1760 Ocean Avenue Starting from Santa Monica, CA 90401 310.393.6711 $ Parking | Kitchenettes | WiFi Available 88 BOOK DIRECT AND SAVE SeaviewHotel.com + Taxes TUESDAY Rotary News Voters’ right to choose Updates from the local Appointing or choosing a club. new councilperson? 07.14.20 Page 5 Page 7 Volume 19 Issue 201 @smdailypress @smdailypress Santa Monica Daily Press smdp.com CORONAVIRUS CASES (1WkChg) LA County Daily Deaths 80 SANTA MONICA LA COUNTY CALIFORNIA USA WORLDWIDE 60 40 508 +14%136,129 +17% 326,676+20%3,318,347 +14% 13,033,817+13% 20 SMDP Graphic-Data from Johns Hopkins, WHO, LA County Public Health Mar 10 Jul 12 First candidates pull paperwork to run for local election MATTHEW HALL school board members and three council will have to choose between SMDP Editor trustees for Santa Monica College. the four year and two year seats On the City Council, incumbents when filing their applications. Santa Monica’s 2020 election Gleam Davis, Terry O’Day, Ana Rent Control Commissioners season officially began Monday Jara and Ted Winterer are up for Anastasia Foster and Caroline when Merviendo Andika became reelection. While the first four Torosis are up for election on the the first person to pull papers to run seats are full four-year terms, the Rent Control Board. Both women for City Council. fifth is for a two year term to fill pulled paperwork on the first day. In November, local voters will the remaining time created when The three School Board members choose five councilmembers, two Greg Morena resigned his position rent control commissioners, three in June. Candidates running for SEE ELECTION PAGE 11 SMMUSD to announce reopening plan for Fall 2020 on Thursday BRENNON DIXSON plan detailing the district’s reopening and early last week. Discussion on SMDP Staff Writer plan for the Fall 2020 semester. the Major Action Item is expected The planned presentation to last approximately 180 minutes, The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified will include information about according to Thursday’s agenda, School District is scheduled to hold SMMUSD’s reopening plan and which lists a number of other its first meeting of the new academic the results of a parent survey, which items set to be discussed Thursday year this Thursday, and the board of were recently highlighted during the education is expected to approve a district’s town hall events in June SEE REOPENING PAGE 6 California shuts bars, indoor dining and most gyms, churches ADAM BEAM AND KATHLEEN nation’s most populated state. Monday. He also imposed additional RONAYNE On July 1, Newsom ordered 19 restrictions on the 30 counties now Associated Press counties with a surging number with rising numbers, including the Sammy Neustadt of confirmed infections to close most populated of Los Angeles and CONSTRUCTION: Installation of a significant sculptural art- California Gov. Gavin Newsom bars and indoor operations at San Diego, by ordering worship work by Metro-commissioned artist Walter Hood resumed last week at on Monday extended the closure of restaurants, wineries, zoos and family services to stop and gyms, hair the corner of 4th and Colorado. Construction is slated through fall at bars and indoor dining statewide entertainment centers like bowling salons, indoor malls and offices for the west end of the Downtown Santa Monica Station. Intermittent east- and ordered gyms, churches and alleys and miniature golf. noncritical industries to shut down. erly sidewalk and northbound 4th St lane closures will take place. The hair salons closed in most places as The Democratic governor artwork is tentatively scheduled for completion sometime in Fall 2020. coronavirus cases keep rising in the extended that order statewide SEE COVID-19 PAGE 11 News 2 TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2020 Visit us online at www.smdp.com Immigration courts reopen 4 charged in Los Angeles despite rising coronavirus cases death of rising rapper Pop REGINA GARCIA CANO AND JULIE WATSON courtrooms are safe, said Ashley Tabbador, Associated Press a Los Angeles-based immigration judge speaking in her capacity as president of the Three immigration courts reopened National Association of Immigration Judges Smoke Monday as the government extended its union. push to fully restart the clogged system “We keep coming back to ‘what numbers JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. would not name, and at least some of them despite rising coronavirus cases in states are you using?’” she said. “They seem to be AP Entertainment Writer are believed to be linked to a 2019 homicide where many of the small courtrooms are out of touch with the state numbers we are when a fight escalated into a shooting outside located. seeing .” Two men and two teens have been charged the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. In Baltimore, people with hearings to Judges in Dallas have contacted the union, in the death