Hawthorne Press Tribune The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - September 11, 2014 How We Get Around Our City A bus passing Osage Street on Manchester Boulevard. Photo by Osvin Suazo, ozzy.suazo@gmail.com. Inside This Issue Business Briefs...................3 Calandar...............................3 Classifieds............................2 Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................2 Food.......................................8 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals............................4, 6-7 Pets........................................5 Police Reports.....................2 Sports....................................4 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 81˚/68˚ Saturday Partly Cloudy 87˚/71˚ Sunday Partly Cloudy 91˚/72˚ Hawthorne Council Votes to Remove Civil Service Commissioners By Nancy Peters The employment contract for the City The agenda for the Tuesday, September 9, Attorney, Russell Miyahira, was renewed meeting of the City Council was apparently without discussion and by a vote of 5-0. The the first notification to two long-time members contract will extend Miyahara’s appointment of the Civil Service Commission of their until March 31, 2016. The renewal of the removal from their posts. Darlene Love, who employment contract for City Manager served for more than 30 years, and Allen Michael Goodson was approved by a vote Richards, who served for 11 years, chairing of 3-2, with Vargas and Michelin casting the Commission and refusing the stipend from the dissenting votes. Michelin cited that the the city for the Commissioner’s position, were City Manager does not communicate with the not given a reason for the agendizing of their entire Council and that is not acceptable as removal and their names being suggested to direction and action comes from all elected serve on the Senior Citizens Commission until officials not just one or two. the item was opened for discussion after a In other business, a resolution was approved, motion was made by Mayor Chris Brown after a public hearing that resulted in no one during the meeting. The mayor explained that coming forward to speak, which establishes appointees to commissions in surrounding fees for the inspection of storm water drains, cities are subject to an eight-year term limit discharges into storm water drains, and and the removal of these two individuals was protects the water quality and water supply done to bring the city along with the way to balance all environmental and regulate other cities conduct commission appointments. the commercial and industrial watershed Both Mrs. Love and Mr. Richards spoke inspections. The rates are $125 for industrial during the public comments portion of and commercial facilities, $50 for restaurants, the meeting, stating that no phone call and $230 for state-permitted industrial sites was received, but they read about it when within the city limits. the agenda was published. Both citizens An ordinance had a first reading, with the filed an application for the Senior Citizens second reading scheduled for September Commission, but Richards withdrew his 23, establishing a city-wide stage 2 drought paperwork, stating that any appointment status, to be enforced by Code Enforcement, for the Senior Citizens Commission is “not a good fit.” The lack of a quorum for a Senior Citizens Commission resulted in no appointments to that body and those action items were removed from the agenda until a quorum can be reached. Mrs. Love and Mr. Richards were removed after a vote of 3-2, with Council members Alex Vargas and Nilo Michelin both casting the dissenting votes as each removal was considered for a separate vote. Mr. Richards did not accept a Proclamation prepared for presentation to him. Mrs. Love received the Proclamation for her service from the City Council. with state-mandated fines for violations up to $500 and/or 30 days in jail. The state has declared a stage 2 drought and cities must comply with state laws. Utilities will distribute notifications of the regulations to be met and the list of violations if and when necessary, with the rules to be followed, such as times when lawns may be watered or not watered, etc. The city website will also indicate the compliance that must be met when the ordinance goes into effect. The appointees to the new Veterans Commission were approved by a separate vote of 5-0 for each named applicant. Following the meeting adjournment the new members of the Veterans Commission were sworn in by the City Clerk. Appointees are Kyle Orlemann, Robert Kutzly, and Neil Gaffney. The Moratorium on massage parlors will have a legal confidential prepared by the City Attorney prior to any actions being taken since the state law mandating no new massage parlors will be signed by the Governor soon. Compliance with state law is always sought by cities. The Planning Department will confirm that the city currently has either three or four massage parlors on the books as businesses. The next meeting of the City Council will be held on Tuesday, September 23 at 6:00 p.m. • Hawthorne Boulevard Project Traffic Restrictions Beginning on Monday, September 8, the #1 lanes on Hawthorne Boulevard northbound and southbound will be closed between El Segundo Boulevard to 137th Place. There will also be intermittent closures of the #2 lanes in both directions in localized areas. The crossings for Hawthorne Boulevard east-west at 134th, 135th and 136th Streets will remain closed to cross traffic. However, the crossings at 130th, 132nd and 133rd Streets will be re-opened by the end of the week. New lane configuration south of El Segundo will begin over the weekend with driving lanes shifting toward the newly-built narrower center island. New striping will be installed on the boulevard northbound and southbound of El Segundo Boulevard. •
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