The City of Claremont has two task force meetings coming up this week.
Tonight, the city's Sustainable City Task Force meets at 7pm in the Citrus Room of Claremont City Hall. The Citrus Room is on the second floor right above the City Council chambers. Enter through the doors on 2nd Street.
Monday, May 19th, 7:00pm
Sustainable City Task Force
City Hall, Citrus Room
207 Harvard
Claremont
(909) 399-5460
The city's Affordable Housing Task Force meets on Wednesday, May 21st, at 5pm, also in the Citrus Room. The topic on the agenda is "Financing of Affordable Housing." Given some of the personalities involved, this should be interesting.
Wednesday, May 21st, 5:00pm
Affordable Housing Task Force
City Hall, Citrus Room
207 Harvard
Claremont
(909) 399-5460
The Claremonsters want to make sure both task forces get a good deal of work in before the city commissions and committees take their customary August break. In the best Ellen Taylor tradition, they'll want to have plenty of accomplishments to point to in the municipal election next March, and they'll want to use the task forces to position: 1) Queen Ellen; and 2) a possible candidate to come out of the task forces to unseat Councilmember Corey Calaycay.
The seats held by Taylor and Calaycay will be contested next year, and the Claremonsters, whose scheming never ceases, will be busy bees the next few months. They generally like to get the things they value done as summer approaches because that's when the fewest people are around to attend the public meetings where decisions get made - that "public process" they love to trumpet.
So, most of the two task forces' heavy-lifting will be done before August and by September or October at the latest - November gets a little too close to city election time to risk having contentious issues come up.
But try to watch now. This is where the Claremonsters really set things up for much later on. It's impossible to fully appreciate their conniving without knowing the setup.
Nothing like politicizing the public welfare - a skill Taylor, et. al., have mastered.
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