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Construction contract awarded for SR 210 lane additionNov 18, 2019 Updated 1 hr ago
On Nov. 6, the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) Board of Directors
approved the construction contract for the State Route 210 lane addition and Base Line
interchange project. The contract was awarded to Guy F. Atkinson Construction, LLP for just
over $112 million.
Currently, SR-210 reduces from three lanes in each direction to two lanes between Highland
Avenue in the city of San Bernardino and San Bernardino Avenue in the city of Redlands,
creating a bottleneck for commuters in that stretch. The project will add one mixed-�ow lane in
each direction between Highland Avenue and San Bernardino Avenue, auxiliary lanes between
Base Line and Fifth Street in Highland and an acceleration lane at the Fifth Street eastbound
ramp.
Construction contract awarded for SR 210 lane addition
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As the SR-210 Widening and SR-210/Base Line Interchange projects aligned geographically and
shared similar delivery schedules, they were combined for the design, right of way and
construction phases to save cost and expedite the schedule.
Additionally, Caltrans pavement rehabilitation work has been added through a cooperative
agreement with Caltrans that includes new concrete pavement between Fifth Street and
Lugonia Avenue and is funded with State Highway Operation and Protection Program funds.
Adding the additional rehabilitation work during the existing project means that is one less
project that commuters will have to navigate around in the future.
The SR-210 lane addition and Base Line interchange project will be completed in 2022.
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By Rene Ray De La Cruz Staff Writer Posted Nov 18, 2019 at 4:21 PM
HESPERIA — Construction has begun on Southland Pipe Fabricators’ newfacility in the city’s industrial zone, just east of the BNSF railroad track.
Based in Rialto, Southland Pipe plans to relocate to Hesperia and to staff 20 to 30employees at its new location, which is expected to be operational by December2020, City of Hesperia spokeswoman Rachel Molina said.
On Friday, a construction crew was seen working on the ground and on top ofthe 20,000 square-foot building located on 10.5 acres at the northeast corner of“E” Avenue and Mojave Street.
In Rialto, Southland Pipe transports supplies via truck delivery, railway andcargo ship. In Hesperia, the company will be able to use the “G” AvenueIndustrial Lead Railroad Track, which is located less than a quarter mile awayand served by BNSF.
For nearly 30 years, Southland Pipe has supplied steel pipe, flanges, and weld andfabricated fittings for the waterworks industry. The company provides customsteel fabrication and fully engineered projects for pipelines, pump stations,reservoirs, pressure reducing stations, and water and sewage treatment plants.
Southland provides pipe supplies throughout the West Coast, including thestates of California, Arizona, Nevada.
In recent years, Southland pipe had expanded its Inland Empire facility and builtits own cement pipe liner and coater. In addition to the new coaters, thecompany has updated its transportation department, machine shop, andfabrication departments.
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With its large stock of standard weld fittings, fabricated mitered fittings,eccentric, concentric reducer cones, and flanges, Southland Pile can expediteorders quickly to meet the time frame the industry demands, the company said.
Reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227,
[email protected], Twitter @DP_ReneDeLaCruz.
Poop to power: Highland sewer plant to generate electricity, opportunity – San Bernardino Sun
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Poop to power: Highland sewer plant to generateelectricity, opportunityElectricity from sewage and food waste will provide enough power for 1,950homes
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By JENNIFER IYER | [email protected] | Redlands Daily FactsPUBLISHED: November 18, 2019 at 8:30 am | UPDATED: November 18, 2019 at 8:31 am
A $32.6 million addition to a water treatment facility rising out of the ground under giant cranes willturn waste into electricity, and provide education, jobs and more to an underserved community,according to the East Valley Water District.
A co-digester that was added to the Sterling Natural Resource Center project in September will turnsewage and food waste into three megawatts of power per year, enough to power about 1,950houses.
The digester can create commercial-grade fertilizer, training and jobs for students at nearby schools,and the rest of the center will offer meeting rooms, a demonstration garden, amphitheater and more.
Construction crews work to complete the Sterling Natural Resource Center in Highland, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. East Valley WaterDistrict plans to use state-of-the-art digester technology to turn food waste and leftover wastewater treatment material into electricity.(Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer)
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“The incorporation of digester technology at the SNRC further supports the project’s vision ofsustainability and the responsible use of resources,” said Chris Carrillo, the district’s chairman, in anews release. “It ensures the facility reduces its carbon footprint while creating a new water supply forthe community.”
One thing the facility won’t create is foul odors said John Mura, the district’s general manager andCEO, as crews placed rebar and poured concrete outside the window of a construction trailer.
Pointing to renderings on the walls of what the facility will look like, he said, “Everything will beenclosed, everything will be scrubbed, and all the air will be treated before it’s released into theenvironment.”
The project, he said, is designed to change how communities think about sewer treatment plants: fromsomething that has to be hidden away to something that has a positive impact.
“A lot of our area is disadvantaged, and have been underserved, and we’re looking forward to thechange in dynamic when we have a place for people to meet, go to farmers markets, do concerts inthe park, provide some education and job-training opportunities, and then secure our water resourcesfor beneficial use for not just this generation, but generations to come,” Mura said.
Not always appreciated
The facility had been held up for a year-and-a-half after the city of San Bernardino filed two lawsuitsover worries the project would cause the city to lose $4.5 million annually for 20 years.
San Bernardino has provided wastewater treatment and disposal services for the East Valley district,
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Groundbreaking for Sterling NaturalResource Center in Highland scheduledfor Saturday
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and when the Sterling plant comes online, the district would no longer need the city’s services.
The agencies involved came to an agreement in 2017, but by then the project lost out on $15 millionin state funding, and zero-interest loans.
Mura called the lawsuits an “unfortunate” waste of taxpayer money, funds the communities ofHighland and San Bernardino could use today.
How it will work
The plant will separate and treat water from the incoming sewer flows and use it to recharge theBunker Hill groundwater basin which is used by communities from Redlands to Riverside.
The waste from that process will be added to food waste from a landfill in Rialto.
When the biological matter breaks down, the methane gas produced will turn a turbine to createenergy.
The byproduct from this process can be turned into fertilizer and sold.
The center will collect $2.7 million in tipping fees each yearfor reusing the food waste, and combined with another $2.7million in electricity savings and $800,000 for the sale of thesurplus energy, the digester will pay for itself in five years,or less if electricity costs rise, according to East Valleyofficials.
Part of the cost of the digester will be covered by SouthernCalifornia Edison and state programs that help projects thatcreate energy.
The guaranteed maximum price of the whole facility is$182.6 million, and will be paid for with funding from stategrants, development fees and low-interest loans.
The center is being constructed between Fifth and Sixthstreets on either side of Del Rosa Drive.
It is expected to be operational in 2022.
Information: eastvalley.org/snrc
11/19/2019 2 San Bernardino CA horses with equine herpes euthanized | The Sacramento Bee
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California officials are warning of a deadly equine herpes virus outbreak in San BernardinoCounty this month.
A 13-year-old mare with a fever and neurological symptoms tested positive for the highlycontagious virus and was euthanized on Oct. 29, the California Department of Food andAgriculture said in an equine health alert on Nov. 6.
Now a second horse, a 22-year-old gelding, has tested positive for equine herpes virusmyeloencephalopathy and “was euthanized due to the severity of clinical signs,” officials said in aNov. 14 update. State officials added that three other horses with fevers on the same premises alsowere confirmed to have the virus.
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The equine herpes virus, or EHV-1, “can cause respiratory disease, abortion in mares, neonatalfoal death and neurological disease,” state officials said, explaining that “the neurological form ofthe disease is known as equine herpes myeloencephalopathy (EHM) and may be caused bydamage to blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord associated with EHV-1 infection.”
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The virus spreads easily and has a two- to 10-day incubation period, state officials said. Humanswon’t come down with the virus but can spread it.
Twenty horses exposed to the first horse that was euthanized were quarantined “with enhancedbiosecurity measures including twice daily temperature monitoring,” according to state officials.
“Any horse displaying clinical signs or a temperature over 101.5F shall be reported to theveterinarian for evaluation and potential nasal swab and blood sampling,” officials said.
“The positive horse has no epidemiological links to any other EHV-1 cases in California and therehas been no recent movement off of the property,” officials said of the first horse euthanized.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the virus is found worldwide, but the strains“EHV-1, EHV-3 and EHV-4 pose the highest disease risk in the U.S. horse population.”
USDA said that “in recent years there has been an increase in the number of EHV-1 neurologiccases, also referred to as equine herpes myeloencephalopathy.”
Horses are treated with IV fluids and anti-inflammatories to tackle their fevers, and “the majorityof horses with uncomplicated infections recover,” per USDA.
According to a state equine herpes myeloencephalopathy fact sheet from April 2019, only onehorse died or was euthanized due to the disease last year, while two horses were euthanized withthe virus each year from 2015 to 2017.
“Since the size of the virus limits the capacity for airborne transmission to distances of less than30 feet, direct and indirect contact are the most important routes of transmission,” officials wrotein the fact sheet. “Horses infected with EHV-1 and horses incubating the virus shed it via nasal
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secretions. Horses with severe clinical signs consistent with the neurologic form most often shedlarge viral loads in nasal secretions and present the greatest risk for disease spread.”
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Food delivery service starts for passengers atONT gatesAtYourGate will deliver to passengers from five ONT eateries
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By JACK KATZANEK | [email protected] |PUBLISHED: November 18, 2019 at 2:23 pm | UPDATED: November 18, 2019 at 2:23 pm
A company that bills itself as a Grubhub for airport passengers has launched at Ontario InternationalAirport.
AtYourGate is a downloadable app that will allow people waiting for the flights to have food deliveredto the gate from five different airport vendors. It is now operating in both of Ontario’s major terminals.
