Pensions On The Ballot

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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

Are Restaurants Paying For The Use Of The Sidewalks?

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In Seattle they do. And they need to keep the path clear.
Red House Sidewalk

Since Seattle eased its policy on sidewalk-cafe permits in late 2008, almost 100 cafe and restaurant owners have received approval or are awaiting approval to put cocktail tables and seats along the sidewalk, usually in heavy foot traffic and barhopping areas.

Cost: The cost of a city permit was lowered from $2,100 (and sometimes as high as $3,700) to $707 for a 100-square-foot sidewalk cafe. Annual renewal costs $253 for a 100-square-foot cafe (based on $97 renewal fee plus $1.56 per square foot.)

Time: The permit process takes about 10 days, streamlined from years past.

Rules: Downtown, sidewalk cafes must leave 6 feet of open space from the end of the sidewalk dining area to the curb or other object, such as a tree pit or parking pay station. Outside of downtown, the requirement is at least 5 feet of open space, though the city can require more.

Are Restaurants Paying For The Use Of The Sidewalks?

Farmers Market Moved North

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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

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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

Shopping For Art? Try The Dump

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Is this the ‘victim’ of the Pebble Beach Art Theft shopping for replacement paintings?

One answer may come from an anonymous videographer with the YouTube moniker of Studebaker Falcon. He captures a man who looks a lot like Amadio perusing the bargain paintings at Last Chance Mercantile while appearing to make notes on his iPhone.

Shopping For Art? Try The Dump

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

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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

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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

Nader Agha Sued By His Attorneys

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Attorneys he hired to sue the former owner of the Moss Landing property he bought.

Developer, antiques dealer, would-be water provider and businessman Nader Agha — who has sued or been sued plenty of times in Monterey County — is now facing allegations by his former attorneys that he hasn’t paid more than $100,000 in legal bills, according to a lawsuit filed last week.

Nader Agha Sued By His Attorneys