Being a greater team player to benefit the coast and rectifying several outstanding issues within the city's one square mile should be the council's priorities, according to Rose.
"It will be fun to prioritize that and start doing things that will have an immediate and positive reaction from most businesses and residents," such as redoing medians, parks and the Scenic Road pathway.
"We've done a good job working as a team, albeit with very different personalities, to better our priorities so we're no longer just insular Carmel but part of the larger environment," Rose said.
(Source: "Councilman Rose envisions a greater Peninsula role for Carmel," The Carmel Pine Cone, March 17, 2006.)
BACKGROUND:
Since the City Council approved "A Resolution Of Intention To Sell That Real Property Commonly Known As The Flanders Mansion" at a Special City Council meeting on 22 September 2005, the City has spent $17,625.00 for landscape services to New Image Landscape Co. Some portion of that expense has been expended on the Flanders Mansion Property.
At two City Council meetings, during the Appearances sections of the meetings, Melanie Billig, President of the Board of Directors of Flanders Foundation, has respectfully requested that the City respond to two letters she has sent to the City. Specifically, in her letters to the City, she has requested that a tarp be secured over the Flanders Mansion roof to protect the building from further weather related damage.
Questions: If priorities are of such importance to Councilman Gerard Rose, then shouldn't the protection of the Flanders Mansion edifice from weather related damage be more of a priority than cosmetic landscaping of the grounds? Wouldn't limited city funds be better spent on a TARP than on a LANDSCAPE SERVICE? And if the City Council cannot get these two items prioritized correctly, then what confidence should Carmelites have that Councilman Rose and the other City Council Members can prioritize other projects in the future any better?
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