To leave the the city he’s supposed to manage every weekend. Plus expenses.
city manager Ben Harvey’s revised employment agreement includes a $4,000 per month reimbursement plan to fly to Southern California on the weekends to see his children and a $500 per month car allowance, according to the contract approved by the city council in late.
Check out the Yelp reviews. Guy might be the cause of broken machines and non functional change-makers. And probation violations. Just lock him up.
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Joseph Thomas ran away when police arrived around 2:45 a.m. Nov. 18, but officer Luis Buenrostro and Cpl. Dan Deis managed to chase him down after a short pursuit. They arrested Thomas for the attempted break-in, as well as evading police, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to Lakind, and took him to Monterey County Jail.
Surprised? I think not.
“The city has invoiced Domaine Hospitality Partners for the special election costs,” Maitland told the council. “We have not received payment for it.” Maitland told the city council that she first invoiced Domaine on June 7. When the developer didn’t pay, she sent it a past-due invoice on June 24. When Domaine didn’t respond to that with a check, city manager Ben Harvey on July 22 sent its president a letter, saying the bill was due no later than Aug. 11. Maitland told the Pine Cone that the city paid the county elections for the costs on July 15.
The owneea of a pet pig vowed this week to
appeal a decision by a hearing officer that the animal has
to go.The dispute arose after the Hanes’ neighbor, Ray
Magsalay, made complaints to the city that the odor from the pig’s feces wafted into his property. The Haneses have
accused Magsalay of stalking them.The family also has a cat and two large dogs, which Mark
Hanes said contributes to about 75 percent of their pets’ animal excrement, leading the Haneses to wonder why the city hasn’t also compelled them to relocate their dogs. Lisa Hanes said she’s had Bruiser certified as an emotional support animal.
Council bickered over salary topping out at $183,000.
Before becoming chief in Morro Bay, Christey served as a lieutenant with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office. She holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice management and a master’s in organizational leadership, and also served in the Army.
Christey has completed advanced and executive-level training with the state Peace Officer Standards and Training commission. She was among the 50-plus applicants who submitted resumes following a nationwide recruitment effort by Ralph Anderson and Associates, and seven finalists interviewed with a panel of local police chiefs, public officials and P.G. department heads, according to Livian. Three emerged from that group and were subsequently interviewed by city manager Ben Harvey, who selected Christey as his top choice.
Weed, guns and felons. Not welcome?
A pair of 18-year-olds from Marina
were arrested in Pacific Grove July 16 after
cops pulled them over on David Avenue for a
traffic violation and smelled marijuana coming
from inside the Mitsubushi Eclipse one
of them was driving, according to P.G. police
Cmdr. Rory Lakind.
The officers searched the car and found
two pistols they later discovered had been
stolen from people in Seaside.
Anthony Scott and Johnson Nguyen are
both convicted felons, according to Lakind,
with past charges of being a felon in possession
of a firearm and ammunition, and of
carrying a concealed weapon.
Gary Ozuna allegedly called the customer a “Nazi Redneck Bitch”. And I wonder if he has a license to play copyrighted material in public?
“I politely said, ‘$26 seems like an awful lot to me, are you sure that is correct?’” Raph said.
Ozuna calculated the amount again and came up with the same figure. “He said ‘Yep, $26. That’s what it is,’” according to Raph.“I said, ‘OK, at these prices it would be really nice to get a local’s discount because we have lived here for 20 years,” said Raph, 54. “I didn’t think it was too much to mention.”
With Led Zeppelin music playing on the shop’s speakers in the background, Raph said, Ozuna responded by saying,
‘Well, you can thank George Bush and Dick Cheney, the Nazis, for that,’” she recounted.
High school teacher in hiding accused of kinky behavior.
School officials say he made sexually suggestive comments to students, allowed teens to drink alcohol in his house, told kids about his sexual fantasies, and favored the pretty girls in class, but the P.G. High School teacher alleged to have done those things and more maintains none of it ever happened.
The district contends Ottmar told students that he’d had sex with his wife in his class room; that it was his fantasy for his wife and her best friend to have a lesbian relationship; that he visited strip clubs while in Las Vegas; and that he and others liked watching his “wife run track because she is sexy.”
Ottmar — who began working in PGUSD in 2008 after leaving his writing job at the Monterey County Herald — told one girl she had “nice wide thighs” and would “make a
good wife one day and have lots of babies,” and told another student she was a “BBW (big butt woman),” according to the district.“Sexually suggestive and flirtatious comments are highly inappropriate and have no place in the classroom,” the reprimand notice says.
Caught a thief from Marina. If only there were some cops or something to patrol the streets maybe the thieves would go somewhere else.
Nicklaus Hall, 18, remained in Monterey County Jail this week without bail.
“We verbally told him that he was under arrest and to stop, and we caught him and took him to the ground,” Lakind said, adding that Hall probably tried to run because, “he was wanted, so he knew he was going to go away.”
Hall had a no-bail warrant for violation of probation from the previous burglary, according to Lakind, and police linked him to at least five other vehicle break-ins, which have become commonplace, in the area.
But even with Hall in jail, Pacific Grove police are still battling thieves. “We had a few more the other night, after he was arrested,” Lakind said.
What is he hiding from?
A Pacific Grove High School girls’ basketball coach has been on paid leave since last September — and has collected more than $60,000 in paychecks — but officials won’t say why he’s off the job and whether or not he’ll return.
Ken Ottmar, who is also an English teacher and the activities director at the school, has been paid $63,020.02 since Sept. 27, 2015, the date he was placed on leave.
Ottmar has coached several sports in the district, including boys’and girls’ basketball, football and golf, PGUSD human resources director Billie Mankey said.