BLUE FOLDER ITEM
Blue folder items are additional back up material to administrative reports and/or public comments received after the printing and distribution of the agenda packet for receive and file.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
J.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
• PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
From: Stop BCHD
To: [email protected]; info; Los Angeles County District Attorney"s Office; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; MHSOAC; Cc: Kevin Cody; [email protected]; Garth Meyer; [email protected]; CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Jane Diehl; Noel Chun; Michelle Bholat; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Formal Complaint: BCHD Failing to Provide EQUITY to SPA8 Cities with allcove Funding Date: Monday, September 16, 2024 1:24:45 PM
Attachments: FORMAL COMPLAINT - allcove Beach Cities Non-Performance.pdf CAUTION: Email is from an external source; Stop, Look, and Think before opening attachments or links.
Public Comment All Agencies
It's quite clear from the attached document that BCHD added SPA8 to its allcove funding request for the purpose of gaining diversity from the otherwise predominantly White and affluent Beach Cities. BCHD is not executing in an equitable manner however, and hoarding 74% of the program for the Cities of Redondo Beach, Torrance, Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach according to BCHD's own advertising for Measure BC. Furthermore, MHSOAC has the information in its public record at https://mhsoac.ca.gov/wpcontent/uploads/MHSOAC_Packet_08222024.pdf and must act to enforce EQUITY or cancel the funding.
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StopBCHD.com ([email protected]) is a Neighborhood Quality-of-Life Community concerned about the quality-of-life, health, and economic damages that BCHDs 110-foot above the street, 800,000 sqft commercial development will inflict for the next 50-100 years.
Our neighborhoods have been burdened since 1960 by the failed South Bay Hospital project and have not received the benefit of the voter-approved acute care public hospital since 1984.Yet we still suffer 100% of the damages and we will suffer 100% of the damages of BCHDs proposal.
CONCERNED TAXPAYER GROUP SEEKS OVERSIGHT OF allcove BEACH CITIES ACTIVITY As a neighborhood taxpayer and advocacy group, we are very concerned about both MHSOAC’s lack of controls and evaluation of BCHD’s allcove program, as well as the potential misuse of our taxpayer funding. The results of the BCHD allcove program demonstrate a significant bias toward whiter, advantaged, higher income, less diverse communities. The BCHD program further exacerbating the disparity of services within SPA8.
OVERSIGHT BY MHSOAC AND BCHD IS LACKING REGARDING allcove BEACH CITIES Based on the allcove proposal evaluation criteria, areas of mental health provider shortages, disadvantaged communities, and targeted underserved groups such a LGBTQ+ and BIPOC were the primary objective of the allcove funding. Unfortunately, those objectives appear to have been ignored by BCHD in its allcove program delivery design, and MHSOAC appears to have failed in its oversight role of BCHD and protection of taxpayer funding.
allcove BEACH CITIES ENROLLMENT IS INEQUITABLE BASED ON INCOME, RACE, DISADVANTAGED
COMMUNITY STATUS, MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER SHORTAGES AND DEMOGRAPHIC NEED The only plausible conclusion is that BCHD failed to target those factors that led to the creation of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI), failed to target those factors used to evaluate the BCHD allcove application, failed to target those factors in the funding agreement, and that MHSOAC failed in its oversight role of the programs and funding.
How else could 70.8% of the allcove enrollees have 190% of the income level, 63% the level of nonwhite residents, no mental health provider shortages, and no disadvantaged communities?
MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER SHORTAGES DO NOT APPEAR CONSIDERED We have conducted a census tract analysis of Los Angeles County Service Planning Area 8 (SPA8) using HRSA.gov data. SPA8 is the service area for allcove Beach Cities and we determined based on program lack of performance that areas of mental health provider shortages have not been prioritized by BCHD based on current allcove results for SPA8.
