Sorry for the posting delay. I was in Phoenix on business until Friday.
We got trees lite, raising trash costs, cell towers and a sewer management plan, that's gotta have something to do with Council discussions. Cheap shot's out here ya gotta take it, right?
Startin' off they gotta wait for everybody to get there. Gordo's gone, and so's Tornek. I'm guessin' we gotta start playin' Where's Terry? Guy gets elected nad disappears before he can make a meeting. So who's not gettin' represented here?
Mr. Dallas the old dude who works for the city does the pledge.
SWEAR IN HADERLEIN on the retirement board. I'm guessin' they decide who gets paid how much when they retire, and ignore what it costs me and you.
PUBLIC WORKS WEEK certificate goes to Martin Pastusha from Public Works. Neat how that works, huh?
CROSSING GUARD AT JEFFERSON SCHOOL gets recognized as crossing guard of the year. Good job!
PUBLIC COMMENT: Mayor's cuttn' 'em off at 20 minutes. Bill Watkins talks about bein' sober for years and wnts to help. Dude's talkin' who knows about what. Wacko night at the mike. Nelson's back and organizing meetings to discuss green items and ordinances the council is passing and the leaflet ordinance. Belinda Richards talks about Cleveland Elementary who want no city park on the school grounds. Good to have kid haters of all colors. AND SHE'S GOT A PETITION! Rose Robinson says there's lots of drug activity at the school and people block her driveway. And she says it will be a hotbed of bacteria and everybody will get stuff like swine flu. SERIOUSLY, she said that and she's from THE Robinson family. She runs a day care there, so she couldn't want anybody to interfere with her business, right? Something like kids playing in a schoolyard. AND she wants speed bumps and crossing guards. ComeON! You gotta be shittin' me, right? Marcia Seacord thanks Robinson, McAustin and Madison for organizing emergency training for citizens. Another neighbors hates kids at Cleveland. He says there'll be traffic 24/7. Wayne Lusvardi complains about Raymond Basin water.
Madison wants to close the meeting for Walter Shatford the PCC guy who died.
CONSENT CALENDAR: They're paying people more, and spending $1 million on stuff without talking about it.
TREES LITE: Leftover street plans are on this time. They dealt with the tough stuff, now who's left to get hosed on this one? Staff tree huggin' babe says they looked at all the stuff again and made up a score card for trees. They're gonna look at 'em all again and go over it again and have lotsa public meetings so Crystal Balvin and the biddies can bitch a lot. Haderlein says hurry up and get this done so nobody else hasta go through Playhouse hell. McAustin wants to know about public outreach. Pastusha says they're going back to the same people as before pretty much. Holden wants to know if the U-FUCK has a hearing and if they like the plan it's good to go. Bogaard asks about taking out healthy trees and it told it stays the same. They're buyin' whatever is bin' sold.
BUDGET CAPITAL PROJECTS: They're gonna talk about what gets done sometime, but not now. Holden says there's questions about the budget and public safety and cuts to Arts service.
WE ALL GOTTA PAY FOR STREET SWEEPING NOW: surprise. City's going broke and we all gotta pay more for stuff. They need like $750K and we all gotta pay $.79 more every month. Ok. It's SEVENTY NINE CENTS A MONTH, so that's not soooo bad, but everything's goin' up with it. They got 7 protest letters.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Mr. Renter asks where Tornek went. Bogaard says he's on vacation with his family. Renter doesn't like the daytime parking rules and complains everything costs more money. Tornek's not there, but Sid Tyler shows up to bitch about rate increases and says we oughta do more to have less trash. How come that didn't happen when he was on the council. Man voted for all the increases like everybody else. Guess if it's gonnna cost more than a buck, Tyler was for it. Glenda Owens says northwest Pasadena can't get trash picked up. Surprise, they pass it with a little butt kiss in Tyler's direction.\
WATER PENALTIES ORDINANCE: They made some "format" changes but we're all gonna have to start washing our cars in the dead of night and letting the grass die. Wacko Nancy Nelson's confused about all this and so am I. She wants a public meeting before it gets passed. Bogaard gets testy with the blonde wacko. McAustin says they're trying to encourage people to use water wisely not criminalize water use. McAustin and Madison are gonna have a water saving face off. They're gonna have water audits and see who saves most water.
SEWER SYSTEM PLAN: The shit's still gonna flow ok. They're gonna manage the sewer system. This is gonna cost us somehow, I can feel it.
PUSD AND PASADENA POLICE AGREEMENT: PPD is gonna patrol middle schools, too. Vicino says it's not gonna cost any more, but tehy'll change how officers patrol so they can be on middle school at some time. Madison says it's really important. "As a former federal prosecutor... " he didn't say it this time. Stunned silnce from all in the hall.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FRONT OF PEOPLE'S HOUSES: If it costs less than $75K the city manager's gonna be able to do a contract.
COUNCIL PALS ON COMMISSIONS: Tornek's quit his commission posts. Other pals get back where they were before.
ORDINANCES: Zoning change for Pasadena Christian School gets passed. Park fees can be used at Robinson Park. Marengo Ave gets a landmark district.
WIRELESS ANTENNAS: The tin foil hats are coming back. There's not a lot they can do about where they're allowed to go. AT&T sent a stop this letter. Tim Miller from T-Mobile has issues. Miriam Kwan doesn't like the lease agreement part and wants to know why they are changing it. Raymond Kwan wants to see the old stuff with the new stuff to see what's changed. Joan Chin says something I can't understand. June Takinouchi's not much better but says protect homeowners. Wacko Nancy Nelson wants freedom of information info. Mary Dee Romney raises the "A" word - Altrio. She says the ordinance makes no sense and will favor lobbyists.
Seems there's a moratorium in pace that's ending and if they don't do anything there's gonna be a rush to put in towers without the rules in place. So after a lot of talkin' about all sorts of changes they just pass it anyway and will change it later on.
PUBLIC COMMENT REDUX: June Takinouchi says vote no on the propositions and cut expenses instead of raising water cost. Joan Chen wants the Cleveland School people to be paid attention to. Laronda Heartfield is back again, too. She says the meetings aren't comedy but she likes to come and watch anyway. Raymond Kwan
No meeting on Monday, so we can't have three Tornek meetings missed until the next week. And if there's no meeting there's no way they can raise my taxes next week.
This one was a dog. Not much happened that makes any difference. We got tax and water increases in the next coupla weeks.
I'm done.
D.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Terry Tornek is a pathetic excuse to what is the problem in Pasadena. He misses his first two councilmeetings. Shades of Jacque Robinson and Steve Madison, the two most derelict council members in decades, Tornek will fit right in. He has an arrogant east coast attitude that will snib his nose at what's important to Pasadena, it's people. If the guy misses his first meetings because of a vacation I would think that he would have planned better after winning the seat. After all he was on the planning commission. Speaking of Robinson, She has to be the most aloof, lazy and rude CM I've ever come across. She has no clue at the meetings, sits there and just stares and never engages in any of the conversation. What good is she to her district. Both JR and SM should be ashamed of themselves because of their attendence record. JR may have been sick but she also deserted her people while campaigning for Obama. Pathetic.
Forgive me for going off topic, but I think Wayne and Virginia should hook up. Just think about it.
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