of rising rapper Pop Smoke Authorities did not initially believe the reach final decisions were allowed to enter concerned their health is being put at risk. who was killed during a Los Angeles home- rapper’s death was related to a robbery. the federal building housing the immigration The union represents about 460 immigration invasion robbery in February, the district The home where the shooting occurred is court only if they wore masks. Benches in a judges who work more than 65 courts. attorney’s office said Monday. owned by Edwin Arroyave and his wife Teddi courtroom and seats in a waiting area were “People don’t have trust that the agency is Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey Mellencamp, a star of “The Real Housewives blocked off with tape, and social distancing doing the right thing,” Tabbador said. said in a statement that Corey Walker and of Beverly Hills” and the daughter of Rock & signs were placed on the floor and elevators. The agency said it continually reviews Keandre Rodgers were charged with murder Roll Hall-of-Famer John Mellencamp. But scheduling hearings, which guidance from the Justice Department, the that occurred during the commission of a Teddi Mellencamp previously said on can include dozens of people in a single Centers for Disease Control and Prevention robbery and burglary. The two male juveniles Instagram that the couple had been notified courtroom, did not take place Monday. and other federal agencies in making were also charged with murder and robbery of the shooting at their rental property but Courts in Newark and Detroit also were pandemic-related operational decisions. while in juvenile court. knew no more than what they had seen in scheduled to reopen Monday. The reopenings “Consistent with public health officials’ The 20-year-old New York rapper, whose media reports. extend a haphazard but unmistakable march guidance, EOIR has implemented practices legal name is Bashar Barakah Jackson, was Pop Smoke arrived on the rap scene in to business as usual that has outraged judges to help to protect all people working in killed Feb. 19 at a home in the Hollywood 2018 and broke out with “Welcome to the and lawyers who say the pandemic poses and visiting EOIR spaces throughout the Hills. A 911 call from a friend of someone in Party” a gangsta anthem with boasts about unacceptable risk of spreading disease. country,” spokeswoman Kathryn Mattingly the house reported armed intruders inside the shootings, killings and drugs that became a The Justice Department’s Executive Office said in an email. home, police previously said. huge sensation, and prompted Nicki Minaj to for Immigration Review started reopening In conjunction with the reopening, the Walker, 19, and Rodgers, 18, face the death drop a verse on a remix. courts over the past month to non-detained government is going to stop allowing the penalty or life in prison without the possibility Earlier this year, Pop Smoke released the immigrants, first in Honolulu on June 15 and electronic filing of documents, which it had of parole if convicted. Both are expected to be mixtape “Meet the Woo 2,” which debuted over the next three weeks in Boston; Buffalo, done as a precaution to prevent the spread arraigned Monday. at No. 7 on the Billboard Top 200 albums New York; Hartford, Connecticut; Las of the virus. Jaquan Murphy, 21, was also arrested in chart. It was the follow up to his first official Vegas; New Orleans; Chicago; Cleveland; The agency is requiring face coverings connection to the incident last week. The release, “Meet the Woo.” The rapper also had and Philadelphia. and social distancing, but it has not shared complaint includes gang and gun allegations. the popular hit “Gatti” with Travis Scott and Changes have been frequent and last its safety protocols, such as what will be Capt. Jonathan Tippet, who oversees Jackboys and “Dior.” minute. done if someone shows up with no mask, the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite His major label debut album, “Shoot for Dallas reopened June 29 but, five days Tabbador said. Robbery-Homicide Division, said three men the Stars Aim for the Moon,” was executive later, the agency announced on Twitter that Immigration courts are often housed and two teenage boys likely went to the home produced by 50 Cent. It was released it was closing until July 17 and gave no in office buildings — not courthouses — because they knew Pop Smoke was there from posthumously July 3 to mostly positive reviews explanation. Texas has been reporting a making it particularly difficult for people social media posts. They stole items from and features appearances from popular artists record number of coronavirus cases, and to spread apart because the rooms are the home, though Tippet said he could not including Future, DaBaby and Quavo. its governor has warned the state may have small, Tabbador said, adding that there is divulge what was taken.