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Council Meeting Filled With Small Routine, but Important Matters It Was a GRAY-T Night
BY SUSAN MOTANDER
(Left to Right) Tom Adams and Governor Jerry Brown. - Photos by Terry Miller
Monrovia High School Pool Gets Plastered
- Photo Courtesy Dr. Katherine Thorossian, superintendent, Monrovia Unified School District
The plastering is now underway at the Monrovia High School pool, but there is no word yet on a re-opening date.
Tuesday’s city council meeting was filled with small, relatively routine matters such as switching the company used to support its website and redeveloping it, adopting a Bicycle Master Plan for the city, and requesting bids for the sale of the building that formerly housed the city’s redevelopment and housing authorities. While each of these issues is important, and was given due thought and consideration by the council, not one was very exciting. Somehow it seems appropriate that without prior planning, the city manager, police chief, fire chief, city clerk and even the Public Works manager, all wore gray suits. Perhaps one of the most important issues discussed came up under the report of the Mayor. Tom Adams asked Police Chief Jim Hunt to explain a few of the details of a proposition supported by Governor Jerry Brown - proposing to alter the prison time served by various felons. The proposition, disarmingly named the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act, is supported by the SEE PAGE 13
Old Town Report BY PAM FITZPATRICK It’s interesting to see how towns evolve. When my family and I opened our first business in Old Town, there were only a handful of open businesses in the district. There was a fabric store, a gift store, a shoe store, two pharmacies, a
liquor store, a pawn shop, a bank, two florists, and The Monrovian Restaurant - that’s about it. Oh, and we had a boatload of empty storefronts. Everything in town was geared to the female market and there wasn’t much reason for SEE PAGE 12