Extra Patrols Added at Malibu Schools Today, Jangled Nerves Yesterday

Extra sheriff’s patrols have been added to schools across the nation, but Sheriff Alex Villanueva carefully avoided saying that in his comments yesterday after the Texas shooting.  But today, Lt. Jennifer Seatoo made it clear that the regular patrols at Malibu schools will be bolstered.

Yesterday …  the day that 19 little kids were slaughtered at a Texas school … jangled nerves at Malibu High School.  Fire trucks and an ambulance were called to Malibu High yesterday afternoon when someone had a medical emergency .

This was right at the end of the day.  Hundreds of students were sent to the back gates of the campus … to leave that way.

Principal Patrick Miller told parents there was a medical emergency right at dismissal time.  It required fire department and ambulance response at the front of the school.  

In order to not disrupt the fire department and to maximize student privacy … the school quickly  shifted all parent pick ups to the upper parking lots.  Privacy laws mean no information can be given about the medical emergency.

Santa Monica Malibu school superintendent Ben Drati sent parents a letter last night.  He wrote that police patrols have been increased at Santa Monica campuses… but did not mention if sheriffs deputies patrols would increase in Malibu.

Drati wrote that students at middle schools and high schools have caused “incidents where threats come from inside, by a student attending the school.”

Instagram threats have been reported this spring at Malibu High.  Drati says middle and high schools require a different approach from hardening the perimeter … an approach that predominantly focuses on reducing the threat through interventions prior to the person entering with a weapon.

Malibu City Council To Appoint City Council Friday, Will Discuss A City Attorney

Malibu’s city council has scheduled a special meeting Friday at 2 p.m. to appoint a city manager.

Steve McClary was named city manager three weeks ago, subject to ironing out details of a contract.  That was supposed to have been settled by last Monday, but at the last minute the vote was tabled.

Also on the agenda for Friday afternoon, selected a city attorney.  John Cotti has been been acting as interim city attorney since Christi Hogin retired 17 months ago.

Cotti works for the same law firm that Hogin worked at.  At one point, last year, city council member Bruce Silverstein reportedly filed a state bar complaint against him, but later withdrew it.

Report Of A Gun On The Beach Results In Little Dume Getting Cleared: An Idiot With An Airlift In His Belt

The Uvalde Texas slaughter is also on the mind of beachgoers.  Social media was abuzz yesterday about an incident the night before …. a reported man with a gun on Little Dume beach … two nights ago.

The man reportedly had a handgun tucked into his waistband.  Two people called 9-1-1.   He sheriff’s office sent five units and a helicopter … which used its loudspeaker to clear the beach.

Deputies said the purported gun was actually an Airsoft pistol … a very realistic looking pistol with a tiny fluorescent pink tip.  These fire gas powered pellets.  They are sold … quoting sales material … to improve ones handgun skills.

They are not illegal to carry … unless they are used to threaten people.   Deputies at Little Dume say Mister Macho was not threatening anybody … his record checked clean … and he was not arrested or cited.

It is not illegal to carry an Airsoft pistol to the beach,  Only stupid.

Second California County Ends New B-and-Bs At The Beach: 22% Of One Beach Town Is Up For Short Term Rent

A second coastal county has banned new overnight vocational rentals in houses near the beach.  Marin County supervisors yesterday voted to temporarily ban new vacation rental applications along the county coast.

School populations are dropping.  =Workers cannot find housing.  At least 10% of all residential parcels along the Marin County coast are being run as vacation rentals.  In Stinson Beach … 22% of all houses are licensed to rent for less than 30 days. 

“We’ve lost our communities” says  Albert Straus, founder and chief executive officer of Straus Family Creamery.Speaking during Tuesday’s board meeting, Straus said he supported restrictions for short-term rentals because he believes they are partly to blame for decimating workforce housing, reducing school enrollment and causing companies like his to move out of the area.

“The status quo is not acceptable and not sustainable,” Straus said in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Marin County’s temporary ban on new vacation rentals echoes a similar moratorium in Sonoma County, where officials are also trying to strike a balance between allowing property owners to earn income from their houses and a stubborn housing shortage that has combined with rising costs.

There is no word if the California coastal commission has signed off on either the Marin County or Sonoma County crack down.  In Malibu … the Coastal Commission has been in favor of short term rentals as a supposed affordable beach lodging for inland residents … despite the high cost for rentals here.

This story is based on reporting in the San Francisco Chronicle.

City Of LA Has 14,000 People In RVs And Campers, And No Place To Impound or Destruct Them

In a problem with direct implications for Malibu … the City of Los Angeles has no place to tow the hundreds of RVs that are illegally parked on city streets.

The Los Angeles Daily News reports today that the LAPD cannot start towing away ramshackle campers … destined for the scrapheap … because it has no impound space to store them.

And there are 14 thousand people living in cars … campers or RVs on city streets in LA.

There are only 200 safe parking space for street people in all of L-A.

The L-A has ended a moratorium on removing campers being used as homes. 

Dozens of the RVs sit on LA streets.

