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Real Name: Gretchen Wenner Address: 1707 Eye Street Bakersfield, CA 93301 Member Since: November 01, 2007 Last Signed In: November 18, 2009 Profile Views: 1858 Blog Views: 37784 Wednesday night meeting Bike riders: Watch for drilling rig on bike path! Canyons meeting under way... Bldrs Exchange drama... Recycling wackiness State's property values decline for first time since 1933... City seeking applicants for Board of Building Appeals Homebuilders v. city (and county): Latest buzz Council, Weds night: development "freeze?" Suing Bakersfield: Pork hits fan? And they're off! City Council seat beckons... November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 Get e-mail updates from this blog, and download to print on the go with the City Beat Printcast.
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I suspect that I've only scratched the surface in my investigation of the bill one man faced for repair of a block wall.
One difficulty I faced is getting a handle on how much these repairs normally cost. I went out to the locations of several other wall repairs detailed in the Gonzalez bills, but there was only one other location where I could be sure that these particular bricks were the ones replaced.
Have you ever faced a huge bill from the city? Have you ever had to hire a mason for...
Go to this forum on Staten Island Live and click on post number 13700.
How many ways can you find that prove this guy is making things up? I found three things really fast:
1. He claims to have run as a Democrat for city council, even though it's a non-partisan race.
2. He ran every two years, even though it comes up every four years.
3. He ran in the primary, even though there is no primary election.
I got alerted to this by a guy from Staten Island who wanted to check him out. Then I...
You may recall that City Councilman David Couch was the sole vote against the Traffic Impact Fee hike adopted last week. I finally grabbed him just now and asked why.
He said he's for the impact fees, but he doesn't like the one-year discount, in which the fees will be 10 percent less, because the council could extend that in a year, and then a year after that, and the year after that, and....
As part of the budget deal, there will be a statewide special election in March. They picked the date because it was on the election calendar, and Los Angeles already has a mayoral election scheduled.
In the unlikely event that the recallers make up all their lost ground and come up with the signatures they need, the recall election could then be consolidated with the state's, saving the city some of the $80,000 or so that the election would cost if it were standalone.
The Bakersfield City Council approved increasing traffic development fees in a 5-1 vote shortly before midnight.
The proposal called for raising the city's traffic impact fee to $12,228 per home for the first year and $13,595 the year after that -- although the council council decide next year to extend the "economic stimulus" that the lower first-year fee represents.
The fee won't affect any project that already has vested maps or is under review. That means the estimated 35,000...
Will Winn (you may remember him from the Ken Weir recall) got up to speak during public comment tonight. His topic was the topic du jour, the fee increases aimed at filling the city's road-funding gap.
He started off by talking about how our current financial crisis is due to the "greed and materialism" that fueled rampant development and the housing boom. He said the traffic fee, likely to be approved tonight, is "too little, too late."
At about three minutes ten...
I've heard Ken Weir is hosting some community meetings this week:
• Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon, at Thorner Elementary
• Tuesday, 6-8 p.m., at Discovery Elementary
Some people have gotten flyers in the mail. If you're a Ward 3 registered voter, have you gotten the notice?
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