Cerritos Kids Fight Cancer One Cup at a Time La Mirada City Council Approves Budget, More by Tammye Mcduff
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Serving Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Commerce, Downey, Hawaiian Gardens, Lakewood, Norwalk, and Pico Rivera • 86,000 Homes Every Friday • June 19, 2015 • Volume 30, No. 16 • LosCerritosNews.net COMMERCE COUNCILMAN ALTAMIRANO MONTEBELLO CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE COULD PAY $110,000 IN CAMPAIGN FINES VANESSA DELGADO HAS TIES TO TOM CALDERON Councilman racks up 22 Political from January 2012 to December 2013 in Delgado also just recently CN discovered that Delgado, who began Reform Act violations. documents obtained by HMG-CN via the registered to vote in Montebello. looking for and eventually bought the Freedom of Information Act. house in Montebello in June of 2014, re- By Brian Hews Baca Del Rio Violations By Brian Hews cently registered to vote in Montebello Commerce Mayor pro tem Tina Baca just weeks before the filing deadline for A Hews-Media Group-Commu- Del Rio was fined $26,000 A Hews-Media Group- City Council candidates. nity News investigation has found for campaign finance ir- Community News inves- The relationship with Tom Cal- that current Commerce Council- regularities in 2011, tigation has found that deron was discovered via a recent man Ivan Altamirano, similar to charged with seven Vanessa Delgado, campaign flyer where Ms. Delgado HMG-CN exclusively reporting counts of violating HMG-CN the recently declared listed the location of her June 11, two weeks ago about Commerce campaign finance candidate for Mon- 2015 fundraiser as the “Delgado laws that occurred Residence” at 412 N. 10th Street, Mayor pro tem Tina Baca Del Rio’s Ivan Altamirano INVESTIGATIONS tebello City Council Vanessa Delgado 25 violations and possible $125,000 between 2007 and supported by current Montebello, Ca. 90640. in fines, is in violation of 21 laws related 2009. Montebello City Councilman A search on the address re- to the Political Reform Act (PRA) and is In their 2011 decision, the Jack Hadjinian, a candidate vealed the house was owned by Tom facing up to $105,000 in fines from the FPPC slammed Baca Del Rio who touts herself as a “Montebello Calderon, sold to Ms. Delgado on August Enforcement Division of the Fair Political saying, “Baca Del Rio received and home owner and a product of the lo- 8, 2014 for $555,000, well under market ignored repeated notifications and re- Practices Commission (FPPC). cal community,” has personal ties with value in the area. minders from the City Clerk of the City HMG-CN has learned that Altamira- the Calderon family, and in particular When questioned by email about pur- of Commerce concerning her obliga- no, Baca Del Rio, and current Commerce with former California Assemblyman chasing the house from Tom Calderon, tions to file campaign statements cov- Mayor Lilia Leon basically ran together Tom Calderon, who was indicted for Delgado responded, “my broker did the ering a period of July 1, 2005 to Febru- and were paying for each other’s cam- bribery and money laundering charges entire transaction, I had no idea who the ary 14, 2009. This indicates a pattern paign expenses. along with his brother Ron in 2014. owner was.” The violations cover the time period In the same investigation, HMG- See ALTAMIRANO page 10 See DELGADO page 10 La Palma Council Cerritos Kids Fight Cancer One Cup At A Time La Mirada City Council Approves Budget, More By Tammye McDuff. Adopts Balanced Budget Cuts in City Services Emphasizes public safety and capital improvements. By Rico Dizon Staff Report In a 3-2 vote, the La Palma City Coun- cil, during its June 16 meeting, finally ap- The La Mirada City Council has ap- proved the City Budget for 2015-16 fiscal proved the City’s budget for Fiscal Year year, but not without massive reductions 2015-16. Developed using the City’s in city services and the critical comments conservative approach to revenue fore- from former City Council members Ralph casting and prudent fiscal management, Rodriguez and Keith Nelson. the budget maintains public safety as the Rodriguez slammed city officials say- City’s top priority and also plans for a ro- ing, "it is pretty hard to follow the coun- bust capital improvements schedule. cil's discussions on the budget and I feel The City continues to offer basic ser- for every one of you. There is, however, a vices delivered by a dedicated staff that lack of leadership, most especially in Fi- remains 30 percent below historic staff- nance and Public Works." The ‘cool kids’ of Cerritos with their lemonade stand set up to raise funds to fight cancer ing levels. The City also continues to use For his part, Nelson had repeatedly in the memory of Alex Scott who died of neuroblastoma in 