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THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE CROSSWORD PUZZLE 12/24/21 ISSUE
ANSWERS FOUND IN NEXT WEEK’S PAPER…
Beverly Hills Philanthropist Vera Guerin and her family are longtime supporters of
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Photo courtesy of Cedars-Sinai and Ruth Andal Photography
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One of the key goals of the new children’s facility will be to bridge the gap between childhood and adult health care, off ering continued services from infancy through adulthood, hospital staff said.
“That’s a big plus for the care these patients will receive,” Cedars-Sinai’s manager of broadcast news told the Courier in an email. “Guerin Children’s will provide extra support for parents, including sleeping arrangements in the hospital rooms so that the adults can be with their children as much as possible.”
The Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s facility will provide clinical services for young patients and will be a center for medical research and training.
Guerin is board chair of the Cedars-Sinai Health System and has been a longtime supporter of the hospital. "Our family is passionate about CedarsSinai and about providing a continuum of care for patients from childhood to adulthood," Guerin said in a statement. "We are honored and humbled to play our part in supporting and building this incredible institution."
Renovation of a 26-bed children’s facility has already begun and is expected to be completed in spring 2022. It will include a movie screening room and video games with interactive screens, an outdoor garden and art by local artists. It will also include a family lounge for adults with furniture that converts into beds for family staying with hospitalized children.
The new center will be able to provide patients with highly specialized medical care, including pediatric specialties, maternal-fetal medicine and pediatric surgery and transplants. Physicians there will also treat any number of conditions with support from Cedars-Sinai's programs in cardiology, cancer, gastroenterology, orthopedics, obstetrics, pulmonology, rheumatology, metabolic disorders and neurosciences.
“We intend to establish Guerin Children’s as an international destination for children and their families and as a leader in pediatric care and research in the United States," said Thomas M. Priselac, President and CEO of Cedars-Sinai, in a statement. "The support and vision of Vera Guerin and the Shapell Guerin Family Foundation will have a lasting impact on the health of generations of children and families."
Guerin and her husband have made sizable donations to the hospital in the past, sponsoring the Vera and Paul Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program, the Vera and Paul Guerin Family Pulmonary Disease Research Fund, the Vera and Paul Guerin Family Distinguished Chair in Pulmonary Medicine and the Vera and Paul Guerin Family Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery. Shapell Guerin Family Foundation is a private foundation in Beverly Hills founded in 1961.
Cedars-Sinai named Ophir Klein, M.D., Ph.D. as the first executive director of Guerin Children's on Dec. 17. The hospital also named Klein as the David and Meredith Kaplan Distinguished Chair in Children's Health. Klein comes to Cedars-Sinai from the University of California, San Francisco and is recognized for his innovations in pediatrics and genetics. He specializes in developmental and stem cell biology and his research has been focused on understanding how organs form in embryos and how they regenerate in adults. "Guerin Children's will provide the highest-quality specialty treatments in the context of a superb healthcare delivery system," Klein said in a statement. "I am thrilled to join Cedars-Sinai and build a comprehensive, world-class academic children's health program that includes top-notch clinical, research and educational eff orts and will truly meet the needs of patients throughout their lifetimes. It is a privilege to be entrusted with this vital responsibility."
Klein’s work as chair will be made possible by an endowment through a $5 million donation from philanthropists David and Meredith Kaplan. "We are absolutely thrilled that Dr. Klein will be overseeing this vitally important eff ort and look forward to the many innovations he will introduce in the years ahead," said Meredith Kaplan in a statement.
Shapell Guerin Family Foundation recently donated $100 million for a new children's care and research facility at Cedars-Sinai (Deputy Fire Chief continued from page 5) “I remember getting tangled up in a slinky and not being able to move. I've got fi ngers of fi re going across the ceiling and thinking, this isn't good,” he said. “This is how fi refi ghters die.”
Following his training, he calmly clipped his way out of the thicket of metal in about a minute and a half. He soon emerged from extinguishing the fi re with little snippets of wire still hanging off of him. To this day, he jokes about the incident with his crewmates from the time.
Matsch said that the highlights of his career were the creation of the 9-11 Memorial on Rexford Drive next to the fi re station and the department’s accreditation by the Center for Public Safety Excellence.
Said Matsch, “Who would have ever thought that a piece of the [tower] would be there in Beverly Hills, so prominently displayed with such dignity and grace?”
