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UCLA forecast: Despite sub-standard economic growth, US dodging recession

By City News Service

Despiteeconomic growththatis expected to continue trending lower than it did during the second half of last year, the nation appears to have dodged the possibility of a recession in 2024, and growth rates are expected to rebound heading into 2025, according to a UCLA forecast released Thursday.

“The oft-predicted but never seen `recession next quarter’ has now faded in the face of expansionary fiscal policy, a new national industrial policy and a consumer who is happy to continue spending,” UCLA Anderson Forecast Director Jerry Nickelsburg wrote in his national economic outlook.

“As inflation slowly works its way back to the neighborhood of 2.2% to 2.7% per annum and is being kept high due primarily to

residential rents, automobile repair and new health insurance premia, we expect Fed policy to take a neutral stance and economic growth to rebound to trend rates.”

But Nickelsburg warned of continuing uncertainties -- including the November presidential election that could potentially mark a shift in economic policies, and the lingering possibility of a government shutdown.

“These risks are substantial and bear watching as they could well drive the economy off of the current growth path that is predicted to return the U.S. economy to trend 2.5% growth,” he wrote. “Due to those uncertainties, the forecast contains weaker business investment in the third and fourth quarters of this year corresponding to a wait-and-see approach by

some firms until after the November election.”

Nickelsburg noted that the last half of 2023 saw the U.S. economy grow much faster than the 2.5% average growth rate seen in recent years. The first quarter of 2024, however, saw growth beneath that trend, and that slowdown is anticipated to continue “for a few more quarters.” But Nickelsburg noted that the slowdown is not necessarily portending a recession, since the economic pace is not due to a contraction in demand leading to a sharp slowdown in GDP growth and loose labor markets.

“This sounds as if the economy is on the verge of a recession, but there is a second way in which growth can slow,” he wrote. “That occurs when demand is sufficiently strong for more

LA County board agrees to explore reparations efforts

By Anusha Shankar, City News Service

The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to explore additional efforts for making reparations to “historically disenfranchised” Black residents, including an offer of free admission for a day this month to attractions such as the Natural History Museum and county Museum of Art.

The board approved a motion introduced by Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell directing the county CEO and the director of Racial Equity for the Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion

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Initiative to review a report of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for AfricanAmericans and report back to the board in 120 days with recommendations for local reparation efforts. The report is expected to include recommendations on actions county departments can take to provide reparations to eligible residents, along with proposed language for a board resolution that acknowledges and apologizes to Black residents and their descen-

dants “for the county’s role in structural racism, acts of violence and other such harms.”

“With our history of legalized racism -- including but not limited to redlining, housing discrimination, workforce discrimination, and school segregation -- our current government needs to act just as resolutely to provide true reparations to historically disenfranchised Black county residents,” the motion states.

The motion also calls for a separate report within 180

rapid growth, but supply constraints are holding it back. These can take the form of tight labor markets or a lack of physical productive capacity and that is where we find the U.S. economy as we move into the summer of 2024. It also is consistent with persistently high inflation rates.”

Nickelsburg said labor market constraints are expected to east through 2025 and 2026, thanks in part to higher wages encouraging more people to join the work force.

“The construction of new factories and current industrial policy should also ease production constraints

in 2025 and 2026 and will contribute to the slightly above-trend growth in our forecast. An important risk of the forecast, of course, would be a radically different economic policy after the November elections. We are assuming that regardless of the election outcome, this is not the case.”

West Covina council seeks public input on spending CDBG funds

West Covina City Council members have scheduled a public hearing on how they should spend federal funds for housing preservation, economic development and public services.

On July 2, the council will receive public comments and discuss Community Development Block Grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The city annually receives HUD funds and is required to prepare an annual CDBG Action Plan

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that details how the funds will be used.

For the upcoming fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30, 2025, West Covina will receive nearly $808,000 from HUD, according to a city statement. The city will also add about $20,000 “in program income through home rehabilitation loan repayments” and nearly $212,000 “in unobligated grant funds from prior years are proposed” for a resource package totaling about $1.04 million. The proposed spending

plan calls for $545,000 for a housing preservation program, $200,000 for economicdevelopment, $164,500 for planning and administration and $130,171 for public services.

Officials said there is a shortfall for “Public Service Activities” For PY 2024, twelve (12) public service providers submitted applications requesting a total of $295,000, as shown below. City staff estimates $130,171 in funding resources will be available. This is a breakdown of the $295,000 in

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Cedars-Sinai gets $100M gift for surgery department

By City News Service

The Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery has received a $100 million donation from philanthropists Jim and Eleanor Randall and the Randall Family Foundation, the hospital announced Wednesday.

The gift establishes the Jim and Eleanor Randall Department of Surgery, and Cedars officials said it marks a milestone in the medical center’s mission to serve the specialized needs of patients in Los Angeles and beyond.

“Eleanor and I believe deeply in Cedars-Sinai’s vision and the exceptional work being performed by the Department of Surgery team,” Jim Randall said in a statement. “We wish to continue fostering lifesaving campaigns and extend this gift with that full intention.”

The Randalls are longtime supporters of Cedars-Sinai and have partnered on several campaigns and enterprises. The gift also establishes the Jim and Eleanor Randall Chair in Surgery in honor of Dr. Edward Phillips.

Phillips is executive vice chair of the Jim and Eleanor Randall Department of Surgery and the Dolly Parton Chair in Surgical Innovation. An authority in surgical medicine, Phillips has spent more than four decades leading CedarsSinai’s programs and is an internationally recognized developer of novel surgical techniques and laparoscopic instrumentation used in minimally invasive procedures, according the medical center.

Cedars-Sinai is internationally known for its

surgical innovation and research across many specialties, including major lifesaving cancer, gastrointestinal, transplant, vascular, chest, trauma, otolaryngology (ENT) and reconstructive plastic surgeries. The medical center performs more than 32,000 operations each year across all disciplines.

“This amazing gift strengthens our research and training programs and provides critical resources to push the boundaries of surgical medicine,” said Cristina Ferrone, MD, chair of the Jim and Eleanor Randall Department of Surgery and the Linda and Jim Lippman Chair in Surgical Oncology.

Thomas Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai and the Warschaw Law Chair in Healthcare Leadership, added, “This amazing gift

LAX People Mover gets additional $200M to address legal claims

By City News Service

The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday backed a decision made by a commission in providing the LAX People Mover an additional $200 million to settle legal claims.

In a 14-0 vote, council members approved a resolution previously passed by the Board of Airport Commissioners for the funds. The money is expected to be used to settle claims submitted by the contractor, LAX Integrated Express Solutions, bringing the project’s total budget to $2.9 billion.

Councilman Curren Price was absent during the vote.

The LAX People Mover is an automated people mover line around the airport,

which is part of the airport’s $5.5 billion Landside Access Modernization Program. The APM will be an electric train system on 2.25 miles of elevated rail with six stations.

Part of the project will update terminals and gates, and airport signage, to help travelers move through the airport. According to the resolution, over the past year, Los Angeles World Airports and LAX Integrated Express Solutions have been negotiating in good faith in an attempt to resolve a number of relief event claims submitted by the contractor. Recent discussions have turned toward negotiating a potential global settlement for

Anaheim Councilwoman survives recall attempt

By City News Service

An attempt to recall Anaheim City CouncilwomanNatalie Rubalcava was defeated, with the no side leading 54.09%45.91%, according to results from the Orange County Registrar of Voters released Tuesday evening.

There are 292 ballots left to process, but that is not enough to change the outcome with 2,660 no votes to 2,258 yes votes. Turnout was 19.1%. according to the Registrar of Voters.

all outstanding relief event claims and an appropriate extension of time to complete the project.

The project was originally expected to be in operation by 2024, but due to the disagreements, which have led to delays, it will open by late 2025.

In May, the Los Angeles Times reported that the issue has been discussed in closed session during multiple Board of Airport Commissioners meetings. John Ackerman, CEO of Los Angeles World Airports, told the Times that both parties have “come to a fair settlement that allows us to deliver the train that this community really deserves.”

Rubalcava drew the ire of United Here Local 11, a union for hotel workers, who accused her of corruption. Rubalcava denied any misconduct and accused the union of sour grapes when it failed to defeat her in the November 2022 election.

Rubalcava, who also serves on the Orange County Fair Board, represents District 3.

Union leaders said in their statement for the recall that the councilwoman “sides with the same powerful business interests who have corrupted Anaheim politics...”

The recall supporters also said “she has wasted taxpayer money to help hotel interests.”

The recall boosters also tied her to disgraced former Chamber of Commerce CEO Todd Ament, who pleaded guilty to fraud in federal

court. They said Ament’s organization “spent nearly $380,000 to elect her.”

Rubalcava, however, said the recall “is about one LA-based organization that

hasn’t gotten over losing the last election.” She said the claims from recall supporters were “exaggerated or completely untrue.”

from the Randall family reinforces Cedars-Sinai’s position as a leader in academic medicine. It also ensures we

remain at the forefront in training future generations of surgical specialists. The Randalls’ visionary invest-

ment builds on this institution’s quest to pioneer new surgical methods and technology that will save lives.”

The gift from Jim and Eleanor Randall marks a milestone in Cedars-Sinai’s mission to serve the specialized needs of patients in Los Angeles and beyond. | Photo by Cedars-Sinai

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What Donald Trump’s criminal trial reveals about a potential second Trump administration

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There’s a tape that both the defense and the prosecution played in summations in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial. In it, you can hear the chaos of Trump’s office at Trump Tower in September of 2016: Trump seems to be having multiple conversations almost simultaneously. He talks to an unidentified person on the phone. He discusses polls with Michael Cohen, his executive vice-president at the time. Trump and Cohen talk about a diversity initiative and stopping the media from unsealing the records of Trump’s first divorce. His executive assistant pops in with word of a call from a developer. Trump calls for a Coke.

And then, very clearly, you can hear Cohen saying, “I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, David, you know, so that — I’m going to do that right away. I’ve actually come up and I’ve spoken … I’ve spoken to Allen Weisselberg” — then the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer — “about how to set the whole thing up.”

Trump interrupts and says, “So, what do we got to pay for this, 150?” Then he says, “Cash?”

