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LA Unified School Board District 7 Race

Castellanos Fighting the Good Fight Running against the big money opponents

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

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This year’s election for the Los Angeles Unified School Board has set another record for campaign spending with $15.6 million being spent by outside groups on the Los Angeles Unified School Board race, shattering the previous record set in 2017. The most competitive races are District 3 and 7 with the charter school backed candidates, Marilyn Koziatek and Tanya Franklin-Ortiz, versus Scott Schmerelson and Patricia Castellanos who are supported by United Teachers of Los Angeles and SEIU Local 99.

With less than a week until election day, the bulk of that money was spent by pro-charter school forces.

Prospective voters saw the fruits of that spending in text messages from unrecognized numbers spamming phones, and the back and forth hit piece mailers filling mailboxes.

The 2017 school board campaign holds the previous spending record, with outside groups reporting more than $14.8 million in “independent expenditures” during that cycle. If the pace of spending in this year’s races continues, it will either match or exceed the 2017 record.

Tanya Ortiz Franklin spent $94,251 from her own campaign. If the election would have taken place Oct. 23, and assuming Franklin-Ortiz gets at least the same number of votes she got during the primaries, she will have paid $2.36 per vote.

The outside expenditure group supporting Ortiz Franklin, Kids First, spent $2,328,837. If the election would have taken place Oct. 23, Kids First would have spent $58.35 per vote. Kids First

[See Big Money, p. 6] Patricia Castellanos, candidate for Los Angeles Unified School District board and some of the many negative mailers sent to voters during this election season. Photo courtesy of Patricia Castellanos campaign.

Looking into Ray Carofano’s Faces of Pedro p. 11

Republicans have lost the popular vote for president in every election but one in the past 30 years and they appear headed to lose once again, by well more than the 2.9 million votes they lost by last time.

They’ve been saved three times by a flaw in our Constitution — the Electoral College, which doesn’t function at all as originally intended. But as Donald Trump runs for re-election amid a pandemic he’s actively helped to spread, he’s exploiting flaws in two institutions — the media and the courts — in a desperate bid to hold onto power. This could erode our democracy beyond recognition if he manages to hold onto power by a combination of voter suppression, litigation and political intrigue. If his efforts fail, the flaws will still be there,

waiting for the next would-be dictator to exploit.

“Where are all of the arrests?” Trump tweeted on Oct. 7, followed later with the all-caps demand: “DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, THE BIGGEST OF ALL POLITICAL SCANDALS (IN HISTORY)!!! BIDEN, OBAMA AND CROOKED HILLARY LED THIS TREASONOUS PLOT!!! BIDEN SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO RUN - GOT CAUGHT!!!”

Trump never spelled out the alleged scandal/plot or the person being asked to act. But that very lack of specificity, together with the sweeping, grandiose claim of unprecedented evil, are hallmarks of how

[See Warnings, p. 4]

COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as of Oct. 28, 2020: 9,054,555 • Deaths: 232,317• Days to Election: 6 For local stats: www.randomlengthsnews.com

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Neighborhood council renews opposition to SP development p. 3

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

Judge allows Exide bankruptcy to skirt site clean-up p. 2

GOP Losing the Popular Vote The media ignores the warnings

autocratic leaders seek to grab absolute power for themselves — justifying the elimination of all rivals. His outburst should have set off alarm bells across the political spectrum. Instead, it barely caused a ripple.

Beyond being inattentive, the media is routinely pernicious: It amplifies Trump’s efforts to undermine our democracy. A recent report from Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society found that Trump was the primary driver of disinformation about alleged “voter fraud,” via elite media coverage. The methodology was “an elite-driven, mass-media led process,” the report noted, driven by Trump’s tweets, press briefings and interviews amplified via media coverage.

“Social media played only a secondary and supportive role,” the report stated.

In all, the study analyzed more than 55,000 online stories, 5 million tweets, and 75,000 public

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San Pedro 7-Eleven to Be Turned into Gas Station

By Hunter Chase, Reporter

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The 7-Eleven store on the southwest corner of North Gaffey Street and West Capitol Drive could have gas pumps in the future. 7-Eleven Inc. intends to demolish the store and rebuild it as a gas station with a convenience store. Whether it is successful or not may depend on what side of the property it chooses to place the store.

The original proposal put the store at the corner of the property, facing both Gaffey and Capitol. That arrangement would conform with San Pedro’s community plan, said Diana Nave, chairwoman of the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council’s Planning and Land Use Committee, when she spoke at the council’s Oct. 13 meeting.

Because of community feedback, 7-Eleven also considered placing the building at the back of the lot, like a traditional gas station, Nave said. However, the Los Angeles City Planning Department stated it won’t approve such a layout.

“If our board were to support the traditional layout, it would mean that the Planning Department would reject the proposal,” Nave said. “7-Eleven would then need to appeal it to the Area Planning Commission and they would need to find that there are some extraordinary

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Rendering of a proposed development at the 7-Eleven at 1519 N. Gaffey St. The project would turn the property into a gas station/store hybrid. Courtesy of ASI Development

circumstances that prevented it from being built in the front of the lot.”

The station will have four gas pumps, two hoses each, for a total of eight fueling positions.

Nave said the Planning and Land Use committee asked 7-Eleven to put in electric vehicle charging

stations. However, the company had only committed to putting in conduits for two stations, but not the actual charging stations themselves. If its plans are approved, it will apply for a rebate from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for the charging stations.

Peter Burmeister, a member of the NWSPNC’s planning and land use committee, said neither the committee, the council or even 7-Eleven have done any outreach to the community that directly surrounds the project.

“I personally went to the homeowners over here and the businesses around,” Burmeister said. “None of them knew about that project.”

Burmeister does not believe the council or the Planning and Land Use Committee are acting in the best interests of the community, but rather like a broker for the developer.

“We as homeowners, our quality of life is at stake,” Burmeister said. “That’s their responsibility to outreach to the neighbors and outreach to the businesses adjacent to it. And, the chair of the Northwest Neighborhood Council, the outreach chair, has the responsibility to notify the community about it, and they didn’t do that.”

Nave said that once the project is set for a zoning administrator hearing, then the businesses and residences within 500 feet will be notified.

“That’s why the businesses next door weren’t aware of this,” said Melanie Labrecque, treasurer of the NWSPNC. “Once that happens, then they’ll be notified.”

Nave said that this item was put on their agenda with the purpose of informing the community.

“One of the reasons that we put it on our board agenda a month or two ago … is a way of increasing outreach to the community and raising awareness early as to this proposed project,” [See N. Gaffey, p. 5]

Judge Allows Exide Bankruptcy to Skirt Site Clean-up

By Mark Friedman, Reporter

Federal Judge Christopher Sontchi’s Oct. 16 approval of Exide Technologies’ bankruptcy plan will allow the company to skirt costs and cleanup of a Southern California battery-recycling plant that poisoned surrounding neighborhoods for decades. The judge’s ruling came despite the efforts of more than 500 families across southeast Los Angeles County who have lived in an environmental disaster zone for the last several decades. They stayed on a phone queue for hours to speak out on the company’s proposed bankruptcy. A number of the callers stayed on to speak, but an untold number hung up in frustration. City leaders from across Southeast Los Angeles, county agencies and various community organizations were in the queue.

Exide Technologies recycled batteries in the City of Vernon for 33 years. While Judge Sontchi acknowledged the long-term negative health effects of lead, he dismissed any suggestion that there was an “imminent, immediate harm to the general public if the property is abandoned.”

The U.S. Department of Justice hosted the public hearing on Oct. 13, with little advance notice on Exide Technologies’ plan to abandon its contaminated Vernon site, the largest environmental super-fund disaster-site in the state of California.

The company manufactures the widest range of storage batteries in the world. Exide Technologies, worth $1.1 billion and traded on the New York Stock Exchange, has four major

lead-acid battery recycling facilities — two in the U.S.; others in Spain and Portugal. The company claims that 99% of lead processed through these facilities is recycled. Exide recycled 11 million auto batteries in Vernon annually, releasing 3,500 tons of lead into the atmosphere in the process.

Five years ago, Exide agreed to a settlement to clean-up the Vernon site in exchange for not being prosecuted by the state. They have reneged, according to the public comments by politicians, scientists, government and health department officials.

The Exide Technologies website tells a different story, claiming that the company recovers 99% of all lead received at our recycling centers.

“Every year we recycle millions of pounds of lead and recover and neutralize millions of gallons of sulfuric acid,” the website states.

Families affected by Exide’s lead poisoning questioned the company’s claims, by asking why the surrounding land at the Vernon site, covering about nine square miles is contaminated with lead, with some estimates of up to 17 miles given wind dispersal.

Lead, even in small quantities, has an immediate impact on brain functioning, especially among infants and youth in the formative stages of brain development. That is why it was removed decades ago from paint, gasoline and colorants on kitchenware.

[See Exide, p. 10]

Coastal SP Neighborhood Council Renews Opposition to San Pedro Development

By Hunter Chase, Reporter

The Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council voted, 12-0, on Oct. 19 to oppose a proposed apartment-and-retail complex at 21112139 Pacific Ave, where developers envision a four-story structure with 100 apartments — 11 of them very low-income units — with 84 parking spaces and 1,800 square feet of retail space on the ground floor.

It was the second time the council has expressed its objection to the project, which it previously rejected and criticized in a November 2019 motion. The council’s vote to reemphasize its position seemed timed for maximum impact — shortly before the Los Angeles City Planning Commission conducted an Oct. 28 public hearing on the project. No action took place at this meeting.

But a review of the vote 11 months ago also shows that the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council’s opposition to the project was not final; in fact, the council promised to support the project if developers incorporated these standards into their plans: • Provide one parking space per unit • Limit the design to three stories not exceeding 30 feet • Include 24 units of affordable housing • Be certified by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design • Incorporate native plants into the landscape plan, as per the San Pedro Urban Greening Implementation Plan • Change the building’s design to be more compatible with the neighboring buildings

Robin Rudisill, a member of the council, revealed that the developer, RKD 2111 Pacific LLC, did modify its proposal in the aftermath of the November 2019 vote. Nine parking spaces were added and retail space was reduced.

However, the developers did not provide to the council a full list of the changes, even though the council requested it.

Rudisill argued that the City Planning Department needs to deny the project’s request for a categorical exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act. Her reason for this was that the project is inconsistent with the

community plan. The council even voted 12-0 to request more information to conduct air quality and traffic studies for CEQA analysis.

The project’s cubic yards of grading were not included in the notice for the project’s November City Planning Commission hearing, even though they are needed for environmental assessment, according to the council’s motion.

Kristen Montet Lonner, a representative of RKD 2111 Pacific, LLC, said that the project was required to submit paperwork to the city, and the city determined that the project qualified as a [See Coastal NC, p. 10]

Community Announcements:

Harbor Area Early Voting Center at the Warner Grand

Los Angeles County has officially designated the Warner Grand Theater as an early voting center. There will also be a drop-off bin out front so people can drive up on any of these days and deposit their completed ballot.

County officials and voting assistants will follow county approved guidelines re: COVID (social distancing, mask wearing, sanitation, etc.), as will theater staff.

Find your nearest voting center here: www. locator.lavote.net/locations/vc Time: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 3.

Stay On Top Of Voting Information

If you missed the last day to register to vote online you can still register to vote in-person at any election center through election day.

