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Angel was rescued from the Woolsey Fire and is available for adoption.

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Hugh Hefner’s personal items will be auctioned off this weekend in Beverly Hills.

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MEALS ON WHEELS – Beverly Hills police officers assisted Meals On Wheels last weekend with packing up and providing meals to those in need for the Thanksgiving holiday. Pictured (from left): Sean Essex, Sgt. Jim Keenaghan, Officer Mike Yamada, Officer Sunday Arriaga, Officer David Leber, Officer Rocky Tavera, and Lieut. Giovanni Trejo.

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George Christy, Page 6 If You Are A Friend Of Mitzi Gaynor’s, You Are A Friend For Life, As Were Her Thanksgiving Guests, Michael Feinstein, Terrence Flannery, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner and Mazie Feinstein

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1258-60 Lago Vista Property Sold To Parents Of ‘American Idol’ Finalist

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The Greystone Holiday Tour is this weekend at Greystone Mansion.

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By Victoria Talbot A property that garnered the angst of residents who opposed the megamansion development has been sold to the parents of American Idol finalist Sonika Vaid.

Kulip “Ken” Vaid and Ananya “Anna” Vaid purchased 1258 Lago Vista from Sagebrook Investments LLC with an offer dated Oct. 15, and approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court on Nov. 26, for $4.175 million.

When she appeared on American Idol, Sonika stated that she had grown up in Martha’s Vineyard. Her parents of Indian descent, but both moved to the United States as

small children.

Her father is an eye surgeon, and her mother, a real estate developer, holds a degree in engineering.

The Lago Vista property was one of hundreds of properties bought by Defendant Robert Shapiro and his Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme to defraud more than 8,400 investors nationwide, most of them seniors, through fraudulent unregistered securities offerings.

Sagebrook Investments LLC was but one of the 275 Limited Liability Companies the Securities and Exchange (see ‘LAGO VISTA’ page 9)

Korbatov, Goldstein Bid Farewell To Beverly Hills School Board

By Laura Coleman With nine years under her belt as a Beverly Hills Board of Education member, Lisa Korbatov will go down as one of the City’s longest-serving public officials when her term officially ends next Friday, Dec. 7.

In anticipation of Tuesday’s formal board meeting, which will mark the last time she presides over a meeting as president, the Courier connected with Korbatov to discuss some of the highlights throughout her tenure.

“I am proud of my service to this community and believe that together with many different board members, I have made a difference for our staff and community and most profoundly for our students,” she said.

Lisa Korbatov

While much of her tenure has been marked by obvious contention, including fractious relationships with current and former colleagues on the board, as well as a frosty relationship between the board as a whole (see ‘LISA KORBATOV’ page 13)

By Laura Coleman Known for his ability to keep a smile on his face even in the most arduous of discussions, Board of Education member Howard Goldstein is set to end his term next Friday, Dec. 7.

“It has been an honor, a privilege, and a pleasure to serve our community,” he said just days before his final meeting as an elected official is set to take place on Tuesday. “From the moment that I took my oath of office I advocated for programs and positions that would pave the way for a revived school district.”

“I always worked to build consensus, to explore all

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options, and I never made it about personalities, but rather relied on the data to form the basis of my decisions,” he added.

While Goldstein noted that it was not lost on him that one board member cannot accomplish anything alone, (see ‘HOWARD GOLDSTEIN’ page 17)

Longtime Menswear Retailer Carroll & Co. To Close After 70 Years

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who now operates Carroll & Co. as the store’s president, said the decision to close came

down to a family decision to sell Carroll & Co.’s familyowned building at 425 N. Canon Dr. Carroll & Co. operated at the intersection of Rodeo Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard for 43 years before the family purchased its current building.

“Over the years we’ve gotten so many calls about selling, but they got much more serious recently and we received an offer that we felt was the (see ‘CARROLL & CO.’ page 13)

BEST BUDDIES — Liza Minelli and Mitzi Gaynor bonded long ago, and Liza wished she could have attended Mitzi’s Thanksgiving dinner, but was hard at work on the road. No matter, she became a phone-in guest.

For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.

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By Matt Lopez Carroll & Co., the iconic menswear retailer that has dressed Beverly Hills for 70 years, will close its doors in January, store owner John Carroll told the Courier.

Founded in 1949 by Richard Carroll, a former Warner Bros. publicist, Carroll & Co. quickly became the goto menswear outlet for locals, tourists and Hollywood heavyweights.

Richard’s son John Carroll,

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Beverly Hills High Focuses On ‘Netiquette’ In Effort To Educate Kids About Online Safety

A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT – Beverly Hills resident and former mayor Robert K. Tanenbaum, received the JFK Historical Group Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth annual JFK Assassination Conference held in Dallas, Texas earlier this month. He also presented “The Mock Trial of 2017 Against Lee Harvey Oswald” as part of a lifelong pursuit of truth and justice in the legal system. Pictured, Tanenbaum receives the award from David Denton of the JFK Historical Society.

Mayor Gold To Play Santa at Holiday Concert

By Victoria Talbot The City of Beverly Hills is preparing for its annual holiday concert, and the entire community is invited.

On Dec. 9 at 1 p.m. on the steps of City Hall (Crescent Drive) there will be a holiday concert featuring the voices of children, including the La Cienega Preschool, Beverly Hills Madrigal Singers, the

Beverly Hills Unified School District fourth and fifth grade Honor Choir, and the Beverly Vista Concert Choir.

For this event, Beverly Hills Mayor Julian Gold will make a special appearance as Santa Claus.

Holiday refreshments will be served compliments of the event sponsors, including the Culinary students from the

Beverly Hills High School Culinary Arts Program.

This free event is presented courtesy of the Friends of Beverly Gardens Park and the Community Services Department. Free 2-hour parking is available in the Civic Center Parking Structure adjacent to the Beverly Hills Public Library.

By Laura Coleman In an effort to promote digital safety and empower students to make informed choices that will have life-long ramifications, Beverly Hills High School NormanAid Student Support Center Director Alison NormanFranks spent the month of November hosting an array of activities centered around being inter- Jonathan Cristall (far left) speaks to Beverly Hills teens about the dangers of net savvy.

Dubbed “Neti- digital media as part of Netiquette month, quette November” which was sponsored by Michael Libow (think: good web eti- (center) and produced by Alison Normanquette), one of the Franks (right). most impactful proty. His book on the subject, grams was likely a series of What They Don’t Teach Teens, talks presented by BHHS alum is slated to be released early Jonathan Cristall, an LA next year.

County prosecuting attorney (see ‘ONLINE SAFETY’ page 17) who lectures about digital safeYOUR NEW ANGEL – Angel is a male maltipoo who was rescued during the Woolsey Fire. He has been treated for wounds and is on his way to recovery, but is in need of a new family. He weighs 10 pounds and is 2-years-old.

For more information on how to adopt Angel, visit www.shelterhopepetshop.org or call 805-379-3538.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME – Members of the Beverly Vista Concert Choir were invited to sing at the 2019 Rome International Choral Festival at St. Peter’s Basilica next summer. The choir is seeking sponsorship, private and public, to help them reach their fundraising goal of $120,000 to get there. Donate on their GoFundMe page at http://bit.ly/2E4FquY or contact music instructor Judith Chan at jchan2@bhusd.org for more information on how you can help. Pictured, choral members: Madison Burns, Cameron Asher, Scarlett Basile, Nava Bonyadi, Hayley Chechel, Isabelle Corona, Jennifer Flores Caceres, Alyssa Galen, Justin Goldstein, Revital Golian Moghaddam, Kayla Granitz, Olivia Green, Arianna Gullins, Hannah Harooni, Ramona Harrington, Tyler Janssen, Maya Javaheri, Ashley Jourachi, Jory Kanaan, Eunice Kim, Suhhyeon Kim, Rachel Kohley, Kaylee Kwok, Avery Lo, Arielle Margolin, Leiana Micaelli, Edden Mizrahi, Mariah Nicholson, Maya Rendon, Azelia Rizzo, Kate Schirmer, Ariella Shaoulian, Elise Soufer, Valentina Steele, Batia Tello, Charlize Terityan and Anna Valsky.

Beverly Hills Farmers’ Market To Host Share & Care Day On Dec. 9

By Victoria Talbot The City of Beverly Hills Community Service Department and the Beverly Hills Farmers’ Market are hosting a special day to benefit the area’s children and babies.

Bring gently-used baby items and children’s items for kids up to 12-years-old to the Farmers’ Market Dec. 9 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. to benefit local children and support the community.

Items to be collected include baby wipes, diapers, backpacks and school sup-

plies, clothing and shoes, shampoo and soap, and of course, toys.

Monetary donations will also be accepted for Baby2Baby.org, an organization that provides low-income children with diapers, clothing and all the basic necessities that children should have.

In the holiday spirit, the Farmers’ Market will also have a Kids Zone Petting Zoo and a Craft Corner for kids of all ages.

Crafts will include: • Making pinecone ornaments and critters;

• Making orange pomander balls and special gift bags for kids to present to a special someone; • Making sparkly ornaments suited for all.

Crafts will be offered as long as supplies last.

Come shop, dine, and bring your donations to make the holidays special for a needy family.

To learn more, visit the Farmers’ Market information booth or the website: www.beverlyhills.org/farmersmarket.

U.S. DOT Allocates $100 Million To Complete Section 3 Of Purple Line Extension

By Victoria Talbot The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced Wednesday that the Los Angeles Westside Purple Line Extension will receive an allocation of $100 million for Section 3 for Fiscal Year 2018 through the FTA’s Capital Investment Grants Program.

Section 3 of the Purple Line is the 2.6 – mile portion that extends from Century City to Westwood, ending at the Veterans Affairs hospital inside the Westside VA Campus. In addition to the VA Hospital, there will be a stop at UCLA/Westwood.

Section 1, which extends from Wilshire/Western to Wilshire/La Cienega, is under construction and is expected to be completed in 2023.

Section 2, which extends through Beverly Hills to Century City, received funding from the Measure R sales tax

and was fully funded last year by the U.S. Department of Transportation, despite ongoing legal battles with Beverly Hills Unified School District over plans to tunnel beneath Beverly Hills High School. It is expected to be completed in 2025.

Section 3 is expected to begin construction in 2019 and to be completed in 2026.

With the passage of Measure M in 2016, the timetable has been accelerated. The Purple Line Extension is expected to be completed ahead of the 2028 L.A. Olympics.

Metro received a $2.75 billion federal grant and lowinterest loans for the Phase 1 and 2; they have requested a similar $1.3 billion package for the third section, with a total budget of $3.56 billion.

When completed, commuters are expected to be able to travel from DTLA to Westwood in 25 minutes.

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Hugh Hefner’s Personal Items To Be Auctioned Off Friday, Saturday In Beverly Hills

By Matt Lopez Ever wanted to live like Hugh Hefner? This weekend is your chance… well, sort of.

The most prized possessions of Hefner, the founder of the Playboy empire, are up for auction this weekend in Beverly Hills, via Julien’s Auctions.

The auction, called Property From The Collection Of Hugh M. Hefner, will take

A Leroy Neiman portait of Hugh Hefner.

Hugh Hefner’s Wurlitzer 1015 Jukebox

place Friday and Saturday – with sessions at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., – at The Standard Oil Building Beverly Hills (257 N. Canon Dr.).

Bidders will have the option of placing offers on hundreds of personal items that belonged to Hefner, the publishing giant and cultural icon who created Playboy magazine and died in September 2017.

Highlights of the sale

include bound volumes of Playboy magazines personally kept by Hefner; a limited edition set of 48 chromogenic and gelatin silver prints by various photographers in a folio wooden case with gold embossed title; a vintage 1946 coin-operated Wurlitzer jukebox containing albums by artists like Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mercer and Artie Shaw; a custom 1974 Monopoly board game that includes a pipe-smoking Hefner and a Playboy Bunny.

Also among the auction items are countless pajamas, robes and a smoking jacket.

All proceeds from the auction go to the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, which supports organizations that advocate for civil rights and civil liberties, with an emphasis on First Amendment rights and sex and drug policies.

Registration is required for the live auction, either in person or online at http://www.juliensauctions.co m/register.html. For more information, call 310-836-1818.

HOLIDAY VISITORS – Therapy dogs Buffy, a golden retriever, and Wrigley, a Burmese mountain dog, visited with Santa Claus and patients at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Giving Tuesday. The dogs are part of the Amerman Family Foundation Dog Therapy Program that recruits, trains and supports a roster of roughly 100 therapy dog teams visiting a wide variety of clinical settings including all three intensive care units, as well as several outpatient clinics. Dog therapy has been part of CHLA’s culture since 2001. What began as three dogs visiting one 30-bed unit has expanded to better meet the needs of all patients.

Dog teams can now visit from early morning to night, seven days a week, all year round. Photo by Dianne Lahti

L.A. County Unveils Plan to End Polling Places in 2020 Elections

By Victoria Talbot Los Angeles County is rolling out a series of meetings to introduce a new model for voting in the 2020 elections that will transition the County from polling places to vote center locations, which will operate over an 11-day period at election time.

The Vote Center Placement Project (VCPP) has a core mission to identify and place accessible and convenient vote center locations throughout Los Angeles County.

To that end, VCCP is holding meetings to identify locations and obtain community feedback throughout the County with different focus areas.

Residents can attend any meeting at any location, and

are encouraged to do so.

Meetings are intended to educate about the new voting centers, to ensure that the vote center locations are accessible and convenient to voters, to gather and consider public input about the community and the vote center location selection, and ensure that the vote center implementation plan meets regulatory requirements.

In addition to in-person input, the VCPP is also accepting suggestions on their website at http://vsap.lavote.net.

There, residents can see vote center submissions, add submissions of their own, view an interactive map of locations for upcoming meetings, view a video on the new voting machines and read about VCPP.

At press time, with hundreds of submissions that have been accepted and rejected, there is only one location in Beverly Hills at Beverly Hills High School that has been accepted, while there are scores of submissions for West Hollywood, Santa Monica, West Los Angeles and Culver City, for example, that have been successfully submitted.

The vote center locations must fulfill certain geographic and demographic considerations to ensure voting opportunities for every citizen. The centers will provide same-day voter registration, with one vote-center per 30,000 registered voters open ten days prior to the election a minimum of 8 hours per day. (see ‘POLLING PLACES’ page 9)

COURIER IN ROME – Beverly Hills City Treasurer Howard Fisher and wife Francine visited Rome and the Amalfi Coast, but made sure to bring along some reading material in the form of the Courier. Pictured above are the Fisher’s with the Courier at the famous St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City. To join the Fisher’s in the Carry the Courier Club, snap a photo of yourself on your next trip holding the Courier and send it to mlopez@bhcourier.com.

CicLAvia Returns Sunday, Dec. 2, For 28th Edition

By Laura Coleman While the final CicLAvia event of the year won’t quite reach Beverly Hills when it rolls around Sunday morning, over 50,000 participants are expected to turn up for the upcoming 28th edition, which runs from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Dec. 2.

For this weekend’s CicLAvia, which returns to bikers to the debut route launched in 2010, the event begins in Little Tokyo and then proceeds through the car-free streets of Downtown LA, the Arts District, Chinatown, and Boyle Heights.