“No, no, no, no no,” Cohen says. “I got it.”

a payoff to conceal a sexual encounter. (Trump has vowed to appeal.) But the trial also unveiled a broad array of evidence that went far beyond the charges. It revealed a lot about how Trump went about running his company and the presidency — and provided hints of how that might play out in a second Trump administration.

On the most literal level, the tape showed Trump discussing the logistics of paying off a woman who said she had an affair with him. This was key evidence for the jury’s ultimate finding that he had intended to alter the outcome of the 2016 election by making unlawful hush money payments.

When this tape was first made public, in 2018, it was hard to pin down exactly what it all meant. But as Trump’s seven-week trial proceeded, the broader meaning of the tape emerged in sharp relief: Everything is connected in Trump world, ethical borders are easily crossed and Trump is on top of every detail.

The verdict in the criminal trial provided answers to a narrow series of questions, not least of which was whether a presidential candidate had used illicit means to prevent voters from learning about

For most of Trump’s presidential term, I co-hosted the ProPublica/WNYC podcast “Trump, Inc.,” whose mission was to delve into the conflicts of interest between Trump’s business and his presidency. Because there was so much that journalists didn’t — and couldn’t — understand about a privately held company that clung tightly to its secrets, “Trump, Inc.” billed itself as “an open investigation.” We were candid about what we did and did not know because we lived in a world of doubt.

“Trump, Inc.” uncovered a lot, including unearthing Cohen’s dubious connections in 2018 and outlining how his role as Trump’s lawyer (then still intact) created a cloak of legal privilege that hid their interactions.

But we saw just tiny glimpses of the documents that have now been revealed in their entirety in the criminal trial; we had no access to the many Trump employees, current and former, who have now described, under oath, the inner workings of the Trump

Organization. That testimony confirmed what that tape seemed to show: that Trump pays close, close attention to all his business affairs, and always has. This, in turn, suggests that the mixing of Trump’s presidency and business that “Trump, Inc.” and others documented occurred under that same watchful eye. And if voters elect Trump a second time — this time knowing that he was convicted of a crime, one where key acts were committed in the Oval Office, on top of his two impeachments — Trump can conclude that America’s voters have blessed his way of doing business. There’s every reason to believe his conflicts of interest will only be more open and more unapologetic.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump employees testified to his intense level of control in three trials against Trump or his company over the past two years. These were among five trials since 2022, each of which I covered in person, including the criminal trial of his company for tax fraud, two defamation suits brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll and the New York attorney general’s civil fraud trial. Each trial ended badly for Trump or his company (and each is being appealed).

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trial in New York offered one sharp revelation after the next. The disclosures came not just from the talkedabout witnesses, such as former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, Stormy Daniels and Cohen himself, but also from Trump’s former comptroller, his executive assistant and the aide who sat closest to the Oval Office. Some of these individuals, including a junior bookkeeper for the Trump Organization and the head of the company’s accounts payable department, work in Trump Tower to this day.

The picture that emerges from their testimony is of a boss — “The Boss” is what they nearly uniformly call him — who manages the tiniest of details but leaves the faintest of traces of all that management. Up until the throes of the 2016 campaign, Trump had to approve every payment over $2,500, an extraordinarily tiny sum for a mogul with assets around the globe. (For the duration of the campaign, until he became president, that amount inched up, to $10,000.)

Trump would reject checks he didn’t want to pay and send them back to his underlings, with the word “VOID” scrawled on them in Sharpie.

Trump watched every expense in this way, his comptroller Jeff McConney testified. Trump once told

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him, early in his time at the company, “You’re fired,” because McConney hadn’t made an effort to reduce Trump’s bills before presenting Trump with payment documents. “It was a teaching moment,” McConney said on the stand. This close attention and tight-fistedness extended company wide: When it came to Trump University, Cohen testified, it was part of his job to offer a vendor 20% of what they were owed, or to pay them nothing at all.

Trump brought this ethos to the White House, where, as his lawyers liked to point out, he was the “leader of the free world.” He took time to write “PAY” on a $6,974 invoice sent by Trump Organization executive assistant Rhona Graff for an annual membership and “food minimum” at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York. Trump, of course, handed over control of the Trump Organization, including the oversight of its payments, to his older sons and Weisselberg at the outset of his administration. But he never gave up ownership of his company. He always made money from it, and does to this day.

And Trump, while president, went to extraordinary lengths to keep control of his “personal” checking account. That account actually belonged to a Trump Organization business entity, which underscored the lack of separation between Trump and the company he had ostensibly separated himself from. Trump’s personal checks were approved by Weisselberg; generated by Deborah Tarasoff, the head of Trump’s accounts payable department; stapled to the approved invoice; and sent via FedEx by Trump’s junior bookkeeper, Rebecca

Manochio, to the Washington home of Trump’s bodyguard-turned-White House aide, Keith Schiller, who would bring them over for Trump to sign. That’s how the checks that Trump signed to Cohen made their way to the Oval Office.

“Checks came in a FedEx envelope” that Schiller delivered, testified Madeleine Westerhout, Trump’s director of Oval Office operations. “I opened the envelope. And inside was a manila folder with a stack of checks. And I brought the manila folder in to the president for him to sign.”

Money wasn’t the only thing Trump paid close attention to. He wrote all of his social media posts, save for a few written by an aide, Dan Scavino. Sometimes, Trump would dictate tweets to Westerhout. She would type them up, print them out and show them to Trump so the president of the United States could take time to scrutinize, and adjust, the punctuation.

“He liked to use the Oxford comma,” Westerhout testified.

Trump did not send emails or text messages. This aversion has long been known, but the trial testimony laid out a whole series of ways in which Trump communicated without leaving precise documentation.

He was on the phone beginning at 6 in the morning and “late into the night after I went to bed, so I always felt guilty about that,” Westerhout testified. He’d often use Schiller’s cellphone to make calls, and employees would use that number to reach Trump. There were no Trump memos, no notepads, no Post-it notes, just an occasional Sharpie scrawl. And largely, except for Cohen’s, no testimony that what these employees

did, they did “at the direction of” and “for the benefit of” Donald Trump. (This was an essential part of the judge’s charge to the jury: that Trump “personally, or by acting in concert with another person or persons, made or caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise.”)

This is the backdrop for the conflicts “Trump, Inc.” and other news media covered while Trump was president. To recap some of them (at a moment when polls show many Americans have forgotten much of what transpired during his administration): Trump’s hotel in Washington became a must stop-by for foreign officials, earning his company millions. He caused the U.S. Treasury to spend more than $1 million to house Secret Service

agents in rooms with topof-the-market rates at Mar-a-Lago and had the government pick up the tab for $1,005.60 in cocktails apparently enjoyed by administration officials and friends at his resort’s bar.

During Trump’s presidency, the response to questions about all this went something like this: As a global businessman, he or his allies would say, how could he possibly pay attention to whether the presidential seal was used on his golf courses? Or whether his son, Don Jr., was trading on the name “Donald Trump” to sell condos in India. Or whether businesspeople with foreign ties were trying to make a buck, or millions, from his presidency?

Indeed, this was part of Trump’s defense in the criminal trial, and in the

civil fraud trial at which Trump was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to New York state for what a judge found was a yearslong practice of lying about the value of his assets.

When he testified at that civil trial, Trump distanced himself from the fraud: “All I did was authorize and tell people to give whatever is necessary for the accountants to do the statements,” he said. And the false statements of financial condition? “I would look at them, I would see them and maybe on some occasions, I would have some suggestions.”

As is his right, Trump chose not to testify at his criminal trial, but his lawyer Todd Blanche argued on his behalf that Trump “had nothing to do, had nothing to do with the invoice, with the check being generated, or with the entry on the ledger” and that he was so busy being president he maybe didn’t even look at the checks he signed. “Sometimes he would sign checks even when he was meeting with people, while he was on the phone, and even without reviewing them,” Blanche said during closing arguments.

The jury did not buy that defense.

Trump is currently leading in the polls. It’s entirely possible he will be elected president. Yet he’s continuing to aggressively pursue business deals in countries that will have a long list of issues on which they will be seeking U.S. support.

The Trump Organization entered a full-on partnership with LIV Golf, an entity majority-owned by the government of Saudi Arabia, for tournaments at his golf courses. And last year, a New York Times reporter

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and photographer visited what the reporter called a “multibillion-dollar project backed by Oman’s oil-rich government that has an unusual partner: former President Donald J. Trump.” The project was launched and is being built while Trump is the front-runner for a second presidency. But neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign tried to defend or separate the project from the candidate who, while not running the company, still makes money from it.

“It’s like the Hamptons of the Middle East,” Eric Trump, who now runs the Trump Organization, told the Times. The paper wrote: “Oman, in fact, is nothing like the Hamptons. It is a Muslim nation and absolute monarchy, ruled by a sultan, who plays a sensitive role in the Middle East: Oman maintains close ties with Saudi Arabia and its allies, but also with Iran, with which it has considerable trade.”

It isn’t just the foreign deals. In April, right around the time Trump was about to be criminally tried in New York, he offered oil executives gathered at Mar-a-Lago “a deal,” the Washington Post reported. The publication summarized his message as: “You all are wealthy enough that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House.” In exchange, the Post said, Trump promised to reverse President Joe Biden’s initiatives to slow climate change, vowing to roll back some of them “on Day 1.”

And, as has been widely reported, with Truth Social going public, Trump has set up what Vox called “a perfect avenue for potential corruption.” As Vox noted, it’s “a

Trump Tower in New York City. | Photo by William Warby CC BY 2.0

Sparks rookie selected for US Olympic 3x3 team

By City News Service

Los Angeles Sparks

rookie Cameron Brink was among the fourplayer U.S. Olympic women’s 3x3 team announced Wednesday by USA Basketball.

Brink was selected as the MVP of the 2023 FIBA 3x3 World Cup after helping the U.S. to the gold medal.

Brink was the second player chosen in the 2024 WNBA draft following a college career at Stanford, where she was twice selected as the national defensive player of the year. The 6-foot4-inch forward is averaging 8.0 points and 5.4 rebounds in 23.6 minutes in nine

games through Wednesday’s 86-62 loss to the Minnesota Lynx.

The team also consists of Atlanta Dream guard Rhyne Howard, TCU guard Hailey Van Lith and forward Cierra Burdick who played for six WNBA teams between 2015 and 2021 and in Spain.

