Ex Tree Posse now seal posse reports on The Warm Blob.
Akeman and wife Kim monitor the seals year round and they’ve said the seals had a rough season in 2015.
Warm water temperatures from El Nino and the warm blob drove food sources farther out to sea last year. Seals starved to death and some had trouble during the pupping season.
“There have been a lot of shark bites we’ve seen on seals. This is their favorite food and some may have disappeared but we have seen a lot of survivors,” he said.
P.G. is famous for stories about fussy neighbors. Could be chickens, wind chimes or the assumed ownership of the street parking spaces.
Lisa claims her neighbor tried to sabotage their efforts to keep their pig. even photoshopping feces into pictures of their backyard to use against them. After more complaints, yesterday the city yesterday decided the pig must be moved outside the city and the family must pay the city nearly 500 dollars in administrative costs. The Hanes family is appealing the decision.
Greed and corruption. The fines ought to be higher than $1,000. They make that back under the table in a day.
The suspects gave the team estimates for different home improvement jobs such as landscaping, painting and installing ornamental fencing that ranged from $2,000 to $14,100. State law prohibits unlicensed contractors from bidding on construction-related work valued at $500 or more.
The contractors alleged to have made bids without a license are Francisco Enrique Siera Vasquez of Seaside, Pierre Riche of Watsonville, Rolanda Oseguera Bautista of Seaside, Berndt Dieter Von Zehren of Carmel Valley, Emmanuel Moro Soto of Marina, Kevin Smith of Pacific Grove, Carlos Hernandez of Seaside, John Lewis Young of Pebble Beach, Paul Thomas Curatolo of Castroville, Nicholas Christian Larson of Carmel Valley, Daniel Lee Baron of Watsonville and Michael Alan Rowe Pacific Grove.
All 12 were cited for illegal advertising because state law requires all unlicensed operators to state they are not licensed in ads. The penalty is a fine of $700 to $1,000.
But no increase in business license cost. Don’t want to run more shops out of town. Does Moe have chamber members that are unlicensed?
After weeks of speculation, the city of Pacific Grove on Wednesday took another step toward instituting a citywide admission tax by approving the measure 4-3 for the November ballot.
Conversely, a potential ballot measure that would increase the existing business license tax by 40 percent and remove its existing cap, was voted down 5-2.
Eleven California municipalities currently collect admission taxes including San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Pasadena.
Moe Ammar recommended that the city collect money from P.G. businesses that are operating without a license. According to a physical audit by the chamber, there are estimated to be 60 businesses operating in the city and 100 businesses operating out of the post office and UPS store without a permit.
Increasing business tax as other sources for more money fail.
The proposed increase would take the current rate from $0.001 per dollar of gross receipts to $0.0024.
If passed, the initiative would also remove the current cap.
Right now, if a business makes more than $3 million in gross receipts, they only pay $3,000 in business license tax because that is the current cap.
City Manager Ben Harvey said there are about 20 businesses in Pacific Grove affected by the cap.
The city has been exploring ways to increase revenue for months and this is one of the ideas the council thinks could work.
Been here for 3 whole years and has the experience and background to help the city deal with the various and wide-ranging concerns that a city has to face. The city? a City? Can not remember the name of the city he is running for office in. Oh well, all the come-heres that P.G. has elected as leaders have done so much already why not.
Originally from the San Joaquin Valley, Smith, 36, moved to Pacific Grove in 2013 and has served the last two years on the Planning Commission while working as a civil litigation attorney. He works at the public agency law firm Lozano Smith, LLP .
“Because my law practice is in the public agency realm and I have defended public agencies from lawsuits, I feel I have the experience and background to help the city deal with the various and wide-ranging concerns that a city has to face,” said Smith.
This is not a repeat from 2014
Both expect to find some fun in this adventure because, after all, it is their honeymoon.
“As long as we go with the motion of the ocean and not try and fight it, we’ll be okay,” added Riaan. “The boat’s name is Honeymoon, for goodness sake. We’re going to try and have a little bit of a honeymoon before Hawaii.”
Smells like a rate hike for improvements to the poo pumps, Norton.
The civil grand jury found that since the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency owned and operated the pump station and was making repairs when the overflow occurred, it was responsible for the spill. In its report, the grand jury said the pollution control agency did not have a procedure to address potential false pressure readings and that the agency’s response was appropriate given the alternative.
The 2015 sanitary sewer overflow, which released 220,000 gallons of untreated sewage, occurred at the Fountain Avenue pump station owned and operated by the water pollution control agency.
Lost their rental homes to newcomers from Fresno?
Who is The Xerces Society? They just told us that the Monarch population was up in February. Sounds like a global warming ruse.
A new study by the Xerces Society showed a 74 percent decrease in the number of monarch butterflies over the last two decades.
Butterfly conservationists at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History monitor the monarch numbers on the Monterey Peninsula and said the study’s results come as no surprise. They are similar to a trend conservationists are seeing locally.
“Their numbers are going down,” museum representative Patrick Whitehurst said.
Price of this little wooden whats-it reduced from OMG-crazy-stupid-expensive to just crazy-stupid expensive.