Details: https://ciclavia.us3.list-manage.com Track your ballot here: https://ciclavia.us3.listmanage.com/track Learn about voting by mail here: https://ciclavia. us3.list-manage.com/track/click Find an official ballot drop box near you: https:// ciclavia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click Read about ballot propositions: https://tinyurl. com/y5xynrgx

California State University Dominguez Hills Career Fair

Rendering of a proposed development at 2111-2139 S. Pacific Ave. The Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council opposed the development. Courtesy of Burns & Bouchar

This a fall 2020 arts and entertainment career and internship expo where employers can meet diverse talent to join their teams.

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 10 Cost: Free Details: www.app.joinhandshake.com/login

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Update From Metro Board Meeting

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn provided an update from the Oct. 22, Metro Board meeting. Supervisor Hahn voted “No” on the NextGen Bus Plan. Hahn said there is plenty to like about it, but its plan to electrify the Silver Line bus route stops at Harbor Gateway and does not extend all the way to San Pedro. The Harbor area should not have to choose between service coverage and clean air. Hahn said she will continue to work with Metro to fix this problem and make the entirety of the Silver Line zero emissions.

Hahn also warned her constituents against a scam that one resident in Rowland Heights has encountered. The scam consists of people going door-to-door and claiming to be working for the county to collect property tax payments. The scam artists will ask for homeowners to pay their taxes in person as a result of the county offices being closed.

Hahn said that county officials will not go to people’s homes. It only accepts payments online, by mail and over the phone.

Soccer Field, Dog Park Coming to Carson

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CARSON — The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, Oct. 15, approved the lease agreement that was unanimously approved by the Carson City Council Oct. 7, for a 10.5-acre park space adjacent to the existing Carriage Crest Park. This triples the size of the park and makes it Carson’s first dog park.

The lease agreement allows for dogs, as well as recreation, sporting uses and ancillary facilities like parking. The lease terms also allow the city to engage third-party operators and opens the door for grant opportunities.

The next steps include the development of a state of the art facility and identifying what Carson residents want for the park. Carson is pursuing funding sources, including but not limited to Proposition 68, a Parks and Water Bond Act approved in June 2018. It is a measure to authorize $4 billion in general obligation bonds for state and local parks, environmental protection projects, water infrastructure projects and flood protection projects.

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Record September Volume Leads POLAs Busiest Quarter Ever

SAN PEDRO — The Port of Los Angeles announced Oct. 14, that it processed 883,625 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, in September, an increase of 13.3% compared to 2019. This was the port’s busiest September ever. It was also its best single three-month quarter, as the port moved 2,701,847 TEUs. Imports increased 17.3% to 471,795 TEUs compared to September 2019. However, loaded exports decreased 0.3% to 130,397 TEUs. Empty containers increased 14% to 281,434 TEUs. The 883,625 TEUs in total surpassed the previous September record of 801,264 set in 2018.

Year to date, cargo has decreased 8.9% compared to 2019.

In September, 97 cargo vessels arrived and there were no canceled sailings. To better track and plan for incoming goods, the Port of Los Angeles now provides data from The Signal, a three-week look at cargo coming into Los Angeles.

Details: http://volumes.portoptimizer.com

POLB has a Record Month and Quarter

LONG BEACH — The Port of Long Beach accomplished two records in September 2020; It had its busiest month and quarter ever. In fact, the port broke its best month record set two months ago.

Trade was up by 12.5% compared to September 2019, as the port moved [See News Briefs, p. 6]

Ignoring the Warnings Facebook posts. The only peak in activity not personally driven by Trump came in response to the exposure of his administration’s interference with the U.S. Postal Service. Three media practices helped to spread the misinformation, according to the report: “elite institutional focus (if the president says it, it’s news); headline seeking (if it bleeds, it leads); and balance, neutrality, or the avoidance of the appearance of taking a side.”

More precisely, the report explained: [Trump] uses the first two in combination to summon coverage at will, and has used them continuously to set the agenda surrounding mail-in voting through a combination of tweets, press conferences, and television interviews on Fox News. He relies on the latter professional practice [balance] to keep audiences that are not politically precommitted and have relatively low political knowledge confused, because it limits the degree to which professional journalists in mass media organizations are willing or able to directly call the voter fraud frame disinformation.

Thus, the media have played a key role in helping to spread Trump’s disinformation, attacking the legitimacy of our elections — and doing so in the specific form that Trump himself has chosen to maximally hurt his opposition.

If enough mail-in votes can be suppressed — particularly in Pennsylvania — Trump will have a path to re-“election,” especially with the help of the courts that he’s been stacking with his appointees.

There are some who recognize the depths of what’s at stake, which is why three giants of science publishing — Nature, Scientific American and the New England Journal of Medicine — have made the first presidential endorsements of their histories, stretching back to the 19th century.

And, while other institutions have wobbled, specific individuals have nonetheless stood out.

Thus, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent noted that Trump’s recent attacks on infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci and 60 Minutes interviewer Leslie Stahl made perfect sense: They are the figures he perceives to be standing in the way of his effort to conduct this campaign in an entirely invented universe that he’d hoped to manufacture for this very purpose.

But other institutions are flailing badly in defense of reality, despite the clarity of evidence of what’s going on, and the potential dangers that loom.

“The producers of news aren’t capable of dealing with Trump within their present rules and formulas,” NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen told Vox recently. “There’s no emergency switch. ... You would have to, for example, tear apart the Sunday shows and start again with different premises. And, there’s no appetite for that.”

Most in the media have long been reluctant to call Trump a liar, which amounts to complicity with him, in helping to obscure the truth of what’s going on in our country. This obscures both what he’s lying about, and why he’s doing it, as well as what should guide us in responding to him.

Ignoring Psychologists’ Warnings

Psychologists and psychiatrists have long warned about Trump — his pathological lying,

and a host of other troubling traits reflecting narcissism, sadism, psychopathy and more — but the media have never taken their warnings to heart, never stopped treating him as if their observations and analyses were irrelevant.

Yet, their input can be invaluable. For example, Ian Hughes, author of Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy, shed light on the dynamics Sargent touched on above.

“Imposing their pathological worldview onto the world is what individuals with dangerous disorders do,” Hughes told Random Lengths News. “Doing so is not a conscious choice; it is a consequence of the fact that individuals with these disorders live in an internal ‘reality’ that is shaped by their disorder.”

“He reacts with anger at anyone who dares challenge his superiority — whether that is female journalists or scientific experts,” said Hughes about Trump’s sense of superiority. “He lives in a world of his own making in which he must control others or take them down before they harm him.”

Trump’s refusal to take the coronavirus seriously has resulted in more than a hundred thousand excess deaths. That’s typical of the dynamic Hughes went on to describe: By acting out this worldview in their minute-by-minute relationships with everyone around them, pathological individuals make this internal world an external reality. People either agree with them, stick around and reinforce their pathological views, or disagree with them, refuse to associate with them and become enemies to be destroyed.

This is exactly what has happened with COVID-19.

The media has generally failed to realize how experts like Hughes can help make sense of Trump’s actions for their audiences. But that’s as foolish, in its own way, as Trump’s refusal to listen to and learn from Dr. Fauci. Like Fauci, they can help us grasp things we already experience, but don’t know how to make sense of.

A paper published in spring showed that ordinary Americans — Trump supporters and conservatives as well as liberals — perceive the same sets of Trump’s psychologically dangerous traits that experts have been warning against.

“We found that, on average, those who voted for Trump and those who voted for Clinton did not have wildly different views of Trump’s personality,” the lead author Jacob Fiala told PsyPost. “Both groups saw him as particularly sadistic and narcissistic, and even though the two groups disagreed about how prominently he displayed these traits, his own supporters still judged him to be more sadistic and narcissistic than 90% of people.”

This didn’t surprise Hughes.

“In the context of an extremely divided society, even majorities can believe that choosing leaders with traits that correspond to the clinical diagnosis of psychopath or malignant narcissist is the smart thing to do,” he said.

But if that’s what they’re choosing, it should be a central matter of debate.

Attacks On Democracy Also Ignored

Similarly — though not so completely — the media has also done a poor job of describing Trump’s multifaceted attacks on American

democracy. In September, the Washington Post ran a story, The United States is backsliding into autocracy under Trump, scholars warn.

And, while it wasn’t the first such story, there’s no spillover into changing day-to-day reporting on what Trump is doing, despite widespread agreement amongst political scientists, such as the V-Dem project, involving 2,800 national experts around the world.

We’re now in a “third wave” of autocratization, they tell us. The first two waves, from 1926 to 1942 and from 1961 to 1977, were characterized by sudden events, such as military coups, but the third wave, starting in 1994, is characterized by gradual erosion (at least initially) most often driven by elected leaders like Trump, who undermine democratic norms and institutions to remain in power.

“Once in power, the ambitious autocrats work to change constitutions, undermine independent electoral authority (domestic and international), weaken the opposition, besiege civil society and persecute critical media,” Armando Chaguaceda, a V-Dem national expert, explained in 2019. And V-Dem’s 2020 report noted that “The United States of America is the only country in Western Europe and North America suffering from substantial autocratization.”

This is where America stands today, less than a week from Election Day, with a very real chance of significant democratic erosion, depending on what kinds of results come in where, and how, and when — and how other actors respond to Trump’s continued efforts to undermine our democracy.

Trump’s tax cut is his sole piece of major legislation, vastly overshadowed by the volume of judges he’s appointed, aided by Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s practice of sabotaging almost all of Barack Obama’s nominations in the last two years of his term. While intended most broadly to win support from the GOP establishment as well as the base, Trump has also made it clear he expects “his” judges to protect him — up to and including the Supreme Court, where his latest nominee was confirmed at record speed. And so far, that’s exactly what they’ve done.

On Oct. 19, the Supreme Court declined to overturn a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling to allow late-arriving ballots to be counted up to three days after election day. But with Amy Coney Barrett on the court, that could easily be reversed, and one theory being argued could allow the GOP-controlled state legislature to simply ignore the popular vote and send their own slate of electors to the Electoral College.

Even more arcane power-grab scenarios are possible — predicated only on the willingness of GOP enablers to carry out Trump’s wishes.

In a suddenly tightening re-election race, Texas Sen. John Cornyn has let slip a few modestly Trump-critical comments. The GOP could also lose two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia and one each in South Carolina and Mississippi, which they once assumed were all safe — signs that an epochal power-shift may be underway. Joe Biden could conceivably win Texas and Georgia as well, effectively outflanking Trump’s threatened Pennsylvania shenanigans.

There are too many possibilities to specifically discuss, but there’s a common thread: Trump’s instinct to stay in power no matter what will diverge from the perceived interests of long-term power-players like McConnell to a greater or lesser degree. And here, again, a combination of psychological and political science frameworks can help illuminate what may come.

Imperial Avalon Residents Fight Displacement

By Joseph Baroud, Reporter

The intersection of Carson and Avalon was surrounded with the deafening sounds of honking cars on Oct. 20 in support of more than 30 demonstrators protesting the attempted displacement of residents from the Imperial Avalon Mobile Home Park.

the council to discuss this situation, Darren Embry, a representative of Faring, which is part of the relocation project team that has been tasked with Imperial Avalon and handles community development, said that residents have until January 2022 to find a new home. The

would like to use to complete this transaction.

Jeff Steiman, 55, a resident and representative of the mobile home homeowners’ association said that as of Oct. 26 residents haven’t been given a choice about the rate at which they want to sell their house. Steiman also says the resident’s first right of refusal wasn’t respected.

Homeowners say that they’re being offered a significantly low value for their homes. Glenn White, 66, who has been living there for 21 years, said he was being offered $10,000 for his home valued at $80,000.

“The residents have been offered on site market value,” Marcela Steiman, 62, said. “We want fair market value because we have to go out to search the housing market with less money. Why in the hell would we move into another mobile home park when they are all being bought up by all the investors?”

