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Council approves fee increases

Compton A STEAMy summer in Compton Unified man charged The proposed resolution adds an additional placing too many upon the residents,” Lynn chise agreement for the utility. By Chris Frost $140,000 to the general fund. Council members opposed fees affecting resiBoone said. “Maybe someone should go over “The city has been subsidizing or covering these.” dents, including awith $50 jump in block party perUtility companies are exempt from any fee in- mits, and a handicap curb fee increase to $150 for COMPTON—The City Council unanimously street permit issuance and administration costs,” installation, then a $20 charge approved street work fee increases at its April 17 interim Public Works Director John Strickland creases because of a lawsuit between Edison and the pole sign andmurdering annually. Residential refuse bins were scheduled meeting, moving them beyond their current 1989 said. “The present fee schedule does not address Alhambra California in 2011. “The utility company had a franchise agree- to increase from $5 and $40 for small and large many types of street work permits issued and adlevels. his wife ment, and the city adopted an ordinance concur- bins, to $25 and $75, respectively. The city based its increase on inspection and ministered.” Bulletin Staff Writer

Public comments about the increases drew praise from residents hoping for increased revenue, but the group stood against raising fees affecting residents. “I know there should be increases, but you are

rent with the agreement,” City Attorney Craig Cornwell said. “The court found that interfering with the franchise agreement is unconstitutional.” Cornwell and Edison representatives created language in the agreement that preserves the fran-

