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City clarifies interpretation of Trimble Plan

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Contributed by: Lisa Burks on 7/3/2007

Previously on "As The Grand View World Turns"....

City Manager Jim Starbird, at last week's city council meeting, characterized Tom Trimble's June 4 letter regarding seven-day-a-week visitations at Grand View Memorial Park as Trimble's refusal to allow the city to access the endowment fund interest monies to offset their costs for limited visitation days unless the city took responsibility for opening Grand View on a daily basis.

Trimble, executor of the estate of his late sister, cemetery co-owner Marsha Howard, said that his letter was misunderstood. He told me that his idea was to take over responsibility of opening the cemetery for visitation full-time using income generated by the cemetery and personnel from Kiefer & Eyerick Mortuary, which holds a lease to the offices on the grounds.

Yesterday, I spoke with Mike Grant, Glendale's Senior Assistant City Attorney, who offered clarity on the matter from the city's point of view -- namely that their interpretation of the letter was confirmed by Trimble's own attorney prior to the city council meeting.

"I can confirm that the text of the letter you have on your blog is the text the city received via fax from Mr. Trimble," said Grant, who also told me that the day after he received the fax, June 5, he faxed a response letter back to Trimble's attorney, John F. Weitkamp, which reads in part:

"I interpret Mr. Trimble's letter as not objecting to my merely contacting Mr. Wetmore, but rather Mr. Trimble's objecting to Mr. Wetmore's releasing the Trust's monthly income for expense reimbursement or Cemetery operation costs, if the Cemetery is open to the public for visitation on a " limited" basis instead of a " full time" basis. Is my interpretation correct?"

Grant further tells me that he received verbal confirmation via telephone from Weitkamp after he received the city's letter, that this interpretation was indeed correct.

Weitkamp was not available when I called his office this morning. Stay tuned for futher developments.

In the meantime, Trimble's ideas, while well intentioned, may be a moot point unless the court recognizes and agrees to hear him at the next status conference hearing set for 9 a.m. on Monday, July 9 at L.A. County Superior Court, Dept. 309, 600 S. Commonwealth Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90005.

The meeting is open to the public.

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