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Random Letters: 6-11-20

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Random Letters: 6-11-20

More Solutions, Less Complainin’

The following is meant to be one of the solutions to the problem of overzealousness on the part of police.

In the 1970s, Miguel Garcia went before the California Supreme Court in Pitchess vs. California and set legal precedent for civil rights attorneys to use “discovery” to find earlier victims of a police “bad apples” so they could testify in a new case. This is routinely used today in similar cases all over the country.  Unfortunately,  police departments have taken to destroying their public files–deliberately hindering the efforts to weed out racists and other bad apples within the forces.

The most important reform that could be made right now would be national laws forbidding the elimination of these files. Please initiate such legislation.

William Weeks, San Pedro

A Timely Letter 

Before you start whining because you can’t go to the beach and lie in the sun, or drink at a bar, or go to a restaurant, think about those who have been devastated by the loss of family, friends and/or their jobs so they can’t even afford to drive to the beach or go to a restaurant, and maybe not even have a roof over their heads anymore. Count your blessings. 

Mike McCollum, San Pedro

Nudging Over the Cliff

The budget cuts being contemplated by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature are an assault on generations of seniors whose sacrifices have earned them more than red-pencil treatment on a spreadsheet.

Already pushed to the brink by Medicare and MediCal reductions, hospital and insurance pressure, and COVID-19’s disproportional rate of illnesses and fatalities, this round of cuts will surely nudge them over the healthcare cliff.

History tells us that these seniors have lived up to their name: The Greatest Generation. They fought in distant and hostile lands to protect our freedoms. They spent their lives contributing to our prosperity and serving our needs as first responders, teachers, healthcare providers, public servants and business leaders.

The $54 billion California deficit challenges us all to sacrifice. But for elder seniors, it is more like a whammy than a challenge. Programs allowing elder seniors to remain in their homes are being jeopardized. People who are not mobile, have disabilities, lack adequate transportation, or simply have difficulty seeing or hearing, could lose resources that get them through the day.

Seniors are not asking for unfair advantage over others. They so appreciate being able to shop early at grocery stores; and get business-to-door services, wellness checks by phone, and food security. All they ask is an equitable opportunity to survive with dignity in their homes and not in substandard nursing homes or other facilities.

Make no mistake, seniors understand that many in California face challenging, life-altering consequences. But they also know that few are more vulnerable or face more life-threatening outcomes than those who have reached a time in their lives when they need our help to go to battle.

 Seniors are accustomed to challenges and many have clawed back from the edges of conflict, shortages, and great recessions. They are soldiers, parents, and grandparents who have always had the nation’s back.

Now we need to have theirs.

Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D., Santa Clarita President, LA County Commission for Older Adults

Barragán Statement on Supreme Court DACA Decision

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Barragán Statement on Supreme Court DACA Decision

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the June 18, Supreme Court decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán, 2nd Vice Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, made the following statement:

“DACA recipients can breathe a sigh of relief this morning, as the Supreme Court ruled they are safe for now.

“But this fight is not over. We know the Trump Administration will try again to end this important program.

“Congress MUST fix this and protect Dreamers. We must pass H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act. 

“Today is a welcome moment of relief for so many young immigrants amidst a time of tragedy and uncertainty in Latino and immigrant communities. The Supreme Court’s decision in this case temporarily upholds the ability of more than 700,000 residents to live and work in the only country many of them have ever known. For now, more than 8,000 neighbors, friends, and community members in my district will now have the ability to continue to work and live openly in these troubling times.

“This also means that the 29,000 DACA recipients that are healthcare workers will be able to stay on the job and help our nation fight back against COVID-19. For that, we should all be very grateful. But make no mistake, the Court’s decision does not give Dreamers the full protections and certainty that they need.

“Despite the Trump Administration’s anti-immigrant policies, rhetoric and their repeated attempts to frighten and marginalize America’s immigrant community, this challenge has made us more organized and stronger than ever.

“Today is a proud day for our country, but the fight is not over. This decision does not create long-term certainty in order to truly protect DACA recipients.

“We must provide certainty by making sure the American Dream and Promise Act becomes law. I will keep up the fight to get this law enacted and I will continue to be a fierce advocate for immigrant and human rights in Washington.”

