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all right good evening everyone happy
new year did you come blessed to receive
it's anyone been to my town hall
meetings before let me see his out of
hand
that means you came to be with
information to get information because
what of all I said with knowledge there
is power so tonight get ready to
increase your power we have a number of
keynote speakers I did identify that the
mayor said he was going to come through
and when he does the speaker that is
currently speaking after that person
will have the mayor come and speak but
we have a lot of items to be addressed
the laboratory facilities are
immediately to my left and right male
and male and female also we did not
validate parking they do not validate
parking but if you parked on the second
floor or higher it's free parking okay
and we'll keep the refreshments going as
long as we can the first presenter I
want to bring to your attention is the
man of the hour that has made this
facility a reality we take for granted
for those that's been living here for
several decades of the Hollywood Park
Racetrack but now we have gone major
development from the racetrack to the
casino and then we relocated this
brand-new casino and we want to thank
Devan Kumar and his staff for not only
providing us this facility but the
refreshment Zoo well let's give my hand
but we have a project manager that has
worked with me since I've been on the
council since 2003 but had a vision that
I wanted to partner with the city of
Englewood and be part of the footprint
to make a difference of our quality of
life he's identified that yes there's
going to be a lot of disruption
temporarily but we know it's only
temporarily because permanently we're
gonna have a quality wholesome
development and environment so I want
you to please help me recognize mr.
Gerard McCollum the second on the
Hollywood Park retail and entertainment
district and he's going to provide us an
update this evening let's get my hand if
you would please thank you thank you so
much well good evening everyone it's
great to see you again as councilman
Franklin has said I've been here since
the project started when we first came
to the city over that's 12 years ago and
I've met with many of you back then and we've just thought this was a dream
that we actually will actually build
what we were calling that time Hollywood
Park tomorrow as you recall and at that
time we were building we were proposing
to build about 3,000 homes a retail
center roughly about 500,000 square feet
and 26 acres apart since that time the
project is expanded immensely we went
from 238 acres to now 300 acres so the
top half of the project was acquired in
2016 by 2014 by mr. Stan Kroenke and we
came up with a basically a joint venture
run by the Kroenke go organization to
come up with what is now Hollywood Park
and I'll give you a little bit overview
of Hollywood Park and what I'm gonna do
today it's like for every town hall
meeting I've always gone over with
what's going on with the stadium what
was going on the stadium but the
questions that I've always come back to
you is what about the rest of the
project about 20 days of the year we'll
have stadium it'll be great it'll be fun
and and you know the Rams will win and
the charges will win and we'll all have
a good time but what about the rest of
the 28 20 days of the year what happens
after the rest of those 20 days of the
year so we're going to talk a little bit
about
what is going to actually happen when
the stadium opens in 2020 so this is
basically an overall site plan I wonder
if I could take this with me a bit maybe
so this is the overall site plan
this is Prairie Boulevard here and this
is century Boulevard so right now we are
right here at the casino yeah so right
now we're here at the casino and that
was the first part of the project as you
recalled we had to move the casino in
order to be able to be eligible to bid
and go after the the NFL stadium and so
the casino used to be right about there
we move this here which is now see
outside of you if you were going to top
of the parking structure on the third
floor if you're ever out in a sunny day
you'll be able to see a lot of the
construction from the third floor of the
casino and you'll see that the stadium
is currently an indica under
construction and a lot of activity has
gone on most of the dirt has been moved
around the stadium is going ten feet
down to ten stories down into the ground
so it doesn't really you know boat too
far over the top of the city and it'll
be covered by a clear structure this
roof we're calling made out of e te Fe
which will be a clear roof for the most
part and on the opposite side of that
stadium will be a performance art venue
for about 6,000 seats down to about 1500
seats so these are for be for smaller
shows theater that will happen that
wouldn't necessarily happen to the forum
it's on a much smaller late level so if
you went to downtown went to Club Nokia
or Microsoft theater you see those are
bounced against the theaters they handle
different types of audiences and that's
what this performance arts venue will do
and in the middle of that it's about a
two and a half acre plaza and that plaza
will be open to concerts and outdoor
activities anything we're hoping to at
some point to get the NFL Combine in
that facility so it'll be a lot of
activity going on outside of just game
days what we preserved from the old
Hollywood Park project is the 26 acres
of parts and what I mean by that is that
the first part of the project is going
to open in 2020 will be Lake Park so
you'll see the stadium the performance
art venue and Lake Park open the rest of
the project will develop over a period
of time that will develop another twenty
out our sixteen acres giving a total of
26 acres they'll be a significant park
in the back area here and a parking
which we call a royal park that will run
through the spine of the project these
26 acres Park and I could say this
unashamedly will be the nicest parks in
LA County
. period from the lake park to the
waterfalls to the tot lots to the dog
parks these will be designed by one of
the premier landscapers in los angeles
meal near lair and associates and will
be maintained by the ownership but be
open to the entire public that was part
of the things that the main ago she ate
it that these would be not public parks
funded by a private owner also opening
day which is what I always get the
inquiries about when it come to these
meetings is the retail center in in red
in the red and this is centering prayer
at the corner of sentry and prairie
leading off the lake edge will be a
retail separate center that will have an
a pedestrian feel to it so if you've
ever been to the Grove before this will
be designed somewhat similar to the
Grove in terms of one huge Main Street
that you walk down that would be flanked
by different types of plazas and open
space and along with movie theaters and
shops and we'll go over that a little
bit in detail today we're gonna also
open the first phase of some of the
residential which is 300 apartments
right in this area here the project's is
entitled to build 2,500 homes and
apartments over a period of time but the
first phase will be these 300 luxury
apartments right here opening again for
the 2020 Opening Day this is all the
stuff that you'll see in 2020 and then
we're gonna also right now in the market
of actually marketing some great a
office space and then office space will
be so much similar to what you see in
apply of Vista grade-a a geared towards
the tech industry especially since a lot
of text industry is expanding in this
area spacex tests like you know it's
just south of us here and you're seeing
the impact by a lot of people moving in
with all those types of tech in
street to the south of us here to the
west of us is what the calling silicone
beatriz's Playa Vista and so we're going
to capitalize that and bring more of
that type of industry into this area as
well
and so we're hoping to have about that
first 300 to 400 thousand square feet
open about the the 2020 date what we're
also in the field right now is marketing
a boutique hotel which will be on this
side of the lake area here and that's
about the 300 room hotel and that's out
being marketed right now we don't have a
name brand yet we have several people
competing for it and at some point I'll
be happy to come back and tell you what
that is once we settle on that deal I'm
gonna go to the next slide here so you
probably can't see this from the back
area here but this is basically a detail
of how far we've gone beyond schematic
design into the retail center we'll be
coming into chris jackson's department
in about two or three weeks submitting
what we call plot plan review this is
means we are now moving into the phase
well we're hoping to begin to start
construction of the retail the latter
part of this year September October so
that we could try to meet that same 2020
deadline as well and what you'll see
here is that there's a percent
okay there's look I gotta tell you we're
trying to get to the movie theater you
just do it this way old-fashioned way
here right here is a movie theater that
would go in and this is one of those
multiplex 13 the sixteenth great seat
movie theater a grocery store is
scheduled to be here which creating and
in this area is hitting out toward
century Boulevard kind of a which you
called your general amenities grocery
store Bank pharmacy and what have you so
these are your dailies that you can kind
of get in and out without going actually
into the whole retail Center on the
corner here we're launching a really a
kind of a unique idea if you've ever
been in San Francisco we do a concept
called the Ferry Building where we
curate a lot of the local food vendors
or whatever in create kind of a Market
Hall experience that everybody's been
trying to replicate what we're doing
something a little bit different here
we're creating some what we're basically
calling a fashion Center in which we'll
curate different people's some of the
local people here own Ehrlich etc that's born out of Englewood and they
will be able to be a part of this sort
of fashion district here and there'll be
a want considered to be one of the
anchors and this will give a lot of it
people that are currently in the
community opportunities to participate
in this whole retail center so you may
not be able to you know go toe to toe
with an H&M but you go into the fashion
center as your own sort of entity if you
if you're curating unique fashions that
are by design so this is not meant that
you go downtown and buy something and
sell in Iraq this is means you are
actually curating your own fashions and
designs in here and we'll have a stylist
that will actually lead and be part of
the fashion industry to talk about
actually what's being curated in this
area here there's one big parking
structure similar to have you ever been
to the growth that feeds everything into
this into the development itself and
there's a number of plazas throughout
the development there's even a little
instance Instinct basketball court for
private showings and basketball games
handed up by aliphatic clothing and in
chinchou place and then just a number of
your typical type of retailers bounded
by a lot of local restaurants and
boutique restaurants associated as well
so what does that look like let's take a
look at
what we're actually designing here and
this is the first time you'll be able to
see some of this so this is the movie
theater looking into what we're calling
our fashion Plaza and there be big
screens in the movie plans you could
kind of see the roof of the stadium in
the background here some of the offices
peeking over the the top edge here but
this is the interior of this immense
plaza here and the idea is to have these
runway fashion shows going outside of
these fountains on each side that would
lead you into that retail fashion market
at the very bottom down there but the
idea is there's a program this that goes
on for different types of events if game
is going at the stadium we want to be
able to show the game on here so that if
you don't have a ticket or whatever you
can come to the retail center sit in the
middle park and watch the game out with
your with your name neighbors also what
we want to do is be able to curate we're
going to be working with local film and
television producing colleges for their
students to come in and show amateur
films and their productions here and
have different types of screenings here
that you can come and enjoy what our
students are doing today in television
and film this is that sunken-in private
basketball court where that would be
anchored by again big screens and you
might do private showings of private
parties back here but you would also be
curated by a fashion Footwear sports
like a Nike or adidas or something like
that that an anchor and management so
you'd have three man basketball watching
the game here at the same time while
other things are so curated into this
private space so the idea behind this retail center is for it to have
different kinds of surprises that as you
turn you don't know what to expect and
you sort of actually feel like you're in
a European village is you're strolling
and there's different kind of Pat plazas
as you turn and twist throughout the
development
this is again that this scene you seen
before this is that it looking into the
lake the edge of the lake that's coming
into the retail center with the hotel at
one edge of the lake this huge plaza
where your gather coming out with a
number of restaurants surrounding the
lake area and this is looking at that
plaza looking from the lake if you're on
the stadium side looking back into that
Plaza and you see this big open plaza
with the stage for performances and
where we'll eventually locate the tree
trimming ceremony like you do at the
grow with Santa and everybody flowing
all over the place that's the idea that
this is becomes a big civic plaza in the
middle of retail center this right here
will be our curated food hall and this
is a take off of what we've done in San
Francisco called the Ferry Building and