Food can be delivered from Wolfgang Puck Pizza, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Wahoo’s Fish Taco, TheCoffee Bean and Tea Leaf Co. and Rock & Brews. This is the eighth airport for AtYourGate and thesecond in Southern California, according to a statement from the company.
The AtYourGate downloadable app now allows people waiting for flights at Ontario International Airport to have food delivered to thegate from five different airport vendors. (Photo courtesy of AtYourGate)
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P.J. Mastracchio. CEO and founder of AtYourGate, said in the statement they decided to open at ONTbecause the airport is growing rapidly. The launch was timed to take advantage of expanded travelduring the holidays.
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Mountain High ski resort in San Bernardino Mountains sets opening date for 2019 – Redlands Daily Facts
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By BRIAN WHITEHEAD | [email protected] | San Bernardino SunPUBLISHED: November 18, 2019 at 3:24 pm | UPDATED: November 18, 2019 at 3:26 pm
Mountain High resort in Wrightwood plans to christen the 2019-20 winter season with an opening daybash Friday, Nov. 22.
The first Southern California ski resort to open for business this year, Mountain High expects to havelive broadcasts from local radio stations, ticket and promotional giveaways, DJs throughout the dayand live entertainment. Mountain High’s opening comes about three weeks after Big Bear Snow Playopened its tubing park in the San Bernardino Mountains.
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Festivities in Wrightwood begin at 7 a.m. Friday, weather permitting, with free coffee and doughnuts atthe bottom of Blue Ridge Express. An opening countdown is scheduled for 8:55 a.m., with the first
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chair departing at 9 a.m.
The party goes till 4 p.m.
Opening day tickets are $39 online and $69 at the resort. Children 12 and under with a paying adultget in free.
Mountain High is at 24510 Highway 2 in Wrightwood.
While the West Resort plans to open Friday, the Yeti Snow Park (East) is scheduled to open Nov. 30,according to Mountain High’s website. The East Resort and Yeti Snow Park (North) will open Dec. 21.
Since bidding adieu to the winter season earlier this year, Mountain High officials spent $1 millionupgrading the resort’s snowmaking capabilities, sledding and snow play areas, rental equipment andterrain park.
According to the National Weather Service, sunny skies early this week are expected to give way torain and possible snow showers Wednesday and Thursday in the Wrightwood area. By Friday, thesun is expected to return with highs in the low 40s.
For more information, visit mthigh.com.
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By Rene Ray De La Cruz Staff Writer Posted Nov 18, 2019 at 4:29 PM
HESPERIA — The Bradco Companies have been awarded exclusive rights tomarket two retail pads adjacent to the newly built Texas Roadhouse on MariposaRoad, just south of Main Street.
Located in Hesperia, the two parcels total 4.86 acres and are located near thelargest Texas Roadhouse restaurant in the country.
After opening in April, Texas Roadhouse in Hesperia quickly jumped to the topfive in volume, doing nearly a million dollars a month in sales, said BradcoCompanies President Joseph W. Brady.
With more than 105,000 cars traveling along Interstate 15 near TexasRoadhouse, Brady said he believes the area is an exceptional retail opportunityfor the right gas station, convenience store, food or retail user.
In January, Mayor Pro Tem Bill Holland told the Daily Press the Victor Valleycould see a “second Restaurant Row” with the construction of Texas RoadHouse,and a proposed drive-thru restaurant and hotel.
The Courtyard by Marriott hotel, the 8,500-square-foot Texas Roadhouse andthe construction of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Office Building are all locatednear the two available parcels.
“We are excited to work with the economic development of the City of Hesperiaand their very progressive City Council,” Brady said.
Reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227,
[email protected], Twitter @DP_ReneDeLaCruz.
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11/19/2019 Number of passengers who traveled through Ontario Airport rose by 10.5 percent | Business | fontanaheraldnews.com
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The number of passengers who traveled through Ontario International Airport (ONT) in October rose by double digitsfor the fourth consecutive month.
The number of passengers who traveled through Ontario International Airport (ONT) in
October rose by double digits for the fourth consecutive month, as the Southern California
airport welcomed half-a-million air travelers.
Passenger volume totaled more than 504,000, including 480,000 domestic travelers and 24,000
international passengers, an increase of 10.5 percent over October last year. Domestic and
international volumes grew by 10.3 percent and 13.9 percent, respectively.
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From January through October, more than 4.5 million passengers arrived and departed ONT,
including more than 4.3 million domestic travelers.
For the �rst 10 months of the year, total travelers rose 8.3 percent over the same period a year
ago. The number of domestic passengers increased nearly 7 percent while international
travelers climbed 38.5 percent.
“Passenger growth continued to be strong in October, a re�ection of the ongoing con�dence
airlines and air travelers have for Ontario,” said Mark Thorpe, chief executive o�cer of the
Ontario International Airport Authority. “It is a reminder that our customers remain highly
satis�ed with our facilities, services and amenities, not to mention Ontario’s hallmark stress-
free experience.”
Commercial freight shipments grew 4.6 percent in October to more than 66,000 tons after
being �at in September. For the year, freight volume was up 3.5 percent to more than 605,000
tons over the �rst 10 months of last year.
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Mail shipments, meanwhile, decreased almost 42 percent in October and 23 percent on a year-
to-date basis.
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City invites residents to ‘Take a Hike,’ Nov. 23Nov 18, 2019 Updated 2 hrs ago
In honor of “Take a Hike Month,” the city of Highland invites the residents to hit the trails and
see Highland with a community hike of City Creek Levee Trail Loop from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. on
Saturday, Nov. 23.
The hike will begin at the main entrance to the trail along Base Line near the Albertson’s
shopping center at Boulder Avenue. The purpose of this event is to promote Highland’s
community trails system and to engage everyone in a healthy and bene�cial outdoor activity.
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This year’s selected hiking trail route will start from the trailhead (along Base Line) in City Creek
Levee Trail Loop going north to Highland, then hikers will head east across the bridge, loop to
the other side of the trail, and ending back to Base Line. This loop is approximately 2.3 miles
long and includes easy to moderate elevation gains.
Along the City Creek Levee Trail Loop hikers have the option of visiting various stations along
the trail, which include newly installed interpretive signs that mention the history of city of
Highland.
Those interested in joining in the fun will meet at 8 a.m. at trailhead along of Base Line,
adjacent to Albertson’s. Attendees can park at the Highland Village Plaza and walk over to the
trailhead. For more information or a map, visit the cityofhighland.org/Events/ or send a
message to [email protected].
11/18/2019 New dates announced for postponed San Manuel Pow Wow | Entertainment | highlandnews.net
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New dates announced for postponed San Manuel Pow WowThe 24th annual San Manuel Pow Wow is rescheduled for new dates and location, followingpostponement of October event due to extreme winds and power shuto�.
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Photos by Pat Mahoney - Native Americans from tribes throughout the nation participate in the Grand Entry Saturdayat California State University San Bernardino. The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians sponsored the three-day PowWow celebrating the 17th annual festival with music, dance, crafts and food.
The best Native American dancers, drum groups and artisans from across North America will
gather at San Manuel Stadium in downtown San Bernardino the weekend of Dec. 13 to
celebrate their culture and spiritual roots at the 24th annual San Manuel Pow Wow. Dancers
and drummers will compete for over $250,000 in prizes in a unique showcase of Native
American culture.
The weekend-long celebration was rescheduled from its customary October dates due to
severe weather and will now begin the evening of Friday, Dec. 13, and will run through the
evening of Sunday, Dec. 15.
In addition to competitive dancing, the event will feature contests for tiny tots, juniors and
teens, as well as audience participation dancing open to all attendees.
Guest can also participate in the Cruz Chacon Memorial Sweetheart Dance.
Non-competitive exhibitions include tributes to veterans, blessings and intertribal dancing and
Bird Singing, which is Native American music indigenous to Southern California and the
Colorado River Region.
The 3-day event is free and open to the public.
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Friday’s events will run from 5p.m. to midnight with the grand entry of music and dance
competitors at 8 p.m. Saturday events run from 11 a.m. to midnight and grand entry is at 1 p.m.
and 8 p.m. On Sunday the powwow will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with grand entry at 1 p.m.
San Manuel Stadium is at 280 S. E St., San Bernardino, and all the powwow activities will take
place within the stadium and parking lot.
For more information, visit socalpowwow.com or call (909) 425-3450.
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District and employees come to a salary agreementBy Dina Colunga 16 hrs ago
The Redlands Uni�ed School District has come to an agreement with its teachers and classi�ed workers after months of
negotiating.
Part of the negotiated settlement is a 3 percent salary increase for the 2018-19 school year, retroactive to July 1, 2018, and a 3
percent salary increase for the 2019-20 school year, retroactive to July 1, 2019.
The negotiated agreement results in a 6 percent increase ongoing for certi�cated and classi�ed employees, according to the
district.
Redlands Education Support Professionals Association (RESPA) President Gladys Kershall called it a bittersweet deal.
“The members are disheartened by the salary ranges but it was way overdue,” she said.
Kershall said she looks forward to future negotiations.
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“Some of our members still work two jobs. It is still a challenge,” she said. “We agreed to what we felt was appropriate at this
time. It was a long haul.”
Superintendent Mauricio Arellano shared his thoughts in a statement.
“We are very pleased that we reached an agreement with both of our labor groups,” he said. “I appreciate the time and e�ort all
of the bargaining teams put forth to reach an agreement that is both respectful and responsible.”
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By JENNIFER IYER | [email protected] | Redlands Daily FactsPUBLISHED: November 18, 2019 at 4:59 pm | UPDATED: November 18, 2019 at 7:32 pm
The Redlands City Council could once again OK the Police department’s use of excess Department ofDefense equipment at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 19.
