Who Will Win the Council Race? Ready for Takeoff
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briefs • Candidates Exchange Barbs at briefs • Council Undecided on briefs • City Council Approves Municipal League Candidate Forum Page 3 Additional Sales Tax Page 3 Friars Club Site EIR Page 3 Issue 1063 • February 13 - February 19, 2020 Ready for Takeoff Who Will Win Recreation and Parks The Council Commission Chair Julian Javor on Park Signage, Intramural Race? Sports, and Pet Pilots • Page 6 Our Election Editorial • Page 7 of two nine-year incumbents is so import- S & A Realty Corp., 9350 Wilshire ant to big money people that they would Blvd., Beverly Hills, donated $9,999.00. engage in deceptive practices to assure Barbara Sanborn, 1233 Mission Viejo letters their goal, and we are concerned about the Rd., Santa Barbara, an architect, donated resulting unfair damage to the campaigns $9,500. of other worthy city council candidates. Walter M. Marks, Inc., 8758 Venice The attorneys who represent Beverly Blvd., Ste. 100, Los Angeles, donated email Hills United to Support Bosse and Gold $4,500. for Council 2020 was questioned about In addition to these contributors do- “City Council Election” our concerns. Without any explanation he nating thousands of dollars more than it We are very concerned about a mis- wrote: is legal to donate to a candidate, some of leading flyer which was recently circu- “The mailer meets the applicable legal the contributors do not even appear to be lated city-wide by a PAC (political action requirements, and the Committee has filed based in Beverly Hills. committee) named “Beverly Hills United publicly available reports with the City Again, we wonder why the re-election to Support Bosse and Gold for Coun- Clerk detailing contributors and expen- of two nine-year incumbents is so im- cil 2020”. Much like Citizens United, a ditures.” He also provided those reports portant to these people, that they would PAC can be utilized to circumvent cam- showing the following contributors and sponsor a misleading flyer and donate so paign donation limits while advancing contributions totaling $85,998 so far. much more than the amount a candidate is the interests of a candidate. In Beverly Dominium Management Corpora- allowed to accept? Hills, city council campaign donations tion, 9629 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills, We hope our fellow residents will share are limited to $125 per contributor if donated $9,500. our concerns. WHAT’S ON more than $80,000 is spent by the cam- Duesenberg Investment Company, LLC, Darian Bojeaux, Larry Larson, Nancy paign, and $450 per contributor if the at 1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1400, Barth, Marlene Dobkin, Susan Mishler, YOUR MIND? $80,000 campaign spending limit is Los Angeles, 90067, donated $9,500. Lee Pasternak, Mel Spitz, Herb Young, Gearys Beverly Hills, 351 N. Beverly You can write us at: observed. and Rose Norton The flyer included the Beverly Hills Dr., Beverly Hills, donated $9,000. Beverly Hills 140 South Beverly Drive shield as if the flyer had been sent by Steven Gordon, 9990 Santa Monica #201 Boulevard, Beverly Hills, donated $9,500. Publisher’s note: Mirisch has endorsed the City of Beverly Hills, which is not Lili Bosse and Lori Greene Gordon. Beverly Hills, CA 90212 only misleading but it violates common KMJ DE LLC, 100 Wilshire Boule- law and federal trademark laws. Ad- vard, Suite 1600, Santa Monica, donated “Three Questions With The You can fax us at: ditionally, the flyer provided voting in- $9,500. Council Candidates” [Issue 310.887.0789 structions as if they were instructions Stephan Massman, 361 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, in property management, #1062] from the City; and it included photos While reading Beverly Hills Week- email us at: which suggested that John Mirisch, the donated $9,999. Outsourcing Management Concepts, ly’s February 6th Issue "Three Questions [email protected] Mayor of Beverly Hills, endorses both With The Council Candidates" article, I Bosse and Gold, which is inaccurate. Inc., 240 N. Beverly Dr., Ste. 300, Bever- ly Hills, donated $5,000. The real question is why the re-election letters cont. on page 3 SNAPSHOT WeBeverlye Hills kly Issue 1063 • February 13 - February 19, 2020 Beverly Hills Weekly Inc. Founded: October 7, 1999 Published Thursdays Delivered in Beverly HilIs, Beverlywood, Los Angeles ISSN#1528-851X www.bhweekly.com Publisher & CEO 1 year Josh E. Gross subscriptions are Reporter available. 