August 29, 2019
VOL. 34, No. 34
SAMAIYA KIRBY SETS THE FAA RULING CONFIRMS WITH MAYOR BUTTS AND OTHER CITY OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN SAYING. EXAMPLE FOR COLLEGE-BOUND HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
By Francis Taylor, Asst. Publisher/Editor
Inglewood resident Samaiya Kirby is a senior in high school and while school is just getting underway, she already has her sights on
By Marla Matime
college after high school graduation. Samaiya realizes that college is an important investment in her future and in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a neo natal nurse, college is mandatory. With the help and support of her father Darnell Kirby, she understands that the amount of time and effort she spends preparing for college can help to ensure that she is accepted at the college of her choice and can ease the transition from living at home with her parents to living on a college campus where self-discipline is essential. Samaiya has decided to attend an historically black
The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday reaffirmed that housing cannot be built on the site of the proposed LA Clippers arena in Inglewood. “The FAA does not support the reintroduction of single-family or multi-family residential uses on the Noise-Impacted Parcels,” David F. Cushing, the FAA’s Manager in the LAX office, wrote to Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts. “Such residential redevelopment would
increase residents’ exposure to aircraft noise and is inherently inconsistent with the intent of the City’s land acquisition/noise mitigation program, approved and funded by the FAA,” Cushing wrote in the August 26 letter. Cushing noted that the FAA has paid millions over the years for former residents in the area to relocate and escape the unhealthy jet noise. The FAA letter deals a blow to attempts by Uplift Inglewood and the Madison Square Gar-
den Co., which owns the Forum, to kill the proposed arena by claiming that the land should be used for housing. With MSG’s financial backing, Uplift Inglewood has sued the city, claiming it violated the state’s Surplus Land Act by failing to solicit proposals for affordable housing on the parcel before signing an exclusive negotiating agreement with the Clippers. But Cushing’s letter, sent in 4 response to a July 17 update
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By Mayor James T. Butts
Before Alix Ollivier (Opinion, July 15) decided to chide the city of Inglewood about our supposed fiscal management, he should have done research – or perhaps contacted us for information. Had he done so, he would not have recycled a series of common misrepresentations in his column, “SoCal are spending big instead of preparing for the next economic downturn.” So
let’s set the record straight. Ollivier wrote that Inglewood borrowed $53 million money to pay shortterm bills instead of long-term obligations. That is not accurate. This was a refinancing of existing debt and a reimbursement to the general fund reserves for a prepayment of accrued unfunded liability prior to the refinancing. Here is the chronology of what Inglewood did:
On Nov. 14, 2017, the city issued a pension obligation bond refunding to legally decrease certain portions of the prior 2005 pension obligation bond. By that transaction we also reimbursed the city’s general fund for advances we had made to pay CalPERS that otherwise would have been paid by our pension tax levy. The refunding has also 3 enabled the city to save
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