LAPD Chief Should ‘Re-Retire’ After Absurd Race Reveal

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LAPD Chief Should ‘Re-Retire’ After Absurd Race Reveal

@THE GUSS REPORT-Maya Angelou wrote, “the first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

For many Angelenos, their first experience with LAPD Chief Michel Moore was his delusional comment last week about racial strife and riots amid the George Floyd protests: 

“We didn’t have protests last night. We had criminal acts. We didn’t have people mourning the death of this man, George Floyd. We had people capitalizing. His death is on their hands as much as it is those officers.” 

Through the Angelou lens, Moore thinks all of us are equally responsible for Floyd’s murder. I don’t know what video he saw, but I didn’t see any of you restraining and murdering Floyd in the one that I watched. 

Moore subsequently apologized for his racially insensitive remarks but disingenuously suggested that his word choice was the mistake. But this wasn’t a poorly chosen word or two. It was a lucid-but-absurd five-sentence reveal that goes to the heart of the troubled agency he leads; one with a long history of racism, violence and killing of unarmed black, brown, and poor people. 

Floyd, a handcuffed and unarmed (as opposed to disarmed) Black man died by suffocation a couple of weeks ago at the hands, or knee rather, of a Minneapolis police officer who was subsequently arrested and charged with murder. Three other officers, including two who were brand new to the job, were also fired and later charged with related but lower-level murder counts. 

Moore is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to not only lead the LAPD but also avoid doing stupid things like this. He is paid to know the score, be in the right place at the right time and do the right thing, as it were. 

Moore failed LA in each of those responsibilities. 

Moore and the entire LAPD Commission should watch Spike Lee’s movie of the same title because it is art foreshadowing the George Floyd and Eric Garner murders by decades. 

Moore’s remarks are a bell that cannot be un-rung and in fact will be re-rung each time the LAPD kills another unarmed black, brown or poor person, which history tells us is always around the bend in LA. 

To be clear, I do not know whether Michel Moore harbors racist opinions. What I do know is that he ignores warning signs of trouble at the LAPD. When I brought to his attention a series of serious threats and abuses that his officers made toward me (on video, no less), he remained silent. He ignored the problem and refused to apologize even after I sued the LAPD and Mike Feuer’s LA City Attorney’s office and recently won $10,836. 

So the question of the day is this: If I, a white suburbanite, was treated that way by Moore, how can those whose only difference is more melanin in their skin trust him when they complain about LAPD abuses? 

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, who made a pandering, disingenuous public spectacle of taking a Colin Kaepernick-like knee with protestors shortly after he approved massive raises for the LAPD, surprisingly aligns himself with Moore, saying, “If I believed for a moment that the chief believed that in his heart, he would no longer be our chief of police. I can’t say that any stronger.”

But it is well-established that Garcetti speaks out of both sides of every orifice and cannot be taken at his word. Garcetti’s motive for standing by Moore is this: he hired him. And it would be oh-so-bad to fire him while serving as Joe Biden’s presidential campaign co-chair five months before the election because it draws further scrutiny to Biden’s racist statements about Barack Obama; his anti-black crime bill and “you ain’t black” remark which he recently made to Charlamagne tha God, co-host of nationally syndicated radio program, The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy and Angela Yee. 

In other words, Moore’s misconduct is bad for politics no matter how you slice it. 

Moore also failed LA for the consequence of donning his battle gear and leaving the LAPD’s emergency operations center to do media interviews in the street during the chaos, instead of maintaining oversight of a riot that became increasingly violent and destructive by the hour. A source deeply embedded in City Hall culture tells me, “The Chief needed to be at the command center for situational awareness so he can see the entire city and communicate with neighboring jurisdictions for mutual aid if needed. This was a ‘make the Mayor and Union happy photo-op’ to show the boots on the ground their so-called leadership. However, any seasoned officer will tell you that once you are in the weeds as Moore was, you lose the bird’s eye view. When Moore did that, the chaos got worse.”

The offices currently held by Garcetti and Moore have a well-established history of racism, especially during the tenure of their predecessors Sam Yorty and Daryl Gates, respectively. Garcetti brushing aside Moore’s remarks furthers the belief that racism is rewarded in LA City Hall and LAPD headquarters. 

