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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
JULY 14, 2026
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From: Tiffiny Vandom
To: Code Enforcement; CityClerk; [email protected]
Subject: Safety Concern: High E-Bike Volume & Pedestrian Walkway Maintenance Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2026 4:50:28 AM
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Dear Los Angeles County Beaches & Harbors Representatives and Redondo Beach City Council Members,
I am writing to report a significant, ongoing safety concern on the Redondo Beach coastal path.

This issue stems from high e-bike volume combined with a consistent lack of pedestrian walkway clearing.

Redondo Beach currently takes a different approach than neighboring cities like Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, which have already prioritized pedestrian safety by successfully removing e-bikes from their respective beach paths. There is an opportunity to look at alternative routing here, as Esplanade is a low-speed, relatively safe street that sits right on the bluff and provides an ideal alternative route for them.

Because the city continues to allow a high volume of heavy e-bike traffic on the sand path, keeping the adjacent pedestrian walking spaces completely clear is paramount for public safety.

Currently, the pedestrian walkway is rarely cleared of sand. On the rare occasions that maintenance is performed, it consists of temporary measures that do not address the root issue where crews simply push sand off the pavement. This temporary fix disappears almost immediately because crews have not yet implemented a comprehensive leveling process from the pedestrian path all the way to the shore.

Leaving the walkway buried in sand narrows the passable space and forces walkers directly into the bike lane. Even if e-bikes are eventually removed, an unmaintained path continues to present safety challenges for pedestrians interacting with standard speeding bicyclists - addressing one issue without the other will not fix the underlying safety hazard.

I kindly request immediate, coordinated action for both:

1. For LA County Beaches & Harbors: Establish a regular schedule to clear the pedestrian walkway, backed by a comprehensive sand-leveling process from the path to the shore.

2. For Redondo Beach City Council: Review our city's current e-bike guidelines and acknowledge that until riders are moved to the bluff, we require aggressive, strict oversight of pedestrian path maintenance to keep walkers safe.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. I look forward to your response detailing your plan to improve the safety and usability of this shared path.

See examples from my walk this morning.

I also submitted this "Request #CS-26-716", in case that is the more appropriate path.

Sincerely,
Tiffiny Vandom
Redondo Beach - 90277

From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)
To: PRR
Cc: CityClerk; CityClerk; [email protected]; Garth Meyer Subject: CPRA - Bakaly claim that Sunrise conditioned its offer on the FAR 1.25 Date: Monday, July 13, 2026 10:53:13 PM
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Provide any materials that demonstrate any relationship between the Sunrise offer/agreement/mou/loi/land lease that consider a 1.25 FAR that Bakaly disclosed as a potential cancellation of Sunrise's participation.

Public Comment: City Council
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From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail) <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2026 10:43 AM
To: [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]; CityClerk; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; info; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Representative Ted Lieu; [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]; [email protected]; Brad Waller; Chadwick B. Castle; Zein Obagi; Scott Behrendt; Paige Kaluderovic Subject: Public Comment: Beach Cities Health District Board Malfeasance: Failure to protect District taxpayers Categories: Khatirah
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BCHD is committing 5 acres of taxpayer purchased and to a 100% private assisted living facility for the benefit of health district residents and taxpayers. Yet, when asked in a CPRA request, BCHD had NO INFORMATION of the affordability or cost of the assisted living facility. Presumptively that demonstrates that BCHD has shirked its primary responsibility to protect the health and well being of District residents by failing to ensure they have affordable assisted living on public owned, taxpayer funded land. There is no ready explanation about how a Health District with an obligation to serve the District residents could fail to even consider the cost of housing to residents - after all - it did not even collect the proposed pricing data from the private developer.

ATTACHMENT: BCHD PRR Response Stating that it executed an MOU to lease 5 acres of Taxpayer owned land for assisted living without knowledge of the cost that residents of the District would be required to pay for said care. BCHD was malfeasant and failed in its duty to taxpayers.

CPRA - Pricing of proposed IL, AL, MC using 100% publicly purchased on owned land for up to 100 years/5 generations
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Mark Nelson (Home Gmail) <[email protected]> Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 12:16 PM To: PRR <[email protected]>
Cc: Communications <[email protected]>, Jane Diehl <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Robert
W. Lundy" <[email protected]>, Eleanor Manzano <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Because BCHD intends to encumber a 5 acre, $50M public-purchased and owned land parcel, provide or obtain the
following documents:
2 Provide documents demonstrating the specific costs expected to be charged to RESIDENT and NONRESIDENT tenants of each class of housing above
If no current pricing is available, provide documents with the pricing for Sunrise Hermosa Beach, an 80% BCHD owned
facility
Further, provide documents with the proposed pricing for Sunrise Manhattan Beach. If BCHD chooses not to engage
Sunrise for such pricing, it will result in an OpEd and Facebook ad due to BCHD's encumbrance of the public parcel for
up to 100 years
cc: Public Comment, BCHD and the City Councils on the CC list PRR <[email protected]> Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM
To: "Mark Nelson (Home Gmail)" <[email protected]>
Cc: PRR <[email protected]>
Dear Mr. Nelson,
Please see below (in red) for the District’s response to your public records requests received 4/6/26 that reads:

Because BCHD intends to encumber a 5 acre, $50M public-purchased and owned land parcel, provide or obtain the
following documents:

Provide documents demonstrating the specific costs expected to be charged to RESIDENT and

NON-RESIDENT
tenants of each class of housing above
There are no responsive records.
1 Khatirah Nazif
From: Mark Nelson (Home Gmail) <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2026 6:29 PM
To: Communications; CityClerk; [email protected]; City Council; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; CityClerk; Holly J. Mitchell; [email protected]; [email protected]; Garth Meyer; info; Representative Ted Lieu Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT: LA Times BCHD Article on BCHD choosing $250K/yr MORE in lease revenue from Sunrise over Silverado Residents
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Nearly 100 dementia patients are being evicted from their Redondo Beach home. Why it’s sparking outrage
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Pat Aust sits in the living room with fellow residents at Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community. 3 Pat Aust, a former Redondo Beach fire chief, pictured with fellow residents at the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community, which is set to close.

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See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Jennifer Aust’s heart is breaking.

Her whole life, she watched her dad, Pat, give back to the South Bay community he was raised in. He joined the Redondo Beach Fire Department in 1970 and held nearly every rank inside the department — including chief — before retiring in 2002.

Then came eight years as a City Council member. Finally, he was on the board of a healthcare district that leases land to a care home for seniors with dementia — a muchloved community resource that has, in a tragic twist of fate, become his own home.

Now that same board is evicting Aust and nearly 100 other patients from the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community.

Families are furious. They say there are not enough facilities in the region that can provide the specialized care their loved ones need, and they worry that the forced move poses serious health threats.
4 “When I think of how he’s being treated by elected leaders now, I think he would be so mad and disappointed because he had so much passion for this community,” Jennifer Aust said.

She can only speculate on how her father would feel. Neither he nor most of the other patients who live at the home have the cognitive ability to understand what’s happening to them.
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Jennifer A ust dances with her father at Silverado.
6 Jennifer Aust dances with her father Pat at Silverado.

On May 27, the Beach Cities Health District board of directors voted to move forward with a redevelopment plan for its 11-acre Redondo Beach campus that will permanently close Silverado. Within the next year, all the residents will need to leave.

Dr. David Presser, an emergency medicine physician, wrote a letter urging the district to spare Silverado. Moving patients with Alzheimer’s disease, he said, is associated with “behavioral destabilization, increased agitation, accelerated functional decline and a higher likelihood of acute care utilization.”
“Continuity of caregivers, physical environment, and routine are not merely quality-of-life considerations for this population,” he wrote, “they are clinically meaningful protective factors.”
Local families are concerned about how far they will have to travel to find appropriate care.
“We’ve called around to a lot of the local memory care places and in total there were around two dozen beds available in South Bay,” said Nicole Purohit, whose mother lives in Silverado. “It’s creating a little bit of a public health crisis.” 7 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.

Nicole Purhoit chats with caregiver Jay Splung while visiting her mother Annette Rippe. 8 Nicole Purohit chats with caregiver Jay Splung while visiting her mother, Annette Rippe, at Silverado.

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The health district has been planning to redevelop its healthcare campus for about a decade to replace aging and seismically vulnerable buildings with facilities that will provide a range of community health and wellness services.

The looming project was why Purohit was nervous to move her mother into Silverado last winter. But then came a letter signed by health district Chief Executive Tom Bakaly. “For families who are considering a move into Silverado Memory Care at Beach Cities today, please know that you can do so with confidence,” the Dec. 23 letter stated. “Residents who move in now will be secure in their care and will continue to have access to a Silverado bed throughout the redevelopment process.”
Purohit’s mother, Annette Rippe, already had to leave two other care homes that couldn’t cater to her behavioral needs. But Purohit took the letter to heart and moved her mom in, watching with relief as she thrived under Silverado’s specialized and attentive care. 9 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.

Residents Marlene Naraghi and Cathy Stewart dance together during happy hour. 10 Silverado residents Marlene Naraghi, left, and Cathy Stewart dance together during happy hour entertainment.
“I was 100% feeling that this was going to be the last time I had to move my mom — that she was going to be able to live out the rest of her years here,” she said.

Presser, the emergency medicine physician, said Silverado’s care model of catering solely to dementia patients and having clinical nurses on site 24/7 sets it apart from most other facilities and reduces how often residents need to go to the emergency room. “The gap they fill is not abstract,” Presser wrote. “It is the difference between appropriate, stable placement and a revolving door of hospitalizations, psychiatric admissions, and failed care transitions.”
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Christian Horvath and Reese Charfen-Horvath during the Beach Cities Health District board of directors meeting. 12 Christian Horvath and daughter Reese Charfen-Horvath, 17, were among those pushing to preserve the memory care facility at a May 27 Beach Cities Health District board of directors meeting.

(Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times)
‘The hard and, I think, right decision’
Wearing navy blue “Save Silverado” T-shirts and badges bearing the same message, more than two dozen members of the public packed into the Beach Cities Health District board of directors’ May 27 meeting to make a desperate appeal to preserve the beloved facility.

The district had issued a request for proposals from developers interested in leading the campus redevelopment last June. Of the 12 submissions received, the board initially favored working with Continental Development and Mar Ventures on a plan that would keep Silverado on the site.

However, the terms of that proposal “changed significantly” after negotiations began in January, reducing the board’s confidence in the project, according to a district spokesperson. Changes included a longer project timeline, uncertainty over whether the developers could provide community amenities such as a pool and less profitable ground lease terms, according to the district.