The entity who conducted the appraisals for the homes was Faring Capital, which also bought the property. White says that the council is helping Faring Capital obtain mobile home parks, because Faring makes hefty contributions

to the council.

“The main voting bloc allowing Faring Capital to buy up all the mobile home parks are led by city council members Lula Davis-Holmes, Jawane Hilton and Cedric Hicks,” White said.

Carla Zanotti, 48, who has lived at Imperial Avalon for 40 years, said she received a change of ownership notice in August and a promise from the new proprietors, Faring Capital, that they would find everybody a residence in Carson and they would take care of all of the moving fees. That didn’t happen, so she took the matter up with an attorney and is scheduled to meet Nov. 4 to discuss her options.

The City Council has scheduled a meeting on Oct. 28 at Dignity Park to hold an open discussion with affected residents. Steiman said that the City Council wants residents of the various affected mobile home parks to attend this meeting. They requested that representatives from Faring Capital attend as well.

“When the mobile home lots were built, they were intended to be an affordable way instead of living on the street,” Steiman said.

The Oct. 20 mobile home owners rally was as much a rallying cry for fair offers for their homes as much as it was a rallying cry for affordable housing for the high number seniors who are mobile home owners. Photo

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Nave said.

Burgmeister said that most people are so preoccupied with their own lives they would not necessarily see it online.

Board member John DiMeglio said that there was no reason to wait to inform the public about the project. He also questioned whether gas tanks were even needed in the area.

“Why are we putting dirty tanks in the ground?” DiMeglio said. “I thought we stopped doing that, or we shouldn’t be doing that.”

When the oil tankers are driven to the site of the project, they will not be taken through Capitol Drive, Nave said. Instead, they will come from Gaffey Street, but it is yet to be determined if they will come from the north or the south.

“The neighborhood didn’t want them going through the residential area,” Nave said.

The council did not act on this item at the Oct. 13 meeting, leaving it to be discussed further at the Oct. 28 meeting of the Planning and Land Use Committee.

relocation project team that will handle the move presented a chart to the City Council’s planning commission. Embry said that each resident will be provided this chart and given the chance to make a selection of which buyback rate they

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As the City of Carson moves forward with redevelopment projects they believe will add more quality retail options and market rate housing, mobile home residents believe these improvements are happening at the expense of their housing security.

Residents have decided to take to the streets because the phone calls and the letters aren’t yielding results. This is the second week of protests. Residents are joined by supporters and representatives of their homeowner’s association in order to reverse the momentum with public support.

During a July 7 council meeting in which representatives from Faring Capital joined

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795,580 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs. This beat July’s record by nearly 42,500 TEUs. The port moved 2,274,271 TEUs between July 1 and Sept. 30, beating the previous record of the third quarter of 2019 by nearly 160,000 TEUs. Imports grew by 14.3%, with 405,618 TEUs, and exports decreased by 8.7% to 112,556 TEUs. Empty containers going back overseas increased by 21.2% to 277,406 TEUs. The port is up 0.5% compared to this time in 2019, and has moved 5,707,305 TEUs in the first nine months of the year. The port closed out its fiscal year, which lasts from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, with 7,660,975 TEUs. This is a 1.1% increase from its previous fiscal year.

Barragán Introduces Bill for Clean Energy Microgrids

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LOS ANGELES — On Oct. 20, Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán and Yvette D. Clark introduced a bill called The Energy Resilient Communities Act. It will create 100% clean energy microgrids to protect critical infrastructure in the event of a power loss. These grids will power hospitals, fire stations, schools, grocery stores and senior and public housing in the event of a natural disaster or blackout. This bill, if passed, will create hundreds of clean power grids. The bill authorizes $1.5 billion in annual grants for the microgrids, and another $50 million in annual grants for technical assistance. It also authorizes $150 million of annual authorized funding for constructing community-owned energy systems. Projects are prioritized based on different criteria, including how effectively it will reduce pollution, whether it will be built on previously disturbed land and whether the businesses that receive contracts are owned by women or people of color.

Details: www.vimeo.com/cargo-vehicles

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is a political action committee put together by Netflix CEO and founder, Reed Hastings and Bill Bloomfield, the former head of commercial laundry equipment company.

Bill Bloomfield contributed $1,369,344 in support of Franklin. If the election would have taken place Oct. 23, Bloomfield would have paid $34.31.

Bloomfield’s contributions represented more than a third of the money spent on the District 7 race. When combined with the contributions of Kids First, the expenditures by pro-charter forces represent more than half all expenditures in the District 7 race.

Patricia Castellanos spent $187,355.98 from funds raised from her own campaign. If the election would have taken place Oct. 23, Castellanos would have paid $4.11 per vote.

Students, parents and educators in support of Castellanos and Scott Schmerelson for School Board 2020, and sponsored teacher unions, including United Teachers Los Angeles, spent $171,758.

Imagine Justice, a political action committee sponsored by Service Employees International, spent $88,316.

Total independent expenditures on behalf of Castellanos totaled $260,074, or $5.70 per vote.

Kids First poured $2,166,694.63 into mailers, nearly half of that was in the form of negative ads at $935,334.92.

Noblesse Oblige

It misses the point to characterize this race as simply a polarized debate between pro- and anti-charter school advocates. Sure, this school

LAUSD District 7 candidate Patricia Castellanos with some of her supporters in United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770. Photo courtesy of Patricia Castellanos campaign.

board race is a balance-of-power struggle between the two sides and whether charters will face more scrutiny than not going forward. But the challenges the Los Angeles Unified School District faced during the coronavirus pandemic and the coming crisis created by declining enrollment portends more chaos and funding uncertainty than ever before.

What is missed in today’s debate over charter schools versus traditional schools is that today’s robber barons-turned- philanthropists (think Eli Broad, Bill and Melinda Gates or the Waltons) are using their wealth not simply to improve the lot of their fellow man but to engage in a kind of social engineering without the restrictions of democratic processes and regulatory oversight.

Bloomfield and Hastings are just two more operating with a sense of noblesse oblige, or the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.

In 2012, Bloomfield funneled $7.5 million into his own race against the venerable Rep. Henry Waxman, who prevailed despite the spending spree. In 2014 and 2015, Bloomfield bankrolled the campaigns of two state Senate candidates, contributing more than $2 million to help propel them to victory.

Bloomfield has been putting his considerable financial resources behind the charter school movement for more than a decade. He has contributed more than $3.5 million to former charter school executive Marshall Tuck’s failed 2014 campaign to become California’s superintendent of public instruction and has also donated large sums to other pro-charter candidates.

Bloomfield spent big in the 2018 midterm election cycle, giving $5.3 million to the independent expenditure committee EdVoice, which backed Tuck’s second run for superintendent of public instruction. Bloomfield contributed an additional $1.3 million directly to Tuck’s campaign in what became the most expensive race for state superintendent of education in United States history. Tuck’s supporters have built a fundraising advantage of more than two to one over his opponent, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, whose largest source of support is teacher unions.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has given millions of dollars to start charter schools. He’s put millions more into developing education software to personalize learning. But he doesn’t just give money. He makes things change.

Hastings, reportedly, is not a fan of school boards.

The high-tech billionaire led and financed a 1998 campaign that forced the California legislature to liberalize its restrictive charter law.

He served on the California Board of Education for four years. Hastings provided start-up funding for the Aspire Public Schools charter network and helped start and fund EdVoice, a lobbying group, and the NewSchools Venture Fund, which supports education entrepreneurs.

He’s given money to Sal Khan of Khan Academy to develop teaching videos — and a dashboard to track student progress — technology that’s used across the country.

Hastings also supports Rocketship Education, which blends adaptive learning on computers with teacher-led instruction. He’s on the board of the California Charter Schools Association; the KIPP Foundation; DreamBox Learning, an education technology company; and the Pahara Institute, which provides fellowships to education leaders. On the business side, he served on Microsoft’s board until 2012 and is now on Facebook’s board.

Like Gates, Reed Hastings is always looking to launch disruptive innovations. When Hastings does it, he goes big. When he succeeds, he pushes the envelope further. When he fails, he retreats until another opportunity to advance forward presents itself.

The Fight for Balance

Patricia Castellanos admitted that her campaign was operating with a bit of a handicap due to the coronavirus pandemic. She said she and her labor allies are communicating with voters the old-fashioned way, which by the way, didn’t include going door-to-door, at least during the stretch from the primaries to the General Election. This old-fashioned way basically meant phone banking, mass text messages and mailers.

Lots and lots of mailers.

The biggest lie Castellanos has had to bat down if not endure is that she has no experience.

Castellanos argues that she has had more than 20 years of experience in advocacy work and organizing. She argues that she has been able to execute and create policy as a leader and organizer on the outside and see through the implementation of those policies on the inside as a member of various boards.

“Voters are talking but we’re getting a lot of positive responses and a lot of voters are seeing through a lot of the B.S.,” Castellanos said.

“And, they are most turned off by it.”

Another thing Castellanos has going for her is name recognition, such as being a member of the Harbor Commissioners at the Port of Los Angeles and her work for Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.

“Our schools are not profit centers and they are not companies,” Castellanos explained.

[See Castellanos, p. 7]

[Castellanos, from p. 6]

Castellanos

“Transparency and accountability are what’s missing from charter schools although it’s better now than before through recent legislation.”

Indeed, with traditional schools there are several vehicles through which to demand transparency and accountability. Castellanos admits that it’s not easy, either for a parent or an organizer, to hold our institutions accountable.

But there are vehicles to do just that.

Education is more than just about the charter versus non-charter divide. Castellanos knows well that despite how much of a problem the explosion in the number of charter schools has become, it will be very difficult to put that genie back in the bottle.

“Giving local boards more authority over charter schools is critical,” Castellanos said.

“My hope is that the board uses that authority aggressively to be able to hold charters accountable with a more scrutinous eye of new charters that are trying to apply.”

Hastings once spoke admiringly of how the New Orleans school district became entirely all-charter after Hurricane Katrina. With the combination of the coronavirus pandemic and already exacerbated declining enrollments, this particular moment has the potential of becoming LAUSD’s Hurricane Katrina and the sharks are circling.

“It’s difficult to break through the noise, especially during this time of COVID,” Castellanos said. “There’s so much more at stake.”

Castellanos notes that distance learning works for no one; not for students, not for teachers, not for families.

“We need to put in place measures that make distance learning as effective as possible,” the long timer organizer and activist said. “There are conversations that need to be had about how to reopen safely. What resources do we need?”

Castellanos noted that Congress and the president are playing politics over COVID relief funding for education.

“My focus would be to manage and regulate the charters,” Castellanos said. “It has to be done and bring some stability to that. Then begin leveling the playing field in our higher needs communities.”

She didn’t want to speak just yet on the direction the district should take next year when COVID-related enrollment declines exacerbate ongoing declines in enrollment.

“We hope that Prop. 15 passes, that the federal government comes through with funding, but these are uncertainties and unknowns,” she said.

Castellanos also noted that it is not known what the enrollment numbers are going to be or what the state’s allocation of resources is going to be based on enrollment.

“The state chose to continue funding school districts at the same level as pre-pandemic, holding school districts harmless,” Castellanos said. “At best we’re going to be back with some hybrid model. “ Rather than thinking about budget cuts, Castellanos prefers to get the state and the federal government to keep funding schools at pre-COVID levels.

“Pre-COVID, we need to look at where we are investing our resources,” Castellanos said. “If we don’t have the funds to invest in our schools then we are not going to be able to make them attractive choices for parents.”

