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 - June 16, 2016 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................5 Classifieds............................3 Community Briefs...............3 Finance..................................4 Food.......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals............................4, 6-7 Pets........................................8 Police Reports.....................7 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 73˚/63˚ Saturday Mostly Sunny 77˚/64˚ Sunday Sunny 82˚/66˚ South Bay Digital Arts Media Consortium Features Guest Speaker Director Rick Famuyiwa, who was born and raised in Inglewood, with film credits such as The Wood, Brown Sugar, Dope, and Confirmation to his name, addresses an audience of about 50 students from Lawndale High School’s Academy of Media Arts and Hawthorne High School’s Tech Theater Department at Lawndale High School on June 1. Photo provided by SBWIB Welfare-To-Work, Direct Services Contract Amended by Council By Cristian Vasquez Approved by the Inglewood Mayor and members of the City Council was a recommendation by the city manager’s office to move forward with Amendment No. 1 to the Welfare-to-Work Vocational and Direct Services Contract between the County of Los Angeles and the City of Inglewood. The contract, which identifies the City of Inglewood as the administrative entity for the South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB), has been amended to increase the budget of the original agreement as well as the duration of the “subsidized assignments” from eight to 10 months for the Paid Work Experience and On-the-Job Training components. “The SBWIB, Inc., is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, which contracts to provide job training and employment services to the Administrative Entity of the South Bay Workforce Investment Area (SBWIA),” states the staff report signed by Inglewood City Manager Artie Fields. “The corporation serves as a nonprofit arm of the South Bay Workforce Investment Board. Because the SBWIB Inc., is an Internal Revenue Code Section 501c(3) corporation, it can receive tax deductible contributions from the private sector, which help to supplement the funds available through grants to provide job training and employment services throughout the South Bay.” A total of 11 cities make up the SBWIA, including the Cities of Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Lawndale, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Lomita, Torrance, Carson, Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach. However, since Dec. 4, 2012 the City of Inglewood agreed to serve as the administrative entity for the SBWIB. By March 12 of the following year, the mayor and council approved the Welfare-To-Work Intermediary Contract between Los Angeles County and the City of Inglewood, in which the city acted as the administrative entity. “The Welfare to Work Intermediary Contract serves many residents and businesses throughout Los Angeles County including the City of Inglewood,” states the staff report. “There are worksites currently participating in the program that are located within the City of Inglewood.” This program comes at no cost to the city’s general fund and any expenses that could arise from the program will be covered by the SBWIB, Inc. The amendment was originally enacted on Jan. 14, 2014 and increased subsidies for employment services to populations covered under the agreement, including Child and Family Team Youth, Non-CFT Youth and CalWORKs Youth. Simultaneously approved was Amendment No. 2, which provided additional funds to help refugees with Vocational English as Second Language [VESL] services. Funds for said services are made available through Targeted Assistance Discretionary Grant funds from the Federal office of Refugee Resettlement. A third amendment was approved on March 25, 2014 which increased funding for “subsidized employment and vocational services to existing populations (CalWORKS GAIN, Refugee, Child and Family Team Youth, Non-CFT Youth, CalWORKs Youth, and DCFS Foster Youth),” states the staff report. The agreement between the city and County was renewed on Feb. 9 of this year. Council Approves Three-Year Agreement With Advanced Electronics A three-year agreement with Advanced Electronics was approved by the Inglewood City Council for the maintenance and on call repair services related to the Police Department’s radio equipment. The contract includes the option to extend the agreement for two additional, one-year terms and will not cost more than $63,632, which will be provided by the city’s general fund. “The Police Department uses Motorola two-way radio equipment to communicate between personnel, other law enforcement, and first responding agencies,” states the staff report signed by Inglewood Chief of Police Mark Fronterotta. “Since this is the Department’s primary method of communication, it is important that the Department has an agreement with a qualified vendor that is capable of maintaining and providing on-call repair services in the event the equipment fails to work properly.” A Request for Bid to find the appropriate vendor closed on April 23 and netted two responses, one from Advanced Electronics and the other from Commline Inc. Both vendors addressed pricing for two categories of radio equipment such as category I, which includes all fixed equipment and category II for all portable radio equipment. “Option A is annual maintenance with nonserviceable maintenance parts (e.g. antennas, batteries, and belt clips) and Option B excludes non-serviceable maintenance parts,” states the staff report. “After carefully reviewing the Department’s need for items listed under Option A, it was determined that it would not be cost-effective to include annual replacement of these items in the agreement.” The selection of Option B for the purchase of non-serviceable items on an as-needed basis will reduce associated costs to the services. The annual cost for the services includes a $10,606 contingency fund to cover any related equipment, supplies, or services which are not itemized in the agreement. •
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