Using Thunder Sticks to distract free throw shooters at basketball games is allowed. The concept is for people to take away the concentration of the opposing teams free throw shooter. The County of Orange is using the Local Area Formation CO for such a purpose! Sunset Beach is the current target, and regardless of their independent history and strong will, the game is on!
Here in Orange County is one special place along the border of LA County…..called Sunset Beach. It doesn’t even deliver the mail. They all have to go to their local Post Office box to pick up their mail. You might remember Sunset Beach because of the Water Tower House, or Turk’s the Bar, the Sunset Liquor Store (which was highlighted in an early Paul Newman movie – “Sweet Bird of Youth”), or maybe the famous Windjammer Bar that went out of businss 30 years ago. How about Captain Jack’s Steakhouse? Hey, they even have houses that border on Huntington Harbor! The main thing to remember is that Sunset Beach is a very unique community – that can’t be pushed around very easily. They even have “Woody’s”, a throw-back 50’s roadside diner!
Well, a couple of years ago, in a effort to rid the county of these dispirtited entities like Leisure World and Sunset Beach, they jumped on the LAFCO hard hammer concept. You know, if those “independent souls” refused to do what you wanted – just force them! In the Sunset Beach case – LAFCO wants Huntington Beach to take them over! Make them mainstream…..but amalgamized into the bigger city.
So, who are the players that are doing the counties bidding?:
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City Member, Chair
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City Selection Committee
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Alternate Public Member
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Orange County Board of Supervisors
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City Member
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City Selection Committee
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County Member
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Orange County Board of Supervisors
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Alternate City Member
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OC LAFCO Commissioners
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Alternate Public Member
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OC LAFCO Commissioners
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County Member, Vice-Chair
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Orange County Board of Supervisors
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Special District Member
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Independent Special District
Selection Committee |
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Alternate Special District
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Independent Special District
Selection Committee |
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Public Member
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OC LAFCO Commissioners
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Special District Member
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Independent Special District
Selection Committee |
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Do we need to say anymore? Fight On Sunset Beach, keep you own identify, create your own little town! If you need to contract services to the county…then do so. If not, tell them to skip a rope! We think that the County of Orange and their lap dog LAFCO – needs to back off!
Debbie Cook and Todd Spitzer seem to think that Huntington should take over Sunset Beach! Todd even thinks that Huntington should Annex Sunset whether they like it or not! He even said so, on Inside OC.
Todd and Debbie, unless you live in Sunset Beach…it might be a much better thing to let the people of Sunset Beach decide whether they want to be Oilers or Surfers!
You see, Sunset Beach thinks it can create its very own city, hire two people and contract out all the necessary services. Whew, creative as you can possibly imagine! Think the powers that be want that concept to proprigate? Most likely not! Well, we support you Sunset Beach!
Fight On Sunset Beach! Fight On! Call Joe Dunn..he might help!
It comes down to a simple concept: who is the logical provider of service? Let me tell you it’s not the County of Orange.
Sunset Beach should be VERY WARY of HB — they’ve got one of the worst and corrupt Councils in the County. Their Mayor is a complete idiot, and a number of her predecessors have been indicted, fined and/or jailed. Their City Manager is way overpaid and the Police Chief and his minions are bit gun happy. Their Planning Commission is development happy and beholding to that kind of money.
BEWARE!
Oh really? – Services huh? They have a choice….how about Wackenhut or the Seal Beach
OD? How about a volunteer Fire Dept.? Have any idea how many Long Beach Fire people
live in Sunset? How about not giving up their Sunset Beach identify? How about becoming a “virtual mini city” and contracting out anything they need to do?
Master – Right you are on one thing – the value of the Sunset Beach property is huge! HB
wants that valuable Beach Property added to their Statewide Evaluation! It was interesting
to hear Debbie Cook on INSIDE the OC say that places like Corona Del Mar and Balboa Island
“belonged” to Newport Beach, but were still able to keep their identify! Hmmm, not really!
We did get signage….which is nice….but we also got an entree into City Government as well.
Corona Del Mar and Balboa Island became part of NB decades ago. Sunset Beach we will treated like an ugly sister that doesn’t quite fit the profile of Surf City….if HB grabs it!
isnt it Local AGENCY Formation Co? and since when is Sunset Beach on the border of LA County?