Matsch leaves at a time of tumult for the department, as it deals with internal strife
(Antisemitic continued from page 1)
“As a City that is made up of a diverse population and being one of the only Jewishmajority cities outside of Israel, the City condemns this unwarranted hate speech that has been unsuccessfully used to disparage a community that has, and always will, stand strong together and fi ght hatred of any kind.”
The fl yers combine age-old antisemitic tropes with conspiracies about the COVID19 pandemic. The fl yers list members of the government who it claims are Jews, incorrectly identifying at least one person as Jewish. The text, “Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” appears at the top, sandwiched between a Star of David and a pentagram.
Identical fl yers were previously discovered on Nov. 28, the fi rst day of Hanukkah, in the northeast area of the fl ats. A statement from BHPD Capt. Elisabeth Albanese described the fl yers as “propaganda style hate speech related to the COVID pandemic and the Jewish people.”
Vice Mayor Lili Bosse took to social media to share her thoughts on the incident. “Once again, these disgusting words of Jew Hatred blaming Jews for involvement with COVID were dropped on the sidewalks of our city. As we have fought for ‘Never Again,’ I am sickened to see once again, this despicable act occur in front of our homes,” she wrote on Facebook. “As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, this cuts to my core of my soul. I know it cuts all of our hearts to see hatred in Humanity still exist. My heart breaks to see this mortifying antisemitism.”
Bosse has received hate mail for her condemnation of the fl yers, posting a bigotted email she received on social media. “Shut your stupid Jewish hole,” the subject line read, according to the post. “Those fl yers were just the facts.”
This latest incident appears to be a part of a coordinated, national eff ort led by the Goyim Defense League, a "loose network of individuals connected by their virulent antisemitism,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. Residents in Pasadena discovered over the Los Angeles County vaccine mandate. While around 80% of the department is vaccinated, a handful of fi refi ghters have requested exemptions to the mandate. One fi refi ghter, whose exemption was denied, is suing the city and county.
He acknowledged that the department was “going through a challenging time.” But he insists that “there isn’t division in the fi re department.”
“We are still very unifi ed because we honor those diff erences, we don't necessarily agree with those diff erences. Just like any family.”
Matsch added: “I just want to say to the community, we are a professional workforce. When it comes to providing a high level of service, we do not waver and you will continue to receive that professional service that you received yesterday and into the future.”
Matsch plans resting and evaluating his next steps over the next month or two before going back to some form of emergency management work.
identical fl yers early Dec. 19 also bearing the group’s logo, according to the Pasadena Police Department. Flyers were found in states across the country, including Texas, North Carolina, Idaho, Vermont, Alabama, Illinois and Florida.
The Anti-Defamation League responded with alarm to the news of the fl yers. “We are outraged to once again see antisemitic fl iers dropped in Beverly Hills, but now also in Pasadena, which we previously saw on the 1st night of #Hannukah,” The Los Angeles branch of the ADL said on Twitter. The post added that the organization was in touch with law enforcement “to address the situation.”
While some COVID-19 conspiracy theorists have deployed antisemitic rhetoric in increasingly public ways, others have long sought to co-opt the narrative of the Holocaust by confl ating public health restrictions with the limits placed on Jews in Nazi Germany.
On Dec. 21, West Hollywood City councilmember Lindsey Horvath shared on social media an image of a poster outside the gay bar and nightclub The Abby. The poster depicts the word “anti-vaxxer” inscribed in the Star of David, in an apparent reference to the badges used to identify Jews by the Nazis. The poster contains the text “report anti-vaxxers” and includes the phone number for The Abby. During a weekend in August, The Abby was the site of protests by a small group of activists over its policy of requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test for entry.
“Senseless acts like this have no home here and will never be accepted,” the Beverly Hills City Council said about the fl yers. “Our community is home to families of survivors of the Holocaust who have seen evil and will never give in to such attacks.”
According to the city, the BHPD is “thoroughly investigating” the incident and will bolster offi cer patrols and private security throughout the city “to ensure a safe holiday season.”
