{"id":5214,"date":"2009-04-20T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2009-04-20T12:54:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:54:45","slug":"tuesday-is-pack-the-council-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5214","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Is Pack The Council Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow evening (April 21, 2009) is officially &#8220;Pack The City Council Chambers&#8221; night as City Council will be reconsidered something they&#8217;ve reconsidered several times already: the fate of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?s=%22Alga+Norte+Park%22\" target=\"_blank\">Alga Norte Park<\/a><\/strong> something we like to call it the Alga Norte Skatepark. (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/carlsbad.granicus.com\/MetaViewer.php?view_id=&amp;event_id=5&amp;meta_id=40411\" target=\"_blank\">AB#19.780<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>City Councilman <strong>Keith Blackburn<\/strong> is so interested in all of us attending that he&#8217;s reportedly calling 40,000 people, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/apr\/19\/1mc19park191135-calling-support-park-plan-8211-lit\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For about $2,000, Blackburn has taken the unprecedented step of hiring a company that operates an electronic \u201cphone tree\u201d to reach as many of Carlsbad&#8217;s 40,000 households as possible today with a 30-second, recorded message from the councilman. . .Blackburn is urging residents to show up at a council meeting, set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, at which the proposed park will be discussed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that the citizens have to show up to remind the City Council that we need a new swim complex and skateboard park is crazy in our opinion, but looks like we&#8217;re all going to have to go anyway as it apparently is the only way members of the City Council ever hear anything.<\/p>\n<p>Building parks should be the one thing that the City Council does on their own, but apparently, they need our help. Be there Tuesday evening at 6 PM. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/apr\/19\/1mc19park191135-calling-support-park-plan-8211-lit\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow evening (April 21, 2009) is officially &#8220;Pack The City Council Chambers&#8221; night as City Council will be reconsidered something they&#8217;ve reconsidered several times already: the fate of the Alga Norte Park something we like to call it the Alga Norte Skatepark. (AB#19.780) City Councilman Keith Blackburn is so interested in all of us attending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}