Jul
19
Your reporting & comments on tonight’s 7/19/2010 Los Al Council meeting
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(7/19/2010, Los Alamitos) As has become our custom, it’s your turn to let us know what you saw and what you thought at tonight’s City Council meeting. Whether you’re there in person or following along on LosAlTV3, or viewing it on a tape delay (yours or theirs).
To follow along just click here for tonight’s agenda, with links to all staff reports and attachments.
As always, please don’t assume all our readers saw the meeting. Describe what you saw before commenting on it.
To post your comments, or read those of others, just click the “more” Read more
Jul
16
SCAG Vision for Katella & Los Al Blvds on Monday Council Agenda
Filed Under 2010 Issues, City Council Meetings, Development, Planning & Zoning | 5 Comments
(7/16/2010, Los Alamitos) The agenda is out for this Monday’s City Council Meeting, with several items of interest.
Most significant for the city’s future is Read more
Jul
6
Your reporting on tonight’s (7/5/2010) Council Meeting
Filed Under City Council Meetings | 36 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 7/5/2010) Important meeting, (click here for details), lots on the agenda. If you catch it on TV3 or live, please let us know what you saw of significance & what you think. Diplomacy & polite language is always appreciated. Click “more” for comments or to comment: Read more
Jul
5
Council to consider ousting Commissioner Sheridan & also reversing Planning Commission @ 7 Tuesday
Filed Under 2010 Issues, City Council Meetings, Decency, Traffic | 6 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 7/5/2010) This week the “5th of July” holiday resulted in the City Council’s meeting being pushed back to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, but it appears that the Council majority, fresh from their victory over ratepayers on the trash contract, is not taking any holiday from Read more
Jun
27
Your reporting & comments on 6/28 Public Hearing on City Budget
Filed Under City Budget, City Council Meetings | 3 Comments
8 p.m. Monday update: By now the hearing’s been held, and the staff report is up. If any of you happened to attend the meeting or watch on LosAlTV3, your reporting and comments would be appreciated.
3 p.m. update. Staff report link is now good–click here.
12:30 p.m., Monday, 6/28 update: Still no working link on the agenda to the staff report, unfortunately. Details below.
(6/27/2010, Los Alamitos, CA) The Los Alamitos City Council is holding a Special Meeting this Monday at 5:30 p.m. for the purposes of:
- Holding the required public hearing on the Annual Budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, apparently with a million dollar plus deficit (more on that later)
- Adopting the budget resolution.
- Adopting the city’s fiscal year appropriations limit in accordance with state law (the “Gann limit”).
Interestingly, the appropriations limit the city is set to adopt is almost 70% higher Read more
Jun
21
Your reporting and comments on tonight’s Los Alamitos City Council Meeting (June 21, 2010)
Filed Under City Council Meetings | 34 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 6/21/2010) Once again, you get to be the reporter and the commentator. The rules are simple:
Tell us what you observed that you think is significant. Please do not assume the reader saw the meeting–lots of people don’t get cable–a simple explanation makes it easier for people to understand.
As always, try to focus on issues, use family friendly language, and try to be somewhat diplomatic.
Thanks for Read more
Jun
18
Public Hearing on possible $7 million trash overcharge set for 7 p.m. Monday
Filed Under City Council, City Council Meetings, George Briggeman | 1 Comment
(Los Alamitos, 6/18/2010) After a two week postponement from the date announced by Mayor Marilyn Poe a month ago, it looks like the Los Alamitos City Council will finally hold that public hearing on their decision to go with the second highest bidder as the exclusive trash contractor for all Los Alamitos residents and businesses.
The Council majority seems bound and determined to move forward with the bid from Consolidated Disposal, successor to Briggeman Disposal who had successfully obtained the contact without any bidding for the past twenty years.
Members of the Council majority and city staff seem convinced that Read more
Jun
7
Your reporting, thoughts, & comments on tonight’s City Council Meeting
Filed Under City Council Meetings | 5 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 6/7/2010) Once again it’s time for you, the public to report what you saw, what you liked, what you didn’t like, and what you thought about tonight’s City Council meeting.