RFQ 22-350-19 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS 345 FOOTHILL ROAD BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA 90210
REQUEST FOR PREQUALIFICATION OF BIDDERS AND PREQUALIFICATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR MULTIPLE PROJECTS
CIVIC CENTER FIRE ALARM SYSTEM UPGRADE PROJECT
Notice is hereby given that the City of Beverly Hills (“CITY”) has determined that all bidders for the CIVIC CENTER Fire Alarm System Upgrade Project (“Project”) must be pre-qualifi ed prior to submitting a bid on that Project. It is mandatory that all Contractors who intend to submit a bid, fully complete the prequalifi cation questionnaire, provide all materials requested herein, and be approved by the CITY to be on the fi nal qualifi ed Bidders list.
No bid will be accepted from a Contractor that has failed to comply with these requirements. If two or more business entities submit a bid as part of a Joint Venture, or expect to submit a bid as part of a Joint Venture, each entity within the Joint Venture must be separately qualifi ed to bid.
A fire protection contractor (C16 & C7 or C10 licenses) is the prime contractor for this project, and the prime contractor will need to subcontract with the appropriate contractors for a turnkey project.
Contractor’s questionnaire and forms can be downloaded from the City’s PlanetBids portal: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=39493
The item is listed as: Civic Center Fire Alarm System Upgrade Project
The last date to submit a fully completed questionnaire is 5:00 PM Thursday, January 6th, 2021. All qualifi cation submittals are required to be submitted electronically via Planet Bids. The electronic submittal system will close exactly at the date and time set forth in this request for qualifi cations. Contractors are encouraged to submit prequalifi cation packages as soon as possible, so that they may be notifi ed of omissions of information to be remedied or of their prequalifi cation status in advance of the prequalifi cation deadline for this Project.
The CITY will use these documents as the basis of rating Contractors with respect to whether each Contractor is qualifi ed to bid on the Project, and reserves the right to check other sources available. The CITY’s decision will be based on objective evaluation criteria.
The CITY reserves the right to adjust, increase, limit, suspend or rescind the prequalifi cation rating based on subsequently learned information. Contractors whose rating changes suffi ciently to disqualify them will be notifi ed, and given an opportunity for a hearing consistent with the hearing procedures described below for appealing a prequalifi cation rating.
While it is the intent of the prequalifi cation questionnaire and documents required therewith to assist the CITY in determining bidder responsibility prior to bid and to aid the CITY in selecting the lowest responsible bidder, neither the fact of prequalifi cation, nor any prequalifi cation rating, will preclude the CITY from a post-bid consideration and determination of whether a bidder has the quality, fi tness, capacity and experience to satisfactorily perform the proposed work, and has demonstrated the requisite trustworthiness.
For any questions regarding the questionnaire and the qualifi cation package contact the Project Manager, Martin Nunes (email: mnunes@beverlyhills.org).
The prequalifi cation packages submitted by Contractors are not public records and are not open to public inspection. All information provided will be kept confi dential to the extent permitted by law. However, the contents may be disclosed to third parties for purpose of verifi cation, or investigation of substantial allegations, or in an appeal hearing. State law requires that the names of contractors applying for prequalifi cation status shall be public records subject to disclosure, and the fi rst page of the questionnaire will be used for that purpose.
Each questionnaire must be signed under penalty of perjury in the manner designated at the end of the form, by an individual who has the legal authority to bind the Contractor on whose behalf that person is signing. If any information provided by a Contractor becomes inaccurate, the Contractor must immediately notify the CITY and provide updated accurate information in writing, under penalty of perjury.
The CITY reserves the right to waive minor irregularities and omissions in the information contained in the prequalifi cation application submitted, and to make all fi nal determinations. The CITY may also determine at any time that the prequalifi cation process will be suspended for the Project and the Project will be bid without prequalifi cation.
Contractors who submit a complete prequalifi cation package will be notifi ed of their qualifi cation status no later than ten business days after submission of the information.
The CITY may refuse to grant prequalifi cation where the requested information and materials are not provided by the due date indicated above. There is no appeal from a refusal for an incomplete or late application, but re-application for a later project is permitted. Neither the closing time for submitting prequalifi cation packages for this Project will be changed in order to accommodate supplementation of incomplete submissions, or late submissions, unless requested by the CITY in its sole discretion.
In addition to a contractor’s failure to be pre-qualifi ed pursuant to the scoring system set forth in the prequalifi cation package, a contractor may be found not prequalifi ed for either omission of or falsifi cation of, any requested information.
