Household Hazardous Waste Collection Set for Hollywood, San Fernando Valley - Supervisor Yaroslavsky has announced an upcoming Countywide Household Hazardous Waste collection using the County's Hazmobile to be held from Thu-Sat, March 8-10, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sites in the Third District are the Hollywood Bowl's Fairfield Parking Lot, Highland Ave. at Odin St; in Van Nuys, at the Anheuser-Bush Auxiliary Parking Lot, NE Corner of Woodley Ave. and Roscoe Blvd.; and in Canoga Park, at the Boeing/Rocketdyne DeSoto Facility, South Parking Lot, DeSote Ave. at Gresham St. (south of Nordhoff St.) Further information may be obtained by calling toll-free at (1-888) CLEAN-LA, or (1-888) 253-2652; or by clicking on http://www.888cleanla.com.Yaroslavsky Announces Public Works Project -Yaroslavsky has announced Board approval of the following public works project in the Third District:
Yaroslavsky Unveils Sun Valley Watershed Management Strategy to Ferry Children Safely to School, Ease Flooding - Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, joined by other officials, recently announced an innovative strategy aimed at improving school safety and easing chronic flooding problems in the Sun Valley area. Yaroslavsky explained that the flooding both endangers local schoolchildren and reduces school attendance, costing the Los Angeles Unified School District hundreds of thousands of dollars in per-pupil state aid. Working with the offices of City Councilmember Alex Padilla and LAUSD School Board member David Tokofsky, the environmental organization TreePeople, and the private firm Vulcan Materials, Yaroslavsky developed a comprehensive watershed management and flood control strategy for the area. The strategy includes a school bus shuttle to ferry elementary schoolchildren across flooded intersections, a new driveway for easier access to Sun Valley Middle School, and use of Vulcan's nearby gravel pits as spreading grounds to help divert and absorb stormflows before they enter the street and storm drain system. Yaroslavsky Energy Savings Plan Advances - Supervisor Yaroslavsky's plan to replace some 5,000 incandescent red stoplights at 408 County intersections with energy-saving LEDs (light-emitting diodes) advanced on January 30, when Public Works officials told the Board the plan would recoup its $700,000 cost within two years. Officials estimated the plan would yield $340,000 in savings for power and maintenance costs annually, since the LEDs consume only 10% of the energy and last 5-7 times longer than conventional bulbs. Yaroslavsky, Molina Urge Speedup in Providing Health Care to In-Home Support Services Providers - On January 30, Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Gloria Molina won Board support for their motion directing County health and budget officials to quickly complete their work by March 13 and submit a recommendation for the most effective health-care option to serve the 70,000 IHSS providers assisting more than 100,000 elderly or disabled clients in Los Angeles County. In their motion, Yaroslavsky and Molina note that the IHSS workers, most of whom lack health insurance themselves, save the State of California millions of dollars annually by providing cost-effective home-based care to people who would otherwise be residing in more costly skilled nursing facilities at state expense. Los Angeles County constitutes 42 percent of the state's entire IHSS caseload. Yaroslavsky Announces Opening of New Mid-Valley Comprehensive Health Center - On January 17, 2001, exactly seven years to the day after the devastating Northridge Earthquake, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky was joined by health officials for the grand opening of a brand-new Mid-Valley Comprehensive Health Center. The facility will be a 52,200-sq. ft. state-of-the-art clinic to serve the San Fernando Valley with a variety of primary health care services. The new Health Center replaces the County’s original facility on the same site at 7515 Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys, which was severely damaged in the quake and subsequently condemned and demolished. In addition to primary health care, services provided will include dental, radiology, ultrasound, and gynecology. Services are available to low-income residents throughout the San Fernando Valley on a walk-in basis. Fees will be based on a sliding scale ranging from modest to free, depending on ability to pay. Clinic hours are Monday-Friday, 8am-8:30pm, and Saturdays, 8am-4:30pm.
Yaroslavsky Calls For County to Explore Direct Access, Other Energy Purchase Options - On January 16, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky won unanimous Board approval for his motion proposing that the Los Angeles City Department of Water and Power adopt a "good neighbor" energy policy in which the DWP would sell its surplus power to Los Angeles County and other public agency customers, such as local school districts, whose operations lie partly outside DWP's service area. Yaroslavsky explained that Los Angeles County government could save millions of dollars annually buying all of its electricity from DWP, instead of buying 2/3 of the County's total power consumption at the skyrocketing rates charged by private utilities. DWP officials promised to consider the idea and possibly pursue enabling legislation jointly with the County. In addition, Yaroslavsky also won unanimous approval for two other related motions; the first, to consider consolidating the County's utility management under one department for greater efficiency; the second, an urgency item to begin the process of replacing 5,000 County stoplights with high-efficiency LED (light-emitting-diode) type bulbs which consume only 10% of the power used by conventional traffic lights. Board Adopts Yaroslavsky Call to Upgrade County Voting System - On January 9, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Yaroslavsky's motion to support state and federal legislation to assist local governments to update their voting systems with secure, accurate state-of-the-art technology. Yaroslavsky noted that County election officials estimate a cost of $100 million to upgrade the County's roughly 5,000 precincts from the Votomatic punch-card ballot system to the electronic touch-screen system employed by the County in a pilot project during the 2000 general election. Yaroslavsky Announces Public Works Projects -Yaroslavsky has announced Board approval of the following public works project in the Third District:
Wendy D. Aron Joins Yaroslavsky Staff As Deputy For Children's Services - Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has announced that Wendy D. Aron has joined his office as a Supervisor's Deputy responsible for children and family services and welfare policy. Aron, a graduate of UCLA Law School and UC Santa Barbara, previously represented children in dependency proceedings with the County's independent contract law firm, Dependency Court Legal Services, and prior to that served for nearly four years as a research attorney for the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court. Click here for further information. Welcome, Wendy!
01/30/01 Adrienne Cedro-Hament+, Los Angeles County Mental Health Commission 01/30/01 Ann M. Kinzle+, Community Advisory Committee (Sunshine Canyon Landfill) 01/30/01 Corrine Sanchez, Commission for Public Social Services 01/30/01 Katherine Spitz, Small Craft Harbors Design Control Board 01/30/01 Andrew Robert Stern+, Los Angeles County Beach Commission 01/16/01 Suzanne D. Paggi+ - Developmental Disabilities Board 01/16/01 Nancy Helsley and Dennis Washburn - Board of Directors, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains
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