We were quite taken with the report on the recent Pasadena City Council meeting about the plan for Hahamongna Annex by our friend Petrea Burchard (the photographer/writer behind Pasadena Daily Photo). So we wanted to share it in case you missed it. Gives a person hope in this time of Congressional incompetence. Here’s the lead and the link to her report:

“Monday night I went to my first Pasadena City Council meeting. Because so many of you commented on Monday’s post, where I expressed concern for the fate of the Hahamongna Annex, I thought I’d report back.

“Everybody won!

That’s the gist of it. Everybody got some of what they wanted. Nobody got all of what they wanted. In other words, democracy worked.”

read more at Pasadena Daily Photo

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