A kickoff celebration event with organizational leaders and local officials, including the mayor, and various community partners, will be onhand to start the day’s festivities.

The route offers six miles of car-free streets for people to

bike, skate, walk, skip, run, cruise in wheelchairs, rollerblade or simply push a baby pram.

Along the way, the route has five hubs – Evergreen, Mariachi Plaza, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, and 7th Street – where people can enjoy art, music, games and giveaways.

There will also be free pedicabs and play zones featuring vintage board games as part of a partnership with AARP-LA and CicLAvia.

As is the case with all CicLAvia events, there is no starting or ending point.

Participants can start and end anywhere they like and are welcome to use any form of non-motorized transportation.

The event is free and open to the public. For information, including a list of activities available along the route, visit http://www.ciclavia.org/heart_ of_la18.

Noted School Nurse, Teacher Betty Cooper Dead At 82

By John L. Seitz Betty Cooper, a longtime parishioner at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills and mother-in-law of BHHS speech and debate coach David Finnigan, died from breast cancer Nov. 9 at age 82.

Born in Arkansas, she moved to California at age 18, enrolling at Loma Linda University, where she obtained a bachelor of science degree in nursing and began her career at White Memorial Hospital.

After eight years working

in a local doctor’s private practice, she became a nurse with the Los Angeles Unified School District, spending 18 years as the nurse at Paul Revere Junior High School in Brentwood.

Highly respected by LAUSD officials, she spent much of her career training new nurses with the multidisciplinary skills needed to serve all K-12 students.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the No-Kill Los Angeles animal shelters at www.nkla.org.

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aving recorded dozens of albums, Michael’s completing an album of country music that includes Dolly Parton.

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ining with our superstars were Michael’s husband, Terrence Flannery (both vegans for years with waists like teenagers) and Michael’s mom Mazie, a tap dancer. Terrence is renovating the historic Cravens house that he and Michael have purchased, and will be live-in ready this spring.

Terrence Flannery is Michael Feinstein’s husband

René Reyes and Shane Rosamonda are Mitzi’s managers

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says, “but those who have played it insisted we adjust to it.”

Her illustrious career of

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ot long afterward, we introduced Michael to Liza Minnelli, and as legend has it, “they blew up in smoke.”

acting and improvising is peerless. A world-renowned Detroiter just like Mitzi.

Thanksgiving Day with Mitzi Gaynor (seated) at home in Beverly Hills, and friends Michael Feinstein, Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin and Mazie Feinstein

the river and through the woods to our beloved Mitzi’s we celebrate in Beverly Hills.

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welve of us.

Her Thanksgiving tablescape is a wonderment of beauty.

Sparkling with Baccarat crystal, English silver, tall candelabra and adorned with grandiose orchids. And with the starshine of our hostess Mitzi Gaynor, the maitresse of party giving, the glorious Lily Tomlin and Michael Feinstein.

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o befriend Mitzi is to be blessed with a friend for life. We’ve partied with her and her late husband Jack Bean for decades. After her showtimes here, there and everywhere. At the Oscars, at major openings, and at intimate dinners chez Mitzi.

Where she displays her culinary gifts. Did you know that one of her dressings not only included one, but a trio of rare mustards? That’s Mitzi for you.

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er effervescent soul is pure joy. Time and again during the long ago, she reiterated, “Dear One, I was born to make people happy.”

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ur Thanksgiving dinner began with chilled Olympia oysters paired with Aquavit, followed by an Hungarian vegetable salad (Mitzi inspired by a family recipe from her Hungarian heritage), roast turkey that

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“gourmet” mothers would rate A-plus, sweet potato souffle, and ending with a pumpkin bread pudding with a bourbon sauce and an apple cake baked by Shane Rosamonda, our applauded dinner chef for the evening.

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ocumentarian Shane and his partner René Reyes, the Paley Center’s popular producing executive, are Mitzi’s managers, happily wrapping up work on her memoir, South Pacific, Showbusiness & Me, that will be published at Christmas time next year.

Agented by the prestigious Curtis Brown Literary Agency.

olumbus, Ohio gave us the music of inimitable Michael Feinstein.

Fabled singer, pianist, archivist, cabaret stylist for years, and now merely 62.

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e met Michael at Jean Howard’s annual New Year’s Day party in 1976 where Rex Harrison was holding court.

Where he arrived with June Levant, the wife of the late Wit Oscar Levant. June suggested Michael play a few of the undiscovered Gershwin tunes on the grand piano, arousing the sophisticated guests to stand up and cheer.

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oon enough, we hosted an evening with the Who and the Who at the Cinegrill at the Hollywood Roosevelt (our main regret was that Mitzi was performing out-of-town) the great lyricist Sammy Cohn fell in love with Michael, as did others in the audience, and Michael was deservingly riding high ever after.

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s Lily’s dinner partner, we kept remembering her enlightened witticisms.

Among them: “The road to success is always under construction.”

Online at www.bhcourier.com/category/george-christy

Spirit of Hope Award Honoree Major (Retired) Scotty Smiley

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ily’s good news: her hit Netflix series, Grace and Frankie, co-starring Jane Fonda, is renewed for it’s fifth season, and let’s not forget that Lily has been Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, season after season. Along with other impressive awards and nominations.

Providence Saint John’s Health Center Foundation President and CEO Robert Klein, Michael Wayne, and Patrick Wayne, Chairman of the Board of the John Wayne Cancer Institute and son of John Wayne

Spirit of Entertainment Award Honoree Kelsey Grammer

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ily and Jane play married friends, whose husbands, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston, have been romantically involved for years.

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ichael was researching the lyrics of Ira Gershwin at the time and, of course, uncovered gems that he now plays in his thrilling performances.

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lso: Lily’s spouse, the collaborator and writer of 46 years, Jane Wagner, ballerina Kate Kahn, actor/dancer Steven Byrket, and Sanborn McGraw, the tour manager for Michael Feinstein and Liza Minnelli.

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ily revealed during dinner that the largest venue she’s worked (and God knows she’s performed in hundreds) is the Kennedy Center.

“Overwhelming,” she

Nicole Murphy and Lisa “Bubbles” Brunson paraded the Red Carpet during ABCs 29th Talk of the Town benefiting prostate and breast cancer research.

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Emcee JB Smoove and his wife and musician Shah Xo

ABCs President Gloria Gebbia

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Childhelp Sets KOST, KTLA Help Kick Off CHLA’s Holiday Fundraising Campaign H E A LT H & W E L L N E S S

‘Wonderland’ Fundraiser Dec. 9

Childhelp, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit advocating for abused and neglected children, and its Greater Los Angeles Chapter, will hold their 14th annual Wonderland fundraiser, Sunday, Dec. 9 at The Millenium Biltmore Hotel, 506 S. Grand Ave., L.A. The event will begin with a boutique and silent auction at 10 a.m. followed by lunch and entertainment and raffle at 12:30 p.m.

It is estimated that five children die each day from abuse and neglect in the U.S., and for nearly six decades, Childhelp has worked to combat this epidemic. Childhelp’s programs and services include residential treatment services, children’s advocacy centers, therapeutic foster care, group homes and child-abuse prevention, education and training.

Childhelp created the Childhelp National Day of Hope, held each April during National Child Abuse Prevention Month, to mobilize Americans to fight child abuse.

Tickets start at $125. For more information, visit https://www.childhelp.org/wonderland2018/.

Popular Los Angeles’ radio and TV morning shows— iHeartMedia Los Angeles’ KOST 103.5 FM’s The Ellen K Morning Show, syndicated nationally on 30 stations, and KTLA Morning News—helped kick off the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) holiday fundraising campaign, broadcasting live from the hospital on Giving Tuesday this week.

The global philanthropydriven alternative to Black Friday encourages individuals to support worthy causes.

KOST 103.5’s Ellen K, Ryan Manno and Darlene Rodrigo and KTLA Morning News anchor Megan Henderson spoke with patient families, hospital leaders and other special guests throughout the morning and encouraged their audiences to support the hospital and donate by texting CHLA to 41444 or 91999, or visiting kost1035.com/chla or CHLA.org/KTLA. “Each year our community rallies in support of our hospital and we at CHLA are so grateful,” said CHLA President/CEO Paul S. Viviano.

“It is a privilege to be a part of Giving Tuesday and CHLA. We are all so blessed to have such an amazing place with

GIVING BACK—Helping kick off Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’ annual holiday fundraising campaign on Giving Tuesday were, from left, KOST 103.5 FM’s Ellen K. and Ryan Manno, KTLA’s Megan Henderson, KOST’s Darlene Rodrigo and actress/CHLA patient mom Nikki DeLoach.

caring and skilled professionals to love and treat our children,” said Ellen K. “I will forever be grateful to CHLA for being there for my family when we needed them.

“CHLA relies on the support of the very community it serves to fulfill its mission,” said Henderson. “As a volunteer, I have seen up close how the giving hearts of others help save

and support these special children.”

CHLA’s year-end fundraising campaign is a month-long appeal as CHLA is the primary safety net hospital for all families in need of highly specialized pediatric care.

Donations to the campaign through the end of the year will ensure that every patient treated at CHLA receives the criti-

cal, lifesaving care they need,” Viviano said.

Credit Unions for Kids has again partnered with CHLA and will challenge the community to match its $650,000 donation by midnight, Dec. 31.

Porto’s Bakery and Café will donate a portion of cheese roll sales from all four of its L.A.-area locations through Dec. 4.

Global Healthcare Expert To Lead Cedars-Sinai International Health Heitham Hassoun, M.D., a leading international health expert, has been named VP/medical director of CedarsSinai’s Center for International Health.

Hassoun joins Cedars-Sinai from Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he was medical director for Global Healthcare at Johns Hopkins Medicine International and an associate professor in the department of surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

“Cedars-Sinai is a leading and dynamic academic medical center. In order to grow and thrive, we have to have global recognition,” said Hassoun, 47.

“I’m looking forward to working with the exceptional physicians, nurses and healthcare leaders here to build and grow international patient services and to maximize our impact at home and abroad.”

Hassoun replaces Spencer Koerner, M.D., who will retire at the end of the year after 41 years at Cedars-Sinai, including 22 years as VP/medical director of International Health.

“We are very fortunate to have someone of Dr. Hassoun’s caliber join the Cedars-Sinai International Health team and carry on the extraordinary work of Dr. Koerner,” said Richard B. Jacobs, Cedars-Sinai’s executive VP/chief strategy officer. “Dr. Hassoun brings a wealth of experience in global healthcare management, business development and medical direction for international projects and global partners in more than 20 countries.”

The Center for International Health at Cedars-Sinai was created to harness technological advances that have created communication among doctors around

Dr. Heitham Hassoun

the globe. Physicians, scientists and researchers at Cedars-Sinai work with counterparts anywhere in the world, consulting, participating in interactive conferences and receiving patient files for rapid review by specialists.

As medical director of International Health, Hassoun said he would expand Cedars-Sinai’s international profile in China, Mexico, Latin America and elsewhere, in part by tapping his extensive experience with facilities in the Middle East.

Before his work at Johns Hopkins, Hassoun served as medical director for Methodist International in Houston and was an associate professor of cardiovascular surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College In New York. He completed his fellowship training in vascular surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago and earned his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

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IMAGINE A CURE – Beverly Hills High School Boys and Girls Soccer players are slated to hold their “Imagine A Cure” BHHS Soccer Game Fundraiser on Saturday, Dec. 8 at the high school. All players will be playing in honor of a cancer survivor named in the “Kicking In Honor Of” sign in front of them. To donate or for more information, visit: http://www.towercancer.org/bhhs. Pictured (bottom row, from left): Tess Cuen, Esther Goldberg, Ellie Ferd, Lindsey Khorsandi, Alya Mehrtash, Nahal Sarafian, Lauren Stein; second row (from left): Emmerson Hayes, Celine Albarian, Rebeca Sanchez Solana, Yasmin Kamara, Adri Goldman, Arden Brown, Sara Schwartz, Jenna Kramer, Kayla Shadgoo, Eden Bechnainou, Estella Rosen, Danielle Elitzur, Ashley Heravi; third row (from left): Keneth Nicolas, Eyal Wrobel, Ian Feinberg, Alex Rothman, Alex Manavi, Lucas Schaeffer, Jonah Okum, Sami Yates, Tommy Geller,Ilan Farahi, Giulian Laudisa; back row (from left): Coach Justin Commins, Raffi Haroutunian, Juwan Perkins, Omer Cohen, Iden Azad, Rafael Choukroun, Mahdi Rahimi, Benji Baron, Eli Schwartz, Eden Lavian, Ori Ben David, Harrison Stone, Finn Kesler and Coaches Rodrigo Donoso, Chris Braga and Ryan Franks.

Photo by Ava Seccuro HOLIDAY HOME TOUR – The Greystone Holiday Home Tour is set for Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Greystone Mansion.

Visitors can enjoy holiday decor and interior designer vignettes by top notch designers. Pictured is a room in Greystone designed by Suzanne Furst. Tickets for the Greystone Holiday Home Tour are $35.

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Commission (SEC) named by the SEC. Despite having received over $1 billion in funds, the company “only generated approximately $13.7 million in interest income from truly unaffiliated third-party borrowers,” according to the SEC filing. “Without real revenue to pay the monies due to investors, Shapiro resorted to fraud, using new investor money to pay the returns owed to existing investors.

Meanwhile, Shapiro and his family lived in the lap of luxury and spent exorbitant amounts of investor money in alarming fashion on items such as luxury automobiles, jewelry, country club memberships, fine wine and chartering private planes.”

Shapiro’s scheme collapsed in December 2017, and, as the Courier reported, he filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Investors, according to the SEC allegations, are owed more than $961 million in principal.

At least 2,600 of them unknowingly placed their retirement savings into Shapiro’s Ponzi scheme.

Woodbridge ran infomercials and late-night ads in markets across the country for at least five years, “falsely selling Woodbridge’s investments as ‘safe’ and ‘secure’ according to the SEC. Shapiro selected properties to be purchased with the incoming funds, with individual LLCs holding title to the properties, making RS Trust and Shapiro the ultimate beneficial owners of the properties.

At least $328 million went to repay principal and interest to investors, which allowed Woodbridge and Shapiro to continually entice new investors and to induce existing investors to rollover their investment upon maturity, delaying the need for cash.

A multi-state sales force received $64.5 million in commissions and $44 million in payroll.

Shapiro, a resident of Sherman Oaks, used much of that money to purchase properties in Los Angeles’ most tony neighborhoods, including Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Holmby Hills and the Hollywood Hills.

Among those homes, Woodbridge purchased several that were tens of millions, including Owlwood, the former estate of Sonny & Cher, for $90 million.

Last month, Yolanda’s Little Black Book revealed that public documents related to the Woodbridge bankruptcy proceedings showed that German billionaire Frank Binder purchased the enormous mansion at 1 Electra Court on 4.5 acres for an alleged $29,500,000.

Binder is the Merck Pharmaceuticals heir, one of the oldest family-owned conglomerates in the world.

Last week, as the sell-off continues, Yolanda reported that two more wildly-outrageous pricetags were offloaded. One is a vacant lot in lower Bel Air listed at $32 million.

The other is a house above the Sunset Strip on Nightingale priced at $15.5 million.

