Councilman comments on county lawsuit
There is still some contention among the Upland City Council over a lawsuit they are fighting against the County over a $102 million settlement with a Rancho Cucamonga Developer.
Councilman Ken Willis made some comments during the city council meeting on August 23 regarding the exorbitant legal fees associated with fighting the lawsuit.
The city has spent more than $2million and is looking to make more cuts to their 2010-11 budget.
Cal Trans and the San Bernardino Associated Governments is also being sued.
"$102 million of tax payers money was paid out and now we're looking at $150 (million) or $160 million of tax payer money is being asked for to go to the county and tax payer money is paying for all the legal fees and all the attorneys and everything else," Willis said.
"We're being forced to defend ourselves by the our county government which essentially is doing something that is totally unprecedented, never heard of before - where a county will turn around and sue a city inside it's own governance."
Willis said the city is paying more than $100,000 a month to fight the suit.
"With $100,000 we could do over 100 sidewalk repairs in one month, average cost," he said.
"With $100,000 we can keep a couple policemen on the street, no sweat. With $100,000 we can do all kinds of things every day that benefits our city."
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