Disclaimer: The comments in this blog are my personal opinion and may or may not reflect an adopted position of the city of Glendale and its city council.
After posting on the two BreakThru/Through ministries, I received these photos this morning from a reader and I though I would share them. It was taken this morning. The question to be answered is BreakThru Ministries paying rent to the City of Glendale for the use of its Youth Center for its Sunday services?
BreakThru Ministries service at the Glendale Youth Center
This photo, again sent by the reader, is a screen shot from the internet posted by BreakThru Ministries advertising its Sunday service at the Glendale Youth Center.
I have no animus toward this church but I strongly believe in the Constitutional mandate of separation of church and state. If this church is paying rent to the city it is legal and legitimate and fulfills the requirement of separation of church and state.
If it does not, then it is in violation and Ocotillo Councilmember Jamie Aldama is endorsing and associating with, for want of a better term, a rogue organization. The question becomes if the Councilmember knowingly associates with this group who may not be in compliance, it then becomes fair game to look at and to question his other associations. It is scrutiny everyone who runs for office often faces.
© Joyce Clark, 2018
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Let us know Joyce when you find out about paying or not paying rent. If it is not paying, then I think a deeper search needs to be done to find out how and who waived the rent that is required for use of City facilities — and how long this has been going on. We have to pay rent to use the meeting facilities at FRAC for non-City purposes. I hope this isn’t a situation of a double standard depending on who you know at City Hall.
Joyce knows that they do pay, but she chooses to purposefully elicit lies to the public. I understand that there are two parties running for the Ocotillo District, but for her to stoop to mid slinging politics is embarrassing.
Dear Ocotillo Resident, Thank you for expressing your opinion. Today I updated my blog to confirm that Breakthru Ministries does pay rent. However, according to city records they paid for one hour of rental ($72.00) when they held their Feb. 25th event. Somehow or another I suspect the event was for several hours. Why did they not pay for all of the time they used the Youth Center for their event?
I appreciate your obviously staunch support for Aldama.
Yes, why is one thing not like another? Yes, why is the community told the city has no money to finish Heroes Park when we have heard city Hall is going to be remodeled.? Why do other parks have grass and we have dirt and dust. ?Why were we told two years ago by Parks and Rec that curbs,sidewalks and street lights would be under construction in a few weeks.? Why have we been waiting 20 years to finish Heroes park when the city is spending for everything else when the park should have been in first in line on the budget plan.? Please change the name from Heroes Park which is an insult to our Heroes and call it the Forgotten Park.
Myself and my neighbors are not happy . Will someone please let us know the latest plans for the park and how much monies are in the budget. Our emails to all have not been answered.
Well, it seems to me that there should be some paper trail that shows this church having permission to use the Glendale Youth Center. And with the history of damage to city property, I would think they should have insurance on the use of the center. It should be simple enough to get the info from city staff showing the use of the center, the rent being paid or that rent is waived, and the insurance. UNLESS, there are some shenanigans going on !!
Need to know why they do not pay? Also how much the other church pays at Oneil park. Must not be expense he did put in a RFP for the youth center . What department sets the rent amount and collects? Micheal H
Michael, In today’s blog I confirm that Breakthru Ministries pays for one hour of rental every Sunday in the amount of $72.00. I cannot speak to O’Neil Park — I simply don’t know. I believe the city’s events department (under Parks and Recreation) sets the rental charges and the finance dept. receives the rent and enters it into the system.