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On The City Council Agenda – January 21, 2014
I hope everyone is having a great Martin Luther King Day. We are finally cooling off as the rest of the country embraces another round of freezing weather. It is days like this that remind me why I...
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On The Planning Commissin Agenda – January 28, 2014
The Tustin City Planning Commission has a busy night with two meetings ahead of them on Tuesday, January 28th. Prior to meeting as the planning commission, they will come together next door to their...
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On The City Council Agenda – February 4, 2014
What does the city of Tustin and the County of Orange have in common? With a record low number of applications the city, much like the Grand Jury, is having trouble filling their commissions with...
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On (and Off) the City Council Agenda – February 18, 2014
A hat tip to our friend, Dan Chmielewski, of The Liberal OC who related that the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim could someday become the Los Angeles Angels of Tustin. Hmmm, the name just doesn’t have...
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No Rush to Judgement
If you attended the city council meeting on Tuesday, you might have decided to leave before the real business went down. That’s because an angry mob descended on the council hall demanding justice for...
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County Cuts a Deal With Employees
(We erroneously implied that TMEA employees were in negotiations this year. As it turns out, this is just a reopener on scheduling for the yard employees. Sorry for the confusion-ed.) The news is...
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On the Planning Commission Agenda – March 25, 2014
Not much happening at the Tustin Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday. Prior to the meeting, the commissioners will meet as the Board of Appeals only to approve the minutes of the previous meeting....
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On The City Council Agenda – April 1, 2014
This Tustin City Council didn’t leave me much to work with this April Fool’s Day. In fact, the Closed Session is likely to take longer than the Regular Session this week. The Closed Session also had a...
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The SF Connection
Recently we wrote about State Senator Leland Yee’s arrest by the FBI on corruption and gun running charges. In a late-breaking revelation, we have discovered a Tustin Connection to Lee, also known as...
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Short Meeting, John’s MIA (Again?)
At 43 minutes, last week’s Tustin City Council meeting was the shortest of the year and one of the shortest on record. Even Mayor Al Murray joked about reaching the business and committee reports in...
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On The City Council Agenda – May 20, 2014
Unless we run into another protest in chambers, this week’s Tustin City Council meeting should be fairly short. In fact, the Closed Session, which starts at 5:30 may be longer than the public forum....
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On The City Council Agenda – July 15, 2014
Judging from the length of the agenda, this week’s Tustin City Council meeting is liable to go a tad longer than the 52 minutes of the last meeting. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Closed...
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On The Planning Commission Agenda – July 22, 2014
Heading up the Tustin Planning Commission agenda for Tuesday is a request for a Conditional Use Permit for an indoor recreational training facility. The proposed business, Tustin Strike Zone, will be...
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Keeping the Status Quo
-Snooze Alert- It is going to be a pretty boring election season in the city of Tustin this year. Either everyone in Tustin is too busy to worry about the political bent of the city council (they are...
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On The City Council Agenda – September 2, 2014
A fairly brief agenda greets our intrepid Tustin City Council this Tuesday after their brief hyatus. Hopefully, during their time off, they enjoyed the great production of Peter Pan put on by the...
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On The Planning Commission Agenda – September 9, 2014
It’s party time in Tustin. At least, the Tustin Planning Commission will be making a determination for another community facility in the Tustin Marketplace tonight during a public hearing. Edwards...
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On the City Council Agenda – December 16, 2014
There were no surprises in the recent off-year elections. Al Murray and Beckie Gomez were re-elected to their respective posts as were the TUSD incumbents. It is disappointing to see that not much has...
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On the City Council Agenda – January 6, 2015
Happy New Year to all. Let’s be glad we still live where the city council is willing to at least give the appearance of listening to the residents of its community. In Los Angeles the city council has...
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On The City Council Agenda – January 20, 2015
Unless the councilmembers suddenly get an urge to actually discuss something, it looks like it will be a fairly short meeting of the Tustin City Council on Tuesday. Councilman Bernsein, are you back...
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Will We Get The Caltrans Treat(ment)?
Businesses along the corridor of Interstate 5 through Tustin and Irvine beware. Meetings are being held for so-called public input for the proposed widening of the I-5 corridor through our town Tustin....
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