Athens, Carson, Gardena, Harbor City, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Rancho Dominguez, San Pedro, and Wilmington all contain one or more census tracts with shortages of mental health providers. Increasing services to areas with shortages of providers is a primary objective of the broader CYBHI initiative that provides the funding. Those communities represent only 12.9% of the allcove enrollees/participants per BCHD.
%<18 HH Income % Non-white % allcove Enrollment
SPA8 21.9% $ 93,058 70.8% 94.80%
BCHD (HB/RB/MB) 23.5% $ 152,392 35.6% 54.30%
The BCHD "4" (HB/RB/MB/Tor) 22.1% $ 129,316 52.7% 70.80% Disadv+Below Avg Target 24.2% $ 67,272 84.4% 10.10%
DEMOGRAPHICS, SOCIOECONOMICS, DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, AND UNDERSERVED GROUPS DO NOT APPEAR CONSIDERED BROADLY WITHIN SPA8
To determine which SPA8 cities have the greatest need for allcove based on demographics, socioeconomics, disadvantaged communities and underserved groups, we gathered data for proxy measures of those community factors. The variables selected were based on their sources, relative similarity to the application evaluation criteria and their ease and consistency of acquisition across all the cities. They are Cal Enviro Screen/SB 535 disadvantaged community status, fraction of the city population under the age of 18 (a Census measure), percentage of non-white residents, and average household income.
DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES
Athens, Carson, Gardena, Harbor City, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Rancho Dominguez, San Pedro and Wilmington are all disadvantaged communities by Cal Enviro Screen/SB 535 criteria.
Those communities represent only 12.9% of the allcove enrollees/participants per BCHD.
DEMOGRAPHIC NEED BASED ON RELATIVE SHARE OF COMMUNITY YOUTH The US Census metric for fraction of population under age 18 was available and of consistent quality across cities. Using the intersection of Mental Health Provider Shortage Areas and Disadvantaged Communities, we found that Athens, Harbor City, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Rancho Dominguez, and Wilmington all had youth populations above the average share for SPA8. By virtue of their lack of mental health providers, community disadvantage, and high population fraction of use, these seven communities qualify as priority prospects for allcove services and should receive a disproportionate share of services, effects, and expenditures. This group represents on 10.1% of the allcove enrollees/participants per BCHD data.
TRADITIONALLY UNDERSERVED GROUPS
US Census measures of gender preference and identity are not available currently. As a proxy, we used fraction of non-white population. Athens, Carson, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Long Beach, Rancho Dominguez, and Wilmington all rank above the average non-white % of SPA8 and should be considered priority prospects for BIPOC and other marginalized groups. This group represents on 12.4% of the allcove enrollees/participants per BCHD data.
ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES
Household income was used to identify economic disparity among SPA8 communities. There is an enormous disparity in income levels between the wealthier coastal and Palos Verdes Peninsula communities and the rest of SPA8. The following communities all have household income below the SPA8 average: Athens, Avalon, Gardena, Harbor City, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Long Beach, Rancho Dominguez, San Pedro and Wilmington. This group represents on 12.4% of the allcove enrollees/participants per BCHD data.
PRIORITY TARGETING IN THE allcove APPLICATION AND AGREEMENT The priority groups were set out in both the allcove application and agreement. Further, the intent of the program as stated in the application included: “Priority will be given to applicants serving communities with higher demonstrated need (e.g., mental health professional shortage areas, socio-economically disadvantaged communities, communities with populations of focus) or those which propose to reduce disparities between racial/ethnic/marginalized groups in the community.” The only reasonable conclusion to draw based on the allcove Beach Cities results is that BCHD ignored the various factors of disparity and and inequity and provided the service primarily to higher income, better served, local areas without regard to appropriate targeting.
