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Dan James
Senior Civil Engineer
City of Rancho Cucamonga

Dan James was thoughtful enough to provide the RCView with an update on the progress, or lack of progress for relief from a single IT provider in Rancho Cucamonga.

From: James, Dan
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:19 AM
Subject: Verizon FiOS update
Dear Mr. Shea:
You had previously expressed interest in learning the [...]

Rancho Cucamonga City Council members filled California Form 460 Campaign statements for the first 6 months of 2008.Â
Once again, almost exclusively the area developers and representatives of fire and police unions finance our campaigns.  Total contributions for the first 6 months of this year to council members top $284,000.00.  Leading the list of contributors is [...]

Rancho Cucamonga City Council causes citizens to pay tens of millions of dollars more for internet and television service with its failure to work with Verizon.
Don’t hold your breath for Verizon FIOS service in Rancho Cucamonga or TV service in Fontana.  Verizon was ready to install the fiber overlay needed to support FIOS service for [...]

Great News for the citizens of Rancho Cucamonga, our serving service men and woman will not longer be asked to pay the bill for our modest effort to honor their service in harms way. The Daily Bulletin bringing attention to the this issue may well have contributed to this attractive solution.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA
Donor to fund banner [...]

Rancho has a chance to show how much it appreciates members of our community serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Honoring Service Men and Woman by placing banners in prominent places in our city should be funded by the community. If we really appreciate their service, we would endeavor to honor every one of them with [...]

Mayor Don Kurth of Rancho Cucamonga has published a new website DonKurth.com.
The websites stated purpose looks to be a vehicle improved communication and be more responsive to the citizens of Rancho Cucamonga. The new website will also raise the mayors profile is a bid for the 63rd assembly seat. If mayor Kurth is to run [...]

Campaign contributions and expenditures for political campaigns are public record, reported regularly in California on Form 460. The financial reporting requirement for political campaigns is detailed on the California Form 460 found here:

Reports state the preceding six months activity.
Mayor Don Kurth June 2007
Mayor Don Kurth (1)June 2007
Mayor Don Kurth December 2007
Mayor Don Kurth (1)December 2007
Diane [...]

Mayor Don Kurth, Rex Gutierrez, and Dennis Michael all look to be on the move in 2010. The campaigning will start soon with fund raising already begun for the assembly seat expected to be vacated by Assemblyman Bill Emmerson.
Rex is a little more candid about his intentions to run for the 63rd [...]

The Ranch Cucamonga planning department has chocked long enough on the term “Specialty” store. Fresh and Easy was required to appeal to the city council, a denial by the planning commission for a new location in the Thomas Winery center.
I1. CONSIDERATION OF APPEAL OF A PLANNING COMMISSION DECISION TO DENY USE DETERMINATION DRC2008-00179 - LEGG [...]

City council in no hurry to provide an alternative to Charter Communication:
Verizon DSL service is unavailable to much of the city where the maximum distance from the switching station is exceeded.  Verizon has not been able to begin the installation of a new technology, which would provide service to the entire city.
FIOS overlay projects have [...]