At its specially rescheduled meeting on Wednesday of next week, the Redlands City Council is set to raise City Manager Charles Duggan’s salary by seven percent from $280,000 to $299,600.
If the council, as anticipated, grants Duggan the raise, he will see his total annual compensation jump from its current $400,650.74, consisting of $280,000 in salary plus perquisites and add-ons of $12,131.92 in addition to $108,518.82 in benefits, to $420,250.74.
In addition, the council, which is going to meet on July 5 next week rather than Tuesday because its normal meeting day of the first Tuesday of the month is preempted by the July 4 holiday, will further sign off on giving Duggan a two percent raise in July 2024, upping the $299,600 he will be receiving at that time to $305,592. It also appears that the city may intend to provide Duggan with a two percent raise from $305,592 to $311,703.84 in July 2025. Because of what is likely a typographical error that substituted “2023” for “2025” on the staff report for the agenda item, that point remains unclear at press time.
Given the degree of apathy with regard to the function of local government that is typically the case throughout Southern California, the vast majority of residents in Redlands do not seem to have an opinion one way or the other with regard to Duggan’s performance since he became city manager in Redlands in January 2020. Nevertheless, among residents of the 36.4-square mile city of 73,168 population who are animated with regard to issues of governance, Duggan is far less popular than he is with the five-member city council. Continue reading →

San Bernardino County’s transportation agency is gambling that gambling will remain as popular throughout the rest of the 21st Century as it is today.
Using a $25 million stake granted it by the federal government, The San Bernardino County Transportation Authority is betting that money on the prospect that Brightline West will make good on completing its Las Vegas to Los Angeles highspeed trainline.
Brightline for a decade has been proposing to construct a high-speed rail line – one on which a train will reach a maximum of 180 miles per hour – that in time will stretch from Las Vegas in the east, variously, 264 miles to Anaheim or 270 miles to Union Station in Los Angeles. Brightline committed to breaking ground on the first phase of the project, which previously was to run on an electrified rail line some 190 miles to Victorville and is now slated to run 187 miles to Apple Valley. That line is to be constructed on right-of-way adjacent to Interstate 15 leased from Caltrans and the Nevada Department of Transportation. According to Brightline, the trip between the Nevada gambling mecca and Apple Valley would take just under 90 minutes. Another stop on the line will be in Hesperia and, eventually, the Metrolink rail station in Rancho Cucamonga.
In a rare arrangement, the federal government approved providing the $25 million grant to the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, formerly known as San Bernardino Associated Governments (SanBAG), and Brightline West for the purposes of constructing the train stations in Apple Valley and Hesperia. Continue reading →

This upcoming year, running from July 1, 2023 until June 30, 2024, a number of San Bernardino County’s cities will be throwing caution to the wind by moving away from the fiscally conservative practice of operating on balanced budgets.
Exuberant confidence with regard to the expanding economy was a hallmark of the late 1990s and first couple of years of the Third Millennium, as investors and public officials alike believed that a booming economy based upon a well-established financial system would last forever, or at least the duration of their lifetimes.
But the bursting of the so-called dotcom bubble followed a few years later by the economic downturn of 2007 that proceeded from the real estate collapse which had its roots in predatory lending practices reinstilled a sense of discipline in the public sector and county and local governments, as they were forced to contract their operations and either lay off employees or seek givebacks from the unions representing those employees with regard to salaries and benefits that had been promised in employment contracts derived during collective bargaining sessions prior to the downturn.
The economy remained sluggish for six years, and municipal governments, particularly in California, resolved to set conservative yearly budgets that were balanced in terms of revenue equaling or exceeding expenditures. Continue reading →

With state legislation that would have mandated that school officials within three days of learning that a student is identifying as a gender other than that indicated on his or her birth certificate inform the child’s parents having collapsed from its own weight in the Democrat-dominated legislature in Sacramento, a question now stands whether the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education, which endorsed the legislation by a supermajority in April, will use their authority to impose that requirement on district educators this summer before the opening of the 2023-24 school year.
For roughly a decade, the Chino Valley Unified School District had fallen under the heavy influence of Christian fundamentalists, in particular those aligned with the Chino Hills Calvary Chapel, a church led by the Reverend Jack Hibbs. Hibbs evinces a denominationalist attitude, which holds that Christians have a duty to take over public office and promote their religious beliefs.
Hibbs made an object demonstration of the impact his brand of evangelism can effectuate when in 2010, through an extension of his church known as the Watchman Industry and with Board Member James Na’s and then-Board Member Sylvia Orozco’s assistance, he successfully lobbied the school board to include Bible study classes as part of the district’s high school curriculum.
Hibbs’ grip on the district was strengthened when another member of his church, Andrew Cruz, joined Orozco and Na on the board. Continue reading →

San Bernardino County is pushing forward with two arrangements with Bio-Fuels San Bernardino Biogas, LLC to allow that company to capture methane produced at the county’s Rialto and Colton landfills despite progression toward compliance with a state law aimed at radically reducing methane production at all of the state’s landfills.
In June 2022, the solid waste management division of the San Bernardino County Public Works Department entered into agreements with Bio-Fuels San Bernardino Biogas, LLC that involve selling landfill gas from the Mid-Valley Sanitary Landfill and the Colton Sanitary Landfill.
At the Mid-Valley Landfill, the landfill gas will be processed and turned into renewable natural gas, known by the acronym RNG. This renewable natural gas will be sold and delivered to the nearby SoCal Gas pipeline, which is a system for distributing natural gas. The gas will be processed to meet the standards set by SoCal Gas for accepting RNG into their pipeline. Continue reading →

FBN 20230005798
The following entities are doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
HEAVY HITTERS BARBER COLLEGE 15329 PALMDALE RD, UNIT A VICTORVILLE, CA 92392: HEAVY HITTERS BARBER COLLEGE LLC 15329 PALMDALE RD, UNIT A VICTORVILLE, CA 92392
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered in California under the number 202354611289.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: MARCH 14, 2023.
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/ JOSHUA BANDY, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/06/2023
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 I1287
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 June 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2023.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER 2311466
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Emily Kieffer filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Emily Grace Kieffer to Emily Grace Kieffens, 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: 08/16/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S30
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in 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: 04/06/2023
Judge of the Superior Court: Brian S McCarville
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 06/09/2023, 06/16/2023, 06/23/2023, 06/30/2023

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