which will curate a lot of local and
entrepreneurs that are in the food
industry is part of that this is another
Plaza looking out back into the stadium
over the office building and here we've
got these signature fountains throughout
these kind of art design fountains
throughout the the plaza with lots of
open and eat eating spaces and open
restaurant areas throughout the plaza
this is looking into that food hall
coming out of that food hall and you'll
be able to get fresh fruits and
vegetables and all sorts of pastries and
bakery goods all curated by again local
professionals and this is one of our
plazas coming down into the retail
Center just to give you a feel of the
architecture about it very sharp very
modern very today the idea is for it to
be able to last for a long time and not
be dated by going into any particular
one type of design on that and then this
is one of the cocktail plazas here where
after five o'clock you could come to the
casino now but at a certain point you'll
be able to come over to to our plaza
here to enjoy the front of meeting under
individuals and neighbors in the area
and then this is basically what we're
calling the new Hollywood Park yeah it
is will be curated as one of the largest
urban infield developments in the
country Playa Vista was number one
Hudson Yards is the other one
currently under construction this one
will be the largest second till all
those so with that I'll take any
questions you might have so before we
take any questions or comments we
actually have a special guest that came
to join us and he has many meetings to
go through so I asked for you we'll take
your Q&A question answers momentarily
but because the mayor has to rush to
other events he's running late as we
speak so without further ado please help
me recognize our distinguished city
being wood Mayor James d-bots jr. things
changed a little bit around here aren't
that you guys just a little bit you know
I really want to you know give a lot of
credit to around Franklin he he held
these town hall meetings regularly
through the years when we didn't have
nothing to talk about
and I say what do you talk to those
people about all the time but but now
we've really got a lot to talk about I
want to also want to recognize a real
pillar of this community and that's
Gerard McHale let's give him a big hand
I've been in public service for 45 years
and I've dealt with thousands of people
I've met had the privilege to meet four
presidents a lot of movie stars and a
lot of great business minds Gerard
McCallum is such an asset to this
community
and I feel so fortunate that he and
Hollywood Park land company and Chris
Meany
and Terry Fancher were here because do
you know that when the recession came
and the housing market crashed they had
a project that was entitled but nobody
was going to be able to sell any houses
and they could have just bankrupted that
limited liability corporation and they
could have just ran off and left this a
big empty hole but they did and they
were richly rewarded for that for not
doing that now how many people here have
lived in Englewood and and keep your
hands up until I get past you how many
people have lived here for five years
raise your hands how many for ten years
now when I went to exceed you got to put
your hand down how many for 15 years how
many for 20 years 25 years 30 years 35
years 40 years
okay now 45 years 47 years 48 years
that's 1960 okay so so yell out the year
or anybody here in 74 anybody here in 73
anybody here in 72 I started here in 72
anybody here in 1970 okay now now it's
getting scary anybody here in 1968
anybody here in 1967 66
now the Ku Klux Klan was here in 65 so
in 1965
1964 oh come on now
1963 62 so you're the first black man
here 1961 okay when did you get here
1960 so I want you to know something I
want you to look at this for me the
Alpha and Omega frame would started in
1967 when jack kent cooke came and built
the farm moved the lakers elgin baylor
and jerry west from the sports arena
near the Coliseum Tanglewood 1972
acquired Wilt Chamberlain and the Lakers
won their first championship here in Los
Angeles then we went into the Showtime
years with magic Johnson cream
abdul-jabbar Wilkes worthy Rambis Cooper
nor Mixon AC green who's that Byron
Scott but can't forget Byron Scott and
those were the days that made Inglewood
you know there was the Kings the Lakers
Showtime the forum was going the track
was drawn 38,000 43,000 a day six days a
week
Seattle Slew ran here everybody knew who
we were and we were doing okay then 1999
the Lakers and the Kings leave for the
Staples Center somewhere along the way
they allowed off-track betting so that
you didn't have to come here to bet your
horse if you lived out near San Anita
you could bet your horse now near San
Anita and the track crowd started to die
and they got down to about a thousand
people a day from it from an average of
43,000 a day then the recession in 2008
then the housing market crash
and then I came back and foolishly ran
for mayor in 2010 so here's where we
were in February 1st of 2011 when I was
sworn in office we were down to our last
11 million dollars we were burning on
the average $50,000 a day more in
expenses than where we're taking it in
revenues on a straight-line basis we
would have run out of money within 7
months we were insolvent by our balance
sheet because we owed the employees more
in accrued leave time if they all left
and had to be paid out than we had in
the bank our bonds were darn near junk
graded we trimmed trees which we have 19
thousand trees in our inventory and we
were trimming about 1,200 trees a year
which meant whether you need it or not
we're trimming a tree every 20 years we
had to street sweeping machines that
were older than 35 years of age and we
had to street sweeping personnel for 9
square miles one of those machines was
broken at all times but it worked out
well
because one of the street sweepers was
injured at all times so we had a perfect
symbiosis between equipment and
personnel the streets were dirty our
water system was 60 years old and our
youth all of you probably remember back
in 2011 we were having these sinkholes
on century Boulevard because water was
leaking into the ground
eroding the roadway bed century
Boulevard was about 15 years overdue at
that time to be redone it was a mess
we had our challenges we cut 140
positions from the organization sixty of
them had people in them in those
positions we discontinued lifetime
medical we had lifetime medical for
every employee in a dependent and it was
not funded by the employees or the city
we were banging as we go if we had
escaped the seven-month bankruptcy
figure date by 2017 last year lifetime
medical expenses would have climbed to 9
million a year
and we would have been bankrupt again so
we did the tough stuff we made some
smart decisions we entered into
advertising deals where we put up things
like these billboards that you see those
were put up for at no cost to us and we
derived 50% of the income from them we
did smart things we entered into an
agreement with Madison Square Garden
where we put up our last 18 million
dollars of redevelopment bond money
towards the renovation of the form and a
hundred million dollars later the form
reopened and AEG and all our competitors
said nobody would come to Englewood to
go to concerts anymore
that's what they said well today the
forum is the number one concert venue in
the state of California number two in
the United States of America number four
in the world and booked events
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2015 we announced that we were going to
seek an NFL team in Englewood and again
everybody said the NFL will never come
to Englewood they just use them as
leverage against st. Louis January 2016
then I found the Rams committed to build
a 2.6 billion dollar Stadium here in
Englewood at no expense to the city and
Gerard just named all the benefits that
came with that deal is one of the best
deals ever negotiated in the history of
sports and the Rams and NFL said they
were coming here January of 2017 our
rivals for the move the Chargers said
hey can we come to anger with - then we
say yeah you can come on come on June of
2017
little more than six months ago we
entered in negotiations with the Los
Angeles Clippers to build a
state-of-the-art NBA arena across the
street from that development that will
consist of their corporate headquarters
their practice facilities and a 18 to
20,000 seat NBA arena there'll be a
total of a billion dollar project that
project should yield 10 million a year
in property taxes 1.4 million of that
will go to the city of Inglewood about 7
million that'll goes to the state of
California and what it would have
property taxes in the state of
California do they fund schools I feel
some of that should come back to our
Englewood schools because that's money
they never would have had
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but we have people that will try and
convince you that we have enough we have
people from New York that will tell you
that that's too much traffic if you ever
been to New York and seeing the traffic
there are people that think we are
stupid that they will tell us when we've
had enough
well we'll tell them when we've had
enough now here are the things that are
going to occur over the next few years
in 2020 the Rams and the Chargers will
play the first game here in England
California in 2022 will host Super Bowl
61 in 2023 will host the NC to a
championship bowl game these are things
that are already set in stone
in 2024 that's the things keep going
along the Clippers will play their first
game in Inglewood in 2028
we'll be the host for the opening
ceremonies for the world Olympic Games
in England California but you know
what's better than that in October of
2017 we open negotiations with the LA
Philharmonic to move their Youth
Orchestra program to Inglewood
California
we are selling them the old security
bank building that we bought last year
to land bank that had a profit of 1.5
million dollars to the city and Frank
Gehry is going to redesign that building
they're going to expand the Youth
Orchestra program from 1,000 students to
2,000 students a large number of those
will be Englewood youth that will be
mentored in contact with some of the
best orchestra talents in the world the
Girl Scouts of America have bought a
building in Englewood and they're moving
their regional headquarters from Marina
del Rey to Ingrid California little less
than two weeks ago we had the opening of
the long-promised
but worth waiting for 27 million dollar
Senior Center
this is the most magnificent and you can
ask Jun chef as or anybody on the
committee the most magnificent in that
right Maxine magnificent facility for
seniors or anyone that you've ever seen
if you haven't seen it go over to Queen
and Locust and be ready to spend some
time because it's 35,000 square feet
it's beautiful so we saw the Alpha and
the Omega
and now the Phoenix rises again these
are the best of times but we are just an
embryo we're not even born yet property
values are up over 125 percent since the
end of 2012 the average inventory time
for our house that goes on the market is
less than 30 days and they saw a sell at
asking price or ten to fifteen thousand
more than what people are asking this is
what you deserve because you voted for
the leaders that you wanted people that
were going to look out for you for your
interest for your community for your
prosperity do you there are more people
working now in Inglewood than have ever
worked has worked in the last 40 years
that we know of from from a seventeen
point five percent unemployment rate
down to five point five percent as of
this last fall two hundred million
dollars I think is 200 million and
Counting now Gerard in contracts
subcontractor contracts for that
development that you just saw went to
minority land and women led
disadvantaged businesses and they hire
local
never before in the history of
construction in the city
have you seen contracts to go to local
subcontractors like this they'd always
go to the guys from Orange County
because those were the developer and
they bring their own people
well we insisted our development
agreements that we have local hire and
we have local subcontractors because
everyone should benefit from the
prosperity that's being developed for
this region and what's happening right
now we're changing the whole economic
paradigm over the county in the next
seven to eight years there will be
fifteen billion dollars in construction
and economic activity centered right
here in the city of Englewood now he's
been here since 1960 but you were here
in 2018 to see when everything changed
in the County of Los Angeles so I'm
gonna say congratulations to all of you
there's so much for us to do but these
are actually the best of times
thank you very much for your support
thank you McCallum Franklin for the time
many wonders why we have town hall
meetings the marriages global impact of
the city so a little bit later I'll give
you more details but if I have Gerard
McCallum please come back and join us
because we're part of the presentations
focusing on the Hollywood Park
entertainment district and he did his
presentation and I do also want to
acknowledge what you see on the screen
will also be broadcast through spectrum
or also we're going to be making DVDs of
this town hall meeting and we're gonna
make them available through Aaron L Z
raise your hand Aaron he's he's our
police liaison at our community center
and then you can check them out for your
charge to be able to see him intimately
or you can also watch them on the city's
website we have a youtube link where you
can also see it as well now we'll take a
few questions or comments regarding this
project which y'all McCallum
we do ask that you stand give us a
chance to get a microphone to you
because we are we are televising this
broadcast any questions or comments for
Jill jerard
it's going going way in the back the
development seems real nice but you
didn't mention anything about parking
whereas all these people go in the park
yes so on the site I don't have a
