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| UPDATED: Conditions In/Around Alamitos Beach Area: August 18: Taxpayer emails Councilwoman Pearce, Mayor Garcia, City Mgr West: Alamitos Beach: "There at least 25 tents on the beach, men smoking meth & used toilet paper scattered on the path next to construction. This is not sanitary & why isn’t the no camping ordinance being enforced? So disgusting to see this." |  |
| SUCCESS!: Conditions In/Around PCH/Magnolia: July 31: Encampment disappeared over weekend July 27-28 (taxpayer contacted 1st dist. Council office July 19) |  |
On LBReport.com Coverage In Depth: Sac'to Bill Lets Cities Avoid 75 Word Ballot Summary, Instead Tell Voters To "See Voter Guide" For Taxpayer-Impacting Details Of Ballot Measures Seeking To Impose/Increase Multi-Level Taxes Or Property-Tax Raising Debt-Bonds LB Council Silently Lets Mayor Garcia Support It; LB Area Sac'to Lawmakers All Vote For It; If Gov. Newsom Signs It, It'll Apply To 2020 Elections In Depth / AUDIO: City Hall Million Dollar "Media Wall" Will Consume Quarter Million Dollars More In FY20 For Media Wall's "Video Programming" Plus Other Civic Center Related Spending  Man Is Shot/Wounded, Area PCH/Lemon (Just West of LBCC, 6th dist.) Man Riding Bicycle On Part Of Northbound 405 @ Woodruff Is Struck/Killed By Car Council Candidate Robert Fox Says If Elected He'll Agendize Items To (1) Roll Back Council-Increased Parking Fines In Parking Impacted Areas; (2) Restore Council-Cut Time For Public Testimony On Council Agenda Items Follow the Money / Coverage In Depth / Perspective: LB's Police Union Gave These Contributions To Mayor + Eight Of Nine LB Council Incumbents And Others Man Shot Near Chavez Park Dies; It's LB's 21st Murder Of 2019, 1st Council Dist. Has Had A Murder On Average Roughly Every Six Weeks Detailed Coverage: Councilmembers Vote Here's What New Police Union Contract, Offered By Mayor/Council Without Taxpayer Input In Closed-Door Sessions, Accepted By Union, Coming To Council For Public Vote, Will Cost LB Taxpayers Special Report / Perspective: Long Beach Mayor & Councilmembers Are Selectively Citing Some Crime Stats. Here's What They're Not Acknowledging And Not Changing But Should Detailed Coverage / AUDIO: AQMD Board Votes Despite public safety issues for its Port, downtown and neighborhoods, Long Beach mainly invisible/inaudible on issue Man Stabbed/Wounded In Business' Parking Lot Across 7th St. From Wilson High's Athletic Field; Observant Cops Spot Suspects' Vehicle, Arrest Two Suspects Transient Stabbed To Death In NLB Encampment, Eastside of LB Blvd. Near 91 Fwy SECOND Man Says He Was Shot/Wounded, PCH/Pine Man Shot/Wounded Overnight, PCH/Pine City Att'y Investigation Concludes/Alleges These Actions By Councilwoman Pearce Raise Conflict Of Interest Issues w/ Recusal Consequences, Some Statement of Economic Interest Income Doesn't Match Record, Some Actions Allegedly Violated LB Muni Code; Councilwoman Issues Statement In Response Council Vote On FY20 City Hall Spending Budget For Taxpayers: No Add'l Restored Police (186 Not Restored Despite Measure A), Commits LB Taxpayers To Spend $13-20 Mil For New Fire Stn 9 + $1.5-$2.0 Mil For Temporary Facility; Temporarily Restores Fire Engine 17 Using "One-Time" (FY20+21) Measure A Funds Council Votes 8-0 On First Of Two Req'd Votes To Change City Law Affecting Public's Ability To Speak And Be Heard On Council Agenda Items; Second Vote Sept. 10, Council Could Make Amendments In Detail: Att'y Benink With Co-Counsel Schipske, Rep'ing LB Water Dept. Users Lejins & Kimball, Submit This Legal Brief With These Arguments Urging L.A. Superior Court Judge Chalfont To Hold LB City Hall's Actions Unconstitutional -- Violating Prop 218 -- On "Measure M" Water Dept. Revenue Budget Transfer, Seek To Stop Transfer Of Portion Supporting City Hall Gen'l Fund SpendingMgm't Recommended Fix For Mold-Closed Fire Station 9: Temporary Stn 9 At Stn 9's Current Site + Rebuild New Stn 9 At Location Not Yet Identified Or Owned; Initial Est. Cost b/w $13-$20 Million; Potential Sources