2019 also called for him continuing to receive his full salary and health benefits for another year beyond that, until January 31, 2021. That was to be topped with another $312,864.95 in what was described as a “leave settlement.”
The separation agreement is illuminating, betraying that there was some degree of bad blood between Hunt and Warren and perhaps others at Fontana City Hall. In return for staying on the payroll until the end of January 2020 and getting paid for yet another year while he was not working, Hunt acquiesced to a demand that he leave City Hall at once. Also hidden in the agreement was that Hunt was being placed on “administrative leave,” a status inconsistent with him heading into a willful retirement.
The agreement had a clause in it that prohibited Hunt from saying anything at all about or explaining why he was leaving, such that if he were to be asked about the matter, he could answer such an inquiry “only by indicating that the separation was amicable.”
Ultimately, in February 2020, Fontana hired Mark Denny as city manager. Hunt’s situation faded from public focus.
More recently, however, State Controller Betty Yee published payroll data for cities and counties for the year 2020. That data showed that the Fontana city manager was paid $932,623 from January 1 until December 31, 2020.
Fontana’s city manager for 2020, or most of it, was Mark Denny. Denny did not make $932,623. Rather, Denny was paid $210,672.91 for the 11 months he did work in 2020. Before Denny arrived, Mike Milhiser had been serving as Fontana’s city manager. Milhiser was brought in as Hunt’s interim replacement at the end of July 2019, and he remained in place through to the end of January 2020. Milhiser was paid $19,152.08 for his work in January 2020.
Yee highlighted the $932,623 paid to the “Fontana city manager” in 2020. That aroused the interest of California State Auditor Elaine M. Howle, who noted that $932,623 being paid to a city manager was some $380,000 more than was paid to any other city manager in the state. At that point, it was revealed that the city manager in question was not Denny or Milhiser, but rather Hunt. When it was learned that Hunt had left the Fontana payroll at the end of January 2020 and had not actually worked since July 2019, alarms rang.
This prompted Fontana to issue a statement seeking to clarify things. The clarification spelled out that the full $932,623 had not gone to Hunt but rather to Hunt, Denny and Milhiser. Thus, Denny and Milhiser had been paid a combined total of $229,825 in 2020 and Hunt had been paid $702,798, that is $476,771.58 in pay and benefits and and a final $226,026.42 installment of his $312,864.95 leave settlement.
Whether Fontana’s statement will dissuade Howle from tracing everything out remains to be seen.
All told, from the point of his resignation in July 2019 going forward, Hunt was provided with a severance package that totaled $1,127,378.45, despite the consideration that the terms of his contract specified that if he resigned or in some other fashion voluntarily terminated his employment with the city, he was due no severance.
Sources close to Fontana City Hall say that the $702,798 paid to Hunt in 2020 will be very hard to justify if Howle chooses to put the City of Fontana through its paces. In actuality, that payment was hush money to keep Hunt quiet about what he learned over the last three or four years of his tenure as city manager, capped off by the details he learned in the Spring of 2019, the Sentinel was told. That includes money paid to Warren in various forms in exchange for votes she made and votes of others on the council she delivered, it is alleged.
One of those tainted votes pertained to the City of Fontana’s approval of a no-bid multi-million dollar contract with Alliance Building Solutions to equip city facilities with energy conservation systems and products and to install alternative energy supply sources such as solar energy panels on rooftops and carports.
As city manager, Hunt was pushing the city council to seek competitive bids on any energy efficiency projects the city was going to pursue. Warren, however, bypassed the bid process on the Alliance Building Solutions contract. While in most cases governments and public agencies at all levels are required by law to utilize a competitive bid process, that requirement is suspended in certain circumstances such as emergencies or where the urgency for the service or goods is so great that soliciting, receiving and evaluating bids would result in a delay that would harm public safety, health or well being.
One specific exception to the competitive bid requirement for public agencies and governments in California relates to energy efficiency projects. As long as a public agency or government can demonstrate that the work or service to be provided will result in improved energy efficiency or a reduction in fuel or energy use as well as show that some savings in cost will accrue to the entity contracting for the service, it need not conduct a bidding process but can simply award a contract to a provider of that service. While not conducting a competitive bidding process on energy conservation or energy efficiency projects is an option for governments and public agencies, they can, if they so choose, seek competitive bids.
Warren’s efforts in helping Alliance Building Solutions get the no-bid contract in Fontana was one of the patterns in her conduct that brought Hunt to the conclusion that Warren was on the take, an individual knowledgeable about the circumstance told the Sentinel.
More recently, Alliance Building Solutions’ founder and principal, Brad Chapman, has hired former San Bernardino County Supervisor Bill Postmus to serve as his company’s representative. Postmus is now seeking to convince Warren to again use Alliance Building Solutions in improving energy efficiency at other Fontana city facilities, and in so doing not engage in an open bidding process, rather allowing Chapman’s company to obtain the contract for the energy efficiency conversion work without subjecting it to having to compete against any other purveyors of the service. Simultaneously, Postmus’s strategy includes conveying money from Chapman to Warren and other Fontana officials, money which is to be provided to them either as campaign contributions or payments in some other form.
Warren was unwilling to discuss why the severance package was conferred upon Hunt or what her position is on having Alliance Building Solutions involved in any future energy efficiency projects the city is to engage in.

Illegal Aliens Over 50 To Get Medi-Cal Coverage In Spring 2022

By Richard Hernandez
Even as millions of California residents with full U.S. citizenship are unable to access healthcare, the State of California next spring will extend Medi-Cal health coverage to some 235,000 low-income undocumented immigrants over the age of 50 – offering the most expansive health coverage in the nation to people without legal residency.
Medi-Cal is California’s medical assistance program serving the handicapped, low-income woman, children as well as state residents 65 years of age or older. It is generally not available for able-bodied men under the age of 65.
The State of California already offered Medi-Cal healthcare to immigrant children and young adults under the age of 26. This latest expansion, once it receives final approval, will mean undocumented immigrants other than those between the ages of 26 to 50 will be eligible to receive healthcare, the expense of which is to be defrayed by California’s taxpayers.