Continental Development executive Bob Tarnofsky said the team learned about “previously undisclosed higher decommissioning and demolition costs, a more complicated approval process, and greater environmental risk mitigation” after submitting the proposal.

Nonetheless, he said the team remained confident it could complete the project. “Yes, our proposal had nominal additional costs and may have taken a little more time,” he said. “But we feel strongly that it was a better solution to significantly upgrade the existing healthcare and memory care services provided to our South Bay community.” In February, the board pivoted and entered negotiations with Sunrise Senior Living, whose proposal is more profitable, has a faster timeline and provides more space for community amenities, according to the district.
13 The board determined that the ground lease terms proposed by Sunrise would bring in greater profit throughout the 99-year lease, helping fund the district’s free programs for residents of Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach for years to come.

Sunrise, for its part, views Silverado as a competitor and is not interested in partnering on the redevelopment project. The company will instead build its own senior home on the site with a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care units. “We are confident that Sunrise’s breadth of offerings will serve the needs of this community well,” said Philip Kroskin, head of real estate and senior vice president of investments at Sunrise. The company is “partnering with BCHD to provide direct support to residents and team members impacted by the upcoming community transition.” Ultimately, the board determined that the long-term community benefits of the Sunrise project outweighed the short-term pain of displacing Silverado residents. “That was one of the harder meetings I’ve been in, because our friends are there, parents of friends of mine are there, a former board member of the district is in Silverado,” Bakaly told The Times. “At the end of the day, the board made the hard and, I think, right decision.”
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Christian Horvath kisses his father-in-law Alex Charfen goodbye. 15 Christian Horvath, left, kisses father-in-law Alex Charfen goodbye at the Redondo Beach memory care facility.
‘I have to be his voice’
The families relying on the specialized care at Silverado disagree.

Christian Horvath, whose father-in-law lives in Silverado, said as a former Redondo Beach City Council member he understands the challenges of navigating complicated development proposals.

Nonetheless, he believes the board was too quick to jump ship when the initial development proposal — which would have kept Silverado on-site — became more complicated.
“I feel like they are rushing and just want to get it done,” he said. “But getting it done doesn’t mean it’s getting done well.”
Although Beach Cities Health District has entered a ground lease agreement with Sunrise, the project still needs to advance through several layers of city approval before it can break ground.

For now, many of the Silverado families are trying to figure out their next steps — and aren’t abandoning hope that something can be done to save the care home. “There needs to be accountability here,” said Jennifer Wade, whose stepmother lives in Silverado. “We’re talking about people who cannot advocate for themselves, most of them live in a constant state of confusion but have stability where they are.” Jennifer Aust visits her father as much as she can at Silverado, where he can be found wearing his trademark flannel and a Redondo Beach Fire Department baseball cap.

Years before his diagnosis, Pat Aust advocated to install a sprinkler system inside the care home. Now, he is a staple of the facility’s weekly car collector club, which Silverado staff decided to start after learning about his legendary passion for classic cars. “Part of me is fighting this, because I know that’s what my dad would do,” Jennifer Aust said. “My dad would do what was best for others, and I feel like I have to be his voice at this time.”
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Media Coverage of BCHD's Eviction of 100 Dementia Patients Below are links to damning media coverage of Beach Cities Health District's (BCHD) misguided financial transaction to evict 100 memory care and dementia patients to increase annual lease revenue by $250,000.

Peer-reviewed Research shows that Forced Eviction of memory care patients results in Early Death and Diminished Quality of Life
As a matter of scientific fact, publicly owned Beach Cities Health District, Redondo Beach, CA's action to displace 100 dementia care patients in order to net an $250,000 additional lease payment per year will cause their early death and quality of life reductions. See the peer reviewed studies below.

Eviction Caused by BCHD's Desire for $250,000 Net Increase in Lease Revenue per Year Beach Cities Health District in Redondo Beach, CA has recently made a decision to terminate the $1M per year lease of Silverado Memory Care and evict the 100 dementia patients housed there. BCHD will be replacing the lease with a Sunrise non-specialized, general assisted living facility for $1.25M per year. The "deal" by BCHD will increase lease revenue by a net $250,000 per year.

Eviction Causes Net Loss in Taxpayer Value
The Silverado advanced dementia and memory care facility occupies a 4-story wing of a taxpayer owned building for its $1M in annual rent payment. The new Sunrise facility will receive a 99-year, 5 acre grant of publicly owned land on the same site for its $1.25M. The land is valued at approximately $60M based on 2 estimates from BCHD's former investment bankers. The nearly century long loss of 5 acres of such expensive land creates a large net loss to taxpayers based on the option value of the land that land.

BCHD Claims that the Silverado Facility must be Demolished are False The health district has been making media claims that the building does not meet seismic standards and that it must be demolished. BCHD's own seismic consultants acknowledge that the building meets every applicable seismic code to provide up to 25 years of continued use under engineering best practices.

