Latest Pro-Sales-Tax-Hike Contribs Include More From Riverwalk Developer + Firm Providing Engineering Services For Port's Pier B Rail Yard + Asphalt Contractor For Pine Ave. Project; Total Contribs Collected (Cash + Non-Monetary) Now $389k

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JetBlue + OC Firefighters Union + Ventura Firefighters Union + Operating Engrs Union PAC Put Pro-Tax Hike Contribs At $401,000+

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(June 1, 2016, 1:30 a.m.) -- JetBlue Airways Corporation, plus Orange County and Ventura County Firefighters Union PACs and a Pasadena-based Operating Engineers Union PAC have brought total contributions to over $401,000 for the political campaign committee supporting LB City Hall's ballot measure (Measure A) that would raise LB's sales tax to 10% (currently 9% in Lakewood/Signal Hill and 8% in most OC cities) for any general fund items the Mayor and Council wish.

May 25: Firefighters for Better Government, Camarillo, CA	$2,500
May 24: Operating Engineers Local Union 12 Political Fund, Pasadena, CA	$5,000
May 23: JetBlue Airways Corporation, Rockville MD	$2,500
May 23: Orange County Professional Firefighters Ass'n, Santa Ana, CA	$2,000

Contributions to the "Mayor Garcia, Foster & O'Neill Committee to Support Measures A & B to Protect Police & Fire and Repair Infrastructure in Long Beach. Major Funding by Long Beach Police Officers Association PAC and Long Beach Firefighters PAC, Local 372" have have now reached $401,191 (a total that includes $36,941 in non-monetary contributions.)

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As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, other sums received by the Committee in May include:

May 17: Integral Partners Funding, Newport Beach, CA [Integral Communities is Riverwalk developer (former Will Reid Scout Camp site)]	$5,000
May 17: HDR, Inc, Omaha, NE [Firm providing engineering services for Port's Pier B railyard]	$5,000
May 17: All American Asphalt, Corona, CA [City contractor for Pine Ave. improvement project]	$5,000

May 5: Laborers Int'l Union of North America, Local 1309	$40,000
May 5: Southern CA District Council of Laborers PAC	$40,000
May 5: So. CA Pipe Trades District Council 16	$50,000
May 10: West Coast Arborists [on May 10, 2016, Council approved $1.8 million contract to handle LB tree trimming]	$ 500
May 20: District Council of Iron Workers PAC	$5,000
May 21: BYD America Corporation [LB Transit choice for electric bus contract]	$2,500
May 21: CRC Services, LLC [website text: "oil and gas operations...include THUMS Long Beach Company [operates offshore portion of Wilmington Field] and Tidelands Oil Production Company [operates onshore portion of Wilmington Field..."]	$5,000
April 6: Lyon Communities and Affiliated Entities [owns "Pumpkin Patch" parcel on PCH in SE LB and has various LB residential/apartment holdings]	$16,000 [May 25, 11:50 p.m. update: Committee campaign treasurer Mark Taylor indicates this amount is an in-kind contribution of office space]

May 17	Darren McElroy, President, Environmental Construction Group Signal Hill, CA [LBREPORT.com note: Contractor for demolition of old LB courthouse. Source: company website here.]	$5,000
May 17	The Long Beach Project Owners, LLC Newport Beach, CA 92660 [LBREPORT.com note: The Long Beach Project was among the listed litigation parties that prevailed at the trial court level against CARP [Citizens About Responsible Planning] which challenged the City's EIR for the 8th dist. Riverwalk project.]	$5,000
May 15	Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters Political Action Fund Los Angeles	$20,000
May 15	United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local Union 112	$3,000
May 12	CCE Consulting Group, LLC Hawthorne, CA [LBREPORT.com note: LinkedIn.com lists Erick Verduzco-Vega as a partner in CCE Consulting Group. Mr. Verduzco-Vega was one of Mayor Garcia's Oct. 2014 appointees to the LB Planning Commission.]	$1,000
May 12	The Gallos, Inc. Long Beach 90802	$1,000
May 11	Shooshani Fahrshad President Etc. Real Estate Services, Inc West Hollywood, CA [LBREPORT.com note: We found no LB connections to Shooshani Fahrshad (or Fahrshad Shooshani), but a prominent LB figure, Tony Shooshani is listed on Downtown LB Associates website as the owner representative for LB's downtown City Place and serves on DLBA's Board of Directors.]	$5,000
May 6	Mike Walter [title for ID], Exec. Ass't to CSULB President [and former LB Harbor Comm'r.]	$1,000
May 2	Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 11 PAC	$10,000
May 2	James Callahan, chairman, Metropolitan Stevedore	$2,500
May 2	Frank Colonna, Real Estate Broker	$500

To launch the campaign, LB's police officers union PAC gave the campaign committee $100,000 and LB's firefighters union PAC gave the campaign committee $50,000, and together contributed roughly $21,000 as in-kind contributions to pay for a survey that contended the public would support a sales tax increase if told that it would fund police, fire and infrastructure.

Lyon s Communities and Affiliated Entities gave the campaign committee a $16,000 in kind contribution for office space.

Measure A doesn't mention police, fire, infrastructure of any specific items. It is legally a general tax that the current and future Council can spend on any general fund items. In putting the measure on the ballot, the Council approved a non-binding resolution stating the Council's "intent" to prioritize spending of the tax revenue on police, fire and infrastructure; it will also create a "citizen advisory committee" (chosen by the Mayor) that can review but not change Mayor recommended and Council approved spending.

Vote by mail ballots began flying May 9. Election Day is June 7.