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to betterment of Santa Aha. I feel real close to this town and it has been bothering me for the weekend because I feel my reputation has been in some way compromised. We will not be the stepping stone or the excuse for anybody to batter any group of people. We are taking a rightful place in the community--we will defend our city, our country--we are proud to be Americans. We are going to defend ourselves and this we intend to make completely clear. Mayor Griset: On behalf of myself, and, I trust, on behalf of the Council, I felt outraged by the kind of article which attacked the ethics and all of those things that were unjustly used in trying to discredit the auction of the old city hall to your fi~m. I think the interests of the City of Santa Aha were s~rved in selling to you. It's advantageous to the City and to your Company. I can't think of a transaction that I was any happier about in terms of benefits to both parties. It was all done in the open, done after extensive advertising. There was some misunderstanding about the formation of your management company, but this in no way repudiated the transaction. It was handled in the open and since we understood that you had formed another company based on a binding lease with the Banco del Pueblo, it became the same thing. There is no issue legally or in terms of open kind of transaction that occurred here on this floor. I congratulate you for your response. I was delighted to see that this was being done because it was exactly the way I felt and I think the way most of the members of our Council felt, I would be disappointed if we accepted your resignation. I know I would vote against accepting it, and I would not want to see you resign because I think you can contribute a great deal. I don't think the confidence of the people of Santa Ana has diminished in this. The kind of attack-made upon you needs to be called, and this letter does it in very good fashion. Councilman ¥illa's motion for a minute order to endorse the letter to Mr. James Dean, Executi~ze Editor, Santa Aha Register, from Rudy E. Gallegos, President of Del Pueblo Management and Development Company, dated March 19, 1973, and the press release read by Hector Oodinez, was seconded by Counc~ilman Evans, and unanimously carried. Rudy Gallegos: I have here before me a letter that I have directed to Mr. James Dean, Executive Editor of the Register, 6Z5 North Grand Avenue. (Mr. Galtegos re~d the letter in its entirety and requested that it be filed for the record. CA 45A) , Wade Herrin: The statements made.in the letter, I would find reluctance to approve in, the same manner. -I don't think our Council should be involved in that kind of legal action. I certainly have a very strong feeling with respect to the news release and I am willing to join in support of it. Mayor Griset: I don'tthink that our action commits the City Council to any legal action. Our endorsement of this letter simply means that we agree with the two men, Mr. Godinez and Mr. Galleg~os, and ttleir charge that the Santa Ana Register article is fraught with implications and unfounded accusations. Wade Herrin:, ~I would vote to approve action with regard to the press release. I don't think that as a member of the Council I should be involved in a letter directed to Mr. James Dean and signed by Mr. Gallegos because that is an action between those two parties. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 91 I MARC~I 19, 1973