Some have called having surplus military gear, such as a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle,excessive for a city police force. But Redlands has used its MRAP, notably in response to the Dec. 2,2015, terrorist attack in San Bernardino, and in a 2016 hostage situation that started in an OfficeDepot store on Orange Street.
As part of the program, the city pays shipping and transportation costs for the supplies.
Besides the vehicle, which joined the Police Department’s fleet in 2013, the city has received rifles
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and night vision gear through the program, saving the city hundreds of thousands of dollars, accordingto Redlands officials in documents prepared for Tuesday’s meeting.
The agreement is meant to ensure accountability andpromote the efficient transfer of the equipment, accordingto the city. It must be approved annually.
The public portion of the meeting begins at 6 p.m. and isheld in the council chambers, at 35 Cajon St.
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Operator of defunct Orange County chain of drugrehab centers indicted for fraudRaymond Jeffrey Yates and others use fake addresses in other states toenroll people in the insurance plans that paid them the most for addictiontreatment, indictment says
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The owner of Morningside Recovery, a now-defunct chain of addiction treatment centers in OrangeCounty, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of attempting to bilk millions of dollarsfrom Affordable Care Act programs in several states, the U.S. Department of Justice announcedFriday.
Raymond Jeffrey Yates, 52, of Santa Ana, worked with others to fraudulently enroll clients inObamacare health insurance plans to maximize his own profits, according to the indictment.
Yates and two men — Jeffrey White and his son Nicholas White of Twin Peaks — used fakeaddresses to get insurance for clients in Connecticut and other states whose health care exchanges
Jeff Yates, owner of Morningside Recovery, cuts a ribbon during a grand opening celebration for a new facility in Garden Grove in2017. On Friday, federal officials said he has been charged with bilking health systems in California and several other states out ofmillions of dollars. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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offered the most generous reimbursements for addiction treatment. Then the men arranged to havethose clients admitted to Morningside Recovery for addiction treatment in a scheme to commitconspiracy, health care fraud and mail fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Morningside then paid the Whites for each patient admitted, the indictment said.
Yates’ attorney, Joseph Martini, said he had no comment on the indictment Friday.
Last year, Jeffrey White and Nicholas White pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraudand admitted that their scheme resulted in more than $27 million in losses to Obamacare plans acrossthe country. That includes Connecticut, Arizona, California, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey,Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.
The new indictment charges Yates with seven counts of health care fraud, one count of conspiracy tocommit health care fraud and five counts of mail fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 20 years
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on each conspiracy and mail fraud count, and a maximum of 10 years on each health care fraudcount, the DOJ said.
The indictment was unsealed Nov. 13 and comes from the U.S. Attorney’s office in the District ofConnecticut. Yates was released on bond pending his arraignment in Connecticut, which is not yetscheduled, the DOJ said. The Whites await sentencing.
The scheme outlined in the indictment was detailed by the Southern California News Group more thantwo years ago as part of its probe into the world of more than 1,000 drug and alcohol rehab centers inSouthern California, a cluster so vast that the region is known in the industry as “Rehab Riviera.”
Morningside had a controversial run. In 2015, it was found partially liable for the death of BrandonJacques, who had been admitted to Morningside’s Newport Beach center for treatment. Jacquesdeveloped dangerously low electrolyte levels, and was transferred to First House detox center inCosta Mesa without his parents’ knowledge, according to documents. Jacques went into cardiacarrest at First House and later died at Hoag Hospital.
A jury assigned 20 percent of the blame for Jacques’ death to Morningside and 80 percent to FirstHouse LLC. Morningside settled with the family for $3.7 million, according to the family’s lawyers.
The state revoked operating licenses for three Morningside Recovery LLC locations in Costa Mesa in2012. About a year ago, all of them closed, about 10 homes.
Morningside’s web site is still functional, but it now belongs to a rehab group called Lighthouse, said aman who answered the phone on its referral line. Yates has no affiliation with the group, he said.
Court records show that Yates has had previous run-ins with law enforcement. In 1996, Yates pleadedguilty to felony drunk driving, driving on a suspended or revoked license and evading arrest. He wasgiven 360 days in jail.
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Yates was back in court in 2018 to face more DUI charges, pleading not guilty. His trial is pending. InNovember 2012, police came to his Santa Ana home on a call of domestic violence. Yates was given30-days community service.
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Teri SforzaTeri Sforza is one of the lead reporters on the OCR/SCNG probe of fraud, abuse and death in theSouthern California addiction treatment industry. Our "Rehab Riviera" coverage won first place forinvestigative reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, first place for projects
reporting from Best of the West and is a finalist for the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation'sprint award, competing with the New York Times, the Washington Post and ProPublica. Sforza birthed the Watchdogcolumn for The Orange County Register in 2008, aiming to keep a critical (but good-humored) eye on governmentsand nonprofits, large and small. It won first place for public service reporting from the California NewspaperPublishers Association in 2010. She also contributed to the OCR's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of fertility fraudat UC Irvine, covered what was then the largest municipal bankruptcy in America‘s history, and is the author of "TheStrangest Song," the first book to tell the story of a genetic condition called Williams syndrome and the extraordinarymusicality of many of the people who have it. She earned her M.F.A. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film andTelevision, and enjoys making documentaries, including the OCR's first: "The Boy Monk," a story that was also toldas a series in print. Watchdogs need help: Point us to documents that can help tell stories that need to be told, andwe'll do the rest. Send tips to [email protected].
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One person is dead and another has been wounded after a shooting late Monday morning, Nov. 18,near Fontana, authorities said.
The gunfire reported at 11:41 a.m. was in front of a home in the 13800 block of Cobblestone Court, ina county area just south of Fontana city limits, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s spokeswoman JodiMiller said.
Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. One person was killed and another was wounded after the late Monday morning shooting in front of a home.(Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
1 of 5San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies work the scene of a shooting in the 13800 block of Cobblestone Court near Fontana on Monday, Nov. 18,2019. One person was killed and another was wounded after the late Monday morning shooting in front of a home. (Photo by Jennifer CappuccioMaher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Sheriff’s investigators were at the scene in the neighborhood of tract homes, and the suspect orsuspects were at large, she said.
The wounded person was taken to a hospital, with no condition available.
There was no immediate information on what sparked the shooting, and the two people who wereshot were not identified.
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and assaulting a resident. About 3:35 a.m. Saturday, deputies were called to the 58300 block of El
Dorado Drive in Yucca Valley for a suspicious circumstances call. When deputies arrived, they found
three suspects—Alyssa Servel, 31, Dylan Jones, 38, and Cura Jones, 34—loading what turned out to
be stolen items into their vehicle, which had been parked in the home’s driveway. Inside the house,
deputies learned that the three suspects had assaulted the resident, then ransacked the house and
were in the process of stealing multiple items. Cura Jones told Z107.7 News that they had been
drinking and went to the home of Servel’s estranged husband to retrieve some of Servel’s
possessions. Alyssa Servel, Dylan Jones, and Cura Jones were arrested for investigation of residential
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A pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Highland on Sunday, Nov. 17, died shortly after arriving at ahospital.
The crash happened on the 6800 block of Victoria Avenue at about 7:34 p.m., San Bernardino CountySheriff’s Department officials said in a Monday news release. Greg Alan Rose, 68, of Highland, was ina motorized wheelchair and crossing the street with his wife at the time of the crash.
Responding paramedics could not detect Rose’s pulse and administered CPR before transporting himto St. Bernardine Medical Center. There, he was pronounced dead at 8:23 p.m., San BernardinoCounty Coroner’s officials said in a statement. The driver involved in the collision waited for authoritiesto respond and cooperated with their investigation.
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By ERIC LICAS | [email protected] |PUBLISHED: November 18, 2019 at 5:28 pm | UPDATED: November 18, 2019 at 7:36 pm
Police arrested a San Bernardino man Sunday, Nov. 17, suspected of stabbing another person todeath a day prior and setting fire to a residence in Rancho Cucamonga.
Ricardo Alvarado, 45, was taken into custody at a motel in San Bernardino at about 5:38 p.m., SanBernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials said in a news release. He was interviewed byhomicide investigators and then booked into the West Valley Detention Center on suspicion ofmurder.
SBCSD officials believe he was previously acquainted with Manuel Vasquez, 65, of RanchoCucamonga, and got into an argument with him Saturday at a home on the 8400 block of GreenleafLane. The suspect is suspected of stabbing the victim multiple times, then starting a fire at theresidence as he left.
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BARSTOW — A 76-year-old Tucson, Arizona man was killed Friday night in acrash on Kelso Cima Road east of Barstow, the California Highway patrolreported.
The man, who was not identified, was driving a 2008 Honda fit south on KelsoCima Road, 3½ miles north of Globe Mine Road, at an undetermined speedshortly before midnight, the CHP said. The vehicle drifted onto the rightshoulder of the roadway, hit a raised dirt embankment at the edge of a dryriverbed, became airborne, and then struck another embankment on the otherside of the riverbed, according to a statement released by the CHP.
The vehicle overturned with the driver trapped inside and came to rest in theopen desert, west of Kelso Cima Road. Medical personnel who arrived on thescene removed the driver from the car.
The driver was flown by Mercy Air to University Medical Center in Las Vegas,where he died of his injuries on Saturday about 6:45 p.m.
The CHP said drugs or alcohol are not suspected to be a cause of the crash, whichis still being investigated.
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By DAVID DOWNEY | [email protected] | The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: November 18, 2019 at 4:13 pm | UPDATED: November 18, 2019 at 4:25 pm
Kim Gervais, a 57-year-old Jurupa Valley resident, has become the 59th victim of the nation’s worstmass shooting, the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, The Associated Press reported.