Further, the consultants acknowledge there are no requires for retrofit nor demolition. BCHD Board and CEO, with no engineering or seismic expertise, are displacing 100 dementia residents due to a desire to increase lease payments by $250,000 per year.
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Media Links to Beach Cities Health District's Eviction of 100 Dementia Patients in Redondo Beach, CA

1. Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times. (2026, July 9). Scores of LA dementia patients set to be evicted; families outraged. Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026- 07-09/scores-of-la-dementia-patients-set-to-be-evicted-families-outraged

2. Daily Mail Daily Mail. (2026). Dementia patients care home eviction Redondo Beach. Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15965299/dementia-patients-care-home-evictionredondo-beach.html

3. AOL AOL. (2026). Nearly 100 dementia patients
being... AOL. https://www.aol.com/articles/nearly-100-dementia-patients-being-120000000.html

4. Easy Reader News (Sunrise Selection) Meyer, G. (2026, June 8). Beach Cities Health District board chooses Sunrise to evict Silverado residents in one year. Easy Reader News. https://easyreadernews.com/beach-cities-health-district-board-chooses-sunrise-to-evictsilverado-residents-in-one-year

5. Easy Reader News (Developers Appeal) Meyer, G. (2026, July 2). Would-be BCHD campus developers appeal to Redondo Beach city council. Easy Reader News. https://easyreadernews.com/would-be-bchd-campus-developers-appeal-to-redondobeach-city-council

6. Easy Reader News (Silverado Families) Easy Reader News. (2026, May 26). Silverado families seek pause on new BCHD Redondo Beach redevelopment plan. Easy Reader News. https://easyreadernews.com/silverado-families-seek-pause-on-new-bchd-redondobeach-redevelopment-plan

7. Easy Reader News (Best Senior Care) Easy Reader News. (n.d.). Best senior care Silverado Beach Cities care community. Easy Reader News. https://easyreadernews.com/best-senior-caresilverado-beach-cities-care-community

8. Facebook (North Redondo Beach Group) North Redondo Beach. (2026). [Community post regarding BCHD / Silverado] [Facebook group post].

Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthRedondoBeach/posts/4368446236746970/

9. Streamline Feed Streamline Feed. (2026). Tragic eviction crisis threatens 100 dementia patients in Redondo Beach. Streamline Feed. https://streamlinefeed.co.ke/news/tragic-eviction-crisisthreatens-100-dementia-patients-in-redondo-beach 3 10. Lavender Hotels Lavender Hotels. (2026). Brutal math: Senior care evictions Redondo Beach.

Lavender Hotels Weddings. https://weddings.lavenderhotels.co.uk/brutal-math-senior-careevictions-redondo-beach

11.Instagram Post 1 Instagram. (2026). [Post regarding Redondo Beach senior care] [Instagram photo/video]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/DY0QuxTEqI0/

12.Silverado Senior Living Silverado. (n.d.). Silverado Beach Cities memory care community.

Silverado. https://www.silverado.com/silverado-bchd/

13.Instagram Post 2 Instagram. (2026). [Post regarding Silverado BCHD updates] [Instagram photo/video]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/DY2_87lSvx6/ Peer Reviewed Study Links to Early Death and Reduced Quality of Life for Memory Care and Dementia Patients from Transfer Trauma caused by Forced Relocation • Holder, J. M., & Jolley, D. (2012). Forced relocation between nursing homes: Residents' health outcomes and potential moderators. Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 22(4), 301–319. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959259812000147
• Robinson, V. (2002). A Brief Literature Review of the Effects of Relocation on the Elderly. Hospital Employees' Union.
• Ryman, F. V. M., Erisman, J. C., Darvey, L. M., Osborne, J., Swartsenburg, E., & Syurina, E. V. (2018). Health effects of the relocation of patients with dementia: A scoping review to inform medical and policy decision-making. The Gerontologist, 59(6), e674–e682. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gny031
• Walker, C., Curry, L. C., & Hogstel, M. O. (2007). Relocation stress syndrome in older adults transitioning from home to a long-term care facility: Myth or reality? Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 45(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.3928/02793695-20070101- 09 Seismic Best Practices Allow Up To 25 Years of Continued Silverado Facility Usage per BCHD Consultants
4 Silverado Annual Revenue Estimate (Base $64K/month + Utilities/Common $24K/month) According to formal Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) board financial audits and lease summaries, here are the credible details regarding the lease for Silverado Senior Living at 514 N. Prospect Avenue:
• Square Footage Leased: Silverado leases 35,008 square feet of the facility. • Monthly Base Rent: For the FY 2021/22 period, the monthly base rent paid by Silverado was $63,834.
• Annual Recognized Lease Revenue: BCHD recognized $766,008 in direct annual lease revenue from Silverado for that fiscal year (not including an additional $370,868 accounted for as interest revenue under governmental accounting standards). • Lease Term: The original agreement was dated May 18, 2006, and was slated to run through June 30, 2031.
2026 Lease Update: Note that following the BCHD Board's decision in May 2026 to proceed with Sunrise Senior Living for the campus redevelopment, an early termination clause was triggered. As part of the pre-agreed lease terms, Silverado entered a oneyear rent-free transition period beginning May 29, 2026, to facilitate resident relocation prior to the scheduled demolition of the 514 building.