On June 25, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom, as part of the state’s $262.6 billion 2021-2022 budget, finalized a pact with leaders of both the California Assembly and State Senate which is to extend Medi-Cal coverage to undocumented immigrants who have eclipsed the age of 50. On Monday, June 28, both houses of California’s legislature approved the budget. The Medi-Cal expansion was included in the health care omnibus bill tacked onto the budget and approved yesterday.
In practical terms, legislative analysts predict the change will provide Medi-Cal health care coverage to an estimated 230,000 to 240,000 low-income undocumented immigrants over the age of 50 at a cost of $1.3 billion. It was not spelled out how legislative staff was able to make an estimate of the number of the undocumented population in California over the age of 50. California law prevents the tabulation of statistics on undocumented aliens, which includes their point of origin, age and gender. Federal immigration authorities are subject to no such restriction, but those statistics are not systematically or methodically compiled in any meaningfully comprehensive way in California because state law does not allow state or local authorities to cooperate with federal immigration officials. Nor is it clear how claimants of the benefits will establish their age to be eligible for the benefits, and what protocol Medi-Cal will use in ascertaining the actual eligibility of those applying under the new regulations.
A move has been afoot at least since 2014 to extend Medi-Cal benefits to illegal aliens, championed by then-Assemblyman Ricardo Lara. Lara’s original proposed legislation failed to gain passage, but in 2016 legislation was passed and signed into law that extended Medi-Cal coverage to children without legal residency status. Last year, on January 1, 2020, based on Senate Bill 104 passed into law in 2019, Medi-Cal was extended to cover low-income illegal aliens aged 19 to 25.
Governor Gavin Newsom has justified the extension of health care to non-citizens as part of a larger effort to integrate the estimated 2.3 million illegal aliens residing in California into society.
The 2.3 million number roughly reflects the estimated 2.5 million U.S.-born Californians who also are not fully integrated into society, whose inability to pay for health care leaves them without doctors, dentists and access to medicine, therapy and treatment. Under both U.S. law and California law, their inability to afford health insurance renders them non-compliant with statutes mandating that they secure, at their own expense and without assistance from the government, medical coverage. Failure to secure medical coverage for oneself or any minor children under one’s care or guardianship, under California law and U.S. law is a crime.
The federal law relating to failure to maintain health insurance falls under the U.S. Tax Code. The federal tax penalty for not being enrolled in health insurance is $695 for adults and $347.50 for children or 2 percent of the individual taxpayer’s or breadwinner’s yearly income, whichever amount is more. Under California state law, the failure to secure minimal coverage entails penalties of $695 for each adult in a household and $347.50 per child or 2.5 percent of the household’s annual income, whichever is the higher amount of the two.
Both federal law and state law have driven hundreds of thousands of Californians underground. In some cases, California residents who are U.S. citizens have gone to extraordinary means to make fraudulent representation of having medical coverage for themselves or their families that they do not possess. This, in most cases, entails the commission of several felonies.
The adjustments to California’s 2021-2022 budget to provide the $1.3 billion in funding that will be applied beginning in May 2022 to provide Medi-Cal overage to illegal aliens over the age of 50 were championed by California Senator Maria Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, and Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno.
“Health care is a human right. All Californians should have the right to healthcare, regardless of immigration status,” Arambula, a former emergency room doctor said. “I am proud that in California we are tearing down barriers for our immigrant families, not building them.”
The expansion of Medi-Cal coverage to illegal aliens over the age of 50 comes while Lara is now serving as California’s health insurance commissioner.
An effort was made, in light of the anticipated provision of Medi-Cal to illegal aliens over the age of 50, to see if Lara believes that California residents who are taxpaying American citizens who cannot afford health insurance should still be subject to the $695 per adult or $357.50 per child state penalties. Lara was also asked if he at this point supports making Medi-Cal available to U.S. citizens who are residents of California between the ages of 19 and 25 and the ages of 50 and 64 who cannot afford to purchase medical insurance. Lara was asked if he considered fining or financially penalizing those who cannot afford medical insurance to be a sound social policy. Lara was asked if he in fact was opposed to making Medi-Cal available to U.S. citizens who are residents of California between the ages of 19 and 25 and the ages of 50 and 64 who cannot afford to purchase medical insurance, would he support converting the fines or financial penalties levied upon the households where medical insurance has not been secured into credit toward those households purchasing medical insurance.
Lara did not respond.

Undersheriff Dicus’s Appointment To Replace McMahon As Sheriff “An Inevitability”

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors is on an irretrievable trajectory to designate Undersheriff Shannon Dicus as the replacement for Sheriff John McMahon, multiple personages within the sheriff’s department and the senior level of the county’s governmental structure have told the Sentinel.
McMahon has served as sheriff since he was appointed to the post in 2012 following his predecessor Rod Hoops’ resignation. He proved victorious at the polls as the unelected incumbent in 2014 against two challengers and was then reelected unchallenged in the 2018 election. He abruptly announced his retirement on June 18, effective July 16.
Political considerations, the culture of the county’s intertwined governmental and law enforcement silos, departmental history and county tradition, compounded by Dicus’s stated determination to seek election in 2022 gives him a leg up on on the three applicants he is competing against. When the current board of supervisors’ interest in maintaining continuity in the department to preserve the status quo and the current dynamic of noninterference between the county’s ruling elite and its law enforcement arm is thrown into the mix, the board’s appointment of anyone other than Dicus to succeed McMahon is inconceivable.
Two of the three others besides Dicus seeking the sheriff’s post are essentially outsiders. One enjoys some political cachet but has now, after having risen to a mid-level management post with the department, fallen into what is predominantly outsider status within the sheriff’s office.
The board of supervisors is scheduled to interview the four candidates on Wednesday, July 7, and it is anticipated that a vote settling the succession question will be taken before that convocation concludes.