parking map in here we have 12,000
spaces on site nine thousand dedicated
strictly to the to the games there's
44,000 parking spots spots within a mile
and a half of the site the place will be
over part next question and then also
just let you know there's a new parking
multi-level parking structure that will
be used we use hello that we use to help
accommodate that and then also we have
this parking structure behind us which
is a four stories as well go ahead young
lady yes
how is the traffic gonna flow when all
of these venues are going are they going
to go at the same time house
they really won't go cuz they're
different seasons for the different
sports but what we're doing with a lot
of the infrastructure improvements you
see it's like we did some of the
widening on centuries from the widening
on Prairie it's turn off lanes we're
actually doing an integration with the
city for intelligent traffic signals
that will actually computerize a lot of
the signals throughout the city so when
the again going out of a game the
signals will all sing to be able to get
traffic to flow faster in and out of
them out of the site itself and so we're
improving pretty much all the areas
right around this the stadiums we're
also coordinating with the rail system
that will be coming in for shuttle
drop-off systems and we'll also be doing
a strike for game day similar to have
you ever been in The Hobbit ball where
they bussed everybody in from different
parts of the county to reduce the
overall traffic impact we'll be doing
those type of programs as well and let
me piggyback with it as well for those
that don't know me I said on many many
chairs and I have many many committees I
happen to be the chairperson for the
Metro service council that deals with
public transit and the mayor James D
butts is now on the board of Metro Board
and we have been
jimena on ear this is not working we're
earmarking the actual first my last mile
of a light rail system we're working on
from the Florence and Market Street
whether it's going to be the new train
station to have light rail think of
Disneyland coming all the way down
Florence to Prairie to drop off right
where the old airport Park Hotel used to
be for those that remember that location
and it's going to go back up again
and it's going to drop off and so future
sites that we aren't enta fied that is
just south of century then it's going to
go back up again and work his way back
through Market Street to downtown so we
are we are working on it and so that way
we can make sure that we are able to
provide the public transit as needed and
mitigate the amount of vehicles that's
going to be on the road two more
questions this gentleman here and there
young lady over there
you mentioned a walking path in the
structure yes there are actually several
walking paths throughout the both around
the park throughout the Arroyo Park and
actually through the actual retail
center itself so like if you go to the
Grove you could walk and stroll all of
that Market Street that main
thoroughfare and visit any of the sort
of pocket plazas in that that that that
retail center and also go out into the
lake there paths all the way around that
Lake that'll take you all the way up
into a Royal Park and if you want to
walk that far I'll take you all the way
back to bluff Park where the dog parks
and everything else will be as well you
mentioned the stores and the market do
you have any names committed to what
store or what market will be coming not
a discount
well we I don't as of yet we're actually
just starting to go into plot plan
review again the project will be up in
2020 so we'll know about a year out who
X there will be the tenants in that we
have a team out and we've actually gone
in partnership with the city to various
conventions or whatever to start
marketing who will actually be on site I
can tell you based on the cost of this
project there ain't gonna be no discount
in here alright thank you thank you so
much a really proud thank you
drug you're gonna be around for a couple
minutes okay because there's some people
still have some more questions to ask
you in interest of time I am very
limited yeah I'm on a time restraint and
as you know the mayor can be the gift of
the gab and so you've got the global
effect but the reason why we have the
town hall meetings and I've been doing
them since I've been in office in so
three is that I'd like to talk to you
about the nuts and bolts of the city
particularly in district 4 so you're
going to hear my presentation which be
toward the end and at that time I'll be
asking for you to get the pen in hand
and get your paper ready because I'm
going to give you a lot of bullet point
things specifically going on now and in
the immediate future that's going to
impact your quality of life and your
means of transportation but before we
get there one of the pet peeves that I
have been on the council is having to go
to you front of your house in dealing
with utility companies because all of a
sudden nature takes its course you have
equipment piping etc like a life wears
out and all of a sudden we have their
water main lines busting and all of a
sudden what do we do and as soon as the
utility company says we need to increase
the fare the first thing he says oh no I
can't afford that but at the same time
you're gonna say but I want to make sure
my water is all when I turn on the
faucet don't different than when you put
your key in the ignition of your car you
said look I put it and I know it's going
to start so when it don't start get what
you get angry so when you get a turn the
water on you don't have water because
the busted water main you get angry so
we have a company that has
embraced us to make sure that they have
the necessary infrastructure on keeping
the water lines up and running as well
as making sure we have quality cloth
clarified water as well fluoride water
as well to make sure that you in fact
have the quality and the enjoyable use
of the water so every time you turn the
faucet on and take your shower I
actually have the distinct pleasure and
recognizing a young lady that actually
she's almost like family because you
don't know but in my 13 years during the
toy food drive she has been the one of
the individuals that spearheaded the
support to make sure that our children
and their families of need get taken
care of
she's also the same one that every time
we have issues regarding water issues
she has been my catalysts to make sure
that we reach out to this company that
they may move forward and take care of
and address her issues and does not stop
at oh those issues are resolved please
help me recognize from the Southwest
district manager Kate Nutting from the
Golden State Water Company come by this
way and she has a team gonna join us as
well if you have golden state water take
copious notes
Thank You Kate your team good evening
everyone thank you so much for that very
warm welcome councilman Franklin I was a
little nervous coming up here because I
just heard the mayor give a great talk
about the amazing things that are
happening in Inglewood and also mr.
McCollum talking about what's gonna be
happening right here and I'm here to
talk to you about water which isn't
quite as exciting so we'll try to make
it exciting but those are a couple of
tough acts to follow as councilman
Franklin said my name is Kate Nutting
I'm the general manager for gold state
waters southwest district I have a
couple of other people who will be
presenting here today too we have Dave
shultiess it's our water quality
engineer so he'll be giving the water
quality update and Bill Schwartz our
capital program manager will be talking
to you about some capital improvements
that are going on in the city so just to
briefly go through I'll give you a
little overview of our water system and
then Dave will talk about water quality
bill will talk about infrastructure
improvements and then I'll finish our
talk talking about our rate case that is
going on and talk to you a little bit
about water rates so just to talk to you
a little bit about Golden State Water
Company we serve 1 million customers of
people across California through 261,000
service connections we've been around
since 1929 and we have seven different
water systems or water districts
throughout the state and 38 different
water systems we have 20 different
customer service areas within 75
communities in the state and we do have
a 24-hour customer service number so
anytime day or night any day of the year
you can call our 800 number and talk to
a live audio
advantages of Golden State Water Company
is our infrastructure philosophy we
believe strongly in water reliability
and making sure that we have the
infrastructure to do that we change our
replace our water mains very
competitively compared to other water
systems we have many many employees so
throughout the company we have over 500
employees scientists water experts
accountants water distribution operators
water supply operators and we work very
hard to satisfy our customers the
Southwest District has about 55,000
service connections so we're the largest
district in the company were about 20%
of the entire company we serve all of
the cities of Gardena and Lawndale and
then a portion of all the other cities
listed there including Englewood of
course and some portions of
unincorporated Los Angeles County the
water delivered to our customers is a
mixture of ground water pump locally
here out of the ground an imported water
that comes from the Metropolitan Water
District of Southern California and Dave
will talk a little bit more about that
so this is our entire system
so what's shaded in yellow is our whole
system you'll see it's very large
we have about 465 miles of pipe that
circle there basically very generally
shows the portion of it that's in
Englewood so this map right here shows
it a little bit better if I try to put
it's kind of hard to see but all this
sort of light pink area here is our
portion of our system that serves Engle
was so there's Van Ness over here
Imperial Highway century and then La
Cienega and so now I'm going to turn it
over to Dave for a couple of minutes to
talk to you about water quality
Thank You Kate good evening everybody
so I'll talk to you a little bit uh for
I'd first does anyone know why we add
fluoride to our drinking water correct
it's to promote dental health
specifically to help prevent cavities
and does anyone know where the sources
of fluoride come from soy is actually
naturally occurring in the environment
but we also add a small amount of
fluoride to increase the level to the
level that's recommended by EPA for
optimal health protection and Florida is
regulated and we have a lot of different
measures that we take to ensure that the
fluoride is at the proper level you
don't want too much or too little so at
each of our treatment sites we have
continuous online analyzers that will
record the the readings and will
actually alert one of our operators if
the levels go outside the control range
the treatment sites are checked daily
and the operators calculate the dose
every single day to make sure it's the
proper amount we also do distribution
monitoring the different sites
throughout our system to ensure that
every site is within compliance and then
we also have to notify the state if our
fluoride levels are out of control range
two or more times per month so of course
any time we see the other control range
we would then go ahead and increase or
decrease the froid accordingly and then
we report it to the state monthly so
generally I was thought it kind of
interesting there's talk about water in
general where does your water come from
and I think it's really fascinating you
can see on the screen here this is all
California then this is the Metropolitan
Water District of Southern California
service area and these are the aqueducts
from State Water Project and also from
the Colorado River that feed the
metropolitan water system in the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California has all these different
customers here and we purchase water
from West Basin and also from Central
Basin but ultimately it comes a majority
of our water comes from the metropolitan
water and we're about 63 percent
metropolitan water and 36 percent local
ground water which is the wells that we
operate so in water industry we use a
multi barrier approach to protect public
health Metropolitan Water District is
imported surface water and they use
multi barrier treatment for convention
it's called conventional treatment which
is coagulation flocculation sanitation
filtration disinfection and fluoridation
surface water can have pathogens like
bacteria protozoans and we want to
remove all that to make sure the water
are safe now for Golden State Water
Company we have ground water wells and
we also treat our water however most of
our wells are pretty good water quality
to begin with and we primarily remove
iron and manganese which isn't really
something that's harmful to your health
but it is a nuisance it causes
discoloration of water fever turn on
your faucet and see brown or blackish
water that's what it is so we remove
iron and manganese then we disinfect and
we also add fluoride for the for dental
health as we've mentioned so a lot goes
on water quality I think it's really
fascinating which is why I'm so happy to
be here and explain everything
there's source water protection and also
monitoring that we do so part of the
source water protection is a drinking
water source assessment and protection
or D swap and we submit that to the
state after we do a survey of the
properties around our wells in certain
industries might pollute more than
others and so we identify those as being
potential sources of contamination and
we also can drive around and see what
they're doing
visit their sites but we tell the state
you know basically what we're seeing and
there's also a database from the state
that will help us identify those sources
in some sources could be underground
storage tanks gas stations are really
you know popular agriculture dry
cleaners storm sewers things like that
also the state particular vulnerability
