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Continually updated Confirmed LB shootings (fatal + non-fatal + no-hit) since Aug. 1 and homicides since Jan. 1. On July 31, Mayor Garcia recommended a FY19 budget that restored 5 add'l net citywide deployable officers, leaving 186 such officers unrestored. On Sept. 4, Council approved this
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On LBReport.com LBPD Used Mobile App That Caused Certain Texts/Communications To Vanish And Become Inaccessible; City Issues This Statement
Subsequent development above An Unexplained Death In Belmont Shore: 100 block Santa Ana: LBPD Tasers A Man...And He Dies LBREPORT.com Submits Brown Act Cease/Desist Letter Following Mayor's Public Comment Action LBPD PIOs Arantxa Chavarria and Officer Ivan Garcia tell LBREPORT.com that at 11:01 a.m. on Sept. 18 officers responded to reports of gunfire in the area of LB Blvd/Artesia Blvd.; in 1 p.m. hour, Artesia was closed b/w LB Blvd. and 710 freeway in the investigation; officers (per PIO Garcia) found evidence of gunfire and recovered a firearm but all suspects gone; a nearby school was put on a precautionary lockdown lifted as of 1 p.m.. Further to follow.  Subsequent development above: Homeless Parking Lots? Councilmembers Pearce, Gonzalez, Price & Uranga Propose Starting With Two In Unspecified Locations With Portable Toilets/Access To City Homeless Services But No Add'l Police Services Or Publicly-Enforceable Security/Liability Req'ts, Nearly Quarter Million Dollar Cost In First Year Roughly Half For Administrators Three of the supportive Councilmembers use minimal public notice ("weekend surprise") to agendize long-planned item Perspective: Long Beach (Unofficial Tally) Just Hit Total Number Of 2017 Homicides...With Three And A Half Months To Go In 2018; See "Tale of Two Cities" Distribution Of Shootings (Fatal + Non-Fatal + No Person Hit) By Council District VIDEO: Extended Portions Of Presentation Of Concept For Long Beach Aerial Tramway, Connecting Downtown With Shoreline. Presented by Clay Sandidge of Muni-Fed Energy To Meeting of LB Comm'l Real Estate Council  Man Shot To Death, 1200 block Chestnut (roughly 1 mile due north of City Hall) Re Mayor Garcia Allegedly "Hiding" Comments Critical Of His Animal Shelter Stance: DA's Office Takes No Position On Allegations, Say It Handles Criminal Matters And If There's Any Legal Remedy It's A Civil Matter; Director Of Non-Profit Gated Housing Development On Former Will J. Reid Scout Park (4747 Daisy Ave.) Sells All 131 Homes, Offered Starting "In The Low $600,000's" EIR challenge by CARP brought settlement downsizing heights to eliminate three stories, increase parking Perspective / Continuing Series: Rethinking LB's Downtown Shoreline Development: A Former City Hall Needlessly Destroyed A Key Shoreline Attraction; In Upcoming Visioning Process, LB's Current City Hall Can Correct This With No Discussion, Council Authorizes City Staff To Seek $12 Mil State Grant For "Homeless Emergency Aid" By Agreeing To Suspend Strict Application Of LB Ordinances/Rules On Housing, Zoning, Health/Safety Standards, Potentially Letting Homeless Occupy Currently Unspecified Parks, Schools, Vacant or Underutilized City Owned/Operated Facilities AND Sac'to Agency Says City Is Supposed To Do This To Access $12 Mil State Funding For "Homeless Emergency Aid Program" That Would Do This Council voted Sept. 11 without discussion to suspend strict application of LB ordinances/rules on housing, zoning, health/safety standards, potentially letting homeless occupay currently unspecified parks, schools, vacant or underutilized city owned/operated facilities Shots Fired At A Parked/Unoccupied Vehicle, 2300 block Olive; LBPD Locates/Arrests Suspect It's third 6th district shooting within three days Don't Miss Subsequent development above City Hall Can Get $12 Mil For "Homeless Emergency Aid" IF Council Suspends Strict Application Of LB Ordinances/Rules On Housing, Zoning, Health/Safety Standards Potentially Letting Homeless Occupy Parks, Schools, Vacant or Underutilized City Owned/Operated Facilities; What Should Your Councilmember Do? Continuing Series / Perspective: Rethinking LB's Downtown Shoreline Development: Compare What City Hall Promised In 1960 Shoreline Development "Master Plan" (Map) And 1964 City Hall Report (Text) With What The Public Has Now...In Visioning What The Public Should Have In The Future  Argument Escalates To Murder, LBPD Says, When Driver Allegedly Gets Into