Fall Fun In Spite of COVID-19

The USS Iowa at the Pacific Battleship center converted its huge parking lot into a drive-in theatre this past month. Safely in their cars, theater-goers were treated to the 1987 film, Moonstruck. Right, a piglet plays among pumpkins at the Pumpkin Patch at 9th Street and Western Avenue in San Pedro. Despite all the COVID-19 restrictions and constant sanitizing, the children who visited with their families were treated to a sense of normalcy after a long summer. Photos by Arturo GarciaAyala

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The Roots of Democracy Crazy at the polls

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

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I can’t imagine that there’s anybody in this nation except for those too young or who have lost their minds that haven’t decided who they are voting for president on Nov. 3 yet. Even those who can’t vote have an opinion. As does the crazy lady singing Light my Fire off key outside of Sacred Grounds on 6th Street. On the one side you have a psychopathic narcissist spreading the coronavirus around the country in complete denial of the disease or its consequences and on the other side a reasonably normal guy who keeps getting slandered by the psycho and his minions.

This is probably the most critical election since George McGovern challenged President Richard Nixon in 1972, an election pinned to the decision of whether to end the Vietnam War. We are still having to cope with the consequences of that election and Nixon’s corruption of power. So if you haven’t watched the film The Trial of the Chicago 7, you should. It is a great American historical film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and it is a reminder for those who happened to live through that time, and for those who came of age after it, just how little our country has come as far as justice is concerned.

Remembering is something we don’t do well, yet there’ll be plenty to recall from these last four years and even these last four weeks, that will fill many books, films and documentaries far into the future. You may just get to read or watch them if the Republicans lose the election big. If they win by some form of trickery via the electoral college and Supreme Court like in the Gore versus Bush election of 2000 then be prepared for book burnings and civil unrest.

Even though it’s a sure bet that former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris will take California’s 35 electoral votes by an overwhelming margin, perhaps the largest in history, it remains to be seen whether they can win in those “battle ground states.” The polls are guardedly optimistic. Just how it is that Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan, or even North Carolina and Arizona, became the deciding factors in choosing a president, I really don’t know. I keep hearing pollsters and political analysts explain this and the best conclusion I can come to is that in certain parts of America some people only get Fox News on cable.

Fox News and faux news websites help explain the existence of those toss up states and the presence of our own homegrown looney tune rightwingers in the Facebook group All Politics San Pedro. Yes, we have our

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very own brand of “true believers’’ here. Some of them, ironically, are members of the International Longshore Workers Union, whose motto is “An Injury to One is an Injury to All.” These few have politics that do not jibe with this ethic, as they tend to adhere to the “I’ve got mine, go get yours” attitude. Meanwhile, they scream at people like me as being “commies’’ on their page threads.

Isn’t it odd that a union founded

by Harry Bridges, a man hounded by the FBI and Joe McCarthy for being a communist, ends up being inherited by a few libertarians?

Luckily this isn’t the majority opinion among the ILWU rank and file workers or the vast majority of other labor unions in the rest of Los Angeles.

From what I hear, these guys are barely tolerated.

Still, you’d think that in the towns surrounding this industrial port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach that it just might be mandatory for the public high schools to teach labor history or maybe bring back Two Years Before the Mast

by Richard Henry Dana as essential reading for middle schools. This, however, is not the case and hence we have workers, some with college educations, that don’t even know their own history. Perhaps a brief history should be mandatory reading for every casual longshore worker before they get accepted into the union?

I digress though. What might be applicable from the history of the ILWU is how it was founded with a general coast-wide strike in 1934.

It’s certainly the kind of event that grabs national attention. And if the Supreme Court, with its newly minted 6-3 Republican majority were to rule against the popular vote in this election, a legitimate response just might be for all workers to just not show up for a few days. We’ve seen the impact of what shutting down the economy can do to protect against a viral enemy. What would the average worker do to protect the republic against an infectious dictator?

As of last week, the LAPD has already begun making plans for containing the “civil unrest” if this election goes sideways. As of this writing, I received a press release from the Justice Department saying that they were dispatching the FBI to monitor elections in the seven counties of Southern California. I am sure it is the contingency plan all across this fine country. One might read many things into these “contingency” plans, but “Law and Order” would seem to be at the top of the list. The priority, however, should be to protect the vote, protect the polls and to defend justice – as this is the root of our democracy.

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One of the key strategies for dealing with our challenging future is to make wastewater recycling the norm. This year the Albert Robles Center for Water Recycling and Environmental Learning, an advanced water treatment facility for purifying already treated wastewater — and making it safe to drink — became operational.

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RANDOMLetters Reactions to Senate Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to SCOTUS We have awful news— Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ extremist Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, was just confirmed [Oct. 26] — just 30 days after she was nominated and 8 days before Election Day. We won’t lie: this is a huge blow to our LGBTQ+ community and allies.

Not only was the entire nomination process illegitimate, but now, decades of progress for LGBTQ+ civil rights, reproductive freedom and affordable healthcare could be DEMOLISHED by Justice Barrett and the new anti-LGBTQ+ majority on the Supreme Court.

Rick Chavez Zbur Equality California Votes

A Study in Hypocrisy

Superspreader-inChief

Donald Trump is holding yet another White House superspreader event to celebrate the confirmation of his latest rightwing Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett.

This entire process was a sham, happening just days before the election. Trump’s goals are simple: Have a justice appointed in time to help decide the election.

Dismantle healthcare and cut coverage for pre-existing conditions. Overturn Roe v. Wade.

And more.

We are not powerless to act.

We have an opportunity to flip the Senate in just eight days.

And each of these Republican Senators who went against the will of the American people just days before the election should know how determined you are: Rep. Adam Schiff Congressional District 28 Burbank, Calif.

Open Letter to Bother Willie Adams, President ILWU re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Structurally the United States is a Republic, not a Democracy.

The form and context we believe we are in stems from parental

[Water, from p. 8]

Water Plans

“You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-takin’ business; we in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin’...”.

— Lt. Aldo Raine (played by Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s WWII film Inglourious Basterds) During the era of the Second World War, there was bipartisan agreement in America on one simple, unavoidable, indisputable fact of human history. And that is the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

But in 2020 (just like in 2016) deranged Donald Trump and his fly guy “Mr. Pink Eye” Mike Pence openly welcome neo-Nazi support.

In fact, the tangerine tyrant Trump unapologetically insists Nazis are

Public Hearing for 1309 1331 S. Pacific Ave.

The San Pedro City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee will host a public hearing regarding the property at 1300 to 1309 Pacific Ave. to consider the following: Categorical Exemption pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA Guidelines, Article 19, Section 15332, Class 32 and related CEQA findings, report from the Los Angeles City Planning or LACPC and an appeal filed by Citizens Protecting San Pedro from the determination of the LACPC in approving the following: 1) a density bonus compliance review for a project totaling 102 dwelling units and reserving 15% of the base dwelling units, or 12 dwelling units, for very low-income household occupancy for a period of 55 years, with the following on menu incentive: A 20% reduction in the required open space, to allow 8,831 square feet in lieu of the 10,950 square feet otherwise required

by Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.21 G;

2) one waiver of development standard for a 45-foot and 5-inch building height in lieu of the 30 feet otherwise permitted by the C2- 1XL-CPIO Zone and CPIO Section IV2.A.2; and 3) a site plan review for a development project which creates, or results in an increase of, 50 or more dwelling units; for the construction of a four-story, 45-foot and fiveinch tall residential building comprised of 102 dwelling units (including 12 very low-income units) with the project being approximately 83,158 square feet in floor area with a floor area ratio of 2.65:1, providing 127 parking spaces in two subterranean levels, with the site currently improved with three vacant commercial structures, 26 trees on the subject site and four trees along the public right-of-way, all of which will be removed to clear the lot, with the project also involving the grading of about 2,500 cubic yards of soil, for the properties at 1309-1331 South Pacific Ave., subject to conditions of approval.

Time: 10 a.m. Nov. 5 Details: www.nwsanpedro.org/ public-notice

[See Letters, p. 10]

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Control Plant in Carson.

These facilities process billions of gallons of water a year that — after going through three levels of cleaning — are now emptied into the ocean. Eventually the plan is to apply advanced water treatment techniques (like the ones now used at WRD’s Pico Rivera plant) to this water and recycle it for re-use by consumers.

WRD’s role in collaborating with these wastewater recycling projects of LADWP and MWD is critical — it can provide space in its aquifers for the recycled water to be stored until it is ready to be used for home consumption.

The real key to a sustainable drought-proof water future lies underground. Though we can’t see them, the groundwater aquifers managed by WRD are immense natural reserves — currently with empty storage space of almost 150 billion gallons. Using this space to capture and store water supplies — recycled and rain/stormwater runoff — is cheaper and requires less energy and infrastructure than imported water.

In addition, WRD’s WIN 4 All program

includes: • Building a groundwater desalter facility to clean up a giant plume of unuseable brackish water beneath the South Bay. Desalination will make this water available for home consumption.

• Assist water producers to build additional wells to extract the new recycled water from WRD’s aquifers and supply to their customers.

• Provide funding to water agency partners, whose wells have been contaminated by industrial pollution and fire retardants, for wellhead treatment so the contaminated water can be cleaned and made potable again.

As climate change and water shortages continue to disrupt our norms, WRD is committed to strong regional partnerships and innovative projects that continue to ensure that our Southern California water agencies — despite climate change and drought — can continue to provide their customers with a safe and reliable supply of water.

unique human being. She also was a woman. She had integrity, courage, brilliance, tenacity, humility, intelligence and was driven by factual analysis, and context that drove her perspective in the name of justice for her clients, her country, for the judicial arena and process we evolved to, and most of all, she knew no men are free unless women are equal without litigious, economic, or structural limitation.

She was amazing and unfortunately rare. She left an abyss that many don’t yet understand. She will be and is already missed.

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Confirming Justice Barrett eight days before Election Day is hypocritical and it is wrong for the American people.

Instead of voting on a COVID relief plan to help Americans through this crisis, the Senate voted to confirm a justice who will vote to end the Affordable Care Act, take away health care from more than 20 million Americans, and threaten the coverage of 133 million Americans with preexisting medical conditions.

Tonight, on the floor of the Senate, several Republican senators made clear they believe Justice Barrett will roll back a women’s right to choose.

After tonight’s vote, our healthcare, our reproductive rights, our environment, our voting rights and, potentially, the fair outcome of this election are at risk.

Justice Barrett wouldn’t say whether she believes the president

can single-handedly postpone an election, whether voter discrimination exists or whether climate change is real, but President Trump and the Senate Republicans rushed her confirmation through in record time. It is shameful and wrong – and the American people will suffer as a result.

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teaching, religious, cultural teaching, preschool through college, is often not factual. The United States historically was formed by individuals who came from Spain, France, and England where they brought their ideas and culture and power ideology and values. There were ruling classes, caste systems, racism, religious prejudice, and gender bias, to say this politely. Native and Indigenous People, Africans, Irish Catholics, and indentured white men were enslaved, some released into chattel slavery through boat transportation from Europe forced into slavery, poverty and ghettos as the wealthy men established their system and governance.

In the USA, our Judicial, Political, Economic, Electoral, and Legislative system developed from all these interlocked ideologies and practices linked together as needed by the ruling classes with their power structure to succeed and enforce their values and ideology.

For the majority, change to a more democratic life was next to impossible. The Civil War in the U.S. was not only about race, it was about the economy. In the USA voting was an economic activity, it still is.

In the USA, women were not allowed to vote. The concept of divide and conquer was well established by the powers to be.

Choices were made by men with power in government, factories, and at home, in labor unions and in the court systems.