The sheriff’s position carries with it the adjunct titles of coroner and public administrator while providing an average yearly salary and other pay of $280,000 and benefits of $248,000 for a total annual compensation of $528,000.Competing with Dicus for the sheriff’s appointment are Phillip Dupper, Clifton Harris and William Loenhorst.
Phill Dupper can arguably make for himself, or others might make for him, a disputed claim to insider or establishment status, as he has acceded to the rank of lieutenant after 25 years with the sheriff’s department. Upon graduating from the academy in 1996, he was assigned to the county jails, thereafter working patrol out of the Fontana Station. He promoted to detective, whereupon he was sent to the Rancho Cucamonga Station, then subsequently worked in the narcotics division. Upon being promoted to sergeant, he returned to the department’s jails, was thereafter assigned to Morongo Valley and was brought back to Rancho Cucamonga. After his promotion to lieutenant, he worked out of the department’s headquarters on Third Street in San Bernardino, overseeing the department’s information technology, central communications and dispatch functions. He has since returned to the department’s corrections division, first at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga and currently at the Glen Helen Rehabilitation Center in Devore.
Dupper is presently Loma Linda mayor, and has served on the Loma Linda City Council for 11 years. Previously, he was a board member and eventual vice president of the Safety Employees Benefit Association, the union representing San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies.
While he has demonstrated a degree of dedication and proficiency as well as the requisite patience and political finesse to advance to lieutenant’s rank, the 47-year old Dupper has not been entirely closed-mouthed with regard to his observations about what he sees as shortcomings in the department’s operations, and he has voiced his belief that the changing social and technological environment in the post modern world has created both subtle and substantial changes in the way a law enforcement agency should and needs to operate. Moreover, his experience as an elected official, particularly in a city where his department provides contract law enforcement service and serves as Loma Linda’s police department, has given him a perspective on the context in which law enforcement function is seen as an element of a community and its government rather than a self-centric function unto itself. The past command echelon that was in place when Dupper was hired which was a generation to a generation-and-a-half older than what he was and the current command echelon, which is a-half generation his senior, have not always been ready to accept his view of things or adapt to his more nuanced perception of the world. Functioning in the mostly black-and-white environment of traditional law enforcement, Dupper has become less of a whistleblower than whippersnapper who has been confined to the bush leagues by his elders, one who is unlikely to make the leap to the department’s command echelon. At this point, he is ten years or so shy of what would be typical retirement age for someone in the department. It was already touch and go as to whether he would have gained promotion to captain. Now, having marked himself as the one member of the department who challenged the collective will and consensus at the most senior levels of the department which hold that Dicus is the logical heir apparent to McMahon, Dupper almost assuredly has consigned himself to a position no higher than lieutenant for the remainder of his career with the department.
In his written application to the board of supervisors seeking consideration of his appointment to replace his current boss on July 15, Dupper referenced “a perceived lack of internal procedural justice by employees within the organization. Quite a few employees believe the department operates like a good ol’ boys club, where personal relationships matter more than qualifications or efficacy. Decisions, promotions and assignments are made based on who employees align themselves with politically or socially. Many employees believe the department to be a place where leadership models do as I say, but not as I do. For those who speak up or become whistleblowers, they are ostracized, and sometimes even punished for doing so. Many employees believe the disciplinary system is disparate, giving favor to people who are ‘connected.’ Many see a lack of diversity within upper ranks. Some employees perceive hypocrisy, nepotism and cronyism as being openly embraced. Some say their commanders model or even brag the best way to stay out of trouble or advance within the organization is to never make a decision or do anything.”
Insisting he loves the department, believes in its mission, is proud of the men and woman who man it and generally respects the department’s management and administration and that he considers both John McMahon and Shannon Dicus to be sincere and well-intentioned, he said there are elements of the way the department operates that are slipshod, and he sees room for improvement.
“Many things in law enforcement continue to happen with a wink, nod and story about how it was done in the old days,” Dupper wrote. “The reality is, in today’s world, we must set a high moral and ethical standard and make it very clear that standard is practiced by all of us together. I would mandate all upper management work either a patrol or jail shift quarterly to ensure they retain an understanding of the job they ask their employees to complete. Many managers have not been inside a patrol car or jail housing unit in years, yet they make critical decisions related to those operations.”
Dupper was particularly critical of a move the department made toward allowing information pertaining to the department’s operations to be eradicated, and the chronicling of the department’s action, in many respects, to be lost forever.
“Two years ago, the sheriff’s department changed its retention policy for records such as email, audio recordings and case files,” Dupper wrote. “All email communication older than two years is now automatically destroyed. I believe this to be inappropriate. Email and/or other government communication should be kept as a record of an agency’s activity and for scrutiny by the public. This helps ensure accountability and transparency. As sheriff, I would reverse certain retention polices to ensure nothing is destroyed except what is mandated by statute or legal requirement.”
Cliff Harris is a San Bernardino native, having graduated from San Bernardino High School before obtaining a degree in business from the University of La Verne. After serving in the U.S. Army, he held various jobs, including management training positions with J.C. Penney and the Ford Motor Company. After a two year stint as a reserve deputy with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s department, Harris was hired as a deputy. He remained with the department until 1991, having achieved the rank of detective. He subsequently hired on with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, remaining in that assignment until he retired in 1999. Harris twice ran for sheriff, in 1994 and again in 2014. Since 2010, he has been the owner of Time Wise Investigations. He has been for twenty years the publisher of the San Bernardino American, an adjudicated newspaper.
Harris, an African-American, was even more direct than Dupper about the cultural disconnect in the department and at its highest levels with respect to a major portion of the community it is called upon to police. Harris cited “accountability, police integrity, equal enforcement of the law, use of force, value of human life, respect for others, civil liabilities paid out in lawsuits and lack of training of deputies, supervisors, managers and executive staff [as] the most pressing issues facing the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.”
