Inglewood News AND LENNOX CITIZEN The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - October 8, 2015 Teen Center 2nd Anniversary Gala The Inglewood Teen Center celebrated its second anniversary on September 30th with over 100 guests, including students, community civic leaders, and staff. The event was sponsored by the South Bay Workforce Investment Board. The Teen Center, located at 101 Manchester Blvd., is open weekday afternoons from 3-6pm and provides teens a safe alternative to gang involvement as well as games, computers, counseling, and workshops. Pictured Left to Right: Inglewood Councilmember George Dotson, City of Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr., Inglewood Teen Center youth Devonne Wade (who received the Most Improved Award), SBWIB CEO Jan Vogel, and Inglewood Councilmember Ralph Franklin. Photo courtesy of SBWIB. City Amends California Cities For Self-Reliance Joint Powers Agreement By Cristian Vasquez establishments within member cities; and to The approval of an amendment to the create gaming opportunities and enter into California Cities for Self-Reliance Joint ventures with all participants in gaming in Powers Agreement by the Inglewood City order to enhance gaming revenues to member Council designate the Cities of Compton and cities of the JPA and the gaming establishments Inglewood as founding members, removing that exist within their boundaries. previous distinctions among all of the cities. In Through the amendment the goals addition, the amendment confirms the removal established by the original JPA were reinstated, of the City of Gardena from the JPA due including the provision for automatic renewal to its own withdrawal from the agreement. of the agreement every two years, unless a Confirmed through the amendment as members of the JPA are the Cities of Bell Gardens, Commerce, Hawaiian Gardens, Compton and Inglewood. The original agreement was approved on July 11, 2001 and included the Cities of Bell Gardens, Commerce, Hawaiian Gardens and the now removed Gardena. The City of Inglewood member city provides a written notice no less did not enter until April 25, 2006 as a trade than six months prior to a term’s expiration member of the JPA. that they would not like to renew. Each of the member cities is home to Each member of the JPA must appoint two at least one “card club facility” within its of its councilmembers to the JPA’s Board of boundaries. In the interest of supporting Directors; one acts as director and the second each other as localities with casinos, the JPA as the alternate director. For the City of set seven goals for all of its members. The Inglewood, Councilman Ralph Franklin is the objectives are as follows: to promote and appointed trade member, while Councilman protect the gaming economy of the State Eloy Morales, Jr. will serve as the city’s of California and of the member cities; to alternate. The board is to host quarterly seek more opportunities for gaming within meetings, which have been tentatively set for the State of California beneficial to all January 30, April 30, July 30 and October member cities of the JPA and the gaming 30, with meetings rotating from one of the establishments within their boundaries; to JPA member’s boundaries to another. advance the interests of the member cities of Preparations Underway the JPA from gaming establishments within For Active Transportation, their boundaries; to support the interest of the Safe Routes To School Plan gaming establishments in the member cities A professional services agreement with at the regional, state and national levels; to Ryan Snyder Associates in the amount of enhance revenues of the member cities of the $388,770 was approved for the transportation JPA from the gaming establishments within planning services in preparation for the Active their boundaries; to welcome tribal gaming in Transportation and Safe Routes to School Plan, the state as an industry exclusive of gaming including the required environmental review. “Ryan Snyder Associates (RSA) is recommended for selection based on their extensive experience with similar projects, ability to meet the required timeframes, responsiveness to the work scope and work completed in numerous communities in the Los Angeles Region,” states the staff report signed by Senior Economic Community and Development Department Director Christopher E. Jackson. “Additionally, RSA’s work has won several awards including the Lynwood Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan (2013); Fullerton Comprehensive Plan (as a sub consultant); and the Model Design Manual for Living Streets (2013).” On Sept. 27, 2014 the City of Inglewood received a Caltrans grant worth $486,000 in order to hire a transportation-planning consultant to prepare an Active Transportation Plan, which includes a Safe Routes to School Plan. The city received five statements of qualifications for the project from Alta Planning + Design, Avant Garde, IBI Group, SWA and Ryan Snyder Associates. Of the five statements, the city asked three firms to provide proposals, including Alta Planning + Design, IBI Group and the selected Ryan Snyder Associates. Of the total grant funds, the city will retain $98,000 to cover staff costs, to expand the community engagement of the component plan or any other options that would assist in enhancing the city’s Active Transportation Plan. • Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................6 Classifieds............................2 Community Briefs...............2 Film Review..........................2 Food.......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals............................4, 6-7 Police Reports.....................3 Sports....................................4 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 88˚/72˚ Saturday Sunny 90˚/70˚ Sunday Sunny 84˚/70˚ “Ryan Snyder Associates (RSA) is recommended for selection based on their extensive experience with similar projects, ability to meet the required timeframes, responsiveness to the work scope and work completed in numerous communities in the Los Angeles Region”
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