Some say they provide essential housing for people with nowhere else to go.

People who live near the RVs … of course … have a much different opinion.

An assistant LA police chief told the Police Commission yesterday that LAPD “needs additional storage facilities for RVs that are abandoned and that are in dilapidated conditions.” 

There is a lack of demand for recycled RV debris across the region … no one is breaking down RVs for scrap.

The L A city council ordered a moratorium on towing away RVs in January 2021 …. But ended that last month after dozens of RVs began to accumulate on city streets.

LAPD’s Chief Michel Moore said what is further complicating the city’s ability to move around homeless in their RVs is the fact that few places exist for them to park safely.

“We need safe parking,” Moore said. “We have 10 sites that can accommodate 200 vehicles in the entire city.”

That’s despite having L.A. having a population of people living in their cars “exceeding 14,000 people every night.”

“We need these services to grow exponentially,” Moore said.

Arts Commission Wants To Know What Malibu Wants

Malibu’s Arts Commission wants a community arts center … 

Parks advocates want more athletics fields.

Swimmers want a public swimming pool. 

Point Dume residents want a small park.

The Malibu film society is taking about a movie theater.

Library advocates want a western Malibu library.

And the City of Malibu owns five vacant lots …scattered from behind While foods to the Chili Cook off site to the Heathercliff lot to Trancas.

The Woolsey Fire took up the city’s attention for the last three years … postponing discussions on a master facilities plan.
Malibu politics are bitterly fractured.

And decades ago .. efforts to come up with a master plan for the Civic Center area went down in flames.

Yesterday … the city arts commission again tried to come up with a survey concept … part of what may become a city blueprint for future arts or parks facilities.

Aertds commissioner E Barry Haldeman says the city really needs to do some survey work here.

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“if 3/4 of the city says we don’t want an arts Center, or they want one that’s not too big, we need to know that before we go to much further or we’re just whistling in the wind or sitting in the dark.”

City council members have also said it is time to begin the community surveys … 

SMC/Malibu Move In Next Fall, Sheriff’s Station Opens In June ’23

16 years after voters approved it … and 10 years after construction efforts began … the Malibu branch of Santa Monica College is nearing completion. Managers now say the building on Civic Center Way will be completed in five months. 

Only 250 Malibu residents have so far taken the survey …. Asking what classes and other services should be offered at Malibu U.

Four types of classes are envisioned.

One is high school dual enrollment (the student completes high school diploma and progresses towards an associate degree at the same time), coursework in ocean science and the blue economy, and yoga teacher certification. 

Noncredit classes included certificates in sustainability, bike maintenance, working with older adults, and certification of instructional hours earned by au pairs. 

The Emeritus offerings, designed for those in their 50s and up and free to the student, included such coursework as drawing and painting, creative writing, life drawing studio, calligraphy, t’ai chi, fall prevention, Shakespeare, current events, music appreciation, and more. 

Community education classes, which are fee-based, included real estate pre-licensure classes, how to serve on a nonprofit board, nonprofit board finance, Robert’s Rules of Order and other techniques for running organizations, how to write funny, paint anything, street photograph, intro to voice acting, pharmacy technician, veterinary assistant, investment bootcamp, and summer camps and other youth-based programs. The survey also assessed

SMC will continue its educational planning based on results of the survey and will further develop its planning based on additional community input. SMC staff will highlight some of the information received to date through the survey. 

A full analysis is scheduled to take place internally in July and August. The online survey can be found at smc.edu/malibusurvey

At the back of it is a sheriff’s station … built as an inducement to voters to approve a bond issue to build the college.

The sheriff’s station won’t be ready until June of next year city officials said Monday.  Negotiations are underway with the county as to how much it will cost.

Adorable Baby Condor, Helpful Daddy And Protective Mother On Condor-Cam From 30 Miles North Of Malibu

Endangered condors used to fly over Malibu.

They are long gone from the Santa Monica Mountains.

 making a comeback, but there are still less than 100 in Southern California population.

The population of the endangered California Condor has increased by one, with the birth of a new condor chick in Ventura County’s backcountry.

Arianna Punzalan, the Supervisory Wildlife Biologist for the California Condor Recovery Program:

“It’s in a nest in what we call Toms Canyon, which is near the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge, which is near Fillmore,” said Arianna Punzalan, the Supervisory Wildlife Biologist for the California Condor Recovery Program.”

While the nest that’s home to the new chick is in a remote area, you can experience it live through a brand new condor-cam.

“This is the first time we’ve had a camera in this next, and this nest area,” said the biologist

Punzalen says the cxiondiors are still battling back after nearly going extinct 50 years ago. 

Lead poisoning comes from bullets…. The bullets that mortally wound = mammals are ingested by the condors as they eat the carcass. 

Hunters and the NRA have stubbornly refused to allow lead bullets to be banned.You can see the. Baby condor on your computer by navigating to the Santa Barbara Zoo website and clicking  condor-cam.

We have a link at the KBUU web page. 

Reporting on this story from KCLU.

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