Kiosk In This Issue Saturday, July 23 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Robert Marcum sings a Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot $10.00 cover 667 Lighthouse Ave. in Pacific Grove • July 25-August 4 Swim Lessons by the YMCA Pacific Grove High School pool Passion for their jobs - 15 Ages 4 and 5 at $74 Aaarghhh! - 5 Face only a vulture mom could love - 16 Ages 6 through 12 at $60 Eight lessons of 25 minutes each are open. • July 25-August 4 Open Swim Adults & Children Pacific Grove High School pool $3 • Through July 24 Various times Once Upon a Mattress Forest Guild theater presents at Outdoor Forest Theater Carmel Times July 22-28, 2011 Vol. III, Issue 45 Various prices Pacific Grove Community News Call 831-646-4213 • Sunday, July 24 3:00 - 4:30 pm Beginners Tango Workshop Social hosting Why we live here Tuition: $30 at the door ($25 pre-registration) Evolution Studio law goes back @ The American Tin Cannery 831 915-7523 • back to the July 28, Aug 2 & 4 5:30-7:00 PM Boomer Transitions 3-Session Class drawing board Bob Petty, PhD Partners for By Marge Ann Jameson Transitions covers: Medicare, Social Security, Long- term Care, Still Working A second reading of a proposed revi- Canterbury Woods sion to Pacific Grove’s social hosting ordi- 651 Sinex Ave. Pacific Grove nance became a first reading of a revision Free; Please RSVP: 657-4193 and will have yet another hearing before or www.canterburywoods-esc.org the City Council. The proposal had originally set fines Thurs. Aug 4 and cost recovery at $25,000, where it is Financial Fraud Prevention with Todd Hornik now $1000. 10:30 AM Objections were raised over the word- Canterbury Woods ing of the proposal, which would have 651 Sinex Ave. Pacific Grove not only raised cost recovery and admin- It’s a chamber of commerce picture of summer in Pacific Grove: A jogger on Ocean Free; Please RSVP: 657-4193 istrative costs to $25,000, but appeared View, with Hopkins Marine in the background. While people in the Midwest suffer or www.canterburywoods-esc.org to broaden the scope to encompass any with 100+ degree heat and humidity, we hope for sunny days like this to replace our • number of misdemeanors. usual summer day-long fog, with temperatures in the 60s. Photo by Cameron Douglas. Daily through Aug. 6 Pool opens at Lovers Point See PARTY Page 2 Recreational Swim ages 1-8, <6 with paying adult $2 per person Mayor Garcia’s State of the City Address Swim card available Call Don Mothershead with questions 648-3130 • More money, more volunteers, Inside more accomplishments for the City lauded the new Visitors Center and the MST Ben Alexander Golf ...............6 By Marge Ann Jameson Council meeting Trolley. Cop Log .................................3 Other landmarks she mentioned in- Food .............................. (dark) schedule cluded: Green Page ..........................16 There will be only one City Health & Well-Being .......... 10 Pacific Grove Mayor Carmelita • On the legal front, there were issues Garcia delivered her 2011 State of the Council meeting in August, on Aug. High Hats & Parasols .............4 17. City Hall will be open as usual. with the 2009 Grand Jury about al- Legal Notices .......................12 City address on Mon., July 18, at historic legations of excessive building and Opinion ...............................12 Chautauqua Hall, a site she called “the planning fees, and the city’s response Peeps ...................................13 vital center of our community.” The occa- apparently satisfied the Grand Jury. Improvements Committee, the Feast Shelf Life ...............................3 sion was the beginning of the fiscal year, There was also a suit against the city, Sports ....................................6 of Lanterns Board of Directors, and the which will see Pacific Grove with many still ongoing, after citizens passed an Now Showing ........................8 citizen committee which worked on the challenges but also with a $3 million initiative to revise the city’s charter by Monarch Sanctuary. She applauded the reserve – the highest in four years. capping contributions to the employees’ work of Melissa Shea and Bob Blade who Mayor Garcia thanked many for their retirement fund at 10 percent. The suit, Make us your friend helped to get the wading pool at Lovers volunteer contributions to the welfare of by the Police Officers Association, has on Facebook to receive Point reopened. the city of Pacific Grove. She applauded been through the demurer process and calendar updates and Mayor Garcia recognized Jim Beck- the volunteer efforts of the Lighthouse Garcia seems confident that the city reminders on your lenberg for receiving the International Preservation Committee and the reinstate- will prevail. Facebook page! ment of the Golf Links Advisory Com- City Management