Gervais, who was shot in the back and left paralyzed, has died, AP reported, citing KPTV in Oregon,which quoted Gervais’ sister.
Dena Sarvela of Vancouver, Washington, toldthe station that Gervais died Friday night, Nov.15, in California.
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the country who attended.
Gervais was one of more than 160 people whowere struck by bullets.
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quadriplegic by her injuries when gunman StephenPaddock opened fire on the crowd of concertgoers fromhigh above in a nearby resort hotel, the adventuresomeGervais was confined to a wheelchair after spending muchof her life riding all-terrain vehicles in the desert, accordingto a New York Times article. After the shooting, she had nofeeling in her legs and limited use of her arms, the newspaper reported.
The family has endured much tragedy.
In the early 2000s, Gervais’ husband, George, a sprint car racer, died in a crash at the Perris AutoSpeedway.
Kim Gervais is seen in a 2017 photo on her GoFundMe page whilein rehabilitation at Loma Linda University Health. Gervais was shotin the back during the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegasand left a quadriplegic, with no feeling in her legs and limited useof her arms. Gervais has died. (Courtesy photo)
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Veteran prosecutors at center of Orange Countyjailhouse informant scandal resignFormer homicide supervisor Dan Wagner and prosecutor Scott Simmonswere recently questioned by DOJ investigators
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By TONY SAAVEDRA | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: November 14, 2019 at 2:16 pm | UPDATED: November 15, 2019 at 2:25 pm
The two veteran prosecutors at the center of the snitch scandal that rocked Orange County’s justicesystem have resigned following questioning about their actions by federal civil rights investigators.
Assistant District Attorney Dan Wagner and Senior Deputy District Attorney Scott Simmons improperlyused a jailhouse informant against mass murderer Scott Dekraai in 2011 — triggering the controversyover Orange County’s decades-long illegal use of snitches to win convictions. The scandal cost 20-year District Attorney Tony Rackauckas his job last November and helped Dekraai escape the deathpenalty for Orange County’s bloodiest mass murder.
The resignations, effective in early December, end another chapter in the controversy over the misuseby prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies of jailhouse informants against inmates who were denied theirright to counsel. According to federal case law, known as the Massiah rule, informants cannot be usedon defendants who have been formally charged and have obtained lawyers.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Scott Simmons and Assistant District Attorney Dan Wagner in 2015. The veteran prosecutors atcenter of Orange County jailhouse informant scandal recently resigned. (Photo by MARK RIGHTMIRE, ORANGE COUNTYREGISTER/SCNG)
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The misstep by Wagner and Simmons on Dekraai — who had already confessed to killing eightpeople at a Seal Beach beauty salon in 2011 — led to the discovery that the Orange County DistrictAttorney’s Office and the Sheriff’s Department had surreptitiously created a network of jailhouseinformants that was misused against other inmates.
The entire process had been kept secret from defense attorneys, in violation of discoveryrequirements, until the Public Defender’s Office started asking questions in the Dekraai case.
Discovery of the scandal by Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders, representing Dekraai, prompteda Superior Court judge to ban the entire District Attorney’s Office from the case and later give Dekraaimultiple terms of life in prison instead of the death penalty that Rackauckas had promised.
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Sanders said Thursday that the exodus of prosecutors involved in the misuse of informants doesn’ttake away the need to go back and make right the cases in which defendants’ rights were violated.
“The OCDA certainly hopes their departures will somehow quiet the call for reform. It won’t,” Sanderssaid. “This news today doesn’t aid a single defendant who was deprived of a right to a fair trialbecause evidence was withheld.”
District Attorney Todd Spitzer responded to Sanders: “Again, Mr. Sanders doesn’t know what he istalking about. … No one’s retirement ends our inquiries or my desire to make sure these debaclesunder Rackauckas’ failed watch ever jeopardize justice in this county in the future or with past cases.”
Victim’s husband: ‘Long time coming’
Paul Wilson, whose wife, Christy, was killed in the Seal Beach shooting, said Thursday that hiscriticism of the District Attorney’s Office will not end with the resignations of Wagner and Simmons.
“This is a long time coming and, let’s be very clear, this is not an early retirement — this is aresignation by these two cowards who clearly saw the writing on the wall,” Wilson said. “Mr. Spitzershould have done this a year ago when he took over this corrupt office.
“This is a clear sign that the presence of these type of bad characters will be exposed and will not beallowed to be swept under the rug and hidden as it was with Mr. Rackauckas.”
Dekraai was arrested within minutes of the shooting at the Salon Meritage and immediately confessedto police what he had done. Rackauckas, on the verge of tears at a news conference, named eachvictim and vowed that Dekraai would get the death penalty.
It seemed like a safe bet. But Wagner and Simmonsweren’t satisfied. In an earlier interview, Wagner explained
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they feared Dekraai would try to escape the death penaltywith an insanity plea. Such a plea spared Edward Allaway,who killed seven people in 1976 at Cal State Fullerton. Hewas found insane by a judge and sent to a state hospital,where he remains.
In the Seal Beach case, Dekraai had befriended a veteraninformant at the jail’s Intake Release Center. The informantnotified deputies and prosecutors, who agreed to wireDekraai’s cell. They told the informant to listen and not askDekraai any questions, an attempt to stay within thebounds of the Massiah rule. But it appears the informantwent past the parameters.
Sanders discovered the problem and began pulling on theloose thread. It resulted in several evidentiary hearings onthe use of informants by prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies.At least seven murder and attempted murder cases unraveled because of informant-related violations.
A judge also took action against the Dekraai prosecutors, saying he did not believe Dekraai, whopleaded guilty, would get fair treatment in the penalty phase.
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Four Orange County sheriff’s deputies have been fired after an audit found systemic lapses in the
handling of evidence.
The audit discovered that nearly one-third of the evidence collected by the Orange County Sheriff’s
Department from February 2016 to February 2018 was booked beyond the agency’s one-day policy,
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the Orange County Register reported Monday.
Some bookings were tardy by more than a month, creating questions about chain of custody.
Fifteen deputies were criminally investigated in connection with the probe, but the district
attorney’s office declined to file charges. Besides the four terminations, seven deputies were
disciplined and four cases are pending.
The audit showed a lack of consistent and accurate entries and no system of accountability.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carrie Braun said the department has since improved the booking of
evidence.
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SACRAMENTO — California and Los Angeles County officials announced a lawsuit against Juul
Labs Inc. on Monday, alleging the vaping brand targeted young people through advertising and
failed to give warnings about health risks posed by using e-cigarettes with nicotine.
Although the state bars sales of the devices to people under age 21, the lawsuit alleges electronic
cigarette firms made products with nicotine that appealed to young smokers by marketing flavors
that appeal to them, such as mango, cool mint, crème brûlée and cucumber.
“We’ve worked too hard, committed our hard-earned money for too long combating harmful
tobacco use to stand idly by as we now lose Californians to vaping and nicotine addiction,” state
Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said at a news conference in Los Angeles. “Juul adopted the tobacco
industry’s infamous playbook, employing advertisements that had no regard for public health and
searching out vulnerable targets.”
Amid backlash from the public, Juul recently announced it would stop selling some flavored
electronic cigarettes, including mint. A government report recently said Juul was the most popular
brand among high school students.
“These results are unacceptable,” said Juul Chief Executive K.C. Crosthwaite in a statement last
week, adding the firm must “earn the trust of society.”
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey said Monday that Juul’s decision to stop selling some
flavored vaping products has come “too late,” noting many teens are already caught up in using e-
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State officials said the percentage of high school students who have vaped has increased from 11.7%
in 2017 to 27.5% this year.
“Unfortunately tobacco and nicotine use is on the rise among young people, driven largely by
vaping products,” Lacey said at the news conference on Monday.
Juul spokesman Austin Finan said Monday that the firm has not yet reviewed the complaint.
“We remain focused on resetting the vapor category in the U.S. and earning the trust of society by
working cooperatively with attorneys general, regulators, public health officials, and other
stakeholders to combat underage use and convert adult smokers from combustible cigarettes,” he
said.
Finan said that Juul has suspended all broadcast, print and digital product advertising in the U.S.
and is “expanding our commitment to develop new technology to reduce youth use. Our customer
base is the world’s 1 billion adult smokers and we do not intend to attract underage users.”
Juul holds about 60% of the market for electronic cigarettes, state officials said.
The lawsuit comes amid a national health emergency in which 42 people, including four
Californians, have died of lung illness after vaping.
The lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court, which also names San Francisco-based Pax
Labs Inc., seeks civil penalties and a permanent injunction against use of “deceptive” practices by
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Becerra said the legal action is a result of a 21-month investigation with Lacey’s office that found
improper activity and marketing. The legal brief quotes emails and other comments from vaping
firm employees who talked about efforts to use social media to make vaping “cool.”
Samples were handed out at street festivals, a Cinespia outdoor movie screening event and concerts
in Los Angeles, the lawsuit alleged.
State officials also allege that Juul Labs Inc. failed to include required warnings about exposure to
chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other potential reproductive harm.
The suit also alleges Juul delivered products to underage people, failed to verify the age of buyers
and violated privacy rights of minors by sending marketing material to the email addresses of those
who failed age verification on the company‘s website.
“Despite now claiming that its mission is to help ‘adult smokers,’ starting with its launch, [Juul]
has engaged in a systematic campaign to target underage California residents,” the lawsuit alleges.
Juul’s “campaign has been wildly successful, with millions of teens and young adults using their
product. While [Juul’s] profits soared, users became addicted and their health was harmed.”
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11/19/2019 Court rules corporations can be on hook for costs of fighting California fires - SFChronicle.com
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Court rules corporations can be on hook for costs ofCourt rules corporations can be on hook for costs offighting California firesfighting California fires
Bob EgelkoBob EgelkoNov. , Nov. , Updated: Nov. , : p.m.Updated: Nov. , : p.m.