“I am against gouging residents because of the Cat KenistonJanna Zurita. city’s negligence,”By Councilwoman A Compton manthepleaded “It is hard to ask for more money with condinot guilty Wednesday to murdering hisFEES, wifePage in the » See 9A family’s home. Luis Ernesto Villanueva, 39, is charged in Friday’s death of his wife, Grecia Veronica Ayala. Villanueva allegedly revealed his wife’s body in a comforter after telling her family -- who lived in a house at the front of the property -- to go to the back house the couple shared in the 12800 block of South Stoneacre Courtesy photos Avenue Friday, according Jasleene Zuniga (top left), a Laurel ES 4th grader, holds her “Doodle-Bot” which she designed and built. George Fuentes(top, right) loves the program because, “I get to hang out with my friends and I get to make my favorite robot.” to Deputy District Attorney Abigail Baron. The 30-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a hospital. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who responded to the scene “found By Chris Frost marks on her neck which Bulletin Staff Writer resembled ligature marks that correspond to a possible COMPTON—The City Council moved anstrangulation,” Deputy Grace through large swaths of the city and as electronically accessible law By Cat Keniston other step forward in the city manager search on Medrano said Friday. go, April the 27, The Los Angeles City Attorney’s county of Los Angeles and beyond,” enforcement records Tuesday, as Council members Willie A determination of the property has been theJones, location of Office Wednesday sued the owners the suit alleges. Janna Zurita and Yvonne Arceneaux incause ofduring the woman’s death The complaint names as “an unremitting streamterviewed of criminal of a South Los Angeles apartment five candidates a special meeting. violence has been deferred, according building, alleging it is a “crime defendants Bharati Mangu Rohit incidents involving guns, the coroner’s office’s Mayor Eric J.toPerrodin did not attend the hub” where LAPD cars have been and two companies, Rohit Villas and illegal drugs,” the suit states. website. meeting because of a conflict involving current Limited Partnership and Integrated A person was shot to death on a vandalized with threats to kill officers By Cat Keniston City Manager Bryan Batiste CounVillanueva wasandarrested after leaving and where a child jumped out of a Commuity Builders Inc. The suit nearby sidewalk in 2003interim The Board of Supervisors cilwoman Janna Zurita. by Los Angeles County asks that the property be declared a the building, and in 2016, a child inside window to avoid gunfire. reinstated a $10,000 reward Batiste took over for former interim City The Los Angeles Superior Court public nuisance and that Rohit and one of the units “jumped through his sheriff’s deputies early Friday Tuesday in hopes of identifying the Manager Lamontmorning Ewell on Jan. and 25. has remained incoming lawsuit targets a three-story, 16-unit representatives of the companies live bedroom window to escape“City gunman who fatally shot a 25-yearManagerbehind Bryan bars Batiste wrote a memo since then. at the location until the problems are gunfire,” the suit says. apartment building in the 100 block old aspiring pro basketball player in to City Attorney Craig Cornwell requesting that Bulletin photos by Chris Frost washerself ordered to inbe Witnesses have said they have ZuritaHe of East 120th Street in the Broadway- abated. Councilperson recuse from the Willowbrook in 2015. The Sibrie Park Braves practice throwing skills on Saturday, April 29. held in lieu of $2 million bail Representatives for the defendants seen a gang member on a stairway Manchester neighborhood. terview process,” Perrodin said in a written stateSupervisor Mark Ridleyawaiting histhe next court could not be immediately reached. holding an AK-47 rifle, according “The property is a crime hub for ment. “I will notwhile participate until Council Thomas recommended reappearance July 12. receives a written opinion from Cornwell about an active, violent criminal street gang All three have had ties to the property to the complaint, which says drug establishing the reward -- set to thewith disagreement. sales “go hand-in- hand gang ” If convicted as charged, he ... which is part of a much larger since the early 1990s, the suit states. expire July 2 -- in the death of Zurita said Batiste is only the years position could faceholding up to 25 to Since 2001, nearly as far back presence in many instances.” network of ... street gangs that ranges Wendell Lee, who was gunned until the Councillife finds a permanent city manin state prison, according down just before midnight on the ager. to the District Attorney’s evening of Sept. 21, 2015. “The Pg accusations that everyone is making » See APARTMENTS, 2 Office. He had been standing with a have no validity to them, and the Council will friend outside her house on Elva continue searching for a qualified candidate,” she said. “He knew going in this was only temAvenue, just north of 123rd Street. porary.” Lee, who grew up in the Gardena Cornwell said he cannot make Zurita recuse area, played college ball at Colorado herself. State University Pueblo on a full “Every Council member has the right to parscholarship. He was in town to try “Everything fromin Luke we Council have similar By John Rogers ticipate properlydifferences noticed City matByLucas Chris said Frosthis museum or in our nation’s history,” out for the Lakers minor league “D” just focus first light aspirations. The Force was with won’t ” he said. “According Bulletin Staff Writeron movies, said Councilman Curren Skywalker’s ters, to the charter, the city team. to USC, George Lucas on Tuesday however, but on the D. Price Jr., whose district sabre to Darth managerVader’s serves at theIn willaddition of the Council and “The dreams the Lee family history of narrative takes in theare park. helmet,” said the Museum of Narrative as the Los Angeles