Hello Fix Pacifica
The idea: to link up people
with ideas for businesses, that could fill our vacant shop spaces, with
educational and financial resources which can assist them make their
business ideas a reality. Hope to meet some of you there if you don't
have other plans. We have recieved some RSVPs already...the more, the
merrier.
Regards,
Victor Spano
Pacifica Economic Development Committee
28 comments:
Thanks Victor!
how many current RSVPs??
Finally a PACIFICA article.
Thanks Victor!
Victor Spano 2014!
"Learn about free/reduced rent programs at Kimco Centers..."
Boy, even ol' skinflint Kimco is feeling the economy - they are merciless landlords.
Merciless capitalists they might be, but they've offered that incubator program for years to support new businesses with reduced or free rent and other services. It was mentioned on here months ago during the flap about RoundTable being forced out by KIMCO's rents. BTW, RoundTable is back!
No surprise that no one at City Hall, in their perpetual stupor, ever publicized this opportunity before. IMHO total credit goes to Victor Spano for turning city hall's pro-growth empty prattle into action. A mere 22 months til the next election Victor!
Thought wonder boy Lenny was full of great ideas for the business community. Haven't seen a thing and it's been 2 years gone. Victor, show us the way!
Don't diminish the contributions Len has made. He was one of the driving forces behind the improvement in the planning and permit process at City Hall. This was a huge step. Several new businesses have opened at Linda Mar and just to be accurate the new pizza place is not Round Table.
The sign says
Round Table
Previously, Len was in the minority. I suspect the new council members will be more open to his ideas.
The pizza place in the Linda Mar Shopping Center is a Round Table Pizza franchise with the trademarked logo, signage, menu, and everything.
Not only did I eat there on Sunday, I just looked it up on the corporate site to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the whole thing -- the location is indeed listed.
tastes like roundtable. other than the dollar store and goodwill place what else has opened? i'm not being sarcastic just rarely go beyond safeway and rite-aid so what else is new in LM?
i think stone and now oneill are the only ones with a real clue on council. their entire professional lives haven't been tied to gov't funding and public agencies or social services. hope ervin has the common sense to go with the smarts.
she's a big vote.
uh ... Ervin is in the private sector
436 uh, of course she is. i believe she is a research scientist for Roche/Genentech. while they are certainly all about profit, the people they employ to make those valuable discoveries rarely are. those folks tend to be very academic in their approach to problem solving. they study things. sooo Pacifica, isn't it. then they discuss, study some more, try to repeat the results, study some more, ad nauseum, until the project is over budget or someone upstream says "we've got a winner". ervin is whip smart, Lord knows she's going to do her research, and we can only hope she will know "a winner for Pacifica" when she sees one. a little independence to go with the intellectual gifts would be nice, too. in fact, it's going to be critical. fingers crossed for ms. ervin.
What does working for big pharma have to do with municipal government?
It's light years different.
Its not as if the employees in big pharma have to deal with budgets and salaries and rising costs.
By that standard, Ervin and O'Neil's experience with school district budgets and salaries and rising costs is most relevant.
School District=PTA
"School District=PTA" Anonymous 10:10 AM, Oh boy!
Totally ridiculous comment again, 2nd time you've said this. Time to figure it out.
The Pacifica School District and its business (including funding the entire City School District) is not the supportive volunteer student Parent Teachers Association (PTA). How about you watch one of the School District meetings on Channel 26 sometime; or talk to a teacher or a parent and learn? There's also a School District website.
And didn't you go to school, remember PTA? Not the same thing as running the business of the city School District was it?
So Karen Ervin and Mike O'neill were on the School board and/or PTA, oh yeah, but that is the past. Biotech and Pharmaceuticals is the future. Karen's connection to Genentech / Roche is great. So Can she discuss locating a Genentech / Roche facility here in Pacifica with their real estate people? Has she already? Karen, please do! Look what Oracle did for Redwood Shores real estate values =)
I don't get the point being made in this thread. None of the Council members have any private sector experience being responsible for large budgets, salaries, and many personnel. But that's irrelevant. On the other hand, all of the Council members have experience balancing public agency budgets, dealing with salaries and a wide range of personnel, and addressing a variety of other costs in large budgets.
@1147 Yes, they all have loads of experience with the deep pockets of government which are constantly replenished by us, the taxpayers. That determines their attitude and greatly limits their problem-solving skills. Basically it's tax and spend with them. Need money? Go to the people. That's why we get so excited when any one comes along with the slightest bit of private sector experience. It is probably too late for Pacifica to be saved from collapse but Stone, O'Neill and maybe Ervin are what we need if we are to have any kind of a chance.
O'Neill's and Stone's private sector experience is as very small businesses, perhaps as small as 1 person. Has O'Neill ever had employees? How about Stone? If private sector experience is relevant at all (which is arguable), Ervin's experience in a very large organization would seem to be more meaningful.
I'm a lot more interested in the attitudes these 5 have picked up in their careers than whether or not they have a specific skill set.
They're not running the day-to-day operation, the city manager is. A council loaded with tax and spenders from the public sector has a very different approach to government than a council with some folks with a little good old P&L background. Not saying Stone and O'Neill are business moguls but they do understand that the taxpayer cannot be the only source of revenue to run this city. Better late than never.
Yup, letting the career bureaucrats and social service professionals run the city has sure worked well. How about some people who know we have to make money to pay for all that stuff? just saying ONeill and Len understand that. The rest will reach for your wallet first. That's all they know and all they've ever known.
Pacifica small business man - 16 years on the City Council - Pete DeJarnatt
We can always find an exception to any rule, but the continuing parade of career bureaucrats and social service types have kept Pacifica poor. They just don't know how to do anything else and they are used to someone else footing the bill. Revenue means taxpayer to them and self-sufficiency is not a goal. Pair that mindset with the enviro idealogy and you have the disaster that is Pacifica...land given away forever, isolated, crumbling infrastructure, pension time bomb
...guess it was somebody's dream.
You're making enormous assumptions and leaps of cause-and effect logic that are false.
Nonsense. The proof is all around us. Decades of it.
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