June 6, 2019 Digital Edition

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June 06, 2019

VOL. 34, No. 23

REMEMBERING JUNE 6, 1944, D-DAY, OPERATION NEPTUNE

Los Angeles District Attorney’s Inglewood Brown Act Violations:

“PATENTLY RIDICULOUS”

By Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as DDay, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later Europe) from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on D-Day was far from ideal and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks as the invasion planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and of developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an Allied invasion. 2

called Brown Act when it published the agenda for a June 15, 2017, City Council special meeting to consider an exclusive negotiating agreement (ENA) with Murphy’s Bowl, the developer hoping to build the 18,500seat Clippers Arena on vacant city The DA’s office found the city land. Butts noted that the DA’s office gave inadequate notice under the soBy City News Service

Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts labeled as “patently ridiculous” a District Attorney’s letter that concludes the city violated the state’s public meetings law when it first considered an exclusive agreement to negotiate a proposed Los Angeles Clippers Arena two years ago.

based its decision on a “narrow and highly technical reading” of the agenda’s 20word description and failed to adequately consider accompanying materials that more fully explained the purpose of the special meeting. “It makes no sense for the DA’s office to waste even a cup of coffee over something like this,” Butts said. “If we were trying to sneak something by the citizens of Inglewood, why did the original agenda include a link to a three-page memo that lays out all the details of what was going to be discussed?” Butts also said that the DA “completely ignored” the fact that when an MSG Forum-backed group complained of the alleged agenda flaw in June 2017, the city immediately took steps to cure any potential problem by holding a second 5 meeting within a month,

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME SOFI: $400 MILLION

PRICES UP FROM MARCH DROP By Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor

Southern California’s home prices boomeranged back in April from a rare price drop in March as lower mortgage rates and an increase in the number of homes for sale lured more home shoppers back into the market, real estate data tracker CoreLogic reported Wednesday, May 29. The median home value in Inglewood is $557,500. Inglewood home values have gone up 4.7% over the past year and Zillow predicts they will rise 0.6% within the next year. The median list price per square foot in Inglewood is $405, which is lower than the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Metro average of $434. Home values showed a slight uptick last month, and while sales were down, they decreased by the smallest margin in nine months. Despite a cooling trend compared with the redhot market of the past few years, this year’s spring homebuying season has been gaining steam following two months of 30year mortgage rates hovering just above 4%. “April’s smaller annual sales decrease, coupled with an above-average month-to-month increase in 3 sales, suggests declining mortgage rates and

TO NAME INGLEWOOD’S

NFL STADIUM By Francis Taylor, Asst. Publisher

SoFi, the largest provider of student-loan refinancing, is reportedly close to acquiring naming rights to the $5 billion sports venue under development in Inglewood, California. The deal is said to cost SoFi $400 million over 20 years, and the new stadium will serve as home to two NFL franchises— the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams—when it opens in 2020. For SoFi, the deal is about advertising. Anthony Noto, SoFi’s CEO, is a former linebacker at West Point, previously served as CFO for the NFL and had financially successful careers with Goldman Sachs and Twitter. The argument for SoFi’s naming rights seems reasonable—the LA stadium will host the Super Bowl in 2022 and the Olympics in 2028, garnering an enormous amount of exposure for SoFi.

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