April 22, 2005
Ballots
trickling in
As of Friday, 5,593
ballots had been turned in for the mail-in election to fill the vacant seat
on the City Council. That represents 29% of the 19,250 registered voters in
Cathedral City. Deadline to return ballots to
the Riverside County Registrar of Voters is May 3, which is actually
“election day.”
Barking up our
tree
With opening of the new
Animal Campus in Thousand Palms this summer, there will probably be a need
for city staff to issue dog licenses at the Civic Center. Discussion is
starting now on a program and procedure to provide a closer location for the
issuance of licenses than the main Thousand Palms operation.
Calling all
volunteers
Twenty vacancies will
occur on eight City Boards and Commissions. The openings are on the
Architectural Review Committee (3); Public Arts Commission (2); Planning
Commission (3); Parks and Recreation Commission (2); Library Board (1);
Streets and Transportation Commission (2); Mobile Home Fair Practices
Commission (2); and Board of Appeals (5). Deadline for residents to fill out
applications (available on website) and to apply is June 2.
Bad tumble
Sgt. Earl Moss will be
out for about two weeks because of elbow and shoulder injuries he suffered
while climbing over a fence. Others in the Police and Fire Departments have
been running around (literally) the past several days in the Civic Center
area as part of the testing required to qualify for the City’s Wellness
Program.
Music to our
ears
The spring Classic
Concert sponsored by the Public Arts Commission will be held. Thursday,
April 28, in the Council Chamber. The reception will begin at 6:30, with the
concert starting at 7. Both the reception with light refreshments and the
concert are free. The Canyon Classics quintet will perform.
Getting to YES
City representatives had
a positive meeting this week with officials from the Environmental
Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on permits for the
proposed Desert Cove Golf Course. (This is an environmentally friendly
version of the former Rita Carlton Golf Course – nine holes in the foothills
and the other holes in the wash, west to Cathedral Canyon Golf Course.)
Inspector gone
Building Inspector Rustin
Messenger has had to move to Santa Clarita to care for his aging parents who
are in poor health.
Extra and
stronger eyes
The Fire Department’s new
Thermal Imaging Camera is expected to be here around the first of June.
This amazing equipment helps firefighters see right through the smoke of a
burning building to locate possible survivors inside.
Funding needs
are many
The Mayor, City Council
members, staff and some community members have been holding a series of
meetings with state and federal legislators and their representatives to
discuss Cathedral City’s funding needs. Among them are: Cove sewers,
soccer park, Date Palm Drive/I-10 interchange, soccer park, parkland and
Ramon Road/bridge widening.
BIA luncheon
here
Cathedral City will host
the BIA (Building Industry Association) luncheon Tuesday (April 26) at the
Doral Desert Princess Resort. Various City representatives will talk about
projects in construction and in economic development.
Putting up
“Friends”
Public Works employees
installed the “Friends
of the Heart” sculpture in the Paseo this week. It involved pouring a
concrete platform and erecting the limestone stature on top of it. The
stone, incidentally, comes from the former Chicago Stock Exchange building.
The donors, Mr. and Mrs. E. Herman Heimann of Rancho Mirage, will be honored
and the statue will be dedicated by the Public Arts Commission at 11 a.m.
May 10.
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