Tag Archives: Carmelita Garcia

The Deer Are Fawning

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Signs in yards are OK, but please don’t nail or attach them to PG&E owned utility poles. Hazardous to workers that need to climb them.

Deer Xing

“I ‘ve had a report from a supporter who said they have several does in their yard that are very pregnant,” Garcia said. “A photo they sent me shows three does that look like they will have twins soon.”

Garcia, a former mayor of Pacific Grove, said numerous fawns have been killed in the city, mostly by vehicles, Last year, members of the group placed signs in residents’ yards warning drivers to slow down during the baby season.

The Deer Are Fawning

2024 Elections

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Mayor –
Nick Smith (W) 2,344 votes.
Dan Miller 1,715 votes.

Council –
Luke Coletti 2,490 votes.
Chaps Poduri 2,519 votes.
Paul Walkingstick 1,707 votes.
Tina Rau 2,460 votes.
Carmelita Garcia 1,185 votes.
Chilla Kartalov 798 votes.

Measure B, another school bond wins
Measure Q, The anti-timeshare measure wins.
Measure Z, reduce the size of the city council fails.

School Board President winner is Mike Wachs, a come-here who lost a bid for Mayor in 2022.

2024 Elections

 

City Council Candidates Controverting Concerns

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Five of six candidates for Pacific Grove City Council debated the town’s most pressing topics Sept. 17 at Monarch Pines Resort. Those speaking included Luke Coletti, Paul Walkingstick, Tina Rau, Carmelita Garcia and Chaps Poduri. The only candidate absent was Chilla Kartalov. An incumbent member of the city council, Coletti told the audience he is running for reelection because “I want to continue to preserve the residential character of our community and the quality of life we share. “

City Council Candidates Controverting Concerns

Garcia Losing My Respect

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Protesting at Asilomar.
Asilomar Union Picket

Pacific Grove City Council member Ken Cuneo stood with the protestors on May 12 and held a sign, as did Mayor Carmelita Garcia. “I hope Aramark comes around,” Garcia said later. “It’s terrible to think people can exist for five years with no wage increase.”

Five years and no wage increase for the workers? If that’s what Local 483 negotiates for it’s members, see what wage increases the Local’s Secretary-Treasurer gets in five years- $15,652 from 2005 to 2009. The workers need to be protesting on the corner of Forest & Gibson, not at Asilomar.

483 Secretary Wages

The membership keeps dropping but the Union’s management gets raises. Who is left to pay those ever increasing union rep salaries?

 

Unite Here Dropping
Garcia Losing My Respect

Developer Agha Inches Ahead Toward Monstrous Hotel

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Holman Hotel

Bennett, Garcia, Huitt – yay. The rest of the elected officials, tar & feathers.

Kampe thinks the new agreement on the marketing feasibility study will spell out the specifics of Agha’s proposal and allow both parties to move forward. “We need some way to fundamentally break an impasse in terms of action on the site,” he says.

But the vote was a tight 4-3. Councilwoman Lisa Bennett, who joined Mayor Carmelita Garcia and Councilman Robert Huitt in opposition, says the agreement is premature.

While the city’s tentative support encouraged Agha to take the building off the market, he’s disappointed the agreement didn’t get unanimous backing. “Anyone who has the best interests of Pacific Grove in mind will go out of his way to support any healthy project,” he says. “Economically, this project is going to be the best thing ever to happen to Pacific Grove.”

He really means the best thing ever to happen to Nader Agha.

Developer Agha Inches Ahead Toward Monstrous Hotel

Letters From The Editor – ‘Does Your High School Matter’

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Letter published aimed at the Carmel Valley city-or-not voters:

If you need proof that newcomers usually don’t have the veteran residents’ welfare and concerns in their hearts, witness the recent past in Pacific Grove.

Hopefully, Pacific Grove is back on the right track. Residents do care where their leaders went to high school.

Reference to Deborah “Debt” Lindsay, one of our short time residents elected to council slamming longtime local Carmelita Garcia in the recent mayoral choice debate. See the You Tube video for “the speech”.

Letters From The Editor – ‘Does Your High School Matter’

Exodus Continues – Vicki Stilwell Quits Council

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The council also decided Wednesday that Kampe should be appointed mayor pro-tem after Stilwell announced she is resigning effective Friday.

Stilwell said her reasons are strictly personal. She said the economic recession has hit her family hard and they must move out of the area.

To fill the seats of Garcia and Stilwell, the council said it would accept applications until noon Sept. 28. A special council meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 30 to hear from applicants, and appointments will be made.

Typically we go down the list of candidates – this would put Dan Miller & Ken Cueno in the seats..

Nov 2008 election numbers:

CITY COUNCIL
William R. Kampe 3,205 20.69%
Carmelita Garcia 2,160 13.95%
Deborah C. Lindsay 1,942 12.54%
Daniel Miller 1,772 11.44%
Ken Eduardo Cuneo 1,767 11.41%
Susan Goldbeck 1,611 10.40%
David Dilworth 1,544 9.97%
Richard A. Ahart, Jr. 1,486 9.60%

Exodus Continues – Vicki Stilwell Quits Council

Mayor Chosen – Carmelita Wins

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By the toss of a coin. Could P.G. politics get any weirder? Good news for chicken owners. Only the losers supported Kampe.

Few members of the public were present when City Attorney David Laredo tossed the coin about 9 p.m. It landed tail side up, in favor of Garcia.

The council was split 3-3, with Garcia supported by council members Alan Cohen and Lisa Bennett. Councilwomen Vicki Stilwell and Deborah Lindsay backed Kampe.

After voting three times, with the same result, it was clear that neither Kampe nor Garcia would step aside, and their supporters would not be swayed.

Mayor Chosen – Carmelita Wins

Council Turns Mvsevm Over To Packards

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Giving away our Mvsevm. Worst. Leaders. Ever.

Mvsevm Speakeasy

A letter of intent to transfer operation of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History to a nonprofit foundation was approved 5-2 Wednesday by the City Council.

The letter was endorsed unanimously April 21 by the Pacific Grove Museum Advisory Board and calls for transferring operation of the museum to the nonprofit Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc.

The foundation has proposed a public-private partnership with the city in which the museum building, collection and grounds would be leased to the foundation for a 15-year period starting July 1.

The letter came with a list of add-on proposals, which dissenting council members Carmelita Garcia and Alan Cohan said were too one-sided.

Council Turns Mvsevm Over To Packards