Brink, Burdick and Van Lith were teammates on the 2023 FIBA 3x3 World Cup champions.

“I’m so grateful to be selected and it’s an honor to represent the United States at the Paris Olympics this year,” Brink said. “The 3x3 training camp experience helped me

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way for Trump’s supporters to personally offer him financial support at a time when he desperately needs it.” By propping up the share price of the stock of the cash-hemorrhaging social media company, shareholders have potentially put billions of dollars in Donald Trump’s pocket.

It’s clear that Trump plays favorites and rewards loyalty; nearly eight years after he was inaugurated in 2017, it’s hard to imagine that any savvy businessperson or foreign leader fails to recognize this.

Certainly, those who were once in Trump’s orbit, if only briefly, testified to the dark side of that equation. Both Cohen and Daniels described the torrent of retribution they’ve experienced. Trump is unapologetic about his quest for vengeance. As he put it in one social media post last summer, “IF YOU GO AFTER ME I’M COMING AFTER YOU.”

Merely having been

once employed by Trump seems to have taken a toll, on even relatively minor figures. In the civil fraud trial, Trump’s former comptroller, McConney, started weeping when he was asked why he no longer worked at the Trump Organization. He said he could no longer “deal with” the legal scrutiny he’d suffered. In the criminal trial, both former communications director Hope Hicks and Westerhout burst into tears on the stand, reflecting on their work history with Trump. Both said they remained loyal, but both had been banished from Trump’s graces. And as for Weisselberg, he was not called to testify in this trial. His previous testimony in the trial of Trump’s company resulted in felony convictions on 17 counts and a five-month jail sentence. He is now serving a second jail sentence, in Rikers Island, for committing perjury in Trump’s civil fraud trial.

with my transition into the league, and now I can’t wait to start preparing for the games with Cierra, Rhyne and Hailey.”

3x3 is played with a 12-second shot clock on a half court. Baskets inside the arc and free throws are worth one point and baskets made from outside the arc are worth two points.

The winner is the first team to score 21 points or the leading team at the end of the 10-minute game clock.

The U.S. won the inaugural gold medal in the women’s 3x3 tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.

In the courthouse, Trump spent long stretches of time in an uncomfortable room with the shades always drawn, the fluorescent lighting unforgiving. He was required to listen to weeks of unflattering testimony, including, several times, to his own voice on that tape Cohen made of him, utterly cognizant of the tawdry deal he was striking. Saying, “So, what do we got to pay for this, 150?” After all the testimony in his criminal trial, this no longer seems like a random moment. It sounds like who Trump is: his attention to detail, his willingness to subvert the rules, the way he wields money to enhance his power, and vice versa, and is utterly unashamed.

The public knows all this now. In a second Trump presidency, it’s exactly what we’d get. Except this time, it will be all out before us, not in a secretly recorded tape.

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Study reveals $73 billion impact of domestic violence in California

By City News Service

Domesticviolence, beyond its numerous social impacts, costs the state of California $73.7 billion in health care, lost productivity and income and criminal justice and response program spending, according to a UC San Diego study released Tuesday.

The study was undertaken by UCSD’s School of Global Policy and Strategy and Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute.

“Too often, states do not recognize the economic as well as social and health costs resulting from intimate partner violence for survivors, families of victims and the state as a whole,” said Anita Raj, executive director of Newcomb Institute, lead author of the report and former UCSD professor of medicine and education studies. “These costs show the economic case for increased investment in prevention programs and reforms to effectively respond to domestic violence.”

The report found the $73.7 billion cost by looking at 2022’s domestic violence numbers. That figure represents around 2% of the state’s gross domestic product.

Drawing on data from the 2023 California Violence Experiences Survey, the authors found the fiscal impact of intimate partner violence amounts to almost a quarter of the state’s annual budget.

According to the CalVEX survey released last fall, more than half of California women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime. One in 30 women -- more than 460,000 in California -- experienced physical and/or sexual violence from a partner in just the past year and those reporting abuses in the past year faced greater health and social risks, the authors note.

“Women who experienced intimate partner violence in the past year are more likely to be contending with depression, anxiety, and suicidality, and they are also more likely to have faced recent eviction,” said Jakana Thomas, a professor of political science at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and co-author of

the report. “Preventing this violence has to be prioritized if we are going to address the mental health and homelessness crises in this state.”

California is one of only two states to tally the economic toll of domestic violence. Newcomb Institute and the Brookings Institute released a report earlier this year which found that domestic violence cost Louisiana $10.1 billion in 2022 alone.

According to the findings, the monetary costs per survivor amounted to $105,602 annually, or 2.5 times more than the average wage earned by women in Louisiana.

“The new analysis for Louisiana and California draws attention to the underreporting of intimate partner violence to the authorities, which is a common challenge across the country and around the world that is often attributed to women’s fear of

consequences from reporting and lack of trust in the criminal justice system,” the authors write.

The authors made several recommendations to help survivors and prevent future domestic violence incidents:

-- Establish a consistent and sustainable funding stream on violence prevention and response in the state budget;

-- Tighten compliance with existing firearm legislation, especially among perpetrators of domestic violence;

-- Improve data, specifically on the consequences of intimate partner violence, to better understand the scope of the challenges and track changes over time; and

-- Design intersectional policies and practices that attend to the ways gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status produce both crosscutting and cumulative disadvantages.

Gun case dismissed vs. Rams cornerback Derion Kendrick

By City News Service

Ajudge dismissed a misdemeanor gun case Tuesday against Los Angeles Rams cornerback Derion Kendrick after he completed the terms of a diversion program.

Over the prosecution’s objection last December, Superior Court Judge Lucy Armendariz had ordered Kendrick to perform 20 hours of community service and a gun safety program -- the latter of which she noted had already been completed.

The judge noted then that the case would be dismissed in one year if Kendrick complied with the diversion program, adding that she might be willing to consider a dismissal earlier if he completed the terms before then.

“He fulfilled his obligations,” Kendrick’s attorney, Mark Werksman, said. “He

deserved a dismissal because he’s a good young man who never meant to do anything wrong here and the court recognized that.”

The defense lawyer said the “case should have never been filed.”

Kendrick was charged last October with one misdemeanor count each of carrying a concealed firearm and carrying a loaded firearm.

Jail records show Kendrick was arrested early last Oct. 16 by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division, hours after the Rams’ 26-9 victory over the Arizona Cardinals at SoFi Stadium.

Kendrick was released on his own recognizance, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, which filed the case after it was referred by the Los Angeles

County District Attorney’s Office.

TMZ reported that Kendrick was pulled over in a traffic stop, and that police allegedly found a concealed weapon in his vehicle. The Los Angeles Times reported that Kendrick was arrested in March 2021 in his hometown of Rock Hill, South Carolina, after police found him asleep in a car with a gun on his lap. Kendrick completed a pretrial intervention program that resulted in the case being expunged, according to The Times.

Kendrick has played in 32 out a possible 34 regularseason games since being selected by the Rams in the sixth round of the 2022 draft, with 18 starts, including 12 in 2023. He has made one interception and 92 tackles in his NFL career.

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Derion Kendrick celebrates during a game in 2022. | Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Rams

National parks just got $700M. Here are some climate change

projects underway.

Conservationand restorationprojects are happening across the country to help protect national parks, historic sites and seashores. These projects focus on wide-ranging goals, including managing feral

change. He says the Inflation Reduction Act is just scratching the conservation surface.

“It’s doing a lot of good work in the short term in a lot of places across the country. And so, there’ll be

pig populations, reseeding grasslands and cleaning up abandoned mines.

The projects are possible due to the Inflation Reduction Act. The law passed in August 2022 and funds the National Park Service with $700 million to make its land more protected and resilient to inevitable climate change.

Stacker reviewed an NPS database of all the projects underway to highlight a few that will help our federal lands weather the climatechanged future.

“Visitors see what’s happening now in parks,” according to Chad Lord, senior director for the National Parks Conservation Association. “So if you go to parks in the inner mountain west, for example, you’re going to see a lot of dead trees because of drought or invasive pests. If you go to the forests in the north, you’re going to begin to see that there are fewer species of trees that are traditional. The landscapes are changing.”

The NPCA is a nonprofit organization that works with local national park staff to create consensus about how to protect parks from the worst effects of climate

a lot of activity that will be undertaken if it hasn’t already begun in parks all over the country to get ready,” Lord said. “The Inflation Reduction Act does not meet the entire need of how much the parks need to prepare. So we still know there’s quite a bit of work left.”

Here are four conservation projects and how they’re being implemented at national parks, historic sites, and national seashores across

By Sheeka Sanahori, Stacker

is a slow-growing pine with scraggly branches that grows natively in the mountain regions of Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, and other federally protected parks and land. Climate change increases the daily average temperatures of these coolweather parks, making these trees more susceptible to bugs such as the pine beetle.

A significant issue found at Dry Tortugas National Park, the Virgin Islands National Park, and four other national parks that manage coral reefs is stony coral tissue loss disease. This disease can infect and kill an entire colony of coral in just three weeks.

A $5.3 million project funded through the Inflation Reduction Act mitigates the

The whitebark pine is now a threatened species on the Endangered Species list.

The $2.25 million from the Inflation Reduction Act will protect existing trees and restore whitebark pines where they once grew. This includes a seed-keeping project to

the country.

Whitebark pine protection and restoration

The whitebark pine tree

plant more species resistant to blister rust disease. Protecting coral from disease

loss of coral infected by the disease. The treatment is a paste full of amoxicillin — the same antibiotic humans use to treat pneumonia. This

application.

Studying fish in warming streams

Driving on the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway gives riders a parallel view of the nearly 2,900 miles of clear water streams that flow through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Many people also visit the country’s most visited national park to fish for wild trout, but climate change is warming the temperatures of the streams, which alters the species of fish that can survive in the water over time, according to Lord. These changes affect not

amoxicillin paste stops the disease from spreading and can save up to 85% of an infected coral. Some national parks have created programs that allow volunteers to give infected coral this life-saving

only the natural environment but also the outdoor recreation economy built around cold-water fishing in the area. The Inflation Reduction Act includes a $1.84 million project to study the effects

of warming streams in the Smoky Mountains and three other parks.

