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Los Angeles Times


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City of Long BeachWorking Together to Serve

Memorandum

Date: June 11, 2010

To: Mayor and Members of the City Council

From:Patrick West, City ManagerSuzanne Frick, Assistant City Manager

Subject: Friday Newsletter

L.A. Times Puts No Advertisements Sign to the Test

L.A. Times writer and Long Beach resident Rene Lynch recently ordered one ofour free No Advertisements door signs and put it to the test. Check out herreview and test results in her attached The Recyclist article for the L.A. Timesonline..The Environmental Services Bureau (ESB) offers these free No

Advertisements door signs to residents who dont want their doorsteps litteredwith Spam, business cards, restaurant menus, and countless flyers. ESBcreated this program in direct response to comments and requests for help fromresidents. Order your free door sign at www.litterfreeLB.org.

Redevelopment Support From the Top

We are lucky the States new Assembly Speaker, John Perez, once served onthe L.A. City Community Development Agency Board. He recognizes the valueof redevelopment as an important tool, which he believes was instrumental inturning around his district. He states, I have no interest in going afterredevelopment money as a way to balance the State budget this year.

Another Neighborhoods USA National Award

Back in 2005, we made the decision, through the RDA, to save five historicallysignificant homes when we assembled land for the West Gateway Project. Thisis where the Lyon Apartment Community will soon open their doors and will bethe future site of our new courthouse. We preserved these homes, purchasedvacant residential lots, moved them onto the lots, secured them, and worked withneighborhood groups to help restore them and find buyers. All of the homeshave been purchased and are currently undergoing rehabilitation This year the


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Electric Vehicles

Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal will be back in our City Council Chambersnext week for a short visit. On Friday, June 18th from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,the Assembly Member (and Chair of the Assembly Transportation) will be holdinga Transportation Committee meeting on Electric Vehicles. We will provide anagenda once one is available.

Big Belly Solar

We will be implementing a six-month Solar Powered Trash Compactor &Bottle/Can Recycling Pilot Program in three of our Business ImprovementDistricts. The program will consist of three solar-powered automatic trashcompactors, together with three bottle/can recycling units, placed in theDowntown, Bixby Knolls, and Belmont Shore. Site visits have occurred and

installation should be complete within 30 days. This project is in partnership withour BIDs. Attached are photos of the Bins in other cities.

Memos to the Mayor and City Council

We sent up the following memos to the Mayor and City Council this past week:

Promotion Ceremony June 10, 2010

FY 10 Adopted Revenue Solutions and FY 11 Compensation Costs Long Beach Airport Modernization Program Update

Internship Opportunities with City Contracts Map of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities (Cell Sites) Citywide

Check Cashing Update Joint County Boundary Adjustments Between the Cities of Seal Beach,

Long Beach and Los Alamitos

Attachments

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The Recyclist: You leave that 'door spam' at your ownrisk, pardner

June 9, 2010 | 6:54am

There are many things I love about living in Long Beach.

The Aquarium of the Pacific. The Queen Mary. The fried chicken at Johnny Rebs'. But this -- my fancy

new plastic placard -- ranks right up there.

It turns out that the city of Long Beach hates "door spam" as much as I do. You know, all the junk that

people leave on your doorstep: the business cards, gardening fliers, real estate agents' calendars,

restaurant menus and the like that are shoved into the door jamb, wrapped around the doorknob,

shoved under the door or secured to my mailbox with a rubber band.

Stay conne

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don't want that clutter in my house!)

But no more. I was tooling around the city's

website recently when I found this link alerting

me to a free placard to hang on my doorknob. It

carries a warning in English and Spanish that my

home is off limits to this clutter, which just ends

back in the city's garbage trucks. I was thrilled to

find it but also a bit dubious. Would it work? Keep

reading to find out ...

Bottom line: Overnight, the door clutter came to a

virtual halt. Seriously.

Turns out that these signs are not just window

dressing. The city has a little bite to back up its

bark: Advertisers who ignore the sign can be

reported to the city, and the city also encourages

you to print a form letter and send it to advertisers

alerting them that a line was crossed.

I've seen a few violations, including one from a

real estate agent. I called the agent to complain

that my sign was ignored. I fully expected a "Hey lady, what do you want me to do about it?" response.

Instead, he apologized and asked me not to file a complaint with the city: "Please give me your

address and I will come over there right now and remove it."

So this thing works.

But what do you think? Am I being too touchy about all this door spam, or do you hate it as well? And

do you have a better method for fending it off?

-- Rene Lynch

twitter.com/renelynch

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National neighborhood

honor goes to Long

Beach

By Greg Mellen, Staff Writer

Posted: 06/05/2010 09:42:24 PM PDT

A Long Beach neighborhood group struckpay dirt once again at the annual

Neighborhoods USA national 2010

Neighborhood of the Year awards

competition.

The Willmore City Heritage Association

emerged among four finalists to win first

place in its category for its 7-year effort tobuy, move, renovate and sell a 1904 home,

nicknamed "the School House," that had

been earmarked for demolition.

"We are so, so thrilled," said Cheryl Perry, the

former president of the Willmore group.

Perry was one of four locals to make a

presentation on her organization's project.She was joined at the Neighborhoods USA

conference in Little Rock, Ark., by her

husband, Dave, and Carrol Goddard.

"We felt it was a tough competition, so we felt

very lucky," Perry said. "All the projects were

very good."

First District Councilman Robert Garcia,

whose district includes Willmore City,

praised the group.

"Their caring and hard work on behalf of this

community and their commitment to historic

preservation are inspiring, and they really

deserve this recognition," Garcia said in astatement.

Willmore's win continued a strong tradition

by Long Beach neighborhoods in the

competition.

"We have the best Neighborhood Services

Bureau in the country, I really believe that,"said Perry, noting that she learned Long

Beach is far ahead of most other cities in

working with neighborhood groups to

strengthen and revitalize the area.

This is the 10th

time in six years and 15th overall that a LongBeach neighborhood has been recognized.

Last year, We Love Long Beach, a

neighborhood group based in Belmont

Shore, was a finalist, and in 2008, the North

Long Beach Community Action Group won

the first Grand Prize for the city. Willmore

was also recognized in 2004 with a second-

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place award for a school children's safety

project in cooperation with several partners.

The Willmore City Heritage Association's

recent project, "Willmore's School House on

the Move," was entered in the Physical

Revitalization - Single Neighborhood

category. Willmore worked in partnership

with the city, Redevelopment Agency and

other organizations to keep the house frombeing razed.

The School House also became the model

that helped save four other homes in the

West Gateway area that have since been

moved to RDA lots in Willmore City.

The Neighborhood Resource Center, 425Atlantic Ave., will celebrate the win on with a

June 14 reception, at 6 p.m. The

neighborhood group will share its

presentation from the competition.

Neighborhoods USA is a national nonprofit

group that works to strengthen and promote

neighborhood groups.

[email protected], 562-499-

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