In an interview Thursday, Mayor Ron Roberts said that at the council's direction he and Councilman Chuck Washington personally delivered a letter to the Pechanga Tribal Council in hopes of re-establishing cordial ties with the sovereign tribe, which runs a casino, hotel and golf course on a reservation bordering the city.
"The Temecula City Council is committed to working diligently to rebuild a strong, cooperative working relationship with the Pechanga Tribal Council and its members," Roberts wrote in the letter dated Tuesday
The CITY, negotiated a deal that would give them millions of dollars, which became available when the tribe cut of the per capita payments via disenrollment of lifelong tribal members. That dollar value is now over $300 MILLION dollars.
It was never our intention to personally harm the Pechanga Tribe or any of its members, but rather, to protect what we thought were our legal rights until the tribal-state compact," Roberts wrote. He added the city would not appeal the lawsuit's dismissal.
Roberts, who said he has been the city's tribal liaison for 16 years, wrote that the city is willing to work with Pechanga to revise a city/tribal agreement negotiated over two years and ratified by Temecula's council in March 2010.
The 21-year agreement called for the tribe to pay Temecula $2 million annually, with the amount rising after six years to account for inflation. City officials expected Temecula could have received as much as $65 million through the agreement.
The tribe also agreed to pay $10 million or secure federal dollars in the same amount for improvements to the Interstate 15/Highway 79 South interchange, which frequently is used by casino-goers
In a comical quote from Macarro:After the ruling, Macarro said "little to no desire exists to hand over millions of dollars to a City Council that would seek to cause our tribe, our employees, our business partners, and the charitable causes which we support such harm."
In other words, DON'T try to harm us while we are free to harm our own people. Come be a business partner with a tribe that abuses elders, denied due process, ignored it's own constitution, stripped voting rights and attempted to steal water rights. A tribe that invalidated it's military veterans, wiping them clean from the tribe's website
SHAME ON THE CITY OF TEMECULA
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QUESTION: WHY DOES THE CITY OF TEMECULA KEEP GETTING KICKED IN THE TEETH, AND THEN GO BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN. THIS CAN'T BE THE ONLY TIME THE "MACARRO CARTEL" HAS MADE THE CITY "BEND OVER," AND TEMECULA JUST TAKES IT. AS "FORRREST GUMP" SAID "STUPID IS WHAT STUPID DOES."
Temucula should be driving business to the people who pay business license fees
MY WIFE CORRECTED ME ON WHAT FORREST GUMP ACTUALLY SAID: "STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES." MY MISTAKE. MEANS THE SAME. A FITTING RENDITION OF THE TEMECULA CITY COUNCIL GROVALING FOR TIDBITS WITH THE INTENT ON LICKING MARK MACARRO,S BOOT STRAPS. WHY WOULD THEY EVEN WANT TO BE IN BED WITH/ASSOCIATE WITH A TRIBE THAT IS KNOWN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST THEIR OWN MEMBERSHIP. "SHAME ON YOU, TEMECULA." DOESN'T THE CITY COUNCIL HAVE ANY INTEGRITY, CITY PRIDE? WHERE IS YOUR BACK BONE? YOU HAVE THE ABILITY, AND THE MEANS TO REVERSE YOUR KISS A.. POSITION WITH PECHANGA, AND THE "MACARRO CARTEL," REMEMBER: "TO GET TO THE CASINO YOU HAVE TO GO THRU TEMECULA." HAVE SOME SELF ESTEEM FOR THE GOOD OF THE CITY, BECAUSE I WARN YOU NOTHING GOOD WILL COME FROM BEING IN BED WITH "MARK MACARRO AND HIS HENCHMEN." YOU HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO BE HIT IN THE HEAD BEFORE YOU REALIZE IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU? I GUESS WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT SEE. I'M INCINED TO THINK THAT IT WILL BE PECHANGA SAYING "CANDY LITTLE GIRL," AND TEMECULA ANSWERING HERE I AM.
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