No, not that vandalism, a new one:
Vandals slashed seats, spray-painted walls and the bar, broke tiles and a mirror, and smashed electrical outlets inside the prominently located Lovers Point building that most recently housed Lattitudes restaurant, police learned April 9
Police booked Jay Ballard, 39, into Monterey County Jail on $66,000 bail for felony second degree robbery and making terrorist threats, and misdemeanor spousal battery, willful cruelty to a child and probation violation.
“It was a drunken rampage,” Miller said. Records indicate Ballard has an extensive history with Monterey County Superior Court, including felony, misdemeanor, traffic and family law cases.
Keep the priorities sensible. No $100,000 solar power studies or street closing consultants, ok?
Assistant City Manager Jim Becklenberg said the city will end the fiscal year on June 30 in the black, with money left over to bring its reserve fund to $2.7 million.
But, he said, Pacific Grove has accumulated a $10 million backlog in deferred maintenance and equipment replacement. Residents at recent workshops have identified a number of priorities they would like to see funded, including street maintenance, storm drain repair and sidewalk construction, and more library hours.
Assuming no new taxes, he said, additional money-saving measures and aggressively pursuing service fees to recover costs, possibly contracting with private companies for some city functions and sharing services with other communities and agencies, might reduce that deficit to about $632,000 in fiscal 2015-16.
Jean Byrne says any kind of revenue generating parking will drive away spenders. Don’t forget the merchants that take up spaces on Lighthouse all day – Victorian Corner, Hazaras and the like.
At least this one leaves the spaces for the customers and parks in the front of the bank.
Mr. Becklenberg said there are a number of options on parking revenue as the staff looks broadly at parking in Pacific Grove. He said they would be meeting with the business community and merchants in the near future.
committee member Jeanne Byrne said, “Pay station systems are not effective and they are a detriment to people shopping.”
chairman Tom McMahon said the difficult issue before the committee was to figure out how best to construct a survey of the business community and solicit their thoughts concerning paid parking.
Mayor Garcia said pay station parking should only be considered at the large parking lots in the community.
I thought Sam the Sham Farr was busy spending our tax dollars to keep Salinas valley produce safe and clean?
Fresh Express announced a precautionary recall of nearly 3,000 cases of bagged spinach that may be contaminated with salmonella, according to a report released by the produce company on Tuesday.
Salinas-based Fresh Express voluntarily recalled 2,939 cases of 9-ounce spinach bags because of a positive result for salmonella from random sample testing.
A San Jose scuba diver who was brought ashore unconscious and not breathing Sunday off Pacific Grove has become the Peninsula’s third diving-related fatality this month.
Kristina Gomez-Weese, 43, died late Monday at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.
Gomez-Weese was found by her two diving partners in 70 feet of water between Lovers Point and Point Pinos about 11 a.m. Sunday, said Coast Guard Lt. John Suckow.
Said he cooked with Rachel Ray.
D’Amelio said he owed the city only $12,732 in back rent and $10,264 in equipment leases. The city contended that he also owed $83,264 in “penalties and interest,” but he was advised by legal counsel that was unenforceable.
In any case, D’Amelio said, he left behind $40,000 worth of furnishings he purchased from the city and $33,000 in fixtures. Depreciating the furniture, he said, those items would be worth about $53,000, “a fair deal” for settling $22,996 the city claims is due.
City Attorney David Laredo said the city could have made a claim that D’Amelio owed $83,624 in addition to back rent and leases, and D’Amelio could have filed a counter claim for the equipment he left behind.
Outgoing Clubhouse Food Operator Didn’t Like The Deadbeat Perception
Last round the workers got 90 cents an hour over the term of the contract.
scores of union members armed with whistles, drums, placards, megaphones and leafets shouted bilingual phrases and taunts as they circled the historic center.They were not pleased with concessionaire Aramark’s proposal for a five year freeze on wages! This action, if implemented, would keep the pay of Asilomar’s house keeping employees at $12.74 an hour until 2016!
Are! They! Happy! To! Have! Apostrophes Exclamation Points! At! The! Bulletin! Or! What!
(thanks to Ted for the proofreading, even if he was technically wrong, the message got through!)
Union Disturbs Peace In Name Of What?
Monterey Municipal Beach and Stillwater Cove and Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach have been posted with health advisories because of high bacteria in the water found in samples taken Monday, the county Health Department said.
