JUNE ARCHIVES

JUNE ARCHIVES
1999

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Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky (center), is joined by Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member Julie Korenstein (third from left) and others to help cut the ribbon to dedicate the County’s brand new "Family Resource Center" Center at John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills. The Center comprises a school-based clinic, examining and counseling rooms, a children’s play therapy center, and a technology center to help improve computer skills. (6/25/99)

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Hollywood Subway Opens - On Friday, June 11, Supervisor Yaroslavsky joined other officials and community leaders to dedicate the newest segment of the Metro Rail Red Line subway, extending from the Wilshire/Vermont station all the way up to the fabled intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. Soon after, Yaroslavsky helped inaugurate a special Hollywood Boulevard shuttle bus to carry passengers to various points of interest - including the historic El Capitan, Egyptian and Mann’s Chinese movie palaces - along the one-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard between the Hollywood/Vine station and the Hollywood/La Brea intersection. The shuttles are scheduled to run daily until completion of the subway line to North Hollywood in May, 2000.

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Board Approves Living Wage Ordinance - On Tuesday, June 22, the Board of Supervisors gave final approval to a "living wage" ordinance aimed at establishing an income floor for full-time wage-earners employed by private contractors doing business with Los Angeles County. Under the new law, effective on September 22, the employees will be guaranteed an hourly wage of $8.32 when health benefits are included, or $9.46 hourly otherwise. In addition, Supervisor Yaroslavsky won approval for his amendment to extend the same policy to an estimated 825 full-time represented County employees upon renegotiation of their labor contracts.

Board Approves County Budget in Record Time, Restores Free Swimming at County Pools - On June 21, in less than an hour, the Board of Supervisors adopted without controversy a new $15 billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year. The budget represents an approximately 10% increase over the previous year’s spending. Thanks to growing revenues and sustained economic growth, the budget will fund, with no new taxes, several thousand additional positions in social services, child welfare, health, law enforcement, the courts, and parks and recreation. On a motion by Supervisor Yaroslavsky, the Board also voted to restore free swimming at County pools this summer, reversing an admission fee policy instituted in 1994. Click here for press release.

Board Intervenes to Block 424 Overlay - On June 15, unanimously adopting an urgency motion by Supervisor Yaroslavsky, the Board of Supervisors directed County attorneys to file a response with the California Public Utilities Commission in support of a petition by Assemblyman Wally Knox, Rep. Henry Waxman, and others to suspend plans to impose a new 424 area code overlay within the existing 310 area code region. The petition also requests the PUC to fully investigate alternative strategies to accommodate the demand for new phone lines without creating so many new area codes. Click here for press release.

Venice Family Clinic To Take Over, Improve County Health Center in Santa Monica - Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky announced Board approval for a long-term agreement with the community-based nonprofit Venice Family Clinic (VFC) to continue operating and to expand health services for low-income and uninsured residents at the County’s Burke Health Center in the City of Santa Monica. Under the 40-year gratis lease, the County will donate to Venice Family Clinic the Center’s furniture and equipment, and fund a $143,000 refurbishment project. In return, VFC will expand its patient care by 30% for a total of 20,352 annual patient visits. The arrangement also permits VFC to more effectively solicit private donations and apply for grant funding to offset costs of the facility renovations. Click here for release.

Yaroslavsky Demonstrates On-Line Assistance for Businesses - On June 9, Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Don Knabe joined Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Conny McCormack at her Norwalk headquarters to demonstrate the Registrar-Recorder’s new on-line service for accessing information and downloading forms to register fictitious business names (FBN). Yaroslavsky noted that the 100,000 businesses annually who file their FBN statements formerly had to drive all the way to Norwalk to acquire the forms, but now anyone with Internet access can accomplish the same thing in a matter of seconds. At $10.00 per name, Los Angeles County’s filing fees are the lowest of any county in the state. Yaroslavsky said that Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk officials hope to make available in the near future e-commerce that would make possible filing and paying the fee simultaneously by credit card.

Yaroslavsky Announces Upcoming Household Hazardous Waste Roundup - Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has announced an upcoming Countywide Household Hazardous Waste Roundup on Sunday, July 11, at the Beverly Hills City Yard, 341 Foothill Road. from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Further information may be obtained by calling the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, toll-free, at (1-888) CLEAN-LA (253-2652).