It was from these roots that our constitution evolved. Women were not allowed to work in certain jobs because these jobs were “ a man’s job.” Women were devalued as humans, as citizens, as workers, as decision makers. What prevailed were elected and appointed by the male gender to successfully carry their culture and power structure.

Women were subordinate in every aspect of life in the USA and elsewhere in the world, even today.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a

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“very fine people” who should “stand back and stand by.” Stand by for what? To be arrested?

Demented Donald has even publicly demanded “that woman” Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer turn over control of the state of Michigan to racist right-wing, pro-Trump terrorists who at traitor Trump’s beckoning were illegally attempting to “liberate Michigan” by kidnapping and assassinating

our probable future president Gretchen Whitmer.

And all the while Jim Jones Trump the plump chump is threatening to steal another presidential election by using the neo-Nazi Proud Boys, the newConfederate Boogaloo Boys, and the Michigan militia morons as his own personal goofy Gestapo goon squad.

Too bad for obese Orange Hitler and his inbred, incestuous insurrectionists, but once state and

federal law enforcement agencies are through with these fascists they might as well start calling themselves “The Rent Boys” upon their arrival at prison.

Liberate Washington! Liberate the U.S. Senate and White House from Republican/ Russian control.

Do not stand back! Do not stand by! Vote for Biden-Harris on Nov. 3 (or before). Just do it.

And please send your campaign contributions to the Michigan Democratic Party at ActBlue.com. Give generously.

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Banning’s Landing is a Port of Los Angeles facility operated by Friends of Bannng’s Landing

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[Coastal NC, from p. 3]

Coastal NC Opposes Development categorical exemption from CEQA. In addition, Rudisill said that the CEQA exemption should be denied because the developer is piecemealing by not having the impact of this project considered with its other project at 1309-1331 S. Pacific Ave, about half a mile away.

“They’ve got two projects in the Pacific corridor, and they are not looking at the cumulative impacts of both,” Rudisill said.

Lonner said this is because neither project has an environmental impact based on technical studies and the thresholds of significance. She argued this means there would be no cumulative impacts to consider.

“It should also be said that these projects are implemented separately and operated independently which is another factor [that] would rule out piecemealing,” Lonner said.

Lonner also said that tandem spaces must be considered per unit, but that the city does not require the other spaces to be bundled with the units. In addition, she expressed pride in the design of the building.

“The idea of the building was to create a coastal design while also introducing a unique art piece and welcome feature,” Lonner said.

Noel Gould, member of the council, said that the council has not received any support on this from Councilman Joe Buscaino. The council had a Zoom meeting with Buscaino’s office after fighting to get them to meet with the community and voiced its complaints about the project.

“The councilman supports this developer basically carte blanche, everything that they’re asking for,” Gould said.

Gould said that Buscaino and his office support developers despite the concerns that the council raises against them.

“Basically the line that they give at the city hearings is, ‘While we appreciate the community’s concerns, we feel that the need for this project outweighs them,’” Gould said.

Louis Dominguez, a member of the council, said that this is a problem citywide.

“The city has decided that they need to build more units for more people because we’re getting overcrowded,” Dominguez said. “Which is true in a way, but [at] the same time it tends to be destroying older neighborhoods.”

Dominguez pointed to downtown San Pedro as an example where high-rise apartment buildings and condos are being built that are even more expensive than market rate.

Lonner said that the developer strongly agrees with the need for affordable housing, but said that adding 24 units of affordable housing — which the council requested — would prevent the project from going forward.

“The end result of adding 24 units of affordability would be that this project would be infeasible and, therefore, a net creation of zero units either market rate or affordable,” Lonner said.

Gould said the council needs to take a strong stand against this project.

“This and the other one at 1309 Pacific are dominoes that are being set up to put 45 and a half foot tall, under parked, giant apartment buildings that are basically all market rate, along the entire stretch of Pacific Avenue to Point Fermin,” Gould said.

The council also voted 11-0 to recommend that the city widen the street at the intersection of 22nd Street and Pacific Avenue if the project is approved. The council requested this because the project would lead to poor traffic conditions, and an unsafe bus turning radius, Rudisill said.

Gould has already had a car accident at this intersection, however this was in 1998, long before the project was proposed.

Representatives from Buscaino did not respond in time for the deadline of this story.

[Exide, from p. 2]

Exide Slides on Clean-up Lead is a neurotoxin, and there is no level that is considered safe in humans. Lead poisoning can impact children’s growth, learning and behavior, and there are no obvious symptoms or signs.

In 2019, the journal Environmental Science & Technology reported that its study on lead in Vernon showed something horrifying.

“Fifty baby teeth collected from 43 children within a 1.7-mile radius of the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon all tested positive for lead.”

The results showed lead entered while babies were still developing inside their mothers’ wombs. Communities with the highest level of soil contamination — Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles — were also where children had the highest lead levels in their teeth, the researchers said.

“Higher lead in teeth means higher lead in the brain, kidney and bones,” lead author Jill Johnston with USC’s Keck School of Medicine said in a statement. “Testing women for lead during pregnancy, or even earlier, as they enter child-bearing age, may be needed to decrease lead exposure to their future offspring.”

Experts believe as many as 10,000 properties and up to 100,000 people in the area could have poisonous lead in their soil. Four-thousand-seven-

hundred properties have been tested and need remediation. California has already put in $200 million. The communities are more than 90% Latinx.

Jay Strickler from Washington opened the hearing on behalf of the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency.

“Exide has operated a lead battery plant in Vernon for decades and in May 2020, filed for bankruptcy despite a valuation of $1.1 billion,” Strickler said.

Exide Technologies previously filed for bankruptcy in 2002.

Strickler said that the proposed settlement, backed by the DOJ and the EPA would, “reduce chaotic abandonment. Exide will transfer the Vernon facility and 16 others to an environmental trust. Clean-up would occur, to the extent possible with $25 million total from the company.”

The Vernon site would receive $2.6 million for clean-up measures. It would not be abandoned, but put in a trust. If certain certain conditions were not met, it would then open the possibility of abandonment … but the state would receive $26 million.

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A pause in the action

Ray Carofano and his wife Arnée own and work out of Gallery 478, on Seventh Street near Pacific Avenue. For the past several years, and especially during the San Pedro Art Walks — remember those? — anyone from the merely curious to the connoisseur who wandered into the gallery would almost always single out the wall where Carofano

has been displaying some 40 images from his Faces of Pedro series (images which he rotates periodically).

It’s been the Rembrandt in the room, so to speak, the parts congregated into the whole that was for many the highlight of their initial visit. People would regularly comment on them, perhaps compliment them is a better word, but Carofano reveals that nobody has ever laid out a few bucks in order to buy one.

“There’s a reason behind that,” he said. “When you look at the faces, a lot of them are a little spooky and I can’t imagine somebody bringing one home and hanging it up in their bedroom or even over their sofa.”

But to own a book or a portfolio of these images?

Well, yes; people have responded positively to that idea.

Now, they’ll have a chance to respond with their billfolds. However, if it wasn’t for the pandemic, it’s likely we’d still be talking about the prospect of a publication rather than the volume itself.

“You’re not bringing people in here who we don’t know,” Arnée made clear.

So, the indoor photography came to a sudden stop. Theaters call this “the great intermission” and for Carofano, as for many artists of whatever medium, blocks of time became available that simply weren’t there before. And thus, Carofano was presented with a [See Faces, p. 14]

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by that point in life, nature has already scraped away some of our initial, rosy-hued beauty and begun laying in the wrinkles, the gray hairs and the liver spots that will make us almost as generic at 80 as we were as infants.

That’s not to suggest that this is a collection of unattractive people. And what do we mean by “unattractive” anyway? These are, rather, weathered faces, some a great deal more than others, but what draws us to these portraits — apart from the exquisite use of the camera and Carofano’s skillful lighting — is that each visage seems to convey a life story, a short autobiography in code.

“If you look at somebody’s legs or arms it doesn’t really tell you anything about the person,” Carofano said. “But the face. We can look at somebody and go, That guy looks like a toughie or looks like a nice guy or a nice lady. Looks tell you a story (although) it might be wrong in certain areas.

Still, you’re going to find out the most about that individual probably by looking at them closely.”

ay Carofano has pointed out different subjects in Faces of Pedro, his most recent publication, which highlights 56 black-and-white images of San Pedro’s denizens, past and present.

“It’s not really about the homeless, although there’s a number of them in the book because they’re in town here and I find them interesting, interesting in their lifestyles and what they’ve gone through and how they’ve survived,” Carofano said.

Carofano began this series in 1998.

“Shortly after moving to San Pedro, I became aware of the many different cultures and interesting people surrounding me,” he noted elsewhere. “I befriended many of the locals here and began taking photographs of them in my studio, sometimes long after the bars have closed.”

It should be clear by now that Carofano hadn’t set his sights on high school cheerleaders, gym rats or ballerinas.

Coco Chanel has been quoted as saying, “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it’s up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”

Speaking of 50, it turns out that 39 of the subjects depicted in Faces of Pedro have crossed that rubicon, with 18 of them younger.

“A lot of these people look older than they really are,” Carofano pointed out.

He added that the median age is about 60. Of course,

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Photographer Ray Carofano in front of his wall of portraits of local San Pedrans taken over the years.

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he West Harbor development — the project for the former site of San Pedro’s Ports O’ Call that was initially named San Pedro Public Market — brings Gladstone’s in as the new anchor tenant. The new name and project is moving along well, despite a period of stagnation.

Back in pre-COVID times, through 2019 and after demolition of the original quaint village, except for the San Pedro Fish Market, no one knew exactly what tenants and what kind of layout the new site on the Waterfront would bring.

Slated to open in 2022, the West Harbor project has begun lining up occupants — including a yet-to-be named concept from Greg Morena of Pappy’s Seafood, formerly located on 6th Street in San Pedro. Robert Bell of the recently closed Chez Melange in Redondo Beach will also open a now unnamed establishment. A brewery and beer garden are also in the works with information to come.

As with all Gladstone’s, its trademark views of the water remain consistent. The West Harbor location shares the same owners as the 16-year-old Long Beach location — as opposed to the original iconic Gladstone’s built in 1972 at the end of Sunset Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, owned by former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. After 50 years that location had structural issues and has now undergone changes to form a new project designed by Frank Gehry and to be operated by Wolfgang Puck.

When completed, San Pedro’s West Harbor will provide nearly 35,000 square feet of waterfront dining space. The venue

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A rendering of the West Harbor project (formerly known as the San Pedro Public Market). Courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles

will include shopping, fresh markets, office space, a waterfront promenade, a 6,200-seat amphitheater for live entertainment, a dockside area for incoming cruises and water taxis as well as the AltaSea marine research facility.

Construction is scheduled to begin this year at a cost of $53.7 million. The developers, The

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Some worry about displacement as a result of gentrification and an influx of tourism.

Port town residents lambasted the loss of the 57-year-old Ports O’ Call Restaurant, which was forced out in 2018. It had all of the same offerings as Gladstone’s, sans the name recognition. But the restaurant more than made up for that with its longtime support in hosting local musical talent. Indeed, a reciprocal relationship was enjoyed for many years between the community and the restaurant that they had grown attached to.

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Still Trending is a where-are-they-now follow-up with emerging artists. This group exhibition will be presented online at pvartcenter. org. PVAC’s Annual Alpay Scholarship University Student Juried Exhibition, Now Trending, is open for entry to art students attending Southern California universities and provides recognition and financial assistance to young artists at the beginning of their careers.

