ABSTRACT: After August Beacham spoke during Appearances at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 4, 2008, Michael LePage, Candidate for City Council, spoke about the Carmel Fire Department. Specifically, LePage spoke about his dismay that “the Council has chosen not to put the Fire Department consolidation issue on the agenda.” “The community deserves to have an open hearing on this so that they can hear all the information that surroundings this issue and it can be discussed.” LePage then requested that the Council put the Carmel Fire Department merger with Monterey and Pacific Grove Fire Departments on the April 2008 agenda.
City Council
Regular Meeting
March 4, 2008
VI. Appearances
Anyone wishing to address the City Council on matters within the jurisdiction of the City and are not on the agenda may do so now. Matters not appearing on the City Council’s agenda will not receive action at this meeting but may be referred to staff for a future meeting. Presentations will be limited to three (3) minutes, or as otherwise established by the City Council. Persons are not required to give their names, but it is helpful for speakers to state their names in order that the City Clerk may identify them in the minutes of the meeting. Always speak into the microphone, as the meeting is recorded on tape.
Good Evening. Honorable Mayor and City Council. I’m Michael LePage. The first responsibility of the City is to protect the health, safety and welfare of the community. I am greatly dismayed that the Council has chosen not to put the Fire Department consolidation issue on the agenda. This is an issue which directly affects the safety and the well-being of the community and our residents. The City Administrator has stated that this consolidation issue is not being put on the agenda because of the election cycle. This sends the wrong message to the community and should not be a reason to keep an item of such great importance to the community. The community deserves to have an open hearing on this so that they can hear all the information that surrounds this issue and it can be discussed. I request that the Council put, give this the attention it deserves, and put it on the April agenda. Thank you very much.
2 comments:
I am disappointed, although not surprised, at the politics of personal attack and destruction on display by recent Carmel Pine Cone letter writers Robert Martin Leidig (‘Politics of Deception’) and Paul Brocchini (Opening the door?) Their blatant attempts to attack challenger Michael LePage over the building on the northwest corner of Ocean Av. and San Carlos St. (“Sharper Image”) show they are eager to descend into the gutter of attack politics. I find it interesting that these fellows did not write a positive letter about Talmage and Sharp, Sue’s appointees, as the intent of the letters is to discredit Michael and endorse Ken and Karen. This smells of Sue’s involvement and/or orchestration. It is sad for our village when a mayor who knows nothing else but the politics of personality and personal attacks finds accomplices in two men who write bogus letters, should know better and stand for something better. Shame on you!
P.S. Paul Brocchini writes “A check of the minutes of the city council meeting, when this issue came up, reveals a lengthy discussion of the owner’s appeal to overturn the historic designation of the building or buildings in question.” The Minutes of the December 4, 2007 city council meeting show no such thing. What does this reveal? Sue has been known in the past to write letters and then have she enablers sign their names and submit them. This practice is again on display here because Paul Brocchini’s letter, like the previous election time letters, is a petty, personal attack letter and had information that the letter writer did not know or inaccurately presented with the goal of aiding Sue & Co.
Send a message! VOTE FOR MICHAEL LEPAGE ON APRIL 8!
At best after the election, we are going to have one person on the City Council, Michael LePage, who really wants the best for Carmel. He is a brave man to be willing to put up with the petty and bad treatment he will receive from the Mayor and at least one or two other council members. You just have to look at how Barbara Livingston was treated when she tried to put the needs of Carmel first. She was ignored, sniped at, treated with disrespect etc. Unfortunately, unless the appointees, if elected, are willing to step up and fulfill their campaign promises it will just be business as usual for at least the next two years. Since McCloud would never have appointed them if she didn't think they would toe her line (she has been wrong about this in the past) their campaign retoric is probably just that-retoric
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