assessments which tells us what we need
to monitor and how often we did in
monitor and we test for over 230
contaminants in our drinking water to
show that it's safe and of course if
there was higher levels that we would
add treatment as necessary to make it
safe also we have a water resources
department and they work with
stakeholders in the community such as
the water replenishment district EPA
state water boards the water master and
then basins like ours West base and we
also have some portion of Central Basin
we also need to ok so quickly here we
also have concern about security so we
have a lot of measures in place to help
prevent intrusion so iron gates fencing
security alarms motion sensors cameras
we visit sites daily multi-layered
control systems access control which is
allows us to know who came in and when
also emergency preparedness and response
plan which we work with the state on to
be able to notify the public the media
in case of emergency multi coordinate
agency coordination is also important as
well as a Cal Warren which is like a
multi-agency co-op for equipment and
other safety further things we might
need in case for emergency and also the
California water environment Association
so I figured bill on here and he can
talk about don't you the capital
improvements we're doing in our system
excuse me
good evening I will let you know I've
been in the water industry for probably
about 15 years and I get about 50% of
what Dave just talked about so don't
feel bad if you didn't get all of that
because I don't quite understand it
either to that end I'm out of the
capital program Management Group and we
are responsible for determining
designing and installing the capital
equipment necessary to provide water
from water sources directly to your
homes to that end how we drive
everything make our decisions determine
is based on our vision which really is
to cost-effectively renew expand
infrastructure in the communities we
serve to maintain and improve the
standard of living for generations to
come I think you've heard some
conversations about sometimes people
don't invest in their infrastructure and
they pay just like if your car if you
don't fix your car it doesn't start so
we believe that we really want to do
this for the long term to that end you
can kind of look at our projects and
break them into three buckets water
quality which is Dave's talked a lot
about system reliability which is
getting the water to you both in normal
conditions and in emergency conditions
we've had fires we've we can have
earthquakes here so we have to make sure
our infrastructure is designed and we
can respond and keep that water supply
going and finally we look at water
supply cost reduction projects think
that we can do to lower the cost of
water to the ago--it community so those
are sort of three areas we do projects
put them in those buckets again you've
seen this map but I only want to bring
to your attention just real quickly like
try to use a light saber here
Golden State Water our water sources are
here in green our MWD connections are
here you can see where we have some
water sources here green means we can
push water up here brown means we rely
on this why do we do that or why are we
concerned about that groundwater is
about half the cost of MWD water so what
we're trying to do is we want to is
whenever we can push groundwater into
the system because it's cheaper less
expensive so but it's a balancing act
because we have groundwater wells
sometimes the water isn't perfect also
you can see where the sources are and
where you're at
we gotta bring water into this area so
yeah here's a well right in here but we
also have water so we have to bring in
connections and water up these lines if
you will so again we're trying to supply
water to this area and you can see by
these percentages it talks about how
much we pull into each area so to that
end when you talk about water quality
products we do these various projects
and again we're trying to improve water
quality we have to meet both federal
standards state standards and from your
custom from the inputs from you folks so
if you don't like the water there's an
issue you contact us so to that end we
tend to invest a lot of money a lot of
this SCADA is automatic system so we can
control them remotely
again we knop tamai so we're trying to
blend ground water with surface water
and surface water and ground water don't
always necessarily agree with each other
they have different physical
characteristics they have to be treated
differently when they interact they
produce things that we have to handle so
we need to really look at control here
nitrification again nitrates and
nitrites are two things that are
regulated by the division of drinking
water we have to make sure that we don't
have an issue with nitrites and forming
and that's an issue again with surface
water and groundwater surface water
being the MWD state water project water
and groundwater being our Wells and
finally we have to do enhancement of our
well sites to be able to make sure the
water we send to you is in good shape
some of these wells are older Wells and
wells are very expensive to punch some
of them are a million to two and a half
million dollars per well so we have to
make sure that we stretch that ass out
as far as we can and sometimes we need
to do some treatment at the wells or
work at the wells to make sure that
water quality is where it needs to be
overall in this category about 3.4
million dollars pipeline management just
real quickly these are the whole system
reliability issues make sure pipelines
don't rupture make sure water is there
and again these are all pipelines that
we put in this one we're putting in a 19
but all of these pipelines feed what you
saw on that map earlier about 13 million
dollars total from water supply cost
reduction again we're looking at trying
to reduce water cost so this includes
putting ground water treatment date
about manganese also on these two plants
we're looking at trying to do some
advanced treatment to truck in to try to
take groundwater resources that
potentially right now stranded and get
them back online to try to reduce cost
and finally we have various water
quality projects that again all
dedicated try to reduce that imported
water which is about twice the cost
total twelve million dollars in projects
so roughly we put about twenty million
dollars into the water system to supply
water to the city of Englewood community
okay so I think we're just about out of
time we had a few more slides but what I
can do very generally and I will say I
will be here after the meeting to take
any specific questions but I did want to
make you aware that all of those things
maintaining water quality meeting
regulations and making sure that our
services are reliable means it costs
money so we have a general rate case
that we have to file every three years
with the Public Utility Commission we
just filed one in July of 2017 for rates
that will take effect in 2019 we do have
a public participation hearing for that
rate case if you want to go and hear
more about it it's on february 1st at 7
p.m. in Huntington Park I can give you
all the details after you should if you
haven't already receive a notice about
that in the mail that will have all the
details too but I will be here after the
meeting to talk to you about it a few
things so let me into inner Jack give
her a hand if you would please
anybody knows when you have the town
hall meetings with yours truly it's
where the rubber meets the road so I
want to talk and ask the those residents
that live on spinning between a hundred
and eight on the north to Imperial
highway on the south to give them a hand
put in new water lines for you as well
as new fire extinguish fire
extinguishers is what fire hydrants as
well we also have because I've been
around a few years we also have the
issue at 117th in Kornblum where their
facilities located that they reached
into their pockets and maintained that
cleanup area that was part of their
property
we had the break in water broken water
main on a concern street we took care of
that one we had one on shanira Avenue we
take care of that one we had one on
thorough we took care of that one this
is why I'm sharing with you that is
critical that you interface with our
water providers to identify but they
value the city of Englewood and their
clients and customers and they do the
extra things needed to make sure you
have little to no interruption of
service and also when it comes to
quality I'm going to reach out to those
that live in the Imperial village you
had a number of issues regarding the
quality of water and I see you out there
as I'm looking and they're going to stay
afterwards and if you still have that
issue with them please make sure that
you take time to talk to them one on one
they will take your personal information
and they'll reach out to you as well so
I'm gonna allow them to give we'll take
a couple of questions but we're really
behind on time and so I want to move
forward on that but I see the okay
brother young lady behind you brother
man and they will take brother man next
if you stand up please so we can get you
on camera
good afternoon one question I'd like to
know if the Golden State Water Company
has a summer program for you where they
can learn to be chemical engineers on no
one is necessary and if you do find that
we need the information if you don't you
need to take it back and maybe consider
it
that is a great idea thank you for that
question we don't specifically have a
program like that we as a company do
support many programs that that want to
do that kind of water education I know
west facing municipal water district who
we purchase metropolitan water from they
have a lot of programs so I could look
into that if they have something like
that
and it is something that in other areas
we have put together so it's something
that I could look into too because I
think it's a great idea okay thank you
mr. Manning get the mic please good
evening my question is the young men
they gave me a spill on a water supply
cost reduction projects just what are
you talking about how is this going to
impact us
when you say reduction in the projects
how's that gonna help us as consumers so
what that is and I apologize we had to
kind of rush through that section
because we were running a little bit
behind but those are projects that are
specifically for our groundwater wells
so we have some groundwater wells that
are not running right now that we need
to do work to in order to get them
running and when we get them running
that means we'll have more groundwater
to serve the system as opposed to water
that we have to purchase and that
groundwater is about half the price of
water that we purchase so so by doing
those projects our water supply costs
will go down
is that the question is is our is our
rates gonna go down the answer questions
no it's going to avoid from going up and
then also just so you know that those
that live in Lock Haven they also have a
well at 111th Street in Yukon which they
refurbishing as we speak one more
question regarding the subject matter or
comments and we'll move on gentleman
next to mr. Manning I just wanted to
know how does your water company
compared to the other water companies
across the country in terms of quality
and is it just coincidental did all of
the areas that you covered
seem to be more predominantly black
so in terms of our water quality I would
say yeah most of the water systems
across the country have very good water
quality the United States in
particularly California has very
stringent water quality regulations so
any city that you live in I think you
can feel comfortable that the water is
safe to drink including the ones that we
serve in terms of your question about
the dam demographics I don't know that demographic so I can't really speak
to what that issue is but we I mean we
serve we serve communities all across
California of all different types of
demographics so I wouldn't say that
there's any specific demographic that we
serve and then let me interject as well
you heard the mayor also do a Talia
who's been here the longest and so far
we found one resident that has a freakin
Americans been here since 1960 they've
been here since 1908
providing us water so because of gender
vacation there's been a change and so
we're just wrong with the flow and it's
going to happen again as we start moving
forward with the City of England let's
give our presenters a hand if you would
please so before we get to the next
presenter and again I want to say this
part of the segment is where the rubber
meets the road and I saw several
Imperial village residents that have
bent my ear repeatedly regarding your
water quality do not let them get away
with that you have a take some some
choice words of labor of love of what
you're dealing with so they can at least
address those concerns if you would
please
I also we have a number of people in the
audience I want to recognize first of
all everyone has a boss and I've been
married for over 44 years and I have a
boss so when you go outside at the
information table please let my wife
Juanita Franklin know that you value our
labor of love in addition to that I have
my daughter my oldest daughter is out
there at the information table during
the handouts and that is Felicia
Frankland please give her some love and
then also the young lady has came on
board with beef since 2008 Claudette
Matthews
you know behind every good man is a good
woman and I got three out there today so
show some love please and also we have a
number of individuals that volunteer
their time and labor of love and I also
want them to stand and be recognized
from the art commissioners Vicki banks
district for representing our city our
location thank you very much for the
citizens face oversight Commission Linda
Smith mystic for Linda's raise your hand
so they can see you you're our
representative for the construction
Appeals Board
Jeanne eldritch please stand to be
recognized give it to Jean and by the
way Jean has served on several
Commission's because that's how he truly
values given his labor back into the
