Inglewood News AND LENNOX CITIZEN The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - January 14, 2016 Lawndale Elementary Gets Tech Jimmy Bonilla, 11, shows off his new Sqord. Pupil enters data to program her Sqord. NFL Team Owners Approve Rams Move to Inglewood Rams owner Stan Kroenke was given the to KBB for outstanding invoices. go-ahead from the other National Football “The City uses the services of various outside League team owners to move his Rams to legal firms to provide specialized advice and their new home in the City of Inglewood. assistance on an as needed basis,” states the NFL owners voted 30-2 in favor of ratifying staff report signed by City Attorney Kenneth the relocation application submitted by Kroenke R. Campos. “The City has been utilizing the for an immediate move to the City of Los services of KBB in the area of contracts, real Angeles, where the team will play until the estate development, billboards and the winding Rams’ proposed stadium site in Inglewood is down of the former Redevelopment.” completed and ready for use in 2019. For several years KBB has also been Included in the relocation approval is the providing litigation services to the city. Royce option for the San Diego Chargers to join the Jones, who has been practicing law for more Rams in their new stadium. The Chargers were than 30 years, has been the main attorney given a one-year option to decide whether or assigned to assist the City of Inglewood. For not they are relocating to join the Rams in an extended period of time KBB has not raised their new home stadium. The Chargers have its billing fees on the city after having agreed until the owners’ meetings end [mid March] to maintain their service rate at $200 per hour. to declare if the team stays put or makes the “Additionally, the City is currently in receipt trip north on the 5 to the 405 freeway. of KBB’s most recent invoices for services The decision not only ends a 21-year rendered through December 2015,” states the absence of a professional football team in staff report. “Legal services rendered were the Los Angeles area, but it also brings associated with: Hollywood Park Project; back a professional sports team to the City Locust Senior Center; D-3 Site; Housing; Home of Inglewood since the Los Angeles Lakers Program Rehab; IUSD; Outdoor advertising.” left The Forum to play at Downtown L.A.’s Partnership Will Continue Staples Center in 1999. With Gang Prevention Efforts Officials from the City of Inglewood were The City approved an agreement in the not available for comment before press time. amount of $256,060 with I-CARE communitybased City Approves Another Legal-Services organization partner [CBO] South Bay Agreement with KBB A unanimous vote by the Inglewood Mayor and members of the council approved a legal agreement between the City of Inglewood and Kane Ballmer & Berkman [KBB] that would provide the city with legal advice, guidance and representation in the amount of $200,000. Also approved was the city’s payment of $14,100 Workforce Investment Board [SBWIB] for the remainder of the calendar year for the providing of project management, administration and direct services. Also approved was a separate agreement in the amount of $105,000 with Inglewood Community and Regional Engagement Program [I-CARE] CBO partner Centinela Youth Services Inc. [CYS] for the services of data collection and evaluation of youth, assessment, intensive care management, mental health and substance abuse counseling, as well as home visits for youths for the remainder of the calendar year. In February of last year the city council approved an agreement with the Board of State and Community Corrections [BSCC] for conditional grant funds from the California Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention [CalGRIP] Program not to exceed $1.5 million. “The CalGRIP Grant Program is subject to annual allocations through the State budget process,” states the staff report signed by Parks, Recreation, and Library Services Director Sabrina Barnes. “Funding for the second and third years of the grant is dependent on the City’s compliance with the grant award agreement and availability of funds.” The City completed and submitted the reapplication process on Dec. 3, 2015 in order to receive grant funds for year two, which extends funding until the Dec. 31, 2016 in the maximum amount of $500,000. The approved-agreements will allow for the continuance of services provided by SBWIB and CYS for the I-CARE Project gang prevention, intervention, and suppression activities that contribute to reduce gang activity in the community. “The CalGRIP Grant Program mandated that the City allocate at least 20 percent of its proposed budget for community based programs and services,” states the staff report. “In order to accomplish the mandate, the City entered into Agreement No. 15-100 on February 24, 2015, with SBWIB for a one-year Term.” • Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................4 Classifieds............................3 Food.......................................4 Hawthorne Happenings....2 Legals................................ 6-7 Looking Up...........................7 Police Reports.....................3 Seniors..................................6 Sports....................................5 Weekend Forecast Friday Partly Cloudy 62˚/50˚ Saturday Partly Cloudy 67˚/51˚ Sunday Partly Cloudy 67˚/52˚ Providence Health & Services is teaming with a startup called Sqord to encourage kids to get out and exercise. As children returned to three Lawndale Elementary School District campuses this week after winter break, Providence equipped some 300 fifth-graders at three campuses with Sqord’s kid-proof wrist gear that provides an activity tracker, online games and a kid-safe social media app designed to encourage kids to spend more time in active, physical play. Photo provided by Providence Health.
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