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 23, 2012 Inside School Readiness and Health Fair Returns• This Issue A Student’s Perspective...2 Calendar...............................3 Classifieds ...........................3 Food ......................................7 Hawthorne Happenings ...2 Legals .............................9-11 Newspaper Fun..................8 Senator Roderick D. Wright (D-Inglewood) and L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas will host a discussion of current legislation and issues on Saturday, August 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Jesse Owens County Park, and is open to students between the ages of five and 14 who reside in the 25th Senate District and are accompanied by an adult. Families are encouraged to bring their child’s yellow immunization card. Interested persons may call 310-412-0393. Photo courtesy of theOffice of Sen. Wright. • Business License Revocation Upheld Pets........................................6 Police Reports....................3 Monday’s Lawndale City Council meeting E. Hofmann and Councilmember Robert to three minutes failed for lack of a second.individual comment period from five minutesalthough by a vote of 3-2, with Mayor HaroldBy Nancy Peters included the usual consent calendar and Pullen-Miles casting their dissenting votes A discussion to change the total minutes from Politically Speaking...........4 held, no new business came before the City ordinances and complaints against the Assistant City Clerk will bring a new policy to60 to 30 minutes was tabled. However, theto the staff recommendation. Violations ofvarious reports, but no public hearings were Council, and each Council member passed business caused the license to be revoked. the next Council meeting to streamline some their turn with nothing to report when the Subsequently, the business owner filed an of the current meeting procedures and enact Smile Awhile.......................6 time came to offer their reports. There was appeal to the unfavorable decision by the City Rosenberg’s Rules of Order to substitute for a Metro Grant application approved for Municipal Services Manager. A license can the more complex Roberts Rules of Order, submission, a service agreement was renewed, be issued to the business owner to operate as well as bring consistency with state law Sports...................................5 and an appeal denial was upheld. in a commercial space, but a home-based for some procedures. A revised policy would The Metro Marine Avenue Green Line business for ABC Income Tax is not permitted replace the policy that has been in existence Station Transit Oriented Development without compliance to all City ordinances without change for four years. Ordinance Grant application was approved, governing home-based businesses. During the Public Safety Report by LA although Mayor Pro Tem Larry Rudolph The Community Services Manager County Sheriff’s Captain Matt Dendo, it cast a dissenting vote for the application to submitted, and received approval, for a was advised that within the last 10 days a be submitted. Lawndale collaborated with piano owned by the City to be loaned to response was made to a kidnapping victim Weekend the grant application to benefit all three cities Historical Museum located in the Lawndale being held against her will and threatenedand the alleged kidnapper was taken intocustody when the victim pressed charges forthe Lawndale Historical Society and for theinstrument to be moved to the Lawndaleneighboring cities Redondo Beach andHawthorne to take advantage of submitting Forecast the overlay of the Metro Green Line Station Community Center. when someone discharged a large firearm,with a knife. Another response was madeA review of the Meeting Procedures forwhen the Transit Oriented Development for at Marine Avenue is readied for enhancement the City Council, contained in a policy and and upon searching the premises, drugs and by the MTA in conjunction with the Green not governed by any City ordinances or drug paraphernalia were also discovered along Friday review of the mixed-use zoning and the Clerk Pam Giammario and reported to the assault with a deadly weapon, and a man waswith more weapons. Charges filed includedresolutions, was made by Assistant CityLine Extension Plan. A comprehensive Partly environments of the city around the Metro Council. The statistical data included the arrested for starting a fire (an arson charge) Cloudy grant funds. This will also include a salary previous meetings. The data was compiled three responses were among some of the mostand endangering others on the property. Theseaverages of public comment time during 12Station will be the focus of the use of the 87˚/68˚ for a Lawndale employee who will work to show how many total minutes are used violent charges against Lawndale residents with the grant when funds are received. The by the public as they offer comments on in recent history. Pullen-Miles requested that grant is made possible from Measure R, a agenda items as well as items that come Capt. Dendo report back periodically when ballot initiative that approved a one-half-cent under the Council jurisdiction but have not results of trials become known for those Saturday sales tax to benefit the Los Angeles County been placed on a meeting agenda. Currently, charged with crimes within the city limits. Metropolitan Transit Authority programs. the public is given five timed minutes for During public comments a lack of a space Partly Once the application is submitted, the amount each person to speak to the Council and a for Neighborhood Watch meetings and the Cloudy of the grant will be determined. total of 60 minutes per meeting is allowed fact that the Community Center continues not A service agreement with the SPCA-LA before the Mayor may use discretion to cease to utilize local vendors came up. Rudolph 86˚/70˚ was approved for a new one-year period public comment. A consensus from 208 requested a report from the Community to commence on September 1, 2012 and cities in California indicated that individual Services Manager, with a list of caterers will remain at the service fee of $5,800 per comments range from an allowed, timed given to staff and patrons and what the month. SPCA-LA combs Lawndale for stray three minutes to five minutes, and a total of method is to advise of local vendors that Sunday or abandoned animals treated for illnesses 30 minutes or 60 minutes, with one or two can be hired. Pullen-Miles suggested that Partly the necessary inoculations, and sheltered at items at the beginning of a public meeting competitive price packages and that eliminatesLawndale business owners may not be givingcities allowing comments only to agendaand injuries, rehabilitated for adoption with Cloudy the facility in Hawthorne. and general comments at an additional time, these local vendors from consideration. He 80˚/65˚ license to ABC Income Tax for a home the end of a meeting, to total 60 minutes Lawndale Community Center to make sureurged Lawndale vendors to contact theafter the formal business and just prior toThe appeal of the decision to deny a business business to be conducted on the premises of for both periods. they are listed with the staff and receive the 15118 Avis Avenue in Lawndale was upheld, A motion by Rudolph to change the opportunity to be hired for service.•
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