BCHD PERFORMANCE FOCUS IS ON WEALTHIER AND WHITER AREAS OF LA COUNTY SERVICE PLANNING AREA 8
BCHD is currently stating in a June 4, 2024 California Public Records Request (CPRA) response that allcove Beach Cities is servicing the following with allcove:
Further, BCHD highlights in its CPRA response “In addition, please find the attached slide that shows the allcove Beach Cities residents’ enrollment is 54.3% and with Torrance is 70.8% (September 2023.)” From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: Communications; CityClerk; [email protected]
Subject: Public Comment - Agency advocacy on bond measures is prohibited Date: Friday, September 13, 2024 1:39:16 PM
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The following meeting will be recorded for analysis by our public taxpayer group counsel to determine if this was an advocacy meeting in violation of State law. As the agencies are away, the opposition must be allowed equal time at public meetings for any advocacy activity by agencies.
In the case of RBUSD as the host, RBUSD incurs costs and must provide opposition viewpoints through factual statements or opposition groups.
In the case of the City or BCHD, if any salaried or hourly employees are present, then both the City and District must provide opposing viewpoints.
Monday, September 23
⏰ 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Redondo Union High School Auditorium
1 Sea Hawk Way, Redondo Beach CA 90277
From: Stop BCHD
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; CityClerk; Nils Nehrenheim; Todd Loewenstein; Paige Kaluderovic; Zein Obagi; Scott Behrendt; info; [email protected]; Jane Diehl; [email protected]; Noel Chun; Michelle Bholat; [email protected]; [email protected]; MHSOAC; [email protected] Subject: Public Comment - BCHD Cities finish AVERAGE in health outcomes among other high income LA County Cities Date: Friday, September 13, 2024 11:33:01 AM
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Public Comment All Agencies
Based on the LA County Health's 2023 health outcomes survey, and using the Gallup methodology for valuing better health monetarily in the study and press release funded by BCHD's taxpayer paid $400,000 contact:
BCHD Cities perform slightly above average and worse than many other high income cities in LA County that pay $0 to fund a local HEALTH DISTRICT.
The residents of BCHD pay $2.4M annually in executive compensation for the District that takes in $5M in property taxes, $2M in rents from land/buildings owned/funded by taxpayers, $2M in assisted living revenues from a private, taxpayer owned enterprise, and $1M in interest income on taxpayer reserves and funds. That's wildly excessive, and compared to the management structure of the City of Redondo Beach, 300% too high.
CONCLUSION
It appears that the majority of Gallup's $182M benefit against national health averages takes credit for State of California health actions and LA County health actions, all of which are policies and funded by non-BCHD activities. Further, many high income cities in LA County with NO HEALTH DISTRICT COSTS have better health outcomes than the BCHD Beach Cities.
Full fact set and computations available to qualified State and County agencies.
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StopBCHD.com ([email protected]) is a Neighborhood Quality-of-Life Community concerned about the quality-of-life, health, and economic damages that BCHDs 110-foot above the street, 800,000 sqft commercial development will inflict for the next 50-100 years. Our neighborhoods have been burdened since 1960 by the failed South Bay Hospital project and have not received the benefit of the voter-approved acute care public hospital since 1984.Yet we still suffer 100% of the damages and we will suffer 100% of the damages of BCHDs proposal.
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: Communications; CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; info; Holly J. Mitchell; MHSOAC; [email protected] Cc: Kevin Cody
Subject: Public Comment all agencies - BCHD misrepresentation and hidden terms of allcove building Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024 1:58:53 PM
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In order to gain funding for allcove, BCHD claimed that it would service LA County SPA8 and provide geographic and other diversity. That creates a 30-year minimum, $175M taxpayer risk and unfunded obligation with a 30-year tail to allcove for a 91% non-resident service area (SPA8).
BCHD current strategy is to spend the allcove funding on 50% District residents, 25% Torrance residents and 15% non-residents from disadvantaged communities and mental healthcare professional shortage areas. This is a $175M material risk to Taxpayers of the District only - in return for BCHD's meager $6.3M grant for building construction.