Both properties were pur-

From 7a.m.- 8 p.m. on election day and three days prior, there will be one vote center provided for every 7,500 registered voters. Every city with at least 1,000 registered voters will have at least one vote center.

Thus, the County has formed Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) to oversee the new voting centers.

VSAP is conducting a comprehensive demographic analysis of population density and the demographics of voter behavior to understand when and where voters are most likely to vote.

Facility assessment considerations for VCPP include low-income, accessibility, language minority communities, geographically-isolated communities, public transportation options, traffic patterns for ballot drop boxes, distance and time travel, and voters with disabilities.

Voters will be able to vote where they choose, rather than at a distinct location, as with current polling places. The apparatus for voting will be electronic, and include a smart phone application.

A VSAP Advisory Committee, weighted heavily towards the

November 30, 2018 | Page 9 Democratic Party is leading the mission. The Committee includes Los Angeles Democratic Party Chair Eric Bauman, Executive Director of Common Cause Kathay Feng, President of the League of Women Voters Nancy Mahr and the Chair of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Mark Gonzalez and Mimi Kennedy, boardmember of Progressive Democrats of America.

Republican Party Chair Mark Vafiades is also on the Committee, as are several city clerks and other representatives.

A meeting is scheduled from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. at the Beverly Hills Public Library on Jan. 12, 2019, focusing on Beverly Hills and surrounding communities, including Culver City, West Hollywood, the unincorporated areas of Franklin Canyon and the Miracle Mile District; Alsace, Baldwin Hills, Beverly Crest, Beverlywood, Brookside, Cadillac-Coming, Carthay, Century City, Cheviot Hills, Cloverdale, Cochran, Country Club Park, Crenshaw District, Crestview, Exposition, Faircrest Heights, Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, Lafayette Square, Longwood, Miracle Mile, Melrose, Park La Brea, South Carthay, Sycamore Square, Regent Square, Reynier Village, St. Elmo Village, Victoria Park and Wellington Square.

chased by Colombian banker and real estate developer Jaime Gilinski Bacal.

In many cases, the existing homes were slated for demolition, as was the case with Lago Vista.

Purchased for approximately $4.5 million, Woodbridge used the property to give itself loans totaling $12,277,300, including a construction loan totaling $7,884,8000, though no construction ever took place.

Money from retirees, The site of the former Lago Vista project proposal. contributing $15-250,000 each, purchased the property, attorney Ben Reznik of Jeffer noted hillside activist was then added first mortgage and Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP among the leaders of the opposecond lien construction loans argued unsuccessfully, along- sition to Lago Vista and a pro– all the while using the funds side expediter Jason Sommers ponent of the Basement from new investors, though of Crest Real Estate, for an R1 Ordinance. “In this instance, the simultaneous representathere was never any equity in Permit.

Dozens of residents tions have a great deal in comthe property. appeared at several meetings to mon and Mr. Reznik and his The debts were based on oppose the massive proposed firm have had numerous confithe false projection that the property would be worth development, which Reznik dential conversations with me that… effect the development upwards of $20 million without argued, was not a basement.

That prompted the City to of 1260 Lago Vista Drive.” a permit or approved plan for clarify the definition of a “baseWeiss argued unsuccessfully construction.

“He didn’t buy the proper- ment” under the old guide- that he should have been ty at inflated prices,” said local lines, and pressured the removed from Lago Vista’s attorney Ronald Richards in Planning Commission to come team.

Reznik was denied an December 2017. “He sold the forward with the 2017 debt at inflated values to Basement Ordinance, which appeal for the R1 Permit and he investors with market values eliminates some of the most failed to argue successfully that that were based upon render- egregious loopholes in the a clarification of the definition of a “basement” was indeed a ing value, not the actual value. 2015 Hillside Ordinance.

Reznik originally repre- new ordinance that did not The projects had no permits or approvals. It was ‘hope’ value.” sented resident Debbie Weiss apply to the Lago Vista project.

Nevertheless, the project The property at 1258-60 in her battle against a proposed development by Canadian bildescended into bankruptcy Lago Vista united the community in opposition to the pro- lionaire Francesco Aquilini on court.

Loma Linda Drive.

Any new construction will posed development.

Reznik then represented be subject not only to the Seeking to export 2,498 the Lago Vista project.

Hillside Ordinance, but the cubic yards of soil in excess of “We have paid the firm Basement Ordinance, as well, the 1,500-cubic yard threshold on a street less than 24-feet in hundreds of thousands of dol- with a host of now very savvy width in the Hillside area, lars for their representation,” neighbors. said Weiss, at the time. The

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Love Actually At The Wallis Celebrates Score Of Beloved Holiday Movie Director Richard Curtis has written that “without its music, Love Actually wouldn’t work at all.”

So it seems natural that For The Record, known for producing shows celebrating the music of specific directors (Its Scorsese — American Crime Requiem was a big hit at The Wallis in 2016) would give its unique touch to the popular film and its eclectic score that Curtis writes is the “soul of the film.”

The world-premiere multimedia experience will play Dec. 4-31 at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

“People from Universal Pictures/Working Title were fans of a show we did at DBA nightclub in West Hollywood and approached us about doing Love Actually,” said Anderson Davis, a creator of For The Record who adapted and directs the production.

“They identified the soundtrack as perfect for a theatrical experience,” says Davis. “If you look at the score, you realize it has great tunes (like Christine McVie’s Songbird, The Pointer Sisters Jump and The Beach

Anderson Davis

Rex Smith

Boys God Only Knows) smartly chosen to fit the story.”

The result is a hybrid of rock concert and musical theater where scenery and video screens intertwine, and actors weave between projections as they bring the film’s scenes to life through the movie’s album.

The film, along with original custom-video content illustrating the London-based setting including 10 Downing Street, is shown on screens that travel throughout the stage, left and right, up and down.

“Audiences will see two forms of storytelling going on

side by side,” says Davis, “with film and our live actors. A wall with a London townhouse projected on it opens up and there’s real life behind it.”

Davis is a huge fan of the 2003 romantic comedy about eight couples whose lives intersect shortly before the holidays as their stories count down to Christmas. “It has a mature holiday spirit,” says Davis, and he’s hoping the show can become a seasonal staple alongside all the Nucrackers, Messiahs and Christmas Carols.

The production will include all the songs from the film

including Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now, Lynden David Hall’s All You Need Is Love and composer Craig Armstrong’s love themes performed by a 15piece orchestra and an eclectic cast including Rumer Willis and Broadway veterans Steve Kazee and Rex Smith.

Smith comes to the production after appearing as Maurice in a $15 million production of Beauty and the Beast on the Disney Dream cruise ship.

“I was interested in how they were going to do that show,” Smith says, “and I was fascinated with how they would pull off this production.”

He’s incorporated video, Broll and “a digital environment” into his one-man show, Confessions of A Teen Idol (You Take My Breath Away was a top-10 hit) so this “modern as tomorrow” show is a project he’s happy to be a part of and learn from. “It takes to-the second timing to work, and is unlike anything else I’ve worked on.”

Smith plays Billy Mack (Bill Nighy in the film) an aging rock star looking for one more hit and hoping that Christmas Is All

Around will be a No.1 single.

While the character, and his manager, don’t interact with the couples, Mack’s songs are heard on their devices and his music video provides a plot twist for one of them.

“In the film it’s an actor playing an aging rocker. Here I’m an aging rocker playing one,” says Smith, 63. “I’m the old man in the group” He’s also enjoying working with Musical Supervisor Jesse Vargas who’s created “surprising new arrangements with intricate orchestration for the celebration of the soundtrack.”

As a spoiler alert he adds that he closes the show, in a unique way, and may even encourage audience participation in singing the song that has become a holiday favorite.

Performances will be at 7:30 p.m., weekdays, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday.

Tickets are available by phone at 310-746-4000, online at http://thewallis.org/love, or the box office, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills.

—Steve Simmons

New Book Offers Intimate Account Of Screen Legend Bette Davis’ Last Decade

Esther Lee & Sung Chang

2019 Greystone Mansion ‘Music In The Mansion’ Tickets Are On Sale Now

By Victoria Talbot The Music in the Mansion 2019 series returns to Greystone Mansion & Gardens on Sunday, Jan. 12, at 2 p.m. with the Los Angeles Ensemble, featuring piano duo Esther Lee and Sung Chang, kicking off another season showcasing the world’s finest musicians in solo and chamber music.

Pianists Esther Lee and Sung Chang have been performing as a duo since they met in 2010 while studying in Germany. Together, they won the International Schubert competition for Piano Duo, when no second prize was awarded. Chang and Lee are Los Angeles residents who continue to perform as soloists,

as chamber musicians and as a duo.

The Los Angeles Ensemble consists of four musicians, including pianist Sung Chang, cellist Bingxia Lu, violist Tanner Manees and violinist Joanna Lee. Together, they have swept multiple categories of the Beverly Hills National Auditions and been awarded first prize for the International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso in London.

The season lineup includes a different performance every month through June. Tickets are $20 and seating is limited.

For more information on the entire lineup, or to purchase tickets online, visit www.beverlyhills.org/bhrec or call 310285-6950.

Kathryn Sermak didn’t just experience life with iconic actress Bette Davis, she took notes.

Her datebooks, diaries , letter records and tapes are the basis of her new book, Miss D & Me — Life With The Invincible Bette Davis, recounting the screen legend’s final decade when Sermak served as her personal assistant.

Sermak’s story begins in 1979, when at 22 she was hired for what was initially supposed to be a three-month stint in London while Davis filmed Watcher In The Woods.

The job as “girl Friday” tuned into a 10-year relationship during Davis’ most difficult years when she had a mastectomy, suffered a major stroke and dealt with what she saw as the betrayal of her daughter with the publication of B.D. Hyman’s memoir that portrayed Davis as a neglectful alcoholic.

Sermak’s Davis is a strick taskmaster with high standards both professionally and personally, but with a human and vulnerable side.

She describes her first two years as “boot camp” where Davis taught her to walk “with purpose,” and have a firm handshake (“confident, not desperate”) “so men respect you.”

When she saw Sermak cut her salad lettuce with a fork, Davis insisted her assistant take

Bette Davis and Kathryn Sermak. Photo by James-Daniel Radiches

table etiquette lessons.

“She never got over going on a date at one of the big New York hotels when she was young and not knowing which fork to use,” said Sermak.

On film sets—Sermak was with her for Wicked Stepmother and White Mama among other projects—Davis set the tone, recalls Sermak. “She knew the script and told me where to stand and who to talk to —the director and the producer.

“She was taught the oldfashioned way by Warner Bros.,” adds Sermak “Everybody has a job when making a film— the technicians, cameramen and press. They all have families to feed and you have to help them do their jobs. She believed in respect and the crew loved her.”

Flying from L.A. to New York, Sermak was often instructed to place their food order, cold cuts, in advance. “She didn’t want to disturb the staff if we arrived late at night,” says Sermak. “She always said, ‘these people have to wake up and go (see ‘DAVIS’ page 14

TO SEE AND BE SEEN

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY – The Jeffrey Foundation, the L.A.-based non-profit serving special needs children and their families, celebrated its 46th anniversary with a high tea and “Founder’s Award Reception” honoring 46 of the foundation’s supporters. Pictured with the foundation’s founder/CEO Alyce Morris Winston (second from left) are longtime supporters Helen and noted actor Peter Mark Richman with their son, actor/producer Orien Richman.

Photo by William Kidston

Taste Of Fall At Jean-Georges Beverly Hills Offers Culinary Journey Of Fresh, Flavorful Ingredients In Playful Plates

By Laura Coleman Michelin-star rated chef JeanGeorges Vongerichten could not be more pleased with his first restaurant in California, Jean-Georges Beverly Hills, which opened at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills last spring 2017.

Even though the gourmet Beverly Hills spot is just one of his 38 restaurants (he has 12 alone in New York), it’s already proving a powerhouse of inspiration for his culinary empire.

“We try to have the first bite taste as good as the last bite,” Vongerichten described of the dishes he creates. In Beverly Hills, that means an emphasis on fresh produce and local meat and seafood, in addition to heavy use of avocados, citrus and chili.

“I think there’s no one dish on our menu (here) without a little touch of chili,” he said.

Amidst the mild L.A. fall, Vongerichten visited the restaurant this month to help refine the ever-evolving menu and launch a very special “Taste of Fall” set menu.

The honeynut squash ravioli with sage melts in your mouth at Jean-Georges Beverly Hills.

Beginning with sea urchin and caviar with crispy potatoes, yuzu and creme fraiche, and moving on to a hamachi and little gem salad with avocado sprouts and soy chili dressing, the special tasting menu, which is available during dinner service through January, is a veritable culinary journey.

Other courses include poached

Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten

cod with lemon confit in dashi broth and lamb chops with mushroom bolognese and pecorino cheese. For dessert, there is a delectable carmelized apple with creme fraiche.

One of the world’s most famous chefs, Vongerichten has an impressive three-star Michelin background and is revered for his culinary genius and extensive involvement in every aspect of his restaurants. He still recalls starting along his career path at the age of 16 in 1973, back when nothing came pre-packaged and all elements were sourced from precisely what they were.

It’s that desire to stay as connected to the source as possible that continues to govern Vongerichten’s menus.

And while his menus will continue to evolve (about 40 percent of the menu remains the same at JeanGeorges Beverly Hills, he estimated), his passion for incorporating the very best ingredients to maintain balance remains as steadfast as ever. After all, he notes, food is the heart of family and community.

“I think food is all about memories,” he said.

For more information, or to make a reservation, visit: https://www.waldorfastoriabeverlyhills.com/dining/jeangeorges.

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THE FASHION OF BEVERLY HILLS

Holiday Tea Featuring Hutton Wilkinson Speaking On Tony Duquette's Dawnridge Set For Dec. 8 At Robinson Gardens Wilkinson elaborates on the

By Laura Coleman design elements and shares There is perhaps no one the stories in conjunction better at detailing the with Tim Street-Porter’s photonuanced life of designer Tony graphs, which document both Duquette than his longtime the original and redesigned former designing partner rooms.

Hutton Wilkinson.

The cost to attend is $85 To that end, on Saturday, for members and $95 for Dec. 8, the Friends of guests. Mimosas will be Robinson Gardens are set to served at 12:30 p.m., with the host a holiday tea at the historic Virginia Robinson Hutton Wilkinson lecture taking place at 1 p.m.

A holiday tea will follow.

Gardens in Beverly Hills For information, or to register, visit: where Wilkinson will discuss his latest https://www.robinsongardens.org/prod book, Tony Duquette’s Dawnridge.

The legendary Dawnridge Estate, uct/hutton-wilkinson. which is located in Beverly Hills, is one of the most creatively designed private homes in America. Built in 1949 by Duquette and his wife, Elizabeth, Wilkinson purchased the home following Duquette's death in 1999. Over the past two decades, Wilkinson, a famed interior designer and author of More is More: Tony Duquette, has breathed new life into the Duquette’s former estate, broadening the property by adding houses of his own design and incorporating remarkable objects designed and created by the Duquettes.

Dawnridge chronicles the opulent home's incredible transformation as

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Reviewing The City Council’s Positions On Rent Stabilization Ordinance Ahead Of December Vote

By Victoria Talbot When tenants first came to City Council and brought to light the allegations of horrendous behavior of abusive landlords, the council all but ignored them. Speaking in the public comment period for an item that was not on the agenda, they appeared in groups to ask for help.

