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CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
JAMES F. PENMAN
City Attorney
September 27, 1990
NAME:
MEMBERS OF FAMILY:
ROOM NO:
BUDGET MOTEL 738 W. 5th st., San Bernardino
CONFIRMED:
, City Attorney Investigator.
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The City of San Bernardino, during a recent re-inspecuion of
the Budget Motel in which you live, has discovered that the motel
has failed to correct health, building and safety violations
despite repeated warnings.
Consequently, the motel owner/operator has been advised that
he must evacuate and close the motel no later than 12:00 Noon on
Tuesday, October 2, 1990.
Attached to this letter is a list of available apartments
which do not require first and last months rent.
In addition, the Department of Public Social Services (DPSS)
is working with the City to assist you in obtaining alternate
housing. If you need such assistance please contact the DPSS
office at 5th and E Streets in San Bernardino immediately. Take
this letter with you when you go to the DPSS office.
If you receive a check from any source, including DPSS
during the next few days, you may want to consider using that
money to pay for new living quarters. You should not pay for
rent for the month of October at your present room because that
room must be evacuated by 12:00 Noon on October 2, 1990. You may
want to pay for one additional day, October I, 1990, but that is
a matter you must resolve with the motel management.
If you need transportation to a new residence or assistance
in locating a new residence and DPSS is unable to help you please
call this office at 384-5355 between 7:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M. on
Thursday, September 27; Friday, September 28 or Monday, October
1, 1990. This office will be closed this Saturday and Sunday.
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CITY HALL
300 NORTH '0' STREET' SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA 92418
(714) 384-5355
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September 28,
1990 ***
"Where the hell do they get
olT coming in here and telling us
this place is unsafe after we've
bee'n living here for three
months?" Nickdouplous de-
manded as code officers began
stapling notices. to-vacate on
the motel room doors.
But Penman said he is
pleased with the social-work ap-
proach city officials are taking
in finding alternate homes for
the displaced tenants. They
gave residents a list of available,
low-cost apartments and will
transport them and their be-
longings to new homes Tuesday.
Still, the tenants worry,
"I'm just scared," said soft-
spoken Alice Lund, who arrived
a month ago from Victorville to
be nearer the services she needs
as a result of multiple sclerosis.
"I'm partially disabled and
living on the dole. I took the first
room I could get."
Next door, four generations
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Margie Robinson, a resident of the Budget Motel in San Bernardino, can't hold back the tears as she reads, her eviction notice Thursday,
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S.B: Budget Motel eighth to be closed by city
By CASSIE MacDUFF
Sun Staff Writer
SAN BERNARDINO - The
Budget Motel may not be a
castle, but it's home for C.W.
"Nick" Nickdouplous.
"I'll go to jail-I'm not leav.
ing this place," he vowed Thurs-
day.
But Nickdouplous, a 55-
year-old military veteran, and
53 other residents of the Bud-
get, at 738 W. Fifth St., have
been told they must find other
living quarters by Tuesday.
City officials have ordered
the motel closed because of 135
housing code violations, includ-
ing dangerous electrical wiring,
unsanitary plumbing and dete-
riorated flooring.
It is the eighth San Bernar-
dino motel closed this year un-
der similar circumstances. City
Attorney James F. Penman said
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the Budget is the last fully occu-
pied motel slated for closure in
the sweeps aimed at ridding the
downtown of crime, prostitution
and drug dealing.
City officials on Thursday
promised to help relocate the
Budget's displaced tenants,
That didn't comfort Nick-
douplous.
of a family sat bewildered.
"We want to break the mot
cycle and get into a house so v
can all be together," said Elair
Byrd, whose elderly mothe
adult daughter and youn
granddaught~r sat on two bed
in a cramped room.
"We've been "in motel atl.ei
motel," said Byrd's daughter
Heather Sullivan. The .famil
moved from La Puente in searc'
of cheaper housing, she said.
In a shady corner outsid
were three disabled men wh
have shared a room at the But
get for three years.
"We're all handicapped.
Melvin Thomas Ford said. "W
have no transportation. W
have no extra money. Righ
now, we barely have what w
need."
Penman assured them the,
will be moved to a better horn.
with access to bus lines and so
cial services. '
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