Argument & Runs Over Man In NLB, Later Crashes Into Parked Car Area 10th/Obispo Man Is Shot/Wounded, 1400 block Rose Ave. (6th Dist) Man Shot To Death, 500 block Rhea (6th Dist.) Garcia Flips Name Of His Retired Councilwoman Schipske At Anti-BBB (3 term-limit instead of 2-plus-write-in) Event: Councilman Austin Told Me In January That Mayor Garcia Had Made A "Deal" Re Term Limits; Austin Denies Such Conversation Rethinking Long Beach's Downtown Shoreline Development: Add'l Info Needed Says City Hall-Hired Consultant On Proposal To Use Private Funds To Rebuild/Operate Cyclone Racer Roller Coaster; See Conceptual Images   U.S. Constitution's 8th Amendment (Cruel & Unusual Punishment) Bars Cities From Prosecuting Homeless Criminally For Sleeping On Public Property If No Sleeping Space Is Practically Available In Any Shelter, Fed'l Appeals Court Rules Taxpayer-Impacting Details On What Council Approved In FY19 City Hall Budget Thin Blue Line: Graph Shows LB's Budgeted Police Level For Taxpayers, Compared To L.A. And Signal Hill In Council Enacted FY19 Budget  Court Approves Agreed/Revised Opposition Ballot Arguments/Rebuttals To Two City Hall-Sought Charter Amendments (Redistricting Comm'n And City Auditor Changes); City Action Doesn't Affect, And Didn't Allege Actionable Flaws In, Argument/Rebuttal In Opposition To Mayor/Council-Sought Term Limits Extension (Measure BBB) As seen LIVE: ELB taxpayer Diana Lejins read aloud portions of a letter from her attorney alleging that that the Water Dept. rate increase (based on Measure M) is unlawful [under Prop 218]. Angela Kimball (resident of LA County "island" (Woodruff at Harco) said she and her neighbors had no opportunity to vote on Measure M (an issue also raised in the attorney's letter.) Ms. Lejins reminded the Council that she is the taxpayer who sued and won a settlement that ended City Hall imposed pipeline fees. A few minutes later, Council without comment votes without dissent to approve Water Dept. rate increase as part of City's FY 19 budget. First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: Is As seen LIVE: On floor motion by Councilman Richardson, City-offered reward raised from $10k to $20k (making total $30k combined with County.) Vote was Perspective / A Developing Series: Rethinking Long Beach's Downtown Shoreline Development  "Building a Better Long Beach" Power Point slide AUDIO / Hear It: City Mgr. Is Mulling $50,000-$100,000 Expenditure For "Educational" Mailers re Mayor/Council Sought Charter Amendments LB Taxpayers Ass'n member Caroline Byrnes gets the answer during Q & A at "Beer & Politics" Start Middle & High School Schooldays No Earlier Than 8:30 a.m.? Sac'to Lawmakers Just Passed A Bill Mandating This To Take Effect July 2021 (Or When School District's Union Contract In Effect In July 2019 Expires); Will Governor Brown Sign It Into Law, Let It Become Law Without His Signature, Or Veto It? CA PTA & American Academy of Pediatrics supported; CA Teachers Ass'n and statewide School Boards Ass'n opposed; State Senators Lara and Nguyen voted "yes"; Ass'yman O'Donnell voted "no" LASD Arrests Supsect For Alleged Sexual Assault Of Female Juvenile In Restroom At Lakewood High And For Alleged Sexual Assault Less Than Three Hours Earlier Of 29 Yr Old Woman In Bellflower |
Editorial: Today's 3 p.m. Non-Study Session "To Receive An Update On The Queen Mary" Editorial: No-Kill Animal Shelter Advocates Spotted Issues Years Ago That Auditor Acknowledges Now; They Deserve A Seat At The Table; Council Should Agendize Discussion Of Auditor's Report; Mayor Should Add, Instead Of Exclude, No Kill Advocates To His "Visioning Task Force" Perspective: A Moral Issue: Hear What LB Fire Chief Said About Firefighting Effects Of Hi-Rise Density...As Mgmt/Mayor Again Fail To Recommend Restoring Downtown Density Fire Engine 101 Editorial: City Auditor's "Performance Audit" On Animal Shelter Gives Pols Political Cover For Budgets That Begat Issues She Identifies Attempting To De-Code Mayor/Council Code of Silence As These Sac'to Bills Advance (SB 905 (4 a.m. Bar Bill) and AB 931 (That LB Police Chief Said Could Endanger Officers And The Public) Perspective / Opinion: Long Beach Charter Amendment Hearings Shrugged This State Law Enacted After City of Bell Scandal Council & I Didn't Raise Taxes, You Did Based on statement by Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia at Long Beach City Council meeting, July 24, 2018  Editorial: Yes: On Price-Supernaw-Austin-Pearce Agenda Item