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At the January 6th Oxnard City Council Meeting - there was an item which caused some ire with the City Attorney, Gary Gillig and the seated Council. 

Mayor Lopez asked Gillig if it was proper to read into the record, a letter that was given to the Oxnard City Council for public reading into the public record.  Attorney Gillig's reading on the matter was that the Council normally did not read letters into the record and that the submission of this letter to the Council would suffice for administrative purposes.

¿ What was this letter - what did it say - who wrote it?. ..... The Oxnard Journal tracked it down and found the letter, so here is the letter the City Attorney did not want you to hear read aloud.

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January 6, 2004
Mr. Daniel Martinez,
Elected City Clerk

Dear Mr. Martinez:

Please submit this as public comment to item I.2. Please attach to the agenda item and read this to the City Council.

The agenda item I.2 for this City Council meeting is a revisionist attempt to change a completed operating contract between the City of Oxnard and High Tides & Green Grass, which began in 1993 and ended in
December 1998. This is concrete evidence that the City has knowingly
refused to comply with the requirements of that operating contract.

The City Staff's function is to comply and to assure compliance with the correct operating contracts as they are documented in the legal repository in the City Clerk's files. We have hired City Officials and are paying them very handsomely to do just that. We elect our officials to approve proper contracts. A qualified attorney, city manager, finance director and project manager should have made a detailed review of those
documents. In so doing they would have noticed that the language requiring an audit was diametrically opposed between the Council approved operating contract in the City Clerk's files and the operator's business plan.

When this dichotomy first came to the attention of the staff they should have taken proper procedures at the time to offer changes to the contract. They did not do that. In fact even though the 1993 HTGG contract was changed no less than seven times between 1993 and 1998,
never once were the changes made that are being proposed tonight. In fact
as Mr. Holden has stated under oath he was upset when I demanded that the
full, complete and rigorous audit of HTGG be completed as required in the contract. Why do you think that is so?  Under oath Mr. Gillig claimed that the problem of two different operating contracts was due to employee gross incompetence. Unless Mr. Martinez agrees that due to his lack of competence this problem exists, the real reason is that Mr. Gillig is just trying to revise history so that his statements under oath appear to be supported and to attempt to correct Mr. Tom Holden's statements in his deposition.

Also while under oath at trial both Mr. Mike Henderson and Mr. Ed. Sotelo
acknowledged that the difference in the words between the formal agreement and the rogue agreement that you are being asked to ratify tonight were material and thus required specific approval by the City
Council. Yet here four years after that contract ended, the City attorney
now wants to "correct staff's intentional error" by changing the contract
language.

Now comes this agenda item prepared by the City Attorney to get the City
Council's approval to change the completed 1993 HTGG contract, but is
nothing less than an attempt to cover up the fact that staff did not do its job, in fact staff worked very hard to hide from the citizens of this community the financial facts of the operations of High Tides & Green Grass.

Was there any other staff official who was attempting to comply with the audit requirements? Look at Mr. Holden's accusations in his deposition for the answer.  Did that staff person communicate to other City officials of the need for a complete, rigorous and thorough audit of High Tides & Green Grass as is required in the existing agreement? Look at the office e-mails sent to Mr. Sotelo.

Mr. Mayor, I cannot state more clearly that any attempt to change the
language of a contract that was completed in 1998 is not right and simply
attempts to rewrite the facts.

Respectfully,
Phillip S. Molina
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While Driving thru Oxnard on Saturday 10 January, the following unusual sights appeared before my windshield.

At the corner of First and Oxnard Blvd. traffic was moving off to the right-hand  lane - I thought - Oh great - someone's old car has stalled on the Boulevard
and is blocking traffic. Getting behind a large truck, I merged right and
as I passed I noticed a compact car
with the air-bags deployed - two stunned women in the front seat and a few kids
in the back.  The entire front end of the car was crumpled, but there was no second vehicle to be found. 
It appeared as if she hit the rear
of a truck or other large vehicle and the truck just pulled away unaware. 
It was an obvious hit and run
on the part of the other driver. 
Was it an unlicensed, un-documented driver...there are such things?

Afterwards - going to the Oxnard College for the Filipino portion of the Flea Market, I passed by the controversial College Park and smoke was arising. 
I thought - oh great, there goes
the Petit House where the
Rainbow Ladies have been forced to evacuate the period home, but no,
it was the ranch style house near the entrance to the Park. 
According to Martin Jones,
current Vice-Chair of the
College Park Neighborhood. 
"That house was perfectly OK." 
There was not alert to a controlled burn by the Oxnard Fire Department,
although there was a bevy of fire equipment there, enough to indicate
that this was a training exercise. 
 If it were, it was a poor demonstration since many trees near the home were damaged and injured, but considering Oxnard's track record for caring
for trees and other arbors, it would not surprise me if the City didn't care about burning and hurting perfectly healthy trees. 
If it was the purpose of the City
to demolish this ranch style house,
then it went about it in a rather
hap-hazard way.

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