community the housing advisory board
give it up for Cheryl McCullen McClendon
there we go she's a resident right
around the corner from us human affairs
Commission Dorothy Cole please stand to
be recognized Park to Recreation
khomeini our chairman and district 4
resident Willie Agee
stana Willie he's also the young man the
young man that we just named our
Playhouse after this many years parking
and traffic commission Barbara Brooks I
thought I saw her okay Planning and
Zoning Board well there she was I sorry
about that Planning and Zoning Board
Terry L Coleman
the Senior Center Advisory Board when
you heard the mayor just talk about
earlier
Maxine Toller she's recognized them we
have a number of block Club captain's
that if I miss anybody please stand
because we want to recognize your block
second Avenue block Club Cheryl Matawan
Fifth Avenue block Club Lawrence Haley
way in the back
six avenue block club Charles comm that
we have genera venuti howard juniors a
year I know I saw okay there's a if
there's representing from Sheridan arrow
Avenue just raise your hand so we can
recognize you I know I saw a couple
y'all here there we go
I also have LaMotta Avenue if you're in
here raise your hands let me recognize
Maxine Belford okay we also have van ass
and spinning Avenue Dorothy Cole she's
over there as well and then we had the
young man that blessed us to start our
meeting on Van Wyck Street block Club
please help me recognize again pastor
Johnny Blakely for several of the
individuals on here is represented in
the city so I just want you to know you
may see me as the main figurehead but I
need a lot of help and part of the
presentation you're going to have I'm
going to be presenting where the rubber
meets the road is that I have me a
backup partner and he's from the city of
Inglewood Public Works Department he's
one of our engineers he like estilo
thank you very much recognize Eloy
because we will be talking about
Crenshaw and and in eccentric middle art
Eloy will be having my back of you if
you jack me up for those issues that
have concerns regarding homeless issues
cannabis dispensaries garage conversions
parking on the grass we have our manager
our director of code enforcement Jerry
Tucker please stand to be recognized so
these individuals are here I'm telling
you now so you don't need to kind of
meet them the ones that go out there all
the time
you feel me
also one of our district 4
representatives that lives in imperial
village that is the assistant to the
city manager please help me recognize
Tunisia Johnson right there and then
last but not least I want to recognize a
very dear friend so when I came here in
74 they embraced me from the very
beginning and we've been we've been
family from every sense when my kids
were growing up her kids were growing up
and we would take he turns to take each
other back and forth the kids back and
forth to school but and and her son is
now with the England Police Department
please help me recognize Rosa Aguilar
Rosa there she is over there so we have
a lot of family in the house and we have
a lot of issues in the house and which
leads me to the next presenter because
for years and decades we've had a number
of blighted locations and also we've had
issues where we want it development but
developers that we want it didn't want
to come English now that has changed and
so now we have we say we're doing smart
thinking about what type of development
want because I heard someone else say
and we echo those same sentiments
we're tired of discount and you know
what that's all we could get but guess
where we get now you heard wrong
McCallum now we are into the Saks Fifth
Avenue Macy's and those kind of stores
now and so I will be taking another
survey between now on this summer as to
the retail stores you're shopping at and
also a new rude awakening that now
people are shopping online this
amazon.com has really caused a major
closure to a number of brick-and-mortar
stores that used to be in shopping
centers so they the shoppers have now
figured out a new way of shopping that
being the case that has the domino
effect when you have a major developer
such as Hollywood heart to make any
determination on what kind of retail can
I get here that will get you out of your
house and not on your computer to come
and patronize so that being said let me
help you help please help me recognize
the economic director Christopher
Jackson and why he's coming up I want to
recognize one other a person or should
say two I want to recognize my dear
friend dr. Dennis Young and his board of
chair Richard Williams they're from the
Children's Dental Center
if anybody know we stand up doctors so
we recognize you if anybody knows when
you're trying to raise a child and
trying to get them to focus on their
education the challenges that they have
when they have their teeth are bother
them dr. Young has gone in his pocket
and got a number of sponsors to help
those that are low very low income
families to help those children to be
able to get their teeth properly fixed
and taken care of and he's been here
well over ten years that I've been here
for for 14 years on the council and you
was there before me so that's this his
labor of love and he's also reached out
to USC and UCLA students to also work in
his program as well so let's give it up
for again for the children's family
center children's gentle simmer okay
it's time for our project in logistic
for and throughout the city Christopher
Jackson
hello council district 4
you guys look great out there let me
tell you I want to first of all thank
the councilman for giving me this great
privilege to be able to share with you
this is two in a row now we all know
we're on a roll councilman and so
hopefully I'm not going to spend a whole
lot of time I'll try and get to the key
points that I think all of us need to
discuss I do want to also acknowledge we
have our Economic Development Manager
miss Sharon Garrett man here we also and
already introduced our code enforcement
manager mr. Jerry Tucker here as well
and then one of his staff are Stella
Hill who will come up here and when you
guys start throwing darts I'll have them
here so I can hide behind them okay
first things first let me move along
okay just quick update on it and you've
heard it already so I won't spend too
much time there you know we're rapidly
moving ahead with the exclusive
negotiated agreement for Murphy's ball
the Clippers arena you've heard the
mayor talk about it so I won't bore you
with that but we are moving aggressively
ahead with all of that we have our
consultants in line we're working on the
environmental documents and you'll be
hearing a lot more about that very soon
Daniel Freeman I want to kind of give
you an update on what's going on there
this the rendering you see at the bottom
is more up-to-date rendering of what we
is going to be happening on the site
we're going through a site plan review
with it right now building plan check is
going to be coming up pretty soon the
demolition of the buildings if you're
driven by the site you've noticed it's
all torn down right so the buildings
that are remaining there are the ones
that are going to not on the site
they're actually away from the project
but if you do have a chance to go by
there and take a look at it you can see
the amount of activity that's occurring
and we're really excited about what's
going to be happening there the front
elevation acts from Prairie is the in
the primary entry way into the townhomes
I think I shared with you last time that
the original target prices for these
units were somewhere around seven to
eight
it's gonna be one point one at 1.2
million per per unit so get ready to
stand in line I see you standing in line
and I think I shared with you before
that just means y'all stuff is gonna go
up and up and up so these type of
projects obviously are walkable they're
close to where all the activity is going
to be going on with Hollywood Park in
the stadium so this is what you see
happening in and around that
neighborhood and some of y'all know
folks that live around that neighborhood
who should be really excited about
what's happening with the property
values there but these are going to be
state-of-the-art buildings and they're
going to be very impressive but I think
they'll kind of pale in comparison to
some of the things I think we're going
to see later on in the Hollywood Park
project as we get into this type of
development the metro station update
you've driven down Florence you've seen
they are moving the stations are up the
tracks are laid if you've been over by
faithful central you'll notice that
they've taken a lot of those gates down
and all that kind of good stuff so
you're starting to get a feel for the
landscape of what it's going to look
like they still have a lot of work to
complete but it is starting to take form
they're gonna be working over a lot of
the bridges and cleaning them up you may
have noticed that they're starting to
recoat those I know some of you looked
at them and said I hope they're not
gonna leave that dirty bridge over
Crossing looking the way it is it's
gonna be recoated and then we're going
to be working on throwing some really
nice things over those bridge crossings
to recognize what's going on in the city
of Englewood and that's the there's
obviously the station that is our
downtown station and then there's a
secondary station over at Fairview
Heights as well so if you've driven up
Florence you've seen that station which
is coming coming together as well Tod
transit oriented development or design
update we're working on two right now
one which is in district 4 which is the
Crenshaw Imperial area we've been
holding a lot of workshops through my
Planning Division headed by Miss Mindy
Wilcox and talking about the various
things that will be going in and around
those transit hubs and those transit
locations to facilitate some of what we
believe is going to be exciting
development in
around that area and transformative in
terms of the way we think about what
trans is going to do throughout Southern
California here's the good stuff
cannabis
you gotta love cannabis councilman
warned me about this part of the
presentation and so I have my invisible
shield that's in front of me so you
throw whatever you want to throw at me
we well I want to share with you and I
said this at the last town hall that we
are we are we are very intentional about
this issue with cannabis the City
Council has been very emphatic about not
allowing it however there are folks out
there who don't operate under the rules
of the city and so what we have done is
we have put the appropriate legislation
and regulations in effect that makes it
clear that we do not allow cannabis
dispensaries or sale in the city of
Englewood all right excellent
and the councillor just gave me some
literature that I believe you you should
all have which talks about our fact
sheet I want to thank my economic
development manager mitts
I got you Garrett man I keep going man
get rid of all those names sharing
Garrett in putting together the fact
sheet that you have in a press release
that is going out across the media we're
going to let everybody know but I will
tell you this the council and I have
discussions and people that are not used
to playing by the rules don't play by
the rules so we have to make sure that
we are aggressively looking at what's
happening in our city I will say this
you call the councilman the councilman
calls me then I call my code enforcement
folks and talk to the Chief of Police
and we come up with the strategies to
try and deal with these issues and I'm
going to share with you some of the
things that are going on in the back
drop so many other times when we hear
from you we already have addressed the
facilities we know where they are but we
appreciate the communication that comes
from you because you're the eyes on the
street you see what's going on and you
see the impact that's having in the to
the city so
this district is not unique this city is
not unique Southern California is not
unique these things are going to be
everywhere you just say that again
they're gonna be everywhere but what we
have done is we have let everyone that
we've come in contact with know that
Ingrid's going to be the hole in the
doughnut you do it all around but when
you come in our city we're gonna be
coming after you aggressively to the
full extent of the law to be able to
deal with these issues so let me kind of
quickly tell you this is what we we have
right now we have four locations that
have been identified in the district
most on that great arterial Crenshaw boy
I tell you create chakra chakra and so
what I wanted to see is the actions that
we're dealing with one that's called the
MX Club that's on one one zero zero one
South Korean sha Jerry come on up real
quick
Stella too and be good remember I told
you I need a shield I need a shell y'all
know these lasers pawpaws yeah pizza
place the one that really surprised me
is the Church of acceptance
there is a crucifix in green so those
has been around a few years know where
Debbie's cleaners is which is narrow the
one called Crenshaw Boulevard 25 cap the
burning tree is so I got alone
burning trees actually will Papa's Papa
speaks is located and then we take the
MX Club that's where Jim's liquor used
to be so now where in the world is this
Church of acceptance how do you remember
the Chinese store that was a right
across the street from Debbie's cleaners
so between Debbie's between the Chinese
store and gins liquor
you buy Wi-Fi there's a driveway and at
that driveway there is a crucifix that
is green and that's the one these are
all the ones were after so and and then
I'll tell you the councilman is right on
top of all that and obviously we get
this communication it comes to me gets
to Jarius tellers out there we
aggressively and I want to let you know
that the first one at the top of City
Attorney received a packet on that On
January 18th we're moving towards
criminal on that so we'll be working
with the City Attorney's Office to get
that into the court so that will be
aggressive the Church of the acceptance
so some of y'all who are you know think