Cultural resource management

“Unlike wildlife or a tree species which can move over time, cultural resources, whether or not that’s a lighthouse or a home or an important structure, they are locked on the landscape,” Lord said. He notes that NPS is working to figure out what to do about the increased risk of flooding along rivers or increased sea levels near the shores in places with buildings of national importance. A total of $21.6 million is earmarked for projects that would help make these places of cultural importance more resilient.

One $2.5 million project provides care to Alaskan communities and parks. According to the NPS, Alaska has seven out of the 10 largest parks in the system, including Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Gates of the Arctic. Parks in Alaska altogether make up 65% of all national parkland. At the same time, Alaska is home to hundreds of Indigenous communities caring for an environment that is warming twice as fast as the global average, making these funds critical for the future.

Story editing by Carren Jao. Copy editing by Kristen Wegrzyn. This article was retitled and copy edited from its original version. Republished pursuant to a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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‘Cool pavement’ coating helps CA city beat the heat

By Ysabelle Kempe for Smart Cities Dive.

Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration

Reflectivepavement coating helped cool down one of Los Angeles’ hottest neighborhoods over a year-long period, according to a recently published study in Environmental Research Communications, but some researchers argue in favor of increasing shade as a better way to protect people from dangerously high temperatures.

The research on the installation in LA’s Pacoima neighborhood is “probably the most comprehensive study on controlled cool pavement” due to the large amount of data and variables considered, said Haider Taha, an atmospheric modeler, president of the research company Altostratus and the study’s author.

Over 700,000 square feet of dark asphalt surfaces in Pacoima were covered with solar-reflective pavement coating in the summer of 2022 through a partnership between local nonprofit Climate Resolve and roofing and waterproofing manufacturer GAF, which provided the coating.

Pavement that reflects, rather than absorbs sunlight, has emerged as a tool cities are considering to mitigate the increasing danger of

extreme heat.

GAF funded the recently released peer-reviewed study, although the company had no role in the study’s design, data collection, modeling or analysis of the results. The research found that during an extreme heat event, the cool pavement-covered area saw ambient air temperatures that were as much as 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than those in the adjacent neighborhood. On sunny days, ambient air temperatures were reduced by up to 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit. During summer nights, they were reduced by up to 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit. The coating also lowered surface temperatures by up to around 10 degrees Fahrenheit. What does that mean for the people who live in Pacoima? Melanie Torres, a resident and the Pacoima Beautiful’s Cool Community Project organizing manager, said she’s felt a difference. Pacoima Beautiful is a local environmental justice organization and helped GAF and Climate Resolve with community engagement for the reflective pavement project.

Torres often eats lunch in one of the parks where the coating is deployed. “I

can just sit on the grass near the basketball court and feel just the breeze - and not necessarily a hot breeze,” she said. A food vendor who frequents the neighborhood told Torres that “she feels the difference in the breeze more than anything.

Torres said she hasn’t heard any complaints about the reflective pavement coating during her community engagement efforts. However, reflective pavement is not immune to criticism.

Some researchers have found that the solar energy reflected off cool pavement can actually increase how hot pedestrians feel. Taha, however, said that his study indicated an “improvement in thermal sensation,” noting that every location within Pacoima has “its own dynamics” that could lead to slightly different results. Mean radiant temperature - a measurement of thermal comfort - “goes up and down. It’s not always cooler,” he said. “The overwhelming effect is the cooling.”

But no matter how effective reflective coatings are, they can’t beat shade, V. Kelly Turner, associate director of the University of California, Los Angeles’

Luskin Center for Innovation and an associate professor of urban planning and geography, said in an email. Shade can cool people by up to 30 degrees Celsius, or 54 degrees Fahrenheit, in hot, dry environments, she said. “No change in surface will protect the body from heat as effectively as preventing sunlight from hitting the body in the first place,” she said. “Shade - blocking the sun with trees, canopies, and tall features like walls and buildings - is by far the most

California makes progress toward conserving 30% of land, water

By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service

The public comment period is now open on California’s new framework for deciding which managed areas within coastal waters meet the definition of “conserved,” and where protection improvements need to be made.

California’s goal is to preserve 30% of state lands and waters by 2030. The Ocean Protection Council released science-based guidelines this week on what counts as “conserved.”

effective way to cool people outdoors.”

She noted that reflective pavement doesn’t have a large effect on air temperature unless it is deployed widely and, even when that happens, the cooling benefit is moderate. She believes that reflective pavement is an appropriate choice in locations where it would be difficult to replace surfaces that absorb a lot of heat with “something else like vegetation and where the goal of mitigating surface material

contributions to heat is the priority as opposed to protecting people’s bodies outdoors.”

“I think cities should see reflective pavement as one tool among many, if deployed comprehensively, that could mitigate the regional urban heat island,” Turner said. “They should see this goal as parsimonious from the public health goal of protecting people’s bodies from the sun.”

Ysabelle Kempe wrote this article for Smart Cities Dive.

“An area is considered a conservation area if the lands and coastal waters are durably protected and managed to sustain functional ecosystems, both intact and restored, and the diversity of life that they support,” said Jos Hill, project director at the Pew Charitable Trusts. People can weigh in on the process at a series of upcoming workshops in Arcata, Monterey and San Diego. The Ocean Protection Council will also hold two webinars this summer and will accept feedback by email.

in marine-managed areas. The state’s “30-by-30” policy sets goals to improve biodiversity, public access and climate resilience.

Hill said the new framework will be used by the state to evaluate protections

“The stakes of failing to protect nature are high, and the loss of biodiversity undermines the ability of ecosystems to function and support a healthy environment,” Hill said. “And this is particularly important in a changing climate, in which loss of biodiversity reduces nature’s resilience to change.”

The evaluation criteria will be finalized in the fall

and the preliminary decision on which places qualify as conservation areas will be presented in December. Support for this reporting was provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Disclosure: The Pew Charitable Trusts - Environmental Group contributes to Public News Service’s fund for reporting on Endangered Species & Wildlife, Environment, Public Lands/ Wilderness. If you would like to help support news in the public interest, https://www. publicnewsservice.org/dn1. php.

The Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacoima was covered in over 700,000 square feet of reflective pavement coating in the summer of 2022. Murals were painted on some of the covered areas. | Photo courtesy of GAF

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San Gabriel City Notices

CITY OF SAN GABRIEL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

“WALNUT GROVE AVENUE AND BROADWAY INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS HPLUL-5217(020)” CONTRACT NO. 24-02

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS - INVITATION FOR BIDS

Date of Bid Opening: Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for the “WALNUT GROVE AVENUE AND BROADWAY INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS HPLUL-5217(020)” will be received at the office of the City Clerk of the City of San Gabriel, 425 South Mission Drive, San Gabriel, CA 91776, California, until 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. At 3:05 p.m., bids will be opened and read aloud at the San Gabriel City Hall.

There is no pre-bid meeting for the project.

Description of Work: The work generally consists of furnishing all necessary labor, materials, tools, equipment, and other incidental and appurtenant work necessary for the reconstruction of the Walnut Grove Avenue and Broadway intersection within the City of San Gabriel. The work shall also include but not necessarily limited to following: AC pavement reconstruction; catch basin and storm drain improvements; traffic signal installation, striping, private property improvements, pavement marking and raised markers; all necessary traffic control and public notifications to all adjacent properties to work areas; posting signs for “NO PARKING” and arranging for towing of cars, if necessary; and all other miscellaneous appurtenant work. The bid items, corresponding estimated quantities, and time allowed to complete the work are listed in the Bidder’s Proposal and Statement. All required installation and construction shall be performed by the Contractor as specified in the Project Plans, Specifications, Special Provisions and Contract Documents, and as directed by the Engineer. Engineer’s Estimate - $1.8 million.

The contract is to be executed within 7 calendar days after award of contract by City Council. Time for completion of the work is one hundred eighty (180) working days for all work from the date of the Notice to Proceed.

Contract Documents: To obtain the project documents, please contact San Gabriel Public Works Project Manager, Angela Cheng, at (626) 308-2825 or email: scheng@sgch.org

Bid Security: Each bid shall be accompanied by a certified or cashier’s check, cash, or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price payable to City of San Gabriel as a guarantee that the awarded bidder will execute the Contract and provide the required bonds, certificates of insurance, and endorsements within seven calendars days of the of the award of contract by City Council.

Award of Contract: The City reserves the right after opening bids to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality (non-responsiveness) in a bid, or to make award to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder, and reject all other bids, as it may best serve the interest of the City. The bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 90 calendar days from the date of bid opening.

Prevailing Rate of Wage: Pursuant to Section 1770, et seq., of the California Labor Code, the Contractor shall pay the general prevailing rate of per diem wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations of the State of California for the locality where the work is to be performed. A copy of said wage rates is available on-line at: www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/DPreWageDetermination.htm. The Contractor and any subcontractors shall pay not less than said specified rates and shall post a copy of said wage rates at the project site.

Labor Code Compliance: Attention is directed to the provisions of Labor Code § 1725.5: Per SB 854, no contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a Public Works Project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (with limited exceptions for this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1a). No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). All contractors and subcontractors must furnish electronic certified payroll records to the Labor Commissioner for all new projects awarded on or after April 1, 2015. The Labor Commissioner may excuse contractors and subcontractors on a project that is under the jurisdiction of one of the four legacy DIR-approved labor compliance programs (Caltrans, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District and County of Sacramento) or that is covered by a qualified project labor agreement. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

Any contract

1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the minimum prevailing rate of per diem wages for each craft, classification, or type of workman needed to execute the contract shall be those determined by the Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California, which are on file in the Office of the City Clerk, City of San Gabriel and are available to any interested party on request.

Attention is directed to the provisions of Sections 1777.5 and 1777.6 of the Labor Code concerning the employment of apprentices by the Contractor or any subcontractor under them. The Contractor or any subcontractor shall comply with the requirements of said sections in the employment of apprentices. Information relative to apprenticeship standards and administration of the apprenticeship program may be obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, San Francisco, CA, or the Division of Apprenticeship Standards and its branch offices.

All bidders shall be licensed in accordance with provisions of the Business and Professions Code and shall possess a Class “A” State Contractor’s License at the time this contract is awarded. The Successful Contractor and his subcontractors will be required to possess business licenses from the City of San Gabriel and maintain current until completion of the project. Business licenses can be purchased or renewed at the Finance Department at 425 S Mission Drive, San Gabriel, CA.

