Garbage is back with a vengeance today. And it isn't about who the new garbage men will be. It's about the agency that oversees the whole shebang. And guess who is the yelling the loudest? San Mateo County's bearded Superhero/Assemblymember Jerry Hill. It seems the staff of the South Bayside Waste Management Authority (the garbage Joint Powers Authority) conducted some research about what other government staff got paid. Guess what? They would like to make more money...surprised? Now, Jerry Hill (and Belmont's Bill Dickenson) are on the case. Add this to Hill's anger over how the new garbage contract was dolled out, and you are looking at increasing the friction, and attention, on the SBWMA...
Watch Dog has to wonder, was the move by the SBWMA staff a preemptive strategy to get their raises before the Hill-initiated (critical?) Civil Grand Jury report comes out on how the SBWMA staff handled the new contract process? (Watch Dog thinks yes...)
Thank you PP Examiner. Mr. Balshone gives a run-down of the Pacifica/San Francisco battle brewing over the Sharp Park Golf Course. Is it an environmental battle, or is it Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi on a soap-box? Watch Dog will go with soap-box...
Enough about AIG...what about the HMB bail-out? Well, State Senator Leland Yee wants to use $10 million in State bond money to help Half Moon Bay with their legal settlement costs that they owe developer Chop Keenan.
Speaking of bail-out...the County is poised to spend $500,000 helping area non-profits that help the needy.
Watch Dog guesses the Coastside Family Health Center was not in dire enough shape to receive state or local bail-out cash...but the now-closed Coastside Family Medical Center Board of Directors is on a bit of a PR kick. They are now trying to explain its actions to angry residents in a Memo.
Sue Lempert gets in on the Daly City Pay-Cut Gage action today in her Daily Journal column...sort of. She really just runs down who has an elected City Clerk and who doesn't, and that electing City Clerks is pretty much a bad idea. Take that Daly City...
We love political races. Remember the Atherton City Council race last fall -- it was awesome. In political races, there is always news and always insiders willing to spill beans...we know next year's Assembly District 21 race to replace Assemblymember Ira Ruskin is going to be a doozy. But the race to replace Supervisor Rich Gordon will also be fun to watch as well. Former Sheriff Don Horsley, coastsider April Vargas, and Sequoia Healthcare District Board member Jack Hickey are all throwing their hats in the ring. (Horsley has already raised over $100,000 -- seemingly overkill, considering the race is more than a year away...but that's just me...)
Speaking of Atherton politics...the biggest issue they discuss in Atherton is generally development of people's homes. In one such area of town, the lots are so small (by Atherton standards) that some folks want to increase the size of their home, but their lots are too small to legally do it. These folks were looking to the Council for some help...but too bad. You want to live in Atherton, you have to live with its City Council. The anti-growth/say-no-to-anything majority won out last week on this issue over the objections of Councilmembers Charles Marsala and Elizabeth Lewis.
A small plane departed from the San Carlos Airport on Saturday...but landed in a marsh a 1/4 mile a way almost immediately after that. Three folks were hospitalized.
County Manager David Boesch get his profile taken in the Daily Journal. (FYI - he has a new desk...)
Peets in Menlo Park reopened over the weekend following their fire. SUV-driving Menlo Parkers are now back on their drug-of-choice...
As with everything about High-Speed Rail on the Peninsula, an agreement between the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (that oversees Caltrain tracks) and the High-Speed Rail Authority has folks in a tizzy...
Here's something new: A fisherman (Duncan MacLean) was named the County's Farmer of the Year. The first time a fisherman was so honored...it is not true that a farmer will be named the 2009 Fisherman of the Year...
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