it's Church right yeah you walk inside there it's not it's
not so just let you know that and then
the burning tree and then Cristal
Boulevard 25 cap and I know you know
where all those associations are in
terms of physical locations as the
councillors shared I want to share with
you because I want you to know some of
this stuff happens and you don't see it
but you need to know what's happening
and so every opportunity we get to come
and talk about this with the councilman
and we have been very de counseling has
been in Phatak about this and we've been
on exactly the same page across all the
departments whether it's the City
Attorney's Office the city manager's
office my department and which over code
enforcement we've all agreed that how we
need to approach this issue and we're
working diligently in the background to
make sure but give you just an example
of the one I was just talking about
which is the 109 south Crenshaw the Papa
John's and Papa John's Pizza Papa John's
Pizza and what what that top picture
shows is an empty shell of what used to
be a cannabis dispensary and so this is
we've been we tried to work with owners
and now owners become part of the
problem so we go after the owner and we
go after the dispensary
if we can't get one we get the other and
so these owners are now saying what do
we have to do to get these folks out of
here and this is an example of the good
work that's going on and yes sir I give
them a hand because they working and
I'll say this just to let you know why
City Hall was closed they were going out
every day 14 days straight 14 days
weekends
there was no breaks so that we could put
this together get in on the City
Attorney's desk and then let him be able
to move forward prosecution and so if
you're seeing those the code enforcement
vehicles all roaming all around there
that's why you're seeing them sorry I
asked you if you would his help me give
them a big hand
all right back to our good old you know
I put the good news stuff up there so
you know y'all remember this right this
Yukon Imperial right I know a lot of
y'all used to hang around now I told you
the story last time my first accident in
my new car was in front of this station
when it was operational so I tell you
how long ago that was but we are excited
about what's happening here's a
rendering our elevation of what the the
new building would look like it's in
site plan review and it was submitted
for building plan check today today
demolition is going to be happening on
that site within the next month and
we're gonna see some some exciting
things happen to kind of transform that whole stretch of Imperial
so we're really excited about that
Chris our Imperial Plaza project update
you guys have seen what has been going
on that's why you clap
right I am I mean really excited this
thing was a real royal pain in my butt
back in the day cuz it was just ugly
Center and and it was just not well
thought out but you see what they've
done and what they've worked with staff
to recreate there to create a modern
site that is accessible and walkable and
yes we're still working on all the
details for landscaping and lighting and
all the things but we've gone a long way
you've seen the new Planet Fitness
that's open they're some of the things
that we're doing congratulations on your Planet Fitness both facilities
are doing extremely well you know we
have to Planet Fitness is in the city so
we're really excited about that and then
there's some of the other renovations
are going to be occurring on the site
and we're expecting for these things to
be completed relatively soon okay
now we're going to go over to a hundred
and eleventh and prairie a new Hilton is
coming to the city we are we've been
talking and with the Hilton troop who
has identified this site as a location
kind of the starting of hotel row if you
will I think you're gonna see a lot of
that along Prairie and also along yeah yeah the fly out there okay it says
Hilton Marriott right hilton right now
absolutely and I've met with both
corporate office as well as the local
developer for this site but the end of
the game is that you're gonna have a
high quality hotel 120 rooms a beautiful
roof deck it's gonna be nice to have
folks come to town and they don't have
to go to those other y'all know what I'm
talking about places that you're kind of
scared to even mention and now they'll
have a decent location amongst all the
other activity is going to be happening
you got a lush outdoor garden 118
parking space actually over park for the
structure and then we're estimating
about seven hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year in tax revenue to the
city
that means we shouldn't have any
sinkholes Street trees should be all the
things the mayor talked about these
monies are going to go right back into
making sure that our city is the most
beautiful city that you've ever seen
again the councilman this is one of the
handouts that you have it gives you all
the details in it the next slide kind of
gives you what the interior amenities
are going to look like it really is
fashion I know I'm not a millennial but
it's fashion for the Millennial folk
it's a whole lot of them so but but the
exciting thing about it is all the
amenities that are going to be there
something you are going to be able to
have events there birthday party
celebrations things like that that are
really going to be exciting so it will
have kind of a boutique feel to it which
is exciting well listen there's a lot of
other things that are going on I think
the councilman asked me to talk about
the tower that is being erected the
wireless telecommunication tower that's
being erected on 110 and Prairie and it
is a wire telecommunication facility
it's masked as a tower
it does say welcome to the city of
Inglewood at the top we made them do
some stuff Inglewood the site is going
to be cleaned up and those big
containers that you see out there for
our RS I program I'm on them constantly
about the graffiti constantly about
cleaner side up but the expectation is
that they'll be removed as once this
project is completed there so I want to
thank you for your time I think there's
a little time for Q&A I also bring the
councilman up thank you well I told you
where the rubber meets the road that's
what this town hall meeting is about
we'll get you a cue it will get your
question a little bit later before we
ask for to take questions I thought it's
on a fair and fitting that you also
reach out to a person that is on the
Dyess with me because if you can't count
the three out of five on the council
it's difficult to get things
accomplished and so they put upcoming
developments that you heard about it
takes three members on the council or
the Planning Commission to make sure it
goes to
it's only fair and fitting that we
fought the good fight of faith to make
sure that we've carved in and crafted
legal language that we can go after
cannabis and I mean anywhere from
cultivating transporting warehousing and
selling whether it's recreational or
whether it's for merit medical marijuana
but it didn't take away the state law
entitlement that you can have up to six
plants for yourself in your house in
your house our coal does we had the
restriction that you could have it
outside of your house we require to be
inside your house but we can't stop you
from from them having it and the only
thing we can do as well they may have
the six they're not for resale to
anybody else which is another challenge
where you as neighbors watch it
neighbors will have to share with us
because if I see you floating then I
know you part of that team so we want to
make sure we carved as much language as
we could for enforcement because the
young lady and the gentleman you heard
before that was with him they're the
ones that are in the trenches that
physically have to go door to door
repeatedly to in order to get enough
documentation photographs etc to go to
the City Attorney's Office and said now
we're ready to prosecute not only the
business but the owner as well so let's
give them a hand against you with leaves
and before they were able to pound the
pavement again it took members on the
council to make it happen one of my key
votes that helped us move and it did
prove it unanimous but one of my key
votes that always was there and had my
back and that is councilmember Alex
Padilla I like let me say a few words
well Thank You councilman look at it
really is a pleasure and and while I was
just telling councilman Franklin boy you
bring them out Man Alive and I'm trying
to count I say there's you know over 125
plus folks you know and it's late at
night so I don't want to stay up here
any longer than I need to but I just
gotta tell you you know it's an exciting
time to be a part of everything
Inglewood all the changes that are
occurring at the big level you know I
get it we got the stadium which is
awesome the development in Hollywood
Park this facility here that we're in
the casino and everything happening but
at the same time we as council members
have to look at our districts and what's
happening so we don't forget folks like
you that everyday have to drive through
Englewood and can see and recognize the
great things that we're doing the hotel
that's coming the work that's being done
with the different vacant lots that we
have in the city of Englewood now
everybody wants to be a part of it and
so we're fortunate to have a mayor and a
council that's united and we're working
together for the best interest of you
the residents of England we haven't
forgot you and I can tell you that
councilman Franklin certainly has not
and we're fortunate because it's not
just about what the mayor and the
council does it's about staff like Chris
Jackson and all his staff and all the
rest of our folks in the city of
Englewood we have a workforce that is
top-notch and they help us get the city
moving moving in the right direction and
with that I just want to say thank you
please keep pingu at rolling in the
right
direction all good things Englewood
thank you so much so now we'll take a
few Q&A thank you thank you he has to go
to another meeting as well so one second
young lady I gotcha I gotcha
but his brother in the back had his
Hannah way a long time ago gentlemen the
middle first and then we'll deal with
this young lady and then Jean in the
back if you please stand so we have you
on camera and smile makeup off I just
want to get an idea what's the forecast
for Imperial there's from Crenshaw all
the way down to La Cienega of course
there's a prostitution problem and some
very bad streets so maybe you can kind
of give us a forecast of what we can
look forward to there yeah yeah and
obviously there's there's gonna be a lot
of challenges along our major
thoroughfares throughout the city and
that's just one of the things that we're
working through the beautiful thing
about what's happening in the city of
Englewood is as the property values are
increasing what you're beginning to see
is people step in and step up so you
know that's the existing property owner
saying now I understand the value of my
property and I need to look at it and
look at opportunities for that we see a
lot of joint ventures that are beginning
to go on and some of these things you
don't you won't see for several years
where you're really begin to see the
uptick is going to be right around 2020
and in the end because what's what's happening is all of the
positioning is tailored towards the
stadium the stadium becomes such a
crucial point so a lot of the work
that's being done in the background
meeting with planning staff talking to
economic development trying to make sure
that they have the proper deals that
they have to do in the background or
happening right now and I get the phone
calls and I sit in on the meetings and
we talk about things to make sure that
they're moving in the right direction
some of the activities as you're talking
about like prostitution etc the Chief of
Police is certainly aware of all that we
we've hired and increase our are force
to make sure that we're going to be
addressing those issues but these
some of the things that are going to
come along with as we move forward with
the city but the city is aware of it and
we're doing everything in our power to
try and minimize those negative impacts
so I will answer your question regarding
Imperial Highway remember I come last so
I am the closer okay so we're going to
get that question and just when I tell
you to pick up your pen just be ready to
write young lady up front here please
and then Gina in the back and then we'll
take this young lady and one before you
said you have control of who could sell
and the cannabis yes but it seemed like
I could get high just walking down the
block seriously Don and I have to go
through security to get to work and
Nikki I'm sure you know that's my
concern I could drive in the car too
it's important I was just up in Seattle
Washington where it's been legal for
some time and I was in the park and I
didn't realize it was illegal contact hi
that yeah I mean in the environment once
you legalize it and you allow people to
be able to do it now there are
restrictions people shouldn't be driving
with it and whatnot but the police hands
are kind of hampered that's where the
city in terms of controlling some of the
nuances that you see but the state now
is gonna realize the impact of what
they've done now the good thing about it
went through a referendum process who
knows what we see going on down the road
once we have the effects of what it is I
apologize I try and be careful where you
walk these days especially with my kids
you know so Christmas thank you for
straightening up Imperial and Yukon we
applaud you for that effort but I gotta
tell you unless you do something about
the prostitution there you're wasting
your time you're wasting our money
you're wasting our city
there is no reason to have that much
prostitution on the side of my home we
pick up new product more condoms out
there than you can imagine that's always
going on out there do something to help
us out please and I think I think to
that point I think I was trying to
