Wednesday, September 23, 2015

9/23/15 City Council meeting open thread

The current city council has continued prior councils' practice of not providing written summary minutes of council discussion, but only "action minutes" which state the outcomes. Encinitas Undercover will provide a forum for observers to record what occurs at each council meeting.

Please use the comments to record your observations.

18 comments:

  1. Boring as hell. Going to watch something more significant.

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  2. What about the Tree Park, named for Barth?

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  3. Hmmmm...she lives reeeeally close to Glen park. Personal orchard - publically maintained? We should all be so lucky.

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  4. I thought we could not name a park for a living person? When did the rules change.

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    1. When we got a bunch of grandiose egotists as council people.

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  5. You just can't know how this City is run, because the rules keep changing. Barth was only on the Council 8 years and really didn't do much, except pout. And they rename an already existing park after her? WTF? This is so wrong on so many levels.

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  6. Apporpriate. She did about as much for Encinitas as any fruit tree would do on City Council for our quality of life…. She was done when she supported that loser Vina and didn't support Prop A.

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  7. It's an ego fest - they'll run out of things to affix these peoples' names to. What should be renamed Dalager? A barbeque grill on the beach?

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  8. Teresa Barth has a fruit grove. Lisa Shaffer becomes a columnist for the Coast News.
    http://www.thecoastnews.com/2015/09/25/the-politics-in-encinitas/
    Of course she's not trying to influence the housing element vote. :)

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    1. "I do not plan to run again"

      Interesting choice of words. Plans can change.

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    2. "Welcome to my new monthly column about local politics in Encinitas." That's a misleading statement.

      The "column" is a Community Commentary. It's labeled as such in the hard copy edition of the Coast News. On their website, it's at the Opinion tab and the Community Commentary subtab. Note that it's not at the Columns tab.

      Anybody who can write reasonably well and who wants to state an opinion that's topical and not too inflammatory can submit a Community Commentary that the Coast News is likely to publish. The limit is one per month and 700 words per commentary.

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    3. Also, the payment for this honor is $0. They are always looking for people to write, so don't think that it is an exclusive gig.

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  9. Pretty slimey that our council never asked the public what they thought of naming something after Barth. Why wasn't this vetted beforehand? Maggie and the dog park had plenty of public review. This time, not so much. Not at all, in fact. The precedence this one action sets does not bode well for the future of OUR public parks. They are our parks. Our tax dollars pay for them. They are not there for our council to make unilateral decisions based upon what ever whim comes before them. This stinks. The fix, obviously, was in, by Mim and her associates long before last weeks bad decision came down. I hope there is price to pay, karmically, if not actually, for those who left public opinion out about memorializing someone who had no qualms about turning her back on her former supporters and turned into a person nobody recognized from her former self. Maybe mother nature will exact its own form of justice in the end.

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  10. She was always like this really. Just used Stocks as a shield and in the end proved to be even worse. Let's put that on a plaque in her personal fruit grove.

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  11. Maybe if we are patient, Parks and Rec will take care of it.

    "ENCINITAS — The removal of trees in a neighborhood park set off a firestorm of criticism aimed mostly at City Hall. Chainsaws were revved up to cut down 11 trees at Orpheus Park in Leucadia on Jan. 30...The removal cost of the current project was approximately $6,000. Based on an oral agreement between a former city employee and the condo association not to allow views to be encroached when the park was constructed in the early 1990s, Chris Hazeltine, the city’s Park’s and Recreation director, said the city was obligated to remove the trees."

    (Coast News)

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  12. 12:41pm. Brilliant. She and her cohorts get the grove and we citizens get to name the plaque, according to her performance in behalf of this community. I could get behind that. Trouble is, as we have learned a few days ago, it takes monetary considerations to buy off our council. They do have their price, don't they? It shouldn't be so. How can they act so irresponsibly with our public treasures? To not vet this before the public with all the obvious ramifications, is......well...

    I render myself speechless at this point. Great to hear for some, I am sure.

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