Re tonight’s City Council agenda item, whether dogs should be allowed in city parks
Groundhog Day Revisited.
It Comes to Culver City Again
Moms and dads, boys and girls.
Yes, it is Groundhog Day Revisited at City Council once again on Monday merry-madness night.
At tonight’s 7 o’clock Council meeting in Council Chambers, yes, it will be that terrier-testing time of year yet again when that great bureaucratic road show – otherwise known at the Parks, Recreation & Community Disorganized Services Dept. – brings its very own time-frittering favorite “pet groundhog” to City Council.
In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and now again in 2009, there just has to be a series of waste-the-public’s-time-and-money public hearings, at a Parks Commission hearing here, followed by a City Council hearing there, on that pointless problem that no one – REPEAT – no one is demanding be heard, discussed, hashed and rehashed – the groundhogs-in-parks issue.
“Groundhog” as you may have noticed rhymes with “dog”.
Not funny, say you caring and responsible moms and dads.
Moms and dads, you definitely have a good point there. And your point is? Representing 80 percent of Culver City public opinion, moms and dads have spoken, moms and dads have written, that they oppose groundhogs-in-parks for a variety of valid public health and safety reasons.
Charles A. Deen, CPA, is a former Parks Commissioner. He may be contacted at supercpa@pacbell.net
