visitor wrote on Sep 19, 2007 11:39 PM:Strange. When did the council become composed of ostrichs.

taxpayer wrote on Sep 20, 2007 6:32 AM:Danny and Jerome said it was a good purchase at ANY price. That is not the type of attitude you want from someone who holds the taxpayer's purse strings.

Overbudget wrote on Sep 20, 2007 7:05 AM:The City is way over budget for the public works yard. To re-coupe the cost of public works yard and not tap our needed capital improvement budgets, the City should rezone the quail gardens property on quail gardens drive to commercial and sell it. The neighbors should feel lucky they didn't get a public works yard in the area. The area is all all new tract homes which need a commercial property to make it more mixed use and less of a suburban slum.

Finally! wrote on Sep 20, 2007 8:44 AM:Encinitas is 21 years old and was established without a designated place for a public works yard OR a city hall. The current city hall was a shopping center the city bought and critics screamed that they over payed and took valuable property off the tax rolls. Now the city finally got smart and purchased a proper place to site a public works yard that doesn't impact a residential neighborhood. They should get an award for good decision making, but instead the exact same critics make the exact same arguements on this that they made about buying city hall! The critics are merely constant critics. I say "good on ya", keep doing the right thing!-

Cardiffian wrote on Sep 20, 2007 2:11 PM:Isn't it interesting that the Council totally disregarded the fact that this was billed as move-in and now we citizens have to pay an additional $1.5 million dollars for this site? The speaker was right when she said that the Olevenhein Municipal Watecr District did offer to lease land. Counilmember Houlihan stated that they wanted a 20 year lease and it would be too expensve. The records from the City reflect that no talks of money or 20 year lease ever took place. We are still being lied to. Good thing there is an election is 2008. These are the kinds of things hopefully citizens will remember.

John E wrote on Sep 20, 2007 2:14 PM:Although I generally concur with "Finally!," I still have to wonder whether the city could have negotiated a better deal with Clan Mossy.

Wheelchir Bound wrote on Sep 20, 2007 3:07 PM:As a person that very depends on disability access I am deeply disappointed that even though the city council knew that this facility was not in compliance with the American Disability Act, they went ahead and purchased it anyway. Most people with any common sense would know it was not a move-in just based on that. I know I wount be voting for any of the current council members come next year, except for Teresa who wasn't ever involved and at least had the decency to apologize.

HEINLEIN wrote on Sep 20, 2007 3:40 PM:Am I the only one that think that there is something very wrong with the way this city operates? Christy Guerin is probably laughing all the way to the bank about now. Now we need to boot out Bond, Stocks and Houlihan in the next election, as Dalager is not up for reelection. We need more Teresa's Who is going to volunteer is the question?

Hardworking stiff wrote on Sep 20, 2007 8:29 PM:It must be nice to think that 1.5 million is just petty cash. Think I will run foe council. I pay taxes in this city and I am sure my water bill will go up. No one mentioned that the San Dieguito Water District is also in the same building and the city council is the board of directors. How convenient for them. They get paid $100.00 a meeting for the water district meetings which are held before the council meetings. Nice gig. No wonder they didn't want to team up with Olevenhein. Pretty sad.

Johnny Paycheck wrote on Sep 20, 2007 11:23 PM:Why don't we all just turn our money over to the COUncil at the beginning of each month? That way we won't have to watch it slowly being snatched away from us. This is incrdible. Vote the bums out in 2008. That way we won't have to watch them smirk, especially that Stocks guy.