This virtual celebration of emerging artists showcases wall art, performance, installation, sculpture, and multimedia. Due to COVID-19 health concerns in 2020, Still Trending replaces Now Trending this year and presents six artists who have previously won scholarships or received honorable mention. They are Giselle Daneshmand (2019), Joshua Ross (2018), Joshua Smith (2017), Narsiso Martinez (2016), Janet Dandridge (2016), and Ranee Henderson (2014).

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In an abundance of caution, Studio 345, which shows the works of Pat Woolley and Gloria D. Lee will be closed for First Thursdays until further notice. 345 W. 7th St., San Pedro.

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It’s not fake; it’s the real McCoy; it’s what that person looks like when they’re having a conversation.”

Early on, Carafano often reveled in the stories he heard, but he didn’t write them down.

“Then I bought a pocket recorder, and we’d sit around and talk, either before or after [a shooting session],” he said.

Later he began video recording, which further documented the occasion.

“When I photograph you that means you’re going to be around for a long, long time,” he explained to them. “Long after you’re gone and I’m gone you’re still going to be around.”

And I believe the new volume will back him up on that!

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Faces

golden opportunity — although who doesn’t wish these opportunities didn’t have to come at such a great economic cost to the entire country.

Don’t hold that pose

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Some people may ask, “Where does Carofano find his subjects?”

After all, these men and women tend to have distinctive facial features that for better or worse elude the normal person.

In years past, Carofano found many of them hanging out in the neighborhood or in San Pedro’s dive bars. He’s always been affable and he’d strike up conversations with the regulars, many of whom met his criteria, people whose faces revealed or suggested a story.

“That worked out pretty well in the old days,” he said.

In more recent years, during his walks or his bicycling around town, he’d spot folks out on the streets or he’d skirt the homeless camps.

“I can find people there or talk to them,” he said.

And, that led to additional subjects for his portfolio.

“If they’re homeless I usually offer them some money to help them out, and it helps me out, too,” he said.

Back in the studio, the lighting setup would already be in place if Carofano was expecting to shoot and it’s a process that takes him a few hours to get just right.

“If you look closely on the floor there [are] little circles that tell me where the light’s going

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to be, where the diffusion’s going to be,” he said. “I’ve got it all written down, the power of each strobe, it’s all set up. I have a piece of tape on the floor and I like them to stand on that position because I don’t hold the camera, it’s on a (tripod).”

As for getting a “pose,” Carofano said that he doesn’t really tell them what to do, but it’s evident that he wants them to be natural and relaxed and then engages them in conversation.

What he’s looking for is a candid shot and not one where someone has put on their best but artificial smile. “When you look at some of those faces, somebody’s got their mouth open because they’re talking to me and I’m talking to them, and the camera’s rolling while we’re doing that,” he explained. “I like that look;

Photographs from Ray Carfano’s new book, Faces of Pedro.

The final touch

The effectiveness of the portraits resides in the detail, the veritable landscape, of each face along with the tonality and the lighting that enhances it all. Of course, as Ron Linden writes in his introduction to the book, it’s also a collaboration between photographer and subject.

Linden refers to it as a negotiation, with “the

photographer searching for the essence that words can’t describe.” It’s there, we all have an essence and if you want to liken Carofano to a miner he’s chipping away until he finds the diamond in the rough. Maybe it’s taken 20, 30, or 40 clicks of the shutter, but find it he does and the conclusive proof is now waiting, between the covers, for everyone who ever admired them on the wall, but never wanted one above their sofa.

Faces of Pedro by Ray Carofano, hardbound with 57 images on premium paper is $60.

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Skin Deep: Then and Now The mission of the show which originally opened Oct. 23, 2010 was to address race relations between black and white people through the arts. The exhibition runs through Jan. 12, 2021.

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Meet at the San Pedro Farmers Market, New Location Shop the market and help it grow. All physical distancing protocols will be observed. Face coverings are required.

Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m Fridays Location: 639 S. Beacon St., San Pedro

Calling All LA County First through 12th Grade Students The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts invites Los Angeles County students in grades 1 through 12 to help name the Clearwater Project tunnel boring machine before it starts its quiet journey to build a new tunnel that will protect local waterways. Clearwater also needs help to decorate the machine with artwork.

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Trick or Treating at Crafted On Halloween, there will be trick or treating available through the market.

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Time: 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31

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Secular Día de los Muertos Nontheist Hispanics and others view the secular Day of the Dead as a way to remember the legacy of dead loved ones that does not require prayer, church, or religious dogma. The Zoom event will include many redesigned and religion-free Hispanic traditions and rituals that celebrate life, legacies and cultural heritage.

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Notice of Hearing: Date: 11/20/2020, Time: 8:30 a.m., Dept.: 27, Room: -The address of the court is 275 Magnolia, Long Beach, CA 90802 Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Journal Date: October 05, 2020 Mark C. Kim Judge of the Superior Court 10/23,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 202128710 The following person is doing business as: BIGEYE VIRTUAL, 905 Friendship Park Drive, San Pedro, CA 90732, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Ryan Alan White, 905 Friendship Park Drive, San Pedro, CA 90732. This Business is conducted by an Individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 07/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/.

Ryan Alan White,owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 08/25/20. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except

as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 09/17/20, 10/01/20, 10/15/20, 10/29/20

PUBLIC SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell Miscellaneous business and/ or personal property described below to enforce a Lien Imposed on said property pursuant to section 21700-21716 of the business & professions code, section 2328 of the UCC, section 535 of

the Penal code and provisions of the Civil Code. The undersigned will sell items at a public sale by competitive bidding on the 9th day of November 2020 at 9:00 am on the premises where said property has been stored and which are located at Plaza Self Storage, 630 S. Pacific Ave. (on the corner of 7th and pacific), San Pedro, Ca. County of Los Angeles, State of California. Most of these units have household items and other miscellaneous items. The following: Phyllis Turner #31; Carolina Haasjes #148; Richard Flores #104; Joyce Bradford #272; Annette Aguilar #119; Kenneth Washington #9; Evans Hawes #187; Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase in cash only. All purchased items are sold as is and must be removed at the time of sale.

Sale is administered by James O’Brien’s Auction Services, Bond number 14663730099, phone number (909) 681-4113.

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“For the Birds”­— multi-tasking for the “modern Stone Age family. © 2020 MATT JONES, Jonesin’ Crosswords

10/30, 11/6, 11/13/20

PERSONALS Well-to-do lady seeks a good man age 62 to 80 to travel and have a good life with. I’ll pay my own expenses, you pay yours. (310) 684-1448.

For answers go to: www.randomlengthsnews.com

JOBS

PETS PEDRO PET PALS is the only group that raises funds for the City Animal Shelter and FREE vaccines and spay or neuter for our community.

310-991-0012.

ACROSS

1 Drains, as energy 5 R&B singer Cantrell 8 Cause counterpart 14 Jog like a horse 15 Presidential monogram during the 1960s 16 “Starlight Express” director Nunn 17 Gigantic bird with a stone passenger cabin 19 Item with an image-chiseling bird 20 Suffix for McCarthy 21 With a tilde, “year”; without, something nastier 22 Darkness and obscurity 23 Musical item using a pointybeaked bird 28 Eye color location 29 Birds on a ranch Down Under 30 Word after tight or rear 33 “Ad ___ per aspera” (Kansas state motto) 35 PBS kids’ show that taught Ubby-Dubby 36 Fortune 500 member, most likely 37 Signaling item, when the bird’s tail is pulled 39 Motorist’s signal, when the bird is squeezed 42 Parisian street 43 Annoying “Sesame Street”

muppet 45 “Biography” network 46 “Abso-friggin-lutely!”

47 Mother of all, in Greek mythology 48 Other, to Osvaldo 49 Garden tool, when the bird’s legs are squeezed 53 “The Heat ___” 55 Dig in 56 Pension plan alternative 57 Writing implement using a bird’s beak 59 Talking bird flying back and forth between stone boxes 61 Cover for a platter 62 “Little piggy,” really 63 “___ but known ...”

64 Tousles, like a puppy 65 AMA members 66 Corrida cheers

DOWN

1 It’s made to step on 2 Obey Viagra?

3 San Francisco and New Orleans, for two 4 Frequent NASCAR sponsor 5 Uses an iron, maybe 6 Quick stretch in the alphabet song 7 Article written by Voltaire?

8 List-ending abbr.

9 Web design option that’s obsolete 10 Thighbone 11 “The Greatest Story ___ Told” 12 Stopper for the bubbly

13 Singing syllable 18 Cowboy’s rope 24 Hockey great Bobby and family 25 Summer sign 26 Service station owned by BP 27 Arizona City, today 30 Cost-friendly 31 Bookish type 32 Cooked to perfection 33 Off-kilter 34 Elisabeth of “Leaving Las Vegas” 35 Woody Allen “regular guy in famous situations” movie 38 Old paint additive 40 Ostrich or kiwi, e.g.

41 “First Do No ___” (Meryl Streep TV film) 44 Sallie ___ (student loan provider) 47 Site of a 1949 European “Convention” 48 Takes to the soapbox 49 Wishes 50 Carreras, Domingo, or Pavarotti 51 Etch away 52 Harold of “Ghostbusters” 53 “To Live and Die ___” 54 Twist, as statistics 57 AOL or MSN, e.g., once ...

58 ... and where to find them 59 “___ be my pleasure!”

60 Sorority letter

LEGAL & DBA FILINGS [from p. 16]

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NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, Bids for the following Work: PIER G WHARF IMPROVEMENTS at LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S2562 Bid Deadline:

cost, from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal website. Bidders must first register as a vendor on the Port of Long Beach PB System website in order to view and download the Contract Documents, to be added to the prospective bidders list, and to receive addendum notifications when issued.

For the link to the Port of Long Beach PB System and for information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at www.polb.com/busi-

Prior to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 8, 2020.

Bids shall be submitted electronically via the Port of Long Beach PlanetBids (PB) System prior to 2:00 p.m.

Bid Opening:

Electronic Bid (eBid) results shall be viewable online in the PB System immediately after the Bid Deadline.

Contract Documents Available:

Download Contract Documents from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal: www.polb.com/sbe Click on the POLB Vendor Portal 1. Register and Log In 2. Click “Bid Opportunities” 3. Double-click on respective bid Project Title 4. Click on Document/Attachments tab 5. Double-Click on Title of Electronic Attachment 6. Click “Download Now” 7. Repeat for each attachment For assistance in downloading these documents please contact Port of Long Beach Plans and Specs Desk at 562-283-7353.

Pre-Bid Meeting:

None.

Project Contact Person:

Sunny Zia, Sunny.Zia@polb.com

Please refer to the Port of Long Beach PB System for the most current information.

NIB -1 Contract Documents. Contract Documents may be downloaded, at no

ness/business-opportunities.

Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, SBE/ VSBE Program forms, Harbor Development Permit Applications and other Port forms are available at www. polb.com/business/permits.

NIB -3 Pre-Bid Meeting and Site Visit. There will not be a pre-bid meeting or site visit for this project. Site

NIB -5 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Contractor shall achieve Substantial Completion of Work within 540 calendar days and Affidavit of Final Completion of the Project within 645 calendar days as provided in Paragraph SC - 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed” issued by the City and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8.2 of the General Conditions. FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES SET FORTH IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ENGINEER’S APPROVAL OF AFFIDAVIT OF FINAL COMPLETION, WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS. NIB -6 Contractor’s License. The Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class “A”, California Contractor’s License to construct this project.