Incl. "Reprioritizing" Measure A Projects, Deferring Other Capital Improvements, Borrowing, One Time Spending, Reducing Expenses Or Other One-Time Or Gen'l Fund Sources Mgm't "goal" is relocation w/in 120-160 days BUT may be longer w/ enviro review/ongoing historical analysis; to get started, City needs to find $1.5-2.0 Mil in one-time funds + $1.0 mil in short term to begin new stn. design. Man Reports Another Overnight PierPoint Landing Parking Lot Area Shooting; His Vehicle Is Hit With Perspective: In August 2019, 8 Of LB's 9 Council Districts Had No Fatal Shootings, While LB's 1st Council District Had More Per Capita Than Chicago 1st Dist's Add'l Non-Fatal And No-Person-Hit Shooting Crime Scenes Show Chronic Inequity Endured By Its Mainly Working Class Residents, Tale of Two Cities Enjoy Free Wetlands Nature Walk -- Raptor Ramble -- Saturday Morning Sept. 7 4 a.m. Bar Closing Bill Becomes 3 a.m. Bar Bill, Advances Toward Full Assembly Vote On Passage Perspective: City Mgm't Provides Mayor/Council Incumbents With This Memo As LB Business Journal Publishes Its Annual List Of "$100,000 Club" (Now "$200,000 Club") City Hall Salaies ("Since You May Be Asked To Comment On The Matter") In Depth Coverage: Homeless/Vagrancy Game-Changer: Sac'to Bill -- Urged By Dr. Drew Pinsky, Authored By OC Repub State Senator John Moorlach -- Would Let Local Health Depts Treat Very Severely Mentally Ill Vagrants Involuntarily; City of Santa Monica + CA DA's + CA Police Chiefs Support; ACLU Opposes; Committee Dems Blocked It But Allow Changes; LB Mayor/Council Mum Thus Far Bullet Casings Found In Alley (14th/Chestnut) A Few Hours After Predawn Shots Heard (14th/Cedar) (1st Council District) Detailed Coverage / VIDOE: 100+ Attend Bixby Knolls Community Meeting Re Mold-Cited Closure Of Fire Stn 9 And Area Shootings/Robberies
UPDATE: LB Had THREE Shooting Crime Scenes Aug. 24 (Not One) VIDEO: See/Hear What Mayor Garcia Tells Council District Meetings Re Public Safety, Homeless-Related "Challenges" Overnight Shots Fired/Casings Found Area 10th St./Myrtle Ave. (Border 1st/6th dist.) Long Beach Has THREE Shooting Crime Scenes In One Day...And One Is A Homicide Subsequent coverage above Councilmembers Austin & Uranga To Hold VIDEO: See/Hear what Fire Chief Espino said at 8th dist. budget meeting (Aug. 8) re closure of Stn. 9 Multiple South Bay Cities Are Preparing To Encrypt/Block Public Access To Their Police Radio Channels; LBPD Says Decision Hasn't Yet Been For LB (Yet); Will LB's Policy Setting City Council Allow Encryption Or Protect Public/Press Access To LBPD Police Communications? City Mgm't Memo Suggests Council Could "Temporarily" Restore Fire Engine 17 (Argonne Ave.) That Supernaw Seeks And Provide Six Bike Officers That Mayor Garcia Touted Last Year But Weren't Delivered If Council Uses "One Time Funds"; Action Would Enable Four Council Incumbents To Get Thru 2020 Re-Elections With No Budget Commitment To Continue Providing Those Items For Taxpayers Thereafter  Jan. 31, 2014, residence burns across street from Stn. 17, lacking Engine 17 to douse flames. Photo by John Jaynes LBPD News Conference Announces This: Bixby Knolls Shopping Center Has Second Robbery By Armed Thieves Within A Week; This Time A Store Worker Subsequent coverage above Perspective: Will Long Beach PD Encrypt/Block Public Access To Its Radio (Scanner) Channels? Will Policy Setting City Council Allow Encryption Or Protect Public/Press Access To LBPD Police Communications? Exclusive: Bombshell: After LBREPORT.com Asks To See "Financial Model" Attachment Missing From Contract For LB's New Civic Center, City Mgm't Says It Never Existed In Hard Copy As It Was "Too Extensive And Complex," Was "Proprietary" Model Developed By Plenary To Initially Cost The Civic Center, Was Reviewed By Unnamed Independent Consultants For Accuracy Before City Accepted It And With Final Agreement In Place Now "Serves No Practical Purpose" New / Developing: Former Long Beach Mayor Foster Wants CA Voters To Change State Constitution. He's New / In Depth: City of LB Mum As In Depth: All Incumbent