Public Property Lease Rates on Agenda; And the Reality of the Santa Fe Café
The conversation at tonight’s Fullerton City Council meeting will turn to public property leases in Downtown Fullerton. A few years ago the Council raised rates. The jump was high – around 90% – but the City hadn’t increased rents for 10 years so the real increase over time was about 9% a year. Add the three succeeding years and it’s 7.7% per annum. That’s still high, but that’s what the Council approved, most notably the self-styled “pro business” Councilman, Ahmad Zahra.
The matter is now controversial because one restaurant occupying City space, Les Amis, run by the Montecristo clan, is using the 2022 rent hike as justification for their refusal to pay rent for years – dating back to 2011. They don’t bother explaining to their dupes all the years they stiffed their landlord (us) rent; and they never mention all the times they encroached on City property without permit or agreement. The City government bent way over backwards to accommodate Les Amis, who have shown very little gratitude for the latitude they were given for a decade and a half. Quite the contrary.
Apropos of the rent issue, one of the other complaints from the grand bruit Les Amis claque is that that one patio in particular pays no rent – the Santa Fe Café, run by Salma Bushala-Hamud.
First it should be mentioned that the patio in question is included in the Bushala Brothers, Inc.’s lease at the depot. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that the area designated as 9 in the site plan is included in BBIs master lease with the City and is thus included in the entire lease. Here’s the leasehold plan:
Even if this weren’t the case, BBI has obviously decided to let the public occupy shade covered tables and chairs even if they don’t patronize the café. All you have to do is look at the people sitting in the area. Almost none of them are café patrons.
This policy is indicated by an actual sign that lets the public know they can sit there, gratis, a decent and civilized gesture.
But back to the meeting. I hope the item starts out with a reminder from Mayor Jung and the City Attorney to the predictably frothed up Les Amis amigos who show up all the facts of the situation; to relate the years of skipped rent, the tens of thousands in overdue amounts, and the illegal encroachments; to let them know they’re being played by the Noaccounts of Montecristo and the rank-and-file of Ahmad Zahra’s Fullerton Boohoo stooges who demand a victim-of-the-week to weep for.
Cue tender fleur and diva, Young Elijah.
If you need a victim you must have a villain! And it’s best if you have the SAME villain all the time.
Is Jinan charging rent for the patio used by her new tenant?
I bet she is. That would really be bad.
Hypocrites gotta hypocrite.
The “Montecristo clan” is not any kind of victim. If they couldn’t pay legal rent they should have cleared off their crap themselves.
Almost every business is months behind on patio fees yet you still support them and just focus on Les Amis?
Pathetic. Only a moron wouldn’t see through this
Which ones? Name them.
Les Amis has been behind for 15 years, young Elijah. Accept reality.
No competent, serious landlord would let a tenant skip rent for 15 months, let alone 15 years, without taking serious legal action to force the tenant to get current or get evicted.
Exactly. The City let this problem get worse and worse. They should have been cleared off public property in 2013.
Which ones? One your own or cook the books for?
FACT: Pay your back rents. If you can’t, you can’t afford to be business. It means you’re taking shortcuts in other areas and that you owe a lot of other people money.
Inflation has hit everyone hard, but in the case of Les Amis, electing not to pay your rent since 2011 suggests that nonpayment was just part of their business plan.
It’s unbelievable that this is even being brought back to the city council. Has anyone actually looked at the rental rates for these patios? It’s nothing. Last I checked, it was about $1 per square foot per month if you serve alcohol. Given the size of the Les Amis patio, they were paying well under $700 a month for a massive space on city property.
If they were a viable restaurant with decent food, they should’ve been busy and happy to pay that. Instead, they’re a dump no one goes to. Goodbye and good riddance.
Incorrect. Ahmad and Elijah love their wretched food, decaying ambiance, and inconsistent service.
You could take 5 seconds to look up how much they were paying. Multiply your estimate by 5 and you are much closer.
Shocker that no one on this site bothered to correct you
You could take a a few seconds and do a PRA request to find out how much Les Miserables has EVER paid in rent and divide it by 15 years. The annual amount will be shockingly low.
Elijah Fuckface Manassero and his handler Saskia Piggy Kennedy can’t give examples of “almost every business” is months behind on patio fees. Because the statement is deliberately hyperbolic. There are nearly 6,000 businesses operating in the city, of which, over 300 are either restaurants or bars. Only 8 businesses are charged for using the outdoor dining program. Only 4 are “behind”. One of the businesses is their beloved Les Amis to the tune of more than $40,000. The remaining 3 have payment plans that are “current”, whatever that means. Point is, it isn’t “almost every business”. It’s 1. Les Amis. Hide behind jazz music all you want lady. You are a deadbeat. Sprinkling jazz on a piece of dog shit still smells like dog shit.
My God, the Bushalas are an ugly bunch. Between Tony and this woman, they’re living proof that money can’t buy looks. Honey, lay off the plastic surgery, it’s not helping. Looking like a clown.