The Operating Expense & Reimbursement Structure
According to the BCHD Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports (ACFR), the financial arrangement is not a pure "triple-net" lease where the tenant handles utilities entirely on their own meters; instead, it utilizes a shared reimbursement model:
• The Baseline Structure: At the inception of the lease agreement, the baseline payment of $24,382 per month was structured specifically to cover both the base building rent and a direct reimbursement to the District for common area operating expenses.
• The Escalation Cap: Both the base rent and the operating expense reimbursements are adjusted annually on a non-compounding basis, tied to the local Consumer Price Index (CPI), capped strictly at a maximum increase of 3% per year.
• The Variance Risk: Because the reimbursement portion is subject to that strict 3% annual CPI cap, BCHD bears the financial risk if actual utility costs spike. For instance, in subsequent mid-term budget cycles, BCHD explicitly noted that higher-than-budgeted utility costs across campus property operations frequently outpaced the capped rental revenue increases.

Sources:

Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports (ACFR)
The primary audited financial data—including the exact square footage, historical rent schedules, and GASB 87 revenue breakdowns—is published in the Beach Cities Health District Notes to the Basic Financial Statements (Leases section):
• FY 2021-22 Financial Report (Page 43 / Notes Page 69):
5 Documents the exact $63,834 monthly base rent for that specific fiscal period, the $766,008 recognized lease revenue, the $370,868 interest revenue standard entry, and the June 30, 2031 legal lease conclusion date. o Source URL: BCHD ACFR FY21-22 Final Report
• FY 2022-23 & FY 2023-24 Financial Reports:

Tracks the subsequent escalation of the base rent to $80,000 per month while carrying forward the historical 35,008 square footage baseline data. o Source URLs: BCHD ACFR FY22-23 Report | BCHD Financial Report FY24

2. Historical Operating and Baseline Expense Clauses
• FY 2012-13 and FY 2018 CAFR Asset Summaries:

Details the original May 18, 2006 lease execution, highlighting the initial monthly bundled floor of $38,126 established for both the base space rent and the dedicated common area operating expense reimbursements. o Source URL: BCHD CAFR 2018 Report Archive
Sunrise $1.25M Across 10 Years Credible Estimate from BCHD Presentations Based on the official proposal submitted by Sunrise Senior Living to the Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) for the Healthy Living Campus ground lease, the rent structure is tier-based during the construction and stabilization phases, followed by a fixed percentage escalation every 5 years.

Proposed Sunrise Ground Lease Schedule (Years 1–10)
The base ground lease rent starts at closing and follows this progression across the first decade:

Lease
Year Phase / Tier Annual Rent Payment
Monthly
Equivalent
Year 1 Initial Construction (Months 1–12) $500,000 $41,667 Year 2 Initial Construction (Months 13–24) $500,000 $41,667 Year 3 Mid-Construction Tier (Months 25–36) $750,000 $62,500 Year 4 Mid-Construction Tier (Months 37–48) $750,000 $62,500 6 Lease
Year Phase / Tier Annual Rent Payment
Monthly
Equivalent
Year 5 Stabilized Operations Base (Year 1) $1,250,000 $104,167 Year 6 Stabilized Operations Base (Year 2) $1,250,000 $104,167 Year 7 Stabilized Operations Base (Year 3) $1,250,000 $104,167 Year 8 Stabilized Operations Base (Year 4) $1,250,000 $104,167 Year 9 Stabilized Operations Base (Year 5) $1,250,000 $104,167 Year 10 Post-Stabilization Escalation (7.5%
Increase)* $1,343,750 $111,979
Total First 10 Years Cumulative Revenue $9,593,750 (Approx. $10M 1 Khatirah Nazif
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BCHD should have affirmative policies that REQUIRE all NON-RESIDENTS to pay their FULLY LOADED COST OF SERVICES. Residents should not be subsidized one penny (yes, I know your CEO despises accounting to the penny, but that's his problem) of RESIDENT TAXPAYER FUNDING. Not ONE CENT. All fully loaded costs MUST be borne by non-resident users of the facilities and programs.

Despite a NO vote on Measure BC, BCHD is now going to FORCE taxpayers to pay the overcharges on the ALLCOVE building.

ONLY CARE MANAGEMENT has a residency test. ALL PROGRAMS SHOULD HAVE A RESIDENCY TEST FOR FREE SERVICES, otherwise, non-residents pay FULLY LOADED costs.

BCHD's absurd policy is a akin to the City paving potholes in Torrance and Hermosa Beach because Redondo Beach drivers might hit them. BCHD Board completely ignores its fiduciary responsibility to its taxpayers.
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Subject: Public Comment: Full Text of BCHD's Eviction of 100 Silverado Dementia Patients The Bhavnish Kakkar (International Media - July 12, 2026) SHOCKING! Families Outraged as Nearly 100 Dementia Patients Face Eviction from Beach Cities Health District Public Agency for Luxury Redevelopment
Families in California are expressing anger after the Beach Cities Health District voted to demolish the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community in Redondo Beach for a major luxury redevelopment project. Nearly 100 dementia patients must leave by the end of a year, despite earlier assurances that residents would remain secure during the redevelopment. Relatives warn that relocating vulnerable patients could seriously affect their health and say suitable care options are limited. Officials argue the new Sunrise Senior Living project will provide broader long-term community benefits, but many families believe the decision prioritizes profits and excessive executive salaries over the well-being of elderly residents.
36% of the entire Beach Cities Health District employee labor budget goes to 13 executives, while 70 full time and another 50 to 100 part time employees share the other 64%. Beach Cities Health District has the highest executive overheads of any California health district and has double the number of executives a the cities within the District. From a budget perspective 20% of the total agency budget pays executive salaries, an amount that is also the highest of all California health agencies. 1 Khatirah Nazif
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Subject: Public Comment: Estimated Cost of Use of Sunrise Assisted Living at BCHD Categories: Khatirah
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Since BCHD either will not, or cannot, provide the expected costs of the proposed Sunrise facility that is allegedly benefiting Redondo Beach residents, we have done the analysis.