LB Councilmembers Just Met For About Two Minutes As Members Of Their "Housing Authority"...For Which They Can Now Collect $50 Each; Records Show Their Housing Authority "Meetings" In 2019 Have Run Mainly 1 to 4 Minutes Perspective: Will Your Councilmember Vote To Spend Over $750,000 On These Budget Items Proposed By City Mgr, Recommended by Mayor? NLB Coolidge Triangle Gunfire, Second Time w/in Two Weeks, Third Time Within 60 Days: Rounds Hit Residence + 2 Unoccupied Vehicles, 300 block E. Scott St. In High Desert Hesperia, LBPD Finds/Arrests Two LB Residents -- Suspected Shooter + His Suspected Accessory After-the-Fact -- In Willow/Eucalyptus Fatal Shooting Of Toko Tasi; Search Warrant At Wrigley Address Recovers Evidence, LBPD Says LB City Prosecutor Files (Unusual But Not Unprecedented) Misdemeanor Criminal Complaint Alleging Violations Of LB's Airport Noise Ordinance, Cites Mesa Airlines (Which Provides Regional Service For American Airlines Under "American Eagle" Banner) In Depth/Follow-Up: Your Neighborhood? Gov. Newsom Signs Bill Blocking Local Appeals, Making "Low Barrier" Homeless Facilities -- That Allow Active Drug Users / Alcohol Abusers Who Refuse Treatment Programs Or Services -- A Use "By Right" In Mixed Use Comm'l w/ Residential Zones And Nonresidential Zones Permitting Multifamily Uses No Councilmembers Signal Support To Restore Add'l Police (Leaving 186 Officers Not Restored); Councilwoman Pearce Asks Chief Luna About Lack of Field Anti-Gang Unit And He Diplomatically Responds; Chief Says New Sac'to Police Mandates Without Sac'to Funding To Pay For Them Are Draining At Least $2.5 Mil In LB Budget Dollars, Diverting Police Resources Without audible objection(s) from any Council incumbents, Council lets Mayor Garcia require the public to sign up to speak on Council agenda items before Mayor calls each item or lose the opportunity to speak to the item ("sign up or shut up" policy.) In May, Council voted to direct City Attorney to prepare an ordinance with that change, an action that requires two Council votes, with public testimony, before enactment. That hasn't happened and may not for some period of time. LB taxpayers Corliss Lee and Ann Cantrell objected to the change during period for public testimony on non-agendized items. From Three Minutes, To 90 Seconds, To ZERO Seconds: Here's How Two Misnamed "Streamlining" Actions Could Prevent You From Speaking At LB City Council Meetings...If Council Allows It Mayor Sought This City Mgm't Memo That Discusses Paying All Of Mayor's Chosen "Advisory" Comm'n Appointees And Doubling Meeting Pay For His Charter Comm'n Appointees + Letting Councilmembers Continue Collecting $50 Each Time They're Present For Few Minute Meetings Of LB's "Housing Authority" "Budget Oversight Committee" (Mungo, Price, Austin) will discuss this @ 3 p.m.; approval may precede previously mentioned tighter control over what "advisory" comm'ns can/can't discuss City Manager Pat West Resigns Two Shootings Within Less Than Two Hours: Fatal At Willow/Eucalyptus (Wrigley/6th Dist.);  Jan 1, 2018 to date: Red Xs=homicides; Blue Xs= shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs= shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified); Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings; Blue * asterisk=victim hit, police unable to locate crime scene. Map is unofficial. Mayor Garcia Signals He'll Attempt To Apply Unprecedented Limitation On Public's Right To Speak To AGENDIZED LB City Council Items In New City Hall: Would Require Public To Sign Up Before He Chooses To Call Agenda Item Or Lose Right To Speak To It Several Thousand Attend LBCC Rally For Pres. Candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders; He Delivers Forceful Unflinching Roughly Fifty Minute Speech (VIDEO) He's introduced by LBCC Trustee Malauulu but multiple LB Dem pols incl. Mayor Garcia (a Harris endorser/supporter) and other LB Dem electeds weren't visible from our vantage point  LBREPORT.com photo THREE 8th Dist. Shooting Crimes Within 12 Hours; Two No-Persons Hit But At Midmorning In