Who Reads Yesterday's Papers?
From the week that was...
-After an extensive, nation-wide search, Gavin announced a new head of the Parks & Recs Department-- the guy who was in charge already. Your new boss of the Parks & Rec Department is the same as the old boss, Yomi Agunbiade. As SFist has done our fair share of temping, we always love it when the temp gets the full-time gig. Gavin also promised major shakeups to the department, including some sort of volunteer thingy modeled after his Project Homeless Connect volunteer thingy (but hopefully, not like his pretty much laughed at litter volunteer thingy).
--She's back! Marjorie Knoller, the lady from the Dog Mauling trial (and boy, do we wish SFist was around back then for that-- now that was a trial), is going to get tried again as the California State Supreme Court voted to re-open the case. Seems that they think the judge who reduced her conviction might not have done the right thing. If the State Court finds that the judge shouldn't have reduced her sentence, she'll go back to prison, a fate that will upset no one.
-The Rincon Development is now a go after Chris Daly negotiated a deal with the project's developers. The deal calls for the developers to kick in $25 per square foot with the money, $14 of which will go to help subsidize housing and jobs programs in the area. Hey, mo money! Which, of course, means (cue guitar riff and claymation burger) everybody wants some. See the money is supposed to go only to the SOMA area, which just coincidentally happens to be Daly's district, not to mention the area that will be impacted the most by the development. Jake McGoldrick, who represents a completely different district, however, wants some of that money to go his way, as does Sophie Maxwell. Both are proposing different resolutions as to where the money should go. So, naturally, Gavin gets protested.
-Is anyone else disappointed that the actress who broke Vince's heart in "Entourage" is Mandy Moore? Couldn't it have been like Jessica Alba or someone? So disappointed.
-The Bay Guardian's public enemy #1, or at least right after PG&E, Donald Fisher, Gavin, and the SF Weekly, Arlene Ackerman told the Chron that she was thinking about quitting. For like the hundredth time. Some say that Arlene's threatened to quit so many times that one day everyone will have enough and just tell her to quit already. By the way, she's got a buy-out in her contract for $375,000 if it's deemed her relationship with the School Board is too unworkable. Considering all the crap she has to put up with, deserving or not, if we were her and had that much money on the table for leaving, we'd do as much as we could to get let go-- steal office equipment, take three hour lunches, download internet porn-- you name it.
-Feeling down? Need some inspiration? Want to know how to cope in these dark times? The Learning Annex has just the thing for you: Amber Frey;s teaching a class called "How to Change Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping Stones." And if somebody knows how to cope with serious life issues, it's her. We hear the original title of the class was "How to Increase Your Fifteen Minutes of Fame for Sleeping with a Adultering Murderer" but was rejected for not being inspirational enough (shout out goes to Brian at the the Bay Area is Talking for the story).