Constant fail, tax for more Library services. Need to pay for more non-reading events.
The City Council voted unanimously late Wednesday to place a parcel tax measure on the November ballot that would provide money for the city library.
The tax would need approval by two-thirds of voters to pass. A similar measure for a $95 parcel tax failed in November 2009 because only 65.91 percent of voters supported it.
Resident that was once called a “moron” by the runaway mayor Dan Cort is authoring the revision in the city’s policy on tree removal.
“I want to be safe in my own yard,” said Del Monte Park-area resident Georgia Booth, who was a founder of Residents for Responsible Change and co-author of a proposed revision of the tree ordinance — which got a lot of votes from workshop participants. “Large canopy trees don’t belong in small Pacific Grove yards.”
Eliminating the two-for-one replacement requirement was a top vote-getter, as were proposals that property owners, not the city, decide when a hazardous tree should be removed, that no permit fee for it should be charged, and that property owners who plant a tree may remove it
without a permit.
Retired attorney John Moore of Pacific Grove said the joint powers agency would lock the city into the state Public Employees’ Retirement System — CalPERS — and into a continually mounting liability for pension costs.
Longtime Pacific Grove firefighter Richard Stilwell said he hasn’t been impressed by the consolidated Monterey and Pacific Grove fire department, but firefighter representatives said their unions support the joint powers agency and that service, training and equipment have improved.
“We should not have demonization of groups simply because they got good labor contracts,”
Councilman Ken Cuneo said on moving to approve the joint powers agency. “We should not look at police and firefighters as the enemy.”
Never convicted of any crime, released by the aquarium then forced to wear an ankle bracelet. Hasn’t she suffered enough?
The shark, fitted with two electronic tracking tags when she was released, was caught in early March in a gillnet set by a fisherman off Ensenada, Mexico, about 500 miles south of where she was returned to the wild.
Celebrate the library’s birthday with events that have nothing to do with books. Books, ehhhh who needs ’em, right?
While the library may open fewer hours than before, it’s still open more than 3 Art Galleries combined.
Folksinger Nancy Raven and musician Ann Downs play at 1 p.m. Children of all ages are invited to Mr. Horsefeathers’ Magic Show at 2 p.m., and birthday cake will be served at 3 p.m.
Wasn’t the purpose to keep P.G. alive? Or do they just want their on street parking places back?
Last week, the council considered moving the weekly market to Central and Fountain avenues from its current location on Lighthouse Avenue downtown.
Downtown merchants have claimed that the market causes them a slump in business each Monday, and the market only brought in approximately $600 in sales tax revenues to the city last year.
6 out of 7 city council positions will be up for grabs in November.
Someone asked Admin to apply.
Lindsay resigned, effective May 6, citing family issues, and the council will accept applications from citizens interested in the job and vote on them in June.
If they are unable to decide on a council member, the City Charter provides that Mayor Carmelita Garcia make the appointment.
Prison time for the gun toting robber. Though family & council thought he could get probation. Nah.
A tearful Niccole Tiffany said her husband’s arrest and incarceration were a blessing in disguise.
“Brennan is finally sober,” she said. “Jail has liberated our family from the prison of addiction.”
Ron Schenk, a community volunteer and former city councilman, has been named winner of the James R. Hughes Citizen of the Year Award from the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce.
I don’t care – anyone that butts their fat self in front of a dad taking pictures at a P.G. Parade will always be Schmuck Of The Year.
Greedy coin dealer gets soaked. This is the same developer that wants to turn Holmans into a giant hotel. One could ponder the kind of labor he would hire to build it.
Peninsula developer Nader Agha, also a rare-coin dealer and owner of the Coin & Treasure Shoppe on Alvarado Street, last week purchased what he thought were three mint-condition U.S. Morgan Silver Dollar coins for $4,500 from a man who said he’d found them in an abandoned storage locker in Hollister. The silver dollars are generally regarded as one of the most popular precious coins among investors.