Broad Daylight, Man Found Shot/Wounded Sitting In His Car Parked Along Atlantic Ave @ 45th St. (8th Dist.) Across From Bixby Knolls Shopping Center/About Two Blocks South Of LBPD's North Division/Scherer Park Station Contract For New Civic Center Is Supposed To Include A "Financial Model." Its Version Visible On City Website Doesn't. VIDEO: See / Hear Presentations By City Mgm't -- Incl. LBPD/LBFD Chiefs & Public Works -- At 8th Dist. Budget Meeting; Councilman Austin Fielded Audience Questions/Comments From Constituents; Candidates Juan Ovalle And Tunua Thrash-Ntuk Attend, Offer Non-Confrontational Comments In Meeting Perspective: Mayor-Applauded/Council-Cast 2015 Civic Center Approval Vote Now Costs Taxpayers Sum Exceeding What Public Initially Told, Difference Could Restore At Least Ten Sworn Police Officers Or Possibly More For Taxpayers...And It's Fairly Close To What Staff Told Council Their Voted Action Would Do |
Editorial: It's Not Streamlining. It Doesn't Promote Public Participation. It Will Affect Your Ability To Speak And Be Heard When City Council Actions Affect Your Neighborhood And Our City. Here's How To Stop It And Send A Message That The Public's Voices Matter  Perspective: By The Numbers: Here Are LB Taxpayer/Neighborhood-Impacting Public Safety Facts That LB's Mayor/Council Haven't Told You  Editorial: This Happened When A Mentally Ill Vagrant Said He Wanted To Kill A Belmont Shore Business' Manager. Opinion: LB Dem Partisans Try To Link 1st Dist Council Candidate Morquecho To Trump, While He And Multiple Dems Fail To Link Mayor-Backed Zendejas To Multiple Unpopular Council Actions Editorial: Our Hearts Are With Candlelight Vigils, But LBREPORT.com Is Done Covering Them. We Urge Action Editorial: Civics Refresher, Rights And Remedies When LB Council Incumbents Try To Reduce (Not Restore) Your Right To Speak And Be Heard At Council Meetings Their New City Hall Editorial: ¡Que barbaridad! UPDATE: Council votes without dissent to approve Opinion: Your Councilmember Will Vote On Whether To Tilt/Rig The Outcome Of March 2020 Election On City Hall-Sought Permanent "Blank Check" Sales Tax UPDATE: Council votes without dissent to approve consent calendar without discussion. No member(s) of the public or organizations speak to the Mayor's Honolulu travel. Editorial: Mayor Seeks "Consent Calendar" -- No Council Discussion -- Of Taxpayer Costs For His Honolulu Junket...That He Could Pay For Using His Contributor-Funded Officeholder Account Instead Editorial: Jan. 2019: Mayor Garcia Tells "State of the City" LB Has "Fiscally Responsible Gov't"; July 2019: Mayor Seeks Council-Declared "Fiscal Emergency," Returns From Honolulu Junket, Agendizes "Consent Calendar" (No Discussion Sought) Council Item Claiming No Fiscal Impact From Trips He Could Pay For -- But Doesn't -- Using His Now Contributor-Funded Officeholder Account Perspecive: He's Paid $100k+ Salary By Union Whose PAC Gave These Contribs to Mayor/Several Council Incumbents; He Moved Into LB In 2017 And Within Weeks Mayor/Council Put Him On Planning Comm'n; Now They Just Reapponted Him For Four More Yrs Perspective/Opinion: Priorities: Neither Long Beach Mayor Garcia Nor Any LB Councilmember(s) Agendize 21 Shooting Crime Scenes (Fatal + Wounding + No Persons Hit) Since Perspective / Opinion / AUDIO: On April 30, Long Beach City Council's Public Safety Committee Met; Price and Austin Mum Re Restoring LBPD Field Anti-Gang Unit And Supernaw Offered This Reasoning To Rationalize NOT Restoring It; Since Then, LB Has Had 21 Shooting Crime Scenes (None In His District) Opinion: Listen, Speak, Communicate Openly To Protect Students Facing Rising Tide Of Violence Around Some LB Schools by Tonia Reyes Uranga Ms. Reyes Uranga was the 7th dist. Councilwoman 2002-2010. She is the spouse of current 7th dist. Councilman Roberto Uranga Editorial: Tuesday Perspective: Will LB Council Vote Nixing No-Kill Animal Shelter And Dissing Its Advocates Sway Votes In Current And Coming LB Elections? Council's Editorial: LB Animal Shelter Advocacy: An Appreciation And Caution To