Harris wrote, “The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police represents a tipping point in American policing. We must not only come to terms with hard facts but must act on them. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, which was founded in 1853, is one of California’s oldest sheriff’s departments. Throughout its history, the organizational culture has been slow to make substantive change. Accountability in a democratic society means that the police are accountable to the law and the community. Deputies must apply the same standards of justice to every member of the community. Sheriff’s deputies in a democracy must adhere to the limitations that are placed on their discretion and lawfully prescribed use of authority.”
Harris asserted that the department has been too heavy-handed in its use of force, in particular against minorities. “Recent incidents of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s use of force against blacks have led to deaths and serious injury to unarmed citizens,” he wrote. “The anti-black violence and injustice across the country underscore the corrosive effects of systemic racism in our society and the fear and lack of trust that many people feel daily toward law enforcement. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department under my leadership will show all communities that it is committed to serving all members of our community and treating everyone with respect and dignity. Officers who use excessive or unauthorized force will be subject to discipline, including possible criminal prosecution.”
In his written application to the board of supervisors, Loenhorst’s exposition of his philosophy and intended approach were he to be selected to succeed McMahon was far less involved and explicit than those of Dupper and Harris.
As to what he considered to be the most pressing issues facing the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and how he plans on addressing these issues, Loenhorst tersely wrote, “False and incomplete media patterns directly lead to department funding shortages. The plan will include use of force policy training and continuous improvements through approved media promotion channels to proactively demonstrate the quality of existing training and policy.”
Asked what the sheriff’s department could do to improve outreach to and relationships with people who live in communities with high crime rates, Loenhorst wrote, “Train community leaders and organizers in the FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] incident command system. When crime rates approach a defined ‘tipping point,’” he wrote, the sheriff/sheriff’s department should “put into practice incident command system protocols while including trained, authorized community leaders to be part of the ICS [incident command system] organized practice incident command protocols while including trained authorized community leaders to be a part of the ICS system. This allows better use of a proven system while raising community member moral[e].”
Though the law enforcement training and credentials of Dicus, Dupper and Harris are well established, those of Loenhorst are somewhat unclear. His application indicated that he had an advanced active or inactive certificate issued by the Commission on Police Officers Standards and Training, but this reference, in handwriting, was somewhat cryptic, stating “cert on file at VOLF – EMP # C6954.” Nowhere on the application was a definition of what the abbreviation or acronym VOLF stands for.
The Sentinel’s effort to ascertain what law enforcement agencies Loenhorst previously worked for was unsuccessful. William Loenhorst, Sr., who may have been Loenhorst’s father, was a deputy with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. William Loenhorst, Sr. died on July 23, 2009.
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Lynna Monell posted to her office’s webpage on the county website the applications for the sheriff’s position filled out by Dicus, Dupper, Harris and Loenhorst. Monell blacked out the personal and contact information on those applications. While the Sentinel has contact information for Dicus, Dupper and Harris, it did not have and could not obtain contact information for Loenhorst. The Sentinel, aware that the clerk of the board’s office was not at liberty to provide it with Loenhorst’s contact information, asked that an employee there contact Loenhorst to ask him to contact the Sentinel.
“I don’t think we can be involved in that process,” Donna Young, Monell’s executive secretary said. She routed the Sentinel’s call to Felisa Cardona, the deputy public information officer with the county. Asked if she would contact Loenhorst to see if he was willing to discuss his application for sheriff with the Sentinel, Cardona said, “I don’t think I can do that.”
On July 7, nineteen days after McMahon sprung upon the public his decision to leave office, the board of supervisors is scheduled to convene a meeting at 1 p.m. at which it is to review the board-adopted appointment process for the office of sheriff/coroner/public administrator, and if necessary, approve changes to the process as needed; complete the board-adopted appointment process by disclosure of the names of each board member’s candidates recommended for interview, or in the alternative to complete the process as may be changed; conduct interviews of the candidates and deliberate in open session, at which time the board members are to consider appointing a replacement sheriff.
The announcement of next Wednesday’s meeting and its agenda was made public today. No realistic opportunity for widespread public exchanges with or interviews with Dicus, Dupper, Harris or Loenhorst will transpire before Wednesday’s meeting, as the Fourth of July weekend is intervening, leaving Tuesday as the lone workday before the meeting takes place. The county has not facilitated the provision of phone or email contact information with regard to any of the four candidates to the public. Moreover, Wednesday’s meeting is to take place in the Magda Lawson conference room on the county administration building’s fifth floor, rather than the far larger Robert Covington meeting chamber, where board of supervisors meetings are normally held and which features facilities that allow the public to participate and offer verbal input that is audible throughout the room through a microphone at the public speaker lectern, and which makes those comments audible on the video of the meeting.
While the meeting is to be livestreamed on the county’s website, members of the public will not be permitted to participate verbally in the meeting. Rather, if a member of the public submits a comment in writing to the clerk of the board by email prior to the meeting or by U.S. Post such that it arrives prior to the meeting, that comment will be forwarded to the board members for their private review. Any comments arriving during or after the meeting will not be provided to the board members until after the meeting.
The upshot is that the board of supervisors is being less than fully accommodating of those members of the public who may want to weigh in on the appointment before it is made.
According to virtually everyone within the informational loop in county government, the sheriff’s department or among the knowledgeable observers of the board of supervisors, any public input is and will be irrelevant to the board’s decision, which has already been made in favor of Dicus.
One of those, a now former member of the department who inhabited a position in the department’s command echelon for a decade, said that the meeting called for next Wednesday at which the applicants will be interviewed as well as statements made by members of the board of supervisors conveying that the board was carefully considering multiple individuals to fill the sheriff’s role were all “theater.”
“The dominoes were in place long before the sheriff announced he was retiring,” the nearly 40-year law enforcement professional said. “The next sheriff is going to be Shannon, who is very qualified for the position. He’s a good man, and he’s a good choice. You could see this coming. This is the third consecutive time the elected sheriff resigned right in the middle of his term, and handed the position over to someone who embodies everything about the department that the sheriff stands for. Shannon has been on the second floor [of the sheriff’s department headquarters located at 655 East Third Street in San Bernardino, from which the sheriff, undersheriff, the department’s two assistant sheriffs and four of the department’s seven deputy chiefs operate]. He has been a trusted and productive member of the executive staff for three or four years. I would say he fully emerged in the picture as one of the two or three likely candidates to take over after Assistant Sheriff Dave Williams retired in 2017.”
