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The next two regularly scheduled City Council meetings have been cancelled.
The council won’t meet on Monday or the first week in September. Its next regular meeting will be Sept. 15.
The cancellations are because of a need for the city’s staff to catch up on its workload after a period of busy activity.
That included the implementation of a two-year budget and several capital improvement projects.
The cancellations will save the city an estimated $3,000 in staff preparation, video production and other costs, City Manager Bob Perrault said.
The cancelled meetings won’t cause any delays in meeting deadlines for pending issues by the time of the Sept. 15 meeting, Perrault said.
—Nick Wilson
Pismo Beach
The City Council recently voted to give $22,000 to its Conference & Visitors Bureau to help fund the California Welcome Center at the Prime Outlets.
The center, which opened nearly two years ago, has had more than 575,000 visitors. It’s the most visited welcome center in the state, according to staff reports.
The $22,000 needed annually will help the Prime Outlets keep it operating and staffed regularly with two employees.
The center gives visitors information and maps on local hotels and tourist activities.
—Dawn White
Paso Robles
The inaugural Paso Digital Film Festival will honor film editor Joel Cox with the Ignace Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award this fall.
Cox has worked with actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood for more than 30 years.
His film credits include “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Blood Work,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Absolute Power,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “A Perfect World” and “Unforgiven,” for which he won an Academy Award for Best Editor in 1992.
Cox has spent his entire career at Warner Bros., starting in 1961. The relationship began in 1975 when Cox worked as an assistant editor on “The Outlaw Josey Wales.”
He just finished the soon-to-be- released Eastwood film “Changeling,” and presently is working on “Gran Torino,” starring and directed by Eastwood.
The festival is scheduled to take place Nov. 20 through 25.
—Tribune staff report
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