Questions: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be in writing or email and received no later than 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, and shall be directed to: Public Works Project Manager, Angela Cheng, at email: scheng@ sgch.org.

Publish June 3 & 10, 2024 SAN GABRIEL SUN

City of San Gabriel

Summary of Ordinance - Ordinance No. 708

An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of San Gabriel, California, Setting Forth Procedures for Expediting Permitting Processing for Electric Vehicle Charging Systems

In 2015, the State of California adopted Assembly Bill 1236 (2015, Chiu, codified as Government Code Section 65850.7), which requires local jurisdictions with a population less than 200,000 residents to adopt an ordinance to create an expedited, streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations. An electric vehicle charging station is any level of electric vehicle supply equipment station that delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into a plug-in electric vehicle. The proposed ordinance is intended to bring the City of San Gabriel’s Municipal Code up to compliance with State legislation regarding the expediting and streamlining procedures for electric vehicle charging stations.

Ordinance No. 708 was approved for introduction and first reading at the City Council Regular Meeting of June 4, 2024, by the following vote:

Ayes: Councilmember(s)- Chan, Ding,Harrington, Menchaca, Wu Noes, Abstain, Absent: Councilmember(s)- None

The Ordinance will be considered for adoption by the City Council at its June 18, 2024, regular meeting held at 6:30 p.m. Anyone having questions may contact the City Clerk at (626) 308-2816 or cityclerk@sgch.org.

Julie Nguyen, City Clerk

Published on JUNE 10, 2024 SAN GABRIEL SUN

ORDINANCE NO. 3036

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL, OF THE CITY OF EL MONTE, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2.24 (CITY PLANNING COMMISSION) OF THE EL MONTE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO TERM LIMITS AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE COMMISSIONS IN THE CITY OF EL MONTE

WHEREAS, the City of El Monte (the “City”) is a municipal corporation, duly organized under the constitution and laws of the State of California; and

WHEREAS, Government Code Section 40605 empowers the mayor, with approval of the city council, to make all appointments to boards, commissions, and committees; and

WHEREAS, Government Code Section 65101(a) permits the City to create planning commissions; and WHEREAS, the City has established at El Monte Municipal

Code Chapter 2.24 (CITY PLANNING COMMISSION) and El Monte Municipal Code Chapter 2.25 (CITY COMMISSIONS (NONPLANNING)) certain commissions within the City to oversee certain matters; and

WHEREAS, the City wishes to modify the rules related to certain commissions.

NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL MONTE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1 Incorporation of Recitals. The recitals set forth above are true and correct and are hereby incorporated by this reference as if set forth in full herein.

SECTION 2. Section 2.24.030 of Chapter 2.24 (CITY PLANNING COMMISSION) of Title 2, is amended to read as follows (additions are denoted by underlined text and deletions are denoted by struck-through text):

2.24.030 - Membership, appointment, and term.

A. Composition. The Commission shall consist of five (5) members.

B. Appointment of Commissioners. The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Mayor in accordance with Government Code Section 40605 as the same may be amended from time to time.

C. General Commission Term. Commissioners shall serve four-year terms, subject to the limitations set forth under Section 2.24.040(B). In the event a Commissioner’s term expires before a replacement has been appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Council and if the loss of the outgoing Commissioner would also cause the Commission to lack a quorum to conduct business, then the Commissioner whose term has expired shall continue to validly serve on the Commission until such time as a replacement is appointed and approved but in no event may such extension term exceed a period of ninety (90) calendar days from the date the Commissioner’s term expired. No person who has served on the Commission for a period of at least eight (8) consecutive years may be reappointed to serve on the Commission prior to the lapse of one full year from the date his or her term on the Commission expired. In those situations where a Commissioner continues to serve on the Commission notwithstanding the lapse of the eightyear maximum limit for the reasons set forth under the second sentence of this paragraph, then the one-year period during which the outgoing Commissioner may not be considered for re-appointment shall be deemed to commence upon the earlier of the following, the date his or her replacement on the Commission was sworn in or the end of the ninety-day maximum period in which a Commissioner whose term has expired is allowed to continue serving in the interest of preventing the loss of a quorum to conduct business.

D. Basic Qualifications. No person shall be eligible for appointment or re-appointment to the Commission, unless at the time of such appointment or reappointment, he or she:

(i) is eighteen (18) years of age or older; and (ii) for at least one year prior to such appointment or re-appointment was a resident of the city of El Monte; .

(iii) holds a bachelor’s degree and/or at least five (5) years experience in the field of real estate, engineering, architecture, public administration, urban planning, or construction management.

No person shall continue to serve as a Commissioner once he or she ceases to be a resident of the city of El Monte. A prospective Commissioner’s submission of documentation that reasonably corroborates his or her qualifications or residence may be a condition for appointment.

E. Restriction on Assuming Other Offices or Positions. No Commissioner shall hold or assume any other remunerative office or position with the City after being sworn in as a Commissioner. In the absence of a state or federal statute to the contrary, no Commissioner may occupy another public office, whether elected or appointed, while serving on the Commission, including but not necessarily limited to, election or appointment to any project area committee created pursuant to California’s Community Redevelopment Law (Health and Safety Code Sections 33000 et seq.). The foregoing shall not preclude a Commissioner from serving on a commission, committee, or other public board, where the Commissioner is serving as the Commission-designated and Council-approved representative of the Commission. Any Commissioner serving on such a commission, committee or other public board in such a capacity serves at the pleasure of the Commission and the Council and may be removed from such commission, committee or other public board by either the Commission or the Council at any time with or without cause.

ditions are denoted by underlined text and deletions are denoted by struck-through text):

2.24.040 - Vacancies and removal.

A. Voluntary Vacancies. If a Commissioner voluntarily vacates a Commission seat for any reason, the vacating Commissioner shall be replaced in accordance with Section 2.24.030(B) and the replacement Commissioner will serve for the unexpired balance of the outgoing Commissioner’s four-year term. Thereafter, the replacement Commissioner may be reappointed, in accordance with Government Code Section 40605, for a subsequent four-year term, subject to the maximum limit of eight consecutive years referenced under Section 2.24.030(D), above.

B. Tenure at Will; Removal without Cause. Nothing in this chapter shall operate to entitle any Commissioner to a right to serve a full four-year Commission term or the right to serve a maximum of eight (8) consecutive years on the Commission. All Commissioners serve at the pleasure of the City Council and may be removed at any time with or without cause by no less than four (4) three (3) affirmative votes of the City Council. A motion to remove a Commission may be made and seconded by any member of the Council, provided, however, that the seating of any replacement shall be made in accordance with Government Code Section 40605.

SECTION 4. Section 2.24.090 of Chapter 2.24 (CITY PLANNING COMMISSION) of Title 2, is deleted in its entirety as follows (deletions are denoted by struck-through text):

2.24.090 - Application of 2015 amendments to Chapter 2.24.

As to all members of the Commission who are seated and serving the Commission as of the effective date of Ordinance No. 2870 which implements the 2015 amendments to Chapter 2.24, any and all consecutive years of service on the Commission served by a sitting member prior and up to the effective date of Ordinance No. 2870 shall not be counted toward four-year term referenced under Section 2.24.030(D) or the maximum limit of eight (8) consecutive years of service also referenced under Section 2.24.030(D). All members seated and serving on the Commission as of the effective date of Ordinance No. 2870 shall be deemed to be at the start of their first four-year term on the Commission. The foregoing notwithstanding, the right of the City Council to removal any such sitting members pursuant to Section 2.24.040(B), above, shall govern and control.

SECTION 5. [DELETED PER FIRST READING MOTION]

SECTION 6 [DELETED PER FIRST READING MOTION]

SECTION 7. [DELETED PER FIRST READING MOTION]

SECTION 8. CEQA. The El Monte City Council finds that the adoption of this Ordinance is not a “project” for the purposes of CEQA Guidelines Section 15378, as the amendments provide for a regulatory permitting and related administrative procedures that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. Additionally, even if this Ordinance is a “project” for the purposes of CEQA, it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that it will have a significant effect on the environment. Therefore, this matter is not subject to CEQA.

SECTION 9. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance, or any part thereof is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance or any part thereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.

SECTION 10. Publication. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance, and shall cause the same to be to be published in accordance with California Government Code Section 36933, and shall cause this Ordinance and its certification, together with proof of the publication, to be entered in the Book of Ordinances of the City of El Monte.

SECTION 11. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty days after its adoption pursuant to California Government Code Section 36937.

PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of El Monte at its regular meeting on this 4th day of June, 2024.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS: CITY OF EL MONTE )

I, Gabriel Ramirez, City Clerk of the City of El Monte, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 3036 was introduced for a first reading on the 7th day of May, 2024, and was passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of El Monte, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 4th day of June, 2024 and that said Ordinance was adopted by the following vote, to-wit:

AYES: Mayor Ancona, Mayor Pro Tem Dr.Ruedas, Councilmembers Cortez, Herrera ,Martinez Muela and Rojo

NOES: None

ABSTAIN:None

ABSENT:Councilmember Puente

Published on June 10, 2024 EL MONTE EXAMINER

Temple City City Notices

questions to following e-mail: furkan.cetinkale@transtech.org. BY ORDER of the City of Temple City, California.

Publish June 10, 2024 TEMPLE CITY TRIBUNE

Probates

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

ROSALIE LINDA GONZALES CASE NO. 24STPB06040

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Temple City invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids in the office of the City Clerk, City of Temple City, 9701 Las Tunas Drive, Temple City, CA 91780, up to the hour of 2:00 PM on July 2, 2024. The bids received will be publicly opened approxi mately 15 minutes after the bid submittal deadline in the City

Late bids will not be considered.

There will be a non-mandatory pre-bid meeting for this project at the project site (Address: 9701 Las Tunas Drive, Temple City, CA 91780) on June 13, 2024, at 2:00 pm.

Copies of the Bidding and Contract Documents, Plans and Speci fications can be obtained by e-mailing your request with your con tact information to: furkan.cetinkale@transtech.org. Upon receipt of your e-mail, you will be registered as a plan holder, and a pdf file of the Bidding and Contract Documents, Plans and Specifications will be e-mailed to you at no cost. Hard copies will not be provided.

