Photo by Gary Field

LBPD was visible on-scene investigating this morning outside the business in the 4300 block of E. Carson St. (5th Council district.)

Initial information is understandably sketchy. LBPD Public Information Officer Marlene Arrona tells LBREPORT.com that officers were dispatched at about 8:10 a.m. today (Sept. 9) to a business with a broken window in the 4300 block of E. Carson St. after a passerby noticed a broken window & phoned police

Officers determined that a burglary had occurred; the extent of any loss isn't immediately available.

Photo by Gary Field

As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, newly elected 5th district Councilwoman Stacy Mungo seconded a Sept. 2 motion by 4th dist. Councilman Patrick O'Donnell in the Council's Budget Oversight Committee (Lowenthal, O'Donnell, Mungo) to recommend Council approval of Mayor Robert Garcia's FY15 budget recommendations with some Committee recommended changes but no additional FY15 budgeted police officers for taxpayers. Previous Councils cut roughly 200 officers in budget votes since Sept. 2009.

The Council's FY15 budget includes the complete elimination of LBPD's field anti-gang unit...but at Mayor Garcia's recommendation funds a new "Economic and Property Development Department." "The new department will also work with City Council offices and Business Improvement Districts on business recruitment and business advocacy. The department brings together staff from the office of business and property development and asset management, and therefore does not require any additional funds," Mayor Garcia wrote in his budget recommendations..

Following the Budget Oversight Committee's vote, the Council voted 8-0 (O'Donnell absent on the vote, entered Council Chamber shortly thereafter) to approve the Garcia-recommended budget plus a floor amendment (pressed by Councilwoman Suzie Price) to allocate an additional $350,000 to LBPD to deal with residential burglaries.

Later today (Sept. 9), the Council is scheduled to cast a second (enacting) vote on its approaved FY15 budget.