Those people are rich. You’re just a jealous little nobody looking for a teat to latch on to. Zahra is a dry well, Oliver.
Ouch! Oliver Montecristo, didn’t your grifter mommy teach you if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all? Plus, dude, look in the mirror. You look like the Alan retard from Hangover. Ugly bunch? That’s you and your mommy.
Ouch is right! I’d bet money this comment ^^^ is from Tony’s ugly kid. The apple certainly didn’t fall far from the tree. Bet we’ll never see a Bushala face on this blog again. Remember what happened after I called out Tony’s fat, ugly, bloated face a few weeks ago? Every photo started getting cropped. But you blew it this time with the pics of the busted sister. YIKES! Money doesn’t fix ugly.
You still live at home with mommy, Young Oliver. But soon you all will be living at the County Work Farm.
“YIKES! Money doesn’t fix ugly.”
Well, you should know. All that rent money you stiffed us for and look at your clan. Planet of the Apes level shit.
I’m gonna start a blog called fuckinguglyfacesoffullerton.com. The only photos posted are the Bushalas.
Don’t forget the Montecristos. They’re some butt ugly people. Inside and out.
You need to have a job first to get money to buy a domain name Oliver Montecristo.
He lives with mommy – in a Bushala apartment!
Woof cookies AND too poor to pay rent.
Oliver Montecristo. Ugly is a good description of you and your mommy. Gypsies. Thieves. That’s the real ugly.
Pipe down, Georgie. Go polish your little trust-fund ego and disappear back into whatever expensive distraction keeps you from embarrassing yourself further.
Jinan is a squatter. The Canadian wife of the cripple said so.
The grieving widow costume from the widow Harrison was particularly festive. Poor bastard is rolling in his shallow grave. Someone call ICE to Rancho La Paz!
She was bitching about her travails getting her green card extended and how her US government benefits were a problem.
Meantime some little worm got up and chastised Jung for not adjourning the previous meeting in the name of her recently deceased husband who used to attack Jung all the time.
You couldn’t make this shit up.
Take at look at the allegedly gay Zahra’s ex-wife. Woof!
Hmmmmm
Pipe down, Marlene. No one asked for your input.
Relax on the Marlene shade. Hmmmm is not a comment or opinion.
Pipe down, Anonymous. No one asked for your input.
Miss Marlene is the most decent person on this whole site by miles.
Careful who you are telling to pipe down……
Ooooooh an ellipsis. kinda scary. This sounds like none other than Mr. Toe Shoes! The bearded, weirdo, dunce Joshua Ferguson. God man, have you ever looked in the mirror before going out in public? You really are a Fullerton troll. You sound like you are made for each other…
Also. Let’s chalk up another loss for the Bushala gang last night. Dunlap really put Jung down at the end there. Comical watching him and his little lap dog Valencia jump on board like good little doggies. Didn’t go the way you were hoping, huh? P.S. Still enjoying my Irish coffee’s at Mickeys!
Did you watch the meeting or imagine a meeting while jerking off to your mommy Oliver? “Didn’t go the way you were hoping”? What didn’t go and what was hoped for again? Stupid child! Irish coffee? What’s the whiskey? Alta Dena?
That’s not Young Olly.
Dude, you need to simmer down. If you don’t like the site you have other options.
Fullerton Troll, you’re absolutely right. Miss Marlene consistently brings a level of decency and integrity to the comments on this blog that very few others do.
Thank you
I appreciate it
I hope the city doesn’t give Les Amis a pass. They owe a lot of money.
They clearly did. Along with every other degenerate bar owner downtown.
Council meetings have become insufferable. Almost 2 hours in before any real business is attended to. Same cast of clowns wasting everyone’s time at public comments. Unending self congratulatory bullshit from Zahra. Bloviated verbal diarrhea from Shana.
Fred and Nick trying to actually get something done.
No way can we let Shana be Mayor. The meetings will be 8 hours long.
I did enjoy Fred snapping at Zahra.
Who was that little weasel with the Connor Traut campaign button?
And what was up with JTC III groveling at the councils feet?
“And what was up with JTC III groveling at the councils feet?”
That was humiliating. Jung must have told him to do that. What a worm.
https://fullertonobserver.com/2025/12/03/fullerton-to-celebrate-women-leaders-at-annual-leadership-forum/
This can’t be a real event!
“Saskia Kennedy – Community Connector
Editor of the Fullerton Observer, Kennedy amplifies the voices of residents and drives civic engagement through community journalism.”
Editor? Journalism? Amplifies voices? Drives civic engagement? Who voted for this bullshit award?
Councilwoman Jamie Valencia added, “I’m honored to co-host this event in Fullerton, a city that continues to nurture strong, talented women who make a difference in our community every day. The Women’s Leadership Forum is a reflection of that spirit of leadership and service.”
Did Valencia really add that? WTF?
More people trying to feel important and giving awards for their self-importance.
It was very entertaining to watch your entire narrative blow up in your face. You’re just bad at this. Bushala should hire some new scaredy cat anonymous writers
Deadbeats