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Annual Constitution Week events held at RC
2019 event attracted large crowds to see FBI agents, judges By Jon Earnest
Mid Valley Times
Reedley College students and mem- bers of the public again were given the opportunity to hear presentations from a number of legal, political and law en- forcement officials as well as scholars during the college's sixth annual Consti- tution Week conference last week.
The majority of events took place Sept. 19-20 with nine presentations; five on Thursday and four more on Friday. They came three days after the week's schedule began on Sept. 16 with a ques-
tion and answer session involving 21st Congressional Rep. T.J. Cox (D-Fresno) at Forum Hall.
Conference organizer Bryan Tellalian, political science instructor at the college, said during the event that large crowds came out for presentations by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and feder- al judges Barbara McAullife and Stanley A. Boone. The FBI panel discussion fea- tured George Lopez, senior supervisory resident agent out of Fresno, and dealt with security issues and privacy rights among other topics.
McAullife and Boone answered ques- tions and discussed federal laws as it per- tains to state law and other legal issues. Panel discussions included questions from students and the public, videos and other interactive events with conference attendees.
LEFT: A student attendee asked a question of George Lopez, seated center, a senior supervisory resi- dent agent for the FBI regional of- fice in Fresno, during the first day of Reedley College's Constitution Week events on Sept. 19.
ABOVE RIGHT: Examples of Revolutionary War art were on display on video during a Sept. 20 presentation on immigrants byJaimeBuettner, RCadjunctart instructor.
MIDDLE RIGHT: U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara McAullife, left, spoke while U.S. Magistrate Judge Stanley A. Boone listened during a Sept. 20 Panel on the Federal Judiciary discussion.
LOWER RIGHT: John Gerardi, executive director for Right to Life of Central California, spoke about the history of abortion laws in the United States during an afternoon session on Sept. 19.
Photos by Jon Earnest / Mid Valley Times
MEASURE L Continued from page A1
Mayor pro tem Dan- iel Martinez called the measure a fraud from the start and wants the next step in incremen- tally dismantling it to be to change back to five council districts, instead of the present four with a mayor elected at large.
Martinez would like to see all five council- members, with four year terms, elected by district and, going back to way it was prior to Measure L, the mayor being selected by the council from with- in the council.
That second step should wait until the re- sults of the census are available to provide data for creating new council districts, said city attor- ney Hilda Cantu Montoy.
Estimates from the Fresno County Elec- tions Office for put- ting the measure on the regular November 2020 election ballot range be- tween $8,000 and $10,000. "That's money the City would have to pay any- way because there will be council candidates running in that election," said Montoy.
"You're just begin- ning to learn how to do your job when you have to start campaigning for another term," said current mayor Frank Gonzalez. "The two year term has never made sense."
That's pretty much what a 2012 grand jury investigation into Mea- sure L concluded.
It would have cost $40,000 to $50,000 to put the measure reversing the Measure L term of office decision on a spe-
cial election in March of 2020, said Montoy.
The council split 4-1 on a decision to use al- most $37,000 of Measure S public safety money to buy 12 new Tasers for the police department.
Councilmember Humberto Garza who cast the lone no vote said that while he was in fa- vor of police getting the Tasers he was making a symbolic no vote and would continue to do so on every Measure S purchase of equipment for police and firefight- ers until the council re- structures the Measure S spending plan to provide more money for nonprof- its making gang and drug prevention/intervention programs available to Sanger youth.
Before the council got
into the city business on the agenda Gonzalez pre- sented a posthumous proc- lamation honoring John (Johnny) Perez to mem- bers of Perez's family.
Perez, a retired Ma- rine Corps Major who had served on both the city planning commis- sion and Measure S Citizens Oversight Com- mittee, who was also a member of the fire de- partment's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and a Red
Cross volunteer died of a heart attack on Sept. 5. A funeral service for Perez will be held tomor- row, Friday, Sept. 27, at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church at the corner of Bethel and North avenues.
Council meetings at 6 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of each month are open to the public and no council action will be taken until after pub- lic comments have been heard.
ARREST Continued from page A6
weapon. His bail is cur- rently set at $1.25 million and he was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday at the Tulare County Superior Court.
The case remains an ongoing investiga- tion and Dinuba police
continues to ask for the assistance from the Di- nuba community, as it is believed that Cruz solicited other females in the area. If you have any information regard- ing the case, contact the Dinuba Police Depart- ment at (559) 591-5911 or (559) 591-TIP1 to re- main anonymous.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
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Reedley Night Out is an annual event designed to strengthen our community by encouraging neighborhoods to engage in stronger relationships with each other and with the Reedley Police Department. The goal is to heighten crime-prevention awareness, build support and participation in anti-crime e orts and to maintain and expand Neighborhood Watch throughout our community.
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