Who is Tending the Store?

Who is Tending the Store?
Letter to the editor

Recall if you will that the current mayor stated, “Things will be different. There will be no more closed-door meetings or agreements.” What exactly does he call the ad-hoc committee he chose to find a cell-tower consultant for $200,000? The ad hoc committee appeared to create the terms of the city contract to award a potential of $2 million in commissions to the consultant to determine where cell towers should be permitted.

The contract is not for just one cell tower, but up to 70 of them!

How and why did the city council agree on this? Do council members receive $$ in any way? How is it that a city-hired consultant can propose to bring in a cell tower provider with a commission for himself for 10 years? Were communities surrounding Mission Viejo surveyed to find out if they were enthusiastically accepting cell towers to be planted all over private properties and city-owned properties?

Is it true Councilmen Lance MacLean and Frank Ury were promoting the contract? Does anyone recall the demands by Ury to put all power lines underground? I can so assume that he is demanding all the towers for the wireless shall go the same way!

Anyone wanting to know more about this should call City Hall. I am still wondering how the cell-tower master plan and contract came about.

William Cruse
Mission Viejo