Meetings For The New Year(CORRECTED!)

MORE FOOTBALL...
Had enough college football yet?  Nah, neither have I.  Fortunately, we still have a handful of games remaining, including the national championship next Monday evening in which the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will whip the Alabama Crimson Tide.

60TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE MEETING
In the meantime, the new year brings new meetings and the very first one is the next meeting of the Costa Mesa 60th Anniversary Committee today! TOMORROW, Thursday.  It will be held at the Emergency Operations Center, 99 Fair Drive (next door to the Police facility) and begins at 5:30 p.m.
(WOW!  What a great way to start the year!  First strike so early!  Maybe I should have resolved to not post after midnight!  Sorry for the confusion.)

ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND MORE

The agenda for this meeting, HERE, includes the election of a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson.  The two folks who have expressed interest so far in the chair are Melinda Lowery and Mike Scheafer.  The original plan was to have a meeting of this group every Thursday of January to get a running start on the numerous events that have been discussed.

FIRST COUNCIL MEETING ON JANUARY 8TH

Next Tuesday, January 8, 2013 the Costa Mesa City Council will hold its first meeting of the new year beginning at 6:00 p.m. in council chambers.  It will be preceded by a closed session meeting beginning at 5:00 p.m.  No agenda is yet available for that meeting.

COUNCIL MEETINGS STACKED UP

Curiously, the next council meeting will be the following Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - only a week later.  I say "curiously" because it may have made more sense for the council to bump that one to the next Tuesday, giving two weeks between the meetings and also providing two weeks until the first meeting of February.  However, the decision has been made to hold meetings virtually back-to-back, on the 8th and 15th, then take a couple weeks off until the first meeting of February.  Oh, well...

A NEW "KINDER, GENTLER" YEAR AHEAD?

So off we go into a new year, full of hope for a kinder, gentler year than the past two have been.  We'll see how that goes.  We'll see if new Mayor Jim Righeimer will be able to actually take a more conciliatory position and not try to jam his own personal ideas down our throats.  I don't know if you saw the Daily Pilot article last weekend, HERE, that profiled him and included interviews with several other local figures.  It's long, but makes for good reading.  It talks about his relationship with Orange County Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh - something we've addressed many times here - and with his pal, Mayor Pro Tem Steve Mensinger.  It addresses his animosity with unions which explains a lot of his actions over the past couple years.  Take a few minutes to read it.

RESOLVED...
Finally, we here at A Bubbling Cauldron hope you all had a wonderful New Year's celebration and that you've made resolutions you can actually keep.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed for all of us.