14 SiGnaL TriBune CiTy OF SiGnaL HiLL TST4083 NoTICE oF PUBlIC HEARING June 5, 2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Signal Hill will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chamber located at City Hall, 2175 Cherry Avenue, Signal Hill, California, to consider: THE PROPOSED PREFERENTIAL PARKING ZONE ON CATALINA DRIVE ALL INTERESTED PERSONS are hereby invited to attend a public hearing to present written information, express their opinions or otherwise present evidence on the above matter. If you wish to legally challenge any action taken by the City on the above matter, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City prior to or at the public hearing. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED to submit written comments to the Public Works/Engineering Department or during the public hearing. FURTHER INFORMATION on this item may be obtained at the City of Signal Hill Public Works/Engineering Department located at 2175 Cherry Avenue, Signal Hill, California or by calling Steve Myrter at (562) 989-7356. //ss// Steve Myrter, P.E. Director of Public Works Published in the Signal Tribune on: May 18 and May 25, 2012 Posted at City Hall, the Library, Reservoir Park, and Discovery Well Park on: May 18, 2012 NoTICE oF DIVIDED PUBlICATIoN Made pursuant to Section 3381, Revenue and Taxation Code Pursuant to Sections 3381 through 3385, Revenue and Taxation Code, the Notice of Power to Sell Tax-Defaulted Property in and for Los Angeles County, State of California, has been divided and distributed to various newspapers of general circulation published in the County. A portion of the list appears in each of such newspapers. NoTICE oF IMPENDING PoWER To SEll TAX-DEFAUlTED PRoPERTY Made pursuant to Section 3361, Revenue and Taxation Code Notice is hereby given that real property taxes and assessments on the parcels described below will have been defaulted five or more years, or, in the case of nonresidential commercial property, property on which a nuisance abatement lien has been recorded or that can serve the public benefit by providing housing or services directly related to low-income persons when three or more years have elapsed and a request has been made by a city, county, city and county, or nonprofit organization that property will become subject to the Tax Collector's power to sell. The parcels listed will become subject to the Tax Collector's power to sell on July 1, 2012, at 12:01 a.m., by operation of law. The Tax Collector's power to sell will arise unless the property is either redeemed or made subject to an installment plan of redemption initiated as provided by law prior to 5:00 p.m., on June 29, 2012. The right to an installment plan terminates on June 29, 2012, and after that date the entire balance due must be paid in full to prevent sale of the property at public auction. The right of redemption survives the property becoming subject to the power to sell, but it terminates at 5:00 p.m. on the last business day before actual sale of the property by the Tax Collector. All information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption will be furnished, upon request, by Mark J. Saladino, Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector, 225 North Hill Street, First Floor, Los Angeles, California 90012. The amount to redeem, in dollars and cents, is set forth opposite its parcel number. This amount includes all defaulted taxes, penalties, and fees that have accrued from the date of tax-default to the date of June 29, 2012. I certify, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 2nd day of May, 2012.
MARK J. SALADINO TREASURER AND TAX COLLECTOR COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES STATE OF CALIFORNIA PARCEl NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPlANATIoN The Assessor's Identification Number (AIN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the Assessor's map book, the map page, the block on the map, if applicable, and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The Assessor's maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the Assessor's Office, 500 West Temple Street, Room 225, Los Angeles, California 90012. The real property that is the subject of this notice is situated in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, and is described as follows: PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED IN YEAR 2009 FOR TAXES, ASSESSMENT, AND OTHER CHARGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008-2009 5637 $79.95 VAN AUSDALL,KRISTEN ET AL VAN AUSDALL,JOHN AIN: 7207-002-053 5653 $12,407.28 JALALLIAN,HUSSEIN AND HARLEY,KENNETH AIN: 7215-001-008 5656 $4,053.42 RIVERA,LOUIS A JR TR LOUIS A RIVERA JR TRUST SITUS:1831 REDONDO AVE SIGNAL HILL CA 90755-1225 AIN: 7217-022-005 PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED IN YEAR 2007 FOR TAXES, ASSESSMENT, AND OTHER CHARGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006-2007 5612 $1,791.85 GENTILE,PHILLIP L AND DIANE SITUS:3322 ELM AVE LONG BEACH CA 90807-4458 AIN: 7148-014-135 5652 $9,232.33 MARTIN,MICHELLE SITUS:2318 OLIVE AVE LONG BEACH CA 90806-3237 AIN: 7211-010-013 5654 $30,467.96 CRUZ,CONRADO AND CRUZ,RADLYNN J SITUS:2125 OHIO AVE APT 0006 SIGNAL HILL CA 90755-1015 AIN: 7215-028-087 5655 $24,450.35 GORDON,CARMEN AIN: 7217-015-044 5657 $6,023.83 BENAVIDES,JASON AND CINDERELLA P SITUS:2451 AMELIA CT SIGNAL HILL CA 90755-4061 AIN: 7217-027-010 Published in the Signal Tribune on May 18 & 25, 2012. TST4081
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the water rights judgment and ensures that water entities stay within their rights allocated within the judgment. However, under the new plan, the watermaster will also make crucial decisions on new water-storage projects, according to Patty Quilizapa, an attorney who represents the cities against the WRD. The water-extraction rights issue is a key topic for Quilizapa. She explained in an interview Wednesday night that the cities were concerned that the program would allow entities to bank their water-extraction rights, which could lead to speculation of water prices and hoarding in times when the prices of water do increase. “under the proposal,” Quilizapa said, “parties would have the ability to save every single year of annual pumping allocation up to 100 percent and save it for a long period of time and sell it to the highest bidder whenever the price is up. …. So it’s basically converting native water to stored private water and keeping it to drive the prices up that concerns the cities.” Quilizapa also warned against the plan that would allow the WRD to take on an expanded role as part of the watermaster body. She described how the agency would assume major oversight responsibilities over storage, an area where the WRD already had a significant stake. “The WRD under this plan receives an allocation of 125,000 acre-feet of storage space. So, they are a party with an interest in the storage space, and they would also be a primary part of the watermaster group that would be charged with approving storage projects,” she said. When Farfsing was asked about the watermaster role in an interview Tuesday, the Signal Hill city manager agreed that the watermaster should be a neutral third party. Earlier this month, the Califor-
