By Roz Rogoff
About this blog: In January 2002 I started writing my own online "newspaper" titled "The San Ramon Observer." I reported on City Council meetings and other happenings in San Ramon. I tried to be objective in my coverage of meetings and events, and...
(More)About this blog: In January 2002 I started writing my own online "newspaper" titled "The San Ramon Observer." I reported on City Council meetings and other happenings in San Ramon. I tried to be objective in my coverage of meetings and events, and saved my barbs for my Commentary page. I had some political differences with the City Council at that time and particularly with the majority dubbed "The Gang of Three," by the San Ramon Valley Times. In 2003 new Council members were elected and the Council was more balanced and fiscally conservative, but I continued to write the Observer until 2009. At that point I decided I wanted to concentrate on my commentaries. So I requested a meeting with the editor and publisher of the Danville Weekly about taking over the San Ramon Observer. My timing was very apropos since the parent company, Embarcadero Media, was planning to release an online San Ramon Express that April. I was offered a "blog" under the name "San Ramon Observer" for my commentaries. I like to inform residents about what is happening in San Ramon, especially on city government and local politics. When I don't have anything to write about on those topics, I just write about anything I am doing or thinking about.
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The city scheduled a special City Council meeting at 5:30 pm on Friday, September 4, to vote on the Emergency Ordinance to put a moratorium on issuing Massage License permits for 45 days while evaluating the new State law on Massage Licenses.
The law went into effect on 9/1, but the Council was not able to vote on the Ordinance at their last meeting in August because they needed four members to pass it and only three were at the meeting.
Since the next regularly scheduled Council Meeting isn't until 9/14, the Council is holding a special meeting to push this Ordinance through. The moratorium would go into effect as soon as the Ordinance is passed and it is proposed for 45 days.
Roz