address the issue there I agree with you
the councilman and I just kind of shared
words and we know we need to have a real
discussion about that and I would say
not just imperial but sensory is having
some issues as well so yeah we'll take
but so so gene the next presenter will
have at our next town hall meeting will
be the police so that way we can talk
about we have to move on brother man -
I'll take your question or comment hi
thank you so much for this information
this has been fantastic I don't live in
district 4 my district 1 but we don't
have this we don't have a forum to come
in here all of this so I come all the
time and watch on YouTube so thank you
for doing this but my question is with
regards to the cannabis so it's great to
see what's happening to address it in
district 1 district 4 but what about the
rest of the districts I would love to
see that same sort of spreadsheet for our area and and just across the
city so we can all sort of contribute
and make sure that this is being
addressed yeah I think the council was
just you know whisper in my ear we're
doing exactly the same thing for every
district so we're reporting to the mayor
so he knows what's going on citywide
we're reporting to each one of the they
the council districts and we started
with Councilman Franklin
and we just met was the last week and
sat down but what I wanted to do I want
to make sure that the councilman as well
as the mayor and each one of the council
are aware of what we were doing so we
laid out code enforcement manager Jerry
talks did an awesome job laying out
where things are so you know and a lot
of things that we talked about is the
issue of just communication so you're
aware of what's going on that it's
happening but we still want to make sure
there's that communication is important
James liquor October 6 2016 I couldn't
get enough phone calls I've been on this
every since so don't take it lightly
unfortunately wall takes its time it
moves slowly but when it moves its width
so just get give us the day with us with
continuity and young lady that's not in
district 4 but we're family this is the
whole city that's here I just had to be
what I decide what's going on I just
haven't been what it's not working I
just have to be one of the council
members that I'm old school I like to
interface with my commissioners and my
councilmen my constituents and Miss
Matthews and I we don't need walls and
we don't need phones we meet you face to
face and so that's just how we do it in
district 4 and so as long as we're still
in office and you still run us and I'm
still willing and able we have a good
thing going brother man you got the
floor guys in the last time I was here I
think we brought up the problem by
cannabis in the city than you would you
said there would be no shops now that
the law has been passed that you can do
this how can the city of Englewood said
we're not going to have this year and
you've got AB neighbor in Los Angeles
and some of the other cities says it's
ok how's this going to deal with the
ACLU and this respect yeah that that's
something obviously
what we in the Economic Community
Development Department makes sure we're
doing is we are being aggressive with
regard to making sure that the
dispensary and the owners know we're
serious that goes to City Attorney's
office the city attorney then files that
with the district attorney and the
district attorney then decides to move
it forward one way or the other in that
issue the ACL the the ACLU it's gonna be
interesting to see how they approach the
situation at the end of the day it's
been very clear legally that the city
has the authority to determine its
course as a city
we're charter city we have that
authority so even those faxes that they
were come against this would probably
more procedural then issues of whether
or not we can regulate it or not so
we'll see how that kind of works out
this is all new for California other
states have been doing it in the
councilmen attended a bunch of the
meetings with us and talked through that
and let me tell you the council would
call and you say Chris are you nobility
yeah I need you up on the ninth floor I
have to drop everything and come up and
try and address these issues but to
respond of yours we're working through
that legal process excuse me and staying
specifically with legal stuff and Jerry
can help me if I miss one there's two
items in the state law that gives the
Charter sitter city's the authority and
that's governing our city through the
police department so we're able to
enforce that I can't think of a second
offhand but I do know that because we
are charter City we also have a right
for us to enforce on a public law
enforcement and that is one of the
things we did in advance we knew that
this was coming it was a steam train
coming down that track it was just a
matter of time it was going to hit and
we knew January 1st was it two more
questions and we need to move on because
I want to talk to y'all so this
gentleman right here and this general
over here okay Commissioner will get you
will make three final ones go ahead
while we land of course
of cannabis I like to know what is the
law regarding the air quality air
quality management because here in
Englewood where I live was always a
constant flow of air from west to east
and a lot of nice is down and a lot of
nights most nights issues I'm not saying
this my neighbor whoever it is but it's
pretty close
comes into my house and I cannot stand
the order what can be done about that
the state made a determination to allow
cannabis for recreational purposes the
regulations that have been established
are established to protect us as
individual municipalities where it gets
very interesting is air flow and just
like young ladies were talking here
earlier you don't control that aspect of
it but what you're gonna hear a whole
lot of people say is close the window
and turn on air condition because this
is not going to go away so I'm sorry to
tell you that but that is one of the
situations and it's not considered to be
harmful so AQMD would not be regulating
that he was referencing about the new
aroma in your neighborhood but we have
been dealing with people vaping for some
time which is even worse and the law
allows that if a cigarette and tamanna
and cigars allowed to be smoked at look
out for marijuana or cannabis that's why
we had to make sure we put the laws down
upfront to make sure we have at it
students tone two more questions that we
really need to move on the gentleman
says hand up with the LA Dodgers and
then we'll take Willie Aegean call it a
wrap
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thank you thank you I'm how you doing
tonight what's the status of the North
restaurant doors but I believe that the
last meeting was going to be targeted
for the Crenshaw and Imperial shopping
center
it is moving ahead it will be at the
insight that they're working on the
plans right now it'll be submitted
within the next month and a half two
months coming in there
so as you know yeah what he asked was
what's the status of the norms
restaurant and you know we have two
facilities actually one which is in CD
three which is the IHOP on century and
then you have the norms restaurant
coming which will be a new building that
would be constructed in the country
interior plaza he just asked when will
it be done the construction
yeah the construction activity of that
is going to take probably about 12
months to construct going through the
entire process and some of the things
that are going on with the site and
probably will be entitled within the
next three months so again everything
kind of comes together late 19 2019 and
2020
I just like to say one that's been
active in this city for 18 years I want
you people to know that you've got
representation now in this city and you
can look at what's going on the people
that's that's representing you yeah
councilman Franklin all for five hundred
people that's involved I want to thank
you for what you're doing for this city
because
when I went to the city it started going
to the City Council meeting 18 years ago
I knew we could do better and and
believe me we're doing better and
believe me you got a city that's
representing you and there's no end
absolutely keep up the good work sir
thank you very much aware of until with
his mic we're trying yes all right
the problem is as soon as you touch it
we lose the car finish your I just want
to say that - so - will the AG's point I
just was the keynote speaker at the
hearth on business Expo that just took
place today they they stood up and
applauded at what's going on across the
city let me tell you guys they are
impressed with this city and its
leadership and they're just it's amazing
and this district is a court all the
things that are going on in and around
the city so thank you very much
everybody
to whom much is given much is required
and when I assume this role in O three
and you kept me in office thereafter now
I have institutional knowledge and I'm
the second most senior person on the
council so I do know a few new polls
that goes on in the city and some
hiccups that we may have but more
importantly because I've lived in our
district for well over 40 years I know
what used to be there and what we have
now and I'm looking for the future to be
even better so thank you very much for
allowing me be in office but now do you
have your pins up your pins ready are we
ready before we do that I want to
recognize a couple other people on the
9th floor that helps work me on the
administration ashley marzetta
9th floor she's she's out there helping
me she's willing to go around with all
the microphones
we have that available we have a Civil
Service Board of reviews she'd be Walton
District 4 I just saw her show up as
well and then also we would be remiss if
we didn't recognize the audio-video crew
Thomas
and his team Tommy you raised your hand
to be recognized a district for a
resident okay okay here we go for the
information table we endeavor to provide
district for residents with a variety of
information both in literature and
flyers and handouts and not everyone is
able to make it here so hopefully you
will take that information and you will
share with others there's still more
stuff out there grab it because some of
the handouts we didn't talk about is the
city of Inglewood directory we also have
emergency hotline numbers so when you
have power outages you have street
lights out and you have bulk pickup and
all that you need to pick that up
city of economic City of England
economic indicators we let you know what
is going on with your property values
what's going on with job opportunities
you need to get that as well and you
heard the announcement about the Inglot
Planet Fitness is now open so we're
ready for that one the LA stadium
entertainment district job fair is
scheduled for tomorrow
January 25th at Rogers Park you should
get the flyer for that if anyone's
interested employment Southern
California Edison the has approved has
been approved by the California Public
Utilities Commission to expand electric
transportation so we're talking about
being able to handle infrastructure
having stations where you have
electrical vehicles where you can charge
them up other than not only in
businesses but also in apartment
complexes as well as your own home LA
County Animal Care control how many
since Hollywood Park development have
dealt with what we call critters if
you've dealt with possums you've dealt
with raccoons and now the top of the
chain is coyotes you need to get those
Flyers that are out there particularly
it's called coexisting with wildlife we
also want to acknowledge that's out
there the South Bay City Council
government is celebrating their 19th
annual General Assembly we're going to
make sure you get that information as
well the water replenishing district
that provides free edible gardening
classes March 3rd 2018 that Flyers out
there as well well
base and rainbarrow program how many of
you actually capture rain and then put
it in your garden etc so get ready yes
it doesn't rain at least I've known
right now but this time last year the
reason why the stadium has now been
bruised back a year because they had
over nine feet of water in that hundred
feet depth Bowl it took days to get it
out and AQMD Air Quality Management
District said you cannot pump that water
out in the street to go into the drains
they had to be percolated on their land
and they had to recapture it and put it
back in in drums and then recycle that
water to keep the the dirt dry as much
as possible so if you have rain barrels
your interesting rain barrels now's your
chance to do that and then finally the
rest basin provides rainwater gray water
classes and workshops so if you have
that information again the information
tables out there and who's out there
waiting on you my boss and my and my
daughter and Miss Matthews okay
so for those that are here and would
like to share this information again be
mindful that this is being recorded and
once the Thomas Bundys team finalized
the editing it will be broadcast on
spectrum channel 35 in addition to that
the city of England's website you can
also go to WWC TV Norg and there is a
youtube link that's right there that has
all of district 4 town hall meetings
would you meet that as well and then
finally I'm going to make available hard
copies of DVDs and if Aaron LZ will
stand up again at our police community
center that he is on the 5th floor we
were because of the renovation of the Crenshaw Century Plaza Imperial
Plaza that he's on the fifth floor of
the bank building City Bank building at
29 40 West Imperial Highway Suite 508
what'd I say oh I have twenty nine forty
but twenty-nine thirty
thanks to nine 300 West Imperial Highway
Suite 508 on the fifth floor again and
his phone number make sure he's there
from Monday through Thursday 11:00 to
4:00
three one zero three three oh five three
four six again Monday through Thursday
how many you get our job opportunity
lists you may not be looking for work
other people might be looking for work
or you know somebody who's it looking
for work if you're not on our list see
