Agha contends he was asked by Potter for a $10,000 contribution in January 2004 to Potter’s re-election campaign, and Potter asked him to make the check out to Russ Carter, who Agha contends Potter said was his campaign manager.
Agha goes on to claim that his comptroller gave the check to Potter and wrote the word “loan” on it at Potter’s instruction.
Got a copy of that canceled check, Nadir?
Take the Cannery Row shuttle bus. $20 per person, free parking in the parking garage a block from Cannery Row.
One of these would have been cool:
Pacific Grove officials hoped to see a Monterey-Salinas Transit trolley bus rolling through downtown in time for the U.S. Open.
The trolley was meant to showcase the town’s history and to tourist attractions.
But the plan will have to be on hold, said City Manager Thomas Frutchey, due to a shortage of the trolleys.
The transformation from a resource to catalog and display real history of the area to some kind of art gallery and substainable re-education camp is complete. The quickly fading current city council team approved it. Only Dan Miller opposed the giveaway.
Doubling the length of the Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove’s lease from 15 to 30 years, and changes allowing it more control over museum funds, facilities and administration, were approved 6-1 Wednesday by the Pacific Grove City Council.
The changes were part of an agreement hashed out in February by City Manager Thomas Frutchey, Mayor Carmelita Garcia and museum foundation board president Jason Burnett as part of a six-month review of the original lease agreement approved by the council a year ago.
Ignored in the process was the Pacific Grove Museum Advisory Board, the original oversight body established by the city charter.
Former museum director Vern Yadon told the council that the charter requires review of policies affecting the museum by the museum board, particularly those involving major fund transfers, but Frutchey said he didn’t believe an advisory body — the museum board — should have oversight over a governing body — the foundation board.
Frutchey said the museum foundation faced deadlines in its application for major grant funding from the National Endowment of the Arts and needed to move ahead.
Four of the six council members voted for Miller during Tuesday’s special meeting, just beating the 30-day deadline to replace Lindsay, who said she was stepping down for family reasons.
Miller will serve out the rest of Lindsay’s term, which is up for election in November.
Councilman Bill Kampe voted for planning commissioner and retired businessman Bill Frederickson. Councilman Robert Huitt voted for Defense Language Institute employee Rudy Fischer.
Tommy could get another 24 years in the slammer.
Thomas Pollacci, 50, will be arraigned Thursday on three new counts of forcible rape involving two victims.
Pollacci was found guilty April 26 of raping a woman in a loft above his father’s Pacific Grove liquor store, Ron’s Liquors, two years ago.
Prosecutors said that the two alleged victims Pollacci is now being charged with raping are not the same women who testified during Pollacci’s trial in April.