Their complaints included a 10 percent annual rent increase, pipes which exploded in their units and on the vehicles in garages, lack of heat and air conditioning that sent some tenants to the hospital, electrical fires, plumbing that left them without working bathrooms or kitchens, frequent no-cause evictions and many other issues.

It appeared that only Councilmember Nancy Krasne was paying attention. She visited the units, and met the tenants. She insisted that rental housing be placed on the agenda.

At one point, Krasne was helping to pay the rent of several tenants, after paying to put them up in hotels until the air conditioning was working.

That was five years ago. It has taken that long to get to this point, where the City Council is preparing next month to vote on the Rent Stabilization Ordinance.

For two years, tenants and landlords have worked together for countless painful hours to reach if not an understanding, at least respect - one which has grown over the many facilitated dialogue sessions with Sukhsimranjit Singh, director of the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University.

Many feel, however, that decisions were made at last week’s City Council Study Session that could undermine the progress that has been made.

The rent control ordinance was set to give tenants a more equitable bargaining position and a sense of predictability and security to know that their housing would be secure, while protecting the landlord’s expectation of making a reasonable return on the investment.

Prior to Tuesday’s meeting, the abolition of no-cause eviction, the establishment of an annual rent increase cap, the rental registry, and other components of the ordinance were right on track.

Given Mayor Julian Gold’s oft-stated desire to see that the RSO would be finalized by the end of the year, the City Council embarked on a binge of answering significant questions without

discussion or public input, with the intention of answering them all before there was a hard break for Closed Session.

It was a wonder to behold. While hundreds of people had worked tirelessly to seek sensible, well-thought-out solutions over years, all of that was jettisoned in less than two hours.

Nonetheless, Gold can state that it was on his watch and done before the end of the year.

“The product was a retreat from the City’s prior inclusion of all rental units under rent stabilization to a program now reduced in scope through categorical exemptions for owner-occupied duplexes and higher-rent units,” said Mark Elliot, founder of the Renters Alliance. “This ‘lightning round’ knocked down 35 important policy questions in about two hours flat without much of a nod to the city consultant’s ten issue analysis memos and two rounds of facilitated dialogues. Instead, councilmembers seemed to bring their own values into the debate.”

It may even have been in violation of California Government Code Section 65580, says Chairman of the Municipal League of Beverly Hills Thomas White.

“The untenable rent increases suggested by the City Council would be aggravating and potentially very damaging to more than half of Beverly Hills’ residential population, and in direct conflict with state mandates to maintain adequate housing stock for all economic segments of our community,” he said, referring to the astonishing decisions to make rent increases 3.5 -7.5 percent, depending on the Consumer Price Index.

“If the CPI is a fair and objective adjustment mechanism, setting the floor for a minimum increase is unnecessary, prejudicial to the tenant, and a windfall for the landlord,” White stated.

And in the case of something called a “luxury unit exemption,” one category of renter could see their rent increase spectacularly. “The sky’s the limit,” said Mayor Gold, who rejected even the egregious earlier 10-percent cap on the rent increase for these units.

Unfortunately, with the housing crunch, it is expected that developers will never build a moderate housing unit in place of these luxury units again.

A report by HR&A consultants studied the impact of passthroughs on renters. With the average rent $2,243 in 2018, the CPI at 4.1 percent ($91.96), passthroughs for refuse and alleyway maintenance ($52), RSO registration fees ($7.42), code enforcement fee ($5.46), a water reliability fee ($1.90), for a total of $160/month - adds 4.65 percent to the rent, according to their report, available on the City’s website.

While the city of Los Angeles has capped rent at 3 percent, the City of Beverly Hills has not. Historically, rent increases have averaged 2.4 percent here, which brings down the increase to the tenant to $53.83.

Seismic retrofit could add an additional 2.49 percent to that total.

Why then, with seismic retrofit

looming in the future, did the City Council suddenly raise the base rate to 3.5 percent? No reason was given, nor was the public given any opportunity to discuss the increase. It is also unclear how the percentage of increase rose to 7.5 percent at the top.

While other cities cap the rent increase as a percentage of CPI, Beverly Hills renters can look at a possible rent increase that exceeds CPI if it falls below 3.5 percent.

Adding to a tenant’s uncertainty is the City Council’s decision to allow landlords of any size building to evict tenants to house family members, awarding them only 10 percent of the relocation fees for every year of tenancy after the first year- for which they are not entitled to any relocation fees.

Assuming that a renter who had only moved in within a year, who is probably still paying off the first, last, security and moving fees, doesn’t deserve any relocation fees just because they have only lived there for one year, is mystifying. So is the payout of 10 percent per year. An eviction is an eviction.

“Permitting a tenant’s displacement for the purported occupancy of a ‘family member’ is an obvious invitation to bad faith evictions,” said White. “The majority of apartments are in landlord absentee buildings whose owners don’t live in Beverly Hills and which are under professional management and intended strictly for long-term investment purposes – not family…”

A provision that allows a trial period for tenancy once again, places the renter in jeopardy. If, after one year, the landlord decides not to rent to that tenant again, they are simply off the hook and once again, the renter must come up with the first, last, security and moving fees.

“New tenants could expect to receive a notice just six months into their tenancy that their landlord will not continue to rent to them upon lease expiration,” said Elliot. “No fees will be due. I see no distinction between this kind of probationary tenancy and the old no-cause eviction.”

Many residents say they felt insulted by a final proposal from Councilmember Wunderlich to cap a proposed rental subsidy program to $500,000 per year. This proposal is the epitome of uncertainty; renters dependent on a subsidy will not know if they will receive it – or how much it will be – until they have already made their budget for the year ahead.

For 2019, prospective tenants should beware. First, the rent is not all they will pay. That monthly cost will increase every year with the CPI, no matter what a renter’s employer does with their salary. The renter may not even get a second year, so saving money to come up with for potential moving expenses is imperative. If renting a unit that is granted a luxury unit exemption, don’t expect to be able to plan what your rent could be from year (see ‘RENT STABILIZATION’ page 13)

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-to-year. And if a landlord decides he doesn’t want a tenant there after six months of tenancy or decides to move a “family member” in to the building, you could simply get a no-cause eviction without relocation fees.

For all the progress that had been made, it is believed that no one on the City Council is among the 61 percent of residents who are renters. Every renter in the City could potentially be evicted at a moment’s notice without full relocation compensation and can expect a high rate of passthroughs and the ultimate cancelation of all that has been done to remedy – they can expect exorbitant rent increases annually.

With these provisions, the City Council has failed to protect over 60 percent of the residents.

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and the City Council, Korbatov said that without question, the most contentious battle she has waged on behalf of the school board has been to prevent the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) from putting two tunnels roughly 35 feet right underneath the main high school building.

“This was a ‘bait and switch’ pulled on the entire City, but it became the burden of the Board of Education to resist endangering our students, teachers, staff and parents,” she said. “Why would any rational person believe that two electrified tunnels barely forty feet under a public high school full of kids and teachers, dug through an oil and gas field is a good thing? The risks are real. The danger extreme – an explosion is easy to set off with so much natural gas in the ground and the damage and loss of life would be devastating.”

While the battle to get Metro to move the tunnels from running under classrooms will continue after Korbatov is no longer on the board, her legacy is set to continue.

“The overarching issues I faced always centered around student safety, whether it was requesting permanent security SROs or rerouting the Metro subway from running under our instructional buildings or passing school bonds,” she said. “Many former mayors and school board members were not collaborative and were actually standing in the way, obstructing subsequent school board majorities from these missions.”

In addition to having helped negotiate the largest Joint Powers Agreement with the City Council in the school district’s history and helping to establish the pre-funding of OPEB to lower districts’ pension liabilities, Korbatov listed the following as among her greatest achievements that she helped engender during her nine years on the board: • Requiring rigorous graduation requirements for all BHHS students aligned with the CSU/UC admission requirements; • Maintaining small class size for K- 3 and 4-5; • Requiring all 11th grade students to take the PSAT; • Recommending the high school’s first dean of College Admissions; • Expanding the number and access to Advanced Placement courses

Rent Stabilization Ordinance mediator Sukhsimranjit Singh

The City Council directed staff to prepare the ordinance with these provisions to return next month for the final vote. Renters across the City hope that they will begin to analyze what they have done, and perhaps, change their minds.

at the high school; • Launching the Medical/Science Academy at the high school; • Implementing K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) curriculum district wide and adding a middle school STEM program; • Restoring the GATE program for gifted and talented education, and creating a GATE coordinator position; • Restoring the Middle School Honors Program for Math and English; • Successfully transitioning the district to Basic Aid, which has since resulted in the influx of more than $10 million in additional funding; • Creating a Career Technical Education (CTE) Committee to explore alternative academic college readiness pathways and hiring a CTE coordinator to implement a robust program; • Helping the district become the first in the State of California to remove the harmful term/label “Retardation” and replace with “Developmentally Disabled” for students who have special needs; • Hiring IXERO, which created a comprehensive school safety and security plan that includes plans for physical upgrades to harden the campuses to intruders; • Supporting Measure Y and Measure BH, which passed and will fulfill the mandate to rebuild most of the school district; • Raising the instructional minute cap at the high school, the number of minutes that teachers spend on instruction with students from 1,350 to 1,450 per week; • Successfully navigating a lawsuit from a contractor (Karen Christiansen) who ultimately sued the district for over $22 million after she had been removed as the main contractor for the district’s Measure E bonds; and • Suffering no true deficit spending during her time on the board.

“When I arrived in December of 2009, we were in the deepest recession and suffering through the deepest cuts to public education in the history of the state of California,” Korbatov emphasized. “We budgeted through that disaster and came out OK. We did not have a deficit.”

“We suffered no deficit spending in any of my nine years on this board,” she added. “Instead, during my tenure we started with zero reserves and now have ending fund balances of nearly $18 million dollars.”

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right one at the right time,” Carroll said.

“My mother, my siblings and I sat down and decided it was time. It’s really more of a long-term family planning decision than it is anything to do with the business itself.”

In Hollywood’s Golden Age, stars such as Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Rock Hudson and Gregory Peck all flocked to Carroll & Co. to be dressed by Richard Carroll.

Carroll & Co. eventually launched a studio division, which outfitted popular shows such as Happy Days and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

John Carroll, who began helping at the store at the age of 11, took the baton from his father Richard and has successfully continued the Carroll & Co. legacy.

Although its physical location will be closing, Carroll said he’s contemplating keeping the brand alive in some form. In recent years, the store has perhaps become most well-known for its

custom, made-to-measure suits.

“We’re going to look into continuing some service like that, but you know, the grind of retail can wear you down, the long hours, six days a week, working holidays, missing soccer practices and all of that,” Carroll said.

“There’s a lot that goes into it, and it’s going to be nice to step back and try to live something of a normal life.”

As regular customers have started learning about the store’s closure, the outpouring of support has been immense.

“I can’t even tell you how many visits, calls, emails and even faxes we’ve received from people sending well wishes or telling stories of how me or my father sold them their first suit,” Carroll said. “It’s been truly humbling and touching.”

Now through January, Carroll & Co. has a massive store closing sale underway, with a portion of some of the proceeds going toward cancer research. For more information, visit the store at 425 N. Canon Dr., or visit www.carrollandco.com.

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Grand Park’s Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain lighted for the holidays. Photo courtesy of Javier Guillen

Grand Park’s Winter Glow, a free nighttime light attraction, begins at 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1 at Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave., L.A. With 19 curated large-scale interactive light installations featuring displays designed by L.A.-based artists and by the Grand park team, the experience will run from 4-9 p.m., through Dec. 25.

Visitors will also enjoy projections, the L.A. County Christmas Tree, the pink light tree and the Grand Park menorah.

For more information, visit grandparkla.org/event/grandparks-winter-glow/.

• • • • • Anna Maria Horsford (Amen, The Bold And The Beautiful) and Roz Ryan (Amen, Good News) are starring in the new play Two Sisters Talking, now through Dec. 9 at The Matrix Theatre, 7675 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles.

Written, produced and directed by Ed Weinberger (the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi), the show takes on the depth of sibling rivalry when two sisters get together after a 10-year estrangement in a humorous, contentious, yet poignant reunion.

Performances are 8 p.m., Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m., Sunday.

Tickets are $30. To purchase and for more information, call 323-960-4420 or visit www.plays411.com/talking.

• • • • • Shawn Maestretti, principal of Shawn Maestretti Garden Architecture, will present “The Re-Generation of Gardens,” from 10 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic

The Crafty Casters Holiday Boutique & Raffle, featuring one of-a-kind gifts and food, will be from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 8-9 at 1159 S. Rodeo Dr., L.A. (between Olympic and Pico Blvds./off Beverwill).

For the last 16 years, Elisa Goodman, a former casting director for TV and independent features, has produced the sale featuring casting directors and other entertainment professionals showcasing other outlets for their creativity.

Participants and their offering will vary each day for the free event. Taking part both days will be: • Goodman and her line of handcrafted Curmudgeon Cards.

• Jane Jenkins, whose credits include A Beautiful Mind, Jurassic Park, Apollo 13, Outbreak and Backdraft -now designing hand-built pottery.

• Mimi Mayer, owner of Angel City Talent with artisan tapenade, cranberry relish and savory treats.

• Dawn Henney - vinage paper book art.

New this year on Saturday will be: • Marci Liroff, caster of St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty In Pink, Mean Girls, Freaky Friday and Footloose, who is now designing Jewelry.

• Jan Hogrewe owner of Just Jan’s Artisans Jams & Spreads, (featured at Williams Sonoma, Bristol Farms and more.)

Crafters returning this year include Zazu Faure with handcrafted artisan toys using re-purposed sweaters and Dana Sue Miller with Herban Body Products and Wick’d Bean Candles.

Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia.

Maestretti will discuss solution-oriented techniques for real-world garden designs and planting climate-appropriate plants for biodiversity.

Cost is $35. For more information, visit https://www.arboretum.org/events/the-regeneration-of-gardens/2018-1201.

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Geoff Elliott, center, as Scrooge in A Noise Within’s A Christmas Carol. Photo by Craig Schwartz

For the seventh year, classical theater company A Noise Within continues its holiday tradition with its production of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol for 17 performances, Dec. 1-23 at its theater, 3352 E.

Foothill Blvd., Pasadena.

Co-Producing Artistic Director Geoff Elliott, who stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, adapted the play from the novella, and codirects with Julia RodriguezElliott.

The acclaimed production of Dickens’ tale about the redemptive and transformative power of love features original music by Ego Plum.

Tickets are $25. To purchase and for more information, visit www.anoisewithin.org or call 626-356-3121.

• • • • • Longtime TV writer/producer Marc Sheffler, under the guise of his newly created stand-up comedy character “el Yid,” will debut a new comedy show at 9 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5 at Robin Hood, 3640 Marc Sheffler, “el B u r b a n k Yid” Blvd., Sherman Oaks.

His material will include a comedic slant on some of the

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to work the next day.”

Over the years, their relationship with its 50-year age difference (“In music she was Max Steiner and I was Rod Stewart”) developed to where Davis was friend, mentor and grandmother.

