Category: This Weeks News
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SCHELLONG SAYS WATER RATES NOT A TAX
BY DONNA WESTFALL DAY 5 of the protest tabulation against raising water rates starts at 8:30 this morning at the WWTP. Looking back over the November 4th city council meeting video revealed the disdain and ignorance once more of our council members. I walked out of the council meeting once Councilwoman Kathryn Murray opened her…
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IS THE CITY GUILTY OF BLACKMAILING THE PUBLIC?
BY DONNA WESTFALL After listening to presentations by Public Works Director, Eric Wier, and Interim Finance Director, Susan Mayer (at $9,000+/month) on the need to increase our water rates; County Resident John Stetson approached the podium to share his public comment and anger at an inept city council and bureaucratic hogwash. “HOW DARE THE TWO…
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DAY 3 OF PROP 218 PROTEST TABULATION
BY DONNA WESTFALL City Clerk, Robin Patch, extended an invitation to have 2 people from the group opposed to increasing the water rates observe the protest tabulation. On Day 1 and 2, John Stetson and Linda Sutter were the observers. Prior to the vote tabulation, County resident, Linda Sutter spoke to the City Council. During…
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OCTOBER 7, 2013 CITY COUNCIL MEETING
REGARDING THE WATER RATE ISSUE. DURING PUBLIC COMMENT; THE CITY IS PUT ON NOTICE and THE CITY’S ADVERTISING IS MISLEADING: Fast forward to 15 minutes and 14 seconds. County resident, Amy Owen, puts the City on Notice to Preserve Evidence concerning the Water Rate Protest/Count. At 17 minutes and 45 seconds, county resident, John Stetson,…
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2,203 PROTESTS HANDED IN TO THE CITY
BY DONNA WESTFALL The Prop 218 Protest signature collection process is over. 45 days have come and gone. City Clerk, Robin Patch, was presented with a box containing 22 bundles of 100 each. I went in with 2,202 at 6 pm. During public comment one more disgruntled apartment owner got up to the podium and…
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SUTTER HEALTH’S MEDIA BLITZ S ONCOMING
SUBMITTED BY ANNE MARIE DUNCAN, M.D. This coming week, Sutter Health will release its long awaited “independent” study on Sutter Coast Hospital. This newsletter will provide some balance and background to Sutter’s public relations campaign. I am writing this update on the future of Sutter Coast Hospital because the hospital Board of Directors, of which…
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DENTAL FIRM AGAINST WATER FLUORIDATION
BY DONNA WESTFALL While local dentists still extoll the virtues of water fluoridation and our local Councilman Ron Gastineau continues to believe it is safe and effective, this just in from Houston, Texas: Midtown Dentistry Starts a Fluoride Toxicity Awareness Program Fluoride toxicity damage to teeth is a growing concern. Midtown Dentistry -leaders in fluoride…
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CONGRATS TO TED SCOTT 2ND PLACE
The 22nd annual Sea Cruise is over. All the cars have gone home. But local, Ted Scott, will forever have his 2nd place prize on his 1936 Chevy. Congratulations, Teddy!
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DOES COUNCILWOMAN KATHRYN MURRAY EVER THINK ANYTHING THROUGH?
BY DALE BOHLING How comforting it was, albeit so briefly, to allow that kind lady from the Crescent City Council to take my hand and walk me down the yellow brick road toward that gleaming Emerald City on the horizon. I was just beginning to see ,with her aid, how my acceptance of simplistic notions…
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WHAT’S SCARY NOW?
BY DONNA WESTFALL Let’s raise our water rates so we can qualify for a new loan. Now that’s scary. This is the same thinking that got us into the current predicament. Looking over Councilmember Ron Gatineau’s Coastal Voices article in the Oct 5th issue of the Triplicate extolling the virtues of raising our water rates….…