AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - August 22, 2013 Inside Born Leader Receives Promotion This Issue Calendar...............................3 Classifieds ...........................3 Finance .................................4 Hawthorne Happenings......3 Legals......................... 2,4,6,7 In a brilliant move by City of Buena Park’s Chief of Police Corey Sianez, Elizabeth “Betsy” Maerker was promoted to Lead Dispatcher of the Buena Park Police Department on August 13. During her time at the department Ms. Maerker has proven herself to be a loyal, dedicated and essential part of an exemplary team that makes up the Buena Park PD. The City of Buena Park’s residents and businesses Newspaper Fun ...................5 have a lot to be thankful for with this stellar police department. Truly the “Best of the Best.” Congratulations! Pictured: Ms. Maerker and Chief Sianez during the promotion ceremony. Proposed New Digital Billboard Pets.......................................8 Presented to City Council Police....................................3 By Nancy Peters new ones in order to remove blight from neigh- parking lot adjacent to Del Oro Lane with tree The Lawndale City Council made a point on borhoods. The Subcommittee will not allow pots, wheelchair ramps, and new curb, gutter Monday, August 19 of discussing the various approval of any billboards that could invade and sidewalk around the modular building. The Sports...................................4 items continued from its last meeting and both residential areas. The vendor’s lighting expert project will be completed in December 2013. topics caused lengthy discussion. The presenta- explained that digital billboards are programmed New fencing will be placed around the Civic tion of designs for new city-wide street signs to give off less light and automatically adjust Center overflow parking lot adjacent to City Hall. was welcomed by a show of support, while a to the surrounding ambient light, never giving The appointment of Joan Concklin to the proposal from a billboard vendor touched a off more than three footcandles of light with Beautification Committee was ratified by few nerves on the dais. louvers and “eyebrows” that cause lighting to the full Council, effective immediately. Mrs. The new street signs will feature the City logo, fade as louvers open and close. Concklin recently retired and as a lifelong be larger than the current signage, and will be CBS Outdoor explained there are no plans to Lawndale resident said she wants to give back Weekend block numbers for each expanse of street will dences, standing 75 feet above the freeway in the will be attended by Councilmember RobertThe League of California Cities Conferenceto her hometown.in Sacramento from September 18-20, 2013-remove any billboards and that erecting a newdigital billboard at Manhattan Beach Boulevardand the 405 Freeway will not affect any resimade with regulated light retro-reflective materialto allow words and numbers to be read in anylighting or in darkness. Street names and the Forecast direction signs for significant buildings will also on the South Bay Curve. The deal could bring the alternate.Pullen-Miles, with Mayor Harold Hoffman asnorthwest facing direction visible by motoristsbe clearly visible to drivers. The way-finding be retro-reflective material with the logo affixed a potentially lucrative guarantee to the City The Sheriff’s Department Safety Report in- to the upper center in a bubble, contain the City from the shared advertising revenues over a cluded the apprehension of a suspected vandal motto, and have a deep purple background. All 10-year period. With the impasse in negotiations who desecrated several vehicles with his own Friday signs will be placed on taller poles. since 2007, the City missed a large amount of specific moniker, thus allowing Sheriff Armando AM Clouds/ the replacement sign project, although all signs approval of Caltrans, as a portion of the sign suspect remanded to juvenile detention after be-Cuevas to locate him, arrest him, and have thepotential money. The new billboard will requireSigns affixed to traffic signals are not part of PM Sun along Hawthorne Boulevard will be part of the would involve the agency’s air rights. The plot ing charged with felony vandalism. The Council project. Seventeen-hundred traffic signs and 690 of land (4550 Manhattan Beach Boulevard is recommended that Cuevas receive a Council 74˚/63˚ street name signs, along with the way-finding the exact address) on which the sign’s pole commendation for his swift work. signs placed at strategic intersections, will be system would be erected is privately owned. Lieutenant John Hocking reported that over funded by a grant from Caltrans, funds set aside Several comments from the Council members the last five-year period, Part I crimes have Saturday from gas tax proceeds, and an additional grant included a request for a CEQA study, which decreased by 20 percent in Lawndale. The Partly signs, way-finding signs, and traffic signs, such fact that with 20 billboards already part of the patrol the streets of the city have been a majorcontinued high visibility of Sheriffs as theyCBS Outdoor requested be bypassed, and thefrom Crimson Oil. The replacement of all street Cloudy as Stop and Yield signs, is mandated by the community landscape, any new billboards need deterrent to crimes such as homicide, rape, 77˚/65˚ The staff presented a review of a proposal includes replacement of another billboard at theft. Neighborhood Watch Programs have alsoarson, auto theft, armed robbery and grandto involve the removal of others. The proposalFederal Highway Administration. from CBS Outdoor, previously evaluated by the 15808 Inglewood Avenue with a digital surface. contributed to lower crime. Sunday bypass of the Subcommittee, as there currently is the topic of billboards, but gave direction to to host music concerts on the Saturdays inThe Lawndale Public Library will continueThe Council did not vote on any motions onBillboard Subcommittee. The vendor requested Mostly with the full City Council about the placement approval from Caltrans and return only when the The Lawndale Blues and Jazz Festival will takeAugust at 1 p.m. on the lawn at the library.staff and the vendor to proceed with obtainingan impasse and asked for direct communication Sunny of a new digital billboard, the replacement highway agency has agreed to the billboard at place on Civic Plaza on Saturday, September 75˚/65˚ billboards from this vendor. Manhattan Beach Boulevard and 405 Freeway. 14, 2013 starting at 1 p.m. -The Lawndale City Council will meet TuesIn other business, the Council approved fundsof one billboard, and no removal of existing The Subcommittee does not see the need to for removal of the modular building from Del day, September 3 at 6:30 p.m. as the regularly erect more billboards and prefers taking down Oro Lane, allowing the street to be reopened scheduled Monday meeting cannot be on held existing billboards first before approving any and the modular to be placed in the north Labor Day--a national holiday. •
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