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On LBReport.com 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 Is 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 Mayor Garcia Files Sac'to Paperwork To Collect Campaign Contribs To Run For Lt. Governor in 2026 Action Tacitly Signals He'll Seek Third Term As Mayor In 2022, Avoiding Previous Third-Term Write-In Req't He Erased With His "Good Gov't" BBB Charter Amendment All "Re-Planet" Recycling Facilities In CA Close; Convenient LB/Lakewood/Signal Hill Locations Vanish The "Special Event" referenced in the LBPD release linked below is today's scheduled rally for Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at LBCC (Source: LBPD PIO Dandoy.) Subsequent coverage above: Pres. Candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders Coming To LBCC Aug. 6 LB Mayor Garcia backs Sen. Kamala Harris now; Amnesia File: At LBCC rally three years ago, he introduced/lauded then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, then seeking to derail Sen. Sanders bid for Dem Party nomination; see VIDEO 6th Dist. Council Candidate Suely Saro Raises Early $40k To Unseat Incumbent Dee Andrews Who Lists Big Name Endorsers But Not Big Bucks Yet; Cambodian-American Community Candidate Steve Meng Also Raising Sums These Lobbying Firms, Politically Active Unions, Traditional Left/Progressives, Two LB Council Incumbents + A Council Challenger Among Contribs To Re-Elect 2nd Dist. Councilwoman Jeannine Pearce Separate Parts Of NLB Have Had Three Shooting Crime Scenes In Four Days; One In Carmelitos Affordable Housing Project Is Fatal ON-DEMAND VIDEO: 1st Dist. Council Candidates Debut: None State Disagreements With Any Specific Votes By Previous Incumbent Gonzalez Or With Policies/Priorities Of Mayor Garcia Long Beach Officials Cheer As CA Taxpayers Will Spend At Least $9 Mil Tidelands Dollars For Beach Concession Stand/Kids Play Area; Use of State Money Approved In 2018 Without Discussion By State Lands Comm'n That Included Then-Lt. Gov. Newsom  Image source: Long Beach city staff agendized report Follow the Money: Within Less Than 90 Days, Rex Richardson-Named Mystery Ballot Measure/Tax Increase Committee Collected Over $200,000 From These Sources UPDATE: Includes comments by Councilman Richardson In July 2019, These Two Central LB Council Districts Combined Had A Higher Rate Of Fatal Shootings Per Capita Than Chicago. And It Was Basically The Same For The Past Seven Months From Jan-July 2019 Mayor/Mgm't Recommend FY20 Budget That (Unless Council Majority Modifies It) Won't Restore Any Portion Of 186 Police Officers That LB Taxpayers Had Before Measure A Sales Tax Increase (That Mayor/Council Want Voters To Make Permanent); See Add'l Details Follow the Money: Out Of Town Dollars Dominate (Incl. Pro-Density/Subsidized Housing Advocates) Giving 8th Dist. Candidate Thrash-Ntuk $100,000+ To Unseat Garcia-Endorsed Incumbent Austin And Push Reformer Ovalle Out Of Runoff Perspective: City Officials Cheer Their New City Hall; See Its $1 Million "Media Wall" by Diana Lejins Special to LBREPORT.com Perspective: New Long Beach City Hall: From Taxpayers' Perspective Exclusive: LBPD Routinely Collects But Doesn't Routinely Save Data On Non-Serious Traffic Accidents; That Means City Hall's Reliance On PD Saved Data Alone Re Road Diet Accidents Is Numerically Incomplete Detailed Coverage / Amnesia File: Road Diet Displeasure Spreads Beyond Broadway: "Peninsula Corridor Group" Forms On Facebook Citing Problems From Termino Ave. to 72nd Place Amnesia file: Opposition first surfaced nearly three years ago, preceding Broadway "road diet" controversy Facing Renter Fury And Some Landlord Pushback, Attempt To Revise LB Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance Yanked Off Council Agenda Hours Before Vote. What's Next? "Road Diet" Data Gap: City Mgm't/Councilwoman Pearce Say Broadway Project's Purpose Is Safety, Will Make Tweaks While Pursuing Citywide "Vision Zero" BUT City Mgr. Acknowledges LBPD Accident Data Don't Include Smaller Accidents If Not Reported To PD, Says Residents Should Report All Of 'Em; Council Candidate Fox Readies Affidavits; New Peninsula Corridor Group Surfaces, Raises Ocean Blvd. Issues In Your Neighborhood? Sac'to Just Enabled "Low Barrier" Homeless Facilities -- That Must Allow Active Drug Users / Alcohol Abusers Who Refuse Participation In Treatment Programs Or Services -- A Use "By Right" In Mixed Use (Comm'l w/ Residential) Zones And Nonresidential Zones Permitting Multifamily Uses Perspective: These Long Beach Councilmembers Have Quietly Pocketed These Taxpayer Sums Each Time They've Attended "Meetings" -- Most One To Four Minutes Long -- Of This City Hall Body; Yes, They Could Change This Reported Shooting But No Victims Or Shooting Evidence Located, Area Lime/PCH Two First Dist. Shooting Crime Scenes: (1) Drive By/Man Hit 1200 Loma Vista (2) UPDATED: Bullet Flies Into Person's Home, Area 1700 block Pine Ave.  