NIB -7 Contractor Performed Work. The Contractor shall perform, with its own employees, Contract Work amounting to at least 30% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract. The amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. “Specialty Items” will be identified by the City on the Schedule of Bid Items. The bid price of any materials or equipment rental costs from vendors who are solely furnishing materials or rental equipment and are not performing Work as a licensed subcontractor on this project shall also be deducted

NIB -8 SBE/VSBE. This project is subject to the Port of Long Beach (POLB) Small Business Enterprises (SBE)/ Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program.

The combined SBE/VSBE participation goal for this project is twenty-seven percent (27%) of total bid value. The combined SBE/VSBE participation goal shall include a minimum of five percent (5%) of total bid value as VSBE. POLB expects all Bidders to achieve the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal.

Award of the Contract will be conditioned on the Bidder submitting an SBE-2C Commitment Plan demonstrating the Bidder’s intent to meet the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. If the Bidder’s Commitment Plan does not demonstrate intent to meet the combined goal, the Bidder shall demonstrate that it made an adequate good faith effort to do so, as specified in the Instructions to Bidders. The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide information on the program requirements, including SBE certification assistance. Please contact the SBE Office at (562) 283-7598 or sbeprogram@polb.com.

You may also view the Port’s SBE program requirements at www.polb.com/sbe.

NIB -9 Prevailing Wage Requirements per Department of Industrial Relations. This Project is a public work Contract as defined in Labor Code Section 1720.

The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract. The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www. dir.ca.gov/dlsr/DPreWageDetermination.htm and on file at the City, available upon request. Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices.

This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

No Contractor or Subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 (with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1(a)). No Contractor or Subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5.

NIB -10 P r o j e c t L a b o r Agreement. This project is subject to the requirements

of a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), included as Appendix AA. The Contractor and all tier subcontractors must sign a Letter of Assent before commencement of construction and be bound by each and every provision of the PLA, including, but not limited to: payment of prevailing wages; payment of fringe benefit contributions to union trust funds on behalf of workers; use of union hiring halls as a source for workers; follow alternating referral procedures if employing Core Workers; and Local, Disadvantaged, and Veteran worker utilization goals.

Per the Department of Industrial Relations, projects covered by a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) are exempt from the requirement to submit electronic CPRs directly to the Labor Commissioner’s Office. In lieu, the Contractor and all Subcontractors will be required to submit electronic or hardcopies of CPRs and labor compliance documentation to the Port of Long Beach.

NIB -11 Tr a d e N a m e s and Substitution of Equals.

With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the non-specified item is of equal quality to the item specified, no later than fourteen (14) calendar days after City’s issuance of Notice to Proceed (NTP). Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City.

The Board of Harbor Commissioners made a finding on October 12, 2020, that the following items be sole sourced in compliance with Public Contract Code Section 3400, for the purpose of maintaining compatibility with existing structures and systems.

(1) Technical Specification Section 26 27 29, “Shore Power Outlet and Enclo- sure” for Shore Power

Outlet and Enclosure (Cavotech); and (2) Technical Specification Section 41 22 16.13, “Crane Collector System” for Crane Bus Collector System (Conductix- Wampfler, Inc., previ- ously known as Insul-8 Coorporation).

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NIB -13 B i d S e c u r i t y, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor

Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. All Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City.

NIB -14 C o n d i t i o n a l Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights. The Board, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity.

The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder.

NIB -15 Period of Bid Irrevocability. Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds and other acceptable Bid Security shall be guaranteed and valid for ninety (90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first.

NIB -16 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code.

NIB -17 I r a n C o n tracting Act of 2010. In accordance with Public Contract Code sections 2200-2208, every person who submits a bid or proposal for entering into or renewing contracts with the City for goods or services estimated at $1,000,000 or more are required to complete, sign, and submit the “Iran Contracting Act of 2010 Compliance Affidavit.”

Issued at Long Beach, California, this 12 day of October, 2020.

Mario Cordero, Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California Note: For project updates after Bid Opening, please contact plans.specs@polb. com.

DBAs $ 140 Filing & Publishing

310-519-1442

October 29 - November 11, 2020

Questions must be submitted electronically through the PB System. Emails, phone calls, and faxes will not be accepted. Questions submitted to City staff will not be addressed and Bidder will be directed to the PB System.

NIB -4 Summary Description of the Work. The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: Demolish and dispose of existing portions of wharf structures at the southern end of Berth G235, construct approximately 250 feet concrete wharf extension to western side of G236 including dredging and constructing rock dike, driving piles and installing crane rails and other wharf components, and construct new back land area with utilities and pavement. See Section 01 11 00, Summary of Work in the Technical Specifications.

from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees.

NIB -2 Pre-Bid Questions.

All questions, including requests for interpretation or correction, or comments regarding the Contract Documents, must be submitted no later than December 1, 2020, at 5 p.m. Questions received after the pre-Bid question deadline will not be accepted.

images are provided with the documents for reference. Any site photographs, videos, or maps included in the Contract Documents do not constitute a complete visual depiction of the site and should neither be considered nor are warranted as such. The City makes no guarantee that existing construction and site conditions matches construction depicted on record reference documents. It shall be the Bidder’s responsibility to identify existing conditions. Note that downloading the photo images document(s) can be used to satisfy a portion of a Bidder’s good faith efforts to meet the SBE/VSBE participation goals listed below.

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Attachment 3 NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PURCHASE REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that it is the intention of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, to purchase the following described Real Property, located in Los Angeles County, State of California, from the named vendors at the designated prices. It is the intent of the County to use the Real Property to provide housing units for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness.

Property: Holiday Inn Long Beach Assessor’s Parcel Number(s): 7274-001-047 The property consists of approximately 0.97 acres, located at 1133 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90813.

SELLER: Texas Hotels Inc. a Texas Corporation PRICE: $20,500,000 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the purchase of the Real Property described above will be consummated by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, on October 27 th , 2020, at 9:30 a.m. at the regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

Please note that due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the County’s Safer at Home Order, a virtual public hearing may be held. The Los Angeles County facilities may still be closed to the public at this time. Please visit http://bos. lacounty.gov/Board-Meeting/ Board-Agendas for details on how to listen to the virtual meeting and/or address the Board. No obligation will arise against the County and in favor of the Sellers with respect to the purchase of the Real Property described herein until the Board of Supervisors approves the purchase on the named consummation date.

CELIA ZAVALA, Executive Officer Board of Supervisors, County of Los Angeles.

APPROVED AS TO FORM: MARY C. WICKHAM County Counsel 10/22, 10/29, 11/5/20 CNS-3406894#

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LEGAL & DBA FILINGS ORDINANCE NO. 20-2017 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 3708.1 (FACE MASKS AND COVERINGS RELATED TO COVID-19) TO CHAPTER 7 ( E M E R G E N C Y ORGANIZATION) OF ARTICLE III (PUBLIC SAFETY) OF THE CARSON MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING MANDATING FACE MASKS AND COVERINGS WITHIN CITY OF CARSON GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES DURING COVID-19 EMERGENCY PERIOD WHEREAS, on March 17, 2020, the Carson City Council through Resolution No. 20-053 proclaimed the existence of a local emergency in response to COVID-19; and

October 29 - November 11, 2020

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WHEREAS, the Governor, the State Public Health Officer, the Los Angeles County Emergency Services Director, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the Los Angeles County Health Officer have promulgated and issued, and will reasonably continue to promulgate and issue, various orders, rules and regulations concerning the COVID-19 state of emergency that are applicable within the jurisdiction of the City of Carson (“Orders”), pursuant to State and County law, including but not limited to the California Emergency Services Act (Gov. Code §§ 8550 et seq.) and the California Public Health & Safety Code §§ 101029,120155,120275, 120295; and

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WHEREAS, in a short period of time, COVID-19 has rapidly spread throughout California, the County of Los Angeles, and the City of Carson (“City”), necessitating stringent public health emergency orders as well as guidance from federal, state and local authorities; and WHEREAS, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread rapidly within California, the County of Los Angeles, and the City, continues to present an immediate and significant risk to public health and safety, and can result in serious illness or death, especially to vulnerable populations, including the elderly and those with underlying health conditions; and W H E R E A S , heightened levels of public health and safety planning and preparedness have been necessitated in preparation for and response to confirmed cases of COVID-19 in

the County of Los Angeles, and rapid response not lending itself to otherwise applicable notice and approval timelines has been and will be necessary to respond to the rapidly evolving pandemic and to mitigate against the spread of COVID-19 and its resulting public health and safety impacts; and WHEREAS, in the absence of such actions, County wide health services may become overwhelmed and unable to keep up with medical demand for care and availability of hospital or care facility capacity; and WHEREAS, the health, safety and welfare of City residents, businesses, visitors and staff are of utmost importance to the City; and WHEREAS, Government Code § 8634 provides in part: “During a local emergency the governing body of a political subdivision, or officials designated thereby, may promulgate orders and regulations necessary to provide for the protection of life and property, including orders or regulations imposing a curfew within designated boundaries where necessary to preserve the public order and safety.

Such orders and regulations and amendments and rescissions thereof shall be in writing and shall be given widespread publicity and notice.”; and WHEREAS, CMC § 3705(A)(6) provides, in relevant part: “the Director [of Emergency Preparedness], or in the Director’s absence, the Assistant Director or other person so designated ... is hereby empowered: (i) To make and issue rules and regulations on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as affected by such emergency; provided, however, such rules and regulations must be confirmed at the earliest practicable time by the City Council.” Pursuant to CMC §3702, the Director of Emergency Preparedness is a member of the Carson Disaster Council; and WHEREAS, on April 2, 2020, after consideration of all facts reasonably available, the Carson Disaster Council issued an order to expressly mandate the use of face masks or coverings by residents and those who visit within the jurisdiction of the City, make the same enforceable within City jurisdiction, and impose a $1,000 fine for each violation; and WHEREAS, at the City Council meeting of April 7, 2020, the City Council reviewed the order of the Carson Disaster Council and entertained comments on the same from interested stakeholders, and as a consequence of such review, through Resolution No. 20-067, the City Council

ratified in part, amended in part, and rescinded in part, the aforementioned order of the Carson Disaster Council.

Specifically, without limitation, the City Council approved an amended version of the Disaster Council’s mandate for the use of face masks or coverings by residents and those who visit within the jurisdiction of the City, and rescinded the part of the Disaster Council order pertaining to imposition of a $1,000 fine for violation of the face mask or coverings mandate; and WHEREAS, now, based on the foregoing and in order to protect public health and safety, the City Council seeks to ordain and codify the face mask or coverings mandate that it approved by resolution during its April 7, 2020, meeting and, in connection therewith, to also ordain (and codify) that violations of said mandate shall constitute infractions subject to fines in accordance with Section 1200(b) of the Carson Municipal Code.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1.

RECITALS. The foregoing recitals are true and correct, and are incorporated herein as findings of fact.

SECTION 2. AMENDMENT. Section 3708.1 (Face Masks and Coverings Related to Covid-19) is hereby added to Chapter 7 (Emergency Organization) of Article III (Public Safety) of the Carson Municipal Code to read in its entirety as follows: “3708.1 (Face Masks and Coverings Re-lated to Covid-19). (a) The City Council hereby declares and deems to be an infraction under this Code any violation of the face mask or face coverings mandate approved by the Council during its April 7, 2020 meeting through Resolution No. 20-067, until such time that Resolution No. 20-053, which proclaimed the existence of a local emergency in response to COVID-19, is rescinded and the local emergency in response to COVID-19 no longer exists.

