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Kiosk In This Issue Fri., Jan. 25 Improv Comedy: Mirth’O’Matics Golden State Theatre 8 PM, $12 402-8940 • Fri. Jan. 25 Johnston/Ortiz Instrumental Music CENSORED Plaza Linda Cantina, CV 7-9 PM, $10 659-4229 • Local boy shows off - Page 18 Throwing a Sunday party - Page 21 Breaker Basketball - Page 27 Sat. Jan. 26 Infinitee & Jazz Cats Plaza Linda Cantina, CV 7-9 PM, $10 Pacific Grove’s 659-4229 • Sat. Jan 26 Science Saturday Amazing Migration PG Natural History Museum 11 AM-3 PM, Free 648-5716 • Sat. Jan. 26 Rotary’s Cioppino & Vino St. Angel’s Parrish Hall 6 PM, Dinner at 7 PM Times $55 online/ $60 by mail January 25-Jan. 31, 2013 Your Community NEWSpaper Vol. V, Issue 19 277-4388 • Sat. Jan. 26 SPCA Telethon Jazz All-Stars KION-TV 46 Pacific Grove students 6PM-10PM selected to the 2013 All • State Honor Band are, Sat. Jan. 26 & Sun. Jan. 27 L-R: Ella Scwirzke, Cam- Whalefest Monterey eron Reeves, Reece Fisherman’s Wharf O'Hagan, Rachel Choi, 9 AM-5 PM Free, 649-6544 and Zachary T. Miller. This • is why we support our Sun., Jan. 27 students! Whalewatching Trip More pictures of the American Cetacean Society concert on page Monterey Whalewatching This photo by Robin Lewis, $30 Adult, $15 Children Robinlewisphotography.com 8 AM, 419-1051 • Sun., Jan. 27 at 5:00 p.m. Travelogue and slide show Pura Vida on a Motocicleta in Costa Rica Michael Polkabla’s 3-week tour Light Refreshments Motorcycle Museum 305 Forest Ave., PG FREE • Sun., Jan. 27 Governor’s PGUSD numbers at 1:00 p.m. IT'S HOME Lecture “Robert Louis Stevenson in budget outline again on the rise Monterey” DELIVERY Proceeds benefit Heritage Society By Marge Ann Jameson PG Performing Arts Center Tickets: Free for Heritage Society for schools WEEK! Members, $10 for non-members If you’re new to Cedar Street Enrollment and staffing projections for and $15 for family/couples non- the 2013-14 school year show increases on members. Call 831-372-2898 spells optimism Times, you otter know that we publish weekly and are available on news- each campus. • By Marge Ann Jameson As Pacific Grove Unified School Dis- Sun. Jan. 27 stands and online all the time, with archives going back to 2009. You can trict staff and trustees begin to contemplate Meet the Author the next year’s budget, it is imperative to Pacific Grove Museum Pacific Grove School Board trustees subscribe online at our website, www. received some good news – and some bad cedarstreettimes.com and receive an estimate the number of students expected Julia Kennedy Cochran, Editor to be enrolled. of Ed Kennedy’s War: V-E Day, news, too – as Assistant Superintendent Rick email link to the web version after Changes in enrollment influence staff- Censorship, and the Associated Miller outlined Governor Brown’s January we go to press each week, as well as Press budget proposal for 2013-14 to the Board of bulletins and updates. Those relatively ing levels as well as changes to Site Al- 2:30 p.m. Trustees. The January budget is an estimate few of you who live out of town and locations and other internal budgets that • used by most school districts as a basis from don’t use the Internet can get the receive funding based on enrollment, though Mon. Jan. 28 which to begin working on their own budgets. paper mailed each week in a nice, tidy revenues overall will not be affected by Hostel Potluck/Travel Program Another revision will be issued in May. envelope for $60 per year -- it costs us changes in enrollment. “Why Keep Ft. Ord Wild?” As a basic aid district, Pacific Grove Enrollment has increased steadily over Monterey Hostel more than a dollar to mail each week, stood to lose out as proposals were made at so this just covers our costs. the past six years and the coming year is not Free, 6 PM expected to be different. Officials expect an 372-5762 the state level to redirect property tax funding Letters, articles and pictures are to the state level to be reallocated at a lower always welcome. Call us at increase of 116 students in regular educa- level. Instead, it appears that basic aid dis- 831-324-4742 or email at tion, to a total of 2,155. This compares with Inside tricts (22 in the state in all, including Carmel [email protected] a low in 2007-08 of 1,675. and Pacific Grove) will continue to be locally The final week of the month is The current contract agreement with the Animal Tales funded from local property taxes. PGTA states that Forest Grove and Robert & Random Thoughts ................. 12 reserved for home delivery in Pacific Federally funded categorical programs Grove, and for a special section with Down shall each have an average student- Cop Log ...................................... 3 teacher ratio of 29:1. The Middle School Dining ........................................ 