January 2003 Board Approves Yaroslavsky Motion to File Lawsuit Against Ahmanson Project - On January 14, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion by Supervisor Yaroslavsky to file a lawsuit challenging the December 17, 2002 approval by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors of the first phase of the Ahmanson Ranch Project. The proposed project would be a massive development of some 3,050 homes sited in an environmentally sensitive area on the Ventura County side of the Ventura/Los Angeles county line. Yaroslavsky noted that project planning documents rely on an outdated 10-year-old traffic study, and fail to consider other issues such as rare or endangered plant and animal species in the area and chemical contamination which may compromise the project’s groundwater supply. Click Ahmanson Ranch SEIR to read the project’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Report on file with the County of Ventura’s Planning Division. Click the following private, non-County Websites for further information: Save Ahmanson Ranch to learn more about opposition to the project; Ahmanson Ranch Project for information from the project’s proponents, Washington Mutual, parent company of Ahmanson Land Co. Board Approves Yaroslavsky Urgency Motion To Oppose Davis Plan to Cut Local Government Funding - Also on January 14, the Board Supervisors approved unanimously an urgency motion by Supervisor Yaroslavsky calling on the Legislature to reject a proposal by Gov. Davis to eliminate state funding for a program intended to protect local governments against the revenue loss from state-level reductions in vehicle license fees. Yaroslavsky noted that canceling the “VLF backfill” would cost the County of Los Angeles an estimated $663 million through June 30, 2004, roughly 30% of the County’s discretionary revenue needed to fund local services such as health care, parks, law enforcement and public safety, and well as the County’s local matching share needed to draw down additional state and federal funding. Yaroslavsky Wins Approval for Study to Consider Extending County Survivor Benefits to Domestic Partners - On a 4-0 vote, the Board of Supervisors approved a motion by Supervisor Yaroslavsky to ask the Los Angeles County Employee Retirement Association, the County’s pension system, to study the costs of extending survivor benefits to domestic partners of County employees and report back with the results in 60 days. Under state legislation, Los Angeles is one of three counties authorized, but not required, to offer such benefits. For more detailed information about the County’s retirement system and its programs, click LACERA. Yaroslavsky Announces Third District Public Works Projects:
Yaroslavsky Notes Latest
Fitness Findings - Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky sends his
very best wishes to everyone for a happy and healthy New Year.
To help make it even healthier, Yaroslavsky – who convened
a County Task Force on Child and Youth Fitness which issued this Child
Fitness Report - notes several other recent studies
and reports emphasizing the importance of regular daily exercise
and proper diet to stay fit, healthy, and ready to learn. The federal
Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta offers these Guidelines
to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity aimed at helping
young people adopt and maintain a physically active lifestyle.
The California Department of Education recently concluded its own
study that found physically fit kids perform better academically;
click California
kid fitness release for a summary and useful links
to more detailed information. For an excellent overview of fitness
tips and dietary advice developed by various federal health agencies,
click Dietary
Guidelines for Americans. The California Center for
Public Health Advocacy has published its own report on “epidemic
levels” of overweight and unfit children in California; to
read it, click Overweight
and Unfit Children. 01/21/03 Paul
M. Merifield+, Engineering Geology and Soils Review and
Appeals Board 01/21/03 Vivian Rescalvo, Los Angeles County Small Business Commission 01/14/03 Ann
Cutrow+, Los Angeles County Mental Health Commission 01/14/03 George
Wein+, Community Advisory Committee (Sunshine Canyon Landfill) 01/07/03 Anne
R. Greer+, Consumer Affairs Advisory Commission 01/07/03 Ann Jackson, Commission on Judicial Procedure 01/07/03 Ann M. Kinzle+, Community Advisory Committee (Sunshine Canyon Landfill) |
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