June 13, 2019
VOL. 34, No. 24
FISCAL ADVISER APPOINTED TO LENNOX SCHOOL DISTRICT
EYE ON THE CITY
City of Inglewood
CAPS RENT INCREASES AT 5% GEORGE DOTSON
ALEX PADILLA
JAMES BUTTS
ELOY MORALES
RALPH FRANKLIN
By Francis Taylor, Asst. Publisher
By City News
Los Angeles County school officials have assigned a fiscal adviser to assert more control over the Lennox School District after discovering “further erosion” of finances in the tiny district, which also is wrestling with the departure of three key officials.
Setting off further alarm was the discovery that the district had failed to rectify a budgetary issue dating back to 2016, when it falsely reported $2.6 million in revenues that will never materialize, according to a letter from the Los Angeles County Office of Education obtained Tuesday by a local news agency. Interim Superintendent Nick Salerno said Tuesday that county officials had notified Lennox administrators of the mistake at the time and instructed them to remove the $2.6 million from its books. “We notified LACOE recently that we found the $2.6 million was never removed, hence the letter from them,” Salerno said. The May 29 letter was a follow-up 2
Following a parade of speakers, mostly in favor of capping rents in the City of Inglewood, at the end of a very long city council meeting, the council
agreed to implement a 5% cap on rent horizon. increases, with the new $4.2 billion It’s been a fight rental property resiNFL stadium under construction and a dents in Inglewood have 5 new Los Angeles Clippers arena on the battled round-after-round
FORMER IUSD STATE-APPOINTED ADMINISTRATOR
FOUND DEAD AT HOME By Francis Taylor, Asst. Publisher
ByBy Francis Taylor, Asst. Publisher
While we congratulate all the graduates of all the Schools in the city of Inglewood and their families during this milestone, we would like to take the time to personally acknowledge the Valedictorian and Salutatorian graduates of the class of 2019 from the following schools for all of their extra hard work and effort; Inglewood High School (Principal Debra Tate): Valedictorian - Ada Okereke Salutatorian - Caterra Smith Morningside High School (Principal Traci Gholar): Valedictorian - Marisol Zavala Salutatorian - Evan Hardin Frank D. Parent K-8 (Principal Garry Gregory): Valedictorian - Stephanie Rivas Salutatorian - Lena Barrett & Grace McKinley La Tierja Academy of Excellence K-8 (Principal Franklin Tilley): Valedictorian - Elizabeth Perez-Lopez Salutatorian Maritsa Orosco Kudos on your graduation and best wishes for your future. Be proud of yourselves and keep striving to be your best. If you can think it, you can achieve it. Remember that the sky is NOT the limit, and that there are footsteps on the moon. Congratulations again!
Kent Taylor, the former IUSD state-appointed administrator and most recently the former Lennox School District superintendent, who resigned abruptly in April after more than six years at the district, was found dead Sunday, June 9, in the San Bernardino County community of Grand Terrace. The embattled official’s tenure was under scrutiny after he resigned from his job in Lennox and the school board in Colton County officials declined to reveal the cause of death because the circumstances are still under investigation by the county coroner’s office. Apparently the cause and manner of death is still under forensic examination and at this time, while no suspects are being sought, suicide or an accident is the only other possible explanations for Taylor’s death. Taylor, 54, resigned from the superintendent’s position in Lennox on April 9, the same day he also resigned as a board member for the Colton Joint Unified School District in San Bernardino. No explanation was provided by 4
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