“I wrote the book to show the depth of the person, not the outside, but the inner spirit. It was also a promise I made that I would write this great story about two women and their adventures.”

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anti-Semitism he has personally experienced in light of the recent tragedy in Pittsburgh.

“Squirrel Hill is where I grew up and I still have family there.”

“I’m hoping my audiences can find some insights into the Jewish experience in America through my point of view,” says Sheffler. “While of course, the topic isn’t funny on its face, making fun of ignorance and intolerance can sometimes be cathartic.”

Visit www.robinhoodbritishpub.com or call 818-9946045 for more information • • • • • Captain Elgen Long, 91, the last surviving member of the Alaskan Airlines “Wings of Eagles” that flew consecutive days, saving thousands of Yemenite Jews in 1949, will be an honoree at StandWithUs’ Festival of Lights Gala, beginning with a reception and silent auction at 5 p.m., Sunday Dec. 9 at The Beverly Hilton.

Long was working as a commercial-flight navigator in the late 1940s. During a stop in Shanghai in January of 1949, his crew received a telegram from company heads issuing instructions to make for a British Royal Air Force base in Aden, a port city in Captain Elgen Y e m e n . Long There, his crew took part in a rescue mission that would come to be known as “On Eagle’s Wings”—a reference to Exodus 19:4—to help airlift tens of thousands of Yemenite Jews facing persecution and death out of Yemen and into Israel, a nation less than a year old at the time.

Dr. Frank Luntz, political consultant, pollster, and “public opinion guru” will be the keynote speaker.

Additional honorees are Helen and Haim Dayan, and comedian Elon Gold will be the emcee.

Visit https://www.standwithus.com/lagala2018/ for tickets and more information.

Hollywood Heritage’s “Afternoon With the Authors” from noon-5:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1 at the nonprofit’s museum, 2100 N. Highland Ave. For information, call 323-874-4005 or visit www.hollywoodheritage.org/events-calendar.

• On Saturday, Dec. 8 at 2 p.m., Sermak will sign her book, take part in a Q&A and screen a rare documentary on Davis’ last appearance, at L.A. Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. 5th St.She will also host a raffle of one of Davis’ personal items for all those who purchase a book.

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orees in attendance, with each sharing stories of their celebrated careers including memorable audition moments, accounts of being “almost” recognized, and so much more.

Named in honor of the late, great Oscar and six-time Emmy-winning actor Art Carney, the Carney Awards were CARNEY AWARDS–Many of film and TV’s legendary character actors were honored at the Carney Awards. At the event (from left): Executive Producer David Katz; co-honorees Joe Morton, Bruce Greenwood, and Jessica Walter; Executive Producer Brian Carney; co-honorees James Cromwell and M. Emmet Walsh; and Executive Producer Jim Katz. The awards were created by the Katz brothers and Brian Carney, son of the late Oscar and Golden Globe-winning Art Carney for whom they were named.

Photo by Brian Friedman The 4th annual Carney Awards gathered the most recognizable faces in TV and film at the Broad Theatre to honor Joe Morton, Jessica Walter, Joe Pantoliano, M. Emmet Walsh, James Cromwell and Bruce Greenwood for their outstanding achievements in character acting. Actor Patton Oswalt brought an added layer of humor as this year’s host, while performers Donny Most and his Orchestra and recording artist Lily Meola lent their musical talents to the ceremony.

Gregg Henry took the stage to introduce his dear friend Bruce Greenwood, praising him for portraying each of his characters with “dignity and heart.” The latter humbly accepted, saying that it is “a privilege and I cherish it.”

Dancing icon Debbie Allen highlighted the work of her “big brother” Joe Morton, who spoke of what a great honor it was to be “among such illustrious actors.” Stephen Tobolowsky delivered a pre-taped tribute to Joe Pantoliano as an actor who “many in Hollywood consider to be our hero.” Pantoliano accepted in a humorous video, noting that he has “lost jobs to every one of [the honorees]... except Jessica Walter!”

Honoring his friend and co-star M. Emmet Walsh with the Chairman’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Harrison Ford spoke at length of Walsh’s genius, sharing some of the qualities which make his acting so special and unlike any other. “He wants you to see someone you’ve not yet had the pleasure of meeting.”

Marilu Henner marveled at friend Jessica Walter saying: “She makes it look easy.” The final honor of the evening was presented by Mike Farrell who said that while some people see James Cromwell’s work as art, he sees it “as magic.”

Donny Most reminisced about his start as a singer and then becom-

ing an actor, working with great character actors along the way including Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Henry Winkler and Anson Williams, who was in attendance.

He then spoke about the actors we lost during the past year which led into a beautiful rendition of One For My Baby, interwoven with images of all the actors who passed.

The evening concluded with a panel discussion with all five hon-

created by Elvis Duran Group’s CEO David Katz and his brother Jim Katz, an Emmy-winning producer, along with Art’s son, Brian Carney, an actor and voice-over artist. ****** The 16th Lupus L.A.’s “Hollywood Bag Ladies Luncheon” at The Beverly Hilton was, as always, a huge success.

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he underscored that he took tremendous pride in what he characterized as a multitude of accomplishments that have marked his term.

Such accomplishments of his time in office over the past five years, which he listed to the Courier, included: • Advocating for a dedicated counselor of college admissions; • Overseeing a Career Technical Education (CTE) program to explore alternative A through G college readiness offerings and career pathways; • Recommending a Director of Technology, to foster a district wide technology plan; • Supporting the reinstatement of the GATE program and implementation of programs that focused on placing more girls into the subjects of Science Technology Engineering and Math; • Ensuring the continuation of the district’s construction program; • Supporting the decommissioning of the oil wells at the high school; • Overseeing the passage of a new school construction bond, Measure BH; • Helping negotiate for an

increase in base amount of the Joint Powers Agreement with the City; • Advocating for the development and implementation of a comprehensive school security plan, including an armed presence during school hours, closed campuses at all five school sites, and a planned fusion center to access internal and external threats; and • Advocating to pre-fund the district’s Other Post Employee Benefits (OPEB) in order to lower the district’s long-term pension liabilities.

“In each of the past five years that I have served on the Board, our State Certified auditors have reported an increase to the district’s ending fund balance,” he underscored. “I am proud to say that I leave the district in a much stronger financial condition then I found it.”

Goldstein said that as prepared to leave office, he was “extremely optimistic” about the future of school district, primarily in part due to one constant: the quality of Beverly Hills families.

“Our students are among the brightest and most eager to learn in any district,” he said.

“They have parents that care deeply about education and many have made great sacrifices to send them to our schools.”

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“My big thing is to give students concrete takeaways: here’s how you can help protect yourself; here’s how you can protect others,” he explained following one of a series of lectures he gave to BHHS 10th grade students last week. “Everything I do is factual. I don’t tell them what to do.

I give them information.”

Cristall, whose own youth was riddled with challenges so severe after he pivoted off-course in high school that he readily shares how he was “lucky” to have survived his teenage years, notes that had the internet existed in its current form, he likely would not have the high-profile job he has today.

In this fast-paced digital era, everyone would be wise to consider that privacy doesn’t really exist on social media or when sending text messages.

One of the most harrowing examples about how one online action can impact the trajectory of a young person’s future is the story of Amanda Todd, a victim of cyberbullying who posted a video detailing how her decision to expose her breasts online destroyed her life, ultimately leading to her death by suicide.

“Make your own decisions - but if you want to avoid some of these situations (like becoming a victim of sextortion or engaging in child ponography), you probably don’t want to send a nude,” Cristall said.

Franks emphasized the importance of Cristall’s lecture on online safety and digital citizenship in today’s quickly evolving society where technology is both an indispensable tool and potentially a terrible minefield.

“In the counseling department we see a lot of students who are negatively affected by technology,” she said. “That’s why we want to be proactive and have these type of events.”

Cristall stated that unequivocally the number one mistake that kids make when confronted with a potential cyber crime is that they think they can handle the situation alone.

“There’s not even a close second,” he said. “The number one mistake I see teens making is they try to navigate these situations alone...and it often gets worse.”

Franks said that importance of kids feeling that there are trusted adults that they can reach out to and talk to could not be over-stated, which is among the core takeaways of the Norman Aid Center’s

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efforts.

Local realtor and BHHS alum Michael Libow, who has been hugely philanthropic toward Beverly Hills schools in recent years, partnered with Franks to support “Netiquette,” including Cristall’s lectures.

“I truly wanted to get involved with something that provided a safe space for children here at the high school and possibly throughout the district in the future,” he said.

Cristall’s route to becoming a speaker on the issue materialized organically about three years ago when his wife asked him to speak with their oldest son about sexual consent. He quickly realized how much had changed since he was a teenager - including that the standard had changed from “no means no” to affirmative consent. Of course, in the digital age, that was only the tip of the iceberg.

Cristall gave his first talk at BHHS last year when he addressed sexual violence to groups of ninth graders. Most certainly, it was the first time that the kids had heard that sexting could be considered child pornography.

“About one in four teens are sexting,” he said. “About two-thirds don’t know it’s a crime.”

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PUBLIC NOTICES ORDINANCE NO. 18-O-2766 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE TO ELIMINATE NO CAUSE EVICTIONS FROM CHAPTER 6 OF TITLE 4 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING A NEW GROUND FOR A JUST-CAUSE EVICTION OF A DISRUPTIVE TENANT AND A NEW PROCEDURE PERTAINING TO THE TERMINATION OF A TENANCY OF A DISRUPTIVE TENANT TO CHAPTERS 5 AND 6 AND REPEALING URGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 18-O-2762 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS HEREBY ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1.

The City Council hereby amends Article 5 of Chapter 5 of Title 4 of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code by adding new Section 4-5-514 thereto regarding Disruptive Tenants to read as follows:

dence shall not be applicable to such proceedings. b. There shall be no oral communication outside the hearing between the members of the subcommittee and any party or witness, or the substance of such communication shall be disclosed at the beginning of the hearing. All discussion during the hearing shall be recorded. c. The hearing shall ordinarily proceed in the following manner, unless the subcommittee determines that some other order of proceedings would better facilitate the hearing: i. A brief presentation by or on behalf of landlord, including testimony by any other affected parties and witnesses in support of the application. ii. A brief presentation by or on behalf of the tenant, including testimony by any other affected parties and witnesses in opposition to the application.

the possession of an apartment unit except upon a ground specified in this section.

A. FAILURE TO PAY RENT: A landlord may bring an action to recover the possession of an apartment unit if the tenant has failed to pay the rent to which the landlord is entitled or any surcharge which has been lawfully imposed.

B. VIOLATIONS OF OBLIGATIONS: A landlord may bring an action to recover the possession of an apartment unit if the tenant has violated an obligation or covenant of the tenancy, including, but not limited to, any obligation in a written apartment rental agreement, other than the obligation to render possession upon proper notice, and has failed to cure such violation after having received written notice thereof from the landlord.

C. MAINTENANCE OF NUISANCES:

4-5-514: DISRUPTIVE TENANT iii. A brief rebuttal by the landlord.

A. A landlord may bring an action to recover possession of an apartment unit if: (1) the tenant repeatedly or continually disturbs the peaceful and quiet enjoyment of one or more tenants who occupy other rental units in the apartment building where the tenant resides or (2) antagonizes, intimidates or bullies one or more tenants who reside at that apartment building (“disruptive tenant”) and the disruptive tenant does not cease the behavior when requested to do so by the other tenant(s) or by the property owner or manager of the premises.

B. The landlord or the landlord’s representative may, at the sole option of the landlord, file an application with the City and request that a subcommittee of the City Council make a determination that a tenant is a disruptive tenant, as defined in paragraph A of this section 4-5-514.

If the subcommittee determines that the tenant is a disruptive tenant, then the landlord or the landlord’s representative may serve the tenant with a written notice to terminate the tenancy in accordance with state law.

1. The subcommittee of the City Council shall be composed of two members of the City Council. Council Members shall be appointed by the Mayor and serve on the subcommittee for a two month term. At the end of the term and Mayor may reappoint one or both Council Members or may appoint new Council Members to the subcommittee.

2. If a landlord or the landlord’s representative files an application with the City’s rent stabilization program for the subcommittee to make a determination whether a tenant is a disruptive tenant whose tenancy can be terminated with notice, the landlord first shall have given the disruptive tenant at least one written notice describing the disruptive conduct and requiring the tenant to discontinue the conduct. The landlord either shall deliver the notice to the tenant personally, send it by certified mail, or shall post it on the door of the tenant’s unit. Prior to filing the application with the city’s rent stabilization program, the landlord also shall have served the tenant with a copy of the application either by personally delivering the application to the tenant or by posting the application on the door of the tenant’s unit. Proof of service of the application on the tenant shall be filed with the City concurrently with the application. The application shall be submitted either on a form supplied by the City or shall substantially comply with the requirements of the City’s form.

3. The application shall set forth the name, address and unit number of the tenant and shall describe specifically the tenant’s conduct that the landlord contends is disruptive, the dates when the conduct described in the application occurred, and the dates when the landlord requested that the tenant cease the disruptive conduct, including the written notice described in paragraph B.2 above. The application also may include the names of any individuals who observed the tenant’s conduct and may include written statements by the witnesses describing the conduct.

4. The City shall schedule a hearing (but need not hold the hearing) within ten days of the filing of a complete application with the City. If one or both members of the subcommittee is/are not available to attend a hearing on an application filed pursuant to this section, the rent stabilization program shall contact other Members of the City Council to determine if another Council Member is available to attend the hearing. The rent stabilization program shall send written notice of the hearing to the landlord and the affected tenant by certified mail at least fifteen days prior to the date of the hearing.

5. The subcommittee shall control the conduct of the hearing and rule on procedural requests. The hearing shall be conducted in the manner deemed by the subcommittee to be most suitable to secure the information and documentation that is necessary to render an informed decision, and to result in a fair decision without unnecessary delay. a. At the hearing, the parties may offer any documents, testimony, written declarations, or other evidence that is relevant to the application. Formal rules of evi-

d. The subcommittee shall establish equitable time limits for presentations at a hearing, with a minimum length of ten minutes each for the landlord and the tenant, subject to adjustments for translation and reasonable accommodation. e. City staff shall maintain an official hearing record, which shall constitute the exclusive record of the decision. f. All parties to a hearing shall have the right to seek assistance in developing their positions, preparing their statements, and presenting evidence from an attorney, tenant organization representative, landlord association representative, translator, or any other person. If the representative will be speaking on behalf of the party at the hearing, the party shall so advise the subcommittee. g. To prevail on the application, the landlord must carry the burden of demonstrating that the tenant has been a disruptive tenant, as defined in paragraph A of this section. h. Two votes are required to approve an application. The vote shall be taken after the conclusion of the presentations by the landlord and the tenant and any deliberations by the members of the subcommittee. If two votes are not cast in favor of approving the application, the application is deemed to be denied.

A landlord may bring an action to recover the possession of an apartment unit if the tenant is committing or permitting to exist a nuisance in, or is causing damage to, the apartment unit or to the appurtenances thereof, or to the common areas of the complex containing the apartment unit, or is creating an unreasonable interference with the comfort, safety, or enjoyment of any of the other residents of the same or any adjacent building.

D. ILLEGAL USES 1. A landlord may bring any action to recover the possession of an apartment unit if the tenant is using or permitting an apartment unit to be used for an illegal purpose.