Upon such rescission, this Section 3708.1 shall sunset automatically and without any Council or other actions taken. The Council mandate provisions regarding face masks and coverings as adopted under Resolution No. 20-067, are set forth below: “All customers and visitors of grocery stores, water retailers, farm and produce stands, supermarkets, convenience stores, warehouse stores, food banks, certified farmers’ markets, laundromats, dry cleaners, and laundry service

providers, restaurants and retail food facilities that prepare and offer food to customers, hotels, motels and shared rental units, churches or places of worship, or visiting within the geographic boundaries of the City of Carson must wear face coverings which shall be of sufficient size to cover the nose and mouth of the wearer. Such face coverings need not be medical-grade masks or N95 respirators, but can be fabric coverings, such as scarves and bandanas. All reusable face coverings must be washed frequently (at least daily). Single-use face coverings must be properly discarded into trash receptacles.

All persons who work at businesses or perform services within the geographic boundaries of the City of Carson must wear face coverings which shall be of sufficient size to cover the nose and mouth of the wearer while performing their work. Such face coverings need not be medical-grade masks or N95 respirators, but can be fabric coverings, such as scarves and bandanas. All reusable face coverings must be washed frequently (at least daily). Single-use face coverings must be properly discarded into trash receptacles.

Each resident of, or visitor within, the geographic boundaries of the City of Carson shall, upon either entering the geographic boundaries of the City or upon leaving their domicile or place of residence and continuing until their return to the place of domicile or residence or the exiting the geographic boundaries of the City shall wear a face mask or covering which shall be of sufficient size to cover the nose and mouth of the wearer. Such face coverings need not be medical-grade masks or N95 respirators, but can be fabric coverings, such as scarves and bandanas. All reusable face coverings must be washed frequently (at least daily). Single-use face coverings must be properly discarded into trash receptacles.” (b) Notwithstanding Section 3709 of this Code, each and every violation of Subsection (a) constitutes an infraction and a separate and distinct offense, and fines shall be imposed in accordance with Section 1200(b) of this Code, the amounts for which are set forth below:

(i) A fine not exceeding $100.00 for a first violation; (ii) A fine not exceeding $200.00 for a second violation within one (1) year from the date of the first violation; and (iii) A fine not exceeding $500.00 for each additional violation within one (1) year from the date of the first violation.”

SECTION 3.

SEVER-

ABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.

The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,

sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof may be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after its adoption.

SECTION 5.

CERTIFICATION. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance, and shall cause the same to be posted and codified in the manner required by law.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council on this 20th day of October, 2020.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

CITY OF CARSON:

/s/ /s/ Sunny K. Soltani, City Attorney Albert Robles, Mayor ATTEST: /s/

Donesia Gause-Aldana, MMC, City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.

CITY OF CARSON ) I, Donesia Gause-Aldana, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, hereby attest to and certify that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance 20-2017 passed first reading on the 6th day of October, 2020, adopted by the Carson City Council at its meeting held on the 20th day of October, 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Robles, Dear, Davis-Holmes, Hilton, Hicks NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None RECUSED: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None /s/

Donesia Gause-Aldana, MMC, City Clerk ORDINANCE NO. 20-2015 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 5335 (FINES FOR VIOLATIONS RELATED TO LITTERING OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT) TO CHAPTER 3 (LITTER AND WEED CONTROL) OF ARTICLE V (SANITATION AND HEALTH) OF THE CARSON MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING INCREASED LITTERING FINES RELATED TO PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT WHEREAS, due to the worldwide pandemic of a novel respiratory illness known as COVID-19 that was first identified in December, 2019, there has been widespread use all over the world, including in the City of Carson (“City”), of Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to, gloves, facemasks, goggles and face shields (“PPE”), to guard against and minimize transmission of COVID-19; and WHEREAS, while the City has encouraged use of PPE among its residents, businesses and visitors alike, the increased use of PPE has resulted in increased instances of littering of PPE in and around the City; and WHEREAS, Chapter 3 (Litter and Weed Control)

of Article V (Sanitation and Health) of the City’s Municipal Code (“Littering Ordinance”) sets forth the regulations for and prohibitions against littering within the City, but without express provisions for fines in the event of any violations for littering, including littering of PPE; and WHEREAS, Section 1200 (“Section 1200”) of the City’s Municipal Code (“CMC”) provides that any person violating any provision or failing to comply with any mandatory requirement of the CMC expressly stated by the CMC to be an infraction, shall be guilty of an infraction, and subject to penalties; and WHEREAS, Section 1200 provides that the penalty amounts shall be as follows: (i) a fine not exceeding $100.00 for a first violation, (ii) a fine not exceeding $200.00 for a second violation within one (1) year from the date of the first violation, and (iii) a fine not exceeding $500.00 for each additional violation within one (1) year from the date of the first violation; and WHEREAS, the City Council now desires to increase the fines associated with violations of the Littering Ordinance where PPE has been littered so that the fine amounts for such violations do not exceed (i) $250.00 for the first violation, (ii) $350.00 for a second violation within one (1) year from the date

of the first violation, and (iii) $500.00 for each additional violation within one (1) year from the date of the first violation.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. RECITALS. The foregoing recitals are true and correct, and are incorporated herein as findings of fact.

SECTION 2. AMENDMENT. Section 5335 (Fines for Violations Related to Littering of Personal Protective Equipment) of Chapter 3 (Litter and Weed Control) of Article V (Sanitation and Health) of the Carson Municipal Code is hereby added as follows: “5335 Fines for Violations Related to Littering of Personal Protective Equipment.

Notwithstanding Section 1200 of the Carson Municipal Code and without limiting the applicability of Section 1200 to this Chapter, the following shall apply to violations of this Chapter where Personal Protective Equipment has been littered within the jurisdictional boundaries of the City:

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(a) Any person violating any provision of this Chapter where Personal Protective Equipment has been littered shall be deemed to have committed an infraction, and a fine shall be imposed and payable directly to the City. (b) ‘Personal Protective Equipment’ means protective clothing, helmets, gloves, face shields, goggles, facemasks and/or face coverings or other equipment designed, intended, used or worn to protect the wearer from injury or the spread of infection or illness. (c) Each and every violation of this Chapter where Personal Protective Equipment has been littered constitutes a separate and distinct offense. (d) Fines shall be assessed in the amounts specified as follows: (i) A fine not exceeding $250.00 for a first violation; (ii) A fine not exceeding $350.00 for a second violation within one (1) year from the date of the first violation; and

(iii) A fine not exceeding $500.00 for each additional violation within one (1) year from the date of the first violation.”

SECTION 3 SEVER-.

ABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.

The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof may be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after its adoption.

SECTION 5. CERTIFICATION. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance, and shall cause the same to be posted and codified in the manner required by law.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council on this 20th day of October, 2020.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

CITY OF CARSON:

/s /s/ Sunny K. Soltani, City Attorney Albert Robles, Mayor ATTEST:

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 3311 OF THE CARSON MUNICIPAL CODE TO INCREASE THE FINE AMOUNTS APPLICABLE TO INFRACTIONS FOR VIOLATIONS OF CARSON MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 3311 RELATED TO PREVENTION OF DOG EXCRETA NUISANCES WHEREAS, on December 16, 2014, in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the City’s residents and visitors, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 14-1545, adding Section 3311 to the Carson Municipal Code (“CMC”); and WHEREAS, CMC Section 3311(a) generally requires persons having control of animals in public places to remove and dispose of their animals’ feces, and subsection (b) requires such persons to have in their possession a suitable disposable bag or container for the purpose of doing so. These are the two substantive prohibitions of CMC Section 3311.

Subsection (d) of Section CMC 3311 provides an exception for blind persons accompanied by a trained guard dog. Subsection (e) of Section 3311 provides that any person violating CMC Section 3311(a) or (b) shall be deemed guilty of an infraction and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $100.00.

to defecate and to allow any such feces to remain on any public parkway, park or other public property, or on any property owned or occupied by a person other than the owner of the dog(s) or the person having charge, custody or control of the dog(s).

WHEREAS, based on the foregoing, the fine amounts currently applicable to infractions for violation of CMC Section 3311 are lower than the fine amounts generally applicable to infraction violations of the CMC pursuant to CMC Section 1200(b).

b) Any person having charge, custody or control of any dog(s), in a location other than on the property of such person or on the property of the owner of the animal(s), shall have in possession a suitable disposable bag or container for the purpose of complying with the requirements of this Section.

WHEREAS, increasing the fine amounts applicable to infractions for violation of CMC Section 3311 to the levels set forth in CMC Section 1200(b) will make the fines for violation of CMC Section 3311 consistent with the fines generally applicable to infraction violations of the CMC. Additionally, increasing the fine amounts for violation of CMC Section 3311 in this manner will help to deter violations of CMC Section 3311 and will improve the City’s ability to ensure and enforce compliance with CMC Section 3311 in order to protect and promote public health and safety.

Accordingly, the City Council sees fit to increase the fine amounts applicable to infractions for violation of CMC Section 3311 to make them equivalent to and otherwise consistent with the infraction fine provisions of CMC Section 1200(b).

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. RECITALS. The foregoing recitals are true and correct, and are incorporated herein as findings of fact.

SECTION 2. AMENDMENT. Section 3311 (Dog Control) of Chapter 3 (Pound Regulations) of Article III (Public Safety) of the Carson Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows: “3311 Dog Control. a) No owner or other person having charge, custody or control of any dog(s) shall permit, either willfully or through failure to exercise due care, any such dog(s)

competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.

The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof may be declared invalid or

c) For purposes of this Section, a “suitable disposable bag or container” shall not be considered to be an article of clothing. d) The provisions of this Section shall not apply to blind persons being accompanied by a trained guide dog. e) Any person violating any of the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this Section shall be deemed guilty of an infraction and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine in accordance with Section 1200(b) of this Code not to exceed $100.00.”

SECTION 3.

SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of

unconstitutional.

SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after its adoption.

SECTION 5.

CERTIFICATION. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance, and shall cause the same to be posted and codified in the manner required by law.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council on this 20th day of October, 2020.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

CITY OF CARSON:

/s/ /s/ Sunny K. Soltani, City Attorney Albert Robles, Mayor ATTEST: /s/ Donesia Gause-Aldana,

MMC, City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.

CITY OF CARSON ) I, Donesia Gause-Aldana, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, hereby attest to and certify that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance 20-2016 passed first reading on the 6th day of October, 2020, adopted by the Carson City Council at its meeting held on the 20th day of October, 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Robles, Dear,

Davis-Holmes, Hilton, Hicks NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None RECUSED: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None /s/ Donesia Gause-Aldana, MMC, City Clerk

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WHEREAS, CMC Section 1200(b) establishes the fines generally applicable to violations of the provisions of the CMC that are expressly STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) stated to be infractions. CMC COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.

Section 1200(b) provides CITY OF CARSON ) that any person convicted of an infraction shall be I, Donesia Gause-Aldana, City Clerk of the City of punishable by: (1) a fine Carson, California, hereby attest to and certify that the not exceeding $100.00 for foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance 20-2015 passed th a first violation; (2) a fine first reading on the 6 day of October, 2020, adopted by not exceeding $200.00 for a the Carson City Council at its meeting held on the 20th day second violation of the same of October, 2020, by the following roll call vote: provision of the Code within one (1) year; and (3) a fine AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Robles, not exceeding $500.00 for Dear, Davis-Holmes, Hilton, Hicks each additional violation of NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None the same provision of the ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None CMC within one year. CMC ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None Section 1200(b) further RECUSED: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None provides that each person shall be guilty of a separate /s/ offense for each and every Donesia Gause-Aldana, MMC, City Clerk

day during any portion of which any violation of the CMC is committed, continued or permitted by such person, and that in addition to the infraction penalties, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any the CMC shall be deemed a public nuisance.

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