Sara Rubin here, thinking about the relativity of time. For example: Is recovery in Pajaro moving fast, or slow? The answers vary widely depending on your perspective.
I joined my colleagues Celia Jiménez and Katie Rodriguez today, along with other members of the Monterey County press corps, to attend a press conference hosted by the County of Monterey for an annual progress report on Pajaro flood relief projects. The state gave an unprecedented $20 million to the County of Monterey to spend for Pajaro’s post-flood recovery. The County undertook an unprecedented process of holding community meetings, engaging one-on-one with residents and gathering feedback on how to spend the money. That process culminated with a proposal one year ago to the County Board of Supervisors, which approved a plan for allocating the $20 million to support the goal of helping the community recover for the long term, instead of going back to feeling forgotten, only to wait for the next disaster.
Jiménez reviewed the progress report in advance, for a news story that appears in tomorrow’s print edition of the Weekly. New information announced today included a list of the 22 nonprofit recipients of nearly $2 million in grant funds, distributed via the Community Foundation for Monterey County…