2. For the purposes of this section, "illegal purpose" shall mean and include, but not be limited to, the occupancy of the apartment unit by a number of persons in excess of the following numbers: Bachelor/single 1 bedroom of 1,200 square feet or less 1 bedroom in excess of 1,200 square feet 2 bedrooms of 1,500 square feet or less 2 bedrooms in excess of 1,500 square feet 3 bedrooms of 2,100 square feet or less 3 or more bedrooms in excess of 2,100 square feet

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E. REFUSAL TO EXECUTE LEASES: i. Within five (5) business days after the hearing record is closed, the subcommittee shall reconvene and issue a written determination setting forth its decision approving or denying the application, with written findings in support thereof.

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A written notice of the decision shall be mailed by the City to the applicant and the affected tenant within two days of the issuance of the decision by the subcommittee. Such notice shall be accompanied by a copy of the hearing decision.

A landlord may bring an action to recover the possession of an apartment unit following the expiration of a written apartment rental agreement, or any written renewal or extension thereof, if a tenant who had such an agreement has refused to execute a written renewal or extension thereof provided all of the following conditions are met: 1. The landlord made a written request or demand for such renewal or extension at least thirty (30) days prior to the date such agreement expired;

7. If the subcommittee determines that the tenant is a disruptive tenant, the landlord may serve the tenant with written notice provided in accordance with state law to terminate the tenancy. The landlord is not required to pay relocation fees to the tenant. When the disruptive tenant vacates the unit in response to the notice, the landlord may not increase the rent that will be charged for the unit above the amount that was being charged to the disruptive tenant, other than any adjustments otherwise available under this chapter.

2. The proposed renewal or extension was for a term of the same duration as the agreement which expired; and

8. Any final decision of the subcommittee is subject to judicial review pursuant to California Code Of Civil Procedure section 1094.5 and must be filed in accordance with the time periods specified therein.

A landlord may bring an action to recover the possession of an apartment unit if the tenant has refused the landlord reasonable access to the unit for the purpose of making repairs or improvements, or for the purpose of inspection as permitted or required by an apartment rental agreement or by law, or for the purpose of showing the apartment unit to any prospective purchaser or mortgagee.

The City Council hereby amends Section 2.

Section 4-6-5 of Chapter 6 of Title 4 of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code regarding vacancies by amending paragraph A thereof to read as follows: A. Any dwelling unit regulated by this chapter that is: 1) "voluntarily vacated" by all tenants of that unit, as defined in section 4-6-0 of this chapter, or 2) vacated because the tenants are evicted for the reasons specified under paragraphs A, B, C, D, F, or G of section 4-6-6 of this chapter, may be subsequently rented at any amount mutually agreed upon by the landlord and the new tenant. The monthly amount agreed upon for the commencement of the tenancy shall be the base rental, and any subsequent rental increases shall be subject to the provisions of section 4-6-3 of this chapter.

Section 3.

The City Council hereby amends Chapter 6 of Title 4 of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code regarding evictions by amending Section 4-6-6 thereof to read as follows: 4-6-6: EVICTIONS: It is unlawful for a landlord to bring an action to recover

3. The proposed renewal or extension contained the same terms and conditions as the agreement which expired provided the rent level in such proposed renewal or extension has been determined in accordance with the requirements of Section 4-6-3 of this chapter.

F. REFUSAL TO PROVIDE ACCESS:

G. UNAPPROVED SUBTENANTS: A landlord may bring an action to recover the possession of an apartment unit if the person in possession of the apartment unit at the end of the term of any apartment rental agreement is a subtenant who was not approved by the landlord. This section shall not be deemed to invalidate any provision in any written apartment rental agreement pertaining to the assignment or subleasing of an apartment unit.

H. USE BY LANDLORDS: 1. A landlord may recover the possession of an apartment unit if the landlord seeks in good faith to recover such possession for use and occupancy by the landlord or the landlord's spouse, children, or parents provided all of the following conditions are met: a. The landlord has provided not less than ninety (90) days' written notice of tenancy termination to the tenant, which notice specifies the name and then current address Continue to page 19 >

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of the proposed occupant, and has filed a copy of such notice with the city’s rent stabilization program prior to serving such notice upon the tenant; b. The tenant is paid a relocation fee in accordance with the provisions of Section 4-6-9 of this chapter; and c. At no time during the ninety (90) day notice period is there a vacant apartment unit in the building comparable to the one sought by the landlord; and d. The unit to be recovered by the landlord is occupied by the most recent tenant(s) to occupy a unit comparable to the type of unit sought by the landlord or relative described in subsection of this section. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no senior citizen or handicapped tenant shall be evicted unless there is no other unit on the parcel of land comparable to the type of unit sought by the landlord or relative. If there are one or more comparable units in such case, the landlord shall recover the comparable unit occupied by the most recent tenant who is not a senior citizen or handicapped person. For the purposes of this section, "senior citizen" shall mean a person sixty five (65) years of age or older. Whether a unit is comparable to the type of unit sought by the landlord or relative shall be determined by the city.

2. A landlord may recover the possession of only one apartment unit located on the same parcel of land for the purposes set forth in this section, regardless of the number of buildings on such parcel.

3. If the landlord or the landlord's relative, as defined in subsection 1 of this section, occupies an apartment unit obtained pursuant to the provisions of this section for at least one year, such apartment unit shall be deemed to be exempt from the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, if such apartment unit is subsequently re-rented to a person who is not the landlord or such relative of the landlord , such apartment unit shall again be subject to the provisions of this chapter.

4. For the purposes of this section only, "landlord" shall mean only such natural persons as have the largest ownership interest in the building or in the entity owning the building.

5. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that the landlord has not acted in good faith if the owner or relative for whom the tenant was evicted does not move into the apartment unit within thirty (30) days and occupy said unit for a minimum of twelve (12) continuous months thereafter. In situations when the apartment unit is being remodeled pursuant to a building permit issued by the city, the thirty (30) day period shall commence when the final inspection of the remodeling work is performed and approved by the city's department of building and safety.

I. CHANGE OF BUILDING MANAGERS: A landlord may bring an action to recover the possession of an apartment unit if the landlord seeks in good faith to recover the possession of an apartment unit then occupied by an apartment building manager whose employment as such has been, or is to be, terminated, and such possession is needed for the sole purpose of occupancy by a new manager.

J. DEMOLITION OR CONDOMINIUM CONVERSIONS: A landlord may bring an action to recover possession of an apartment unit if the landlord seeks in good faith to recover possession so as to demolish or move the building or to convert apartment units into condominiums, stock cooperatives, or community apartments provided there is compliance with all of the following conditions: 1. The landlord has given the tenant not less than ninety (90) days' written notice, which has been approved by the city's rent stabilization program, that such tenancy shall terminate on a date after October 18, 2018. The notice shall state the specific reason for giving such notice and shall be deemed to include a representation and agreement by the landlord that the recovery of possession of the apartment unit is solely for a reason within the scope of this section and for no other reason. If payment of the relocation fees required by Section 4-6-9 of this chapter does not accompany such notice, such notice shall also specify the amount of the relocation fees so required and that the tenant may collect such fees at the time the tenant vacates the unit. Such notice shall not be required if: a. The demolition of the building has been mandated by law to be performed at an earlier date; or b. Such notice has been given to a tenant who has vacated the apartment unit, the apartment unit has been rerented to a new tenant, and the new tenant has been advised by the landlord in writing that the notice of termination of tenancy had been given to the prior tenant. This exemption shall apply only if a copy of the written notice provided to such new tenant is filed with the city’s rent stabilization program within one week after such new tenant begins the occupancy of the apartment unit; or c. A prior written notice which specified less than one

year's notice has been given, and the tenant has been notified in writing, within thirty (30) days after October 18, 2018, that prior written notice shall be considered an effective one year notice under this section.

2. The notice required by subsection 1 of this section shall not be given or served until such time as the landlord has: a. Filed all necessary applications for the proposed project or development including, but not limited to, application for a demolition permit, moving permit or tentative map and paid all of the fees required by the city in connection with such applications; b. Notified the city's rent stabilization program that an application to convert apartment units to condominiums or to move or demolish the building has been filed with any other department of the city so that notice of such filing may be given to the tenants at the property; and c. That all permits or approvals necessary to commence demolition, removal or conversion have been issued.

3. No notice of tenancy termination given pursuant to this section after October 18, 2018, shall be effective unless all the applicable provisions of this chapter have been complied with, and a copy of such notice has been placed on file with the city’s rent stabilization program prior to such notice being served on the tenant. A minimum fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each building for which notices of tenancy termination are to be filed with the city’s rent stabilization program shall be paid to the city for processing the notices prior to the filing of a notice with the rent stabilization program. Where there are more than ten (10) apartment units in a building which are subject to this provision of this chapter, and for which notices of tenancy termination have been given, an additional fee of ten dollars ($10.00) shall be paid to the city for each unit in excess of ten (10) units for which a notice of tenancy termination is given.

4. A relocation fee shall have been paid or deposited into escrow in accordance with the provisions of Section 4-6-9 of this chapter. If an apartment unit vacated pursuant to this section has been re-rented, the new tenant shall not be entitled to any relocation fee or other relocation benefit if he or she received the notices required by subsections 1.b and 5 of this section.

5. Any apartment unit vacated pursuant to this section, if re-rented, shall remain subject to the provisions of this chapter, and it shall be the responsibility of the landlord to notify any new tenant in writing of the controlled rents and the duration of the notice of termination. A copy of such notice shall be filed with the rent stabilization program within one week after the new tenant begins occupancy of the apartment unit.

6. No writ or judgment restoring possession to the landlord shall be issued or entered unless and until the complaint for such writ or judgment filed by the landlord contains the landlord's declaration under penalty of perjury of the giving of notice to the tenant as required by this section, the expiration of any required notice period, the payment or deposit into escrow of the relocation fee specified in section 4-6-9 of this chapter, and that demolition or moving or the work of conversion into condominiums will commence within sixty (60) days after the filing of such complaint.

7. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a building manager who is entitled to the occupancy of an apartment unit solely because of his or her position as building manager.

K. MAJOR REMODELING: 1. A landlord may bring an action to recover possession of an apartment unit if the landlord seeks in good faith to recover possession so as to do alteration work on the building for the purposes of major remodeling provided that there is compliance with all of the following conditions: a. The landlord has given the tenant not less than one year's written notice that such tenancy shall terminate.

The notice shall state the specific reason for giving such notice and shall be deemed to include a representation and agreement by the landlord that the recovery of possession of the apartment unit is solely for a reason within the scope of this section and for no other reason. Such notice shall contain a statement of the rights of the tenants pursuant to this section and section 4-6-9 of this chapter and shall be approved by the city’s rent stabilization program. Such notice shall not be required if: i. Major remodeling of the building has been mandated by law to be performed at an earlier date; or ii. Such notice has been given to a tenant who has vacated the apartment unit, the apartment unit has been rerented to a new tenant, and the new tenant has been advised by the landlord in writing that the notice of termination of tenancy had been given to the prior tenant. This exemption shall apply only if a copy of the written notice provided to such new tenant is filed with the city rent stabilization program within one week after such new tenant

begins the occupancy of the apartment unit. b. The notice required by subsection 1.a of this section shall not be given or served until such time as the landlord has received approval for the giving of such notice by the hearing officer. Such approval shall be given upon a showing by the landlord that written notice was received from the building official that the landlord has complied with all requirements, except for approval of final plans, for the issuance of a building permit for the purpose of major remodeling. The landlord shall file with the application for giving notice a copy of the final plans and specifications for the proposed remodeling. A hearing officer designated by the city manager ("hearing officer") shall establish the estimated new rent for the remodeled unit which shall not exceed one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the previous base rent. The notice required by subsection 1.a of this section shall include such estimated new rent. c. No notice of tenancy termination given pursuant to this section after October 18, 2018, shall be effective unless all the applicable provisions of this chapter have been complied with and a copy of such notice has been placed on file with the rent stabilization program prior to such notice being served on the tenant. A minimum fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each building for which notices of tenancy termination are to be filed with the rent stabilization program shall be paid to the city for processing the notices prior to the filing of a notice with the rent stabilization program. Where there are more than ten (10) apartment units in a building which are subject to this provision of this chapter, and for which notices of tenancy termination have been given, an additional minimum fee of ten dollars ($10.00) shall be paid to the city for each unit in excess of ten (10) units for which a notice of tenancy termination is given. d. A relocation fee shall have been paid or deposited into escrow in accordance with the provisions of section 4-6-9 of this chapter. If an apartment unit vacated pursuant to this section has been re-rented the new tenant shall not be entitled to any relocation fee or other relocation benefit if he or she received the notices required by subsections 1.a, and 1.a.ii of this section.

2. Any apartment unit vacated pursuant to this section if re-rented after eviction but prior to remodeling, shall remain subject to the provisions of this chapter, and it shall be the responsibility of the landlord to notify any new tenant in writing of the controlled rents and the duration of the notice of termination. A copy of such notice shall be filed with the rent stabilization program within one week after the new tenant begins occupancy of the apartment unit.

3. Any provision of this chapter notwithstanding, in lieu of receiving a relocation fee or being relocated to a comparable unit, a tenant, within sixty (60) days after the service of the one year notice of tenancy termination required by subsection 1 of this section, may elect to relocate to a comparable unit in the building to be remodeled. The comparability of the replacement unit shall be determined by the rent stabilization program. For the purposes of this subsection, "comparability" shall mean a unit with the same number of bedrooms as the unit vacated, and which is in a clean, functional, and secure state.

4. Should a tenant elect to be relocated to a comparable unit in the building to be remodeled, he or she shall serve written notice of such election on the landlord and file a copy thereof with the rent stabilization program. Such notice shall be served and filed within sixty (60) days after service of the one year notice of tenancy termination required by subsection 1 of this section. Upon the service and filing of the required notice of election within the time set forth herein, the notice of tenancy termination shall become null and void as to that tenant for the purposes of eviction. Upon the receipt of multiple notices required hereby, the landlord shall make an application to the hearing officer for a determination of the order of relocation.

The hearing officer shall determine the order of relocation, taking into consideration the relative hardships relocation will place on the tenants electing to relocate hereunder.

5. Upon the approval of the order of relocation as provided for in subsection 4 of this section, or if only one notice of election is received by the landlord, the landlord shall serve upon the tenant(s) and shall file a copy thereof with the rent stabilization program notice of availability of the replacement unit. The tenant shall have thirty (30) days after the service and filing of the notice of availability to relocate to the replacement unit. The landlord shall pay the reasonable cost of such relocation. Any disagreement between the landlord and tenant regarding the reasonableness of the cost of relocation shall be submitted to the hearing officer for resolution. Should a tenant fail to relocate to the replacement unit within said thirty (30) days, the tenant shall vacate the unit within ninety (90) days after the date the notice of availability of the replacement unit was served and filed, and the landlord shall be relieved of the obligation of paying any further fees or costs provided for in this chapter.