2004, they raised $695.00. contracted services to achieve cost effi- voiced his now infamous line, "If you are Shown are Alyson, Adrienne, Chris, Josiah and Josie. Photo by Tammye McDuff. ciencies while meeting the needs of the not afraid, what would you do to address community. the budget issue." Alexandra "Alex" Scott was born to ade stand to raise money for her doctors The General Fund operating revenues Mayor Pro Tem Gerard Goedhart Liz and Jay Scott in Manchester, Con- and help find a cure. for the 2015-16 fiscal year are projected at could not resist but to respond after a necticut on January 18, 1996, the second Her first “Alex’s Lemonade Stand” $40,630,059 with expenditures budgeted five-minute break called by Mayor Peter of four children. Shortly before her first was created, and, with the help of her at $40,547,158, including transfers. Kim. "It is quite insulting for Mr. Rodri- birthday, Alex was diagnosed with neu- older brother Patrick, raised an aston- “The adopted budget meets ser- guez to insinuate that the City Staff, who roblastoma, a type of childhood cancer. ishing $2,000 in one day. While bravely vice needs and ensures La Mirada remains prepared the budget, are not as proficient When she turned four, she told her parents fighting the disease, Alex continued to set a safe and thriving community,” says City she wanted to set up a front-yard lemon- up lemonade stands every year. She cre- Manager Jeff Boynton. “City finances are See LA PALMA page 13 See CERRITOS KIDS page 13 See LA MIRADA page 13 La Palma Intercommunity Hospital We are a full service, t)PVS&NFSHFODZ4FSWJDFT general acute care t#FIBWJPSBM.FEJDJOF t.BUFSOJUZ4FSWJDFT hospital and have been t$PNQSFIFOTJWF8PVOE$BSF a part of the t$BSEJBD$BUIFUFSJ[BUJPO community since 1971. -BCPSBUPSZ 7901 WALKER STREET | LA PALMA, CA 90623 00254.081611 (714) 670-7400 00254.110909 2 JUNE 19, 2015 HewsMediaGroup.com TO ADVERTISE CALL 562-407-3873 ed Porto’s for holding the KNX broadcast KNX Radio 'On Your in the bakery stating that since 2010 the bakery has served a constant 6,000 visi- tors daily. Corner' Visits Porto’s The new 77 acre shopping Promenade was discussed with its many new restau- Bakery in Downey rants, businesses, movie theater and hos- pital offices. Particular mention was made By Tammye McDuff of the upcoming Special Olympics being held this July. The City is host to now 141 Frank Mottek is the voice of news in delegates from Ireland, celebrating their Los Angeles. An award-winning broad- connection with sister City Roscommon, cast journalist with more than 25 years Ireland of experience, Frank currently anchors Trombley was unfortunately unable the business reports on CBS station KNX to attend the broadcast; however Execu- 1070 NEWSRADIO and hosts the KNX tive Director Gale Courtney stated that the Business Hour, the number one source for Chamber was robust touting 450 members, business and consumer news in Southern and twice as many volunteers. Courtney California, which spent Friday afternoon complimented Porto’s on their continued broadcasting from Porto’s Bakery. support and involvement with the numer- Porto’s was unusually packed as pa- ous nonprofit organizations within the Frank Mottek [left] hosting the KNX Business Hour live at Porto's Bakery in Downey. trons eagerly anticipated the Business city, stating that they also support the arts KNX "On Your Corner" was at Porto's from 1 pm-7 pm this past Friday. In the back- Hour featuring Mayor Luis Marquez, and business community. ground left is owner Betty Porto. Photo by Tammye McDuff. Chamber of Commerce President Eliza- Responding to Mottek’s question about beth Trombley, and Porto’s own Betty the largest employers in the City, Court- United States noting, “if you don’t have a passion for what you do, you should move Porto. ney replied “Kaiser is one of our largest on.” Porto announced the official opening of two new stores in Buena Park and West Marquez discussed the economic employers and they are very generous Covina in 2016, the first store being opened in Glendale and the second in Burbank, boom and development that the City is in generous with resources and chamber making Downey store number three. Porto commented, “Downey has been an incred- currently experiencing saying,”We took a staff, with the next largest being the Coca- ible experience for doing business, they have really opened their hearts to us.” Mottek look at our business plan for the City and Cola bottling Company reciprocating in asked Porto what her thoughts were on the changes occurring in Cuba and their relation- revamped some of the rules and regula- the same manner. ship with the United States, Porto stated, “That is a very hard subject for anyone that ran tions to become a more business friendly Betty Porto gave a brief description away from Castro.