Letter from Grand Jury to Melendez
One of our McFarland residents filed a complaint against our city council with the Kern County Grand Jury. This person received a response from the Grand Jury regarding their investigation on the city.
http://www.shafterchevron.com/resources/letter_062306.pdf
The following letter is much more interesting. It is a letter written by the Grand Jury and addressed to Rafael Melendez. This letter should be enough to convince people that Melendez, Cantu, and Santillano have failed. To summarize the letter, it basically states that these guys are doing a terrible job in running our council meetings and that the recycling contract that was awarded to Sunset Waste was to the "detriment of the citizens".
http://www.shafterchevron.com/resources/letter_062306_2.pdf
The Grand Jury seems to suspect that something strange is going on and they plan to recommend that the investigation continue into the following year. I smell trouble for these guys, something similar to what the mayor of San Jose is going through at the moment. Looks like he may have accepted bribes from a garbage contractor and he was arrested yesterday. I wonder if the Kern County Grand Jury will discover that these guys on the McFarland City Council were involved in a similar type of fraud. I wouldn't be surprised. What else could explain why Melendez, Cantu, and Santillano would award the recycling contract to a company that bid nearly twice as much for the same service?
http://www.shafterchevron.com/resources/arrested.pdf
posted by Rafael Rodarte @ 4:12 PM
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3 Comments:
Funny that you mentioned that you think that this council is receiving a "KICK" from the garbage company and that that is why they gave them the contract. In fact, it is the other way around! WE don't think......WE know that Ben and the previous council received and are still receiving a "HUGE KICK" from R&F. That is why they gave them a 20 year deal. What you gotta say about that? You'll say....."well that is your opinion....It's not fact!" I say....."I know it is a fact!"
If you truly believe that this is true you should submit a complaint with the Grand Jury and the District Attorney's office. Why haven't any of you Melendez supporters done this? I've heard this claim numerous times over the past year yet no one comes forward with any evidence of it. How do you know it to be a fact? The only true fact is that you and the other Melendez supporters lack any common sense and just buy into information given to you from unreliable sources.
" Anonymous " This present Council and mayor's past actions speak for themselves don't they. If you have a problem with the old mayor and council go get them. Ben this and Ben that, I'm tired of hearing about Ben. One would think he was the only one on the previous council. I never heard of the other council taking trips around the world and across the United States,did you? Here's a fact for you, The old council was never recalled! Enough said.
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