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Senator Portantino Affordable Housing Bill Passes Senate Housing Committee
Senate Bill 15, a measure authored Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – La Canada) which gives incentives to cities that convert abandoned retail sites into affordable and workforce housing, passed the Senate Housing Committee today.
“Lack of affordable housing is a major issue for current and potential employers in California counties and negatively impacts our economy,” stated Senator Portantino. “Housing is fundamental to the welfare of business and the workforce population. Using abandoned retail sites for new affordable housing is an achievable and necessary goal that California must pursue.”
SBCCG honored for fiber network
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The South Bay Cities Council of Governments (SBCCOG) has received a 2020 Crown Communities Award for its South Bay Fiber Network (SBFN), a dedicated fiber-optic network connecting the South Bay region’s city halls and other local and regional public agencies with high-speed, low-cost broadband connectivity.
Each year, the news site American City & County presents its Crown Communities Award to municipal and county governments that have implemented innovative projects over the preceding 18 months.
The SBFN provides the critical infrastructure for South Bay Cities to adopt “smart city” applications. The new broadband infrastructure provides an essential public asset and resource to city governments as they manage economic viability during the COVID-19 pandemic and it creates opportunities to bridge the “digital divide” in communities underserved with broadband.
Ongoing
Health Study
The Beach Cities Health District is seeking participants for a Healthy Minds Brain Study. Participants must be 55 or older and live in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach or Redondo Beach. For more information, call Nicole Lunde at 310-374-3426, ext. 120.
Shakespeare by the Sea
Audiences will think they are there in person after falling under the spell of Shakespeare by the Sea’s virtual presentations of the humorous “12th Night” and the deeply disturbing, R rated “Titus Andronicus.” Both are available now at no charge. go to shakespearebythesea.org.
Roadium Open Air Market
Open seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., with parking available on site. Masks are mandatory. go to roadium.com.
Feb. 19, 2021
BY BRIAN HEWS
Hews Media Group-Cerritos News has learned that Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell) has authored a bill (AB 1195) in yet another attempt to disenfranchise millions of L.A. County voters related to the county’s water agencies.
Unlike the corrupt method Garcia used to try and send Central Basin into receivership with SB 625, a water agency found to have a $3 million operating profit after that bill failed, Garcia is going after the three big fish in L.A. County.
Sources are telling HMG-CN that Speaker Rendon’s Assembly attorney Alf Brandt is helping Garcia.
Brandt helped Garcia with the two bills aimed at Central Basin, one which put incompetent appointed officials who caused havoc on the Central Basin Board (AB 1794) and then, when that take over didn’t work, Garcia and Brant authored the receivership bill, SB 625.