"Barney's Bank"

  
Palo Alto Savings and Loan Bank
Location: Dolores St. & 7th Av., S.E. Corner


CITY COUNCIL

Regular Meeting Agenda
Tuesday, August 8, 2006

VII. Consent Calendar

I. Adopt findings granting an appeal of a decision of the Historic Resources Board, determining the former Palo Alto Savings and Loan building to be historically significant and listing the property on the Carmel Inventory of Historic Resources. The property is located on the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and Dolores Street. The property owner is the Pacific Grove Land Company. The appellant and project designer is John Mandurrago.


At the 8 August 2006 City Council meeting, the above Consent Calendar item was pulled; along with previously submitted written comments, Elinor Laiolo presented the following "new information" at the meeting:


“I’m Elinor Laiolo. And I would just like to say that I have asked that this item be reconsidered, although somebody else had done it before me. Because I believe there was a body of information relative to the property located at the southeast corner of Dolores and 7th Street which is now referred to as Plaza Del Mar. And that information was absent from deliberations by the council on June 6, 2006.

At that time, I was out of the country and did not know prior to my departure that a discussion on the issue was to be on that day’s agenda. The information concerns the role played by Mr. Barnet, more familiarly known a Barney, not my Barney, another Barney, the city’s lucky to have had two Barneys. Mr. Barnet Segal with Palo Alto Salinas Valley Savings and Loan Association. Barney served as Treasurer of the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea for 8 years. He had opened the first bank in Carmel-by-the-Sea with a charter from the State of California, outdoing APG & N. It started the Carmel Business Association and the Carmel Art Association as well as the Carmel Saving and Loan Association which make it possible for many folks to purchase property and construct their individual and personal homes in the years prior to and after World War II. While some material has been already accumulated, there is still information to be verified and developed.

I would ask then that the Council, which you have already put into action, I believe, to consider hearing this information in regard to the Plaza Del Mar site, which is more familiarly known to long-time residents as Barney’s Bank.

Thank you.”


Note: In 2004, Elinor Laiolo, signed Sue McCloud’s nomination papers to run for mayor. She is presently on The Carmel Foundation 2006-2007 Board of Directors, serving as Secretary.

Council Member ROSE pulled Item I from the Consent Calendar;
Council Member ROSE moved to postpone the adoption of findings and schedule the re-opening of a public hearing to allow consideration of the new information, seconded by Council Member HAZDOVAC, and carried by the following roll call:

AYES: BETHEL, HAZDOVAC, ROSE & McCLOUD
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: CUNNINGHAM