Another ‘Week That Wasn’t

Is the worldwide trend of downsizing affecting “The Week That Was,” city hall’s insider newsletter? Newsletter recipients are asking if the airing on blogs is causing City Manager Dennis Wilberg to cut back on what he releases.

The Feb. 27 “Week” contains little insider stuff. Wilberg reports 1) a Mission Viejo resident who died in 2008 had established a trust fund to benefit the library, 2) Mission Viejo will be listed on a real estate Website as one of the 10 safest cities, 3) LensCrafters acquired Pearle Vision, and Pearle Vision’s location in the mall will become a children’s clothing store, 4) a Relay for Life Tennis Tournament raised nearly $2,000 for charity.

The Feb. 27 newsletter gives yet another plug for the Rose Parade float, a project widely criticized by residents as wasteful and inappropriate. The city has produced a DVD of “Making a Splash in the Tournament of Roses Parade.” For those who haven’t had enough of the city’s expense of $362,000-plus, the float has been memorialized on DVD at an undisclosed cost. Float riders and others have received their “free” (paid for by taxpayers) copy.

A blog reader got it right several months ago, dubbing the float “Mission Viejo Takes a Bath.”