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COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 20, NO. 29
Council Secures ‘Reliable, Low-Cost’ Energy Source for Next Half-Century
BY GUS HERRERA
The 50-year Post-2017 Agreement will provide “roughly five percent of Pasadena Water and Power’s (PWP) retail electric sales.”
Lucky Baldwin’s Old Town Celebrates Major Milestone
‘20 Years, and Oh so Many Beers’ BY TERRY MILLER
It was (way back) in 1996 that two partners got the idea of creating a nice little English pub at 17 S. Raymond Ave. in Old Town Pasadena. On Saturday, July 23 the flagship Lucky Baldwin’s or SEE PAGE 12
Peggy Simonian outside Lucky Baldwin’s Pub in Old Pasadena. – Photo by Terry Miller
- Photo by Terry Miller
At their regular meeting on Monday, the Pasadena City Council approved two critical items for the city’s future. The first, Item 4 on the evening’s agenda, enables the city to continue to receive “capacity, energy, and ancillary services” from Hoover Dam for the next 50 years. The second, Item 11, authorizes Mayor Terry Tornek to execute an amendment to an agreement that will create an agency to be known as the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, hopefully clearing a path for the construction of a modernized terminal at Bob Hope Airport. Both items approved were done so with vigilant foresight and will hopefully benefit Pasadena and its neighbors for years to come. Item 4 or the Post-2017 Boulder Canyon Project, which was approved without opposition as part of a motion sweep of the evening’s consent calendar, authorizes several agreements between the City of Pasadena and the United States Department of Energy, acting by and through the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Desert Southwest Region. These agreements, collectively referred to as the “Post-2017 Agreements,” will SEE PAGE 13
City Manager Appoints David Reyes as Planning Department Director City Manager Steve Mermell has appointed David Reyes as the new director of the planning and community development department. Reyes had been serving as interim director for the past six months. The appointment will be effective July 25. Reyes will oversee a department of about 80 employees who review planning proposals and develop
David Reyes.
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land-use policies for the city. The department includes the planning, building and safety; cultural affairs; and code compliance divisions - including the city’s permit center for new and remodel construction, zoning, and code enforcement and public art. Reyes brings nearly 20 years of professional planSEE PAGE 12