Mounting concern over the impact that short term rentals throughout the county are having on nearby properties and property owners prompted the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors last month to tweak its ordinance pertaining to vacation rental units and simultaneously impose a 45-day moratorium on the approval of new permits allowing residential properties to be rented out for brief periods of time.
At its June 14 meeting, the board of supervisors agreed to temporary suspend the approval of short-term rental unit permit applications so the county’s land use services division can consider how it is to approach zone change applications to allow more short-term rentals to operate and how the county can up its code enforcement capability to keep pace with the conversion of what were previously residential units to ones now accommodating vacationers. Staff further needs time to figure out how it will go about applying the now approved new ordinance provisions.
The county’s Department of Land Use Services – what in other parlance might be referred to as the county’s planning division – is continuing to accept and process short term rental unit applications, but Continue reading →

With only her performance in office and determination to rely upon, Second Ward San Bernardino Councilwoman Sandra Ibarra, it now appears certain, has overcome long odds to achieve a comeback reelection victory.
A community activist first elected to the council in 2018, Ibarra was initially embraced by what passed as San Bernardino’s political establishment. By the end of Summer 2019, however, she had broken ranks with San Bernardino Mayor John Valdivia and his political machine, which had been counting upon her to back his agenda advancing the interests of his political donors who endowed his political war chest with over $600,000.
Ibarra’s resistance to the pay-to-play ethos that surrounded the mayor earned for her not only Valdivia’s enmity, but that of scores of wealthy interests, including developers Jeff Burum, Scott Beard, Jim Previti and David Wiener. Continue reading →

At the regular Upland City Council meeting on Monday, June 27, 2022, City
Manager Michael Blay announced Police Chief Police Captain Marcelo Blanco has been appointed Upland’s chief of police, effective Sunday, July 10, 2022.
Blanco, who has been serving as acting police chief since April, will succeed Police Chief Darren Goodman, who officially left Upland last month to become police chief in San Bernardino.
Blanco, a 30-year veteran of the Upland Police Department, was born in Argentina. At the age of 5, he moved to Madrid, Spain, where he lived for two years before emigrating with his parents to Los Angeles. He grew up in the L.A. area, and during his junior year in high school, he moved to Upland and eventually graduated Continue reading →

NOTICE OF SALE OF VESSEL
Notice is hereby given the undersigned will sell the following vessel and trailer at lien sale at said address below on:
07/15/2022 9:00 am
VESSEL 96 BOMB 0455NU ZZND1714K596 CA
DATE OF SALE- 07/15/2022
TIME OF SALE-09:00 AM
LOCATION OF SALE-14038 SEA SHELL ST FONTANA CA 92335
To be sold by JV MOTORSPORTS1744 S WILLOW AVE RIALTO CA 92376
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

NOTICE OF SALE OF AUTOMOBILE
Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the State of California the undersigned will sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at said address below on: 07/15/2022 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
18 CHEV / 1G1ZF5SU2JF224705 8FNS967 CA
To be sold by AIR EXPESSWAY TOWING 2521 MAIN ST BARSTOW CA 92311
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIV BA 2200218
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: PAULA ISHAK BEKHEET DAWOOD filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
PAULA ISHAK BEKHEET DAWOOD to MASRI ISHAK DAWOOD Continue reading →

By Mark Gutglueck
A recently released audit of the San Bernardino City Unified School District’s expenditures on contracted services offers at least a partial insight on what was at the root of the discontent among some of the members of the school board with now-departing Superintendent Doc Ervin that manifested last year and came to a crescendo earlier this year, resulting in his resignation.
Last year, Ervin was lured away from the Bakersfield City School District, where he was the superintendent there, to take the helm at San Bernardino City Unified in the aftermath of former Superintendent Dale Marsden’s 2020 exit. Ervin was hired and initially embraced by virtually the entirety of the school board and the district’s senior faculty based upon his aggressive and dedicated efforts to boost academic achievement among students, particularly as the district was lagging well behind the average level of scholastic achievement as determined through districtwide student performance on California’s Standardized Testing and Reporting program. Continue reading →

More than four-and-a-half years after he was arrested by the FBI, Former Adelanto City Councilman Jermaine Wright on June 22 was found guilty by a jury on federal criminal charges that he accepted a $10,000 cash bribe and that he hired a man to burn down his restaurant so he could fraudulently collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance proceeds.
Wright, 46, of Riverside, was found guilty late Wednesday afternoon of one count of bribery involving an entity receiving federal funds and one count of attempted arson of a building affecting interstate commerce. Wright was remanded into federal custody following the verdict’s announcement. Continue reading →

Redlands has joined with the cities of Chino and Colton in imposing a temporary moratorium on the further construction of warehouses in San Bernardino County.
In October, Chino placed a 45-day moratorium on property readily available and properly zoned for warehousing, which lies primarily within the city’s southwest triangle formed by Monte Vista and Chino avenues, the northeast corner of Yorba and Schaefer avenues and the southwest corner of Chino and Central avenues.
In May 2021, Colton slapped a temporary, 45-day ban on warehouse development in that 16.04-square mile city, subsequently extending the ban to a full year.
One source, unverified by the Sentinel, holds that there are 3,013 warehouses in San Bernardino County Continue reading →