Angelou, whose birthday coincides with the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., passed away six years to the day, one day before these 2020 riots. 

Garcetti hired Moore to lead the LAPD a few years ago after Moore, then LAPD’s Chief of Operations, bagged $1.27 million in the city’s controversial DROP retirement program, returning as Chief shortly thereafter in an orchestrated retirement and re-hiring masquerading as a search for the best person for the job. 

Garcetti decided that in an agency with thousands of people from every ethnicity, gender and skin tone, the best person for the job was another out-of-touch straight white male millionaire with a propensity to say racially insensitive things. 

On Friday, Garcetti trotted out Moore for a groveling apology tour, though this photo shows that Moore has no regard for social distancing or wearing a face mask that Garcetti ordered the rest of us to don in public, or else. Note: Moore didn’t pull down a mask to speak; he wasn’t wearing one at all but wears one to virtue signal when he stands behind the mayor at his recent press conferences.

It furthers the widely held belief that cops are above the law, even on the little things. And note all of the non-white people properly assembled behind Moore. 

Just a coincidence, I’m sure. . . 

Our local governments think we’re idiots who can’t read between the lines, so they orchestrate disingenuous visuals. 

Max De Pree, author of Leadership is an Art, said, “we cannot become what we need to, by remaining what we are.” The LAPD cannot cure itself with Moore at its helm. He should do LA a favor and swallow his pride, quietly re-retire and collect his lucrative pension dough without saying another word before the next black, brown or poor person is killed by those he leads. 

Moore, Garcetti and LAPD Commission president Eileen Decker, a former federal prosecutor, refused to field live questions for this column.

(Daniel Guss, MBA, is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, and has contributed to CityWatch, KFI AM-640, iHeartMedia, 790-KABC, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Magazine, Movieline Magazine, Emmy Magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal,

Museums Closed But Public Art Is Open

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Museums Closed But Public Art Is Open

“Art plays a central role in making Los Angeles a vibrant and culturally rich City by educating local residents, enhancing the economy, and creating memorable landscapes in public places and spaces.”

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Controller Ron Galperin released, June 17, a Public Art map of 200 sculptures, installations, murals and photos that exist in and on buildings, at parks and elsewhere throughout Los Angeles. The map makes the City’s Public Art database — overseen by the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) — available to Angelenos for the first time. Users can navigate the map to see the name of the artwork, its location, the name of the artist(s) and what type of art it is.

The Public Art map accompanies his report on the larger City Art Collection, which is separate from the Public Art database. Also overseen by DCA, the City Art Collection is composed of 2,500 additional paintings, murals, sculptures, lithographs and photographs displayed at public buildings, on loan or in storage. 

“Public art is a central part of our communities in Los Angeles,” said Controller Galperin. “It inspires creativity and enhances landscapes in our neighborhoods. My hope is that the new database will encourage Angelenos to visit public art throughout the City at a time when our local museums and cultural centers remain closed due to COVID-19.”

Details: www.lacontroller.org/audits-and-reports/cityart 

Vigan’s Public Market: The Commons in the Hands of Farmers and the Poor

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Vigan’s Public Market: The Commons in the Hands of Farmers and the Poor

For photos of the labor and student marches in Berkeley, and the huge Oakland car caravan protesting the murder of George Floyd, and new online exhibition, see below.
https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2020/06/vigans-public-market-commons-in-hands.html
https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article/20/2/99/110266/Vigan-s-Public-Market-The-Commons-in-the-Hands-of

Children of the stall owners often work in the market with their families.

Walking through the public markets of the Philippines, I can see a way that people have been able to institutionalize public markets, keeping their people-serving purpose intact.

Vigan’s current public market was rebuilt in the years after the fall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Under Marcos, farm income plummeted as he opened the economy to transna- tional loans and investment. According to the Food and Nutrition Research Institute, by 1982 two-thirds of families consumed less than the recommended minimum daily calorie intake.

In the wake of the 1986 Peoples’ Power movement that ended Marcos’s rule, rural people expected that the government would act to redistribute land and boost rural income. Rebuilding the market was a visible act by local government to demonstrate changed priorities.

