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 - March 17, 2016 Speech and Debate Team Amass 56 Recognitions The Leuzinger High School Speech and Debate Team received a certificate of recognition at the Centinela Valley Union High School Board of Education meeting on March 8. This year, the Leuzinger High School Speech & Debate Team has amassed the most recognitions ever. Photo by Cammie Vogel Construction Staging Approved for New Senior Center Project on North Market Street By Cristian Vasquez subcontractors, an area to stage and lay down A recommendation by the city manager’s construction materials and equipment, as well office to approve an Access and Use Agreement as a parking space for the crane that is to with Pinner Construction Co., Inc., to allow be used to complete the project. staging activities for the construction of the new senior center project was given the go-ahead by the Inglewood Mayor and City Council. “The Contractor has expressed a desire to enter into an agreement with the City of Inglewood, as Successor Agency to the former Inglewood Redevelopment Agency (“Successor Agency”) authorizing a conditional right of entry and access on certain Successor Agency owned properties located at 140 North market Street and 150 North Market Street (located adjacent to the Project site on both Locust Street and Queen Street), for certain construction “This Agreement will also expressly prohibit staging activities necessary to support the the Contractor from bringing onto the subject construction project,” states the staff report properties and “Hazardous Substances,”” signed by City Manager/Executive Director states the staff report. “The approval of Artie Fields. “The subject properties are within this Agreement will specifically benefit the close proximity to the construction site and Successor Agency and the City by providing the Access and Use Agreement (“Agreement”) for the reduction of the footprint of the Project will provide the necessary access and use of site and reducing the impact of vehicular these properties by the Contractor for the traffic in the area due to construction activity.” timely construction of the Project.” Council Amends FY 2015-16 Budget, The new senior project, to be located at 111 Approves Purchase Tyler Technology N. Locus St., had its design build agreement The city council approved the purchase approved by the city council and successor of Tyler Cashiering Update from Tyler agency board members on Dec. 16, 2014. Pinner Technology in the amount of $76,000, along Construction Co., Inc., was the lowest and most with the necessary budget amendments to responsible bidder and through the terms of the 2015-2016 FY. the contract is required to maintain a project “As a full-service City, staff requires an site office, staging area and other facilities information system that supports its business that will support the project’s construction. operations efficiently and effectively,” The use and access agreement will also indicates the staff report signed by City allow the contractor to establish and provide Manager Artie Fields. a construction trailer, parking available for Since Jan. 10, 2006 the Inglewood Mayor employees, parking accommodations for and City Council members agreed for the city to enter an agreement with Tyler Technologies, Inc. [Eden Division] in order to provide the city with local government software applications and implementation services. For the past nine years the city has relied on Eden Financial System but is now ready to add another module that will help staff with a wide range of cashiering activities. “The current cashiering software is in need of an upgrade and the new version feature versatile, easy-to-navigate interface in the Microsoft® NET platform,” states the staff report. “The Tyler Cashiering software features its own relational database for storing cashiering activity and configuration data.” Each cashiering station updates the database, which is hosted on a server that centralizes the location for “query, research and audit activity” for all transactions and will provide for exceptional access to across-the-system totals. Included in the software is Check 21 and support for EMV hardware. “Tyler Cashiering is integrated to a lot of Tyler Products and they are adding more every cycle,” states the staff report. “The current system is very outdated and will support integration with EMV hardware or Windows 10 without some costly major development work.” Based on Inglewood Municipal Code, Section 2-198.1, the exception to the competitive bidding requirement, the city was able to move forward with purchasing the updated technology due to Tyler Cashiering software being proprietary and will be an upgrade to the city’s system. Since the software is already part of the city, it is considered that all competent information, data and sworn testimony has been provided to the city. • Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................6 Classifieds............................2 Film Review..........................3 Food.......................................4 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals................................ 6-7 Looking Up...........................4 Pets........................................8 Police Reports.....................3 Sports....................................5 Weekend Forecast Friday Mostly Sunny 66˚/65˚ Saturday Sunny 70˚/57˚ Sunday Mostly Sunny 68˚/55˚ “The approval of this Agreement will specifically benefit the Successor Agency and the City by providing for the reduction of the footprint of the Project site and reducing the impact of vehicular traffic in the area due to construction activity.”
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