Monday’s City Council meeting will begin at 5 p.m. according to Monday’s agenda due to two closed session items that need to be heard earlier in the day. During the closed session, which begins at 4 p.m., a conference will be held with negotiators from the Pas... More »
Michelle Perera, the director of libraries and information has resigned effective Feb. 16, according to a letter from City Manager Cynthia Kurtz sent to city councilmembers on Tuesday. Perera has taken a position with the city of Sunnyvale. “Michelle was a s... More »
Local COVID-19 daily case numbers and the testing- positivity rate are trending downward, indicating Los Angeles County appears to have “passed the peak” of the Omicron variant surge, but virus transmission remains at one of the highest points of the pandemic,... More »
Municipal Services Committee Chair and Vice Mayor Andy Wilson wants to use word-of-mouth to get more Pasadena residents online. On Tuesday Wilson asked the city’s Department of Information Technology to conduct outreach to communities in Pasadena which do not ... More »
The Municipal Services Committee unanimously approved on Tuesday the Pasadena Water and Power’s (PWP) 2021 Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) Update, which may result in an estimated 2.7 percent average annual rate increase in customers’ electric bill. The a... More »
Supervisor Kathryn Barger voiced her strong opposition to a motion passed by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to extend and expand emergency renter eviction protections through 2023. “The bottom line is public health experts are advising that we are not go... More »
The City Council approved election resolutions calling for a Primary Municipal Election for City Council members in Districts 3, 5, and 7 to be held on June 7 and the General Municipal Election, if necessary, on November 8. Perspective candidates can pull pape... More »
State Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – Pasadena) testified yesterday during the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in strong support of a $1 million grant from the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC) to the One Arroyo Foundation. “One Arroyo is a great... More »
Rep. Judy Chu (D-Pasadena) and House Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez (NY-07) sent a letter to the Small Business Administration (SBA) requesting the agency’s partnership in making improvements to the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) p... More »
The Planning Commission will receive an information item on a zoning code amendment that would allow affordable housing to be built on church property. City staff has been exploring the establishment of regulations that would allow affordable housing as a perm... More »
As part of Monday’s consent calendar, the City Council voted to authorize City Manager Cynthia Kurtz to enter into a $765,467 contract with Los Angeles County to execute one related $800,000 amendment to provide homelessness prevention, rapid rehousing, coordi... More »
The City Council approved spending $165,528 on automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) as the city continues to amp up safety measures to deal with recent shootings. The system uses high-speed cameras and sophisticated software to capture and convert license p... More »
