Sidewalk Dining for $.79/day

George Hejduk, a regular speaker at council meetings is the self-appointed watchdog on sidewalk dining and has spoken out regularly for years. There's a long history of the city not responding, responding but not enforcing ADA and other public aspects of our coastal downtown sidewalk dining. 2011 looked like this issue would finally get some resolution. 2012 begins without a final decision from the council.

The city staff findings are not presented here, simply a bit of discussion from Jerome Stocks in these two clips of Our Mayor's representing . . . his viewpoint. Characteristically, in two words, Stocks Mocks TM . . . a whole range of targets.

Sidewalk Dining is brought back to the council on November 16, 2011 agenda based on the above comments and more. Watch how Teresa Barth's attempt at addressing Jerome Stock's objection to an annual fee by treating it as a realistic concern is translated into a manufactured(?) complexity.

Full April 13 meeting can be viewed here and November 16 meeting here. Sitting through these in real time made $.79 a day a really foolish sticking point for then Deputy Mayor Stocks. Only the cynical might guess this was for 2012 campaign support or some other political jockeying or simple vindictiveness.