May 25, 2012 nia Supreme Court ruled on the jurisdiction issues that pertained to the storage program and determined that a trial court would hear the merits of the case. The WRD issued a press release last week that called this ruling a victory. Casey explained why his client, the WRD, hailed this as good news, even though the case still has to go before a judge. “So, the victory that we claimed was exactly what we’ve been saying for three years– let us decide the merits of the proposal,” Casey said in an interview Tuesday. “Maybe we won’t win the merits. Maybe we won’t, but for God’s sakes don’t take another three years of taxpayer money raising procedural obstacles to hearing the merits of the proposal.” Farfsing disputed whether there was any victory yet when it came to storage. “I don’t think we’re any closer to a solution than we were three or four years ago,” the city manager said. “Other than we’re working with the group of cities. Lakewood, Long Beach, Downey, Cerritos and Signal Hill have been meeting to basically see if we can come to a storage plan resolution.” Casey further described how the WRD and most of the other entities in the West Coast and Central Basin have thrown their overall support behind the storage plan. He said that only two pumpers in the West Coast region opposed the storage plan while the rest in the West Coast and the majority of the Central Basin region (with exception of the Signal Hill, Downey, Cerritos and one other entity) favored the storage plan. The WRD’s attorney also defended how the watermaster body would be structured, since not all the power of the watermaster would belong to the WRD. He explained that the watermaster body could be compared to a “bicameral” structure– one half of each watermaster body from each basin would include representatives appointed by the water association for that basin, and the other
CiTy OF SiGnaL HiLL TST4088 NoTICE INVITING BIDS A-1 Sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, City of Signal Hill, California, until 10:00 AM on MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012 and on the same day shortly thereafter, they will be publicly opened and read for construction of MAINTENANCE PAINTING PROJECT, NO. 354, in accordance with the Specifications and Construction Drawings therefore. Bids must be made on the forms provided for this purpose, addressed to the City Clerk, City of Signal Hill, marked "Bid for," followed by the title of the project and the date and hour for submitting bids. Bids are required for the entire work as shown on the Construction Drawings and as described in the Bid Schedule and the Specifications. The work to be accomplished under this contract consists of preparation and painting of metal railing, metal carport structures, metal doors, and exterior wood trim at various City facilities. The Contract duration is Thirty (30) calendar days. A-2 The contract documents, which include the Specifications and Construction Drawings, may be obtained at the City of Signal Hill Finance Department for $15.00 or $20.00 by mail. The documents are entitled “MAINTENANCE PAINTING PROJECT, NO. 354" A-3 Bids will not be received unless they are made on a proposal form furnished in the Contract Documents by the City of Signal Hill. Each bid must be accompanied by cash, certified check, cashier's check or bidder's bond, made payable to the City of Signal Hill for an amount equal to at least ten percent (10%) of the amount bid, such guarantee to be forfeited should the bidder to whom the contract is awarded fail to enter into the Contract. A-4 All bids are to be compared on the basis of the estimate of quantities shown in the Bid Schedule(s) and as stipulated herein. Bids will not be accepted from the contractors who are not licensed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 9, Division III of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California. The Contractor shall be required to possess a currently active Class “A”, or “C-33” license at the time the bid is submitted. A-5 Attention is directed to the provision in Section 1777.5 of the Labor Code concerning the employment of apprentices by the Contractor or any subcontractor under the Contractor. A-6 Before a Contract is entered into with the successful bidder, the bidder shall present evidence in writing to the City Clerk, City of Signal Hill, that he/she has a current combined single limit liability policy with aggregate limits for Bodily Injury and Property Damage in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000).
half of the watermaster body would include the WRD board to cover storage issues. Casey acknowledged that legal disputes over water do tend to last longer than other disputes. “But I will tell you, in my opinion, this is probably one of the longest running [ones] concerning storage,” Casey added. “Most other people work it out because they understand the win-win nature of it all, and that’s why…the vast majority of folks stuck with that mediated process that took [a] combined five years…the vast majority of people got it.” The dispute with the three cities is not the only legal battle that the WRD is fighting, but the cost to hire lawyers to defend the agency against the cities’ suits has especially irked Albert Robles, who serves as the board president for the WRD. In an interview Wednesday morning, Robles lamented that both sides have spent an extraordinary amount to retain legal services. “I believe that if the citizenry of Signal Hill, Cerritos and Downey were thoroughly informed as to what was going on and not given the spin that these attorneys and that these representatives are somehow so good at, that they would be shocked, that they would be absolutely shocked, as to what their cities are doing ‘in their best interest,’” Robles said, adding that only the attorneys are benefitting by earning “millions and millions of dollars.” Casey emphasized the importance of the storage program. “It is by far the most cost-effective, by far the most environmental-friendly way to store water when we have wet years and pull it out during dry years,” he said, adding that “we need to have better storage mechanisms in this state if residents of Signal Hill or residents of any city want to be assured of a safe, reliable high-quality supply of water for years and years and years.” While he criticized the plan that the WRD supports, Farfsing did acknowledge the importance of water storage for Signal Hill. “Water is becoming more expensive and more unreliable in California,” he said in an interview Thursday. “I think having additional storage would be beneficial to the community during rainier periods where we’d be able to store water to use during droughts.”
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