Cedar Glen

Below is a letter of support from the Board of Supervisors Office for the Cedar Glen legislation Any support letters to the Governor that you can drum up for this legislation would be a huge help. Please pass this along to community members who can help with letters of support because personal comments and stories from residents would resonate louder! The governor's email is http:gov.ca.gov/interact
(From Gary Hallen of the RDA) //

September 4, 2008
The Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: AB 2680 (Adams) – REQUEST FOR SIGNATURE
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:
On behalf of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, I respectfully request your signature to AB 2680. This bill will authorize the State Controller to discharge the Department of Water Resources (DWR) from accountability for collection of a 1980 loan issued to the to the now-defunct Arrowhead Manor Water Company (AMWC) under the California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1976.
Per the agreement reached with the Departments of Finance and Water Resources, San Bernardino County will acquire the water system improvements to which were financed by the loan and will pay the State to complete the agreed upon satisfaction of the principle amount of that loan, on or before January 30, 2009.
As you know, the “Old Fire” of October 2003 ravaged the San Bernardino Mountains and almost completely destroyed the unincorporated community of Cedar Glen near Lake Arrowhead. The fire destroyed 324 structures in that community, over 75% of the total number of homes at the time, and damaged a number of others. Only a few homes have been rebuilt since.
The County of San Bernardino has worked with residents to rebuild their community in a responsible way. The Board of Supervisors created a disaster recovery redevelopment project area encompassing Cedar Glen and overlaid the area with a County Service Area (CSA) improvement zone. The CSA provides the framework to rebuild and maintain the road system, provide better ingress/egress to the community for safety purposes, and to acquire/upgrade the antiquated and financially distressed water company that served the area: the Arrowhead Manor Water Company (AMWC). To date, the County has committed up to $16 million in county, redevelopment, and grant funding to rebuild the community.
Cedar Glen residents have waited for more than four years to rebuild their homes and their community. AB 2680 will allow rebuilding to proceed and will enable the County to provide essential water services to residents. For these reasons, the Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County thereby respectfully requests your signature. The Board thanks you for your attention in this matter.
Sincerely,
PAUL BIANE
Chairman, Board of Supervisors

...and yes, we all know that Arnie isn't signing anything until the budget situation is resolved, but you can still send an email anyway.

For personal reasons, it's been a long time since I visited these boards. WOW, I've missed A LOT!!

I actually came back for selfish reasons (looking for free dirt, free doors, free ...) and THEN saw your post.

Though in 2 seconds I'm off to several doctors' appointments, I absolutely WILL be writing our beloved (?) governor when I get back!

I am so very grateful you're a part of this community, Carol! Posting information such as this (AB 2860 [Adams]) is so important. I hope EVERY home and land owner in Cedar Glen writes the Gov, as well; it means so VERY much to us all here.

Truly, Carol, I can't thank you enough for your time and involvement for and in our community, your posts here, AND for being such a significantly helpful citizen.

Carol, you are absolutely the BEST example of a "great neighbor"!!

Carol is the new "honorary mayor" of Cedar Glen? Good morning, Carol, say hi to Jeff..... See you October 3rd.

OK folks, Arnie is now looking at and signing bills again.

Carol has me on ignore! I'll tell Jeff on you...

I didn't see this one listed on this morning's ROTW article about Arnie signing local bills. Does anyone have any updates?

I told you she has me on ignore.....See you and Jeff on Friday night.....Bring CD's and I'll sell them...

No Jeff---I have to leave right after school to make it up there in time (hopefully).

I hope Sandi or Diane have the CD's......I guess I'm back off the ignore list, eh? Tell Jeff there's an organ there. He'll show up!

Guess this has nothing to do with AB 2680, LOL!!!

The bill passed. Now we will owe $910,520 instead of 1.9 million.

From: governor@gov.ca.gov
To: xxxxxxx@earthlink.net
Subject: Re:AB 2680
Date: Oct 10, 2008 2:26 PM

Thank you for writing to express your support for AB 2680. I appreciate hearing
from fellow Californians about the issues that matter to them, and I welcome your
input on legislation that affects the future of our state.

After extensive consideration of arguments from both supporters and opponents of
this issue, I am pleased to inform you that I signed this bill. You may read the
final language of this bill on the Official California Legislative Information website
at www.leginfo.ca.gov.

Again, thank you for voicing your opinion on this important issue. Taking the time
to communicate your views and offer suggestions is essential to good citizenship
and good government.

Sincerely,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Thanks for posting your letter, Carol. Also got one today from Diane Feinstein thanking me for my letter regarding the current banking problems. Funny but I did not send one to her?

Now that the bill has passed, does anybody know when escrow is going to close on the water company?