The Beach Hut, Carriages and Foothill Theatre...

Nevada City was in a good, non controversial groove there for awhile...so calm, in fact, that Sally Harris thought it was safe to step back into the pool. But now, all hell is exploding there. Should there be this much controversy?
The Beach Hut deli sounds like it's good food (I went on their Web site) owned by local people with deep roots in the area...
The Foothill Theatre will survive or fail on its merits and city leaders shouldn't be chastised for not coming up with money. These are tough economic times.
The carriages...well the local choice would have appealed to me but I wasn't at last night's meeting so I don't have all the facts on that one.
I also trust our elected officials to make the right decisions...that's why they're there.

Comments

[Pascale]

As far as the carriage "franchise" (there's the "F" word again) goes, the winning bid agreed to pay the franchise fee.

The local bidder wanted to charge the city for the privilege of having him drive a carriage through town.

[Lindy B]

thx for defending city leader's decisions to pass on FTC bail out...maybe if FTC hadn't been bailed out before, some of us would be more receptive to their current pleas....

[Dixie Redfearn]

Well..I found more out, I called Chuck Shea (he's working at the SF Airport) and he said he didn't want to pay the franchise fee ($1,000) I guess that was the deal breaker. But he was very annoyed that the city didn't even call and tell him the resolution.

[takingcareofbusiness]

When Dave Vertin called it quits it was after the final frustration of trying to do business with anti-business Nevada City. The City waved goodbye and then realized some months later that the carriage rides had been important for tourism which is about the only thing left since the local socialists killed logging, mining and other job creating businesses. So, the City floated the notion of starting it all back up. I heard that Chuck Shea presented a pretty creative proposal but because of his vocal opposition to the Business Improvement District (BID) over the last 2 years the City cut him out. Business as usual in Nevada City - "to hell with the Brown Act" is their cry. It's unfortunate that even law enforcement City employees present and past got into the act. What a sham (no not shame..."sham")! I give it a year or less for the Sacramento insider to also tell the City where to pack sand.

[George Rebane]

Dixie, please tell us more about where the carriage issue stands.