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 - April 14, 2016 Chevron gives $60,000 to ECMS Chevron’s grant is for STEM Education. Holding the check (l-r) Back row: Janel Edwards, Lily Craig and Randy Arizmendiz of Chevron, Alison Diaz, Founder and Executive Director of Environmental Charter Schools, Jessica Clark and Derek Inouye of Chevron at Environmental Charter Middle Schools-Inglewood’s Career Day. Photographed by Tom Calderwood, April 8, 2016. See more on page 2. Companies Approved to Conduct Acoustical Tests for Residential Sound Insulation Program By Cristian Vasquez under the guidelines and regulations of LAWA Two separate agreements, once with 4Q 1992 contour and FAA 2015 Alt D 65dB Veneklasen Associates, Inc. and another with programs,” states the staff report. “In October CSDA Design Group [CSDA], were approved 2015, the FAA instituted policy changes and for the companies to provide acoustical testing established new regulations.” services for the city’s Residential Sound Policy changes issued by the FAA, detailed Insulation Program. in its Airport Improvement Project Handbook Both agreements were approved with [AIP], include requiring that all single and amendments to the Residential Sound Insulation multifamily dwellings built after Oct. 1 1998, Department fiscal year 2015-2016 budget. should have been constructed with the proper CSDA will provide its services to the city insulation material. Dwellings that weren’t at a price tag of $187,800 while Veneklasen built with proper insulation are not eligible to Associates, Inc. will collect $230,600 for its participate in the RSI program. All localities, services. including Inglewood, are to abide by the new “The City has been awarded funds by both rules and regulations in order to continue being the Federal Association Administration (FAA) eligible for RSI funds. and Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) to In order for acoustic testing to take place proceed with the next phase of the Aircraft localities are responsible for submitting a list Noise Mitigation within the Residential Sound of homes available for testing. Each dwelling is Insulation Program (RSIP),” states the staff to be indicated as test-ready by a signed letter report signed by Residential Sound Insulation of interest by the homeowner. The homes can Director Bettye R, Griffith. be from an existing list of properties to be A 2007 list of qualified firms in the field tested or from a more recent listing resulting of acoustic design, program management, from outreach efforts. engineering and sound insulation construction The contract awarded to CSDA will allow management was updated in 2012 when the the company to continue assisting with the RSI city solicited qualifications and proposals from Program by providing acoustical consulting firms with the above-mentioned qualities. services, acoustical testing, aircraft over-flight Among the top six companies on the testing and test evaluation/reports. Veneklasen list was Veneklasen Associates, Inc., which Associates, Inc. will also provide the same began providing services to Inglewood’s RSI services per its agreement with the city. Program last year. Founded in 1947, Veneklasen “Under the new FAA regulations, eligible Associates, Inc. “has decades of knowledge and residential single-family and multi-family experience in acoustical testing, sound testing, dwellings are required to be located in the noise mitigation, environmental, industrial and Community Noise Equivalent Level (CNEL) vibration control, audio visual system design 65 dB contour and require acoustical testing and information technology system design,” in each habitable room to determine eligibility states the staff report. “Veneklasen Associates, for RSI service,” states the staff report. Inc. is the largest acoustical consulting firm Memorandum of Understanding with in the world.” LACTMA for Sub-Regional Paratransit CSDA, which was founded in 1999, has been Services Approved by Council providing services to the city’s RSI Program since April of 2013. Among the services provided by the contractor are full management services and acoustical engineering services for several sound mitigation projects. “In December 2015, the City’s RSI Program completed sound insulation on 2,075 units The mayor and city council approved Memorandum of Understanding with LACTMA for Sub-Regional Paratransit Services with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority [LACMTA] for the receipt of $200,000 in Proposition A monies each year from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2021. “In 1986, the LACMTA Board of Directors set aside a portion of their Proposition A Transportation funds into an incentive fund for transportation operators to increase the number and mobility of passengers in a determined service area,” states the staff report signed by Parks, Recreation and Library Services Director Sabrina Barnes. “The current MOU guidelines were adopted on September 26, 2001, and every five years, the Board determines the transportation entities for the funding.” The city invoices LACMTA for the amount of funding earned based on its performance record on a yearly basis. Services provided under the MOU will include the operation of coordinated demand-responsive paratransit service for the areas of Inglewood, Hawthorne and Lennox. The service consists of eight accessible vans and the I-Line trolley fixed route in the city. The city is also able to provide a discount cab service, through Transportation Proposition C funds, which subsidize the purchase of discount taxicab coupon books for eligible seniors and children. “Since 1986, the City has received funding from LACMTA from the Proposition A Incentive Program for improving transportation services across jurisdictional boundaries,” states the staff report. “Inglewood is eligible for this grant because it provides paratransit service to elderly and disabled residents of three jurisdictions-Inglewood, Hawthorne and Los Angeles County (Lennox).” For a 25 percent operating costs reimbursement of these programs, the city must meet 15 percent of the project’s total operating cost will be “allocated based on annual submittal of a timely and accurate National Transit Database (NDT) report,” which must be conducted by an independent audit. Inglewood must also document coordination of activities with current transit services and with participating local governments, the city must utilize all program funds in order to raise the number and mobility of passengers, and coordinate American with Disabilities Act trips in the service area. The city must also submit quarterly statistical and financial reports. • Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................5 Classifieds............................3 Film Review..........................3 Finances...............................6 Food.......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals............................2, 6-7 Pets........................................8 Police Reports.....................2 Sports....................................4 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 73˚/59˚ Saturday Sunny 75˚/57˚ Sunday Sunny 75˚/57˚
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