Just be careful and not point them at any right of center bumperstickers.
“Certainly police departments are using them throughout the nation,” City Manager Ben Harvey said. “We’re in favor of them so we’re showing what our program looks like and why we’re doing it. We’re basically telling the grand jury – here’s our policy, we’ve created one and we’re in the process of doing it – we just don’t have all the details drilled down.”
Yummy. Seaside waste and Salinas farm run off treated and served up in P.G.
Prep work has already begun on the 7-mile pipeline running from Seaside to Pacific Grove, which is designed to deliver water from the Seaside basin to Peninsula customers as a result of the recycled water project
Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe called the pipeline tangible progress toward providing a new water supply, noting the collaborative efforts that helped overcome initial opposition to recycled water from Peninsula hospitality, Cal Am and even the state Public Utilities Commission. Seaside Mayor Ralph Rubio called the ceremony a historic groundbreaking and “first step toward a water supply solution” for the Peninsula.
Think again. Crosswalks, sidewalks and bike lanes. I thought bike lanes were the same as sidewalks.
The City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the Pacific Grove Highway 68 corridor study and adopted the report’s recommended findings. The yearlong analysis of the city’s major thoroughfare was done to determine how to make it more pedestrian-friendly and suitable for all forms of transportation.
Launched in 2015, the 190-page report looked at ways to improve two streets that are part of the Holman Highway route through Pacific Grove; Forest Avenue from the city limit to Sunset Drive and Sunset Drive from Forest Avenue to Asilomar Avenue. Specifically, it addressed ways of implementing bike ways, sidewalks and making crossing improvements.
“It’s a very important opportunity for us to begin improving that corridor and these two streets, Sunset and Forest, to make them serve the community better,” said Councilman Robert Huitt.
Huitt said he hopes for the passage of Measure X, the transportation sales tax, because funding from the measure could help pay for the project.
Think That Those Measure X Funds Are For Smooth Safe Streets?
Dan Miller would be way better than STR loving K(r)ampe
Kampe’s opponent, Dan Miller said there is another challenge more pressing than water.
“Financial stability mainly, and I have tried to do that for years, even before I was on the city council, and trying to convince the councils to keep control of spending,” Miller said.
Miller is a third generation Pacgrovian and has served six years on the city council.
Pacific Grove has long been burdened with problems related to the public employee retirement system and Miller said as mayor he would be against exorbitant pay raises and retirements for city staff. Currently the city has about $4.7 million a year budgeted annually for public employee retirement related expenses.
Strange Night In Pacific Grove
Prosecutors closed the investigation for lack of evidence.
In May 2013, Gill was terminated from his position at the Seaside Police Department. Six months later, he sued the Pacific Grove Police Department and the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office, the two agencies charged with the investigation of the stabbing, for lost wages, slander and allegedly botching the investigation with malicious intent. In essence, he’s alleging his firing was based on prosecutors’ “feelings and suspicions” that he made up the story.
Number one party of fees, bureaucracies and regulations hears cries from downtown businesses about fees, bureaucracies and regulations.
Assemblyman Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley, made a short visit to Pacific Grove on Wednesday to hear the concerns of local business owners at a town hall style meeting. The purpose, said Stone, was to improve the communication lines between the Legislature and local entrepreneurs and business owners.
“One of the biggest concerns that they raised is that they feel that small-business owners have very little voice in Sacramento,” said Stone, noting the majority of complaints he heard centered on fees, bureaucracies and regulations. “They explained some of the issues that they’re facing that make it more difficult for their business and ways they think I can communicate that better in Sacramento.”
No wetsuit. Swimmer got cold, no kidding.
Eric Gutierrez was swimming through the darkness, in chilly ocean waters, with only swim trunks and a head-mounted light.
His goal was to become the first person to ever cross the Monterey Bay while swimming without a wetsuit.
“I’m really optimistic that I might be able to do this. It’s a long way, straight across it’s 24 miles. It’s really a mind game to endure that long,” Gutierrez told KSBW before diving in.
Gutierrez swam 17 miles as a support crew followed him in a kayak. At one point, he was surrounded by a school of dolphins.
He abandoned his cross-bay attempt around noon when he was a few miles offshore from Moss Landing.
Raise a glass. And hope they don’t dig up your phone line.
Streets will be torn up — some more than once — through the heart of three Peninsula communities. The pipeline will run from Seaside’s Hilby Pumping Station over a new Monterey-Salinas Highway bridge through downtown Monterey and the Presidio of Monterey to an existing pump station and pipeline on Sinex Avenue in Pacific Grove.
Approved on Sept. 15 by the state Public Utilities Commission along with a water purchase agreement for the $85 million Pure Water Monterey groundwater replenishment project, the new infrastructure is expected to be complete and operational by the end of next year, in advance of the availability of recycled water in early 2018. It will be used to transport the new 3,500-acre-foot annual recycled water supply, along with aquifer storage and recovery water.
Coalition against citywide admissions tax. But that Half Fast Marathon. That thing blocks the streets.
Besides the aquarium, the coalition includes the Big Sur International Marathon and the Friends of the Pacific Grove Public Library, among other area nonprofits.
Proponents of the tax say that a 5 percent fee attached to aquarium admissions, for example, is only fair because of the city’s need to pay for the repair and maintenance of the city’s infrastructure, including city roads, sidewalks, paths and the Monterey Bay Recreation Trail.
Can’t they remember that they chose $$ rather than health insurance originally?
“They’ve been operating under our old contract that’s now expired,” said Kampe, noting that the decision to cut medical benefits goes back to 2006 when during labor negotiations with the department, employees were given the choice whether to give up health care benefits in exchange for a higher salary. They opted for the higher salary.
“Part of the reasoning was because many on the force had spouses who were providing health care coverage,” explained Kampe. “For most of the police force, it was better deal to get a higher salary.”
But Kampe also noted the move has been controversial.
“Now, they’ve been provided with higher salaries but some are saying they really need health care,” said Kampe, who noted that city administrators are now working to make some accommodations for health care coverage at slightly lower than market cost.