[img]1792|right|Jim Clarke||no_popup[/img]City Councilman Jim Clarke was not quite ready to sit down this afternoon and discuss an agenda item for Monday evening’s 7 o’clock meeting.
How are you, Mr. Councilman, his inquisitor asked?
“Mr. Councilman is a bit tired,” he said, “because he went up and back to Sacramento for a meeting in 27 hours, driving.”
Why don’t you take a flight and spare yourself the exhaustion?
“The cost of a flight back and forth to Sacramento is ridiculous,” Mr. Clarke said.
“Four hundred dollars.
“The city doesn’t need to be paying out that kind of money.”
This is the third time the ubiquitous Councilman has engineered a 27-hour roundtrip to the capital – for a meeting — in his car.
Could there possibly be an advantage to traveling by ground?
“You get to do a lot of good thinking in the car on the way back,” Mr. Clarke said.
Drilling for Safety
Changing the subject, fracking is the first item on Monday’s agenda, a scheme for tightening, updating City Hall’s special plan for keeping its 10 percent of the Inglewood Oil Field safe.
“After eight years, our plan needs updating,” Mr. Clarke said.
This will be merely the opening volley in a year and a half-long process that will include a series of public hearings, public comment periods, ample opportunity, City Hall says, to bring suggestions.
“We will be talking about our ideas for the Specific Plan,” Mr. Clarke said about what is expected to be a relatively light inspection of regulations affecting the oil field.
“We want the public to have an idea of where we are coming from. This is just the start of a very lengthy process that probably will take us into late next year.
“Nothing will be decided on Monday night other than the start of the process,” Mr. Clarke said.
See www.culvercity.org/agendas
