In response to concerns about the destruction of the CPRB audio records, the City Manager's office is apparently delaying any such "recycling" of the audio tapes. That's what Martin Bernal, assistant City Manager, told me a week or so ago. He noted that until the discussion of the "new model" (the phoney "auditor" model) is resolved--in City Council committee and then through the Council--all the tapes will be preserved.

Leslie Cook, City Clerk, has stated that those who want to can listen to and/or buy copies of old CPRB tapes by going to the City Council offices. She will not, as of yet, allow duplication of the tapes except by purchase.

The library only has tapes for the last year. It is City policy to "recycle" all Commission tapes, but the CPRB has been, up to now, an exception.

Activist pressure may have been responsible for this change in policy. Good work to those who contributed to this effort!