Some other things to think about...

Does anyone think the timing of the Earth First announcement being after the election is a coincidence?

I hear that the city is talking about layoffs to be announced soon - sometime around the first of the year?  This after being told by Mayor Varela and others that this budget involved no lay-offs of city employees.

One gets the sense that the wheels were meant to stay on the wagon until just after the election.  After that point, the wheels fall off and we're left experiencing what we have known all along.

My prediction:  The beach is the next wheel to come off the wagon.  Groundbreaking in June 2011 according to Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill during the campaign - $6 million for the building, no more.