6/20 7pm Save our Cities's local budgets - de-fund unconstitutional wars

[Peace Voyager]

Please see if you can come to support all our Cities' efforts to save vital services, by calling for the end to all unconstitutional war funding right now.

Much thanks,

Colleen Fernald

Candidates for Peace
Songs for a Cease Fire
Sing for a Cease Fire

https://www.cityofpetaluma.net/ccler...110620Rev1.pdf


City of Petaluma, California
PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL/
PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
Monday, June 20, 2011
Council Chambers, City Hall, 11 English Street, Petaluma, California 94952
Regular Meeting Agenda

City Manager’s Office: Phone 707•778•4345 Fax 707•778•4419 E-mail: [email protected]
City Clerk’s Office: Phone 707•778•4360 Fax 707•778•4554 E-mail: [email protected]
City Website: cityofpetaluma.net


MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2011
EVENING SESSION – 7:00 P.M.

CALL TO ORDER – EVENING SESSION

A. Roll Call

Council Members Albertson, Barrett, Harris, Kearney and Renée; Mayor Glass;
Vice Mayor Healy

B. Pledge of Allegiance
C. Moment of Silence

AGENDA CHANGES AND DELETIONS (Changes to current agenda only.)

PROCLAMATION

Sonoma County Fair and Exposition – Seventy-Fifth Anniversary - 2011

REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION (ACTIONS TAKEN)

PUBLIC COMMENT

The public is invited to make comments on items of public interest that are within the City Council’s subject matter
jurisdiction and that are not listed on the agenda at this time. Public comments are limited to 3 minutes per person.
Before addressing the City Council, please fill out a speaker card and submit it to the City Clerk. Speaker cards help the presiding Council Member manage the meeting and afford all those that wish to address the Council an opportunity to speak.

Please be ready to step forward to the microphone as soon as the previous speaker has concluded his/her
comments. The public may address the City Council concerning items listed on the agenda before or during
consideration of the item.
(Cal. Gov’t. Code §54954.3(a), Petaluma City Council Rules, Policies and Procedures, III(A))

COUNCIL COMMENT

CITY MANAGER COMMENT

1. APPROVAL OF PROPOSED AGENDA ...
2...
3...

4. NEW BUSINESS

A. Adoption of Resolution Providing Temporary Appropriations of $50 Million Dollars to
Allow for Normal City Operations Beginning July 1, 2011, and Resolution Providing
Temporary Appropriations of $20 Million Dollars to Allow for Normal Operations of the
Petaluma Community Development Corporation Beginning July 1, 2011. (Mahoney)
- Title change – Revision #1 – June 16, 2011

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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Colleen Fernald
To: johnJ <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, June 20, 2011 1:06:26 PM
Subject: 3 Important items for today

1)Petaluma City Council emergency spending #4 on the agenda - speak to them tonight 7pm

https://www.cityofpetaluma.net/ccler...110620Rev1.pdf

2)Libya and NATO, George Will's piece, he's an unlikely ally

3)War Powers vote in House -Tell all local, State and Federal elected reps - NO MORE UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAR NOW!! Uphold your oath of office, or resign.

1)https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...gency-spending

Petaluma may OK emergency spending

$70 million sought; talks continue with city employees over possible cuts, layoffs

By LORI A. CARTER
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Published: Monday, June 20, 2011 at 3:59 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 20, 2011 at 3:59 a.m.
Petaluma City Council members will be asked tonight to approve $70 million in temporary spending to maintain city operations.

The move is necessary to continue funding payroll, operations and redevelopment functions after the current fiscal year ends June 30.

City Manager John Brown and interim Finance Director Susan Mahoney said they anticipate bringing a balanced budget proposal to the council for hearings in August.

That forecast hinges partly on the success of ongoing negotiations with the 10 bargaining groups that represent most of the city's nearly 300 employees.
...

2) https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...line-of-Libya-

WILL: What is the mission and timeline of Libya?

By GEORGE F. WILL
Published: Monday, June 20, 2011 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 17, 2011 at 7:06 p.m.
America’s intervention in Libya’s civil war, the most protracted and least surreptitious assassination attempt in history, was supposed to last “days, not weeks,” but is in its fourth month and has revealed NATO to be an increasingly fictitious military organization.

Although this war has no discernible connection with U.S. national security, it serves the national interest, in three ways. It is awakening some legislators to their responsibilities. It is refuting the pretense that the U.N. sets meaningful parameters to wars it authorizes — or endorses, which is quite different. And it is igniting a reassessment of NATO, a Potemkin alliance whose primary use these days is perverse: It provides a patina of multilateralism to U.S. military interventions on which Europe is essentially a free rider.
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3) In print but not online: War Powers vote in House, page A3

From Yahoo News:

Libyan officials say NATO hits civilian house
By Nick Carey
9*mins*ago
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan officials said on Sunday a NATO strike had hit a civilian house in the capital Tripoli, killing several residents, and NATO said it was investigating the claim, which could sow new doubts about its mission.

On another front in the four-month-old battle to force out Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, a doctor in the city of Misrata said eight rebel fighters had been killed and 36 wounded in fighting with government troops.
In the early hours of Sunday, reporters were taken by Libyan government officials to a residential area in Tripoli's Souq al-Juma district where they saw a body being pulled out of the rubble of a destroyed building.
Later, in a hospital, they were shown the bodies of two children and three adults who, officials said, were among a total of seven people killed in the strike.

"There was intentional and deliberate targeting of the civilian houses," deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said at the site. "This is another sign of the brutality of the West."

There was no way for reporters to verify that all the bodies they were shown came from the building.
"NATO is looking into reports of civilian casualties following NATO air strikes in the early hours of June 19," the alliance said in a statement from Naples, from where it is running the Libyan operation...

[Speak2Truth]

The case can be made for sending our troops to Afghanistan to eliminate the Al Qaeda training center that churned out 20,000 graduates during the hands-off period of the 1990s. The case can be made to send our troops to eliminate Saddam Hussein's regime that began an international Blitzkrieg to seize control of Middle East oil, then sent Ramzi Yousef to orchestrate massive terrorist attacks inside the US when we stopped his military forces.

The case can be made to uphold our Geneva Convention obligations in both cases, keeping our troops there until those obligations are met.

But... Libya?

I am reminded of when Clinton sent our forces to bomb the hell out of Serbia when Serbia was trying to fight off the Kosovo Liberation Army, an Islamist group, backed by Al Qaeda, carving out yet another piece of "Muslim soil".

The Muslim Brotherhood may appreciate Obama's help - but don't expect them to stop calling us the Great Satan. They have an agenda that will not be stopped by temporary gratitude for our helping progress their agenda. Clinton's assistance to Al Qaeda did not change their agenda against us. Let's learn from history. Let's have "Change", not more of the same.