Under the Dome

About $113,000 to address youth violence through a summer jobs program and summer camp versus $2.5 million to make parking more convenient for shoppers in Old Pasadena.

Posted by Todd on June 18, 2007 3:54 PM | Permalink

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Bill Bogaard as the police chief...Barry Gordon as the veteran by-the-book cop..and Todd Ruiz as the maverick rookie who doesn't always play by the rules. I can't wait for this movie.

Posted by: Aaron Proctor | June 18, 2007 4:57 PM

Had I known about the purchase of the parking spaces sooner, I would have shown up to speak against it. I don't know why the city needs to own these 600 spots. If the spots are available to anyone who needs to park, isn't that good enough? What is the benefit of city ownershp?

Posted by: Kelly L.C. Russell | June 18, 2007 7:14 PM

I think they're not available to anyone who needs to park -- I think they're for residents of the condos by the train station. It sounds like the spaces the city is buying might be for commuter use -- for people who don't live in the condos.

Posted by: Jill | June 18, 2007 9:51 PM

How odd. I guess it's obvious on the face that solving youth violence is cheap, and parking is expensive.

Posted by: Miss Havisham | June 19, 2007 11:03 PM

The whole point of the traffic conference they had in April was to find ways to mitigate traffic and one very aggressive tactic was to begin eliminating parking spaces. If you don't give people a place to park, they might take public transportation. Why fund more parking? Does Pasadena really have *so* much money it's looking to buy pieces of gutter that are about 9ft wide by about 18 1/2 feet long? I can think of so many other things the people of Pasadena need.

Posted by: jane | June 20, 2007 1:29 PM

Pasadena funding: $200K to placate Crystal Balvin, a paid consultant for Space Bank, with an open space study. Hey dude, give me $200 K and I'll tell you where the open space is... a mile to the north in the Angeles Forest there's a million acres of it. Where do I get my check, or do I have to get Public Storage to pay me? $2 mil for parking spaces Pasadena already can use for free $120 K for jobs for youth $0 more to keep kids from killing each other in Northwest Pasadena (I assume vigils are free.) $0 for added police services to safeguard Pasadena That's what happens when the old white men set the City agenda and budget.

Posted by: No one | June 21, 2007 1:23 PM

Still better off than St. Louis.

Posted by: Aaron Proctor | June 21, 2007 1:55 PM

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