The following estimate was created by the enterprise version of ChatGPT.

The $10,750 estimate assumes that the new BCHD facility is priced similarly to Sunrise of Orange after inflation. Because it would be a new, premium coastal South Bay facility, Sunrise could impose an opening-market premium. A prudent budget figure would therefore be:
$11,000 to $12,000 per month for an average resident in 2029 That equates to approximately $132,000 to $144,000 annually, excluding any substantial one-time community or entrance fee.

Sunrise Expected Cost Detail
Estimated 2029 cost for the proposed BCHD Sunrise facility Using the prior estimate of $8,900 per month in 2026 dollars for an average Sunrise assisted-living resident, my best planning estimate for 2029 is:

Approximately $10,750 per month
Approximately $129,000 per year
I used 6.5% annual assisted-living cost inflation for three years.

Why 6.5%?
2 Recent assisted-living inflation has been substantially higher than general CPI:
• National assisted-living costs rose 21.6% from 2022 through 2025, equivalent to about 6.7% annually. (CareScout)
• The national median increased from $51,600 in 2020 to $74,400 in 2025, an annualized increase of approximately 7.6%. (Genworth Financial, Inc.)
• Annual changes have been volatile: 1.4% in 2023, 10% in 2024 and 5% in 2025. (Genworth Financial, Inc.)
• California assisted-living costs rose 18% in 2024 alone, reaching a statewide median of $88,200 annually. That one-year increase is probably not sustainable as a long-term assumption, but it shows the pressure in California’s market. (Genworth Financial, Inc.) A 6.5% assumption is therefore slightly below the recent five-year national trend but above ordinary consumer inflation, reflecting labor-intensive care, insurance, food, utilities, regulatory costs and Southern California real-estate expenses.
2029 projection
Cost component 2026 estimate Estimated 2029 cost
Studio base rent, meals and standard amenities $5,563 $6,720 Personal-care services $2,400 $2,900
Medication management $650 $785
Supplies and incidentals $250–$300 $300–$360
Estimated average monthly total About $8,900 About $10,750 Annual total $106,800 About $129,000
The components may not inflate at identical rates. Labor-heavy care services could rise faster than apartment rent, but the blended estimate is appropriate for planning.

Sensitivity range
Annual assisted-living inflation Estimated 2029 monthly cost Annual cost 4% $10,010 $120,100
5% $10,303 $123,600

6.5% — best estimate $10,751 $129,000
8% $11,211 $134,500
10% $11,846 $142,200
Likely resident-cost range in 2029
Resident profile Estimated monthly total
Fairly independent, minimal personal care $8,000–$9,200 Average assisted-living resident $10,000–$11,500
3 Resident profile Estimated monthly total
One-bedroom with moderate care $12,000–$14,000
Extensive personal assistance $13,000–$16,000+
Private memory care $14,000–$19,000+
Important qualification
The BCHD-Sunrise proposal remains in the entitlement and agreement process. BCHD states that construction could begin in the second half of 2027, but a firm opening date and final pricing have not yet been published. (Beach Cities Health District)
The $10,750 estimate assumes that the new BCHD facility is priced similarly to Sunrise of Orange after inflation. Because it would be a new, premium coastal South Bay facility, Sunrise could impose an opening-market premium. A prudent budget figure would therefore be:
$11,000 to $12,000 per month for an average
resident in 2029
That equates to approximately $132,000 to $144,000 annually, excluding any substantial one-time community or entrance fee.
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Castle; Brad Waller; Zein Obagi; Scott Behrendt; Paige Kaluderovic; info; [email protected]; TRAO News
Subject: Public Comment All Agencies: If Sunrise REQUIRES FAR 1.25 to continue, it's not building JUST 217 Units - IS BCHD LYING TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT SOMETHING?
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PUBLIC COMMENT
BCHD told the public that Sunrise would build to FAR 0.73 (see 10/31/25). IT SEEMS LIKE BCHD has made a secret deal with SUNRISE for another 200 Sunrise units in the future. (or something of that magnitude) WHY ELSE would Sunrise want to be able to build an extra 250,000 SF at a later time with a FAR 1.25? Why would SUNRISE walk as Bakaly claimed in his public testimony at the City Council?
This is all based on BCHD information from a public meeting, Bakaly's claim at a public meeting, and the City's planning documents that ONLY EXAMINED a SPOT UPZONING of BCHD to FAR 1.25 in the entire P-I. Other P-CF was NOT set to FAR 1.25. It is de facto SPOT ZONING. There's no reason to believe that Sunrise has any role in any of this BCHD misinformation. SECRET DEALS BY PUBLIC AGENCIES ARE ILLEGAL, RIGHT?
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Here is BCHD CEO Bakaly speaking at the 7/7/26 Redondo Council meeting representing that Sunrise considered using the FAR 1.25 in its proposal will likely terminate for cause if the City reduces the FAR. That implies Sunrise wants over 540,000 sf of space (the implication of a 1.25 FAR) for 214 assisted living units, or 2500-sf each. That is not even remotely plausible. It seems MUCH MORE LIKELY BAKALY and SUNRISE has some sort of back door plan for expansion that is BEING WITHHELD. Here is full text of BCHD CEO Bakaly speaking at the 7/7/26 Council meeting https://youtu.be/c84JAlOnE9k?t=19341 Short summary - BCHD has been lying to the public all along about the size of the Sunrise development. Bakaly told the City Council that Sunrise considered having a full 1.25 FAR in its proposal and would probably walk if the FAR was reduced.

