Photos: Complaints about the Fairplex trailer park

Trailer park residents Ellen McKeever-Jacobs, 57, and her husband, Jim Jacobs, are seeking their money back from the Fair Assn. Residents at the park say they have been wrongly charged a 10% hotel occupancy tax for as long as a decade.

Howard Hunter, 69, left, helps Arthur Bardine, 99, plug his scooter into a charger. Bardine says he has been living at the Los Angeles County fairgrounds for decades.

Mike Dubrawsky, 61, said the county Board of Supervisors should demand that the Fair Assn. take better care of the trailer park. The association runs the park and its other businesses at the Fairplex under a lease with the county. “I just want them to do the right thing,” Dubrawsky said.

Dorothy Feldscher, 83, left, and Howard Hunter, 69, are seeking their money back from the Fair Assn. Feldscher is a retired cashier who estimated she is owed about $5,000 collected over the decade she has lived at the trailer park — money that would help her afford medicine she needs after a stroke.

George Estrella, 84, sprays insecticide to kill cockroaches in his motorhome. City Council members disagree on a solution for the residents. “If the Fairplex did the right thing, they would refund all the money,” Councilwoman Paula Lantz said.

Some trailer park residents say the Fair Assn. hasn’t lived up to its side of the deal. “The $3.3 million they had? We’ve never seen it over here,” said Ellen McKeever-Jacobs, 57, who has lived at the park for more than 15 years. Until the recent upgrades, she said, “they did nothing here.”

Ellen McKeever-Jacobs, 57, is seeking her money back from the fair association.

Dorothy Feldscher, 83, is seeking reimbursement from the Fair Assn. “I am on Social Security. I deserve to get this money back,” she said.

Ellen McKeever-Jacobs, 57, has lived at the trailer park for 15 years. The park’s communal bathrooms were refurbished last year after a complaint filed with the California Department of Housing and Community Development cited a broken window, a hole in the floor, no shower curtains, no soap and no hot water.

Frayed electrical wires still hang overhead at the Fairplex trailer park. Residents also complain of bathrooms in disrepair, a laundry room that has been shuttered, and roads and walkways marked by potholes and cracked pavement.

Seven years ago, the city of Pomona gave the Fair Assn. $3.3 million to help build a $28-million convention center in exchange for preserving 50 of the 160 trailer spots for low- and moderate-income housing for 55 years.