Pacific Palisades literally cut off Barnette from her presentation on the pet limit increase. This is a major blow to Rosendahl since PP is in his district.
http://pacificpalisades.patch.com/articles/council-poo-poos-more-pets-per-household
""Hot on the heels of Moore’s tip on barking dogs, Animal Services’ Barnette addressed shacking up with dogs and cats. The proposed ordinance to increase the number to pets per household to five dogs and five cats “may increase the public nuisance level and impair the quality of life in Pacific Palisades,” according to the Council. One councilmember warned of “unintended consequences of endangering household pets.
Urine run-off and fecal matter accumulated will be calculated from a scientific POV and then they will render a decision out of the Planning Commission and make a decision.
The Council was not receptive to Barnette’s argument: “The city is trying to cut costs and you’re going to have to police this? This will add millions to the city budget,” said one member.
“That is your opinion but it’s not fact based,” Barnette responded, respectfully.
“What is the purpose of increasing from three to five [animals per home]?" exclaimed a councilmember. "That makes no sense!”
Barnette said, “There’s maybe 10 percent of licensed animals out there…There’s no argument the department is not good at collecting licenses but those are apples and oranges. I agree this needs to be stepped up because we need to increase those revenues.” (Apples and oranges??? The emphasis should be on collecting those 90% of unlicensed dogs, that would surely raise revenue! If LA can't collect on those dogs, then it can't collect on the 66% increase, can it?)
Without allowing Barnette to finish reading her statistics, the Council shut down the conversation pretty swiftly and unanimously voted against the measure.""
http://pacificpalisades.patch.com/articles/council-poo-poos-more-pets-per-household
""Hot on the heels of Moore’s tip on barking dogs, Animal Services’ Barnette addressed shacking up with dogs and cats. The proposed ordinance to increase the number to pets per household to five dogs and five cats “may increase the public nuisance level and impair the quality of life in Pacific Palisades,” according to the Council. One councilmember warned of “unintended consequences of endangering household pets.
Urine run-off and fecal matter accumulated will be calculated from a scientific POV and then they will render a decision out of the Planning Commission and make a decision.
The Council was not receptive to Barnette’s argument: “The city is trying to cut costs and you’re going to have to police this? This will add millions to the city budget,” said one member.
“That is your opinion but it’s not fact based,” Barnette responded, respectfully.
“What is the purpose of increasing from three to five [animals per home]?" exclaimed a councilmember. "That makes no sense!”
Barnette said, “There’s maybe 10 percent of licensed animals out there…There’s no argument the department is not good at collecting licenses but those are apples and oranges. I agree this needs to be stepped up because we need to increase those revenues.” (Apples and oranges??? The emphasis should be on collecting those 90% of unlicensed dogs, that would surely raise revenue! If LA can't collect on those dogs, then it can't collect on the 66% increase, can it?)
Without allowing Barnette to finish reading her statistics, the Council shut down the conversation pretty swiftly and unanimously voted against the measure.""
Looks like she didn't make any friends in that meeting.