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Guess What? Now It's Open Sesame for Promoters in Berkeley!

Friday May 15, 2015 - 03:49:00 PM
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Now you see it, now you don't. The "Authorized Personel Only" sign which used to be here has vanished.
Mike O'Malley
Now you see it, now you don't. The "Authorized Personel Only" sign which used to be here has vanished.
Promoter (and former city employee) Mark Rhoades and Councilmember Susan Wengraf in conference last week at the council meeting. Note sign on door.
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Promoter (and former city employee) Mark Rhoades and Councilmember Susan Wengraf in conference last week at the council meeting. Note sign on door.
This is the sign that was on the door of the Berkeley City Council's back room last week.
This is the sign that was on the door of the Berkeley City Council's back room last week.

At the Zoning Adjustment Board meeting last night, attendees were mightily amused to discover that the "Authorized Personnel Only" sign which formerly graced the door of the private offices behind the dais where the Berkeley City Council holds court had been removed. Is it possible this had something to do with the fact that developer Joseph Penner's front man Mark Rhoades, a former City employee, was photographed at the last council meeting talking to a councilmember in front of said door and seen going behind it a couple of times? Are lobbyists now authorized to go into the back room?