TIMELINE:
• March 27, 2007
MINUTES
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
March 27, 2007
IV. ORDERS OF COUNCIL
Budget Workshop to review the Council’s Annual Work Plan and provide policy direction.
City Administrator Guillen and Mayor McCloud presented the report on the Carmel Film Festival proposal.
Council requested that $42,035 be placed in the draft budget for sound equipment and an exhaust system at the Sunset Center for a film festival.
• June 5, 2007
MINUTES
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
June 5, 2007
C. Announcements from City Administrator.
Receive report on the Carmel Film Festival.
This item was continued at the request of the City Administrator.
• June, 2007
Carmel residents Jim and Cindy McGillen began planning “The Carmel Author & Ideas Festival;" conference to feature more than “25 award winning authors, including authors of New York Times best-sellers, and Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners,” at the Sunset Center, September 28 - 30, 2007.
Background: Jim McGillen, former president of Lorimar Television Distribution and former station manager at KSBW-TV and Cindy McGillen, former president and general manager of KSBW, have made “the Monterey Bay area their primary residence for about 30 years.” And they have a second residence in Sun Valley, ID., where they have attended the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference for “about a dozen years.”
(Source: A-list authors Carmel-bound Couple hope inaugural writers' festival will become annual event, BRENDA MOORE, Herald Staff Writer, Monterey County Herald, 07/26/2007)
• July 6, 2007
Film festival could bring $12M to $15M to Carmel, Mary Duan, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
• July 26, 2007
A-list authors Carmel-bound Couple hope inaugural writers' festival will become annual event, BRENDA MOORE, Herald Staff Writer, Monterey County Herald, 07/26/2007.
• July 28, 2007
Plug pulled on Film Festival at Carmel Bogus claims of stars on board forces closure, Virginia Hennessey, Herald Salinas Bureau, The Monterey County Herald, 07/28/2007.
REFERENCES:
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
CALIFORNIA
ADOPTED BUDGET
FISCAL YEARS
2007/08 THROUGH 2009/10
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA WORK PLAN
Sunset Cultural Center
Sound system & exhaust for film events 7/1/07 6/30/08 $ 42,035 Budgeted for FY 2007-08. (CAPITAL OUTLAY)
The city is working to attract more "boutique" conferences, with attendees who would help fill hotels and restaurants and boost business for local shops. McCloud said she wasn't certain whether the event would be attended mainly by locals, but hoped it would draw out-of-towners.
(Source: A-list authors Carmel-bound Couple hope inaugural writers' festival will become annual event, BRENDA MOORE, Herald Staff Writer, Monterey County Herald,
07/26/2007)
2 comments:
I think you are right. There are other reasons for Jack's resignation. Reasons leading back to Sue McCloud. The danger is she meddles is areas where she has no expertise. Another way of looking at this is this is the closest the public will ever get to an admission of failure by Sue McCloud. She created SCC, she, through the Trustees, hired Jack, and now she pushes him out because his professional standards wouldn't allow him to cater to her amateur whims. And we are all paying for it. And what is to keep her from doing it again and again?
Pitty the new director of Sunset Center, Peter Lesnik. Sooner or later Sue will get to him, too. He probably negotiated a pretty good three-year contract because he knew how desparate they were for a E.D. So he will probably hang around for at least three years. You are right about Sue's tenticles reaching into SCC. Jim Price as current President of the Board does all her bidding for Sue.
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