That Implies that Sunrise expects in some future phase to require up to 570,000 sf of development.

The entire campus is currently only 312,000 sf. THERE IS NO REASON FOR SUNRISE TO REQUIRE AN FAR OF 1.25 BASED ON ANY OF THE APPARENTLY FALSE REPRESENTATIONS OF BCHD AND ITS BOARD AND EXECUTIVES. TRANSCRIPT: BCHD Bakaly at 7/7/26 City Council Meeting Good evening, Mayor and Council. Tom Beckley, CEO of the Beach Cities Health District.

Uh, I want to thank you for your January direction to adopt the same F for large public instit institutional parcels in the general plan. Uh, this is consistent with the city's EIR uh that showed no significant impact uh from doing that when you gave that direction back in January. Um, that January direction provides certainty for the 05:22:48 community and partners. Um, Sunrise, uh, who is currently the developer that we're working with, uh, took that into account when they made their proposal, uh, that includes public amenities such as a pool that would be available to the public, uh, through the Center for Health and Fitness. Uh, reducing, uh, the FAR, as we've heard tonight, um, from some of our youth, um, would impact, um, our ability to bring in developers. I think it's likely that Sunrise would leave um if the FAR was 05:23:19 reduced and that would thus uh impact uh our budget and by to the tune of about 1.5 million. So, Sunrise u looked at this when they uh made their proposal uh here recently. Uh the details of their proposal will be known in the fall and so that's something when they formally apply and so everybody will get a good look at that. I think maybe people are jumping to conclusions or perhaps uh speculating about what that could be. Uh and so uh in the fall people will know exactly what they're proposing when they 05:23:55 make uh that application. Um so our um hope is that we can move forward um that we make the voting process 4 simple uh and easy to understand and that we ensure uh that public institutions remain able to meet community needs today and in the future uh and the health district would uh support uh the motion as made. Thank you. >> So you support separating it out and voting separately at another time >> given given where you are? Yes, we support that. >> Okay. Thank you./ 1 Khatirah Nazif
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Nearly 100 dementia patients are being evicted from their Redondo Beach home. Why it’s sparking outrage
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Pat Aust sits in the living room with fellow residents at Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community. 3 Pat Aust, a former Redondo Beach fire chief, pictured with fellow residents at the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community, which is set to close.

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See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Jennifer Aust’s heart is breaking.

Her whole life, she watched her dad, Pat, give back to the South Bay community he was raised in. He joined the Redondo Beach Fire Department in 1970 and held nearly every rank inside the department — including chief — before retiring in 2002.

Then came eight years as a City Council member. Finally, he was on the board of a healthcare district that leases land to a care home for seniors with dementia — a muchloved community resource that has, in a tragic twist of fate, become his own home.

Now that same board is evicting Aust and nearly 100 other patients from the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community.

Families are furious. They say there are not enough facilities in the region that can provide the specialized care their loved ones need, and they worry that the forced move poses serious health threats.
4 “When I think of how he’s being treated by elected leaders now, I think he would be so mad and disappointed because he had so much passion for this community,” Jennifer Aust said.

She can only speculate on how her father would feel. Neither he nor most of the other patients who live at the home have the cognitive ability to understand what’s happening to them.
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Jennifer A ust dances with her father at Silverado.
6 Jennifer Aust dances with her father Pat at Silverado.

On May 27, the Beach Cities Health District board of directors voted to move forward with a redevelopment plan for its 11-acre Redondo Beach campus that will permanently close Silverado. Within the next year, all the residents will need to leave.

Dr. David Presser, an emergency medicine physician, wrote a letter urging the district to spare Silverado. Moving patients with Alzheimer’s disease, he said, is associated with “behavioral destabilization, increased agitation, accelerated functional decline and a higher likelihood of acute care utilization.”
“Continuity of caregivers, physical environment, and routine are not merely quality-of-life considerations for this population,” he wrote, “they are clinically meaningful protective factors.”
Local families are concerned about how far they will have to travel to find appropriate care.
“We’ve called around to a lot of the local memory care places and in total there were around two dozen beds available in South Bay,” said Nicole Purohit, whose mother lives in Silverado. “It’s creating a little bit of a public health crisis.” 7 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.

Nicole Purhoit chats with caregiver Jay Splung while visiting her mother Annette Rippe. 8 Nicole Purohit chats with caregiver Jay Splung while visiting her mother, Annette Rippe, at Silverado.

Long-planned project but a sudden twist
The health district has been planning to redevelop its healthcare campus for about a decade to replace aging and seismically vulnerable buildings with facilities that will provide a range of community health and wellness services.

