City Stalling Release of Constituents' Comments to Councilmembers re "Meatless Mondays"

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(June 2, 2015, 5:15 a.m.) -- Long Beach City Hall is stalling release of constituents' comments to their Councilmembers regarding a resolution recommending that Long Beach residents not eat meat on Mondays ("Meatless Mondays.") The measure, which is advisory only, has drawn strongly negative reactions from residents on social networks, emails and an instant poll, primarily on grounds that the Council should be attending to more important matters and/or shouldn't be telling people what to eat.

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On May 20, the day after the Council voted 7-2 (Supernaw and Mungo dissenting) to direct the City Attorney to prepare a formal resolution on the matter, LBREPORT.com made a request under the CA Public Records Act to see what members of the public were telling their Councilmembers and by what margins. As of the end of the business day Monday June 1, the City hadn't produced the documents. Later today (Tues. June 2), the Council is scheduled to vote on the formal "Meatless Monday" resolution.

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