With the Sebastopol Downtown Association seemingly dead in the water, a Chamber of Commerce subcommittee of downtown business owners may determine how to spend funds from the business district tax
Really important info here! Thanks for explaining all of these situations that are happening behind the scenes that are affecting our business in town. We want to do everything we can to support them. I hope, as Danielle stated so clearly, that more events need to be planned to bring people into downtown. As well as that all small businesses feel they are being heard and supported. They all work so hard and we are LUCKY to have such wonderful people running businesses that make our town feel special. I know they are feeling the squeeze right now, we all need to support them as much as we all can.
As a lifelong Sebastopolian, I can confidently point out that the reason people don’t shop in Sebastopol isn’t because of a lack of promotion. It’s because downtown is almost nothing but a bunch of new age shops, probably trust fund baby-owned stores that sell things that real people don’t even want, like crystals and tarot card readings and the godawful hug parties for Perverts.
There isn’t a single music store in Sebastopol anymore and no place to get good food on the run. There are no legitimate clothing stores that would keep people in Sebastopol like Carlson‘s used to. I suspect it’s because of the Berkeley infiltration, in which there are very few native families or businesses left here downtown and only Berkeley Transplants (attorneys mostly, I suspect) who have made themselves useful pawns for the UN Agenda 21 plan, serving on sebastopol’s city council.
Growing up, Sebastopol had everything here and we didn’t have to go to Santa Rosa to shop for anything. Whoever’s been running things the last 20 or 30 years are clearly not native Sebastopolians, clearly don’t have Sebastopol‘s best interest at heart, clearly don’t have Sebastopol children’s or youth’s best interests at heart and don’t have normal people‘s best interests at heart. It appears to be a bunch of outsiders who really don’t give a crap what happens to Sebastopol because they weren’t born here, they didn’t grow up here and they have no affinity, no real affinity, for Sebastopol.
And that, Laura, is what seems to be the problem here in Sebastopol. These city Council outsiders have shoved things down our throat like the homeless RV camp that did nothing but bring a bunch of freeloaders, criminals and bums to Sebastopol (4 murders the first year after the RV camp opened), despite every citizen on that zoom call voting no and voicing their displeasure with that plan. Only one person said yes, everyone else said no, and these outsider city council people approved it anyway, at 8 AM the next day, which means they didn’t even consider anything that all the citizens said. They already had their plan to approve it. Don’t even get me started about the garbage thing, because that was the same hidden agenda.
And as long as Sebastopolian‘s aren’t paying attention to the fact that the city council people they keep electing, who have the most signs or the biggest signs, are not people who even give a crap about Sebastopol, we will keep getting the same bad leadership. Servant leadership, I might add, but this City Council/Mayor team don’t seem to get that: Public SERVANTS serve the CITIZENS (public). We don’t have that here in Sebastopol anymore.
Really important info here! Thanks for explaining all of these situations that are happening behind the scenes that are affecting our business in town. We want to do everything we can to support them. I hope, as Danielle stated so clearly, that more events need to be planned to bring people into downtown. As well as that all small businesses feel they are being heard and supported. They all work so hard and we are LUCKY to have such wonderful people running businesses that make our town feel special. I know they are feeling the squeeze right now, we all need to support them as much as we all can.
As a lifelong Sebastopolian, I can confidently point out that the reason people don’t shop in Sebastopol isn’t because of a lack of promotion. It’s because downtown is almost nothing but a bunch of new age shops, probably trust fund baby-owned stores that sell things that real people don’t even want, like crystals and tarot card readings and the godawful hug parties for Perverts.
There isn’t a single music store in Sebastopol anymore and no place to get good food on the run. There are no legitimate clothing stores that would keep people in Sebastopol like Carlson‘s used to. I suspect it’s because of the Berkeley infiltration, in which there are very few native families or businesses left here downtown and only Berkeley Transplants (attorneys mostly, I suspect) who have made themselves useful pawns for the UN Agenda 21 plan, serving on sebastopol’s city council.
Growing up, Sebastopol had everything here and we didn’t have to go to Santa Rosa to shop for anything. Whoever’s been running things the last 20 or 30 years are clearly not native Sebastopolians, clearly don’t have Sebastopol‘s best interest at heart, clearly don’t have Sebastopol children’s or youth’s best interests at heart and don’t have normal people‘s best interests at heart. It appears to be a bunch of outsiders who really don’t give a crap what happens to Sebastopol because they weren’t born here, they didn’t grow up here and they have no affinity, no real affinity, for Sebastopol.
And that, Laura, is what seems to be the problem here in Sebastopol. These city Council outsiders have shoved things down our throat like the homeless RV camp that did nothing but bring a bunch of freeloaders, criminals and bums to Sebastopol (4 murders the first year after the RV camp opened), despite every citizen on that zoom call voting no and voicing their displeasure with that plan. Only one person said yes, everyone else said no, and these outsider city council people approved it anyway, at 8 AM the next day, which means they didn’t even consider anything that all the citizens said. They already had their plan to approve it. Don’t even get me started about the garbage thing, because that was the same hidden agenda.
And as long as Sebastopolian‘s aren’t paying attention to the fact that the city council people they keep electing, who have the most signs or the biggest signs, are not people who even give a crap about Sebastopol, we will keep getting the same bad leadership. Servant leadership, I might add, but this City Council/Mayor team don’t seem to get that: Public SERVANTS serve the CITIZENS (public). We don’t have that here in Sebastopol anymore.