The looming project was why Purohit was nervous to move her mother into Silverado last winter. But then came a letter signed by health district Chief Executive Tom Bakaly. “For families who are considering a move into Silverado Memory Care at Beach Cities today, please know that you can do so with confidence,” the Dec. 23 letter stated. “Residents who move in now will be secure in their care and will continue to have access to a Silverado bed throughout the redevelopment process.”
Purohit’s mother, Annette Rippe, already had to leave two other care homes that couldn’t cater to her behavioral needs. But Purohit took the letter to heart and moved her mom in, watching with relief as she thrived under Silverado’s specialized and attentive care. 9 To help protect your priv acy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.

Residents Marlene Naraghi and Cathy Stewart dance together during happy hour. 10 Silverado residents Marlene Naraghi, left, and Cathy Stewart dance together during happy hour entertainment.
“I was 100% feeling that this was going to be the last time I had to move my mom — that she was going to be able to live out the rest of her years here,” she said.

Presser, the emergency medicine physician, said Silverado’s care model of catering solely to dementia patients and having clinical nurses on site 24/7 sets it apart from most other facilities and reduces how often residents need to go to the emergency room. “The gap they fill is not abstract,” Presser wrote. “It is the difference between appropriate, stable placement and a revolving door of hospitalizations, psychiatric admissions, and failed care transitions.”
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Christian Horvath and Reese Charfen-Horvath during the Beach Cities Health District board of directors meeting. 12 Christian Horvath and daughter Reese Charfen-Horvath, 17, were among those pushing to preserve the memory care facility at a May 27 Beach Cities Health District board of directors meeting.

(Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times)
‘The hard and, I think, right decision’
Wearing navy blue “Save Silverado” T-shirts and badges bearing the same message, more than two dozen members of the public packed into the Beach Cities Health District board of directors’ May 27 meeting to make a desperate appeal to preserve the beloved facility.

The district had issued a request for proposals from developers interested in leading the campus redevelopment last June. Of the 12 submissions received, the board initially favored working with Continental Development and Mar Ventures on a plan that would keep Silverado on the site.

However, the terms of that proposal “changed significantly” after negotiations began in January, reducing the board’s confidence in the project, according to a district spokesperson. Changes included a longer project timeline, uncertainty over whether the developers could provide community amenities such as a pool and less profitable ground lease terms, according to the district.

Continental Development executive Bob Tarnofsky said the team learned about “previously undisclosed higher decommissioning and demolition costs, a more complicated approval process, and greater environmental risk mitigation” after submitting the proposal.

Nonetheless, he said the team remained confident it could complete the project. “Yes, our proposal had nominal additional costs and may have taken a little more time,” he said. “But we feel strongly that it was a better solution to significantly upgrade the existing healthcare and memory care services provided to our South Bay community.” In February, the board pivoted and entered negotiations with Sunrise Senior Living, whose proposal is more profitable, has a faster timeline and provides more space for community amenities, according to the district.
13 The board determined that the ground lease terms proposed by Sunrise would bring in greater profit throughout the 99-year lease, helping fund the district’s free programs for residents of Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach for years to come.

Sunrise, for its part, views Silverado as a competitor and is not interested in partnering on the redevelopment project. The company will instead build its own senior home on the site with a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care units. “We are confident that Sunrise’s breadth of offerings will serve the needs of this community well,” said Philip Kroskin, head of real estate and senior vice president of investments at Sunrise. The company is “partnering with BCHD to provide direct support to residents and team members impacted by the upcoming community transition.” Ultimately, the board determined that the long-term community benefits of the Sunrise project outweighed the short-term pain of displacing Silverado residents. “That was one of the harder meetings I’ve been in, because our friends are there, parents of friends of mine are there, a former board member of the district is in Silverado,” Bakaly told The Times. “At the end of the day, the board made the hard and, I think, right decision.”
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Christian Horvath kisses his father-in-law Alex Charfen goodbye. 15 Christian Horvath, left, kisses father-in-law Alex Charfen goodbye at the Redondo Beach memory care facility.
‘I have to be his voice’
The families relying on the specialized care at Silverado disagree.

Christian Horvath, whose father-in-law lives in Silverado, said as a former Redondo Beach City Council member he understands the challenges of navigating complicated development proposals.

Nonetheless, he believes the board was too quick to jump ship when the initial development proposal — which would have kept Silverado on-site — became more complicated.
“I feel like they are rushing and just want to get it done,” he said. “But getting it done doesn’t mean it’s getting done well.”
Although Beach Cities Health District has entered a ground lease agreement with Sunrise, the project still needs to advance through several layers of city approval before it can break ground.

For now, many of the Silverado families are trying to figure out their next steps — and aren’t abandoning hope that something can be done to save the care home. “There needs to be accountability here,” said Jennifer Wade, whose stepmother lives in Silverado. “We’re talking about people who cannot advocate for themselves, most of them live in a constant state of confusion but have stability where they are.” Jennifer Aust visits her father as much as she can at Silverado, where he can be found wearing his trademark flannel and a Redondo Beach Fire Department baseball cap.

Years before his diagnosis, Pat Aust advocated to install a sprinkler system inside the care home. Now, he is a staple of the facility’s weekly car collector club, which Silverado staff decided to start after learning about his legendary passion for classic cars. “Part of me is fighting this, because I know that’s what my dad would do,” Jennifer Aust said. “My dad would do what was best for others, and I feel like I have to be his voice at this time.”
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