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Hunter, a six year old male Husky mix,
is doing great with his training skills, like
find it, recall, sit, and down. He’s happiest
outside of the kennel having his ears rubbed.
He’s a great companion for an actiuve and
engaged owner. Hunter is a cool dude, but
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Meet Dora, who is quite the explorer. She
is a seven year old female domestic short hair
who likes to lay under the covers and inside
boxes. She enjoys wand toys, balls that rattle
or jingle, and cardboard cat scratchers. She
likes having her pretty Torti coat brushed
and being pet, but dislikes being held. She’s Wally
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Council members were very upset with
Hyperion plant management and expressed
their outrage and concern immediately after
the presentation by Stenstrum. Councilmember
Lance Giroux had his own presentation in which
he outlined what he called the facts of the July
2021 Spill. He noted how the plant has been out
of compliance with Air Quality Management
District standards since 2015 and that the City
of Los Angeles Sanitation Department, which
oversees the Hyperion plant, is “required to
perform a Test of Hyperion’s Flare system at
LEAST once every five years. Hyperion last
tested the Flare system in 2015.” He also noted
that during the test in 2015, “The Flare system
exceeded the permitted level of digester gas
by 515 Standard cube feet per minute. Two of
Hyperion’s six Flare Stations exceeded levels
of Nitrogen Oxide.” He noted that “Hyperion
has had 48 AQMD Violations since 1985,”
with 42 of those happening after the July 2021
emergency spill and plant flooding. His report
also noted that “Hyperion has had 178 State
Water Board Violations since 2000.”
During his report on air quality issues related
to Hyperion, the city’s Public Works Directors
Elias Sassoon, who was one of the 14 members
of the ad hoc committee that produced the
February 11 report on the July emergency, told
the council that while Hyperion plant officials
had agreed to install two temporary mobile
trailers to house air quality monitoring systems,
they had been delayed to be fully operational
until the end of April. Those two units will
transfer into three permanent stationary units
by the end of 2022. The public will be able
to access the air quality monitoring systems’
information and data online. Still, only Hydrogen
Sulfide will be detected, and not NOx,
which are nitrogen oxides that are relevant to
air pollution and “are usually produced from
the reaction among nitrogen and oxygen during
combustion of fuels, such as hydrocarbons, in
air,” according to Wikipedia. NOx also “has
direct and indirect effects on human health.
It can cause breathing problems, headaches,
chronically reduced lung function, eye irritation,
loss of appetite, and corroded teeth.
Indirectly, it can affect humans by damaging
the ecosystems they rely on in water and on
land—harming animals and plants,” according
to a September 23, 2015 article on phys.org.
As a result of the reports, the city council
directed staff to communicate to the South
Coast Air Quality Management District, which
is holding a hearing on Hyperion’s air quality
issues, to “take some action that is meaningful,”
per City Attorney Mark Hensley’s suggestion.
He also noted that the city could file a legal
action against Hyperion. Councilmember Scot
Nicol, who said Hyperion had been “lying to
us all along” (ever since the July emergency),
should be forced to include NOx in its air
quality monitoring system. Council agreed
that the city “should start the legal process,”
as stated by Mayor Drew Boyles. Council also
said the city should “Do a full-court press” to
get its needs and demands met and “should
make our voices heard.”
With Mayor Boyles and councilmember
Nicol recusing themselves from the outdoor
dining discussion, councilmember Pirsztuk was
allowed to remain since three council members
are needed to vote on an item. All three live
close to the downtown outdoor dining areas.
The three remaining council members voted
to remove dining in the travel lanes on Main
Street, calling it “dangerous,” while allowing
dining on Richmond Street in travel lanes to
remain until August 16 unless the council takes
action sooner to amend that decision. Council
also voted to study the prospect of a permanent
outdoor dining program, which city staff told
them would take around 12 months.
In cannabis news, the council asked that
the number of valid signatures on the petition
requiring the city to put a cannabis ordinance
on the November 8 ballot be recounted and
examined by the L.A. County Clerk-Registrar.
Councilmembers believe many signatures may
not be valid based on perceived tactics used by
signature gatherers. They passed a motion to
bring the agenda item back to the council at its
next meeting or before the 30-day deadline to
ministerially accept the ordinance has successfully
qualified for the ballot and then decide
how to approach the proposed ordinance and
its authors. The council can decide to let the
ordinance go to voters and be on the November
8 ballot, negotiate aspects of the ordinance with
its authors to make amendments, or draft a
competing ordinance for the November 8 ballot.
Amid other options, including a tax initiative
for the ballot to ensure a “funding mechanism”
for the cannabis retailers in the city. As told by
City Attorney Hensley, “The council is under
obligation to adopt (the ordinance) as written
or put it on the ballot.”•
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Wally is a five year old male pit bull mix
who thinks maybe he’s a lap dog. He’s bursting
with love and wants attention and affection
more than anything, except coming out of
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Hunter Dora
Pisces