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. Unanimous Council Support Despite Public Pushback (On Council Steered Process And Lack Of Library Ties) To Rename LB's Main Library "Billie Jean King Main Library" Bizarre NLB Incident: Woman Is With Man In Vehicle (Area Harding St./Gardenia Ave.) When He Discharges A Firearm Out Of Vehicle's Passenger Window For Reason Not Currently Known And Flees The Scene; Gunfire Hits A Nearby Home Another Central LB Shooting: 14th St./Gaviota, No Persons Hit In Overnight Gunfire At the July 23 Council meeting, City Attorney Parkin announced that in a closed session, the City Council voted 7-0 to approve settlement in the amount of $775,000 in the case of Thomas Gonzales vs. The Citizens Police Complaint Commission, et al. In Sept. 2018, a jury awarded Mr. Gonzales, a former investigator for City's Citizens' Police Complaint Commission $436,000 in past economic damages plus $300,000 in emotional distress damages after finding that he was terminated basically for complaining that some serious cases of police misconduct were being swept aside. TWO Homicides: Woman (Unintended Victim) Dies As Bullet Flies Into Her Residence (10th/Alamitos, border 1st/6th Dists.); Man Is Fatally Shot 1200 block Molino (4th 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. AND First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: Where Was Long Beach Mayor Garcia When Bullet Flew Into A Woman's House Killing Her, And Central LB Had Another Homicide? He's In Iowa, Campaigning For Presidential Candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (See His Tweets) Subsequent development above Renter Advocacy Groups -- And Now Some Audible Landlord Interests -- Signal Political Pushback On Two Fronts To Proposed Changes To Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance AND Subsequent development above With 1st Dist. Seat Now Vacant, Four Council Incumbents Move To Change Parts Of Just-Enacted (6-3) Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance One Year Later: Fred Taft Is Remembered By His Family And Many Friends; Justice Elusive As His Killer Remains At Large Despite Suspect Sketch And Sizable Reward  Fred Taft Mosquito Carrying West Nile Virus Found In Los Cerritos Wetlands (90803); Experts Advise Residents To Consider It Endemic Regionally (Basically Everywhere) And Advise Sensible Anti-Mosquito Precautions Property Owners In Over Half Of LB Block City Hall-Effort To Make Them Pay "Benefit Assessment" For Mosquito Abatement/Vector Control Currently Provided By LB Health Dept Woman's Vehicle Struck By Gunfire On Atlantic Ave. in (Prelim Info) NLB North of 91 Cong. Lowenthal Among 95 House Dems (See Full List) Voting To Dissent From House Dem Leadership And Proceed To Debate This Measure (See Text) To Impeach President Trump He Dated Her. LBPD Believes He Shot/Killed Her. And Yesterday He Walked Into LBPD HQ (Just Blocks From Crime Scene) And Surrendered No Dissent, Council Votes To Approve Ballot Text, Declare "Fiscal Emergency," Police & Firefighter Unions Voice Lockstep Support For March 2020 Ballot Measure To Extend Council's Housing & Neighborhoods Committee (Andrews, Supernaw, Austin) Votes VIDEO + Photos: "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, The Broadway Diet Has Got To Go" Chant Riled Residents As Drivers Honk Protesting City Hall Installed "Road Diet"  Photo credit: Diana Lejins AND VIDEO: One Of A Handful Of Bike-Riding Counter-Protesters At Broadway Road Diet Protest Is COO Of LLC With A $1.4 Mil Contract To Run City's Bike Share Program; Two Days Earlier, Someone Sideswiped His Small Truck Parked Along Narrowed Broadway Corridor, Knocked Off His Driver-Door Mirror And His Reponse Was...(see VIDEO) |
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