Seeking Feasibility Of Administrative Citations To Deter Fireworks Scofflaws Editorial: Are LB Taxpayers Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago? Editorial: We Say These Decisions By Two LB Mayors, And Past And Present Councilmembers Endorsed By The LB Police Officers Ass'n PAC, Made The Tragic, Fatal "Amnesia File" / Opinion: How LB Residents Lost Their Right To Agendize Items For Council Discussion/Action...And Why Restoring That Right Should Be Priority Reform Now Ediorial: Mayor Orchestrated Commission Photo Op Offers More Important Agenda Opportunity Perspective: Hypodermic Syringe On LB Beach Stabs A Jr. Lifeguard...And It Shouldn't Take A Public Records Act Request To Find Out What Really Happened Editorial: The Community Hospital Deal...For Grown-Ups Statement by the Publisher / Opinion: LBREPORT.com...Now More Than Ever Op-Ed: Things They Need to Tell Us Before They Lease Community Hospital By Gerrie Schipske * * Ms. Schipske, an attorney, served two terms as LB's 5th dist. Councilwoman (2006-2014) and is the author of Historical Hospitals of Long Beach Editorial: Mayor Garcia's Anti-Reform Charter Amendments Perspective: Councilwoman Price Says She Opposes Sac'to Bill That Could Let LB Council Allow 4 a.m. Bar Closings In Parts of LB...But Here's What She Didn't Say And Hasn't Done Editorial: Apply This CA Jury Instruction To Mayor/Councilmembers Who Claim Blank Check Measure M Isn't A Tax Editorial: "Alternative Facts" In Long Beach Perspective: Did Mayor And Your Councilmember Tell You Using Cops As Props  |
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VIDEO: See Highlights of Sept. Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust Nature Walk...And Get Ready For October Event With AUDIO: Mayor Garcia Balks At Restoring 180+ Police Officers He Voted (As A Councilman) To Erase, Defends His And Council's Current Rate Of Restorations Perspective / A Developing Series: Rethinking Long Beach's Downtown Shoreline Development  Graphic created by Dan Gutierrez from SoCal Stair Climbers Facebook page, used with permission. Garcia @ "Beer & Politics":  Gang Detectives Investigate Shots Fired, Motive Unknown, 1600 block E. 1st St. (Alamitos Beach) LBPD Detectives Witness Person In Vehicle Shoot At Person On Sidewalk, Area 8th/Pacific; Victim Not Hit/Runs Away As Detectives Follow Suspect Vehicle, Conduct High Risk Vehicle Stop Anaheim On-Ramp To N. 710, Take Vehicle Occupants Into Custody Man Is Shot/Wounded At Midmorning, 5300 block Long Beach Blvd Assembly Approves 4 a.m. Bar Bill That Includes LB Due To Mayor Garcia's Action; O'Donnell Votes "No"; If Senate OK's Amendments And Governor OK's It, LB Council Will Decide Whether To Allow Alcohol Service To 4 a.m. In LB, And If So, In What Parts of Town This Saturday Morning's Wetlands "Heron Hike" (2 mile nature walk) Will Let You Go Where Nature's Critters (Usually Not People) Are For Educational, Fun Experience Details: See Number Of Police Officers Proposed By Mgm't/Mayor For Neighborhood Responses/Citywide Deployment In FY19 Budget...And Yes, A Council Majority Can Vote To Change This In Upcoming Budget Votes |
First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: Conceptualized Downtown/Waterfront Aerial Tram's Primary Focus Is Transportation, Not Amusement, But Likely Will Be An Attraction, Says Project Proponent; LBREPORT.com Archival Coverage Shows In 2010, Council Voted To Begin Analyzing/Pursuing Similar Project With Multi-Step Process
Aug. 29 earthquake lightly felt in LB: 7:33 p.m. Earthquake, initial magnitude 4.4., approx 2.4 miles N of LaVerne, lightly felt in LB. Eight LB Grassroots Groups Unite To Move Beyond Talk And Take Concerted Political Action, Forming "Long Beach Reform Coalition" Political Action Committee; PAC's First Goal Is Defeat Of Incumbents' Sought Term Limits Extension Follow-Up: Breakwater-Sunken Boat Posed Pollution Risk In Environmentally Sensitive Area; Coast Guard Implemented This Plan To Contain/Mitigate Pollution Threat Sun. Aug. 25 SWAT activity area 9th/Gaviota IS OVER with a suspect in custody. LBPD PIO Detective Jennifer Arzola says in 2 p.m. hour SWAT located suspect inside a residence assisted by a K9 contact. Incident began with officers dispatched about 7:47 a.m. to 900 block Gaviota Ave re a battery with two victims related to the suspect; officer confronted suspect who allegedly pointed a gun at the officer and fled into the residence. One victim was transported earlier today