Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Bankruptcy Knocking At The Door Again

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The city undertook a major staff reorganization in 2007, and in November, voters approved an increase in the city sales tax, which staved off shutting down city services, Bennett said.

But wage, benefit and retirement commitments to city employee groups are continuing to erode city finances, and “they’re not going down as our income and the economy is going down,” she said.

The council, Bennett said, should look at “what the downsides of bankruptcy might be and learn them before we’re in an emergency situation.”

City Hall Bk

 

Bankruptcy Knocking At The Door Again..

Pacific Grove – City Of Homes Or Transients

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Less resources for residents, says Moammar.

The Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce is proposing that voters re-write a decades old law to help bring in some money to the cash-strapped city.

Victoria Arroyo, the general manager of the Seabreeze Inn and Cottages in Pacific Grove, said their hands are tied when it comes to upgrading their facility. Arroyo said they want to be competitive with their Monterey neighbors, but it’s nearly impossible with Measure C in place.

Yes, lets have more garbage on the ground from Sea Breeze Motel.

Dumpster Sea Breeze Motel 071216a

Pacific Grove – City Of Homes Or Transients

Pedestrian Safety Still A Concern

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I have been known to stop and move those sidewalk graffiti signs OUT of the way when they are in the middle of the foot traffic path, such as the curb cuts for handicap access or this Keller Williams sign in the middle of the sidewalk.

Kelller Williams Sign In Way

Now if they can get those bistros that expand out onto the sidewalk to raise the umbrellas so I don’t have to duck. . .

In their efforts to make Pacific Grove a safer place to walk, five members of the Traffic Safety Commission formed a subcommittee to focus on the issue of pedestrian safety improvements. These include sidewalks, crosswalks and traffic signals.

Pedestrian Safety Still A Concern

P.G. Motels – Remember When You Could Gouge The Moto GP Fans?

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Some blame the July 4 schedule, some the economy. But I betcha there’s some bad mojo about those days when the crusty P.G. motels demanded $300/night 3 night minimums…

Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, said the 1,163 rooms in Pacific Grove are 73 percent sold for the weekend. Hotels are offering rates as low as $99 a night, he said.

Pacific Grove’s hotels were sold out the past two years for the races, when they were later in July; the July Fourth holiday was 88 percent sold last year.

P.G. Motels – Remember When You Could Gouge The Moto GP Fans?

Lovers Point Restrooms Locked Up

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There once was a full time employee to do nothing but maintain bathrooms in the park? Where was that employee when it was “bad then”?

“It’s malicious, filthy,” she said. “There’s a very dirty, malicious group of people out there these days.”

Two years ago, the city had a person available all day to tend to the park restrooms, she said, and the problem was “bad then. It’s worse now.”

Lovers Point Restrooms Locked Up

Baby Drop Off Site: P.G.F.D.

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Unwanted babies in P.G?

State Senate Bill 1368, the “Safe Baby Surrender Bill,” adopted in 2001 and amended in 2005, exempts parents or people holding legal custody of a newborn less than 72 hours old from prosecution for abandonment if the child is surrendered to a hospital or other designated safe surrender site. Fire departments in Seaside and Monterey have been designated such sites because they are staffed 24 hours a day. On Wednesday, the Pacific Grove City Council designated the city fire station as a safe surrender site for unwanted newborns.

Baby Drop Off Site: P.G.F.D.

How About No Parking For Kooky Dog Walkers?

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Congress Ext

Citing costs, the need for zoning changes, and the availability of parking some hundred yards away on Forest Lodge Road, the Council went with the lower-cost – and potentially revenue-generating – option of installing more “no parking” signs and asking Pacific Grove Police to enforce the no parking zone.

This example of wasted efforts started back in January. While all attention was being placed on giving dog owners a place to DRIVE TO & PARK THEIR CARS AT so they can then take a walk, the rest of the city is crumbling.

Besides, if P.G. really wanted to use parking fines as a way to increase revenue, all they need to do is go to the 200 block of Fountain where restaurant workers/owners park their cars all day long..

Parking Victorian Corner Cars

How About No Parking For Kooky Dog Walkers?