On the agenda: special, City Council meetings
Council members will discuss whether to expand the current smoking ban at a 3:30 p.m. special meeting today at the Tri-Communities Room. The mayor is pretty gung-ho about widening the ban and if his colleagues agree, the council might ask staff members to draft an ordinance that would prohibit smoking in outdoor dining areas, hotels and/or apartment buildings. The current smoking ban -- approved in February -- applies to city-owned public areas such as City Hall, Cultural Center, parks and libraries.
Prior to the regular 7 p.m. meeting, a special meeting to swear-in the new and returning elected officials will begin at 6 p.m. Council members Dennis Michael and Sam Spagnolo, City Treasurer Jim Frost and City Clerk Jan Reynolds will take their oaths of office.
The agenda for the regular meeting is light. A public hearing on an appeal by Pepper's will be postponed to Jan. 21 based on the restaurant's request.
Prior to the regular 7 p.m. meeting, a special meeting to swear-in the new and returning elected officials will begin at 6 p.m. Council members Dennis Michael and Sam Spagnolo, City Treasurer Jim Frost and City Clerk Jan Reynolds will take their oaths of office.
The agenda for the regular meeting is light. A public hearing on an appeal by Pepper's will be postponed to Jan. 21 based on the restaurant's request.
Here's an idea: People who don't like smoke in private establishments go somewhere else and give a non-smoking establishment their business instead.
In other words, take some personal responsibility and quit trying to push your preferences on others.
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Between this and the city intervening on the behalf of perpetually-offended religious people to get rid of billboards, I'm beginning to think that they think they don't have enough real work to do.
Funny, in a down economy, that they can't find something useful to spend their time on rather than waste our tax dollars on this nanny state ridiculousness.
- J
Smokers are too nice people. We are being pushed and pushed for years to feel guilty.
I agree with Jeff. It is time for us to stand up for our rights. Californians are sicker than people in other states and countries where smoking is still legal. People are happy there. Sadly I am too sick and old to move.
No use with a survey because we know the result. Smokers are in hiding. We eat and meet our friends at home not at "in places". Shop in other cities where we are welcome.
We are not the big danger for other. I believe the so called science that proves other wise was paid by the Pharmnasudicals. Who else would gain from it?
There is a pill for everything and driving under influence of them is often dangerous.
Cancer is spreading even after all the people quit the tobacco smoking. It is the altered food with all the added chemicals that made me sick. The medication I been recommended created new and worse problems. It has gone too far when I can't smoke in a parking lot whit all the pollutions from the cars.
Mariann, not smokefree but medication free.