So little time and so little to do must be the justification for their time as conformist Ozzie Silna and the rest of the old-time Malibu open area conservatives were once again present and nastily attacking the moderates of Lily’s Caf at the last Malibu City Council meeting 9/10/01. Councilpersons Jennings, Kearsly, and Sharon Barovsky again stooped to the wishes of the Malibu open-space conservatives after disregarding the city’s own survey by Takata and Associates. The Malibu City-Takata Survey costing Malibuites $80,000, established the wishes of Malibuites which were placed into the General Land Use Plan. Sharon Barovsky again devastated the needs of Malibu citizens and decried the desires of everyone who has ever been appointed, surveyed or sat on a Malibu Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. Then since Barovsky has never attended a meeting of this group in her entire political career and is fighting for political life, could you blame her? Yes! Tom Hasse had the guts!
Did Barovsky tell the Malibu voter that Malibu open-space maps show that 35 percent of all land within the city of Malibu is already owned and designated as open space by various governmental agencies? That the Malibu City budget has ascended from $5,000,000 to $19,000,000 in the last 10 years, an increase of 380 percent, with the newcomers to the Malibu community paying the majority of the unusually elevated city taxes and fees? That there is even a weekly city tax on my garbage cans? That the entire city of Malibu Council along with New Yorker Ozzie Silna pay lower property taxes than Malibu’s late arrivals? That the fewer taxable properties, the high taxes all Malibuites will pay with the uppermost increase in taxes being paid by the recent residents to Malibu? That open space was low on all surveys and resolution lists until Barovsky personally pushed it to the top of the list?
Unlike Barovsky and much like the Lily’s Cafe Committee (I hate coffee so I don’t go to Lily’s), I have guts and Barovsky’s election campaign sign will no longer appear on my property.
Kat Chu