Corporations can be held legally responsible for the state’s costs in investigating andCorporations can be held legally responsible for the state’s costs in investigating and
fighting fires that are carelessly started or spread by corporate employees, a state appealsfighting fires that are carelessly started or spread by corporate employees, a state appeals
court ruled Monday.court ruled Monday.
CalFire personnel put out a truck re at Robert Young Vineyards during Kincaid Fire in Geyserville, Calif., on Thursday,CalFire personnel put out a truck re at Robert Young Vineyards during Kincaid Fire in Geyserville, Calif., on Thursday,Oct. , .Oct. , .
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There has been no dispute that corporations can be required to pay compensation forThere has been no dispute that corporations can be required to pay compensation for
deaths, injuries and property damage from fires caused by their employees, the source ofdeaths, injuries and property damage from fires caused by their employees, the source of
at least $18 billion of the debt that at least $18 billion of the debt that drove Pacific Gas and Electric Co. into bankruptcydrove Pacific Gas and Electric Co. into bankruptcy. But. But
corporate responsibility for the state’s firefighting expenses is a separate issue governedcorporate responsibility for the state’s firefighting expenses is a separate issue governed
by state laws, whose meaning is a subject of disagreement among appellate courts.by state laws, whose meaning is a subject of disagreement among appellate courts.
A state appeals court in Sacramento ruled in 2017 that the laws did not authorize theA state appeals court in Sacramento ruled in 2017 that the laws did not authorize the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, to recover costs fromCalifornia Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, to recover costs from
corporations whose employees may have negligently caused wildfires. On Monday, thecorporations whose employees may have negligently caused wildfires. On Monday, the
Second District Court of Appeal in Ventura disagreed and said corporations act throughSecond District Court of Appeal in Ventura disagreed and said corporations act through
their employees.their employees.
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A 1939 state law allows CalFire to recover firefighting costs from “any person” whoA 1939 state law allows CalFire to recover firefighting costs from “any person” who
negligently sets fire or allows a fire to be set or to spread onto others’ property, the courtnegligently sets fire or allows a fire to be set or to spread onto others’ property, the court
said. The law — expanded in 1984 to include the costs of investigating a fire — definessaid. The law — expanded in 1984 to include the costs of investigating a fire — defines
“any person” to include a company or corporation.“any person” to include a company or corporation.
State laws “expressly permit the recovery of fire suppression and investigation costs fromState laws “expressly permit the recovery of fire suppression and investigation costs from
a corporation ... when one of its agents or employees ‘negligently, or in violation of thea corporation ... when one of its agents or employees ‘negligently, or in violation of the
law, sets a fire, allows a fire to be set, or allows a fire kindled or tended by (them) tolaw, sets a fire, allows a fire to be set, or allows a fire kindled or tended by (them) to
escape onto any public or private property,’” Justice Martin Tangeman said escape onto any public or private property,’” Justice Martin Tangeman said in the 3-0in the 3-0
rulingruling, quoting the laws., quoting the laws.
“The electric utility did not negligently construct and maintain its power lines; its“The electric utility did not negligently construct and maintain its power lines; its
employees did,” Tangeman said, referring to other cases. To hold corporations liable foremployees did,” Tangeman said, referring to other cases. To hold corporations liable for
firefight costs only when they directly caused the fire, as the company argued in thisfirefight costs only when they directly caused the fire, as the company argued in this
case, would be “a legal impossibility,” he said.case, would be “a legal impossibility,” he said.
The ruling allows CalFire to proceed with a suit against a corporation, Presbyterian CampThe ruling allows CalFire to proceed with a suit against a corporation, Presbyterian Camp
and Conferences Centers, over the Sherpa Fire, which burned 7,500 acres in the Santaand Conferences Centers, over the Sherpa Fire, which burned 7,500 acres in the Santa
Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara County in June 2016.Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara County in June 2016.
The fire started in the corporation’s camp and conference center. When a chimneyThe fire started in the corporation’s camp and conference center. When a chimney
malfunctioned and filled a cabin with smoke, the court said, an employee took a burningmalfunctioned and filled a cabin with smoke, the court said, an employee took a burning
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log from the fireplace, carried it outside, and accidentally spilled embers onto drylog from the fireplace, carried it outside, and accidentally spilled embers onto dry
vegetation, igniting the fire. An investigation also found that the corporation had failedvegetation, igniting the fire. An investigation also found that the corporation had failed
to properly maintain the chimney, to fully clear dry vegetation or to inspect andto properly maintain the chimney, to fully clear dry vegetation or to inspect and
maintain fire safety devices, the court said.maintain fire safety devices, the court said.
CalFire sued both the corporation and its employee to recover more than $12 million inCalFire sued both the corporation and its employee to recover more than $12 million in
costs of combating the fire and investigating its cause. The ruling allows the agency tocosts of combating the fire and investigating its cause. The ruling allows the agency to
hold the corporation responsible for negligence by the employee.hold the corporation responsible for negligence by the employee.
CalFire spokeswoman Alisha Herring said the agency was pleased that a corporation canCalFire spokeswoman Alisha Herring said the agency was pleased that a corporation can
be held “responsible under the laws for the acts of its employees and agents.”be held “responsible under the laws for the acts of its employees and agents.”
Lee Roistacher, a lawyer for Presbyterian Camp and Conference Centers, said it wasLee Roistacher, a lawyer for Presbyterian Camp and Conference Centers, said it was
reviewing the ruling and considering its options. The corporation could seek review byreviewing the ruling and considering its options. The corporation could seek review by
the state Supreme Court, which often takes up cases to resolve disagreements betweenthe state Supreme Court, which often takes up cases to resolve disagreements between
lower courts.lower courts.
Bob Egelko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: Bob Egelko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected]@sfchronicle.com
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California has no satewide sandard for emergency wildfrealerts and evacuations, leaving families, businesses andlocal authorities to learn through hard experience how toprotect themselves during fres.By Julie Cart.
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When a fas-moving wildfre marched toward the town of Paradise more than a year ago, few wholived there were aware of it. Even though the community used the CodeRED automated emergencywarning sysem, less than 40% of residents subscribed to the alerts.
Only 7,000 of the 52,000 residents who eventually evacuated received the emergency alert to leave.
The fre incinerated cell towers and communications equipment, revealing a vulnerability of thetelephone-based disaser alert sysem. “The only notifcation sysems left were emergency vehiclesirens and bull horns… word-of-mouth with families and neighbors… and immediate action,”the Butte County Grand Jury reported to the Superior Court earlier this year.
The unimaginable deaths and the wholesale desruction of a town exposed California’s ad hocapproach to alerting residents to approaching wildfres and providing prompt and accurateinformation about escape routes.
By the time Paradise residents began to undersand the menace that was about to engulf them,they found themselves in rush-hour-volume gridlock: Only one of the four roads planners hadexpected to use for evacuations remained open; the others were burning, the grand jury reported.
Panicked motoriss abandoned their cars and fed on foot, attempting to outrun the advancingfames. Of 85 deaths attributed to the fre, 10 perished in or near their vehicles. Unable to reach thesafety of another town, some residents took shelter in any available sructure, the report said — achurch, a gas sation, a supermarket parking lot, a lake.
Disaser warnings sill piecemealUp and down the sate, families, businesses and local authorities are learning through hardexperience how to protect themselves during fres. They are pre-planning their evacuation routesand esablishing their personal get-out threshold for evacuating.
Companies have set up their own emergency response centers, cities have contracted with web-based developers to better undersand fre threat and one small fre department is developing asmartphone app to help residents know when and how to evacuate.
Still, there is no satewide sandard for emergency evacuation, no set of uniform, comprehensiveplans that can be called upon in emergencies, not jus for fre but also for foods and earthquakes.Public notifcation of impending disaser is piecemeal, and much of it depends on working telephonelines and available power, equipment that is often the frs casualty of fre.
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State ofcials have shown an interes in adopting technology for fre response, particularly fordetecting, monitoring and mapping blazes. California even hosed an international fre innovationsummit las March to fsh for new ideas. But the sate has yet to roll out many of its initiatives.
And the policy of utility companies curtailing power in times of high fre danger to prevent sparkingblazes presents a new, sill unresolved wrinkle in broadcasing emergency alerts.
California ofcials — in the Legislature and at the Ofce of Emergency Services — say they areworking on it, while noting that the sate’s role is to provide guidance: It is local authorities who areresponsible for immediate emergency response. Following the deadly 2017 fre season, a new satelaw required local governments to have a mechanism to warn residents during emergencies. Thesate Ofce of Emergency Services released general guidelines earlier this year.
The guidelines advocate a scattershot approach to alerts, suggesing a mix of old-school andcutting-edge: sirens, loudspeakers, social media, texting, even ringing church bells. The new rulesrequire alerts when there is an “imminent threat to life, health or property” and emphasize that timeis critical. Worries about triggering mass panic are not an excuse to avoid or delay issuing awarning, the guidelines say.
The sate consulted with a wide range of experts before publishing the guidelines, and they refectpolicies many local authorities already had in place, according to Sam Wallis, a Sonoma Countyemergency coordinator. He said the county did not adopt any of the sate’s new fre-alert srategiesin response to recent wildfres.
“The document refects what we are already doing,” Wallis said.
‘An awful lot of work to be done‘California does not require communities to plan for wildfre evacuations, leaving it as a local
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decision.
Among the sate’s communities that are at the highes risk of fre, fewer than one in four have anevacuation plan that residents can review, according to an invesigation published earlier this yearby a media collaboration including The AP, USA TODAY Network-California, McClatchy and MediaNews.