Despite all the changes in how food and clothing are distributed and sold in a modern city, today the Vigan market is still a destination for thousands of people. Its prices are lower than most other places, and the experience of buying something is much more personal. In the interactions between stall owners and their customers, it is clear that in many cases people have known each other for years.

Emil de Guzman, a Filipino American activist from San Francisco, describes the role of the public market in Philippine towns:

“In the Philippines at the heart of any city or town is a plaza. At the center of all activity is the palengke, a huge one-story structure housing the local vendors, shopkeepers, small businesses under one roof, in compartmentalized units buying and selling goods and services.

“The palengke is purposely sectioned to accommodate vendors standing side by side selling the same products: butchers selling meat, sellers of fresh fish and seafoods, rows of newly harvested vegetables. The coconuts vendors are sectioned off nearby other stalls selling the garlic and onions, then tofu, then eggs, then mangos, papayas and dried fish. Then nearby sections on clothes, cosmetics, umbrellas and the list goes on. Thousands come to the palengke to shop and buy/bargain at the lowest prices.”

Vigan’s public market is just the latest iteration of the city’s history as a trading and market center, going back centuries. Vigan is one of the oldest cities in the Philippines and was founded by Chinese traders long before the arrival of the Spaniards. In the language of these migrants from Fujian Province, the name Bi-gan meant Beautiful Shore.

In Vigan they traded gold and beeswax from the Cordilleras, the mountain range that forms the spine of Luzon, for Chinese porcelain and other goods. The status of the Chinese ethnic mi- nority in the Philippines is still controversial. The Chinese com- munity even established a museum in Manila, arguing that their presence was a crucial part of Philippine history and that Chinese workers helped build the country over centuries.

The Spaniards colonized the islands, capturing Vigan in 1572 and making it the administrative capital of northern Luzon, called Nueva Segovia. By then a central market here was long established. It provided a critical function for farm- ers, who brought food into the city, and for the city dwellers who depended on them.

All over the world similar markets exist. While the nature of the economies of individual countries change, these markets exist to fulfill the same function of providing food and goods at low prices to poor people, and to provide a way for farmers to bring agricultural products directly to consumers.

During the last two or three decades, the food sovereignty movement in affluent countries has been reinventing this institution-the farmers’ market-that has been an institution in much of the rest of the world for centuries. In part, this is motivated by the search for a more sustainable, less corporate-dominated food system. While public markets are threatened by the growth of supermarkets and corporate systems for food processing and distribution, their continued popularity is due not only to the fact that their food is generally cheaper for consumers but by the very fact that they are an alternative.

Public markets, where local farmers and other small vendors sell to people without much money, are institutions that not only serve an important social purpose but are structures set up by governments in response to popular need and pressure. That makes them part of the public space that people often have to struggle to protect.

An old man and a boy in the window of a colonial building in the old mestizo, or Chinese, section of Vigan.
Selling coconuts and other vegetables at a stall in the market.
A girl in a world of her own.
Buying groceries.
Many stalls in the market serve cheap meals.
A woman sells rambutans from a table in the hallway of the market.
Farmers and stall owners have to get up early to arrive when the market opens, and then fall asleep during the day.
Catching sleep during a lull in the market.
Relaxing behind bags of beans and tamarindos.
A farmer unpacking bags of calamansi fruit.
Rice is the staple of the Philippines and is grown and sold in a number of varieties.

LABOR MARCH PROTESTS THE POLICE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD

BERKELEY, CA – 13JUNE20 – Hundreds of union members and outraged people march through the streets of Berkeley to protest the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and other African American and people of color killed by police.  The march was organized by the labor councils of Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa and San Mateo Counties, and Service Employees International Union Local 1021.

To see a full set of photos, click here:https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/albums/72157714734338062

STUDENTS MARCH TO PROTEST THE POLICE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD

BERKELEY, CA – 09JUNE20 – Hundreds of students, teachers and outraged people march through the streets of Berkeley to protest the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and other African Americian and other people of color killed by police. 

To see a full set of photos, click here:https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/albums/72157714656895057

HUGE CAR CARAVAN PROTESTS THE POLICE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD

OAKLAND, CA – 31MAY20 – Thousands of people participate in a caravan of over 2000 cars from the Port of Oakland, to protest the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and African American and people of color killed by police.

