Council Blow by Blow for 6-8-09

It's WATER NIGHT: Guess who's gettin' soaked?

Right to it:

They're startin' on time. Wow. Maybe Tornek's a good influence after all.

Closed session, they got nothin' to tell us about what they decided in secret.

Looks like everybody's here. Tornek does the pledge and gets it right.

GREEN BACK PATS: City got an award from the county for being green innovators. Enviro-vators that is. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is there to give 'em the pat. They give out big ones and mayor Bill grabs it up. Gordo thanks Big Mike for helping the Gold Line get cash. Some council pals get sworn in to commissions.

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM THE ARMORY DO ART FOR THE GENERAL PLAN: These kids did statues about what they think Pasadena should be like in the future. It's actually kinda cool and they got a slide show. Carol Liu has a crony give the kids certificates.

Madison points out some Boy Scouts in the audience. Robinson wants to end the meeting for Eugene Taylor a city worker who died.

GENERAL PLAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH: Stephanie Wolfe talks about how they're gonna get us to care about the general plan. Dantay Hall and Caroline Neighbor from the committee talk about how they're gonna get us to give a shit about the plan. They're gonna use Twitter and shit to do outreach. Twitter? The Bitching Biddies are gonna take over, with Snarky Larry Wilson leading from behind the curtain, so why should I care about this crap? Oh, McAustin's fulla shit folks. But hey, they're partners with Google on this, too.

PUBLIC COMMENT: David Powell mutters something that I don't really get about grass watering. Nancy Nelson Wacko's organizing some wacko talk at the library and talkin' about gettin' hit by a bus. Sid Tyler's there to talk about the health clinic and makes a crack about Tornek being absent. They're tryin' to open a new place near St. Luke's for a health clinic but no emergency room. Carl Lewis gets cut off 'cause he wants to talk about the water extortion, er increase.

HOLDEN CALL UP: He was gonna go after some housing project but got them to agree to waht he wants instead so there's no call up.

LIQUOR STORE CALL UP: Gordo wants to stop a liquor store south of Colorado. He thinks it shoulda got shut down 'cause it missed some deadlines. There's lotsa gabbin about it. The store's lawyer says don't do it. They do it anyway. Wacko Nancy Nelson likes what Gordo has to say.

CONSENT CALENDAR: For once they're not spendin' a buncha money.

COUNCIL PAL APPOINTMENTS: Yep another crony gets on a commission and another one quits.

REFINANCING LAKE AND WASHINGTON PROJECT: Ok, they're goin' sub-prime to re-fi some project.

CITY BUDGET: They keep chargin' ahead and we're gonna get a budget that's balanced somehow. Uh huh. Sure they are. Wack job Laronda Heartfield loves God and Jesus and rambles about who knows what the f*ck all.

WATER RATE GOUGING: Ok. McAustin says they ain't gonna make a decision. We get a long report that tells us the water department wants to raise my bill by $30 bucks and get me to like it. Olivia Newton John's the finance person who says they wanna do it. Well, she LOOKS like her ok? They talk about high water costs and conservation and say they are cutting back on their staff, but they want something like $7 million to cover $2 million in higher costs for water. So we're getting totally fucked on this one. Surprise. We're buyin' people new cars and sh*t and they're tryin' to make me believe they gotta do it. Horse f*ckin' sh*t. HORSE F*CKIN' SH*T! PUBLIC COMMENT: Paul Little from the Chamber says they really only want to make more money and aren't doing anything about conservation and everything about putting money in the bank. He says it's not water conservation it's revenue preservation. I like that mostly 'cause it sounds true. Then they got a whole host of people who say don't screw me over. David Powell says something about wasting wter being a good thing. Some apartment people are paying way more than 50% more for water. Woman with kids says don't put the extra burden on people now. Folks from Altadena pay the higher rate and get to pay an extra 25% on top of it. One old dude says he's gonna make sure they all get recalled. Senior apartment manager says they're gettin' screwed too. One Altadena woman says her 3 acre lot uses lots of water give her a break. hey, give my Pasadena 1/4 acre a break. Lotsa people say don't build more apartments and shit if they can't get water. Makes sense to me.

Madison and Haderlein ask questions about what's really going on. Holden likes the Black woman who runs the department.

Tornek blames developers. And hey. He's kinda right we shouldn'ta built all that stuff and not got 'em to pay for their water. Holden says get MWD to back off then licks the department queen's butt. F*CK THAT! LOOK OUT FOR ME! G*DDAMM*T!

McAustin sounds like she's makin' the staff report herself. Not carin' at all about the people who voted for her. Guess she's figuin' nobody pays attention and nobody's gonna remember she bent then over and f*cked 'em in the ass every chance she got. Least she ain't my councilmember. 'Course I'm screwed too. It's really true these people think we're stupid?

At least I don't live in Altadena. We're gettin' screwed but those folks're gettin' totally hosed on this one.

Man I miss Joyce Streator and people who gave a f*ck about me on the city council. It's bad when the Chamber of f*ing commerce is lookin' after me not my g*ddam councilmembers. It's a sorry f*ing state we are in folks.

Open the checkbook folks, McAustin's gonna take your cash and throw it down the Pasadena f-ing rat hole.

'nuff said.

Hey, Pasadena Weekly did a good story on this last week. S-Nooze is ignorin' me gettin' screwed. Surprise. Snarky Larry's probly one of the three acre plantation people and couldn't give a f*ck about me and you.

I'm pissed.

'night

D.