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.
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