All questions regarding this bid shall be directed via email, no later than 10 calendar days prior to the Bid due date and time, to furkan. cetinkale@transtech.org. Any questions received after this dead line may not be answered. It is the responsibility of the bidder to confirm transmission of correspondence.

Estimated cost is in the range of $2 M +/-.

Bids must be accompanied by a bid bond, made payable to the City of TEMPLE CITY for an amount no less than ten percent (10%) of the bid amount.

No bid will be accepted from a Contractor who has not been licensed in accordance with the provisions of the Business and Professions Code.

This project is subject to the requirements of SB 854. Prevailing wages shall be paid to all workers in accordance with California Labor Code 1771.

Bids must be prepared on the approved Proposal forms in conformance with the Instructions to Bidders and submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside.

The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any irregularity, and to take all bids under advisement for a period of 60 calendar days.

Any contract entered into pursuant to this notice shall become effective or enforceable against the City of TEMPLE CITY only when the formal written contract has been duly executed by the appropriate officers of the City.

If there are any questions regarding this project, please submit your

Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/02/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 2D located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in CaliforYOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner E. LAWRENCE BROCK - SBN 92527

KAYCEE R. LINK - SBN 347416, PROVENLAW, PLLC 216 W. ST. GEORGE BLVD., STE. 200 ST. GEORGE UT 84770 Telephone (435) 688-9231 6/3, 6/6, 6/10/24 CNS-3818742# ARCADIA WEEKLY

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF KATHRYN E. McENTIRE aka KATHRYN ELAINE McEN-TIRE Case No. 24STPB05881

quest for Special Notice form is avail able from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

GREG LAWRENCE, ESQ. - SBN 82243

GREG LAWRENCE, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9854 NATIONAL BLVD., #216 LOS ANGELES CA 90034

Telephone (310) 839-8352

6/3, 6/6, 6/10/24

CNS-3819100# ROSEMEAD READER

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DALE ALLYN BROCK CASE NO. 24STPB06028

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DALE ALLYN BROCK.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CATHLEEN S. BROCK in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CATHLEEN S. BROCK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of KATHRYN E. McENTIRE aka KATHRYN ELAINE McENTIRE

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Shiela Robataille in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Shiela Robataille be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on June 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 99 located at 111 N.

of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowl-edgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner:

DAVID G BUNN ESQ SBN 119570 BUNN AND BUNN 1112 FAIR OAKS AVE S PASADENA CA 91030 CN107247 MCENTIRE Jun 6,10,13, 2024 MONROVIA WEEKLY

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

JAMES E. ABSTON CASE NO. 24STPB02944

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JAMES E. ABSTON.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TRESSA ABSTON in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TRESSA ABSTON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/22/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

WILLIAM K. HAYES -

THE

SOUTH PASADENA CA 91030

Telephone (626) 403-2292

6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24 CNS-3812436# DUARTE DISPATCH

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WEN TU CHEN CASE NO. 24STPB00084

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the lost WILL or estate, or both of WEN TU CHEN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by AMANDA YU-FANG CHEN in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHRIS GLAESER, CALIFORNIA LICENSED PRIVATE PROFESSIONAL FIDUCIARY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s lost WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The lost WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/09/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 44 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

DEBBY S. DOITCH, ESQ. - SBN 266731 ANDREW D. NUTBROWN, ESQ. - SBN 343702, KJMLAW Partners, PLC 301 EAST COLORADO BLVD., SUITE 600 PASADENA CA 91101

Telephone (626) 568-9300 6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24 CNS-3820132# SAN GABRIEL SUN

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RUBEN LUJAN CASE NO. 24STPB06106

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RUBEN LUJAN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JENNIFER DAVIS in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JENNIFER DAVIS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

LEGALS

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 06/28/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 99 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

SOPHIE R. PRESTON - SBN 321601

PRESTON LAW GROUP, P.C. 4740 GREEN RIVER RD., SUITE 205 CORONA CA 92878

Telephone (951) 267-2685

BSC 225235 6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24

CNS-3820157# EL MONTE EXAMINER

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF SOCORRO RAMIREZ aka SOCORRO BOUQUET RAMIREZ aka SOCORRO B. RAMIREZ

Case No. 24STPB05716

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of SOCORRO RAMIREZ aka SOCORRO BOUQUET RAMIREZ aka SOCORRO B. RAMIREZ

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Esther Rios in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Esther Rios be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on June 21, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 79 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under

section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: PAUL HORN ESQ SBN243227

PAUL HORN LAW GROUP PC 11404 SOUTH STREET CERRITOS CA 90703 CN107454 RAMIREZ Jun 6,10,13, 2024 EL MONTE EXAMINER

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIAM ERIC FAITH

CASE NO. 24STPB06312

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of WILLIAM ERIC FAITH.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARTHA NEPRASCH FAITH in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MARTHA NEPRASCH FAITH be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/08/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 99 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

THOMAS O. HOFFMAN - SBN 100881

LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS O. HOFFMAN

302 W. SIERRA MADRE BOULEVARD SIERRA MADRE CA 91024

Telephone (626) 355-4422 6/10, 6/13, 6/17/24

CNS-3821139# DUARTE DISPATCH

CASE NO. 24STPB06348

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of IVAN TUDOR.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JOHN TUDOR in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOHN TUDOR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/05/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 5 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

TONY J. TYRE - SBN 269506, ALLYSON S. HELLER - SBN 315086, WILLIAM C. MASON, III - SBN 319441

LAW OFFICES OF TONY J. TYRE, ESQ., APC 100 S. CITRUS AVE., SUITE 101 COVINA CA 91723

Telephone (626) 858-9378

6/10, 6/13, 6/17/24

CNS-3821460# TEMPLE CITY TRIBUNE

Public Notices

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Gisselle Leon FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 24AHCP00053 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 150 West Commonwealth, Alhambra, Ca 91801, Northeast Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Gisselle Leon filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Gisselle Leon to Proposed name Gisselle Madrigal-Leon 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING

hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Rosemead Reader DATED: April 10, 2024 Peter A Hernandez JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Pub. May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2024 ROSEMEAD READER

Glendale City Notices

NOTICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DECISION

ADMINISTRATIVE USE PERMIT CASE NO. PAUP-001932-2023

LOCATION: 132 NORTH GLENDALE AVENUE

Glendale, CA 91206 (Chipotle Mexican Grill)

APPLICANT: Timothy Luskin and Valerie Sacks

ZONE: “C2” - Community Commercial Zone

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Portion of Lots 10,12,14 and 16, Block 12, Town of Glendale Tract

APN: 5674-006-036

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Application for an Administrative Use Permit (AUP) to renew the on-site sales, service, and consumption of beer and wine (ABC License Type 41) at an existing fast-food restaurant (Chipotle Mexican Grill) located in the C2 – Community Commercial Zone.

CODE REQUIRES

1) The on-site sales, service and on-site consumption of alcoholic beverages requires an Administrative Use Permit in the C2 - Community Commercial Zone.

APPLICANT’S PROPOSAL 1) To allow the renewal of on-site sales, service, and consumption of beer and wine (Type 41) at an existing fast-food restaurant.

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION

The project is exempt from CEQA review as a Class 1 “Existing Facilities” exemption, pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15301(e), because the discretionary permit request is to renew the on-site sales, service, and consumption of beer and wine at an existing fast-food restaurant within an existing commercial space and there is no additional floor area proposed.

PENDING DECISION AND COMMENTS

Copies of plans, staff analysis, and the proposed decision letter are available at http://www. glendaleca.gov/planning/pending-decisions.

If you would like to review plans, submit comments, or be notified of the decision, please contact case planner Columba Diaz at (818) 937-8188 or codiaz@glendaleca.gov.

DECISION

On or after June 19, 2024, the Community Development Director will make a written decision regarding this request.

APPEAL

After the Director has made a decision, any person may file an appeal within 15 days of the written decision. Appeal forms are available at https://www.glendaleca.gov/home/ showdocument?id=11926.

Dr. Suzie Abajian , The City Clerk of the City of Glendale Publish June 10, 2024 GLENDLE INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On May 14, 2024, the Council of the City of Glendale, California adopted Ordinance No. 6023, entitled “AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA AMENDING SECTIONS 30.02.020, 30.10.070, 30.11.030, 30.11.040, 30.11.070, 30.12.020, 30.13.020, 30.14.020, 30.1 5.020, 30.20.040, 30.27.040, 30.32.030, 30.32.060, 30.32.090, 30.40.020, 30.40.050, 30.41.010, 30.47.020, 30.47.030, 30.60.040 and 30.70.200 OF TITLE 30 OF THE GLENDALE MUNICIPAL CODE, 1995, RELATING TO DESIGN REVIEW, ENTITLEMENT PROCESSES, PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN USES, AND MISCELLANEOUS ZONING CODE CLEAN UPS (Case No. PZC0004-2023)”. A copy of said Ordinance is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk. In substance, this Ordinance amends Chapter 30 of the Glendale Municipal Code to address improvements to the design review and entitlement processes and parking requirements for certain uses for the purposes of streamlining existing processes and to implement minor consistency clean up language to miscellaneous zoning related provisions. The amendments are part of a larger Community Development Department effort to streamline and simplify existing processes, reduce overall review times, and increase entitlement application efficiency and predictability.

Suzie Abajian, Ph.D. City Clerk of the City of Glendale Publish June 10, 2024 GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

Monterey Park City Notices

of

Park, CA 91754

No: (626) 307-1320 Fax: (626) 307-2500 NOTICE INVITING BIDS 2022-23 MONTEREY PASS ROAD OVERLAY SPEC. NO. 2023-004

Contract Time: 30 Working Days; Liquidated Damages: $1,000 per working day.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The project consists of the application of Asphalt Rubber Hot Mix and AC Overlay along Monterey Pass Road and all related work on file with the City’s Public Works Department. Prevailing wages required. A 10% Bidder’s Bond is required with bid. Successful contractor will be required to provide: (1) Liability insurance with City of Monterey Park as addition insured endorsement; (2) Proof of workers' compensation insurance coverage; (3) 100% Faithful Performance, (4) 100% Labor and Material Bond, and (5) DIR Registration. (6) Federal Requirements: Sustainable Transportation Planning Grants

Plans are available to download for a fee from QuestCDN; link on the City’s website www.montereypark.ca.gov/444/Bids-Proposals. Bid Package Cost: $22.00.

