Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Tree Ordinance Sent Back To Morons

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Admin was recently sent a postcard about a missing tree or two. But it’s missing the target like so many other things the city aims at. The letter is addressed to “Homeowner” at the intended address. Nice gesture, but the homeowner does not live there.

Stump Lighthouse Congress

The ordinance was last reviewed 4½ years ago, said committee Vice Chairman Thom Akeman, and the current version was adopted by the City Council in September 2007.

Resident Georgia Booth, who was issued a tree removal permit and crossed swords with Akeman during his compliance inspection of her property last fall, said she has found two versions of the ordinance online, with strikeouts and additions. Others who attended the committee meeting said they didn’t have computers in their homes and needed printed copies.

Tree Ordinance Sent Back To Morons

Judge Rules Against Forest Hill Manor

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Forest Hill Manor Matches

Remember when 6 people sued to move into the same cottage? The city won. Must be crowded in that cottage..

The trial court ruled in support of the city on all counts, stating there was “no evidence” the city “fabricated or otherwise arbitrarily imposed conditions on Forest Hill Manor. The use permit provided for the completion of the project as a whole and a requirement that all conditions be satisfied before the issuance of an occupancy permit.”

Judge Rules Against Forest Hill Manor

Giving Away The Mvsevm

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15 years until we get it back as a mvsevum,

Mvsevm Speakeasy

The letter to interim city manager Charlene Wiseman from Jason Burnett, president of the Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc., proposes a public-private partnership between the city and the foundation in which the museum building, collection and grounds would be leased to the foundation for a 15-year period beginning July 1.

Burnett said the foundation believes that the museum “should continue to be a major cultural, educational and productive asset for the citizens of our area and our business community”

Giving Away The Mvsevm

Talking Bankruptcy Again

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City Hall Bk

Talk of municipal bankruptcy has been in the air since U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael McManus ruled last month that the city of Vallejo, which filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in May 2008, has the authority to void its existing union contracts.

The judge contended that Congress did not extend the same projection to public employees that it did to those working in the private sector under Chapter 11 bankruptcy rules.

Cities, McManus said, have broader authority to break existing union agreements than private companies.

Talking Bankruptcy Again

Mayor Surrenders To Us Morons

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After hearing complaints last month about Pacific Grove’s tree removal and replacement law, Mayor Dan Cort has asked a city board to revisit the ordinance and see if modifications are in order.

Some residents say Pacific Grove has an unreasonable and “criminalized” ordinance requiring a permit for anyone removing a tree from their property and an agreement to replace it with at least two similar trees within 30 days.

Mayor Surrenders To Us Morons

Cut Library Hours Back Even More?

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Stop giving money to the Chamber of Commerce and give it to the library. At least the library does it’s job.

Liberry

His recommendation is for a further reduction of service from the current schedule of five days and 31 hours a week, which costs $650,000, to four days and 20 hours, costing $450,000 a year. The council directed the city staff to pursue Becklenberg’s plan.

Cut Library Hours Back Even More?

Return Of The Price Slasher

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And the Mvsevm was skipped because . . .

A budget-cutting and revenue-enhancing program presented by Pacific Grove management and budget director Jim Becklenberg to his City Council Tuesday got a unanimous endorsement.

There was a slight reprieve for the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.

He recommended cost reductions amounting to $833,000, including defunding the vacant deputy city manager position and a maintenance worker position, deferring a 9.8 percent raise for police and asking all other employees to take a 5 percent furlough, along with cuts in programs, supply purchases and operations.

Return Of The Price Slasher

Homo Sex, Lies & Heroin

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Stamm trail II wallows in the muck.

David Stamm

A prosecutor and defense attorney presented contrasting accounts Monday of the relationship between former batting cages owner David Stamm and a young friend who became his accuser.

According to prosecutor Glenn Pesenhofer, Stamm took advantage of an awkward teenager trying to find his way in the world, molesting him while telling him he was gay.

Quite to the contrary, defense attorney Richard Rosen said. “Peter” was on a vendetta because Stamm rejected him after the two had a consensual affair when the younger man was 18.

Homo Sex, Lies & Heroin

Not News – Good Old Days Round Ball Challenge

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Pacific Grove Good Old Days Media Challenge – Hear-old wins, sponsoring media outlet – The Weakly – that hosts event ignores it.

Herald Hear-old

 

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Coast Weakly

We are disappointed, of course, that The Weekly seems to adhere to the philosophy that if you can’t say something snarky about The Herald, don’t say anything at all.

There was no mention of The Herald’s stirring and impressive victory anywhere in The Weekly’s Thursday edition. Not a peep out of Squid. No back-handed dig from the Forum.

Not News – Good Old Days Round Ball Challenge

Chowdergate Ends – Domenico’s To Pay For Pagers

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Next time, just deliver them back to their owner. That makes a better statement.

As part of the settlement negotiated by retired Judge Harkjoon Paik, Mercurio agreed to pay Shake $6,870.

The agreement ends both civil and criminal actions against Mercurio, owner of Domenico’s on the Wharf. He was charged with petty theft for stealing the pagers, which were used to summon patrons of Shake’s Old Fisherman’s Grotto when their tables were ready.

Chowdergate Ends – Domenico’s To Pay For Pagers