Taking Grand View to court
Lisa Burks of valleynews.com has another report from the Grand View psychodrama. The Glendale City Council has voted to pursue a nuisance abatement action against the cemetery. The council voted to do this instead of spending $400,000 to clean up the tinder-dry cemetery. Burks quotes a couple angry councilmen in her dispatch.
"This cemetery is a nuisance and a fire hazard," said council member Bob Yousefian, who warned that the costs for fire suppression, should a wild fire break out on the property, would amount to three times or more what the council was being asked to currently consider spending to avoid such a disaster."I'm prepared to expend this money, however I'm also prepared to change direction and go with an adversarial position," said council member Frank Quintero. "For me, personally, I've had enough. I'm not going to continue to spend tax payer money and somehow have to tip-toe around the owners of this cemetery," he added.
Read the rest of Burks' story here.