Pensions On The Ballot

Agree with the plan, too bad they had to throw the S word into the title.

The council voted 6-1 to enact the Sustainable Retirement Benefit Reform Initiative, a citizens ballot petition capping city contributions to employee pension benefits at 10 percent of workers’ salaries. Employees could pay additional amounts toward their retirement out of their own pockets.

Councilman Bill Kampe cast the dissenting vote, saying he did not approve of legislation by initiative.

Union and state Public Employee Retirement System officials warned the city that it could face lawsuits.

Pensions On The Ballot

Farmers Market Moved North

It seemed as cold as the north pole on the first day on Central Avenue. Now the liquor store where the rapes occurred can have their reserved parking spaces back.

Pollacci Parking Liquor Patrons Only

As part of the deal to move its location, the city will allow vendors who don’t live in Pacific Grove to sell arts and crafts and other non-produce items. Peppard, who said Everyone’s Harvest spent thousands of dollars on advertising for the move, said that will open the possibility more vendors will set up shop at the farmers’ market.

Police Commander’s Underage Son Charged For Hosting Beer Party

Party in P.G. that led to one teen driving under the influence, crashing and leaving another teen disabled for life.

Who bought the beer?

Christopher Ray Veloz, Jr., 19, is charged with hosting a party where alcohol was consumed by minors. The count, which violates Pacific Grove’s municipal code, is a misdemeanor.

Veloz, who was arraigned June 24 in a Salinas and pleaded not guilty to the charge, faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted. A pretrial conference is set for July 22.

Pacific Grove city attorney David Laredo alleges Veloz, the son of Seaside Police Cmdr. Chris Veloz, was hosting a party Feb. 21 at his Syida Drive home where P.G. High School senior Aaron Corn and other teens were present and drank beer.

Police Commander’s Underage Son Charged For Hosting Beer Party

See What Happens When They Don’t Lock The Doors To The Mvsevm?

And now they have to take a full inventory.

The Mvsevm

Attendance in May exceeded last year’s by 80 percent, said museum director Lori Mannel. She attributes increased public interest in the museum’s programs for children and adults.

Its Science Saturdays bring scientific experts from throughout the region to the museum, other programs feature artists demonstrating their work and techniques and authors lecture on their books. The restoration of the Native Plant Garden was completed in April. These events have advanced the museum’s role as “a living field guide for the Central Coast,” Mannel said. “We’re becoming a regional resource.”

Artists demonstrating their work. Authors lecturing on their books. How many of these visits have nothing related to a museum? Sustainable P.G. kooks lapping up Dan Cort rewriting the history of his failures should not count as visits to view natural history.

Let’s give out free beer at the Mvsevm during the farmers market and we can quadruple attendance.


See What Happens When They Don’t Lock The Doors To The Mvsevm?

Dissing The Armed Forces Then Hits Lady With Beer Bottle

Tyler Tirado, you are a loser.

Arrested for DUI August 2008

No respect for those that protect your freedom. Almost reminds me about the P.G. Ice Cream Shoppe where the military are not welcome.

Tirado

Police said Tyler Tirado, of Monterey, had confronted the group of Defense Language Institute students, called them “baby killers” and struck a 20-year-old woman in the head with a beer bottle.

Officers responded around 11:50 p.m. on the 1800 block of Sunset Drive to reports of a woman with a one-inch cut to her scalp.

The victim and about a dozen of her friends, police said, were gathering on Asilomar Beach when they were confronted by another group who began making derogatory comments towards them.

Dissing The Armed Forces Then Hits Lady With Beer Bottle

Public Works Director Terminated

Another Colon-Jello come-here gets the ax. Lots of mismanaged public works projects under her watch such as the clear cutting of the butterfly trees.

By the way, can someone clean up that downtown juxtaposition of American flags, paper lanterns and X-mas lights and focus on one season at a time?
Feast Of Patriotic Xmas Lanterns

Celia Perez Martinez, Pacific Grove’s public works director for the past four years, has been terminated from her job.

The reasons for her separation from the city are confidential personnel issues, all four city officials said.

Martinez, a Salinas resident, was hired by the city Jan. 15, 2006, as public works supervisor under then-City Manager Jim Colangelo. She was named business manager May 8, 2007.

Public Works Director Terminated

Trust Us, The Taxman Sayeth

Vote Machine

I still do not support any more taxes until cuts are made elsewhere. Fool me once…

There was a sense, Headley said, that Measure J would only “save the library at the level it had sunken to.”

Language in the new initiative has been written to assure the public that funds raised would support only the library and not be transferred to other city departments, she said. The parcel tax is expected to raise $600,000 in additional revenue each year. The ballot measure requires that the city continue to fund the library at the rate of 2.83 percent of the total general fund budget.

Trust Us, The Taxman Sayeth