Dicus, he said, “has been groomed to be sheriff. He was serving in a liaison position with the board of supervisors, which was done so that they would feel comfortable appointing him. I will guarantee you, even though they will never admit it, the board of supervisors was in on the appointment before the sheriff’s resignation was announced.”
It will not be a cakewalk for Dicus once he is in office, the longtime lawman said, as policing is becoming a more and more challenging profession, with changing perceptions of the role of law enforcement and the values that society is straitjacketing the profession into accepting.
“I don’t envy him on the timing,” he said. “Things were changing when I got out of the game, and that was a while ago. Right now, the political climate is not all that great.”
Still, he said, “Shannon is up to it. His whole career has taken him to where he is.”
The degree to which political considerations have horned in on and even taken precedence over the professionalism in the county’s largest law enforcement agency is shown by the sharply different take members of the board of supervisors have on the sheriff applicants’ willingness to run for election and those of a wide cross section of the community activists. Many of those outside of the county’s political elite, per se, are skeptical of the way the sheriff’s department has been headed by members of the Frank Bland political machine for two-thirds of a century. Frank Bland, a one-time railroad company policeman, FBI agent and Needles police chief, in 1954 defeated the one-term incumbent sheriff of that day, Eugene Mueller, who had been the Upland police chief when he was elected in 1950. Bland was reelected in 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974 and 1978, growing stronger and stronger politically every four years, as his no-nonsense philosophy of being tough on criminals drew to him a stridently pro-law enforcement support network, including hundreds of donors to his electioneering fund. That politicking bankroll that Bland and his close associates controlled gave him enough money to buy newspaper and radio advertisements, handbills, mailers and billboards during election season, which allowed him to steamroll over anyone who attempted to challenge him for election. That campaign war chest was large enough that Bland had sufficient money to assist others who had to get the blessing of the voters to remain in office. Bland used that money to keep tough-on-crime judges, whom he considered allies and who had to stand for reelection every six years, in office. And when he spotted a judge he believed was soft on crime or who wanted, in his view, to mollycoddle criminals, Bland would find a hard-charging member of the district attorney’s office to run against him, and backed him with money from his political fund. Neither was Bland shy about supporting other local candidates, in particular members of the board of supervisors who stood ready to provide his department with the taxpayer funding it needed to keep criminals behind bars.
When Bland, at the age of 69, retired in 1982, he endorsed Floyd Tidwell, who won that race. Bland gave Tidwell the keys to his political machine and Tidwell ran successfully for reelection in 1986 and then endorsed his undersheriff, Dick Williams, in 1990, and used the Bland political machine to elect Williams sheriff. Williams retired in 1994, at which point the political machine got behind Gary Penrod, one of Tidwell’s close friends and rodeo team partner. Following his 1994 election, Penrod was reelected without challenge in 1998, 2002 and 2006 without any opposition, so overwhelmingly powerful and intimidating was the sheriff’s electioneering machine. Penrod resigned in 2009, recommending that the board of supervisors appoint Assistant Sheriff Rod Hoops. The board of supervisors complied with Penrod’s wish. Hoops then used the political machine that had originated with Bland and was yet in existence in 2010 to get himself elected that year. In 2012, Hoops elected to retire, recommending that the board of supervisors appoint McMahon, who was then assistant sheriff. The board complied and the Bland machine sustained McMahon in the 2014 race, when he faced two challengers and left him in such a powerful position in 2018 that no one ran against him.
McMahon has not publicly endorsed Dicus, but it is strikingly evident that he stands behind his undersheriff. One of the questions that the members of the board of supervisors insisted upon including in the application to replace McMahon was “Do you plan to run for sheriff in June 2022?”
Loenhorst responded in the negative. “No,” he wrote. “This would be a temporary assignment until a qualified candidate is elected and is available for service in 2022.”
Harris was a bit more equivocal.
“I plan to wait and see what the political landscape looks like in 2022,” Harris said.
So, too, was Dupper noncommittal.
“At this point, I have not fully decided,” Dupper wrote. “I definitely want to be part of improving not only the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, but also law enforcement as a profession. I look forward to participating in this process and seating the best person for the office.”
Dicus made no bones about it. He is looking toward perpetuating the Bland political machine.
“Yes,” wrote Dicus. “I have assembled most of my campaign team, established the domain name, am in the process of developing my website, working on obtaining my Fair Political Practices Commission number, and [will] begin fundraising shortly.”
The members of the board of supervisors, who are all hardcore political animals themselves, are not about to get in the way of someone who has control over the Bland political machine, the most powerful electioneering tool in San Bernardino County.
With the selection of Dicus as sheriff already determined, the only question pertaining to next Wednesday is how indulgent the board will be in allowing Dupper and Harris, both of whom have differing perspectives and priorities with regard to the brand of policing and law enforcement goals and values than those of the current sheriff’s department establishment, range over those topics when they are interviewed and allow them to get on the record and propound concepts and approaches that herald a new age in upholding the law, even in the Wild West of San Bernardino County, where traditions from the 19th Century yet live on in the 21st Century.

29 Palms Hospitalman Guilty On 2 Of 5 Charges In De Leon Death

 A Navy medical corpsman who was present when Hospitalman 3rd Class Michael Vincent De Leon was killed in a shooting incident on the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base on August 16, 2019 was found guilty on two of the five charges that were lodged against him by the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps.
Mason Williams, 23, charged with reckless endangerment, violation of a lawful general order, dereliction of duty, drunk and disorderly conduct and making a false official statement, came before a special court martial convened at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center on June 14. Col. S.F. Keane served as the judge presiding over Williams’ court martial.
The case that was pursued against Williams was complicated by the manner in which Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents interrogated Williams during their investigation into the shooting death.