Bid Due Date and Time: Bids will be received via the online electronic bid service, Quest Construction Data Network (QuestCDN), www.questcdn.com, until 10:00 AM, Wednesday, July 3, 2024.

Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting, Site Visit: Wednesday, June 26th at 10:00AM

Questions? Please call: Anthony Bendezu, Civil Engineering Associate at (626) 307-1320.

Publish June 10 & June 17, 2024 MONTEREY PARK PRESS

Probate Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ELIJAH GEORGE STINY AKA AL STINY CASE NO. 24STPB06021

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ELIJAH GEORGE STINY AKA AL STINY.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PATRICIA SORLEY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PATRICIA SORLEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/12/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

JENNIFER N. SAWDAY - SBN 228320

JONATHAN J. COLEMAN - SBN 305950

TREDWAY, LUMSDAINE & DOYLE, LLP 3900 KILROY AIRPORT WAY, STE. 240 LONG BEACH CA 90806

Telephone (562) 932-0971

BSC 225218 6/3, 6/6, 6/10/24

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RALPH BERRY HOYLE

CASE NO. PROVA2400460

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RALPH BERRY HOYLE.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by APRIL DEMPSEY in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that APRIL DEMPSEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

CNS-3819109# BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SERGEI MEGRIKYAN CASE NO. 24STPB06033

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of SERGEI MEGRIKYAN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by KRISTINE MEGRIKIAN in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that KRISTINE MEGRIKIAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 06/27/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 99 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

ROBERT J. COLEMAN, ESQ.SBN 281061 MUSICK, PEELER & GARRETT LLP

333 S. HOPE ST., STE. 2900 LOS ANGELES CA 90071-3048 Telephone (213)629-7600 BSC 225220 6/3, 6/6, 6/10/24 CNS-3819112# PASADENA PRESS

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/11/24 at 9:00AM in Dept. F1 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD., FONTANA, CA 92335

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

KIMBERLY LESSING, ESQ. - SBN 253579

LAW OFFICES OF KIMBERLY LESSING, APLC 4740 GREEN RIVER ROAD, SUITE 117-H CORONA CA 92878

Telephone (951) 279-6626

BSC 225227

6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24 CNS-3819697# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DONALD LEROY BURNS, II CASE NO.

30-2024-01402021-PR-PWCMC

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DONALD LEROY BURNS, II.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DENICE L. PAXTON in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DENICE L. PAXTON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/31/24 at 1:30PM in Dept. CM08 located at 3390 HARBOR BLVD., COSTA MESA, CA 92626 NOTICE IN PROBATE CASES The court is providing the convenience to appear for hearing by video using the court’s designated video platform. This is a no cost service to the public. Go to the Court’s website at The Superior Court of California - County of Orange (occourts.org) to appear remotely for Probate hearings and for remote hearing instructions. If you have difficulty connecting or are unable to connect to your remote hearing, call 657-622-8278 for assistance. If you prefer to appear in-person, you can appear in the department on the day/time set for your hearing.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

ANNA M. SCHNEIDER - SBN 169608 STEARNS & RYAN 21250 HAWTHORNE BLVD., SUITE 310

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JESSE FRANK BATTAN CASE NO. 24STPB06099 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JESSE FRANK BATTAN. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TERRI SNYDER in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TERRI SNYDER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under

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the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

07/03/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 2D located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner ERIN BERANEK, ESQ. - SBN 276156 MORGAN LAW GROUP

1500 QUAIL ST., STE. 540 NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660

Telephone (949) 260-1400 6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24 CNS-3819919# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: M.L. REED

CASE NO. PROVA2400470

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of M.L. REED.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by HELEN YVONNE REED in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that HELEN YVONNE REED be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/09/24 at 9:00AM in Dept. F2 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD, FONTANA, CA 92335

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objec-

tions or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

RICHARD T. LEBHERZ - SBN 316037

KAMINSKI LAW GROUP, APC 140 DIAMOND CREEK PLACE, SUITE 165 ROSEVILLE CA 95747

Telephone (916) 540-7618

6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24 CNS-3820329# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

CANDACE M. DAVIS AKA CANDACE MARIE DAVIS

CASE NO. 24STPB06110

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of CANDACE M. DAVIS AKA CANDACE MARIE DAVIS.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by KEITH MCCARTY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that KEITH MCCARTY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 06/28/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 62 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult

with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

CHRISTINA E. GENTILINI - SBN 273279

WILLIAMSON & GENTILINI

1945 PALO VERDE AVE., STE. 101 LONG BEACH CA 90815

Telephone (562) 431-1956 6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24

CNS-3820549# BELMONT BEACON

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

KENNETH SIDNEY EPHGRAVE

CASE NO. 24STPB06129

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of KENNETH SIDNEY EPHGRAVE.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by VICTOR BELTRAN in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that VICTOR BELTRAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/01/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 67 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner FRED EDWARDS - SBN 317309

THE LAW OFFICE OF FRED W EDWARDS

9333 BASELINE RD., STE. 250 RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA

91730

Telephone (909) 888-8588 6/10, 6/13, 6/17/24

CNS-3820729# BELMONT BEACON

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PETER CAVARETTA CASE NO. PROVA2400477

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of PETER CAVARETTA.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ALAN GREEN in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ALAN GREEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/15/24 at 9:00AM in Dept. F1 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD., FONTANA, CA 92335

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

TREVOR D. MARTIN - SBN 279499

LAW OFFICE OF TREVOR D. MARTIN

300 E. STATE STREET, SUITE 200 REDLANDS CA 92373

Telephone (909) 792-9660 X2 6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24

CNS-3820744# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Bessie Rosalind Smice aka B. Rosalind Smice CASE NO. 24STPB04025

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Bessie Rosalind Smice aka B. Rosalind Smice

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Janine Smice in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Janine Smice be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with full authority . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 09/13/2024 at 8:30am in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST. LOS ANGELES CA 90012 STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Jina A. Nam, Esq. (CASBN 163538)

Law Offices of Jina A. Nam & Assoc. 1946 W. Glenoaks Blvd., Ste. A Glendale, CA 91201

Telephone: (818)945-0998 6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24 CNS-3820925# GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

J. MICHAEL HENNIGAN AKA JAMES MICHAEL HENNIGAN

CASE NO. 24STPB06252

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of J. MICHAEL HENNIGAN AKA JAMES MICHAEL HENNIGAN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PHYLLIS HENNIGAN in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PHYLLIS HENNIGAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they

have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 07/12/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 62 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

JAMES M. HASSAN, ESQ. - SBN 57246

MUSICK, PEELER & GARRETT LLP

333 SOUTH HOPE STREET, SUITE 2900 LOS ANGELES CA 90071-3048

Telephone (213) 629-7600

BSC 225243

6/6, 6/10, 6/13/24

CNS-3820356# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF FUSHENG CHEN CASE NO. 24STPB06168

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of FUSHENG CHEN

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by LIUAN HUSKA in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LIUAN HUSKA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on JULY 2, 2024 at 8:30 A.M. in Dept.: “29” located at: 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA Central District

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first

TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 800-2802832 NPP0461032 To: SAN BERNARDINO PRESS 06/10/2024, 06/17/2024, 06/24/2024 SAN BERNARDINO PRESS

T.S. No. 24-67733 APN: 1050-234-12-0000 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALEYOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 12/27/2017. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: ISABELLA XIN ZANG, A SINGLE WOMAN Duly Appointed Trustee: ZBS Law, LLP Deed of Trust recorded 1/3/2018, as Instrument No. 2018-0001295, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of San Bernardino County, California, Date of Sale:7/1/2024 at 1:00 PM Place of Sale Near the front steps leading up to the City of Chino Civic Center, 13220 Central Avenue Chino, CA 91710Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $196,685.87Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed. Street Address or other common designation of real property: 1650 SOUTH CAMPUS AVENUE UNIT 12 ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA 91761Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust. A.P.N #.: 1050-234-12-0-000The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority,

and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (866) 266-7512 or visit this internet website www.elitepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 24-67733. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (866) 266-7512, or visit this internet website www.elitepostandpub. com, using the file number assigned to this case 24-67733 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Dated: 6/3/2024 ZBS Law, LLP , as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450Irvine, CA 92606For Non-Automated Sale Information, call: (714) 8487920For Sale Information: (866) 266-7512 www.elitepostandpub.com Ryan Bradford, Trustee Sale Officer This office is enforcing a security interest of your creditor. To the extent that your obligation has been discharged by a bankruptcy court or is subject to an automatic stay of bankruptcy, this notice is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a demand for payment or any attempt to collect such obligation. EPP 40316 Pub Dates 06/10, 06/17, 06/24/2024 ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

Fictitious Business Name Filings

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as All Wellness Now 720 Magnolia Ave B3 Corona, CA 92879 Riverside County All Wellness Now Acupunc -

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ture, Inc (CA, 720 Magnolia Ave B3, Corona, CA 92879 Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on March 4, 2024. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. Zhang Xie, CEO Statement filed with the County of Riverside on April 25, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202405564

Pub. 05/06/2024, 05/13/2024, 05/20/2024, 05/27/2024

Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Evergreen global enterprise 43597 Ridge Park Dr Temecula, CA 92590

Riverside County Evergreen global enterprise llc (CA, 43597 Ridge Park Dr, Temecula, CA 92590 Riverside County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. Miguel Torres, Managing member Statement filed with the County of Riverside on April 8, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202404607 Pub. 05/20/2024, 05/27/2024, 06/03/2024, 06/10/2024 Riverside Independent

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN20240004546

The following persons are doing business as: Three Star Janitorial Warehouse, 1661 S Grove Ave, Ontario, CA 91761. Mailing Address, 1661 S Grove Ave, Ontario, CA 91761. James Na. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on September 5, 2023. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ James Na. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on May 13, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name

Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240004546

Pub: 05/20/2024, 05/27/2024, 06/03/2024, 06/10/2024 San Bernardino Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240004771

The following persons are doing business as: Sunny Child Daycare, 2860 E Via Terrano, Ontario, CA 91764. Mailing Address, 2860 E Via Terrano, Ontario, CA 91764. Alma A Araiza, 2860 E Via Terrano, Ontario, CA 91764. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino

This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on April 1, 2024. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Alma A Araiza, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on May 17, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240004771 Pub: 05/27/2024, 06/03/2024, 06/10/2024, 06/17/2024 San Bernardino Press

FICTITIOUS

File No. FBN20240004995

The following persons are doing business as: (1). Pacific Chinese Community Service Center (2). Superior Youth Power (3). Bowen Chinese School , 5370 Schaefer Ave. Unit J, Chino, CA 91710. Mailing Address, 5370 Schaefer Ave, Unit J, Chino, CA 91710. Bowen Academy (CA, 5370 Schaefer Ave, Unit J, Chino, CA 91710; Hengying Zhu, President. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on May 28, 2024. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pur

With heat, summer on tap, LACo looks to promote water safety firebombing

By City News Service

Withthesummer monthslooming, the county Board of Supervisors directed health officials Tuesday to facilitate a public safety outreach campaignpromoting drowning prevention and water safety.