to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Further details above First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: Concept Of Aerial Tramway Between Downtown Areas (Such As Aquarium/Convention Ctr) And South Shore Locations (Such as Queen Mary) Re-Surfaces Assembly Speaker Rendon Joins As Co-Author Of 4 a.m. Bar Bill, Likely Assuring Passage, With LB Included Among Nine CA Test Cities Due To Mayor Garcia's Action If it becomes law, Council (not Mayor) will decide whether to allow 4 a.m. bar closings in LB, and if so, where Council Votes To Hire $50k Consultant To Guide Preparation Of 2020 Tax Increase Ballot Measure(s) -- Potential Debt Bond Or Parcel Property Tax Increase Or Utility Tax Increase Or Other Measures -- That Would Create New City Hall Controlled Revenue Stream For LB Homeless Issues And Development Of Affordable Housing See city staff offered "options" for various tax increases Parks/Rec Dir. Sent This Memo To Mayor/Council Re RoundUp, Citing Contractual, Operational And Cost Factors, Two Days After Uranga-Austin-Supernaw-Mungo Scheduled (Aug. 15) Agenda Item For AND Uranga Backs Away (For Now) From Immediate Council-Ban On RoundUp Weed Killer, Council Seeks Mgm't Report On Alternatives And Costs Two Boys Shot/Wounded At Midafternoon, Walnut Just North Of Anaheim St. (Cambodia Town) LBPD Finds/Seizes These Guns + Meth + Cash Allegedly In These WLB, Central LB and NLB Locations And Makes Felony Arrests  LBPD photo |
Schipske Forms Political Action Committee To Raise/Spend Money "To Fight For Open, Transparent And Accessible Local Gov't"
Says Mayor Garcia/Council incumbents have weakened LB's Campaign Reform Act, enabled by monied special interests; Schipskle says her PAC will give concerned LB residents a way to reach voters and stop these actions Walk-Up Shooter Opens Fire, Misses Hitting Group Of Men, Area 15th/Daisy (1st dist.) Subsequent development aboveCouncilmembers Uranga, Mungo, Supernaw & Austin Agendize Perspective: A Moral Issue: Hear What LB Fire Chief Said About Firefighting Effects Of Hi-Rise Density...As Mgmt/Mayor Again Fail To Recommend Restoring Downtown Density Fire Engine 101 Mulitple Shots Into Car Wound Man In NW NLB LBPD Says Driver Traveling At High Rate of Speed On Cherry Ave. Approaching San Antonio/Del Amo, Hit Back Of Another Vehicle, Swerved Into Palm Tree, And Didn't Survive; She's a 32 Yr Old LB Resident LB Police Chief Said This Advancing Sac'to Bill Could Endanger Officers And Public Safety; [UPDATE] It's Sent To A Committee For "Discussions With Stakeholders" But Author's Office Says It's Very Much Alive And Expects Senate Floor Vote Continuing Coverage: SB 828 That Would Significantly Change Calculation Of Regional And LB "Housing Need" Numbers, Including Weighing Demographic Factors (And Likely Affecting Future Land Use Density/Location Decisions) Advances To Potential Final Passage City of LB On-Record Opposed But Mayor/Council Mum To Date; See Records Of LB's Sac'to Reps Continuing Coverage: 4 a.m. Bar Bill -- With LB Included Due To Action By Mayor Garcia -- Advances To Assembly Floor For Near-Final Vote Measure Is Backed By LB Downtown Interests And LB Chamber; Garcia Says Council Should Limit 4 a.m. Time To "Downtown" And "Special Events"; LB Councilmembers Mum Except Price Who Opposes The Bill, So Does Ass'yman O'Donnell; State Sen. Lara (Ins. Comm'r Candidate) Is Among Bill's Co-Authors Well-Organized Grassroots Effort Canvasses Lakewood Village/Pan-Am Park Area Seeking And Distributing Info Re Murder of Fred Taft  Mayor Garcia Chooses Some Familiar Names To Write Ballot Arguments Pro/Con On His Desired Charter Amendments And Petition-Initiated Hotel Workers Measure LBPD Announces It's "Seeking The Public's Assistance" In Identifying Suspect(s) In Fred Taft's Murder, Says Detectives Believe Individuals Who Might Have Information Have Yet To Come Forward Following Big Civil Jury Verdict Against Monsanto Re Roundup, New LB Parks Director Bans Its Use In LB Parks Immediately, Will Examine Policies/Develop Plan For Other Areas (Medians, Golf Courses, etc.); Issue Will Likely Come Up At Parks/Rec Budget Hearing Long Beach Police Chief Luna Reveals "LB Values Act" (Council-Enacted Policies Mirror SB 54/"Sanctuary State" Law) Has Caused City To "Pause" Seeking Some Fed'l Grants; Councilwoman Price (Who Voted For Policies) Says Having Cops On Street More Important Than "Sending A Message"; Mayor And Other Supporters Remain Mum |
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