To see a full set of photos, click here:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/albums/7215771453384218

LB Details Framework for Reconciliation

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LB Details Framework for Reconciliation

LONG BEACH —The city announced plans June 15, for a “Framework for Reconciliation in Long Beach,” as unanimously approved by the City Council. Acknowledging the existence and long-standing impacts of systemic racism in Long Beach and the country, the initiative will provide a framework for engaging the public in a reconciliation process, internal process review and local action plan.

The Framework for Reconciliation centers around four key steps: 

Acknowledging the existence and long-standing impacts of systemic racism in Long Beach and the country.

Listening to accounts and experiences of racial injustice, inequity, or harm of community members.

Convening stakeholders to evaluate the feedback from the listening process and shape policy, budgetary, charter and programmatic reform ideas.

Catalyzing action, presenting immediate, short-term, medium-term, and long-term recommendations for the City Council’s consideration.

Long Beach residents will have the opportunity to participate in a series of collaborative, focus-group style community listening sessions to engage in and provide ideas for creating meaningful change for all aspects of inequity and racial injustice. 

The sessions began June 18 and will continue through July. Listening sessions will be held virtually.

Details:www.longbeach.gov/health/healthy-living/office-of-equity/reconciliation

Community members are encouraged to complete a brief online survey, and can submit their questions, ideas and inquiries about how to get involved by email to EquityLB@longbeach.gov. All comments will be reviewed, organized into thematic areas, and shared with policy makers and the public. 

Initial listening session topics, dates and times are as follows:

Racial Equity Across Systems (including health, economics, education, etc.)

June 18, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

June 30, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Spectrum of Community Safety

July 2, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

June 24, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Health Equity

June 25, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

July 2, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Racial Equity in Housing and Homelessness

June 26, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

July 1, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Economic Equity

June 29, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

July 2, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Equity in Education & Youth Services

June 29, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

July 3, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

For more information,www.longbeach.gov/press-releases/city-details-framework-for-reconciliation/

Budget Cuts, Priorities

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Budget Cuts, Priorities

By June Burlingame Smith

Dear Joe [Buscaino]:

 What I didn’t say the other day, and should have, is that I was a Dodger fan when they were the Brooklyn Dodgers. We lived in Northern Jersey during World War II and I glued myself to the radio to listen to games. I loved those “bums.”

 But I’m writing on a more serious note, so please bear with me.

 We see, as a nation, that when we are all suffering together we turn to the arts for solace, expression and sanity. They offer us the creativity, emotional touch and release we seem to require to be stable human beings. So the arts are much more than just something “nice” in our lives; they are vital to our life and culture. Local businesses heavily depend on their health and vibrancy.

 As you well know, San Pedro is a mecca for all of the arts; look at what ballet and the success of Misty Copeland has done for us nationally. We are also the headquarters for the Watercolor Society and maintain the national reputation of our museums and aquarium. Without this creative and stimulating community, San Pedro would suffer financially and it would lose one of the mainsprings for tourism: nightlife and cultural attractiveness. To that end, I have a huge concern about upcoming budget cuts and what they will inevitably do to not only the arts communities individually but also to the collective economic and cultural life of San Pedro.

 Along with that loss, we are also changing the very “face” of San Pedro by new building and planning design. As we move into the mid 21st century, we have already seen the destruction of many of the older business buildings from the 19th and 20th century. As we tear out the old, we have to have a vision for the future that seeks to maintain one of the most important attractions to our town: families and family heritage.

Each new building changes the character of the town’s presentation; each new apartment house changes family structure; each new business builds a new economic engine. Too much elimination of  what makes San Pedro an essential current draw for the movie industry, for instance, will deprive that industry of one of its favorite sites and an income loss for us. We will always have the beach and the parks, at least I hope so, and we can probably depend on that continuing to draw movie revenues, but the rest of the town’s draw will diminish and eventually disappear forever.

 The proposed building along Pacific Avenue up to 22nd Street will further change the nature of San Pedro drastically; the whole west side of Pacific will be open to 45-foot buildings with inadequate parking for residents who occupy the buildings, diminished if not eliminated frontal local businesses and no parking for clients. Further, the proposed development and the  inevitable build-out that will follow, will narrow and constrict a major emergency roadway, one of only two, that must be available for tsunami evacuation or earthquake access to Fort [MacArthur] housing and the Point. No additional park or open space will be provided for the many thousands of new residents, nor for the “old residents” either, and the effect will be container architecture boring, a parking nightmare and loss of any old San Pedro charm.