In May, a naval judge in a previous hearing held at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County made a preliminary finding in Williams’ favor after his lawyers argued that the investigators did not adequately apprise Hospitalman 3rd Class Williams of his rights before they grilled him, using psychological and physical tactics, including misrepresentations, which his lawyers said ultimately led him into making making false admissions and confessions to acts he had not engaged in.
Judge Keane, consistent with a previous court finding that Williams’ statements were coerced in violation of his Miranda rights and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, did not allow some of the statements Williams made to the investigators to be heard by the jury hearing the case.
The jury came up short of a guilty finding on the reckless endangerment, violation of a lawful general order and making a false official statement charges, but on Thursday, June 17 found Williams guilty of dereliction of duty and disorderly conduct.
Neither the San Bernardino Superior Court nor the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office took up the matter pertaining to the actions of Williams and four other medical corpsmen who were present at a Friday night party at a base housing unit when De Leon was shot in the head as he stood in the residential unit’s living room. Rather, the matter was left to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
Williams and three of the other hospitalmen – Ryan Dini, Sterling Wold and Jesse Humes – have been identified. A fourth medical corpsman has not been publicly named, as the Judge Advocate General’s Corps reportedly is seeking to secure his testimony to aid in the prosecution of Dini, Wold and Humes.
The broadest set of charges brought were those against Williams, of Fort Lee, Virginia.
Dini, 37, of San Diego is charged with dereliction of duty resulting in death, and drunk and disorderly conduct.
Wold, 28, of New Orleans is charged with dereliction of duty and making a false official statement.
Humes, 27, of Detroit is charged with dereliction of duty and making a false official statement.
Initially, what had occurred that fateful summer evening was represented by the military service as a suicide, but the Naval Criminal Investigative Service ultimately undertook an investigation into the matter as a homicide.
Based on the facts disclosed during Williams’ trial and the charges against the four defendants, there does not appear to have been any homicidal or malicious intent involved in what occurred. Rather, the allegations aired so far indicate a combination of intoxication and foolishness led to the fatal event, followed by an effort on the part of those involved to misrepresent what occurred.
De Leon, 30, was off duty and present with Williams, Dini, Wold, Humes and the unidentified corpsman in the housing unit, where an abundance of liquor was being consumed. At some point, a gun was produced. In the course of what was characterized as “horsing around,” the gun was “dry fired” while pointed at De Leon and perhaps others in the room.
Dry firing is defined as simulating the discharge of a firearm that is not loaded with live ammunition.
Sometime later, the firearm or another one, this time with bullets in it, came out and was aimed and fired at De Leon, who sustained a single shot to the head.
The other corpsmen, all of whom had extensive training in medical response and are referred to as medics, failed, or were unable, to administer lifesaving assistance to De Leon. There followed a several minute delay after the shooting before a 911 call was made. That call came from DeLeon’s cellphone. The caller reported the incident as a “suicide.”
After the shooting, a report on the matter was provided to Major General Roger Turner, then the commander of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms.
De Leon was born in San Antonio, Texas on October 18, 1988, to Sandra Garcia De Leon and Jose De Leon Jr. of Katy, Texas. Michael, with an older brother, Jonathan, spent his early childhood in Harlingen, Texas. In 1997, his family moved to Houston, where De Leon attended and graduated from Bellaire High School in 2006. Upon graduation, he attended Universal Technical Institute in Houston, training to become an auto mechanic.
In 2015, at the age of 26, De Leon enlisted in the United States Navy, doing basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Command in Illinois. He was tracked to become a hospital corpsman and was educated at the training center at Fort Sam Houston in Texas for medical personnel. He was ultimately assigned to the Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms in the occupational therapy unit. He was a member of the 3rd Battalion 11th Marines, First Marine Division.
The jury hearing the case against Williams called for his reduction in rank to E-1, the lowest position in the Navy, that of seaman recruit.
Dini, the highest ranking of the hospitalmen present when the shooting took place and for whom his lawyers had earlier proposed a rejected plea deal, is the next of the defendants set to go to trial, which is scheduled to commence on July 19.
-Mark Gutglueck

Challenge To State’s Mandates That Cities Meet Homebuilding Goals Initiated In Orange County

Somewhat more belatedly than many thought would be the case, a group of Southern California cities have taken the first meaningful and concerted steps toward contesting the State of California’s usurpation of what has traditionally been local land use authority.
Traditionally in California, as virtually everywhere else in the United States, control over construction and development has been vested with local government. The state has building and safety standards which are enforced by both local and state authorities, but planning processes take place generally in California at the municipal and county levels, with the federal and state governments having qualified autonomy on development issues on state-owned and federal-owned land. Land use authority falls within the purview of county government in the unincorporated county areas outside the jurisdictions of towns and cities. Within city/incorporated town limits, that control is exercised by the cities and towns themselves. At the county level, the ultimate land use authority is the board of supervisors and in cities and towns the city or town councils, although at their discretion those panels can delegate to their respective planning commissions the authority to grant a project applicant an entitlement to build.
Under this arrangement, theoretically and for the most part practically, through their elected leadership local residents had some level of control with regard to the tenor of development, its intensity, its quality, its mix, its character and nature, and its density.
In recent years, the cost of housing in California has escalated dramatically. At the same time, the incidence of homelessness has increased. This has prompted state elected and staff officials to seek to induce more intensified home building.
While until quite recently there has been an upswing in the number of people living in California, there is some difference of opinion among the population as to whether intensifying the development of more homes is a sensible response to the general situation. Some have argued that more homes are needed to accommodate the greater influx of people to the Golden State. Others, citing what they consider to be a diminution in the quality of life as the population increases, argue that efforts to limit or end population growth in California is the more sensible approach to the issue.
In 1900, California had a population of 1,490,000. Throughout the first half of the 20th Century, the number of California’s residents grew steadily, at between an annual increase of no less than 1.17 percent [in 1933] and as much as 8.87 percent [in 1943]. In 1950, the number of residents in California stood at 10,677,000. By 1960, California’s population swelled to 15,870,000. In 1962, upon reaching 17 million strong, California surpassed New York to become the most populous state. In 1970, it boasted 19,971,069 citizens. In 1980, California’s population reached 23,800,800, and in 1990, 29,950,111. At the dawn of the Third Millennium, there were 33,987,977 men, women and children in the state. In 2010, the state population stood at 37,319,550.
