INSIDE SCOOP

-- Compiled by Eron Ben-Yehuda, Angelique Flores, and Andrew Wainer

PUTTING THE COUNCIL TO BED

For residents who suffered through last week’s Huntington Beach City

Council meeting, which ended at 12:45 a.m., city planning director Howard

Zelefsky said you don’t know the true meaning of pain.

“You should feel lucky,” he said.

When he worked for the city of West Hollywood, Zelefsky recalled that

council meetings regularly dragged on until 3 a.m. What saved him, on

occasion, were the homeless people whoslept in the auditorium where the

meetings were held. The transients would come in around midnight to

sleep, and the council felt guilty about keeping them awake, Zelefsky

said.

TRYING TO KEEP THE FLEET

Several members of the Fleet Reserve Assn. attended the last Fountain

Valley City Council meeting to present a plaque to Mayor Guy Carrozzo.

After the presentation early in the meeting, the members made their exit.

“We have a dynamite consent calendar!” said Councilman John Collins, in a

facetious attempt to keep the Fleet Reserve members, who made up almost

half the audience.

BREAKOUT ROLEHuntington Beach Union High School District Supt.

Susan Roper has faced sexism in her life.

As a girl growing up in Santa Ana, some school officials tried to

relegate her to traditional female roles, she said.

“I wanted to take wood shop in high school,” Roper said. “But they told

me girls should know how to cook and sew.”

But, not being able to take wood shop didn’t keep Roper from breaking out

of the traditional female role. Roper was senior class president of Santa

Ana High School.