Missed one semi-news nugget. As expected for the past four years, City Councilman Sidney Tyler of District 7 (southeast Pasadena inclusive of South Lake Ave. commercial district)If you wanted support on the council for some murky budgetary or financial issue, you got Sid on your side and then everyone fell in line if it passed the "Tyler Test." A business-oriented pragmatist, Sid is a Republican, but arguably of the pre-1980s variety. Of course this is Pasadena, where people like Sid and East Pasadena's Republican Steve Haderlein talk the most about trees and transpo.
Quote from Sid in Janette's Star-News story:
"One is bringing greater attention to our urban shade-tree canopy - I was the author of the first tree-protection ordinance, and it wasn't easy to do," he recalled. "And I brought maybe a little perspective and a little more discipline to the way the city manages its funds, looks at balance sheets and maintains a high credit rating."
So who wants Sid's seat?
One possible vector of sucession could be PCC's Board of Trustees. Area Four overlays nicely with District 7 and it would be Trustee Bill Thomson's job if he wanted it. After all, Bill represented D7 from '81 through '97.
Having served for some time on city's highest profile "commission" aka the Rose Bowl Operating Co., Bill's bid for the PCC board last year begged the question: For why? (For the kids, he said.)
Would he really be seeking to return to the same post, or is Bill feeling out the possibility of becoming Pasadena's second septuagenarian mayor in 2009?
UPDATED: Talked to Bill, he says that he's committed to the PCC gig and has no plans to seek Sid's seat. Didn't rule out a mayoral bid for what is certain to be a free-for-all cluster-frack next year, which is going to be an epic election -- and certain to shatter local spending records.
Monica
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Yeah, we have some interesting GOPers. I wish we had that same special type on the Democ side.
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