Jan
27
(Los Alamitos, CA) Got an e-mail last week that I only got around to opening up today. It was a link to a USA Today video on last week’s storms that I think you’ll find quite interesting.
It starts out with a Read more
Jan
19
Los Al solid waste contract: Rolls Royce? Tax increase? Payback to Briggeman?
Filed Under 2010 Issues, City Council, George Briggeman | 13 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 1/19/2010) 
As reported here earlier, tonight’s Los Alamitos City Council meeting includes discussion and recommended approval of almost 200 pages of documents relating to the Request for Proposals (RFP) for solid waste collections services for 2011 – 2020.
It’s interesting that for at least the last 20 years our trash contract never went out to bid. The hope was that an open bidding process would result in lower costs for Los Alamitos residents and businesses.
Some were, suspicious, however of Read more
Dec
21
Your reporting and comments on tonight’s 2 Los Al City Council Meetings
Filed Under City Council | 4 Comments
(12/21/09) For the last time in 2009, it’s your time to be the reporter on what you saw on LosAlTV3 or in person at tonight’s Los Alamitos City Council meeting.
If you’re there, please let us know what you saw, good, bad, or indifferent.
As reported previously, there are actually 2 meetings tonight, The first meeting, at 5:30, probably won’t be televised. It’s about setting Read more
Oct
5
Breaking News: Is Tenet playing a “shell game” with Los Alamitos?
Filed Under 2009 Issues, City Council, Planning & Zoning | Leave a Comment
Guess who really owns this building?
(Los Alamitos, 10/5/2009) Information culled from public records over the weekend will hopefully give the Los Alamitos City Council good reason to hold off on entering an agreement tonight with the Los Alamitos Medical Center regarding their 25 year expansion plan.
Indeed, it’s not even clear at this point exactly whom that agreement should be with, but it’s evident that there are at least two additional legal entities involved: Read more
Oct
3
Los Al Med Center files for massive expansion
Filed Under 2009 Issues, City Council, Planning & Zoning | 16 Comments
(10/2/2009, Los Alamitos) Now we know why they asked for that Enviornmental Impact Report our City Council will vote on Monday night.
They want to build two new medical towers allowing up to 602 beds, an 80,000 square foot medical office building, new parking structures, and a new central plant on the 18 acres they now own in our fair town.
The plan is to be implemented over the next Read more
Sep
12
More details and Council opinions on DeBolt ouster from P.C.
Filed Under City Council, Commission Meetings, Planning & Zoning | 10 Comments
(9/12/09, Los Alamitos) Even though her editors had her covering the Huntington Beach Council meeting last Tuesday night, Jaime Lynn Fletcher, the Register’s Los Alamitos reporter still managed to get an 800+ word online article on our Council’s recent actions by Friday. A shortened version appeared on Local page 12 in today’s (Saturday) Register.
Fletcher had good quotes from both sides of the dispute. Her subtitle seems to present a fairly accurate summary of the dispute: Read more
Sep
9
City Council Removes DeBolt from Planning Commission
Filed Under 2009 Issues, City Council, Planning & Zoning | 3 Comments
Tuesday night’s Los Alamitos City Council Session went on for almost 4 hours, touching on many different items.
On the bright side, the Council is moving ahead, although rather slowly, on establishing a process for possibly moving forward with a General Plan review and/or revision.
The action I found most disappointing in last night’s meeting, however was Read more
Aug
16
Council to consider mandating advance payment by youth sports groups tonight
Filed Under 2009 Issues, City Council, Education & Schools, Los Alamitos Priorities | 3 Comments
Youth sports: a big part of our community
(8/17/2009, Los Alamitos) In an interesting consent calendar item for their Monday, August 17, Regular Meeting the Los Alamitos City Council is being asked to require payment in advance from the many youth sports groups which use city or school district facilities.
This seems like a logical move from an economic viewpoint. The question is, have the affected volunteer groups, all committed to serving our kids, had adequate input in the development of this policy.
Under current policy, according to a Youth Permits Summary submitted to the Council, all of the local groups have been delinquent to one extent or another in making at least some payments over the past three years, including (in alphabetical order):
- Friday Night Lights
- Los Alamitos Girls Softball League
- Los Alamitos Youth Baseball
- NJB Basketball
- Pop Warner Football
- AYSO Soccer
- St. Hedwig Baseball
All but two of those groups are now current: AYSO still owes the city about Read more
Jul
19
Agenda & your reporting & comments on 7/20/09 regular City Council Meeting
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Appointment of an interim City Clerk, several police and alcohol issues, truck weight limits on Lexington and parking limitations on Katella are among several interesting items on this week’s regular Los Alamitos City Council meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday.