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(L to R) Christopher Balassanian, Devon VOLUMES Meister and Ryan Gardy Page 2 • Beverly Hills Weekly letters cont. from page 2 At one point, candidate Robin Rowe measure has qualified for a ballot and may include Culver City, Santa Monica, Pasa- questioned incumbent Lili Bosse on her continue to be imposed only if that district dena, Glendale, Burbank and Pomona. was taken back to yesteryear 34 years ago “Walk with the Mayor” event, intended measure receives voter approval. Ultimately, the Council directed staff to when the dynamic duo of Maxwell Salter to improve the City’s “BH Healthy City” The Council debated the pros and cons request more information from the City of and Robert K. Tanenbaum made history initiative. of following Torrance’s lead and placing El Segundo, which implemented a simi- being elected to the Beverly Hills City “I’ve done Walk with the Mayor many such a tax on the ballot. They considered lar tax recently that passed by 85 percent. Council. times with you, and it doesn’t seem that potentially lifting the cap and how to They also agreed to re-agendize the item In 1986 I was there to witness the pol- healthy to me,” said Rowe. “I’m worried avoid a “free rider” situation. after Torrance’s election, and to engage iticking, the installation and their initial about the air pollution; some of the neigh- The legal maximum in California for with the community and voters to mea- and ongoing trials by fire. borhoods we walk through have twice the sales tax is 10.25 percent. Because Tor- sure interest in the tax. I am sure there are still old time Bev- amount of air pollution as other neighbor- rance’s current sales tax is 9.5 percent, .75 “Before we even put it on the ballot for erly Hills voters around who recall the hoods, and I’ve never heard you [say] that cents is the maximum sales tax that could the voters, we need to have a lot more par- same mental pictures I have of the histor- the air we’re breathing as we’re on the potentially imposed. ticipation from the community and I think ical overturning of the Beverly Hills old walk is not that great.” The goal of Measure X is not necessar- we ourselves need more information,” guard to herald in a new age. Rowe proceeded to ask Bosse what ex- ily to increase the sales tax in Torrance, said Councilmember Lili Bosse. Keep being an inspiring shining star to plicitly she would do about fixing the air reads the staff report, as much as it is to the erudite. if she were to be elected. Bosse declined block other government agencies from City Council Approves Emzy Veazy III to answer the question as she did not have being able to implement a new sales tax. Friars Club Site EIR Burbank a specific answer. Councilmember Robert Wunderlich In a three-hour discussion last Tuesday, The issue of traffic also made an ap- said that although the tax has “obvious ap- the City Council approved several modifi- pearance at the February 3 meeting, with peal,” he also believes it raises significant cations to the former Friars Club site. incumbents discussing how to make the concerns about government. The Council voted unanimously to ap- City more “walkable.” “In my view, this is not a model for prove a development agreement between briefs Incumbent Julian Gold stated that a good government. There are some things the City and the 9908 South Santa Monica great deal of traffic comes from Los An- that are best handled on a local scale; Boulevard LLC for the project. They also geles and improvements might lie in the there are some things that are best han- voted 4-1, with Mayor John Mirisch dis- Candidates Exchange advent of autonomous vehicles for mass dled on a regional scale. Some things are senting, to certify the Final Environmental Barbs at Municipal League transit and an emphasis on speeding en- fundamentally regional problems [like] Impact Report and approve an ordinance Candidate Forum forcement. transportation, fire prevention and home- amending the Municipal Code. In a two-hour forum hosted by the Mu- The election will take place on March 3. lessness,” said Wunderlich. In both resolutions, the Council opted to change the approved 41 parking spaces to nicipal League of Beverly Hills last week, Council Undecided on He asserted that anything that doesn’t City Council candidates debated—some- know the artificial boundaries of munic- 54 parking spaces.