View of Forest Theatre Gate &Continuous Water Flow Emanating from Forest Theatre Grounds onto Guadalupe St. @ Mt. View Av.
View of Area of Source of Continuous Water Flow on Forest Theatre Grounds
View of Large Puddle, Foot of Guadalupe St. @ Mt. View Av.COMMENT:
• Whereas the City regularly maintains Sunset Center, Ocean Avenue, the Beach Bluff Pathway area along Scenic Road, Devendorf Park and Piccadilly Park to look their best, the City lets languish the City’s other cultural, historical, environmental and infrastructure assets and only attends to them when there is a perception of crisis or a real crisis.
REFERENCES:
COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL
Sunset Center Complex
The Sunset Center complex including the Theater is managed by a non-profit corporation. The non-profit corporation is responsible for administration staffing, routine maintenance of the facilities, booking and operation of the Theater and Community Rooms, marketing first-rate performances and community events, and fundraising. The non-profit operates under a management agreement and receives a subsidy to insure that the Center operates to its’ maximum utilization. The agreement is authorized and executed by the City Council and administered by the City Administrator.
Revised 07/08
Operating Budget (SCC, Inc.) $ 750,000
Capital Outlays:
Sunset Center Walkway Lights E. Side adjacent to Carpenter Hall $5,250
Sunset Theater Monitor Syst,Speakers $18,000
Sunset Theater Fall Arrest System $18,000
Sunset Theater Sound Syst & Exhaust (for film events) $42,035
TOTAL: $83,285
DEBT SERVICE
Pays the general obligation debt service for the City's outstanding debt on Rio Park and for the bonds issued for the Sunset Theater Project.
Sunset Theater/Principal $ 190,000
Sunset Theater/Interest $ 376,847
Sunset Theater - Admin. Fee $ 2,000
TOTAL: $568,847
TOTAL FY 2007/08: $1,402,132
PUBLIC WORKS
The Department of Public Works is responsible for the maintenance of all municipal infrastructure involving the construction, improvement and repair of streets, sidewalks, pathways, and storm drainage systems, installation of traffic signs, painting of street markings, and the maintenance of the City's vehicle and equipment motor pool.
Revised 07/08
Salaries/Benefits $ 644,095
Materials / Services $ 384,245
TOTAL $ 1,028,340
FOREST, PARKS AND BEACH
The Forest, Parks and Beach Department manages and maintains the City's urban forest, parks and beach in order to preserve the windbreak protection, abate soil erosion, enhance the natural beauty, and maintain the outdoor recreational facilities of the community.
Revised 07/08
Salaries / Benefits $ 274,909
Materials / Services $ 182,752
Total $ 457,661
TOTAL FY 2007/08 BUDGET: $ 13,094,894
Source:
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA CALIFORNIA
ADOPTED BUDGET
FISCAL YEARS 2007/08 THROUGH 2009/10
http://www.ci.carmel.ca.us/
5 comments:
The Forest Theater is not a money maker for the city. The theater is mostly not seen by tourists. It doesn't impact the merchants. Out of sight, out of mind may be the motto of the city council and mayor in this case. Sure the public works department is very understaffed because the mayor and city council are loath to spend city revenues but this on going problem has been brought to the city's attention more than once evidently and the problem appears to be one that could be fixed in a short time. One wonders why the council gets itself into these bad public relations situations.
Carmel like the rest of the peninsula has a water shortage problem. Why would the city allow this flow to continue for so long? We may all have to start seriously rationing our water use again yet the city mothers and fathers are ignoring this leak and potentially exacerbating the need to ration. Probably this is just another example of the mayor's and city council's lack of attention to their job and the lack of competence that has become ever more obvious over the last seven or eight years. What other reason could there be?
Transfer the water problem to Scenic Rd. or Ocean Av. and it would be solved licketysplit. Guaranteed!
I noticed the combined budgets of Public Works and Forest, Parks, Beach are roughly equal to the city's operating subsidy to SCC. Putting entertainment, even highbrow entertainment, above investment in infrastructure is very bad policy. Indeed, this council and manger have disinvestment in city infrastructure and assets as their policy. Meanwhile, residents feel the brunt of it, with water running down streets, potholes everywhere, overgrown vegetation in parks and so on and so on.
The value of this blog is two-fold: it gives information not provided by newspapers/newsletters and puts the information in perspective. Keep it up.
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