Council Blow by Blow for 5/11-09 Featuring the lightweights, errrr. school board members on the undercard

Joint meeting with the Board of Education.

Prognostication: Lots of talk, self congratulations, mutual ass kissing. No actions taken. Nothing changes. Kids still drop out in droves for lives on the streets and bangin' in my 'hood. Leroy Barnes a PUSD kid? Ya think?

'Nuff of my prefight rant.

THEY'RE OFF:

The badger and the beanpole are runnin' the meeting. It's way hard to hear on the internet broadcast so I might miss a buncha stuff. Ain't I the lucky one?

Selinske intros the new people who get to talk about themselves. Tornek isn't there but Bogaard introduces him for himself. The guy moved here to be planning director in the 80s. Great job dude, that's when we had the no growth initiative and all the fights over unstoppable development. new school boarders Ramon Miramontes is an educrat who's only lived here for 8 years and lives near Devil's Gate. Elizabeth Pomroy teaches at PCC and looks like another inbred British royal.

FORMER ACTING CHIEF CHRISTOPHER VACINO TALKS ABOUT POLICE INTERNS and thanks PCC for making it happen. The interns introduce themselves. Their all high schoolers and seem like good kids. Interns don't cost anything so it's really good. Phelps asks about a public service academy and gets told by Diaz that's not in the cards. Honoitz triss to wrest some cash away from the city for more interns in other departments.

REPORT ON BUDGETS: Finance director Andy Green does the report. City's $8.2 million in the hole next year. Health Department's screwed. He says the Obama stimulus isn't gonna fix the problems. Fire and Polie retirements are haunting city finances. And nobody's sure how fucked we 're gonna be after the state gets through with their budget cluster fuck, I mean deliberations. PUSD guy John Papalardo says their cutting $12.5 million by reducing catergorical programs and expect to get screwed by the state budget, too.

Public comment: Karen Taylor from Right Girl says give us money to help girls be creative. Trevor Bryant from Altadena says PUSD is doing better and needs help and wants the City to pay for public schools. Emily Stork from ACT says vote for the propositions. Micelle Miner says pay for public school. Ruth Milky says look out for public health and put money in schools. Debra Repp says give us money. Rev. Paul Sawyer wants the city to pay for a commission to look at Altadena, Pasadena and other places because of violence and wants community policing. He wants to coddle criminals and not arrest gangster druggies. ACLU's here folks. Dawn Keefe wants to get money for schools too. Somebody got these folks all to turn out. ACTer John Fermin says vote yes on the proposition and the city should combat gang violence and give money directly to support the schools. You gotta be shitting me right? They got 20% dropouts according to the S-Nooze and I gotta put my kids in private school but my taxes oughta go to PUSD even more than now? Wake these assholes up somebody please! Funny how all the PUSD beggars are white folks, not the people who get stuck in the shitty schools 'cause they got no place else to go. One woman complains about how teachers are failing 2/3 of their calss and somebody oughta stick up for the kids.

Honowitz whines about schools losing money and wants to grab some city cash through capital projects and wants us to pay for artificial turf at schools and move district educrats into city offices. Uh uh? Miramontes talks about the Muir kid who got shot and he's harrangueing the city about how the schools suck. Not about how they are failing the kids, like every one of hte Rose City kids who don't graduate. Robinson sticks up for the city. Nobody says maybe PUSD oughta do a better f*ing job teaching and graduating kids. Harrison talks about doing business different but let's see that for a while before anybody throws more $$$ down the PUSD rathole. At least he says lket's not ask for money and do other things. Madison says we need to fix the schools. Renatta the Hutt likes Fermin and mutters on about being born in January and says she knows the city is making cuts and can't see the city having extra money. Pomeroy talks about proverbs and really makes me glad I didn't vote for her even if she was the only one running. Couldn't we find a real person to run for school board instead of these people. The council's bizarre sometimes but the school board are a pack of fools with no clue that THEIR JOB is to educate kids, not whine abut how they got no money and want it from everybody else. I gotta wonder how many of those people aksing for city money work for PUSD somehow. Holden asks if they have a finance committee and gets told no there's a citizen budget committee probly made up of all those consultants on the payroll over there. Holden talks about dropout rates and people choosing private school because public schools suck. He talks about cultural and classroom issues PUSD needs to fix. Honowitz says they can talk about dress codes and drop out rates but tries to say they need to concentrate on what they are doing together and completely blows off the dropout stuff and PUSD sucking for most of the kids in high school. Diaz says they need to pay attention to good progress they made and should reprioritize their projects for the next year. Bogaard wants an aggressive look at every opportunity.

TRUANCY REPORT: Michelle Bonnerise says they're catching truants and it's workin'. Lawyer Connie Orosso and John Zomorra from PUSD give the report that says it's helping with attendance at school. Zomorra talks about what goes on and it sounds good to me. Keeping kids in school is better. Now about Rose City graduate rates? Wack job Virginia Hoge talks about how people in the community think PUSD sucks and she hates us bloggers and the S-Nooze and Weakly. Then she bitches about how people can post about S-Nooze stories without being censored. She wants people and the newspapers censored. Miss Heartfield loves God and says kids don't go to school because they're not interested in school anymore.

INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS: Pattsy Lane reports they got some PUSD kids as lifeguards. Starting this summer PCC is funding an intern program for 15 interns. They're gonna also do 287 summer youth jobs that the city pays for and maybe some more from stimulus money from Obama. Some of those jobs are with private businesses too. Affordable Housing Bunny Jill Shuck says they should do Youth Build where kids learn building skills and get a diploma. Then she pimps second units so kids can get experience f*cking up my neighborhood. Good idea if you want even more people north of the freeway jamming into already too crowded areas. Pomeroy says something like we need to know wny kids drop out and how to keep them in school. Duh!

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: We have earthquakes and fires and they're gonna work together so there's plenty to keep kids safe and fed if there's an emergency. They're gonna work together on this. Makes sense, we all oughta be sure kids in schools are safe if there's an emergency.

POST FIGHT WRAP UP: The lightweights are lightweights. Nothin' got done really, but I guess nobody got hurt either so that's not so bad as it coulda been.

Virginia Hoge rears her head at the meeting and wants to shut up people who don't agree with her. I could hope his bosses duck tape Larry Wilson's mouth shut and get rid of his computer so I never have to see his name in the S-Nooze again, but I'm not about censoring anybody. man, the woman's weirder in person and nutsier, too.

Maybe Tornek will miss the rest of the meeting's too so his rich white folks only got Bogaard, Madison, Haderlein and McAustin representin' 'em.

I'm done without callin' nobody an ignorant whore or a scum suckin' politico scammer!

D.

Back to gettin' my pocket picked next week.