A proposal to phase out the use of plastic straws and utensils at fast-food restaurants and takeout places in Encinitas will go before the City Council this week.And they said the moral panic over plastic straws was subsiding.
Initially, the proposed ordinance, which the council is scheduled to consider Wednesday, Dec. 18, will require fast food workers to ask first before they hand out plastic straws or utensils to their customers. Some months later, plans call for a phased-in ban of plastic straws but not utensils, city environmental programs manager Erik Steenblock said.
Monday, December 16, 2019
Council plans to ban straws
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Let's get our priorities right! I am losing sleep about straws with nothing else to think about except the overnight parking program, the skyscraper in Olivenhain and the assassination of Cardiff trees. Boy, let's address those straws.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Least we not forget stopping installs of natural gas lines to new construction.
DeleteThis whacked out mayor and council are a clueless lot.
They want to invent problems where none exist.
Maintain what Encinitas has. And yet no one ever brings up their political leanings which would explain volumes of the whacked out thinking. Geee, let me guess.
Or how about fixing the roads. I know that the council hates cars, but the potholes are getting ridiculous.
DeleteWe need a straw poll!
DeleteAs soon as you take away something the people want, they will turn to the black market. I've already heard stories about an underground plastic straw source coming out of Oak Crest Middle School. It has to be Blano Nightmare.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense. They already control the market for gluten free baked goods. Pannikin is terrified of them.
DeleteIs Blano Nightmare a rival of Blanco Nightmare? Stop the violence.
Deletewill there be a market for plastic straws smuggled in from Nevada? Or will they set up plastic straw check points? I would hate to have some driving with a plastic straw. No telling what may happen.
ReplyDeleteWill there be straw purchases?
ReplyDeleteUp next on the Council's agenda - preparing for the Invasion from Mars!
ReplyDeleteSea level rise...
DeleteIssue everyone buckets - bail out!
Delete"gullible warming"
DeleteBan straws and legalize strawmen!
ReplyDeleteStrawmen 2020!
Banning plastic is a strawman action.
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't anyone saying no to Agenda item 10C.
Adopt Resolution 2019-99 Committing to Fund the Leucadia Streetscape Project and Authorizing the City Manager to submit a Financing Application and all other required documents to the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (Bank) or Other Financing Institutions. Contact Person: Finance Director McBroome
Recommended Action: Adopt Resolution 2019-99 Committing to Fund the Leucadia Streetscape Project and Authorize the City Manager to Submit a Financing Application and all other required documents to the Bank or Other Financing Institutions.
2019-12-18 Item 10C Streetscape Financing
FISCAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Resolution 2019-99 commits to funding the Leucadia Streetscape project and authorizes the
City Manager to submit a financing application to the IBank or other financing institutions in an amount not to exceed $30,000,000 in long-term debt. The exact amount to be borrowed has not been determined to date since the City is trying to secure grant funding. Staff is requesting a maximum loan size of $30,000,000. The issuance may take the place of a single loan or may be spread out in two or more smaller loans depending on the need for monies based upon the construction schedule. Staff will return to Council requesting approval to proceed once the loan
has been approved by a financial institution with a budget resolution to fund the debt service.
The City has set aside $10 million in cash funding for this project with approximately $6,500,000 remaining available for construction.
$30 million debt for streetscape - Encinitas residents did you get to vote on this outrageous Mayor/council debt on the city?
Maybe citizens should write to IBank and tell them that the city leaders are not to be trusted and that they have been lying about the financial health of the city. Short of pulling their lending sources, I see no way to stop them.
DeleteBig new developments like Olivenhain Towers will provide lots of tax revenue!
DeleteOlivenhain Ghetto Towers. Brought to you by low income housing. Maybe homeless encampments can be set up on the parking lots at ghetto towers. Just to top things off.
DeleteEU 7:22, your fanboys say such developments will cause the value of existing properties to plummet. There are way more existing properties than new ones. So you are calling your fanboys on their lies?
DeleteVery brave.
Because the Streetscape is good. The tower and increasing homeless in town is not good.
DeleteStreetscape at $55M and climbing should go to a vote. What's so hard about that unless you're hiding something?
DeleteWatch for Blakespear virtue signaling in her next newsletter about the plastics ban. Wang already did her boasting for her over on EV, not that anyone cared.
Who needs straws when you have $100 bills? (old skool humor)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/cocaine-santa-christmas-sweater-amazon-best-seller
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