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7. If an apartment unit has been vacated for major remodeling, upon the completion of such remodeling the new allowable base rent for the apartment unit shall not exceed an amount equal to the previous base rent increased by the actual amount expended on such remodeling, including such items as interest or the value of capital up to eighteen percent (18%) per annum, and any fees or costs required to be paid to or on behalf of tenants pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, amortized in accordance with the straight line depreciation schedules allowed under the federal income tax law, but in no case less than five (5) years. The tenant evicted for the purpose of such remodeling shall have a right of first refusal to rent the remodeled apartment unit provided such right is exercised within thirty (30) days after the landlord notifies the tenant when the apartment unit will be ready to be rented. If such tenant re-rents the remodeled apartment unit, the landlord may increase the actual rent chargeable to such tenant at the time he or she actually occupies the unit to the new base rent allowed by this subsection or twenty percent (20%) above the estimated rent, whichever is less; provided, however, if a tenant elects to relocate as provided for in subsection 3 of this section, the new base rent shall not be applicable until one year after the notice of eviction required by subsection A of this section. The new base rent shall be established by the hearing officer within ninety (90) days after the tenant has reoccupied the unit or, if the tenant decides not to reoccupy the unit, within ninety (90) days after the unit is ready for occupancy, and the tenant has requested to be notified of the new base rent. The hearing officer shall be provided copies of documents by the landlord to be used to establish the new allowable base rent. If a tenant who was evicted pursuant to this section re-rents the remodeled apartment unit, such tenant shall return the relocation fee to the landlord, less actual direct moving expenses and the amount by which such tenant's rent during the period when the tenant was out of the apartment exceeded the tenant's rent prior to such move, but not more than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per month.

8. No writ or judgment restoring possession to the landlord shall be issued or entered unless and until the complaint for such writ or judgment filed by the landlord contains the landlord's declaration under penalty of perjury of the giving of notice to the tenant as required by this section, the expiration of the one year notice period, the payment or deposit into escrow of the relocation fee specified in section 4-6-9 of this chapter, and that the major remodeling work will commence within sixty (60) days after the filing of such complaint.

9. The landlord shall file true copies of rental agreements for the re-rented apartment units after major remodeling has been completed with the rent stabilization program within one week after the new tenant begins occupancy of the apartment unit.

10. The city manager or his designee shall issue guidelines for the implementation of the foregoing requirements, and all applicants for major remodeling pursuant to this section shall comply therewith.

11. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a building manager who is entitled to occupancy of an apartment unit solely because of his or her position as building manager.

12. For the purposes of this section, "major remodeling" shall mean the remodeling or reconstruction of more than one apartment unit subject to the provisions of this chapter in an existing building and a minimum amount per remodeled unit is expended on such work as follows: Bachelor/single 1 bedroom 2 bedrooms 3 or more bedrooms or 2 bedrooms and den

$ 7,000.00 $10,000.00 $15,000.00 $ 20,000.00

13. The landlord shall obtain the building permit to perform the major remodeling within ninety (90) days after the date when the affected unit becomes vacant. The major remodeling shall be completed within one year of the date of issuance of the building permit. However, the building and safety department may extend the one year completion period upon a showing by the landlord of good cause for the failure to complete the repairs within the one year period and diligent efforts to complete the work time-

ly. If the major remodeling work is not completed within the time period established by this subsection, including any extensions thereof approved by the city, the landlord shall be liable in a civil action, if commenced within two (2) years of the displacement, to any tenant who is evicted from an apartment unit as a result of a notice issued pursuant to subsection a of this section for the actual damages that were the proximate result of the displacement.

L. WITHDRAWAL OF RESIDENTIAL RENTAL STRUCTURE FROM THE RENTAL MARKET: A landlord may bring an action to recover possession of an apartment unit if the landlord intends to withdraw all apartment units in a building or structure on a parcel of land from the rental market, subject to the following conditions and requirements: 1. This section shall only apply to and shall only be exercised for the concurrent withdrawal of all apartment units in all buildings or structures on a parcel of land from the rental market, except where there is more than one building on a parcel and all buildings contain four (4) or more apartment units, in which case the landlord may withdraw all of the units in one or more of the buildings.

2. Not less than one hundred twenty (120) days from the date the landlord intends to withdraw the apartment units in a building or structure from the rental market, the landlord shall: a. Provide written notice under penalty of perjury to the city’s rent stabilization program of such intent, which notice shall contain the following information: address and legal description of the subject property, number of rental units being removed, the names of all tenants residing in the units being removed, the year the tenant(s) moved into the unit, the base rent for the unit and the current lawful rent applicable to each such unit. b. Record with the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder a written notice prepared by and containing such information as is prescribed by the city summarizing the landlord's notice of intent and certifying that evictions have been commenced or will commence in accordance with applicable law. c. Provide to the city's rent stabilization program copies of the notice recorded with the county and the notice(s) which were provided to the affected tenants. d. If the tenant or lessee is at least sixty two (62) years of age or is disabled, and has lived in his or her apartment unit for at least one year prior to the date of delivery to the city of the notice required by subsection 2.a of this section, then the date of withdrawal of that apartment unit shall be extended to one year from the date of delivery of the notice to the city, provided that the tenant or lessee has given the landlord written notice of his or her entitlement to the extension within sixty (60) days of delivery to the public entity of the notice of intent to withdraw the apartment unit from the rental market. In this situation, the following provisions shall apply: i. The tenancy shall be continued on the same terms and conditions as existed on the date of delivery to the city of the notice of intent to withdraw, subject to any adjustments otherwise available under this title; ii. No party shall be relieved of the duty to perform any obligation under the lease or rental agreement; iii. The landlord may elect to extend the date of withdrawal on any other accommodation within the same building up to one year after the date of delivery to the city of the notice of intent to withdraw, subject to subsections 2.d.i and 2.d.ii of this section; iv. Within thirty (30) days of the notification by the tenant or lessee to the landlord of his or her entitlement to an extension, the landlord shall give written notice to the city’s rent stabilization program of the claim that the tenant or lessee is entitled to stay in his or her apartment unit for one year after the date of delivery to the city of the notice of intent to withdraw; v. Within ninety (90) days of the date of delivery to the city of the notice of intent to withdraw, the landlord shall give written notice to the city’s rent stabilization program and the affected tenant(s) or lessee(s) of the landlord's election to extend the date of withdrawal and the new date of withdrawal under subsection 2.d.iii of this section.

3. The landlord shall provide written notice of termination of tenancy to all affected tenants at least thirty (30) days prior to the service of and recordation of the notices in subsection 2 of this section which has been approved by the city's rent stabilization program and filed therewith and which notice shall contain the following information: a. That the landlord is evicting the tenant pursuant to this section and will provide the city with written notice required in subsection 2 of this section; b. A summary of the specific information to be provided to the city in that notice regarding the tenant's unit;

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c. That within thirty (30) days of receipt of notice to terminate, the tenant may notify the landlord in writing that the tenant would be interested in re-renting the unit if it is reoffered for rent at a future time and advising the tenant to notify the landlord and rent stabilization program of all future address changes; d. A description of the tenant's rights as set forth in subsections 5, 6 and 7 of this section; e. That the landlord will provide a relocation fee in accordance with the provisions of section 4-6-9 of this chapter and that such fee may not be waived by the tenant, except as specifically provided in section 4-6-9.G of this chapter; and f. That if the tenant or lessee is at least sixty two (62) years of age or is disabled, and has lived in his or her apartment unit for at least one year prior to the date of delivery to the city of the notice required by subsection 2.a of this section, then the tenancy shall be extended to one year after the delivery of the notice to the city, provided that the tenant gives written notice of his or her entitlement to the extension to the landlord within sixty (60) days of the date of delivery to the city of the notice of intent to withdraw. The notice shall further state that if these circumstances exist, the extended tenancy shall be continued on the same terms and conditions that existed on the date of delivery of the notice of withdrawal to the city, subject to any rent increases that are allowed by this chapter, and that no party shall be relieved of the duty to perform any obligation under the lease or rental agreement during the extended tenancy.

4. At the time when the tenant(s) vacate the unit, the landlord shall pay a relocation fee in accordance with the provisions of section 4-6-9 of this chapter.

5. In the event the withdrawn units are reoffered for rent by the landlord within two (2) years from the effective date of withdrawal, the landlord shall: a. Provide written notice of such action to the city’s rent stabilization program not less than thirty (30) days prior to re-renting the units; b. Offer the units at the same rent level as of the date of withdrawal plus any annual rent increases permitted by this chapter that would have applied had the units not been withdrawn; c. Provide those tenants who provided a notice of interest in re-renting pursuant to subsection 3.c of this section the right of first refusal to re-rent the unit by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, to the last address provided by the tenant, in which case the tenant shall have no less than thirty (30) days within which to accept the offer, by personal service or certified or registered mail. Copies of these notices and the mail receipts shall be filed with the city's rent stabilization program within one week of mailing; d. Be liable in a civil action if commenced within three (3) years of displacement to any tenant evicted due to withdrawal of a unit pursuant to this section for actual damages which were the proximate result of the displacement, in accordance with the principles enunciated in sections 7262 and 7264 of the California Government Code, and punitive damages; e. Be liable in a civil action if commenced within three (3) years of displacement to the city for exemplary damages for displacement of tenants or lessees.

6. In the event the withdrawn units are reoffered for rent by the landlord within five (5) years after any notice of intent to withdraw the apartment unit is filed with the city, or within five (5) years after the effective date of the withdrawal of the apartment unit, whichever is later, the landlord shall provide not less than thirty (30) days' prior written notice of such action to the city’s rent stabilization program prior to re-renting the units and shall offer the units at the same rent level as of the date of withdrawal, plus annual rent increases permitted by this chapter that would have applied had the units not been withdrawn.

7. Moreover, if the units are reoffered for rent within ten (10) years from the effective date of removal, the landlord shall provide those tenants who provided notice of interest in re-renting pursuant to subsection 3.c of this section the right of first refusal to re-rent the unit, by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, to the last address provided by the tenant, in which case the tenant shall have no less than thirty (30) days within which to accept the offer by personal service or certified or registered mail. Copies of these notices and the mail receipts shall be filed with the city's rent stabilization program within one week of mailing. Failure of the landlord to provide the tenant with this right of first refusal shall render the landlord liable in a civil action to the tenant in punitive damages in an amount not to exceed six (6) months' rent.

8. This section shall in no respect relieve a landlord from complying with the requirements of any applicable state law or of any lease or rental agreement.

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shall be conducted in the manner deemed by the subcommittee to be most suitable to secure the information and documentation that is necessary to render an informed decision, and to result in a fair decision without unnecessary delay.

10. For the purpose of this section, the term "landlord" shall be interpreted to include any and all successors in interest of any landlord, and the term "disabled" shall mean a person with a disability, as defined in section 12955.3 of the California Government Code.

i. At the hearing, the parties may offer any documents, testimony, written declarations, or other evidence that is relevant to the application. Formal rules of evidence shall not be applicable to such proceedings.

11. The notice to the city provided for in this section shall be accompanied by a processing fee in an amount determined by resolution of the city council.

ii. There shall be no oral communication outside the hearing between the members of the subcommittee and any party or witness, or the substance of such communication shall be disclosed at the beginning of the hearing. All discussion during the hearing shall be recorded.

12. This section is intended to implement the requirements of sections 7060 through 7060.7 of the California Government Code, and shall be interpreted so as to provide the city with the broadest range of authority permitted under these provisions and to intrude the least into the city's authority in all other applications of its power.

iii. The hearing shall ordinarily proceed in the following manner, unless the subcommittee determines that some other order of proceedings would better facilitate the hearing:

13. This section shall apply to any apartment units that are being removed from the rental market, if the notice of termination of tenancy required by state law or by a lease agreement has not been given at the time of adoption hereof or if such notice has been given, the notice period has not expired at the time of adoption hereof.

M.

DISRUPTIVE TENANT

1.

A landlord may bring an action to recover possession of an apartment unit if: (1) the tenant repeatedly or continually disturbs the peaceful and quiet enjoyment of one or more tenants who occupy other rental units in the apartment building where the tenant resides or (2) antagonizes, intimidates or bullies one or more tenants who reside at that apartment building (“disruptive tenant”) and the disruptive tenant does not cease the behavior when requested to do so by the other tenant(s) or by the property owner or manager of the premises.

2.

The landlord or the landlord’s representative may, at the sole option of the landlord, file an application with the City and request that a subcommittee of the City Council make a determination that a tenant is a disruptive tenant, as defined in subparagraph 1 of this paragraph M. If the subcommittee determines that the tenant is a disruptive tenant, then the landlord or the landlord’s representative may serve the tenant with a written notice to terminate the tenancy in accordance with state law. a. The subcommittee of the City Council shall be composed of two members of the City Council. Council Members shall be appointed by the Mayor and serve on the subcommittee for a two month term. At the end of the term and Mayor may reappoint one or both Council Members or may appoint new Council Members to the subcommittee. b. If a landlord or the landlord’s representative files an application with the City’s rent stabilization program for the subcommittee to make a determination whether a tenant is a disruptive tenant whose tenancy can be terminated with notice, the landlord first shall have given the disruptive tenant at least one written notice describing the disruptive conduct and requiring the tenant to discontinue the conduct. The landlord either shall deliver the notice to the tenant personally, send it by certified mail, or shall post it on the door of the tenant’s unit. Prior to filing the application with the city’s rent stabilization program, the landlord also shall have served the tenant with a copy of the application either by personally delivering the application to the tenant or by posting the application on the door of the tenant’s unit. Proof of service of the application on the tenant shall be filed with the City concurrently with the application. The application shall be submitted either on a form supplied by the City or shall substantially comply with the requirements of the City’s form. c. The application shall set forth the name, address and unit number of the tenant and shall describe specifically the tenant’s conduct that the landlord contends is disruptive, the dates when the conduct described in the application occurred, and the dates when the landlord requested that the tenant cease the disruptive conduct, including the written notice described in subparagraph 2.b above. The application also may include the names of any individuals who observed the tenant’s conduct and may include written statements by the witnesses describing the conduct. d. The City shall schedule a hearing (but need not hold the hearing) within ten days of the filing of a complete application with the City. If one or both members of the subcommittee is/are not available to attend a hearing on an application filed pursuant to this section, the City rent stabilization program shall contact other Members of the City Council to determine if another Council Member is available to attend the hearing. The City rent stabilization program shall send written notice of the hearing to the landlord and the affected tenant by certified mail at least fifteen days prior to the date of the hearing. e. The subcommittee shall control the conduct of the hearing and rule on procedural requests. The hearing

a. A brief presentation by or on behalf of landlord, including testimony by any other affected parties and witnesses in support of the application. b. A brief presentation by or on behalf of the tenant, including testimony by any other affected parties and witnesses in opposition to the application. c. A brief rebuttal by the landlord. iv. The subcommittee shall establish equitable time limits for presentations at a hearing, with a minimum length of ten minutes each for the landlord and the tenant, subject to adjustments for translation and reasonable accommodation. v. City staff shall maintain an official hearing record, which shall constitute the exclusive record of the decision. vi. All parties to a hearing shall have the right to seek assistance in developing their positions, preparing their statements, and presenting evidence from an attorney, tenant organization representative, landlord association representative, translator, or any other person. If the representative will be speaking on behalf of the party at the hearing, the party shall so advise the subcommittee. vii. To prevail on the application, the landlord must carry the burden of demonstrating that the tenant has been a disruptive tenant, as defined in subparagraph 1 of this paragraph M. viii. Two votes are required to approve an application. The vote shall be taken after the conclusion of the presentations by the landlord and the tenant and any deliberations by the members of the subcommittee. If two votes are not cast in favor of approving the application, the application is deemed to be denied. ix Within five (5) business days after the hearing record is closed, the subcommittee shall reconvene and issue a written determination setting forth its decision approving or denying the application, with written findings in support thereof. f. A written notice of the decision shall be mailed by the City to the applicant and the affected tenant within two days of the issuance of the decision by the subcommittee. Such notice shall be accompanied by a copy of the hearing decision. g. If the subcommittee determines that the tenant is a disruptive tenant, the landlord may serve the tenant with written notice provided in accordance with state law to terminate the tenancy. The landlord is not required to pay relocation fees to the tenant. When the disruptive tenant vacates the unit in response to the notice, the landlord may not increase the rent that will be charged for the unit above the amount that was being charged to the disruptive tenant, other than any adjustments otherwise available under this chapter. h. Any final decision of the subcommittee is subject to judicial review pursuant to California Code Of Civil Procedure section 1094.5 and must be filed in accordance with the time periods specified therein.

