Everyone has blown a deadline at one time or another, but for Costa Mesa city clerk Julie Folcik, a blown deadline could have serious consequences. She’s been placed on adminstrative leave pending an investigative into a “serious professional failure” according…
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Informational Meeting on City Charter; More Selling Than Information
by Kathy Findley • • 6 Comments
The informational meeting regarding the male members of the city council’s scheme to turn Costa Mesa into a Charter City felt like a sales meeting for their proposal. The agenda stated that the presenter would be Interim Communications Director, Bill…
The Longest Day: Costa Mesa approves balanced budget
by Chris Prevatt • • 2 Comments
So now that, by their own standards, the Council majority has approved an austerity budget that reduces police coverage to risky levels according to the departed Interim Chief it seems appropriate that the Council rescind their unwarranted layoff notices issued in March.
On the Radar 6-20-2011
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
Split Latino vote focus of redistricting hearing – Drawing new legislative districts for the entire state may be complex, but for most of the crowd that came to Cal State Fullerton to talk about the issue Saturday, the issue was a simple one: Keep Anaheim and Santa Ana together.
Hatch: Dear Costa Mesa City Workers, Bend Over
by Kathy Findley • • 9 Comments
As if there were any doubt that the city council have not been listening to what the citizens of our city have been telling them week after week, the latest memo from Tom Hatch(et) should remove any notion that they have one shred of interest in what the city wants.
It Helps to Have Someone On the Inside
by Kathy Findley • • 29 Comments
I met with Joel Flores at the Costa Mesa Coalition meeting this evening and had a chance to talk with him about how things are going since his confrontation with Councilman Stephen Mensinger.
Costa Mesa Mayor’s Bar Attacked By Vandals
by Chris Prevatt • • 8 Comments
Early Saturday morning, vandals threw a brick through the front door window of Costa Mesa Mayor Gary Monahan’s bar Skosh Monahan’s. According to Monahan as quoted in press reports, a note was attached to the brick that was allegedly critical of the Mayor and his plans to lay off more than 200 city workers and outsource the services they perform.