Ignore Promises, Judge Actions, Keep Pressure On And Practice "Trust But Verify" Publisher's Perspective: Competitor Declines LBREPORT.com's Offer To Co-Host State Senate Candidate Debate City Hall Is Concealing Its Animal Shelter Report So Public (And Press) Can't Study It Before "Study Session"; Here's What To Do About It Opinion: Long Beach Suddenly Lurches Toward Rent Control by Ian Patton * * Mr. Patton is a political consultant with Cal Heights Consultancy, owner of a small, family-run rental property, and volunteer executive director of the Long Beach Reform Coalition (a local government accountability network, which has not taken a position on rent control or other housing issues, but includes member organizations which may have positions on those issues.) Perspectives / Opinions: Veteran LB Journalist/Q Voice News Founder/Publisher Phillip Zonkel Opines State Senate Candidate Lena Gonzalez Has Shown "Poor Leadership On LGBTQ Issues"; Gonzalez Supporter Cory Allen Responds Opinion: Unwisely Trying To Cover A Camera Lens Then, But Actually Worse Now Because...  Screen save from LBREPORT.com video following 1st Council district FY17 Community Budget meeting, Aug. 25, 2016 Opinion: State Candidate Gonzalez's Silence On Our Straightforward Newsworthy Questions (Re Bills To Tax Big Oil, Override Local Zoning To Incentivize Low Income Housing, And Former Sen. Lara's Record) Has Become Independently Newsworthy; Since She Hasn't Answered For Over Ten Days, We Went To A "Meet Lena" Event, And... Statement by the Publisher: Pitching the Angels Editorial: Council's Public Safety Committee Will Meet Tuesday, Hasn't Agendized These Issues But Should LB Serf Report: A "Deal" For Community Hospital? Editorial: At Council Meetings, LB Councilmembers And Mayor Shrug This LB Law That Applies To Them Editorial: Shrugging Public Safety Reality, Leadership of LB Police Union Endorses Councilwoman Gonzales For State Senate Editorial: Homeless Shelter Costs For Grownups: Will LB Councilmembers Pursue Pesky Questions And Demand Meaningful Answers To Taxpayer Issues Re 24-Hour Homeless Facility?  LBREPORT.com photo Perspective: State Senate Committee Enacts New Rule For Its Meetings, Won't Use Pronouns "He" Or "She," Specifies Gender-Neutral "They"; What's Next? Will LB-Area State Senate Candidates Propose This For Their Council Meetings? Amnesia File / Perspective: Mayor Garcia Said Long Beach Has "Fiscally Responsible Gov't"...So Why Don't LB Taxpayers Have 186 Citywide Deployable Cops LB Previously Had? Amnesia File: See What Taxpayers Had As Mayor Foster Presented His First Recommended Budget (FY07) Skepticism Warranted Over Some Of LBPD's Upcoming 2018 Crime Stats, Because...
 Editorial: Shots Fired (Again) In Long Beach Neighborhood Left These Bullet Casings Found By Resident; Gunfire-Location Technology Could Have Told Cops Shooting Site In Seconds To Help Nab Shooters Like This, But Long Beach Politicians Evade It, Because...Editorial: Should City Council Adopt These Just-Released Taxpayer-Costly, Neighborhood-Impacting Homeless / Low Income Housing Policies Without Asking What Public Thinks? See What Mayor-Picked "Task Force" Wants Council To Adopt Editorial: How Much, If Anything, Should LB Taxpayers Pay So A Private Entity Can Run A Smaller Version Of Community Hospital For Profit On Seismically-Challenged City Land? Public Deserves Overdue Discussion Of Taboo Taxpayer Topic With Overdue Reforms In Mayor/Council Contract Approval Process Perspective: "Animal Care Visioning Task Force" -- With No-Kill Leaders Muzzled From Membership By Mayor -- Let City Mgm't Run Its Latest Meeting, Offer Information Without Meaningful Challenge, Conduct Proceedings Nearly Inaudible By Audience And Let Public Speak Only After Discussion Of All Agendized Items Was Over Perspective: By The Numbers: Councilmembers Gonzalez & Andrews (And Former-Councilman/Now-Mayor Garcia) On Police Officers For LB Taxpayers |
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Opinion: Long Beach's 2018 "Outrage of the Year" And Its Impacts For 2019 And Beyond