The City Council hereby amends Section 4.

Section 4-6-9 of Chapter 6 of Title 4 of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code regarding relocation fees by amending paragraph A thereof to read as follows: A. When Fee Is Required: If a landlord brings an action to recover the possession of an apartment unit that is subject to the provisions of this chapter for any of the reasons set forth in paragraphs A, B, C, D, F, G or M of section 46-6 of this chapter, the landlord is not required to pay a relocation fee to the tenant residing in the unit. However, if a landlord serves a notice of eviction on a tenant for any other reason, the landlord shall pay to such tenant a relocation fee in accordance with the provisions of this section. The relocation fee shall be due and payable to the tenant, regardless of whether the landlord actually utilizes the apartment unit for the purposes stated in the notice of

eviction, unless the landlord notifies the tenant in writing of the withdrawal of the notice of eviction prior to such time as the tenant has given the landlord notice of his or her last date of occupancy, or has vacated the unit, if a notice of the last date of occupancy is not given by the tenant. The landlord also shall file a copy of the notice of eviction with the rent stabilization program within one week after serving the notice on the tenant.

Section 5.

Ordinance No. 18-O-2762 is hereby repealed and replaced by the provisions of this Ordinance.

Section 6.

Applicability. This ordinance shall apply to any tenant including, without limitation, any tenant who has been given a notice of eviction but does not wish to vacate his or her existing rental unit in response to this notice of eviction .

Section 7.

CEQA. This ordinance is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3), which is the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects that have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment, and CEQA does not apply where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity may have a significant effect on the environment.

It can be seen with certainty that the amendments to the City’s rent stabilization regulations to prevent tenants from being evicted from Chapter 6 units without cause will not cause a significant effect on the environment. In addition, the amendments to Chapter 6 of Title 4 of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code are not a project that is subject to the provisions of CEQA, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(2) and (b)(5).

Section 8.

Severability. If any provision of this ordinance is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be considered a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of this ordinance.

Section 9.

Duration. This Ordinance shall remain in effect until it is superseded by another Ordinance adopted by the City Council.

Section 10.

Certification. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance.

Adopted: November 20, 2018 Effective: December 21, 2018 JULIAN A. GOLD, M.D. Mayor of the City of Beverly Hills, California ATTEST: LOURDES SY-RODRIGUEZ Assistant City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: LAURENCE S. WIENER City Attorney APPROVED AS TO CONTENT MAHDI ALUZRI City Manager VOTE: AYES: Councilmembers Wunderlich, Friedman, Bosse, Mirisch and Mayor Gold NOES: None CARRIED

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321 S. Sherbourne Dr.

• • Spacious • • • • • • • • • • • Jr. 1 Bdrm. • Spacious, hardwood flrs., • • •• Balcony, controlled huge closets, built-in access, a/c, stove, a/c, dishwasher, pool, elevator, laundry elevator, controlled facility, parking. access, laundry • 310/247-8689 • facilities. No pets.

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• • • • • Close to Please Call: Upscale, Bright, transportation.

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• Easy Move-In • • 310/442-8265 • With Pool, hardwood floors, balcony, central WESTWOOD air, fireplace, stainless B R E N T W O O D 904-908 Granville Av. 1 0 9 0 5 O h i o A v e . steel appliances, 2 B d . + 1 1/ 2 B a .

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•• Air conditioning unit, • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • 310/476-2181 • • • laundry facility, •• • Close to shopping, Single • subterranean prkg.

•• • dining & schools.

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• • • • • WiFi, elevator 310/820-1810 6-Month Lease Avail. controlled access, * * * * * * on-site laundry, prkg.

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Open floor plan, high ceilings, French oak flrs+porcelain tiles, x-lrg. walk-in closets, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, pool, state of the art gym, 424/272-6596 • laundry hook-ups, Close to Brentwood controlled access, prkg, HEART OF Village, Restaurants, free WiFi. Close to BRENTWOOD UCLA, Mt. Saint Mary’s, Brentwood Village.

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115 Warning not given on a golf course?

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20 Puts up 61 Router attachments 21 Veep under Nixon 63 It’s just 22 Formal defense below 0: Abbr.

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36 Place for 80 Coined money a stud to go 84 Aids for determining 38 What you’re pregnancy, e.g. effectively saying 86 Pizazz when you 87 Fellini’s “La ____” sign a waiver?

88 Inducing 41 Longtime athlete on forgetfulness the U.S. 89 Outlook alternative Davis Cup team 91 Dollar signs without 45 Line through the bars one’s teeth?

92 Word after 47 Torment who or how 48 Full of subtlety 93 Dropping the baton in 50 Capital of Albania a relay race, e.g.?

52 Atlas or Titan, 98 Bit of ink for short 99 Optimum 53 Street through 101 Senator Feinstein the middle of town 103 Blues legend Waters Online subscriptions: Today’s 106 “____ complicated” puzzle and more 107 Area near the shore ANSWERS than 4,000 pastFOUND puzzles, 109 Publicans’ servings nytimes.com/crosswords IN NEXT ($39.95 a year).

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13 Nail polish brand with 57 “Yes for me” the colors Teal the 60 The Wildcats of the Cows Come Home Big 12 Conf. and Berry Fairy Fun 61 Brit. legislators 14 Talking-____ 62 [Shrug] (reprimands) 64 Forcibly oppose 15 Big female role on HBO’s “Westworld” 65 Following close behind 16 Two things you might find in 66 Some celebrity Sherwood Forest? charity events 17 As long as 68 Shirking work, one can remember maybe, for short

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Chairman 2014 Paula Kent Meehan President & Publisher Marcia Wilson Hobbs Senior Editor John L. Seitz Special Sections Editor Stephen P. Simmons

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR While the City is spending $5 million on BOLD parties, our infrastructure is deteriorating, I hope this is the last year of this type of promotion the includes plastic flower cubicles that are labeled BOLD along with what I and others in the community consider tacky and the lighting on Rodeo Drive is atrocious.

What does this have to do with Hanukkah or Christmas shopping?

How can we justify spending this amount of money for parties on the street and the promotion of these parties when the infrastructure is falling apart.

The City has installed people counters that will tell about how many people come to these events, but the problem is the quality of the shoppers cannot be determined and, as a matter of fact, most high end stores close during these events, Another thing: I don’t appreciate putting that really tacky BOLD sign in front of the Beverly Hills sign in the park that I designed and paid for – especially, when nobody knows what it means.

Putting Vegas showgirls on Rodeo Drive this last summer was not necessary to attract qualified buyers The City Council will tell you that the number of people on the street is fabulous, though the fact is, it has nothing to do with sales. Whoever came up with BOLD as a promotional venue is way off track, regardless that some of the businesses may stay open later in the day.

If you really care about the City, you will paint, sand, and repair our crumbling infrastructure – and not just on Rodeo Drive.

Robert S. “Robbie” Anderson ****** Nearly two years ago, Beverly Hills did a great service to residents. In unanimous votes, the City Council reduced the cap on Chapter 6 rent increases to 3 percent; mandated relocation fees to assist involuntarily-terminated tenants with replacement housing; and ended no-just-cause terminations. The City next year will begin to subsidize rents for lowest-income tenants too.

The City Council took other positive steps by funding a housing legal services program and creating a new rent commission to adjudicate some aspects of tenancy (and to mediate tenant-landlord disputes). Where prior councils were completely unresponsive to tenant needs, this one stepped up.

However our councilmembers subsequently weakened protections for tenants in several important respects. The rollbacks are ready to be cemented into a new rent stabilization ordinance.

Almost immediately after the relocation fees were established, they were reduced by one-third.

Today, the fees top out at $12,902 for 2-bedroom tenants -- down $6,000 from the original fee amount.

The 2-bedroom top-tier fee will not help residents of 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom apartments where the rent averages $3,900 and $5,000 (respectively). Because the council did not add a 3-bedroom fee, those families will come up short when it’s time to pull together the first and last month plus security deposit and moving expenses.

City Council recently decided to dole out those relocation fees piecemeal if a landlord displaces a tenant in order to move in a family member.

The displaced household now will receive only 10 percent of the relocation fee for each year in the unit. We know from the rental registry that nearly 600 households have three or fewer years of tenure.

Those displaced families would not even net onethird of the relocation fee if displaced even though they bear the full costs of replacement housing and a move. Nearly 5,000 households are resident for fewer than 10 years; none will get the full fee if displaced.

Moreover, the council interpreted ‘relative’ broadly to include parents, siblings, children and grandchildren -- any one among those four generations could send a renting household packing.

The City Council also walked back the end to no-just-cause eviction. Now there is a new ‘disruptive tenant’ reason for termination and it is a weaker standard than what is used by the courts.

Those terminations will be heard locally by a rent commission. It’s designed to be a less onerous and faster for the landlord, but the council decided that tenants could initiate a termination too.

Be kind to your neighbors lest they haul you before the commission for termination (without a relocation fee)!

Even worse, the council decided to make each and every new tenancy probationary. Before the lease is up the landlord can decide not to renew (or let the tenant go month-to-month) so long as the tenant gets six months notice.

That’s a major step back from the current policy.

So new tenants should think twice about unpacking those boxes. They could get a notice as soon as six months after moving that it’s time to start looking for a new place (and again without the assistance of a relocation fee).

Perhaps the most significant walk-back from current tenant protections is the exemption from capped rent increases for duplexes and high-rent tenants. As many as 211 renting households in duplexes could see the 4.1 percent cap on rent increases eliminated if the owner lives next door. The owner could be an individual, a member of his family, a beneficiary of a family trust, or even a partner in a limited partnership. Yes it is that broad.

High-rent tenants will also see the cap disappear. That’s true whether they rent a studio or a unit with any number of bedrooms. Above some as-yet undecided threshold the tenant will now pay whatever the landlord demands (or have to move). Once exempted a family has no cap at all – not even the old 10 percent cap. “The sky’s the limit,” Mayor Gold said enthusiastically.

These rollbacks to tenant protections will get a final airing at City Council on Dec.18 when a draft ordinance will be brought forward. Now is the time to speak up. Mark Elliot Beverly Hills Renters Alliance ****** Last week’s Beverly Hills City Council meeting regarding the RSO (Rent Stabilization Ordinance) was a real head-scratcher.

Two years of work devolved into 35 questions, and it was as though the council had not seen a number of them before.

A different formula for two types of tenants relative to relocation? No problem. Probationary tenancy. Done … but for only certain classes of tenants.

Fixing discrepancies in the RSO. Why do that?

How about addressing a new problem in the “disruptive tenant” statue? Nope, it can’t be re-opened.

The elimination of “no just cause eviction” was supposed to free tenants of retaliation by abusive landlords. With the “disruptive tenant” statute, however, some tenants are just as afraid, because the bar for the landlord to initiate the process is so low.

We met a tenant on Saturday who had received an illegal eviction notice from a new owner. She is thinking of moving, because she fears that new landlord will misuse the “disruptive tenant” statute in the future, if she successfully fights the illegal eviction.

What was so frustrating was that each of the 35 questions would have been the perfect forum for the “rebuttal” system that was introduced by Thomas White of the Beverly Hill Municipal League. The council definitely needed short, brief public input to keep them on track.

The public–both tenants and landlords–were unfortunately shut-out of the process … again, at the Steve Mayer most critical juncture. ****** Beverly Hills’ director of Ex Parte Communications and representatives of the “Chamber of Horrors” announced the opening of the City's first inland marina and docking slips. Located on 3rd Street, directly in front of the Maple Drive Post Office, the marina, will feature waterproof, floating mailboxes and the glamorous “sea to table, cage and gluten-free, all vegan seafood restaurant, Noah's Ark.” Originally a joint venture between the City and the new owners of 325 Drive, the marina has recently been purchased by the group which owns the “Golden Triangle.” It plans to build the first underwater, multi-use retail, office and residence building, utilizing sustainable, ergonomically, eco-friendly, trans/bi-lateral, carbon footprint free power and energy, directly from the earth's core.

Good things happen when developers, the City Robert Block and the post office work together.

Cartoon for the Courier by Janet Salter

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By Holiday Mathis TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 30). Realizing that you’re the only one who can decide if life is matching up to your vision, if relationships are fulfilling your needs, or if this is what you want, you gather together your powers and make surprising and unconventional choices this solar return, freeing a vividly alive version of yourself. Scorpio and Aquarius adore you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Relationships are worth it no matter how short or long they turn out to be, or how lucrative or not the arrangement is, or how frustrating or easy or fun or painful or thrilling. You're better for it. That’s the takeaway.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Get the right tools for the job, even if it costs more or pushes back your start time. You’ll go in with higher enthusiasm and morale and avoid much frustration throughout the life of the project.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The same location can represent “vacation and freedom” to one person and “work and obligation” to another. When you're there because you want to be there, it’s an entirely different place.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). Here's an approach to try that you just might find liberating because decision-making gets easier; instead of right or wrong, true or false, good or terrible, think of things as “for me” or “not for me.”

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). Thoughtless people need your tolerance. Think of this as a test. If you fail it, cut yourself a break. It only means that your coping resources are already a bit stretched.

Compassion starts with self-compassion.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). There’s much to be gained by suspending disbelief long enough to, say, get immersed in the world of a movie or understand the finer points of an argument you do not agree with.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have the strength, guts and initiative to do things your way, which flies in the face of convention and is sure to evoke bewilderment from most onlookers. In time, bewilderment will turn to admiration.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Endings do not have to be failures; they don’t even have to be losses. Things end because it’s time for them to. Then the graceful thing is to acknowledge the crowd with a bow and get off the stage.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Remember when you thought you needed a Frappuccino but really needed an apple? Or you thought you needed a cookie and what you really needed was a support system? Today is different. You know exactly what you need.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Groups have personalities. No single person in the group is responsible for the entire personality of the group, but everyone contributes, and not equally. Pay attention to tone of the group on the whole. Is it for you?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Some feelings are hard to name -combo platters of emotion with spice levels of varying intensity.

Try to put words to it, if only for your own edification. The words will make the feelings more palatable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Anyone can click with someone who shares interests and general worldviews. It takes a superstar to find ways to connect with people when such things are not readily apparent.

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