Further, as BCHD demonstrated, it has no cost controls expertise in construction. BCHD spent $1.6M on 400-feet of bike path in the Diamond alley. That is the single most expensive per foot bike path on record per Google search.
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: Communications; CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; info; Holly J. Mitchell Cc: Kevin Cody
Subject: Public Comment all Agencies - BCHD Misrepresentation of Seismic Risks Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024 1:52:09 PM
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BCHD has no such information and misrepresents the information that it does have from its consultants.
#1 - Youssef & Assoc - BCHD can operate the 514 Building for up to 25 years under seismic best practices:
#2 - ImageCat draws no conclusion regarding that safety of 514 building use, and further, ImageCat states that futures risks are time-dependent and incremental with no specific time deadline. ImageCat comments are limited to lending and financial risks by "most commercial lenders".
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: Planredondo; Planning Redondo; GeneralPlanEIR
Cc: Communications; CityClerk
Subject: Public Comment all agencies - Recommend no more than 0.75 base FAR for P/I Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024 2:28:21 PM
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BCHD has made a number of false statements regarding spot zoning, etc. Except for two City sites that will service nearly 100% residents, other P/I land uses are 0.75 FAR. If BCHD is forcing the City to choose, then, use 0.75 for ALL P/I and save the surrounding neighborhoods from BCHD's proposed 110-foot above Beryl & Flagler street, 793,000 SQFT HYPERDEVELOPMENT.
From: Stop BCHD
To: PRR
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; CityClerk; [email protected] Subject: Re: Inquiry on BCHD Wage Theft
Date: Friday, September 13, 2024 11:39:44 AM
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Public Comment all agencies
BCHD appears to be delaying release of materials. BCHD provided the same reason for delay in both its September 12th and August 29th communications. It is very troubling that as we approach an election, BCHD has decided to slow roll delivery of documents. https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Examples_of_Wage_Theft.html On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 8:23 PM PRR <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Resident,
Please see below (in red) for the District’s response to your public records request received 8/19/24 and extended to 9/12/24 that reads:
We understand that BCHD has been rounding down the time that it pays its hourly employees. For example, if an employee worked 40 minutes, they were paid to the nearest 1/2-hour, or only 30 minutes.
Provide documents related to timesheets that were rounded down, investigations of wage theft, or employee complaints regarding reduced wages from rounding.
The District has identified possible responsive documents but requires additional time to gather, review and respond to the request. The District has determined that the 14-day time limit to determine whether your request seeks disclosable public records in the possession of the District is hereby extended to 9/30/2024 for the following reason:
1. The need for consultation with two or more components of our agency having substantial subject matter interest therein.
Please note that if records you are seeking do not exist, BCHD has no obligation to create new records, or to obtain records from other sources, unless those sources are considered “prepared, owned, used by, or retained by” by the District.
If you believe we have not correctly interpreted your request, please resubmit your request with a description of the identifiable record or records that you are seeking.
Please note that the District may not respond to questions or comments included with your request that are not themselves requests for identifiable public records under the California Public Records Act. The lack of response by the District to any such questions or comments, including follow-up questions and comments, is not an indication of the District’s position on any topic or item, and should not be presented as such to any person.
Thank you.
From: PRR <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2024 6:11 PM
To: Stop BCHD <[email protected]>
Cc: PRR <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Inquiry on BCHD Wage Theft
Dear Resident,
Please see below (in red) for the District’s response to your public records request received 8/19/24 that reads:
We understand that BCHD has been rounding down the time that it pays its hourly employees. For example, if an employee worked 40 minutes, they were paid to the nearest 1/2-hour, or only 30 minutes.
Provide documents related to timesheets that were rounded down, investigations of wage theft, or employee complaints regarding reduced wages from rounding.
