FBN 20230011075
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
SFI MANUFACTURING, INC. 8570 HICKORY AVENUE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739: SOUTH BAY INTERNATIONAL, INC. 8570 HICKORY AVENUE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California under the number 1843599.
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/ TOBY KONETZNY, Chief Executive Officer
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 11/01/2023
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 J5842
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 on November 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2023.

FBN 20230010925
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
GERBERA DAISY DESIGN 1411 INNISBROOK CIR Upland, CA 91784: SHARI HOLSTEAD 1411 INNISBROOK CIR Upland, CA 91784
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/ SHARI HOLSTEAD
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/30/2023
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 J5842
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 on November 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2023.

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The City of Chino is teetering over a financial abyss so deep and dark, city officials say, that if any of them loses his or her footing, the corpse would never be recovered.
Despite the consideration that Chino has “historically maintained a healthy general fund reserve with the goal of maintaining adequate reserve levels to mitigate future risks,” according to City Manager Linda Reich, “over the last several years spending on the delivery of services and inflation has created annual deficits offset only by appropriations from those reserves.” Thus, according to Reich, “[I]t is anticipated that expenditures will outpace revenues yearly for the next 10-year period and beyond.”
As a consequence, according to Reich, “projected severe deficits in future city budgets” have thrown the city into financial distress. She said, “Revenue increases are being absorbed by the escalating operational costs of services, materials, and labor, and increased inflation, which impact the city’s ability to provide essential services to the community. Operational costs will ‘crowd out’ capital investments and other strategic opportunities.”
Accordingly, Reich has placed before the Chino City Council an item on the agenda for its November 21 meeting calling for the city to officially declare “a fiscal state of emergency.”

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Twelve years after the City of Big Bear Lake formed a public agency relationship with the larger unincorporated Big Bear community that surrounds it to establish a collective to operate a fire department, its elected governmental leadership is giving serious consideration to opting out of that partnership.
Historically, the Big Bear community and its environs have utilized the services of no fewer than five separate fire agencies. The Big Bear City Fire Department and the Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District, i.e., the municipal fire department which came into existence with the incorporation of the City of Big Bear Lake in 1980, were the two largest entities within the local area among those five.
The 38.45-square mile Big Bear community is home to 17,784 residents. There is some confusion, however about jurisdictional issues in Big Bear, as it consists of two entities, the City of Big Bear Lake and Big Bear City. Despite its name, Big Bear City is not a municipality but rather an unincorporated county area and a designated census place. Big Bear Lake is an incorporated municipality. Despite its status as an actual city, Big Bear Lake is smaller than Big Bear City both in terms of land area and population. Big Bear Lake is 6.42 square miles and has 5,046 inhabitants. Big Bear City is an expansive 32.03 square miles with 12,738 residents. While both qualify as rustic mountain districts, the more compact Big Bear Lake is slightly more urbanized and densely populated. The Big Bear City Community Services District oversees the delivery of water, sewer service and trash service to the unincorporated county area of Big Bear City. It is overseen by an elected board of directors. Continue reading →

San Bernardino city officials are attempting to put criminal cases together against three journalists over what those officials are saying was the premature disclosure of the identity of the individual a majority of the council had resolved to hire as city manager earlier this year.
The journalists acted improperly and illegally, city officials contend, in informing the community with regard to certain particulars about the city’s recruitment process for a top city administrator that had been necessitated by the December 2022 resignation of City Manager Bob Field.
In the aftermath of Field’s departure, the city arranged for former City Manager Charles McNeeley to serve in the capacity of interim/acting city manager while the Berkeley-based headhunting firm of Koff & Associates, also known as Gallagher Benefit Services, carried out a recruitment effort during which a reported 68 applicants expressed an interest in the post.
By July, Mayor Helen Tran and six of the council’s seven members had come to the conclusion that one of those 68, who was then a city manager with another city, stood head and shoulders above the other applicants. Despite the intention of the council majority to offer that individual the city manager’s post in San Bernardino, the candidate had not been so informed. When someone with the City of San Bernardino approached a member of the city council in the city that employed the candidate, thereby informing the city manager’s political masters that their city manager was about to jump ship, the candidate, at that time uncertain of being extended a job offer in San Bernardino and ignorant that being hired was just around the corner, withdrew.
The disappointed council redoubled its examination of the field of applicants, which by that point had been winnowed to roughly a dozen semi-finalists as a consequence of Koff & Associates’ evaluation of the applicants. Those 12 or so candidates were considered and examined closely by the city. From that group of semi-finalists, according to reliable sources, “about four” finalists emerged by mid-August. Shortly thereafter, Mayor Helen Tran and council members Ted Sanchez, Sandra Ibarra, Juan Figueroa and Fred Shorett were leaning heavily in favor of extending an offer to Steve Carrigan, the city manager of Salinas. The mayor and council met in a specially-called closed session on August 28, during which they were secretly slated to vote on extending a job offer to Carrigan. Continue reading →