If you want to follow along on the official agenda, click here. Once you have the agenda open (probably in another window), you can click any of the blue links for the item referenced in a pdf file.
Most important, Read more
May
17
Your reporting & comments on tonight’s City Council Meeting (5/17)
Filed Under City Council Meetings | 29 Comments
(5/17/2010, Los Alamitos) Hopefully by now most of you know the drill.
Whether you watch the Council meeting live in person, live on Los AlTV3, or delayed on TV3, please share what you saw that you considered significant, as well as your thoughts on what you saw.
Remember, Read more
May
14
General Plan, city boundary on Monday’s Los Al Council agendas
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(5/14/2010, Los Alamitos) Once again the city Council has two meetings set for Monday, with several important items on the agenda and one surprising omission.
At 5:30 the Council meets in Special Session to Read more
May
3
Budget, Pool, Trash Contract on agendas for tonight’s 2 Los Al Council Meetings
Filed Under City Budget, City Council Meetings | 27 Comments
(5/3/2010)The Los Alamitos City Council has scheduled a special meeting for 5:30 tonight to review the city’s proposed 2010 – 2011 Fiscal Year Budget, with the city exploring options for dealing with looming deficits.
Then in their regular, 7 p.m. meeting our Council will address staff recommendations on the use of the funds generated from the Race on the Base, including covering the ongoing deficit in the Pool Fund, as well as recommendations to move forward with Consolidated Disposal for the Read more
Apr
19
(4/19/2010, Los Alamitos) Once again we throw the reporting open to the community. Since different people notice different things and since there is a very wide variety of views here in Los Alamitos, everyone can report what they thought was important at the meeting.
As we reported earlier (click for “Race money for pool, interim replacement for fired. . .), there are several very interesting Read more
Apr
18
Race money for pool, interim replacement for fired Finance Director, Underwood TV contract on Monday Council Agenda
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(4/17/2010, Los Alamitos) Several items of interest are on the agenda for Monday night’s 7 p.m. Los Alamitos City Council meeting.
These include the appointment of Terrence Beaman to serve as the city’s Interim Finance Director following the Council’s apparent firing of Nita McKay in closed session two weeks ago. Mr Beaman will be paid at a rate of $70 per hour. He previously served as Los Alamitos’ Read more
Apr
5
Your reporting, observations, and comments on tonight’s 2 City Council meetings
Filed Under City Council Meetings | 32 Comments
(Los Alamitos, April 5, 2010) Tonight both Los Alamitos City Council meetings should be televised on Los Al TV3. And, once again, this is your opportunity to be the reporter on what you observed, whether in person or on TV.
The 5:30 Special Meeting (click here for agenda with links to reports) focuses on additional budget cuts due to declines in income in the city’s budget for the current year (7/1/2009 – 6/30/2010).
The 7:00 Regular Meeting (click here for Regular Meeting agenda with links to reports) is fairly light, although it does include recommended approval of Mayor Poe and Mayor Pro Tem Stephens’ recommended weighting of criteria for evaluating the bids. I suspect the matter will be approved routinely, although it appears that how much you and I pay for our weekly trash pick up is a very low priority to the Council–only given about 3% weight (click here for a more detailed explanation in my earlier post today).
Once again, it’s primarily up to you, the reader, to let the world know what you Read more
Apr
5
Los Al Council to raise trash fees tonight?
Filed Under 2010 Issues, City Budget, City Council Meetings, Election Issues, George Briggeman | Leave a Comment
(Los Alamitos, 4/5/2010)If you live or work in Los Alamitos, the City Council could easily reduce your monthly trash bill for the next ten years.
They could just as easily increase your bill.
Whether your bill goes up or down will largely be determined by a Council vote tonight on the weighting of criteria for evaluating the seven proposals received for this decade’s Solid Waste Disposal Contract.
Unfortunately, as it now stands, the recommendations by the Council’s subcommittee of Mayor Poe and Mayor Pro Tem Stephens appear to Read more