At least since 1960, homelessness in California has been a burgeoning problem, the seriousness of which began to escalate in the 1990s. Homelessness became more acute with the economic downturn of 2007 to 2013. In the Spring of 2018, there were an estimated 134,000 homeless people in California. Roughly 0.4 percent of California’s population is homeless. California represents approximately 12 percent of the U.S. population. California at that same time hosts 22 percent of those homeless in the United States, and it is the leader among all states in both percentage and sheer numbers of those who have no homes.
Still, encouraging homebuilding in California, where the average cost of homes is approaching $450,000, is not likely to be of any assistance to the existing or future homeless population, as those so situated have essentially demonstrated themselves as being utterly incapable of purchasing or hanging onto homes that were valued at less than half of that within the last two decades.
More than four decades ago, there emerged a trend at the state level toward an overarching regional and statewide control of development regulation, in particular residential development regulation, with an eye toward increasing the amount of housing stock to accommodate California’s burgeoning population.
Beginning in 1980, the State of California has, pursuant to California Government Code §65580, required each jurisdiction in the state to plan for its share of the state’s housing need for people of all income levels. Under the so-called Regional Housing Need Allocation process, a determination is made of what number of dwelling units according to affordability type each community is to accommodate over an eight-year period. This allocation process consists of two steps. In the first, the California Department of Housing and Community Development determines the total housing need for each region in the state. Second, each region’s joint planning authority ascertains how the various jurisdictions within that region are to meet that need, which in practical terms means mandating each city plan to construct what the planning authority’s staff deems to be each municipal entity’s share of that house-building burden.
In Southern California, the Southern California Association of Governments, which goes by the acronym SCAG, serves as the planning agency for the six-county area that includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino, Imperial and Ventura counties. At present, the ongoing fifth cycle regional housing needs assessment for SCAG, adopted in October 2012 and covering the housing element planning period October 2013 to October 2021, during which the seven county SCAG regional planning area had been called upon to plan for slightly more than 412,000 new homes, is approaching its end.
In September 2019, SCAG, mandated by the state government to accommodate the construction of 1,341,827 housing units over the next eight-year planning cycle between 2021 and 2029, laid out its tentative numbers for each county and each city within those six counties. A year later, those final numbers reflected that Imperial County would need to build 15,956 dwelling units of all sorts in the 2021-2029 period, Los Angeles County would need to build 813,082 units, Orange County 183,430 units, Riverside County 167,177, San Bernardino County 137,786 units, and Ventura County 24,396 units.
In a letter of protest dated September 18, 2019 to Doug McCauley, the acting director of the California Department of Housing & Community Development, Kome Ajise, the executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments, put on record his association’s “formal objection to the California Department of Housing & Community Development’s regional housing need determination.”
Ajise noted that the Southern California Association of Governments “is fully aware that the State of California is in the midst of a housing crisis and that resolving this crisis requires strong partnerships with state, regional and local entities in addition to private and non-profit sectors. As such, the Southern California Association of Governments desires to be an active and constructive partner with the State and HCD (the Department of Housing & Community Development) on solving our current housing crisis, and this objection should not suggest otherwise. We are in fact currently setting up a housing program that will assist our local jurisdictions on activities and policies that will lead to actual housing unit construction.”
Nevertheless, Ajise wrote, “One of our major concerns is that HCD did not base its determination on the Southern California Association of Governments’ Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy Growth Forecast, which was inconsistent with Government Code 65584.01(c)(2)(A). Another major concern is that pursuant to Government Code 65584.01(c) (2) (B), the Department of Housing & Community Development’s determination of housing need in the Southern California Association of Governments region is not a reasonable application of the methodology and assumptions described in statute. Specifically, the Department of Housing & Community Development compared household overcrowding and cost burden rates in the Southern California Association of Governments region to national averages rather than to rates in comparable regions as statutorily required. The Department of Housing & Community Development seemingly uses unrealistic comparison points to evaluate healthy market vacancy, which is also an unreasonable application of the methodology and assumptions.
”While the Southern California Association of Governments disputed the methodology the state used in deriving its numbers, it pointedly did not contest the state’s authority to override the local agencies’ autonomy in setting their own development regulations, zoning standards and population saturation levels,” Ajise’s letter continued. “Nor did the association contradict the overarching need to make the population increase provisions set forth by the state.
“I would like to note that SCAG’s objection focuses on the process and adherence to state housing law requirements and not necessarily to the regional housing need determination number,” Ajise wrote. “The ultimate aim of this objection, as discussed at length by the regional council, is to ensure the most technically and legally credible basis for a regional determination so that the 197 local jurisdictions in the Southern California Association of Governments region can approach the difficult task of zoning to accommodate regional needs with the backing of the most robust and realistic target that is possible.”
SCAG staff made its case that a more accurate, practical and reasonably attainable figure for the SCAG planning area’s housing needs for the next decade was 921,000 dwelling units, translating to 736,800 units during the eight-year October 2021-to-October 2029 planning cycle.
Most cities in Southern California, reasoning that it would do no good to try to fight the state, merely knuckled under to the Department of Housing & Community Development’s regional new 1,341,827 housing unit construction mandate. Forty-five cities in the region, however, engaged in that appeal, in which they were collectively represented by SCAG staff. Those cities included Agoura Hills, Alhambra, Bellflower, Beverly Hills, Cerritos, Downey, El Monte, Gardena, Huntington Park, Lawndale, La Mirada, Lakewood, Los Alamitos, Pasadena, Pico Rivera, Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, San Dimas, San Fernando, San Gabriel, Southgate, South Pasadena, Temple City, Torrance and West Hollywood in Los Angeles County and the County of Orange, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, La Palma, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, Rancho Santa Margarita, Tustin, Westminster and Yorba Linda in Orange County, along with the County of Riverside and Hemet in Riverside County. In San Bernardino County, Fontana, Chino Hills, Chino and Barstow were intrepid enough to challenge the state. Barstow asked the state to cut its 1,516 house-building mandate by 58 percent to 635; Chino Hills requested 1,797 units in lieu of 3,720, a 52 percent reduction; Chino wanted a 49 percent cut from 6,961 to 3,564; and Fontana insisted that the 17,477 units it was being asked to accommodate was 30 percent too optimistic, and it requested that its mandate be reduced to 10,563.