City entire short of a legally defined conflict of inCOMPTON—The Sibrie Park Braves continuing their costume andnothing held for their son dissipated that theasdays It will feature allits forms will be within close Council moved with light- storytelling, that precludes the member 2011 successfrom in 2012 the team has won four of first of five Bacigalupi. terest, a situation Art night when a car pulled up, a man from attending, or proximity a belief the to he or cannot cave painting to digital narrative storytelling, said The Lucas-Steven thesheNatural sabre speed to clear the way ofgames. got out from the driver’s-side rear exists, complying Mr. on Saturday, April 28, as their Spielberg be open-minded museum’s president, “Indiana History Museum with of Los for a $1.5 billion Museum film.The squad collected a forfeitthe Batiste’s wishes has no legal support. ” opponents, the Blue Jays, did not show up for the game. passenger door and shot Wendell “I realized that the Don Bacigalupi. He said its Jones” films also will be Angeles County, the of Narrative Art the “Star not step away fromCenter the inFormer San of Francisco Giantexhibits and current multiple times with an assaultconcept narrative will Assistant include Coach story represented. Zurita said she will California Science Wars” creator plans to whole terviews, and thanked for addressing Brewbeen led the team through a spirited practice and style rifle,” sheriff’s Deputy Lillian has Numerous and Cornwell the California African build down the road from artJesse the issue. praised the team’s fast start. Peck said when the reward was first f o r “They g o t t ehave n , ” surprised me so far,” he said. “I am especially i nCouncilwoman t e r a c t i v e American Museum. his alma mater. Arceneaux asked Cornwell announced. told by the p r ao written g r a mlegal s opinion Although Lucas’ After hearing from hepleased our play at shortstop and pitcher.” for directed to Council Lee tried to run but was struck for children, affection for USC is clear— Lucas himself, the council council. Brew coaches the defensive portion of the game and sticks members, and he said he will prepare one. by several rounds and collapsed in i t h film students, foundation have voted 14-0 to approve Public commentsheonand thehis selection process fatoW the fundamentals. a driveway. He was pronounced e s d keep a y ’ your s academics and given the school tens of an environmental T u “You vored Batiste. hands in front, step and aim at the chest of dead at St. Francis Medical Center “The will man does good job, Carolyn p p person r o v ayou l , are throwing to,” he said. “We have sound others be amillions of” resident dollars over the impact report and other a the in Lynwood. Stokes fire Batiste allonce of you have to fundamentals, are to but I know the team can do better.” offered.said. “If youyears—it was assumed requirements for the plans of you, of you.” in Oneground of the cornerstones of team success is positive attiThe suspect was described as Lwith u cme. a Not s just he’done put his all museum museum’s construction break George Lucas deal Shehe asked the Council if they understood her Brew said, and he—Filmmaker deals with problems immediately. a 20- to 28-year-old black man, Exposition said hopes his hometown of San adjacent to the University intudes, twice, and Arceneaux acknowledged her. “I am not a babysitter and do not tolerate hardheads, ” he 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10. He made Park, south of the museum Francisco. Or if not there, of Southern California. said. “This is serious, and I am teaching them about baseball.” Resident Lorraine Cervantes expressed conhis getaway in a silver 2003-2007 as early as this boards, costumes, props will serve as inspiration then his wife’s hometown of “For a very brief time I downtown, cern about the publicity the meeting received. The team is turning the corner offensively, Brew said, beSaturn Vue “Red Line” edition. A andofopen the hard museum ages, Chicago. actually grew up here,” said year “You guysbut kept this meeting quiet,” she said. cause diligent, work. and various other elements to people of all witness said two other men were in public in 2021. The that went into making especially to children, when and it it is came Lucas, who earned a degree to the “That is why no one is But here tonight, not “They started in the batting cage, but live pitching imthe car. says the will cost “Casablanca,” “The ball Wizard them to create time to clear away all the in film from USC. “That’s city television. ” proves the project hitters’ timing, ” he said. “We play small (scor- encouraging on Anyone with more information nothing because of “Oz” and otherruns). classicIf a better world. City Clerk Alita bureaucratic where I learned movies. taxpayers Godwin and Zurita hurdles, both reing runs with singles and doubles instead of home on the suspect was asked to call wife, Mellody films. Popular art, he said, like the notice upstartmet Rebel That’s where I learned my Lucas sponded, and issaidjust the meeting the they and stay his focused, those ground ball hits will turn into line sheriff’s Sgt. Chaffey Shepard at Hobson, are footing the bill. And, yes, there will be the glue that holds people Alliance in “Star Wars,” craft. Basically where I The Sibrie Park Braves take advantage of a forfeit on Saturday, BRAVES, Page 5Atogether, that teaches them it» See Pagethat 9A (323)April 890-5500 Crime Stoppers practice. “It is the largest private plenty »ofSee cool “Star Wars” wasMANAGER, Los Angeles started my career was in 28, andorhold an additional at (800) 222-TIPS (8477). gift in our city, in our state stuff there too. that while we may have prevailed. school here.” administrative costs it traditionally did not charge, then compared rates with other cities. “We compared our rates with Gardenia, Lynnwood and Torrance,” interim Public Works Director John Strickland said.

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