New to Long Beach City government is the recent practice of agenda items popping up in Council Committees sans the Council referring the matter to the Committe for discussion.
Consider my recent proposal to limit management salary increases to no more than the Consumer Price Index (CPI) — cost of living. I brought it to the […]

I am placing several items on the January 22nd Council agenda aimed at dealing with some of the serious financial and environmental problems facing the City of Long Beach, including a proposal to increase the transfer of Port of Long Beach funds and allow use of a portion of the transferred funds for non-tidelands area […]

I just finished a two day “retreat” with my 5th District council staff — at our conference room in our Neighborhood Office building and at the conference room at the Long Beach Airport administrative building.
We reviewed what we accomplished last year and then mapped out month by month for 2008, what we hope to accomplish. […]

If you count the number of hot dogs and hamburgers cooked and given out yesterday, 1,000 people attended the first Annual Good Neighbor Festival and Picnic at El Dorado Park near the Senior Center. (Thanks to the Long Beach Police Officers Association for cooking hamburgers — and then going to get more when they ran […]

The local press recently made an inquiry of the City Manager’s office as to why a resident of my district had not received a response to his “year long complaint” that a tree at his address was creating extensive damage to the property owner’s driveway.
  

The inquiry was a surprise to me and my staff because […]

Yes, it is hot outside. But the heat I am talking about are the number of emails and postings on listserves from Long Beach residents who are angry at the City Council.
Why you ask? Well, could it be that just as it is disclosed in the local press that the number of City employees earning over […]

Yesterday in City Council, I had the privilege to honor Howard Brooks a City of Long Beach employee who while doing his job did a very honorable thing. 
Mr. Brooks works in Environmental Services and picks up trash. One day, while loading a trash bin he noticed a “wad of bills” on the ground. Instead of […]