“If you have a plan and are unable to communicate to the population at risk in real time, you don’treally have a plan, you have an interesing piece of paper on the shelf,” said Dave Winnacker, chiefof the Moraga-Orinda Fire Disrict in Contra Cosa County. “That’s where hisorically we have missedthe mark.”
Winnacker has been experimenting with harnessing technology, and anything else, to warnresidents of impending fre. His department has carefully sudied the puzzle of evacuation and isdeveloping an app to help residents safely leave a fre zone. It’s the kind of innovative idea thatexperts say is needed to respond to the challenge presented by California’s new ferocious frethreat.
“The sate does not have an amazing track record for felding technology,” Winnacker said. “Thesate is going to need some help. There’s an awful lot of work to be done.”
The private sector is brimming with ideas. There are companies that are insantly able to supplydetailed weather information and forecasing, real-time trafc and road reports, images fromsatellites and remote cameras with eyes on an active fre and census data providing frs responderswith information about the location of disabled residents and the languages spoken in a particularhousehold.
The trick is to synthesize layers and layers of information and get it where it’s needed, quickly andaccurately.
“With sate policy, we are jus at the front end of this conversation,” said Pete Peterson, dean of thePepperdine School of Public Policy, which operates a web-based emergency mapping toolthat hasbeen adopted by the city of Los Angeles.
The platform aggregates more than 200 layers of publicly available information — the functioning ofthe electricity grid and transportation, for example — and collates that onto maps that helpauthorities and residents make decisions about evacuation. The maps and other data are availableonline.
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Peterson said that during the recent Tick Fire in L.A. County his research group got a call fromofcials who were considering evacuating an area where they believed about 50,000 people lived.The computer program ran the census data and discovered the area had about 250,000 residents.That kind of accurate information is vital during urgent evacuations.
“The communications part of evacuations is not real good,” he said. “Policymakers and governmentagencies are going to be increasingly accountable for why we don’t have this.”
Avoiding cautionary tales and lives losNo community wants to join Paradise, or the Sonoma County city of Santa Rosa, as a cautionary taleof lives los because of chaotic and inadequate communication.
But misseps can bring about better policy. Misi Wood, the Community Engagement Liaison for theSonoma County Sherif’s Ofce, pointed to the diference between community response to the 2017Tubbs Fire that killed at leas 22 people and the recent Kincade Fire that burned for two weeks butcaused no fatalities.
“Two years ago, people tended to wait for insructions. That’s changed,” Wood said. “Mos of usremember what it was like; none of us want to be in that position again. This fre, we hadextraordinary compliance. There are always people who say behind and we will always bang onyour door. But mos people left.”
Las month’s Kincade Fire aforded authorities more time to warn residents and evacuate 187,000people over several days, the bigges evacuation in Sonoma County hisory. Deputies drove throughneighborhoods with bullhorns and knocked on doors. Ofcials also triggered the Nixle sysem — asubscription service that texts fre alerts. Wood said signups for the service jumped since 2017 andnow 66% of the county’s residents use the sysem.
The medical group Kaiser Permanente didn’t wait for the evacuation orders to begin moving hospitalpatients when the Kincade Fire sarted, according to Stephen Parodi, an Associate Executive Directorof the Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente and an infectious-disease physician whoplans for patient evacuations at several hospitals in Northern California.
Parodi said there was scarcely time to evacuate during the 2017 Santa Rosa fres, which came inwith such speed that saf wheeled patients in the sreets on gurneys and loaded patients into busesor private cars to move them out of harm’s way. In the chaos of the emergency, dozens of patients
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were sent to hospitals with no documents or medical records.
The mos recent fres were diferent, Parodi said. Working from the company’s own emergencyoperations center, Kaiser ofcials monitored weather and fre maps and were in consantcommunication with local authorities, enabling hospitals to make independent decisions about howbes to respond.
Because of the time-consuming triage required to evacuate hundreds of patients, some critically ill,Parodi said, he decided to sart evacuating at 10:30 p.m., before the facility was under orders toclear out.
Six hours later, when mandatory evacuation orders were given, the hospital was sill only halfwaythrough its process. The sandard practice of relocating patients to the neares siser hospital hadbeen symied because the two closes facilities had no power and were operating on generators.
In the end, all patients were safely relocated, Parodi said.
The new reality for Californians is going to be one of more warnings and, very likely, moreevacuations. The public will have to adjus to the new safety paradigm, Cal Fire ofcials say, andbeware evacuation fatigue.
Cal Fire Deputy Director Mike Mohler pointed to the December 2017 Thomas Fire that salked thecoasal city of Montecito. Residents yo-yo’d between orders to evacuate and approval to returnhome, as the unpredictable fre front shifted with the wind. It became the larges fre in Californiahisory.
A month later a deluge of rain placed the community in jeopardy for mudslides. Weary of falsealarms, some homeowners chose to say put. Nearly two dozen people were killed.
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Los Angeles County Sheri Alex Villanueva, at left, listens as members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisorsdiscusses the Sheri�’s Department’s $63-million budget deficit. (Los Angeles Times)
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With enough votes, Congress can impeach the president. So shouldn’t a county board of
supervisors be able to impeach a sheriff?
A proposed ballot measure to that effect has been drafted by a coalition of community groups and
is being circulated among Los Angeles County supervisors. If it comes before voters and is
approved, the board would be able to remove the sheriff for enumerated reasons that amount to
violations of the public trust.
Crazy idea, right? Sheriffs are independently elected. Boards of supervisors can mess with their
budgets, but they otherwise can have no authority over sheriffs. Or so it was long assumed.
But long-held beliefs about sheriff autonomy and the inviolability of their power have been steadily
evaporating since L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca resigned his office in 2014 amid a federal probe into
jail beatings. (Baca was eventually indicted and convicted of obstruction of justice.)
Baca clung to the myth of unaccountable sheriffs. When L.A. County voters approved term limits in
2002, Baca argued that the state Constitution didn’t allow such meddling in his office, and the state
Supreme Court agreed. Its ruling helped blunt efforts to rein in the sheriff in any fashion. Even
outrage over the brutal beating of jail inmates by sheriff’s deputies left Baca unmoved. Asked by the
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Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence how he could be held accountable, Baca said there was only
one way: “Don’t elect me.”
In other words, Baca was saying, sheriffs don’t get appointed or removed the way police chiefs do.
They are subject only to being denied re-election or being recalled by the voters. They can’t be
overseen by civilian boards, like the L.A. city Police Commission.
Or can they? In other counties, the cult of the all-powerful sheriff has held less sway. San Diego
County voters created a civilian review board in 1990, and the state Supreme Court upheld its
powers.
And the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance in 2002 that provides
for removal of sheriffs — independently elected though they may be — on a four-fifths vote of the
board. A court upheld that law as well.
After Baca’s departure, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors created an inspector general and the
nine-member Civilian Oversight Commission similar to San Diego’s. In line with the lingering
belief that supervisors can’t limit sheriff power, the inspector general currently gets only the
information the sheriff wants to give him, and the commission has virtually no formal authority
over the department.
But that could soon change. A measure on the March 3 ballot would give the commission and the
inspector general power to compel witnesses to appear and internal files to be turned over for
inspection. The San Diego court ruling would appear to support such authority, but just in case, a
bill to explicitly grant subpoena power is making its way through the California Legislature.
At issue are oversight and accountability. A virtual cult of sheriff power holds sway in many parts of
the nation, where advocates of the so-called constitutional sheriff’s movement argue that sheriffs
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are a county’s top executives, superior to federal authorities, police chiefs, even boards of
supervisors. But no elected official — and especially not a law enforcement official — should be free
of constitutional checks and balances. “Don’t elect me” is an insufficient oversight principle.
Current Sheriff Alex Villanueva, although no fan of Baca, appears to agree with him regarding
sheriff power. He has branded oversight commission members as political appointees with no
formal power over him. The supervisors have begun to see things differently, especially after
clashes with the sheriff over his hiring and spending practices.
Sheriff impeachment would not be parallel to presidential impeachment because county
government is so oddly assembled, with supervisors who act as executives as well as lawmakers.
Proper county checks and balances would require a strictly legislative board with either a mayor-
like elected executive or an appointed county manager who in turn appoints a sheriff, in much the
way cities pick police chiefs.
Short of a major county government revamp, there are serious questions to be asked about the
wisdom of sheriff impeachment. But the proposal’s mere existence suggests that L.A. County
residents are no longer willing to acquiesce to the notion that sheriffs are invulnerable to civilian
oversight. That’s a step in the right direction.
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California voters to get added access in 14languages for 2020 elections, court rules
BY THEODORA YU
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Election materials in 2020 will be available in 14 Asian languages for limited-English proficient voters,the California Court of Appeal ruled this month.
The Nov. 4 ruling stipulated that California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla has improperly used thefederal standard’s higher-percentage threshold of voting age citizens to determine which languagesreceive services, therefore depriving those entitled to access under state law.
More than 1.7 million foreign-born Californians with their native tongue don’t speak English very well,Census Bureau 2018 estimates show. The languages that will see new or expanded language assistance inthe upcoming elections are spoken by nearly 57,000 residents, the Asian Americans Advancing Justicesaid in a news release.
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State law makes language assistance mandatory for voters in each county or precincts in which 3 percentor more of the voting-age residents are members of a “single language minority” and not sufficientlyskilled enough to vote in English without assistance. The ruling affirmed that Padilla wrongfullyimported the federal acquirement of 5 percent instead of 3 percent as specified by state law.
The languages to be included in the voting materials are: Bengali, Burmese, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian,Japanese, Lao, Mien, Mongolian, Nepali, Tamil, Thai, Telugu and Urdu. Many are previously notcovered in California, according to the release.
Materials such as translated facsimile ballots – for voters to refer to on English ballots – will be provided,among other resources in the 14 languages. The translations will be placed in conspicuous locations inthe appropriate polling areas.