The complete agenda, with links to key reports, is below, as well as Read more
Jun
18
Los Al Council passes balanced budget for “dismal” 2009-2010
Filed Under City Budget, City Council, City Council Meetings | 1 Comment
(6/19/09, Los Alamitos) (updated Friday afternoon) The Los Alamitos City Council met at 3 p.m. today, Friday June 19th for a Special Meetingand unanimously passed what is described as a balanced budget for fiscal year 2009-2010 which begins in just 13 days.
Wish I could say the same for our state of California legislators.
How the budget was balanced
The plan offsets declines in revenue with a one-time transfer of $89,000 from the “garage fund” to the general fund, an 11 day furlough for City Union employees, additional cuts for a total of $800,00o in savings, and increased income from Verizon Wireless finally collecting the city’s Read more
Jun
15
Your reporting and comments on Monday, 6/15’s Council Meeting
Filed Under City Council | 11 Comments
(6/15/09, Los Alamitos) Once again, it’s your turn to be the reporter and or commentator on tonight’s Los Alamitos City Council meeting.
Whether you’re there in person tonight or watching Los Al TV, when you get a chance tell us what your saw and what you thought. Remember, many of our citizens don’t get Read more
Jun
1
June 1 City Council Meeting: Agenda plus your reporting & comments
Filed Under City Council, City Council Meetings | 13 Comments
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Gerri Graham-Mejia City Council Member (2010) |
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Ken Stephens
City Council Member (2012)
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(6/1/2009, Los Alamitos) Once again we’re providing the agenda for tonight’s Regular Los Alamitos City Council meeting, scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Looking for a new graphic, I thought I’d paste in the current photos from the City Website, although poor Dean Zarkos appears to be a tad camera shy. Hard to believe for a Realtor, so I’m guessing it’s not his fault. I’m also guessing someone messed up on when his term expires, which was 2010 last time I checked.
In any case, several interesting items are on the agenda, including a potential hot topic in appointing commissioners, a proposal to select a non-profit to operate LosAlTV and even another closed session to discuss Read more
May
25
Is it Seal Beach vs. Los Al @ two Base meetings on recycling tomorrow, Tuesday, 5/26?
Filed Under 2009 Issues, City Council, George Briggeman, The Base, Traffic | 20 Comments
The view last week from Rossmoor Highlands back yards.
(5/25/2009, Los Alamitos, by Dave Emerson) The Joint Forces Training Base is now routing 10 – 15 big 18wheeler trucks on a circuitous route through Los Alamitos five to six days a week as part of their new 5 year green waste recycling program.
The come and go by taking the 405 freeway to the 605 freeway to Katella to Lexington. Once they enter the base the trucks backtrack to the western side of the base where they follow a narrow road directly behind Rossmoor Highlands all the way around the perimeter of the Base until they finally arrive at the recycling site northeast of Arbor Park. Then they turn around and exit by the same crazy spiral, occasionally passing incoming 18 wheelers on the narrow road.
General Combs, who will be retiring this year, was hoping to route that traffic more directly off of Lampson, but ran into a major snag when Read more
May
18
Los Al 50th Anniversary Plans on Council Agenda
Filed Under 2009 Issues, City Council, City Council Meetings | 3 Comments
(5/18/09, Los Alamitos). Among other things at tonight’s Council meeting will be a discussion of staff recommendations for celebrating Los Alamitos’ 50th anniversary in 2010. Here’s some of the suggestions the staff has given the Council on the topic :
Proposed Anniversary Mottos:
- Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence
- Celebrating 50 Years of Progress
- Honoring the City’s History and Progress
- Commemorating 50 Years of Community
- Remembering the Past and Looking to the Future
- 50 Years of Service to the Community
- Celebrating Our Past, Creating Our Future
- Los Alamitos Celebrates 50 Years of Vision
Here’s the staff report on the topic: Read more
Apr
20
It’s 4 – 1 again: Our new City Manager: Jeffrey L. Stewart
Filed Under 2009 Issues, City Council | 102 Comments
(4/20/09, Los Alamitos) Coming out of closed session around 5:30 this evening City Attorney announced that the Los Alamitos City Council had just voted by 4 -1 with Gerri Mejia voting against to hire Jeffrey L. Stewart as the new City Manager of Los Alamitos.
But, although my original prediction did not come true, thanks to our insightful posters the story broke here first with Dig Doug and others posting information here about a Jeff Stewart a little after 3 this Read more