Destroying the old character completely will not make the community more family- friendly, nor enticing, nor will it attract new businesses because it isn’t providing the space, the transportation, the open space, or parking required for successful business and cheerful living.

 So, Joe, I am very concerned.  How can I be a voice in the community to help you shore up and keep what is most valuable in our labor, immigrant and arts rich town?

POLA AND LADWP Swap Property to Facilitate Next Phase of Wilmington Waterfront Development

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POLA AND LADWP Swap Property to Facilitate Next Phase of Wilmington Waterfront Development

Wilmington – City of Los Angeles officials June 15, announced a land exchange transaction between the Port of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) that will enable the port to proceed with development of the Avalon Promenade and Gateway, a key component of its Wilmington Waterfront Development Program. The land exchange will also provide LADWP with land required to move forward with the redevelopment of its Harbor Generation Station in Wilmington.

For more than a decade, the port and LADWP have worked on a way to connect Avalon Boulevard to the Wilmington Waterfront through land controlled by LADWP, a four-acre parcel that currently houses a 500,000 barrel petroleum storage tank and other buildings. The land swap now gives the port control of the parcel at Avalon Boulevard and Harry Bridges Boulevard, allowing the port to move ahead with the next phase of Wilmington Waterfront development—the Avalon Promenade and Gateway. Demolition and clearing of the former LADWP parcel started June 15, with construction of the Avalon Promenade and Gateway slated to start this fall.

Harbor Commission OKs $370,195 in Sponsorships

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Harbor Commission OKs $370,195 in Sponsorships

LONG BEACH — The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has approved 137 community sponsorships totaling $370,195, capping off a year of port awards that highlight the Port of Long Beach’s role in international trade and dedication to social responsibility.

With the latest sponsorships, the Port has awarded a total of $746,195 in the current fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2019, for 261 total events representing a wide cross-section of the city and causes such as the arts, environment, social justice and historic preservation.

Harbor Commissioners adopted an updated policy for the Port’s Community Sponsorship Program. The update includes a section about unforeseen circumstances and canceled or postponed events, a change in the payment disbursement percentage and a new advertising agreement requirement for awards greater than $7,500. The updated policy can be found on the Port’s website here.

Among the events and programs sponsored in the latest call for applications are the Casa Youth Shelter’s Youth Leadership Conference, The LGBTQ Center Long Beach’s AIDS Walk, and the Friends of the Los Angeles River’s Great L.A. River CleanUp.

Sponsorship recipients are required to promote the port through their sponsored events to spread awareness about the port’s maritime and commercial interests. This requirement is based on the common law Public Trust Doctrine which requires that revenues generated by the port be reinvested back into the public trust lands for the benefit of the public. 

Details:www.polb.com/community/sponsorships/#sponsorship-overview 

Long Beach Launches Safe Biz, Physical Distancing Self Certification For Businesses

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Long Beach Launches Safe Biz, Physical Distancing Self Certification For Businesses

LONG BEACH- The City of Long Beach June 11, launched SafeBiz, a web-interface which allows businesses, which may open according to the safer-at-home order to self-certify that they are committed to re-opening their business safely.

SafeBiz guides business owners through a checklist of safety measures required by the safer-at-home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The order Appendix A: Physical Distancing Protocol includes measures to protect employee health, to keep crowds from gathering, to keep people at least six feet apart and prevent unnecessary contact, and to increase sanitation measures to support a safe environment for patrons. Businesses must implement all applicable measures, or be prepared to explain why measures that are not implemented are not applicable to the business. If all questions are answered appropriately, a certificate will be automatically generated upon completion of the self-assessment for the business to print and post in a visible place along with a posting of a Physical Distancing Protocol.

Long Beach Code Enforcement staff will periodically review self-certification entries to ensure they are valid and will use the database to conduct spot checks of businesses to verify compliance.

Residents may report violations and non-compliant businesses by calling 562-570-2633 or emailing CETaskForce@LongBeach.gov.

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