By Deb Murphy The Joint Powers Authority establishing the Eastern Sierra Council of Governments as a legal entity got its first test at Monday’s Bishop City Council meeting. The document was approved, with a significant change requested by Councilmember Stephen Muchovej. With its new status, ESCOG will require funding for administrative staff and other services. […]
By Deb Murphy The one thing members of Bishop City Council agreed on at Tuesday’s meeting was kids shouldn’t have access to flavored tobacco. How to do that was another issue. April Eagan, prevention manager for Inyo County’s Women Infant Children Program, had made a full presentation at City Council’s May 13 meeting. The facts […]
By Deb Murphy Joe Pecsi gave Bishop City Council a template to respond to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s new proposed fishing regulations, highlighting a lot of things wrong with those regs. A former Councilman and chair of the Inyo County Fish and Wildlife Commission, Pecsi followed F&W’s biologist Jim Erdman’s brief summary […]
By Deb Murphy Practicality went head to head with Bishop City ordinances at Monday’s Council meeting; practicality, in this case Grocery Outlet’s 70-square foot sign on a 25-foot pylon at the corner of Hwy. 6 and Wye Road, won. The argument made by the corporation’s representative and local owners was obvious. The north end of […]
By Deb Murphy One thing nobody every taught us in Civics classes was how long and how entangled with red tape government projects actually are. Take for example, the City of Bishop’s Seibu to School Bike Path, included in Inyo County’s Collaborative Bikeways Plan in 2008. At Monday’s Bishop City Council’s meeting, the members had […]
By Deb Murphy Monday’s Bishop City Council meeting started with Mayor Jim Ellis’ emotional announcement that former City Manager Jim Tatum had passed away over the weekend. He called for a moment of silence, but it will take more than a moment to fully understand that one of the really good guys is gone. Tatum […]
By Deb Murphy The purchase agreement for 3.5 acres of land at Spruce and MacIver streets has been accepted at the staff level of both the City of Bishop and the Los Angeles Department of Power. Monday, that agreement heads to the City Council. The land is earmarked for Silver Peaks, a 70-unit affordable housing […]
By Deb Murphy Mono Board of Supervisors After Ron McMartin and Layton Peterson finished a bidding war on the Mono County-owned property at 71 Davison in Mammoth Lakes, the Mono Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to reject the market value bids, ending at $185,000, and pursue the three affordable housing proposals. McMartin told the Board […]
By Deb Murphy Three incumbents and two challengers faced off at Cero Cosso College Tuesday evening in the pursuit of three seats on Bishop’s City Council. Incumbents Karen Schwartz and Joe Pecsi and challenger Stephen Muchovej are going after two seats; incumbent Chris Costello, chosen to fill the seat of the late Pat Gardner, is […]
By Deb Murphy Over the past two weeks, four Eastern Sierra entities took the first leery step to enable the Eastern Sierra Council of Governments to more actively tackle regional issues. The four, Bishop, Mammoth, Inyo and Mono, agreed to contribute up to $10,000 toward half of a Town of Mammoth Lakes’ staffer to provide […]
Press release The Bishop Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring an informative public Candidate’s Forum to be held on October 23, 2018 at 6:00 PM at the Cerro Coso Community College, Bishop Campus. At the forum, candidates for the Bishop City Council will give opening remarks and respond to predetermined questions during the first half […]
From Stan Smith An Open Letter to the Bishop City Council: Hopefully putting politics and pressure to one side, the Bishop City Council voted 5-0 Monday evening (August 20, 2018) to deny the Chacon appeal of the City’s Planning Commission’s position to disapprove a proposed industrial warehouse on East Line Street, so they could gussy up their […]
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