A motion introduced by Supervisor Hilda Solis cited data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluding that drowning is the primary cause of death in children aged 1-4 and second-leading cause among children aged 5-14. Adults over 65 years of age have the second highest rate of drowning.

During the summer months, visiting pools and other bodies of water is a common recreational activity, but it can be unsafe for people who lack swimming and water safety

skills, the motion notes.

The data cited by the motion also pointed to an increase in drownings in 2022, compared to 2019 and highlighted that a lack of swimming and water safety skills -- particularly in Black and Latino communities -is a contributing factor.

“Assummertime approaches, we must ensure county residents are informed and knowledgeable of swimming and water safety,” the motion stated.

In 2021, the board passed a motion calling for countywide efforts to prevent drowning, requiring lifeguard services in all public swimming pools and making all fatal drowningrelated data publicly available. The motion also implemented the requirements of Aquatic Safety Plans stressing the need for

trained lifeguards and their presence at swimming pools located in children’s camps and schools.

The board motion approved Tuesday directs the Department of Public Health, the Department of Aging and Disabilities and other relevant agencies to facilitate a countywide public safety campaign in multiple languages and promote the ordinances established in 2021 to cities and develop tools to promote its adoption.

Educational materials are available online, “however, we must also ensure this information is reaching diverse audiences in multiple languages and in culturally appropriate ways,” the motion states.

The campaign will include a banner on the Aging and Disabilities

San Gabriel launches summer event series with inaugural Culture Fest

By Staff

San Gabriel’s summer event series will get started with the city’s first-ever Culture Fest, officials announced Monday.

The event — Thursday, June 13 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. in the Mission District — will feature cultural performances, live music, authentic cuisines, arts and crafts for children, community booths and family-oriented activities that celebrate the world’s diverse cultures.

After Culture Fest, the city will host a series of free outdoor concerts, movies and events throughout June, July and August:

-Thursday, June 20, 7 p.m. Elliot Caine Band concert at the Mission Playhouse -Thursday, June 27, 7 and 8:30 p.m. Country music concert featuring The Silverados, then a film screening of “Wonka” at Vincent Lugo Park -Wednesday, July 3, 5-9:30 p.m. Independence Day celebration at Gabrielino High School -Thursday, July 11, 7 p.m. Concert featuring the Amanda Castro Band at Mission Playhouse Plaza Thursday, July 18, 7 and 8:30 p.m. Kids’ concert

Vandals damage front door at USC’s Chabad House

By City News Service

featuring Mr. Markus Music & California Joe, then a film screening of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” at Vincent Lugo Park

- Thursday, July 25, 7 and 8:30 p.m. Concert featuring Rosalie Elena Rodriguez and a movie screening of “Migration” at Vincent Lugo Park

-Tuesday, Aug. 6, 5-8 p.m. National Night Out hosted by the San Gabriel Police Department at the Mission District

More information about San Gabriel’s free summer events are online at SanGabrielCity.com/Summer.

An investigation was continuing Wednesday into the vandalism of a glass door at the Chabad House at USC, but police said they do not believe the damage rises to the level of a hate crime.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers from the USC Department of Public Safety responded to the house in the 2700 block of Severance Street around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.

Police said four suspects, described only as “male juveniles,” approached the building and two of them ran to the glass front door of the building, “and one kicked it, causing damage.”

“The juveniles fled the scene on bicycles,” police said in a statement. “LAPD Southwest Detectives responded to the location and gook a vandalism report. Based on preliminary information, this incident did not rise to the level of a hate crime.”

Chabad House officials posted surveillance video of the crime on X.

“Today, the Chabad House at USC was vandalized. Two men came and destroyed the front to the place that the Wagner family and many Jewish USC students call home,” according to Chabad of USC’s post on X, formerly Twitter. “The event only further highlights the rising antisemitism on US college campuses.”

No further information about the suspects was immediately released. According to police, the USC DPS and LAPD Southwest Area University Park Special Problems Unit is increasing patrols in the area while the investigation continues.

Department website with information on water safety and a link to DPH’s webpage

on drowning prevention.

The board also asked for a report within 60 days

assessing the outcomes from the implementation of the 2021 ordinances.

Photo by Alexandr Podvalny on Unsplash

| Photo courtesy of the city of San Gabriel

Ring camera footage shows two suspects approach the Chabad House door, and one of them kicks it causing damage. | Photo courtesy Jonathan Allen/X

Jewish students sue UCLA over pro-Palestinian encampment

By City News Service

Three Jewish students have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the University of California Board of Regents and other university officials, alleging UCLA allowed “antisemitic activists” to bar them and other students from going to their classes, offices and the library during pro-Palestinian demonstrations in April and May.

In the Los Angeles federal court complaint filed Wednesday, two law students and an undergraduate student contend that UCLA allowed a group of students and outsiders to set up an encampment, the participants of which stopped Jewish students and faculty from accessing the heart of campus.

In the wake of the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, pro-Palestinian demonstrations emerged on college campuses nationwide. By allowing the encampment on the Westwood campus, UCLA allegedly caused Jewish students and faculty to be barred from accessing parts of the campus “unless they

agreed to disavow Israel’s right to exist,” according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers.

“We are aware of the lawsuit that was filed today, which to our knowledge, has not yet been served,” Mary Osako, UCLA vice chancellor of strategic communications, said in a statement to City News Service Wednesday. “We will review and respond in due course. UCLA remains committed to supporting the safety and well-being of the entire Bruin community.”

According to the plaintiffs, the activists used checkpoints, issued wrist bands, built barriers, and often locked arms to prevent Jewish students from passing through.

For a week, the lawsuit contends, UCLA’s administration was aware of these practices and chose to let them persist. The suit alleges that rather than clearing the encampment, UCLA instructed security staff to discourage unapproved students from attempting to cross through the areas blocked by the activists.

CDBG funds

“If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, Gov. Gavin Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately,” said Mark Rienzi, president and CEO of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit public interest law firm.

“But UCLA instead caved to the antisemitic activists and allowed its Jewish students to be segregated from the heart of their own campus. That is a profound and illegal failure of leadership.”

Rienzi, whose firm filed the 74-page suit on behalf of the student plaintiffs, alleges that activists within the proPalestinian encampment targeted Jewish students.

Plaintiff Yitzchok Frankel, a law student and father of four, alleges he faced antisemitic harassment and was forced to abandon his regular routes through campus because of the so-called Jewish “exclusion zone,” the suit states.

Joshua Ghayoum, a sophomore and history

major, says he was repeatedly blocked from accessing the library and other public spaces. Ghayoum alleges he heard chants at the encampment including “death to Jews,” according to the lawsuit.

The third plaintiff, law student Eden Shemuelian, contends her final

funding requests:

$80,000 - Upwards; $60,000 - Senior Meals Program; $25,000 - Assistance League of Covina Valley; $25,000 - Domestic Violence Victim Advocate; $25,000 - SGV YWCA’s Senior Citizens Assistance Program; $20,000 - Action Food Pantry; $20,000 - Project 29:11, a food bank; $10,000 - Housing

Rights Center; $10,000 -ESGV Coalition for the Homeless; $10,000 -Shepherd’s Pantry; $5,000 - Emergency Assistance Program; $5,000 - Careship, a child care provider.

Copies of the latest drafts will be available online on the city’s website and for public review at West Covina City Hall, 1444 W. Garvey Ave., in

the City Clerk’s Office, Room 317, and the West Covina Police Department which is located at City Hall.

To submit written questions and written comments ahead of the July 2 council meeting, contact Kelly McDonald, assistant to the city manager, 1444 W. Garvey Ave., West Covina, CA 91790, or call 626-939-8494.

exam studies were severely compromised when she was forced to walk around the encampment and face antisemitic chants and signs to access the law school’s library.

“This is America in 2024 — not Germany in 1939,” Rienzi said. “It is disgusting that an elite American

Reparation efforts

university would let itself devolve into a hotbed of antisemitism. UCLA’s administration should have to ... promise that Jews will never again be segregated on campus.” Police ultimately dismantled the UCLA encampment in an overnight operation that saw more than 200 people arrested.

days providing a framework for reparation policies such as prioritizing housing for descendants of those who were displaced from their homes; financial restitution for people “who have suffered particular injuries”; a study of ways for providing monetary reparations, potentially through grants or philanthropic sources; and offering affected residents support with grant and loan funding or waiving permit fees for Black-owned businesses.

“I will note that we have relied on self-attestation eligibility for a number of

county programs ranging from cash assistance to workers at the onset of pandemic,” Mitchell said, noting that the motion is “just the next step in a very long journey.”

Supervisor Lindsey Horvath highlighted the county’s efforts since 2020 to “explicitly identify and address the systemic racism in institutions.” In July 2020, the board adopted a motion expressing the county’s commitment to being an anti-racist entity, and created the Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion initiative.

“This motion recognizes the work we still need to do to combat racism, to address the legacy of slavery and its impact on African-Americans in Los Angeles today,” Horvath said.

The motion also included a clause directing the National History Museum, the County Museum of Art and the Department of Beaches and Harbors and other relevant departments to provide one day of free access on or about the Juneteenth holiday for residents who register with the county for reparations eligibility.

In April the Pro-Palestinian encampment occupies the quad between Powell Library, seen here in the background, and Royce Hall. | Photo courtesy of Lurkingandleeringlisa/Wikimedia Commons (CC0

| Image courtesy of the city of West Covina

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. | Photo by Daniel Fajardo Valenti CC BY-NC 2.0