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 Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
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Retiree, cityhood opponent.
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Wildomar, CA
United States
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 Saturday, December 29, 2007 |
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| "Parks Scam" Motivates Candidate |
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By: AARON CLAVERIE - Staff
Writer - The Californian
Paul Williams preferred annexation to
Murrieta
Editor's note: This is the last in a series of profiles on the
14 candidates seeking a council seat should Wildomar residents decide Feb. 5
that the community should become a city.
WILDOMAR -- Paul Williams
opposes incorporation because, he contends, the group of residents pushing to
make Wildomar a city has neglected and will continue to neglect his neighborhood
and the other housing tracts east of Interstate 15 that supported annexation
into Murrieta.
The 73-year-old retired environmental consultant also
contends the group, which includes some of the council candidates he is running
against, will use the power of the city council to reward cityhood supporters
with city jobs.
"I know the dirty tricks they're going to pull," said the
former Moreno Valley resident, who lived in a section of the city called
Sunnymead before it was incorporated.
Area voters will decide Feb. 5
whether to incorporate and, if so, which of the 14 candidates should serve on
the inaugural five-person council. Voters also will be asked to decide if the
council members should be elected on an at-large or a district basis. The other
13 candidates on the ballot are Sheryl Ade, Gary Andre, Steve Beutz, Martha
Bridges, Bob Cashman, Harv Dykstra, Scott Farnam, Roger Le Clerc, Bridgette
Moore, Darrell Ruff, Marsha Swanson, Michael Tierney and Tim
Underdown.
Williams' civic involvement in Moreno Valley includes serving
as a member of the city's ecological protection advisory committee for four
years. On that committee, he said, he was responsible for looking at
environmental impact reports detailing the impact of proposed development and
making recommendations to the city council.
He tried to get involved in
Wildomar community organizations -- he served for two months on the parks
formation committee -- but walked away, he said, because the other members
didn't listen to his suggestions.
His interest in politics runs in the
family.
When he was a young man, he asked his grandfather, a politician
in Ohio, which presidential candidate to vote for. His grandfather told him
something that has stuck with him for more than a half-century: "Vote for what
you want, not for what they want you to have."
Williams is one of the
handful of candidates in the race who oppose Wildomar cityhood. He said he
decided to run solely because of what he refers to as the "parks scam," the
recent assessment that was passed to pay for maintenance of the city's
parks.
"That's the only reason I got involved," he said.
When his
daughter moved to Wildomar about five years ago, she was told that a regional
park would be built on the east side of Interstate 15 near her house, he
said.
Williams moved into the house in late 2002 to help out his daughter
while her husband, a Marine, was serving in Iraq.
Soon after, Williams
read in the newspaper that County Supervisor Bob Buster supported a plan to sell
the land where the large park was going to be built to the local community
college district, which wanted the land for a new campus.
Meanwhile, on
the other side of I-15, a group of residents was gathering support for an
assessment that would go toward reopening the area's parks on the west side of
the freeway, which had been closed in the late 1990s.
The parks
assessment was passed this year but a fourth park, a park that was supposed to
be built on the east side of the I-15 near Williams' house, has not yet been
built and there is a concern among his neighbors that it might not ever be
built, he said.
Also, he said, the condition of the parks that were
opened is not acceptable.
"They've got porta-potties and no running
water. It's unsanitary," he said.
Williams, who opposed the parks
assessment, said it would not have passed if a section of Wildomar called The
Farm had been included in the boundaries.
It was excluded, assessment
supporters said, because a survey of residents of The Farm, a planned community
with features including parks, indicated they didn't want to pay for parks they
likely wouldn't use.
Williams said a survey of his neighborhood would
have produced similar results.
"Why didn't we get the same treatment?" he
asked.
The parks issue has become personal for Williams, who said he has
seen county officials and residents on the west side of Wildomar fail to deliver
a park for his daughter and his granddaughter, a park they were
promised.
"I told them, 'I'm gonna get you a park over there. You believe
that,'" he said.
Another important issue is public safety, Williams
said.
Becoming a part of Murrieta, which has its own police force, would
have been great, Williams said. The response times would have been quicker than
the times turned in by the county Sheriff's Department, and Murrieta officials
said they were going to build a fire station near his home.
Some of the
same residents instrumental in rallying support for the parks assessment worked
to defeat annexation, Williams said.
If they are elected to a Wildomar
council, it's going to be more of the same, he contends. Services, including
police and fire service, will be focused on the west side of the freeway, he
said.
"They're not going to care about the people on this side (of I-15).
They never have and they never will," he said.
Contact staff writer Aaron
Claverie at (951) 676-4315, Ext. 2624, or
aclaverie@californian.com.
Source:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/12/29/news/californian/wildomar/18_01_4812_28_07.txt
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Wildomar, CA
United States
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| Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
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| Meetings A Sham |
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Candidate Williams as quoted
in The Californian regarding the Wildomar Community Council's scheduled
informational meetings:
"It's a sham, man."
"She gave me this
flier (listing the dates of all three scheduled educational meetings), but they
didn't tell me nothing. She just said we want all the candidates to come, so I'm
going to go and see what's it's all about."
"I'll see what happens. If I
don't like it, I'll walk out like I do during the other
meetings."
Source: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/11/28/news/californian/wildomar/11_41_9811_28_07.txt
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Editor.W
Wildomar, CA
United States
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| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
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| Failure Is Not An Option |
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In response to Penny
Herbert's Nov. 18 letter, she stated that I was on the committee to annex to
Murrieta. That is not true, but I did support it 100 percent.
She also
stated that if the community votes for cityhood and elects these people, they
will not feel accountable if they fail. The answer to that is, failure is not
part of my vocabulary. Here is a saying I live by: "Vote for what you want, not
what they want you to have."
Paul
Williams
Wildomar
Source:http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/11/28/opinion/letters/11_27_0718_31_37.txt
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