Seven reps for five districts a good...
Seven reps for five districts a good plan
My thoughts on how best to solve the debate on district
representation is to divide the city into five districts so that
everyone living here has someone they can go to with their problems.
Five council members is too small for a city our size, so I propose
to have an additional two council members elected at large for a
total of seven elected members.
ERNEST E. ANDRASIK
Huntington Beach
Art center is a great asset to the city
I hope that anyone who wants to criticize the Huntington Beach Art
Center (Mailbag Feb. 6) will first have attended one of its Sunday
afternoon jazz shows, which I think are held quarterly. I have
attended four of these events and each has been terrific. I think the
art center is a great asset to the city.
PAUL HORGAN
Huntington Beach
Attack on Leipzig was way off base
The writer in the Feb. 6 Independent (Mailbag) so critical of Vic
Leipzig is attacking the man, not the issues. He may be
“disappointed,” but he also lacks understanding. I know Vic Leipzig
as man of great character, reason and good will. He was fair, prudent
and responsible as a City Council member and he continues to
demonstrate his concern for the well being of our community.
He is an advocate for alternative sources of clean water. In our
semi-arid circumstances, this is a good thing. The Poseidon project
proposes to build a water desalinization plant on land formerly
occupied by Edison oil tanks. Leipzig also supported the Hyatt
builder’s offer to mitigate the loss of the “Little Shell” wetlands.
The offer would have offset the loss of a seven tenths of an acre of
degraded freshwater wetland bordered by Beach Boulevard near Pacific
Coast Highway in return for a four to one expansion and restoration
of 2.8 acres of freshwater wetlands in Shipley Nature Center at
Central Park.
True, not everybody agreed, but the offer was supported by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the California Department of Fish and
Game, the city of Huntington Beach, the California Coastal Commission
and me. He and his wife, Louann Murray, write “Natural Perspectives,”
consistently the best column in this newspaper. Disagree with him if
you like but Vic Leipzig has been an asset to our community since the
day he arrived.
PHIL SMITH
Huntington Beach
A letter in the Independent (Feb. 6) complimented me on what I had
to say about environmental issues when I was elected to the City
Council.
The letter did not mention that I have spent 21 years in this
community backing up my talk with action. Not a week has gone by in
my years in Huntington Beach that I haven’t dedicated some volunteer
hours to one environmental cause or another. From Bolsa Chica to the
Huntington Wetlands, from Central Park to our beaches, I’ve done what
I can to protect and restore our natural resources. And, unlike the
letter writer, I’ve done it by drawing attention to the substantive
issues, not by attacking the integrity of people with whom I
disagree.
VIC LEIPZIG
Huntington Beach
Brockway does a good job for the city
Connie Brockway, elected city clerk of Huntington Beach, has
served her city with great honesty and intelligence. At all times she
always tried to do the right thing. Differences of ways to do a
certain job often occur. This does not mean that one person is right
and the other person is wrong. Connie does her work for the people of
Huntington Beach to the best of her ability. Thanks to Connie for
saving the records of Huntington Beach for future generations.
VI COWDEN
Huntington Beach
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