The languages with expanded access to translated voting materials in 2020 are Hmong and Punjabi.
The lawsuit was filed by The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, AAAJLos Angeles, AAAJ Asian Law Caucus and the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
“Today’s decision will make it possible for many thousands of Californians to participate fully andequally in our democratic process,” said William Freeman, a senior counsel with the ACLU Foundationof Northern California. “California must continue to be in the forefront of encouraging robust voterparticipation by our state’s diverse communities.”
Barriers such as learning disabilities arising from post-war trauma and day-to-day surviving in a newsystem make it hard for many immigrants to have time or the capacity to learn English after moving tothe United States, said Chiem-Seng Yaangh, adviser of Iu-Mien Community Services in Sacramento.
The English language structure is also very different as compared to many Asian languages, he added,which heightens the challenge for those who moved to the U.S. at an older age.
Yaangh said the ruling could encourage more people to vote, as many don’t due to language barriers anda lack of ballot education. He noted that more forums could be held to register voters and educate thecommunity about candidates, while calling the ruling an important step for the state’s Mien community.
“It acknowledges that our language and culture matters,” he said.
Rashid Ahmad, former president of the Council of American-Islamic Relations’ Sacramento Valley, ishappy about the ruling as it will make the voting process easier, especially for elderly Pakistani
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immigrants who came from rural areas or smaller towns and do not speak English. He said materials thatcome before voting, including campaign fliers and candidate statements, have vital information.
“You can see candidates putting effort to campaign in the ethnic newspapers,” he added.
The ruling is confined to “Asian languages” due to the definitely of “language minority” under federallaw, the AAAJ said.
“We’re thrilled that many limited-English speaking Asian American voters in California will receivetranslated voting assistance for the first time in 2020 under this ruling. That is voting assistance they areowed under the plain language of California state law,” said Jonathan Stein, staff attorney from the AsianLaw Caucus. “We are disappointed, however, that the court did not agree with us that full languageaccess is owed to all limited-English speaking communities in California.”
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Alicia, Keni and Gray, left to right, are living in shelters in Hollywood and waiting for homes to become available. (DaniaMaxwell / Los Angeles Times)
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One day on Carlos Avenue in Hollywood last month, just south of the 101 Freeway, I met a woman
who goes by the name Raven. She said she was 29, had been homeless since she was 17, and
headed west in June from her home in Ohio.
Why L.A.?
Why not?
Like so many others, in so many other places, Raven wanted a change. And for restless spirits, the
West still beckons.
But she suffered from an autoimmune disorder and came to believe, shortly after arriving, that Los
Angeles had nothing but crappy options for her.
“I could couch-surf and get raped,” Raven said.
Or she could get a job and hope she didn’t get sick and lose it, which had happened before. But
even with a decent paycheck, Raven said, she couldn’t afford a place of her own. Not with these
crazy prices. So instead she was reading tarot cards on Hollywood Boulevard when she could find a
taker, and living in a tent on Carlos Avenue, “with typhus and rats and human [feces] everywhere.”
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I told Raven I had met with frustrated, exasperated residents of the area who wanted their
sidewalks back, and they too were tired of tiptoeing around human waste.
Raven’s jaw tightened and her eyes narrowed.
“Then why don’t they open some bathrooms?” she asked, anger rising. “We need housing, and we
need some ... respect. People walk past us and make fun of us, and we’re more afraid of them than
they are of us. How dare them!”
::
Hollywood has long had a dark underbelly. Maybe the darkness, rather than the glitz, was always
the bigger draw. Maybe there were always more people running from something rather than to
something. But I have never seen it as ruptured as it is now, with thriving commerce and
astonishing social collapse side by side.
You see damage everywhere. You see the pain of abuse and neglect, you see the harrowing effects of
mental illness, you see the way drugs can empty the eyes and anchor someone to the street, and
you see a bit of the relief that comes from knowing you’re in a place, finally, where you don’t have
to hide sexual or gender identity.
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Together, if we make small changes we can make a big impact. Jointhe movement.
‘These are people whose back story is “my stepdad tried to kill me at 3; I was raped at 5; I was a
prostitute at 14.” ’
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The young people who go through the youth service center called My Friend’s Place are often
wounded casualties of foster and juvenile justice experiences in L.A. and elsewhere, said program
director Erin Casey. They don’t hit the streets for the meth, Casey said, but if they’re out there long,
the powerful drug can help them temporarily “manage the trauma,” even as it slowly destroys
them.
The downward spiral is hard to escape, but occasionally there are happy endings. On a visit to My
Friend’s Place last week, I met a woman of 40 who had been a client there in her teens and later,
amazingly, became a physician. Sheryl Recinos said she ended up homeless in Hollywood after
running away to Los Angeles from a dysfunctional home in North Carolina and then getting raped
after she arrived.
It took years for her to trust any adult, said Recinos — whose book on her journey is called
“Hindsight: Coming of Age on the Streets of Hollywood” — and to believe that My Friend’s Place
was really trying to help her. The young people on the streets of Hollywood today probably think
they’re going to die young, Recinos said.
Understanding them isn’t possible without knowing that.
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On Carlos Avenue, Raven’s friend Joe told me he came to Los Angeles not long ago, from
Tennessee, looking for a woman he’d met on the internet. But like Hollywood itself, she was a
tease, a dream. Joe said they never even met. He got booted from the bus station downtown for
trying to catch a nap, then wandered over to Hollywood with little money and even less of a plan.
“I just want to get a legit job,” said Joe, who told me he had thought about going into comedy, or
investing in bitcoin, or saving up enough to buy a vehicle he could live in.
In the meantime, he said, he digs for some of his meals out of trash containers.
“You just don’t dig to the bottom,” he said.
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I asked Joe if he knew why more people don’t return home when they find out how hard it is to
survive in L.A.
“A lot of them can’t go back home,” Joe said. “A lot of them have warrants.”
LAPD Det. Shannon Geaney checks in on a homeless person. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Outreach workers make the rounds in Hollywood, keeping tabs on the Ravens and the Joes, asking
if they’re OK. One such worker was helping Joe get into L.A.’s homeless services system. Joe, born
out of state, didn’t have a Social Security card or birth certificate, which would make it nearly
impossible for him to get work or housing, but the outreach worker promised to help.
Well, I thought, it would be great if Joe made that tough transition from homeless to housed.
But I had another thought too:
How many Joes can Los Angeles take care of?
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I’m not suggesting there shouldn’t be a net for those who stumble, get sick, or get chewed up by an
economy that buries more people than it lifts.
But with nearly 60,000 homeless people in L.A. County and limited resources, should taxpayers
who can barely cover their own cost of living be on the hook for every new arrival from somewhere
else in California or the nation?
I’m not convinced we’re helping those who need it most. An average of about three homeless
people die each day in L.A. County, while countless others suffer monstrous madness in full public
view. I don’t think we’re working hard enough to reach the neediest.
“We’re not distinguishing,” said Kerry Morrison, who’s working on a pilot designed to bring better
mental health treatment to Hollywood’s most severely disabled people. “You can come to
California, sleep on the streets, do drugs — which are easy to find — and when you’re ready, you
can get in line to get a housing voucher with no strings attached. And that is not sustainable.”
On the same street where I spoke to Raven and Joe, a young woman in a wheelchair spoke wistfully
about her family in Idaho and about her child, who was in foster care. Another young woman,
living in a tent, said she was pregnant, something that will probably move her up on the waiting list
for housing.
A young chap who moved here from Oregon a couple of years ago to get away from his problems
told me he had only found more. As we talked, he ran a finger along the bridge of his nose,
wondering if it was broken. He said he’d been jumped twice the last couple of days.
An hour later, I saw some of the people I had talked to sitting in a circle on the pavement, passing a
piece of aluminum foil and snorting a line of something.
Meth is everywhere. So is fentanyl. They are killing people.
In Hollywood, and in much of L.A. County, the housing shortage is only part of the problem.
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Amie Quigley of First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood listens to Robert Carpenter play the piano during a mental healthclinic at the church. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
“One hundred percent of everybody out there has trauma,” said Amie Quigley, director of
community services at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, which is surrounded by
encampments and provides services to those with severe mental illness. “You don’t meet anyone
who’s high-functioning but going through a tough time. … These are people whose back story is ‘my
stepdad tried to kill me at 3; I was raped at 5; I was a prostitute at 14.’”
Quigley tries to “lovingly redirect” people, as she describes her mission, and sometimes that means
sending them back where they came from. Quigley estimated that church staff had arranged for
about 40 people to get on a bus and go back home so far this year. Typically, she said, she’ll be
talking to someone who’s having a rough time in L.A., and she’ll ask if they’ve considered returning
home. Then comes the question:
“Do you think I should?”
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Quigley answers honestly:
“I would.”
Quigley said she won’t buy bus tickets for people unless she thinks it’s the best choice for them, and
they make the decisions. She tries to make sure there’s someone on the other end who can give
them a shot at building a better life. If all that checks, she might say:
“You need to be in the safest place you can be in right now, and this isn’t that. You need to get to
where you can get the best care, and I don’t want to see you on the sidewalk here for three more
years.”
Amie Quigley comforts Charva Harris during a mental health clinic at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. (DaniaMaxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Quigley lives near the church, but said she no longer feels comfortable walking home through the
Gower/101 underpass. From her office, she hears screaming from the tents, and the wailing of a
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dog that’s regularly beaten by a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.
“The domestic violence here is off the charts. We’re dealing with it in the tents, and I had to call the
police because this guy was yelling at his wife that he was going to kill her, right outside my door. It
was screaming you could hear in Pasadena,” Quigley said.
