LB Harbor Commission President Named
LONG BEACH — On July 27, The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners elected Lori Ann Farrell Harrison as its new board president.
The five-member Harbor Commission, which oversees the Port of Long Beach, also selected Lou Anne Bynum as vice president and Tracy Egoscue as secretary. The commission selects from its own members the president and the other board officers for one-year terms each July.
Farrell Harrison, a 5th District resident, is the director of finance for the City of Huntington Beach and was previously chief financial officer for Long Beach. She was appointed to the Harbor Commission in 2013 by then-Mayor Bob Foster. The commission president chairs board meetings and represents the port to the public.
Farrell Harrison and Bynum succeed Doug Drummond and Rich Dines as president and vice president, respectively.
Under the city charter, the mayor of Long Beach appoints city residents to the Harbor Commission for a six-year term. Commissioners oversee the port and direct the CEO, who in turn manages the more than 500-person staff of the Long Beach Harbor Department in the development and promotion of the Port of Long Beach.
Former Police Chief Dies
LONG BEACH — On July 29, the Long Beach Police Department announced the death of former Long Beach Police Chief Jerome E. Lance on Saturday, July 25. Lance was 72 years old when he succumbed to his battle with cancer.
Lance began his career with the Long Beach Police Department in 1964. During his career, he worked various assignments throughout the Department at all ranks before being promoted to the position of chief of police on November 20, 1999.
During his tenure as chief of police, he was faced with several challenges of a magnitude including, the aftermath of 9/11 and the loss of four officers.
He was responsible for multiple facility projects which included the refurbishment of the public safety building, the construction of a new communications center, the relocation of the crime lab and property section, and the upgrading of the police academy.
Additional accomplishments included increased security duties at the airport and harbor, the purchase of two new helicopters, and implementation of the first boat patrol unit in the history of the Long Beach Police Department.
After Lance’s retirement from the LBPD in 2002, he served as interim chief of police for the Oceanside Police Department from March through December of 2005. He was head of the CSULB Center for Criminal Justice in 2003 and continued to teach and consult in the law enforcement community until 2014.
Lance is survived by his wife Margaret “Bunny” Lance, his sister Patricia “Pat” Chapman (Oberg), his daughter Pamela Jane Crandall (Lance), her husband Brett and children Mackenzie and Brayden, and his son LBPD Sergeant Darren Jerome Lance, his wife Nancy and their daughter Sierra, along with many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will take place for Lance at 1 p.m. Aug. 9, at the Long Beach Police Officers Association Park. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in his honor to either of the following:
Long Beach Police Officers Widows and Orphans Trust Fund c/o
L.B.P.O.A
2865 Temple Avenue
Long Beach, California 90755
http://lbpoa.org/about/widows-orphans/
Law Enforcement Cancer Support Foundation
6475 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 354
Long Beach, CA 90803
http://lecsf.net