Miss Matthews and say please add me to
the job listing okay I would be remiss
if I didn't recognize the 13th annual
district for Christmas toy food drive I
mean I I'm gonna extend a sincere
heartfelt thank you to all of the
district for residents friends who
served as holiday sponsors and generous
support at the 13th annual district for
Christmas toy food drive this past year
we were able to serve several hundred
families in addition to that fifty
families has been pre identified by the
principals and teachers at the public
schools we are a community of unity
helping our community and again I
personally thank you 13 years of labor
of love and when we first started my
annual share with my wife I was a Boy
Scout leader and in November we did
scouting for food and that s what the
pantry became my front room and that we
accumulated that food and added meat
items with it and we delivered to those
families of need that we had we're at
Vinick u elementary school where Scouts
got unit is located and we were able to
bless families since I've been on the
council there's again to whom much is
given much is required our base is
broaden so that's why is now over
several hundred over several hundred
families we continue to bless not only
at the Inglewood Unified School District
we also have LA Unified School District
that's in our district as well as we
have foster parents we have caregivers
and we have seniors on fixed income that
we also bless as well also I share with
you again a Flyers out front that talks
about the Turner a comm Hunt joint
venture team regarding the stadium
project and entertainment we don't
discuss it here they have their own
separate meeting so if you have issues
regarding
what's going on at the stadium their
next meeting is scheduled for Thursday
February 15th from at 7 p.m. at Holy
Trinity Evangelical Church at 9300 South
Korea Boulevard if you're interested in
that want to know more about it
particularly those that live in the
Renaissance and district 4 that is your
meeting not here that is you me the
media we have is Gerard McCollum talk
about what else is going on in us in
that in our community and how can we get
involved particularly when it comes to
the type of retail stories you may want
let me know the type of job
opportunities you may need let me know
and also 25 acres of that site is going
to be for green space so therefore we're
going to have it and 4 acres has been
identified specifically for the city use
in this case we're looking at for maybe
another community center where we're
exploring the options that we may have
on there the other item I want to talk
to you about is the Metro green line
service disruption does anyone take
public transit anyone take public
transit you need to get the Flyers that
I provided you because Metro green line
which goes from Norwalk to the east to
Redondo Beach on the West will be
disrupting rail service beginning
January 26 that is this Friday through
April the 7th Metro is going to do a
connection of the Crenshaw LAX project
infrastructure so it can tie the Green
Line in to the future Green Line into
the the LAX crinkle line so if you go
the LAX Crenshaw Line is the one that's
going to go across Florence and it's
going to tie in all the way down to
Imperial Highway and aviation and so
there's going to be a disruption of five
stations that will be closed which is
that aviation LAX Mariposa El Segundo
Douglas and Redondo Beach they will
provide a free bus shuttle even though
you can go to those stations and take
you either to the Hawthorne linic
station or the Redondo Beach station but
more importantly this is a long haul to
April the 7th make a note of that
I want to emphasize the first boundary
lines that's in district 4 for those
that realize that it's a century on the
north to a hundred and second on the
south to dodi on the East to Prairie on
the west we have received a negative
propaganda that when we're trying to
work on a Murph Murphy Bowl which is the
future MBA arena for the Clippers
but we're taking homes then we're taking
a church we want you to look at make
sure you understand the city repeatedly
council members of opinion said no no no
so I want you just see the boundary line
so you can have that we also you can go
to the city's website where again which
is w WAW org to review the August 15th
City Council meeting so that way you can
hear firsthand what will transpired and
in our position the city of Inglewood
and district 4 has only one Park when
you go outside to the information table
you will see a large poster board that
is going to be the future Park
modifications which would include
restroom facilities with doors
installation of security cameras walk
walking tracks walking track with
exercise stations so there'll be 8
different low state stations so as
you're doing the walk you can pull on in
and then do your calisthenics or
exercise with that location there will
also be new playground equipment and and
resurfacing we're getting rid of the
chip wood to now have the rubber
composite that's going to be underneath
the new apparatuses there's going to be
three gazebos with picnic tables and
benches and new landscaping with sorry
end so therefore you can have a family
picnic you there's going to be grills
out there you can do it as well we're
99% complete on that project and that
we're looking to have a special ceremony
next month as soon as the oh it's a
where's located Hall Center Park anybody
know where Center Park is
111th Street off of Yukon and right
behind Worthington elementary school
that is the city park that we have right
there
you know the mayor announced about the
Senior Center I gave you flyers we
talked about the 35,000 square feet and
also all the amenities that's there so
you have that information and those that
like to do Samba and all those other
kind of dancing programs they have them
right there for you as well now
specifically with imperial highway
improvement project I have been fighting
this for well over five years I was
short five million dollars and guess who
came to my rescue congresswoman Maxine
Waters but that's great
but the question is when we gonna break
ground so think of where Imperial
Highway is when you have ven s on the
east and you have Prairie on the west
there is LA city or county there is
Hawthorne City and there is Inglewood
and this la said that they were going to
be the driving force well I have to tell
you it's a squeaky wheel against the oil
and if you're at the council me consul
office and you scream loud enough you
talk high enough and you can read and
become repetitive you could attention I
am proud to say that I that our public
works director Lewis out well led the
charge in removing the city of the
County of Los Angeles running the
project to now the city of Inglewood is
now taken over this project we're now
the lead agency and ask your question
specifically is currently out to bid so
we're now expecting construction to
start either the spring or summer of
2018 and that includes sidewalks curbs
gutters driveways all that's gonna be
done from Venice
is to Prairie on the west we got that
thank you and hold me to it we have
another item that that's on this flyer
how many live where I live
the lockhaven community lochhaven
community so in Lock Haven we have a
horrendous problem of being over to park
on on public streets we are penalized
because our streets are not wide enough
we only have one sided parking so after
many many years and I told you in your
over 40 years and been in office since
14 years were finally finally finally
getting the planning I'm sorry the
public works director to work with me on
trying to be able to have two-sided
parking so what you're going to see
there at the top of that location
highlights specifically that we've now
started a pilot program in November of
last year of a hundred and fifth and a
hundred and six from Prairie on the east
I'm sorry for Prairie on the rest to
UConn on the east of having two-sided
parking but obey the parking signs we
have changed these signs as recently as
last week trying to make sure that we
work learn with engineers mandate the E
or the police department mandate in
order for us to accommodate two-sided
parking for the residents so this is the
last process and if it's successful we
plan to broaden it into further parts of
other streets that is in this that is in
the lochhaven community from 104 through
the north to Imperial Highway on the
south from Crenshaw on the east to
Prairie on the west so that is a major
project the other thing was you speak
leave it or not miss Matthews not listen
how many times and we've talked about
the van Ness Avenue Street modification
project and that they arbitrarily the LA
County came in and put in a left-hand
turn lane and we need didn't need that
like a horn or head and it became
a major problem to the point that we had
a fatality it wasn't district 4 fatality
so I just want you to know that during
the first two weekends of January 2018
LA County Parks Department completed a
street modification project on Van Ness
Avenue from 104th Street on the north to
color the street on the south and the
scope of the modification including the
removal of the northbound southbound
left-hand turn lanes at the
intersections on hundred fourth 108 and
color the street and the restoration of
those curves that they painted red they
brought on back and the project was
completed on January 14th now comes the
bad one century Boulevard I know but I
really need you to take copious notes
here we heard you when I was getting
number of phone calls and emails about
how come you keep tearing up this street
every time I look up there's a lane
closure here that we got to do this
please make note that we have had three
construction modifications since we
started this project they're in phases
and phase one and phase two the first
construction segment was to improve the
north side of Center Boulevard that
connected to the opening of Hollywood
Park Casino the north side and that
occurred between Yukon Avenue and
Prairie Avenue from January 2015 to
August 2017 the second project involved
the construction segment that related to
the full depth pavement restoration
which started in November 2015 and has a
completion date to april 2018 and so
that is also between Yukon Avenue and
Prairie Avenue
so bottom line is stay away from Century
if you can the third construction
segment was the LA County Department of
Water and Power
they removed and installed new pipes
valves along with pavement restoration
from
hurry Avenue to Doty Avenue which
started March 20 17th and was completed
in 2017
now with these multiple phases required
for this project it requires a number of
permits being pulled in construction
time to allow for multiple utility
services such as Southern California
Edison Southern California gas in LA
Department of Water and Power and AT&T
just to name a few
this has been a this has and will
contribute to the multiple closures of
some of the same areas that have been
closed previously now it gets even worse
the city is aware they have very heavy
traffic impacts along central boulevard
specifically between Fifth Avenue on the
east to Yukon Avenue on the west with a
record number of lane reductions and
closures from 5th Avenue to Prairie over
the past few weeks and months our public
works department has confirmed write
this down Public Works Department has
confirmed not Ralph Franklin but once
White House confirmed that Center
Boulevard from Crenshaw Boulevard to
Club Drive will have all lanes open for
through traffic not left for a right
hander but through traffic including
eastbound and westbound left-hand turn
lanes at Village Drive and Club Drive
beginning Thursday January 25th there
you go aren't you glad you came now but
I know what good is a bad construction
work currently taking place at the
intersection of century Boulevard and
Crenshaw Boulevard is expected to be
completed and all lanes will be open for
through traffic weather permitting by
Monday January 29th but there's always a
but in order for this to happen
the intersection at Crenshaw Boulevard
and Crenshaw Boulevard will be closed
to northbound and southbound crinch all
traffic because they need to get in that
center area so when you approach central
boulevard with your traveling northbound
or southbound on Crenshaw you will be
required to make a right-hand turn and
that will go on you write this down for
Friday January 26
that's this coming Friday 9:00 p.m. and
will continue to Monday January 29th at
6:00 a.m. you can pick up that copy the
most recent construction since you go to
our construction notice at the
information table but you heard it first
here so when you go out to why is this
happening what did you hear what
councilman Franklin said and taking what
I have my backup man I told you my
engineers out there and he's one it gave
me this information and don't kill the
messenger okay I think we've had a
number of discussions tonight so I'm
going to close with one exception I do
want to make sure how many of you are
seniors 55 and older hello hello so one
of the handouts I passed out there one
of the hand it's not passed out there
said always best care Senior Services is
offering information on should your
aging parent still be driving this is a
tough topic but the necessary
conversation to have with your aging
parent and maybe yourself if you are
observing certain symptoms and types
also do you know the sign of stroke
reduce your loved ones chances of having
a stroke and making some simple healthy
choices in your exercise lifestyle these
changes positively can impact your
health reduce the risk of many of
illnesses and also say by life too so be
sure to pick up those Flyers of
information and so I'm going to stop now
and I just want to say it's getting late
I personally thank you being here tells me I'm doing
something right and that is how many
times I told you with knowledge there is
and so you have been indicated please
take this information home share with
you get more flyer information that you
want out there
god bless you all thank you the meeting
official adjourned
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