The District has identified documents responsive but requires additional time to gather, review, analyze and respond to the request. The District has determined that the 10-day time limit to determine whether your request seeks disclosable public records in the possession of the District is hereby extended by 14 days to (9/12/2024) for the following reason:
The need for consultation with two or more components of our agency having substantial subject matter interest therein
Please note that if records you are seeking do not exist, BCHD has no obligation to create new records, or to obtain records from other sources, unless those sources are considered “prepared, owned, used by, or retained by” by the District.
If you believe we have not correctly interpreted your request, please resubmit your request with a description of the identifiable record or records that you are seeking.
Please note that the District may not respond to questions or comments included with your request that are not themselves requests for identifiable public records under the California Public Records Act. The lack of response by the District to any such questions or comments, including follow-up questions and comments, is not an indication of the District’s position on any topic or item, and should not be presented as such to any person.
Thank you.
From: Stop BCHD <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2024 2:45 AM
To: PRR <[email protected]>
Subject: Inquiry on BCHD Wage Theft
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We understand that BCHD has been rounding down the time that it pays its hourly employees. For example, if an employee worked 40 minutes, they were paid to the nearest 1/2-hour, or only 30 minutes.
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StopBCHD.com ([email protected]) is a Neighborhood Quality-of-Life Community concerned about the quality-of-life, health, and economic damages that BCHDs 110-foot above the street, 800,000 sqft commercial development will inflict for the next 50-100 years.
Our neighborhoods have been burdened since 1960 by the failed South Bay Hospital project and have not received the benefit of the voter-approved acute care public hospital since 1984.Yet we still suffer 100% of the damages and we will suffer 100% of the damages of BCHDs proposal.
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From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: Judy Rae
Cc: CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected]; CityClerk Subject: Response to Marie Puterbaugh letter to editor at Easy Reader News Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024 1:57:18 AM
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Marie Puterbaugh, long term volunteer for BCHD wants to know what StopBCHD is stopping. So here's the Top 10 list of BCHD activities to stop:
1. Stop BCHD's 80% to 95% non-resident services Wealthy Living Campus. Force BCHD to focus on District taxpayers.
2. Stop BCHD's planned 793,000 square foot facility that will nearly triple the mostly commercial campus size in a residential neighborhood.
3. Stop BCHD from leasing 3 public acres for 95 years to a 100% private, for-profit developer.
4. Stop BCHD from allowing private developers to use our public land and then charge residents high, private rates for services.
5. Stop BCHD's planned 110-foot above Beryl and Flagler out of scale and character development.
6. Stop BCHD's plan for an 100% privately owned, 80% District non-resident assisted living facility on public land.
7. Stop BCHD's development of a PACE facility for 400 enrollees, with only 17 predicted to be District residents according to the National PACE Association's statistics.
8. Stop BCHD's $175M, 30-year obligation for allcove operations in return for a meager $6.3M construction grant.
9. Stop BCHD's 74% wealthy, White city use of allcove when BCHD is obligated to service a 91% non-resident service area by contract.
10. Stop BCHD's $2.4M per year annual spending on Executive Pay using public funding. Put that 15 cents of every BCHD dollar spent to resident services.
Mark Nelson
Redondo Beach
Public Comment: City Councils
From: Holly Osborne
To: CityClerk
Cc: Nils Nehrenheim; Zein Obagi; James Light
Subject: Comments for City Council, Non Agenda, Sept 17 Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 2:51:43 PM
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Dear City Clerk:
Can you please put the following 3 diagrams into the blue folder? Thanks!
Holly Osborne
Good evening.
(I have not included my comments).
Here is a map of "redlining" in the South Bay, from 1939. The different colored areas represent the risks of loaning to people in that area. Red is considered the highest risk. (Red was often assigned to ethnic minority neighborhoods, regardless of income of the inhabitants,) And here is where Lawndale is. And the 405 widening project goes thru it Right smack dab in the middle.
Here is an expanded version, showing the sections. (arrows on both ends mean that section is North and South i.e. on both sides of the Freeway)
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Holly Osborne