Pasadena City Council meeting preview

Doesn't look like a lot going on at Monday's meeting.

Probably the top item on the agenda is a discussion over what to do about the city's parking enforcement contract. The Pasadena Weekly had a nice item this week on problems with the current provider: apparently they have been sued multiple times for violating labor laws.

The story also details some complaints from Pasadena citizens who feel the company has been rude and/or has issued tickets unfairly. Some council members are concerned about it as well.

The suggestion from the story was that the city council will likely dump its current provider at Monday's meeting.... that could happen, but the city is recommending to the council they keep the contract for another year, and continue the search for a company that will be worth keeping for a longer period.

The other item of interest is that the city will likely be voting funds to fix a bridge along the Arroyo Seco behind JPL. The current bridge collapsed in bad weather in 2005.... fixing the bridge will open up some nice national forest land. I discussed this item briefly in a story in today's paper about the Mount Wilson Toll Road.

The city will also vote on a noise ordinance that would set levels of noise for mulit-family homes. Looks like a pretty normal ordinance. It will also set up noise level provisions for larger events that take place at the Rose Bowl. Currently the Rose Bowl Operating Company has to meet to officially vote on getting exemptions to the city's noise ordinance for every event they hold there (or every loud one at least). This ordinance will write those exemptions into the code.

Should be a pretty short meeting.