It was certainly nice to see San Bruno City Manager Hedley and Public Works Director Chadd busy sending work crews out to put plastic covers over the hills in the Crestmoor Drive - Madison Ave. and Fernwood areas of San Bruno after massive mudslides began dragging homes down the hill and burying San Bruno resident's property in mud. Too bad Mr. Hedley and his staff didn't follow the advice of homeowners in these areas who have been telling Mr. Hedley and his staff to take preventative measures to shore up the vacant property where the mudslides occurred.

You would think that in view of the complaints they received from San Bruno residents living in the Crestmoor area and all of the advance warning the National Weather Service and meteorologists around the world gave about the dangers of El Niņo that City Manager Hedley (who San Bruno taxpayers are paying about $118,530 per year with a lucrative severance package plus benefits) would have acted so as to protect or significantly mitigate the potential damage to the private properties that were threatened by the unstable condition of the adjacent, vacant property before the winter rains came in 1995, 1996, or 1997. It appears that nothing or almost nothing was done, and now we have homes sliding down hills and property being destroyed by rivers of mud while San Bruno residents, without landslide insurance, are being forced to abandon their homes and live in motels or shelters.