Association’s Assistant mission. She noted that it was a volunteer, City Manager Excellence in Leadership • The city council also banned marijuana Ron Russell, who catalogued city pot Award, and also congratulated Becklen- dispensaries and tightened smoking holes for the public works department. berg and Linda Pagnella for their awards regulations, and will review tighter Other volunteer efforts she recognized from the Chamber of Commerce. punishments for hosts of teen drinking included the Advisory Committee for She mourned the destruction of parties. Brokaw Hall as necessary but pointed out the Urban Forest Management Plan, • A ballot measure which would have Send your calendar items to: the rehabilitation of the Little House that the freed space will now become a [email protected] in Jewell Park, the Downtown Public nectar garden for the Monarchs; and she See ADDRESSPage 2 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 22, 2011 pADDRESS From Page 1 pPARTY From Page 1 provided for a special parcel tax received a solid majority vote but was unable to “We need to flesh out the cost recovery portion,” said mayor pro tempore Bill reach the 2/3 necessary to pass. However, the city Council found $100,000 for Kampe. “It could be applied to barking dogs, elder abuse, building code violations, the library in the 2011-12 budget and, as a result, the library will now be open even tree ordinances.” 34 hours over five days a week. Council member Ken Cuneo, who had originally brought the matter before the • The economy will always be in the forefront. The mayor reminded everyone of council, was concerned with the punitive aspects. “We don’t know for sure whether this the $3 million investment Safeway made in Pacific Grove by remodeling and will temper behavior or not. We need to get the word out that this [hosting underage installing a Starbucks inside the store – even though they were not allowed to drinking] is not acceptable.” put up a sign – and called it a mark of confidence in a rebounding economy. By the time the 7-0 vote was taken, wording had reverted to the original $1000 plus cost recovery. When it comes back before the Council, it will include what many Said Garcia, “We approved a budget for FY10-11, which would end the year with would term a more realistic amount for cost recovery. $2,996,897 in reserves. A very nice increase considering that just four years ago our Said council member Rudy Fisher, “I totally support cost recovery. The amount reserves were $820,000. Even better news for FY11-12: If all goes accordingly, we will of the penalty here is what bothers me. It is too broad, too loose.” end this fiscal year with a reserve of $3,103,515. Realizing the recession has continued we are fortunate in Pacific Grove that the city council is fulfilling its commitment to Over the past 10 years the Pacific Grove Police Department has arrested 61 underage add to our reserve balance.” drivers for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, 41 juveniles for being drunk She mentioned a few of the new businesses already open in Pacific Grove and in public, and filed 69 crime cases enforcing the Pacific Grove Municipal Ordinance of some which have plans to open, pointing to a downtown vacancy rate which is down hosting a party with alcohol and juveniles. Of those, said Police chief Darius Engles, from 25 percent to 12 percent, according to the mayor. parents were present in only four cases. She said she is happy about the rehabilitation of the Old Bath House building Juvenile alcohol abuse is also time-consuming forfire, emergency medical person- at Lovers Point, scheduled to begin soon, and the potential revision of the Franchise nel and police. When a police officer discovers a large party or gathering of juveniles Ordinance and Measure C, which restricts local hospitalities from making certain that have been drinking, the officer must arrange safe passage for all juveniles away expansions. Both efforts are expected to add to the local economy. from the party. Juveniles who have been drinking are either taken into police custody Mayor Garcia is looking forward to the results of code compliance efforts, a project or released to a responsible adult. Officers for can be tied up for hours, becoming “baby which will propose using recycled water for the golf course, and the potential of out- sitters” until arrangements can be made. sourcing more of the functions at the golf links itself. She says the city is “accelerating its review of all of our operations” and reviewing the potential outsourcing of more City functions as well as shared administrative costs with other cities. She looks forward to presenting a proposal for a name change for the “Lovers Point State Marine Reserve” to the “Julia B. Platt State Marine Reserve.” New Citizens’ Police Academy class It was a very good year.