The Laguna Beach City Council held its annual planning workshop Jan. 19, an all-day scrum to prioritize the many issues for the year.’
Fun.
No really, there’s a lot going on, and not all of it is mind-numbing.
Mayor Sue Kempf, using her best poker face voice, gave a sneak peek on the “Voice of Laguna” radio show with Ed Steinfeld.
“We have like a list of 61 things that are on our list that we’d like to do. Of course, we can’t do all of them,” she said. (It’s 62 but who’s counting.)
Put Kempf in a room with city experts all day and she could probably easily solve 61 (or 62) issues.
Unfortunately, it’s not just Kempf.
“We have to see what the temperature of the council is and what the community thinks,” she said.
Officially, the agenda is loaded with a lot of carry-over projects. The full list is here.
Interim City Manager Sean Joyce has some suggestions for streamlining the agenda-making process overall. Hopefully, it will help trim about five hours off the normal council meeting time.
There are also some financial projections to wade through to level-set expectations.
After that, it’s 61 (or 62) issues or bust. Some highlights:
Woo-hoo, let’s do this.
