Comments on Leucadia Blog: Mixed Bag with Turko's Coverage on the Encinitas C...

Lynn, You'll love this. Three weeks before th...

2012-01-15T18:19:56.640-08:00

Lynn,

You'll love this. Three weeks before they held the "special" meeting and gave 24 hours notice to the public, our attorney was told by the city that they would be holding the special meeting on the 11th.

Why tell us that? Because we had grounds to go back the judge, for the city AGAIN dragging its feet and delaying, and my attorney made it clear it was time to for the city to stop jerking us around.

So, they knew weeks in advance. THey also put it on the "regular" wednesday council meeting slot. They could have had a special meeting anywhere in those weeks between. They also could have given notice to the public, before the last minute.

The new city manager is calling those shots. Send him an email asking him why.

I thought Turko's "coverage" was sha...

2012-01-15T13:11:39.897-08:00

I thought Turko's "coverage" was shaky, as before. He didn't really press Stocks when he questioned him.

We DO need a sunshine ordinance. Such an ordinance could REQUIRE progress reports to be posted on the City's website, as suggested.

Also, at last week's Council Meeting, a closed session was held, IMMEDIATELY before the regularly scheduled Council Meeting. There is NO REASON, other than only being required to give 24 hour notice, that such a closed session is now NOT considered to be part of the regular Council Meeting, which gets 3 day, or 72 hour notice.

Also, our city attorney, Glenn Sabine, REPORTED OUT OF THE CLOSED SESSION INTO THE REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING. The Brown Act anticipates that closed sessions will typically be considered part of regular council meetings, and that they WILL ALSO get 72 HOUR NOTICE. Why can't our City Attorney simply give 3 days notice for closed sessions? Why does he feel entitled to "special treatment," disingenuously claiming that every single closed session is a separate "stand alone special meeting?"

Other special meetings are routinely given 3 days notice, although only 24 notice is required for special meetings of Council, according to the Brown Act. Only closed session special meetings get the limited 24 hour notice. This is unfair to the general public and violates the public trust which Council holds.

What does that mean? I read it 4 times and still d...

2012-01-14T22:40:57.485-08:00

What does that mean? I read it 4 times and still don't understand what your talking about?

Unknown, That is not true. You have a good way to...

2012-01-14T05:57:01.636-08:00

Unknown,

That is not true. You have a good way to create ill will toward those people willing to stand up.

Don't forget the pending liquidation sale of t...

2012-01-11T08:49:22.786-08:00

Don't forget the pending liquidation sale of the Pacific View School site - the list of developers who are "interested" was published, but never made this blog. I suspect you'll find some political contributors among them to the $tock$ campaigns of the past and most certainly in 2012. Here come the jam-packed 3 story condos to the historic old town section - goodbye community character and public good.

Better yet. Double the density, throw in the stat...

2012-01-09T06:20:40.774-08:00

Better yet. Double the density, throw in the state's high density bonus laws and wham.... some 3 story cardiff reef condos that are sure to help out with hiring more staff and allowing Jerome Stocks to raise their pensions again!

The union has a friend with Jerome Stocks..... I bet they are pushing him to raise the pension again.

Jerome is the type of politician that makes you sick when you think of Republican Politicians. Ick.

Unknown, Good thinking! Check out "B...

2012-01-09T03:26:57.239-08:00

Unknown,

Good thinking!

Check out "Beacons" behind Mozy and La Especial. They put ten giant houses on one acre so you can reach out your window and shake your neighbor's hand.

What's the Hall Park, 44 acres or so? You could put 440 giant houses there! Imagine the tax revenue to pay for more fire department mansions and early retirement pensions.

I don't think we should waste money on a park....

2012-01-08T21:26:31.805-08:00

I don't think we should waste money on a park. We can make much more money through taxes by building zero lot line "homes", townhomes and a tacky retail center like the Forum!

Obviously, we should not build a park. Let's turn it into a mini Carmel Valley!

If that's what the NIMBYs and the apologists want, then they should just come out an say it. All they do is complain and offer no solutions of their own.

What is so very wrong is that Stocks is blaming th...

2012-01-08T18:09:43.127-08:00

What is so very wrong is that Stocks is blaming the County for holding up the Hall Park development. That is not true. The holdup is that the County does not want to modify the toxic contamination cleanup plan that is required, as the city is requesting. Stocks is trying to get the county to modify required toxic cleanup plan for a less expensive toxic cleanup plan. I have fear that Stocks would do all he could to get his way, but to knowingly put citizens at risk from toxic waste soil by trying get the county to limit the cleanup is intolerable. Stocks fought the community to even do an EIR on the greenhouse land. Citizens had to sue in order to get the city to do that, and won.
Last year, Stocks scrapped the city’s I-5 Transportation Compliance study because he felt that the removal of 9000 trucks of identified contaminated soil was not an issue. Citizens threatened to sue to protect themselves, so rather that acknowledging the situation, Stocks said, “No good deed goes unpunished” and eliminated the compliance process work completely.
There have been too many examples of greenhouse land being developed with as little as possible mitigation of contaminated soil.
And this is not just NIMBY children who could be effected, Turko.

More Stocks unpleasant realities: http://thecoast...

2012-01-07T06:48:51.710-08:00

More Stocks unpleasant realities:

http://thecoastnews.com/2012/01/residents-council-put-their-backs-into-it/comment-page-1/#comment-11344

2012-01-07T06:45:34.919-08:00

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Jerome is a criminal and the voters of Encinitas a...

2012-01-06T21:14:07.417-08:00

Jerome is a criminal and the voters of Encinitas are as stupid as dirt. Thats why this is happening.

If the electorate had any intelligence the scum would not be in office.

The opposition has no real clue how to expose or educate the masses. Hence we will go down as turning into more of Oceanside style of town and less like Solana Beach and Del Mar.

Jerome Stocks is purely equated to the Oceanside style of town.

Make your screen bigger. Thats what I do..... the ...

2012-01-06T21:10:51.844-08:00

Make your screen bigger. Thats what I do..... the old eyes aint what they once was.....

Apple products are great for that function. Thats why we old folks like them sooooo much!

Wow, I need better glasses, I meant he could NOT f...

2012-01-06T17:09:08.940-08:00

Wow, I need better glasses, I meant he could NOT find his way out of a one way maze

Thank you for keeping the paper trail, we are luck...

2012-01-06T17:08:14.729-08:00

Thank you for keeping the paper trail, we are lucky to such invovled citizens. Turko is an act, he could find his way out of a one way maze.

Yup, we don't have the money.oat of the delays...

2012-01-06T09:49:12.587-08:00

Yup, we don't have the money.oat of the delays, that cost big $$$, was stocks led. Bond payment cost=$.5 a year. Stocks and the boys did not want to do an EIR. Citizens sued to have it done. Delay~2 years of payments and legal fees. Hold the finished EIR for 18 months to not release it before elections. More money wasted. Pay $25,000 Of our money for a lobbyist to push through the regional sports park through coastal when it was not what the majority wanted and the Planning Commission rejected. Citizens sued the city over coastal commission decision. (citizens did not pay a lobbyist $25k)
City tries to make a quick, quiet General Plan change to raise height restrictions to 90 feet last summer and still sends out the lie that the Planning Commission approved the HALL EIR.
And, Turko states that the citizens voted to have a regional sports park. That is not true.
The only polling of citizen taxpayers done by the city clearly showed we wanted a community park.
Who caused most of the delays? NIMBYs, NO.
Stocks and the boys are the reason that so much money has been wasted and we do not have a community park now, or a regional sports park, called a 'community' park.