On <nobr>Nov. 30</nobr>, City Staff Will Ask City Hall Advisory Committee To Recommend Removing Crossing Guards From These Five Locations

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On Nov. 30, City Staff Will Ask City Hall Advisory Committee To Recommend Removing Crossing Guards From These Five Locations

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(Nov. 24, 2016) -- On Wednesday Nov. 30 at 2 p.m., a dozen people (eight residents [one from each Council district nominated by the respective Councilmember; one spot currently vacant] plus the city's traffic engineer and reps from LBPD, LBUSD and PTA) will meet in a 9th floor City Hall conference room to collectively decide, based on traffic and pedestrian data presented by city staff, whether to recommend that the City Council add or remove crossing guards at five locations.

Junipero/7th -- Burbank School
Orange/Hill -- Signal Hill School
Atlantic/Harding -- Powell Academy (Bus Stop)
Locust/Market -- Adams School
Orange/20th -- Renaissance High School (formerly Butler Elementary)

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In recent years, City Hall's "Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee" has more often recommended that the Council remove, rather than add, crossing guards for taxpayers, a budget item ultimately subject to Council approval within LBPD's portion of the City's General Fund.

The low visibility Committee meetings are publicly agendized (at this link), open to the public and public testimony is allowed.

The Committee is required to base its recommendations on criteria specified in a LB Municipal Code section (full text here, adopted by a 1978 LB ballot measure.)

City staff's detailed recommendations for removing crossing guards at the above locations are at this link. Minutes of the Committee's May, 2016 agenda indicate that city staff review of the above locations for possible crossing-guard removal was requested by Cathy Medina, Crossing Guards Supervisor.

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The Committee's volunteer members are: Mark Magdaleno (chair); Mauna Eichner (vice chair) and members Mario Gonzalez, Christina Dunn, Monica Di Fiore, Kathleen Hill, Jimmie Taylor, Doris Felix, and one vacant member positron, plus Eric Widstrand (City Traffic Engineer), Cathy Medina (LBPD Representative), Jodie Storey (PTA Representative) and Paul Bailey, (LBUSD Representative.)

The Committee's recommendations are advisory only to the City Council. At some point in 2017 (perhaps after additional Committee meetings and recommendations on other locations) city management will bring the Committee's recommendations to the City Council (likely during the FY17-18 budget cycle) and a Council majority will ultimately decide.