Quigley talks about the “competing virtues” of residents who want encampments cleared and
homeless people who don’t want to be harassed and herded when there’s nowhere for them to go.
Maybe we need to regulate how long someone can stay in the same spot on the sidewalk, Quigley
said, and maybe we need to bill other states for the services we provide their residents. A struggling
but “semi-capable” person can be in L.A. a year or so, Quigley said, and get housing before a
California native who’s schizophrenic and has been on the street for a decade.
“We have to look at who should be eligible for housing in Los Angeles, because it can’t be everyone
having a tough time of it in Cincinnati,” Quigley said.
“We need new tactics.”
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A homeless encampment on the corner of Tamarind and Carlos avenues in Hollywood. (Dania Maxwell / Los AngelesTimes)
Alicia and her sister Tea, both 22, along with friends Gray and Keni, 20 and 23, used to live near
the apartment building on Carlos Avenue where residents were begging for relief from the noise
and the clutter.
Now they’re in shelters in Hollywood, matched for housing, and waiting for their new homes to
become available. I found the four of them one day, sitting on the sidewalk across from the bridge
shelter on Schrader Boulevard, passing a joint.
“Instead of coming out and talking to us as human beings, the first thing they did was jump to the
police,” Alicia said when I told her about the fed-up residents.
She added that someone yelled at them out the window one day, calling them homeless bitches.
“It’s always rudeness before kindness,” she said, “but respect begets respect.”
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She said if residents were complaining about their taxes paying for homeless services, she wasn’t
losing any sleep.
“Youth have been screwed over by, sorry, your generation,” she said.
Gray outside a shelter on Schrader Boulevard. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
The four told me about their histories of broken homes and mental health evaluations. Gray is from
Southern California, but Alicia, Tea and Keni are from Michigan. Alicia said she left after being
raped there.
“It’s either be homeless in Michigan and choose to freeze to death or come here and live semi-
comfortably until we get our s— together,” said Alicia, who told me she did her research on
homelessness before heading west, considered Venice, but settled on Hollywood.
“I’d rather be in the inner city,” she said, “where there are more services.”
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Hollywood has roughly 2,000 homeless people, and there are only 72 beds at the Schrader shelter.
So she’s one of the lucky few, but I wonder if Schrader operates in a way that can really make a
difference.
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Heidi Marston, chief program officer at the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, told me Schrader is
still getting established but has had more early success than other shelters. When I asked how
many people have moved on to permanent housing since the opening, the authority relayed
numbers to me that it got from Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office.
Twenty-six people have been matched to housing; 16 more are ready to be matched when housing
becomes available.
But only four have been housed so far.
In eight months.
And how many more homeless people have arrived in Hollywood in that time?
In Los Angeles, we all keep wondering when things are going to get better. But there’s no
compelling reason to believe they won’t get worse.
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The Suburban Office Park, an AgingRelic, Seeks a ComebackAfter losing tenants to revitalized downtowns over the last decade,developers are adding modern amenities to secluded campuses.
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Nov. 19, 2019, 9:00 a.m. ET
When Research Triangle Park in North Carolina opened in 1959, its bucolic setting was considered a major selling point. With officebuildings hidden behind grassy meadows and swaths of pine forest, the quiet development was viewed as a perfect spot for the thinkerswho went to work at companies like IBM and RTI International.
But tastes have changed, and in an effort to keep up, Research Triangle Park — the country’s largest corporate research park — is finallychanging as well.
Plans to redevelop a portion of the park, which have been pending for eight years, are now moving forward. In a few years, ResearchTriangle Park, which lacks even a coffee shop within its 7,000 acres, will be home to restaurants, bars, shops and apartments.
The development’s challenges echo those of other suburban office parks around the country. Over the past decade, younger workers havecome to favor urban environments that contain a variety of services and transportation options, a shift that has reduced the popularity oflarge, cloistered office settings.
“We’ve noticed a trend of a lot of office tenants moving to more urban, highly amenitized markets to attract talent,” said JonathanChambers, a vice president at Delta Associates, a real estate research firm in Washington. “They want to be closer to entertainment,transit, retail.”
At the same time, today’s tight labor market means that real estate can play a significant role in attracting and retaining quality talent. Inresponse, developers are upgrading many suburban office campuses and adding amenities to make them more appealing. These officeparks are on their way to a comeback, some analysts say.
Suburban office parks are a product of the country’s postwar car culture that emerged in the early 1950s. Most were speculative, for-profitendeavors, but Research Triangle Park was a nonprofit initiative spearheaded by civic leaders. It was an attempt to retain graduates fromnearby colleges and advance North Carolina’s economy, and it became hugely successful: Amid its winding streets and anodynelandscaping, big information technology, pharmaceutical and biotech companies flourished.
Office parks spread across the country, reaching a peak in the 1990s. By 2015, with the urban-living trend in full swing, 14 to 22 percent ofsuburban office space in the United States was obsolete, according to a report from the real estate advisory firm Newmark Knight Frank.Many properties were old, drab or inconveniently situated, particularly compared with bustling downtowns.
That was the case with Research Triangle Park, which is named for its location between Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, municipalitiesthat have become increasingly dynamic and are a draw for young workers. With agreements that restricted development to 30 percent ofthe land and prohibited retail or housing, the park struggled to compete.
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“The smaller companies that wanted urban services and density were moving out of the park and into an urban center,” said Ted Zoller, aprofessor of entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And many bigger companies were not coming; the parklost out on several large projects, including expansion plans by Amazon and Apple.
Other big research and development parks have pivoted more quickly. The board of the country’s second-largest research park, inHuntsville, Ala., recognized in the early 2000s that its employees needed better access to services and created a mixed-use commercialzone. The result, the Bridge Street Town Centre, is thriving, and the park’s leaders are planning a second project that will add even morehotel, retail and office space.
At Research Triangle Park, big redevelopment initiatives have been slowed by planning, personnel and money issues. Instead, theResearch Triangle Foundation, which manages the park, has been taking smaller steps toward change.
One example is Frontier RTP, a former IBM building that reopened in 2015 with free co-working space and has since expanded to threemore buildings. Offering lower rates and smaller, flexible spaces that start-ups and young companies can use, Frontier RTP is now hometo a third of the park’s 300 companies.
And in August, Research Triangle Park broke ground on the Boxyard RTP, a $7 million project that will turn repurposed shippingcontainers into a food and drink spot.
But the big project is yet to come. The park’s zoning ordinances and regulations have been amended, and next year, the foundation willbreak ground on a $1.13 billion mixed-use development, Hub RTP.
Frontier RTP offers smaller, flexible spaces that appeal to start-ups, and is now home to a third of the park’s 300 companies. Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times
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Willard Retail will build 130,000 square feet of retail, with an eye to driving weekend and evening traffic to the site. The residentialdeveloper MAA is slated to construct 450 units of housing. Phase 1 is estimated to be done in mid-2022.
Eventually, the 100-acre Hub RTP will also include hotel and conference facilities, as well as more housing and office space. The end resultshould be a live-work-play area intended to appeal to workers.
“It’s a rebranding,” said Scott Levitan, chief executive of the Research Triangle Foundation. “It needs to be rebuilt and re-visioned as a realtown center.”
With that addition, he thinks Research Triangle Park will appeal to employers that are interested in “a more affordable market where theirtalent can live, and with amenities that are equivalent to an urban environment,” he said.
Suburban office park owners and developers around the country are keenly aware that the fight for talent is driving many companies’decisions. And many companies are willing to pay for high-quality office space — even in the suburbs.
The demand is greater in areas where the unemployment rate is particularly low, said Barry DiRaimondo, chief executive of the realestate firm SteelWave.
“The pool of labor is working at your competitor,” he said. “It’s almost like an arms race. You’re trying to create an environment peoplecan’t get elsewhere.”
Efforts to modernize suburban campuses can be as basic as organizing placemaking activities like after-work concerts or food truckFridays. Usually, though, they require a much deeper investment in elements like upgraded lobbies, outdoor furniture, ball courts, fitnesscenters, grab-and-go cafes, greenways, bike storage facilities and open-plan offices that let in substantial natural light.
Analysts caution that the suburban office market is specific to each region. In many West Coast areas, for example, just about everysubmarket is doing well, whether urban or suburban. That means a former single-tenant office park like Rosewood Commons in the BayArea can do very well, particularly if it’s near public transit. But even Rosewood added a few amenities, like a bike-share program, arenovated cafeteria and a bocce court.
Across the country, the suburban office vacancy rate is the lowest it has been since 2001, according to recent CBRE data. So even in theMidwest, employers are often willing to invest in attractive suburban offices, the real estate firm JLL said in a recent report.
The park “needs to be rebuilt and re-visioned as a real town center,” said ScottLevitan, head of the Research Triangle Foundation.Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times
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In Des Moines, the R&R Realty Group recently opened the Westfield Campus, a large multitenant complex with a rooftop patio, a coffeebar, a multipurpose event space and an amphitheater. At almost $23 per square foot, it is one of the most expensive properties on themarket there, but Mark Rupprecht, R&R’s president, said companies were willing to pay it.
“The question kept coming up: What can I do to differentiate my business and myself?” he said, adding that building a new suburbanoffice campus did not feel risky. “Nothing’s guaranteed, but the suburban office market isn’t dead.”
After all, with downtowns everywhere becoming increasingly expensive, workers are starting to look farther afield, to areas withaffordable homes and good schools.
“The millennial work force is getting older and finding suburbs more appealing than they did 10 years ago,” said Dustin C. Read, aprofessor at Virginia Tech and the author of a recent NAIOP report on the evolution of suburban office parks.
“They do need an environment that makes them happy,” he said. “But the fundamental characteristics that have always made the suburbsattractive continue to do so.”
A section of Research Triangle Park that’s the site of a planned development with shops, housing and other amenities. Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times
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