Where a timely and completed application results in a rating below that necessary to pre-qualify, an appeal can be made by the unsuccessful Contractor. An appeal is begun by the Contractor delivering notice to the CITY of its appeal of the decision with respect to its prequalifi cation rating, no later than two business days following notifi cation that it is not pre-qualifi ed. The notice of appeal shall include an address where the Contractor wishes to receive notice of the appeal hearing. Without a timely appeal, the Contractor waives any and all rights to challenge the decision of the CITY, whether by administrative process, judicial process or any other legal process or proceeding.
If the Contractor gives the required notice of appeal, a hearing shall be conducted no earlier than fi ve business days after the CITY’s receipt of the notice of appeal and not later than fi ve business days prior to the date of the Notice Inviting Bids for this Project. Prior to the hearing, the Contractor shall, in writing, be advised of the basis for the City’s pre-qualifi cation determination.
The hearing shall be conducted by a panel consisting of three members of the Department of Public Works senior management staff (the “Appeals Panel”). The Appeals Panel shall consider any evidence presented by the Contractor, whether or not the evidence is presented in compliance with formal rules of evidence. The Contractor will be given the opportunity to present evidence, information and arguments as to why the Contractor believes it should be pre-qualifi ed. Within one day after the conclusion of the hearing, the Appeals Panel will render a written determination as to whether the Contractor is pre-qualifi ed. It is the intention of the CITY that the date for the submission and opening of bids will not be delayed or postponed to allow for completion of an appeal process. Project: Beverly Hills High School South Campus Modernization Shoring & Retaining Wall #3/4
Owner: Beverly Hills Unified School District
PROPOSAL RELEASE #4
PROPOSAL DATE: JANUARY 25, 2022 PROPOSAL TIME: 2:00 PM
PROPOSAL PACKAGES
24 SWPPP / Erosion Control Implementation 25 SWPPP / Erosion Control Monitoring 26 Sound Blanket Fencing 27 Survey & Layout 28 Site Demolition & Earthwork 29 Shoring & Retaining Wall Construction 30 Site Utilities
Submit sealed proposals to: ProWest Constructors, 22710 Palomar Street, Wildomar, CA 92595. For Proposals in the amount of $150,000 and over, a Proposal Bond in the amount of 10% of the Lump Sum Base Price shall accompany the Proposal. For Lump Sum Base Price amounts of less than $150,000, Proposal Bond shall not be required.
Proposal Documents available December 20, 2021, at IB Reprographics (951) 682-1850, www.ibrepro.com and www.BidMail.com.
One non-mandatory Job Walk has been scheduled for
Wednesday, January 5, 2022, at 8:00 AM. ATTENDANCE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Participants shall meet at the ProWest jobsite trailer at Beverly Hills High School, 241 S. Moreno Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
This project consists of the construction of Retaining Walls #3/4 with a temporary shotcrete wall, soil nails, and a permanent shotcrete wall. All walls include reinforcing. Also included in this proposal release is site demolition, mass excavation, grading, and earthwork to accommodate benches for soil nail drilling, site electrical safe-off at tennis courts, Survey, SWPPP Implementation and Monitoring, and Site Utilities for the storm drain at the base of the wall and water line for future Building C.
Prequalification of MEP Subcontractors. Each prospective Electrical, Mechanical, or Plumbing (”MEP”) subcontractor holding C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43 and/or C-46 specialty licenses (as defined in Public Contract Code section 20111.6) planning to participate in bidding on certain public projects to be undertaken by the District, must be prequalified prior to submitting bids for such public projects. Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 20111.6 bidders on all public projects using funds received pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities ACT of 1998 or any funds received from any future state school bond that involve a projected public project expenditure of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more must be pre-qualified.
The purpose of the proposal is to enable ProWest Constructors to select the most qualified firm that provides the best value to ProWest Constructors and the District and with whom ProWest Constructors will subcontract. Based on the received proposals, ProWest Constructors will create a list of the highest-ranking respondents, based on a best value selection criteria and will identify the selected firm(s) to enter negotiations for specific scopes of work to be subcontracted. Formal award of any subcontracts will not occur unless and until the District has reviewed and approved the scope and price of the subcontracted work.
ProWest Constructors reserves the right to request additional information at any time, which in its sole opinion, is necessary to assure that a proposer’s competence, business organization, and financial resources are adequate to perform the requested work. ProWest Constructors also reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive any informality or nonsubstantive irregularity in any proposal.
Contact Lease / Lease Back Contractor, ProWest Constructors – (951) 678-1038 for further information. Published: December 17 & 24, 2021
