What does it mean? When applying for a grant one must throw spaghetti against the wall. Here we have everything included but the kitchen sink… wait. I think the kitchen sink might be in one of these maps that was shown to the Pasadena City Council on October 17, 2011.
Look how nicely camouflaged the SOCCER FIELD is amongst all of the good sounding wonders of watershed restoration blather. What is the difference between Multi-Benefit or is it Multi-Use? Which map is in the Frankensteined grant proposal submitted in January 2011? Both maps are a bilious mix of plastic sports field polluting disrespect of water and water resource conservation/restoration language, as the BIG $elling point. Blegth!
How?
Did everyone that needs clean water to drink miss this? I have the dumb. The dumb has taken over Pasadena!
Here is a digitally enhanced yet funky audio clip of the last meeting of the Hahamongna Watershed Advisory Committee on November 29, 2011:
HWPACenhancedclip11-29-2011 by Dianne Patrizzi
The first voice you hear is Tim Brick, Director of the Arroyo Seco Foundation
Then you’ll hear the voices of Don Bremner, HWPAC – Pasadena Sierra Club
Loren Pluth, HWPAC – city staff
Dan Rix, HWPAC – city staff
Ann Scheid, HWPAC – affiliation unknown
Rosa Laveaga, HWPAC - city staff
Ellen (unknown to me the last name, sorry) HWPAC – affiliation unknown
An unknown woman (to me, sorry) appointed to the HWPAC by CouncilmanVictor Gordo
Maggie (sorry, don’t have last name) HWPAC – affiliation unknown
Christle Balvin, member of the public, Urbanwild.org
If anyone listening can fill in the blanks on names and affiliations, please do. The members of this advisory committee are not listed on the City of Pasadena website.
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It’s all so baffling and infuriating. Do we have any recourse? What can we do? What about that IRWMP or whatever it is that is funding this project? One woman who spoke said they didn’t want to complain to IRWMP(?) because they didn’t want to lose the funding for the good part of the project. Do we need to expose this folly to them? Would they care?
Bleh. I’m too exhausted to write or think and now I’m agitated. Let’s do something, something other than going to those useless meetings.
I am looking to Mary Barrie to know what we should do next. Her initial reaction was to say, “Does the State know how much the public is against this?”
I don’t think they do.
I just put in my FB friendship request to Marry Barry. I also clicked on the HaHa updates on her website. I hadn’t seen the sign up on the right hand side before. Stupid cupid me.
das guden flauline
I’m Dutch – not German – Van Der Zee via Friesland – birthplace of the lovely Frisian horse
I’m a fake Dutch Quaker but I really do love to hike in the wilds.