On October 9, 2019 Governor Gavin Newsom signed 18 bills intended to deal with housing needs in California, including ones his office said were “designed to help jumpstart housing production.” The bills signed included Senate Bill 330, legislation aimed at removing local barriers to housing construction to speed up new development by simplifying permitting and approval processes, ensuring no net loss in zoning capacity and limiting fees after projects are approved, along with Assembly Bill 1763, which created more affordable housing by giving 100 percent affordable housing developments an enhanced density bonus to encourage development, and Assembly Bill 1485, which further streamlined environmental law and encourages moderate-income housing production. The provisions contained within those several pieces of legislation eradicated limits on residential density; provided developers of affordable housing so-called “bonus units,” meaning they can exceed the number of units per acre many cities impose on housing projects; forced cities to permit garages and carports to be converted, or demolished, to accommodate accessory dwelling units sometimes known as “granny flats”; and limited the amount of parking spaces a city can require when approving residential developments.
The appeals and protests of local officials in the face of the state government’s presumed authority fell essentially on deaf ears, and the 736,800-unit alternative to the 1,341,827 housing unit goal SCAG was promoting was rejected by the state.
With the discretion that local jurisdictions formally had in controlling what is to be built within them in large measure compromised, segments of the population began to despair of the ability of an individual or a collective community to control quality-of-life issues within their neighborhoods and communities.
On May 27, 2021, the Orange County Council of Governments, representing 34 municipalities and led by its chairman, Anaheim Councilmember Trevor O’Neil, resolved to sue the California Department of Housing & Community Development over the home-building mandate issue.
On June 21, the Orange County Council of Governments made good on that resolution, filing suit in Los Angeles Superior Court. The suit names Gustavo Velasquez, the interim director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Department of Housing and Community Development; and unknown parties one through 50. The Southern California Association of Governments is named as a real party in interest.
The suit alleges that SCAG and the California Department of Housing and Community Development used a methodology for deriving its Regional Housing Needs Assessment that was flawed insofar as “the California Department of Housing and Community Development did not base its Regional Housing Needs Assessment determination on SCAG’s regional population forecast as stated in its Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Community Strategy” and instead “utilized the California Department of Finance’s projection, in violation of statutory law.”
More specifically, according to the writ, “The California Department of Housing and Community Development utilized unreasonable comparison points to evaluate healthy housing market vacancy rates, in that it utilized a 5 percent total vacancy rate, rather than a 5 percent rate for the rental housing market and a more realistic standard for the for-sale housing vacancy rate,” which according to the writ is most likely “1.5 percent, which has been the average for for-sale housing since the 1970s.”
Furthermore, according to the writ, “The California Department of Housing and Community Development’s evaluation of replacement housing needs was based on an arbitrary internal standard, rather than housing demolition data provided by California Department of Finance. The California Department of Housing and Community Development did not exclude anticipated household growth on tribal land, despite the fact that tribal lands are sovereign nations and not subject to state land use law.  The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) utilized an unreasonable adjustment for cost burden statistics. The California Department of Housing and Community Development’s data and use of data were not current.”
The writ maintains that “SCAG provided a proposed alternative Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) determination, as well as an analysis of why the proposed alternative would be a more reasonable application of the methodology and assumptions to be used by HCD to determine SCAG’s RHNA. According to SCAG’s proposed alternative determination, the RHNA determination for the SCAG region should be between 823,808 and 920,772 dwelling units.”
In this way, according to the writ, “The 1,341,827 total dwelling units represents more than twice the number of projected housing units needed by the end of the 6th Cycle in 2029, which is estimated to be only 651,000 housing units. Thus, more than half of the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment determination for the SCAG region is due to the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s use of the wrong population forecast, comparable region, and vacancy rates, as well as new methodology that includes overcrowding and cost burdening factors that the California Department of Housing and Community Development did not previously consider in its typical methodology for prior housing cycles.”
The Orange County Council of Governments’ action seeks a peremptory writ of mandate directing the California Department of Housing and Community Development to vacate and set aside its Regional Housing Needs Assessment determination for the SCAG region, that it change the input of information utilized in calculating its Regional Housing Needs Assessment determination, and that it conduct a new assessment for the Southern California Association of Governments region in compliance with state local planning laws under Government Code section 65580 et sequitur.
According to the writ of mandate, the state’s 1,341,827 housing unit goal is grossly inflated, and overestimates by more than 690,000 the actual number of new homes needed in the region by October 2029. The more realistic number of dwelling units called for is roughly 651,000, according to the suit.
“The California Department of Housing and Community Development stands by the credibility and legality of its Regional Housing Needs Determinations for the sixth cycle housing element throughout the state, and contends that the methodology accurately captures housing needs in compliance with legislation passed in 2017 and 2018,” said Alicia Murillo, a communications analyst with the California Department of Housing and Community Development in Sacramento.
Meanwhile, according to the best data available, California’s population is now decreasing. In 2017, the state saw an increase of 0.48 percent over the previous year, to 39,337,785. In 2018, the state’s population grew to 39,437,463, an 0.25 percent increase. In 2019, however, the state population grew by only 147, going to 39,437,610. Mathematically this meant growth of less than 0.00 percent. In 2020, California’s population dipped to 39,368,078, a drop of 0.18 percent.
As a result, those opposed to the state’s home building mandates are asserting the requirements that local jurisdictions build more houses should be dispensed with entirely.
-Mark Gutglueck