The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood Daily News on a Weekly Basis - Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - April 13, 2017 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................3 Calendar...............................5 Classifieds............................4 Community Briefs...............4 Hawthorne Happenings....5 Legals................................ 6-7 Pets........................................8 Police Reports.....................3 Seniors..................................2 Sports....................................5 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 64˚/53˚ Saturday Sunny 64˚/54˚ Sunday Sunny 64˚/55˚ Spectrum SportsNet Hosts Women In Sports Night To celebrate Women’s History month last month, Spectrum SportsNet hosted a group of 28 women, all aspiring sports administration, journalism and broadcast journalism students, from USC, CSULB and UCLA for Women In Sports Night at the SportsNet studios in El Segundo. Students were treated to a behind-the-scenes tour of the studios, edit bays and production booths; watched Access SportsNet: Lakers live instudio before an informative Q&A panel with Spectrum SportsNet Lakers hosts/analysts Jaime Maggio, Kelli Tennant, Serena Winters, Lindsey Thiry, producer Bettina Shore and Lakers Senior PR representative Alison Bogli. Caption: Students join Kelli Tennant, Jaime Maggio, Serena Winters and Lindsey Thiry on the Access SportsNet: Lakers set for Women In Sports Night. (Photo Provided by Charter Communications) Voters Place Confidence in Incumbents at City Hall, School Board By Cristian Vasquez Inglewood voters brought back into office District No. 1 Councilman George W. Dotson and District No. 2 Councilman Alex Padilla during the April 4 municipal election. Also reelected were Inglewood Unified School Board Members Seat No. 2 representative Carliss Richardson-McGhee and Seat No. 3 member Melody O. Ngaue-Tuuholoaki, while Dionne Faulk will fill Seat No. 1. “Every election cycle we hear so many things that people blame--correctly or incorrectly--on the City, but I am a firm believer that the people always get it right,” District No. 3 Councilman Eloy Morales, Jr. said. “Sometimes we don’t agree with the outcome and some people may not agree with this one, but I will tell you that based on everything that has been going on the last couple of years in the city and having knocked on doors, there is a good feeling.” Councilman Padilla, who ran unopposed, received 638 votes. For Councilman Dotson, who received 934 votes, his reelection bid put him up against retired graphic designer Leroy N. Fisher (94 votes), community advocate Maxine Toler (371 votes) and Inglewood resident Hugo Ramirez (22 votes) also in the District 1 council race. “I want to thank everybody that came out to vote. It shows that you care about what is happening in Inglewood,” Padilla said. “Not only did we have a couple of important seats open on the City Council, but also in the School District. I want to thank the City Clerk for all of her work and her staff. It’s a lot of work, but they always come through and they do a great job.” Of the three seats in dispute for the Inglewood Unified School District Advisory Board of Education, Faulk (1,977 votes) edged out Odest T. Riley, Jr. who received 1,013 votes. The seat was left open when incumbent Margaret Richards- Bowers decided not to file for reelection. Richardson-McGhee and Ngaue-Tuuholoaki ran unopposed and earned 2,475 votes and 2,444 votes respectively. The most contested item on the ballot was Measure DE, which passed 1,654 to 1,247 votes and officially authorizes that the “Inglewood City Charter be amended to allow the Board of Education for Inglewood City Schools to change the method of election of the Board of Education.” The approved measure will ensure that School Board members are elected by the District instead of through at-large elections. After the State of California took over Inglewood Unified due to financial woes, the School Board was stripped of its powers and control of the District was transferred to a State-appointed administrator. It was then that members to the Board of Education were only allowed to serve in an advisory capacity. As a condition for the State to return control of the District to the Board of Education, nine demands have to be met. One complete fiscal year must have passed since acceptance of the emergency loan and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI) has approved all recovery plans for the District; the State administrator must determine and notify the SSPI and County Superintendent that future compliance by the School District with recovery plans is probable; the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team must complete at least two progress reports on the District’s implementation of improvements in the recovery plan; performance under the recovery plans completed by FCMAT has to be proven to the satisfaction of the SSPI, but must include at least an average score of six in all operational areas with no individual scores below four (powers may be returned incrementally by operational area); the administrator must certify that all essential collective bargaining agreements are negotiated, ratified and that the agreements are consistent with the terms of the recovery plans; the District has to complete all reports required by the SSPI and administrator; the administrator must certify the required training via SB 533 of all Board members and District personnel; the SSPI must conclude that future compliance with recovery plans is probable; and lastly, a 60-day notice needs to provided to the Legislature, Department of Finance, the Controller, and County Superintendent that conditions for return of powers are expected to be met. The District is said to have completed requirements one, three, five and six, but is on the cusp of accomplishing the remaining criteria. When that happens, expected within the next three years, the Board will have its new election method in place. “I am very proud of this city, of this council and where we’ve come--in particular during the last four years--and we have done things that no other city has been able to do,” Mayor James T. Butts said. “Not only have we changed ourselves economically, but we have changed our brand--changed the way that people in the city and outsiders think of Inglewood. It is an entirely different thing wherever you go and whatever you do when you say Inglewood. There is a respect that the city carries.”•
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