This article addresses three separate issues: the collapse of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, the death of a pit bull at a San Jose animal shelter, and the potential for lower electricity rates in California.
In your coverage of the very sad collapse of 150 feet off the end of the half-mile Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, you focus on bird protection and a community group’s lawsuit as delaying needed repairs. This is inaccurate. Neither birds nor the lawsuit delayed the much-needed piling replacement at the wharf’s end. In 2014, the city’s engineering report documented that 5% of the wharf’s 4,445 pilings were sufficiently damaged to require replacement.
The city has had 10 years to replace those pilings. Work at the vulnerable end of the wharf started only this year after one of those pilings failed in the storm of 2023. Our lawsuit, filed in 2022 in response to the city’s inadequate environmental review of its plan to significantly alter the historic wharf, specifically stated that all maintenance work, including pile replacement, could proceed without challenge during that time period. On Dec. 3, a cute pit bull by the name of Rufus, who had been at the San Jose Animal Care Center for 11 months, underwent a simple neuter surgery performed by the shelter’s medical director. Post-op, Rufus was placed back in his original kennel. There was no indication in the medical record that he was being monitored. Later, he was found by staff with no heartbeat. At a recent City Council meeting, the shelter’s medical director, when explaining the death of Rufus, told elected officials and the concerned public that “there was no neglect, no fault. It was a freak accident.” Yet no cause of death was given. Sadly, there has been no third-party medical investigation of Rufus’ death to help restore the public trust. I made a request to a deputy city manager for a third-party investigation that was ignored. California ratepayers have been asking for lower electricity rates. If rates actually moderate as suggested in this article, thank you, PG&E. Stabilization of electricity rates with hope for reductions will help our fight to lower carbon emission
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