9 such as Child Nutrition and Special Education special advertisers. will remain outside the new formula proposed We continue to deliver to the near- shall have an average of 26:1, and the High Green Page ............................... 19 School 28:1. While the district recognizes Health & Wellness .................... 14 by Gov. Brown. ly 200 outlets from Seaside to Carmel Homeless Chronicles ................ 16 A cost-of-living allowance of 1.65 Valley on top of the home delivery. that there are some classes at the elementary Otter Views ............................... 18 percent for special education is proposed. This month we chose the Super school that exceed the ratio, the total enroll- Puzzle ........................................ 9 The governor proposes to remove special Bowl for the theme of our special sec- ment does not. Seniors ..................................... 13 education Federal Local Assistance from tion, and we have a great story about Forest Grove enrollment is expected to Shelf Life .................................. 11 the apportionment under AB602 and provide why we can’t call it our “Super Bowl increase by 13 students to 485. With the Sports ................................. 26, 27 those funds to Special Education Local Plan current number of teachers, the student- Up & Coming ......................... 6, 7 Section.” Young Writers Corner ............... 11 See BUDGET Page 2 See ENROLLMENT Page 2 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • January 25, 2013 pBUDGET From Page 1 Areas separately. Architects tell timetable But the Governor’s proposal wipes out the existing Adult Education structure and transfers the responsibility for providing such adult education programs as vocational for Fountain Ave. project education, English as a second language, and citizenship to the community colleges, Ken Yamauchi, Architect presented an update to the school board at their recent and provides more than $300 million with which to do it. According to Miller, “This meeting on the site improvement behind the Middle School which will create a per- is a proposal that will have a significant impact on the Pacific Grove Unified School manent division on Fountain Avenue between Hillcrest Avenue and Sinex Avenue with District...” and he promised more information as details emerge. cul-de-sacs and form a pedestrian walkway from the campus to the athletic field. The Still, more good news followed as Miller outlined the budgeted and actual re- walkway will offer additional safety for students crossing to and from the athletic field ceipts of property tax revenue at the the recent school board meeting. Pacific Grove, while the cul-de-sacs will provide additional pedestrian drop-off space away from busy which depends on property taxes as its main source of income, can look forward to Forest Avenue. Removable bollards will allow emergency vehicle access across the $10,953,537, an increase of $264,598 in property tax receipts as of December, 2012. By pedestrian walkway from one side of Fountain Avenue to the other. the end of the fiscal year, those figures should show a total of $19,394,897, an increase Another portion of the project will provide a designated play area with rubber tiles of 1.73 percent or $329,910. The district has budgeted that amount for the remainder for safety and maintenance alongside the track. A retaining wall will double as a “ball of the current fiscal year. wall” play area outside the existing track. In the past decade, beginning with the year 2002-03 when revenues were A formal lease agreement between the school district and the City of Pacific Grove, $12,335,984, the schools’ share of property tax revenues rose steadily until 2008-09, which owns the street, was reached on June 28, 2013 and the fire marshal has reviewed when it leveled off at $19,157,664. There were a couple of years of falling revenue the project for preliminary acceptance. during 2009-10 and 2010-11, but in 2011-12 the totals began to rise again with an Construction documents are complete and were to be sent to the Division of State upturn in real estate sales and values. Architect and City of Pacific Grove Public Works Department on Jan. 25, 2013. The The school district receives the majority of tax receipts in December and in April. review period is set for Jan. 28 to March 11, 2013. The architects will back-check the Miller pointed out to the board that by the time they begin budget deliberations, the plans and gain approval between March 12 and April 9, 2013 and issue notice to potential district should have year-to-date receipts through April, when 98 percent of all property bidders on April 1, 2013. The contract should be awarded on either May 5 or May 16 tax receipts are in, to use as a basis.