KBUU Newswire – Day 343 – Thurs Oct 17 – Seetoo Removed From Malibu Job – Sheriff’s Action Infuriates City Hall – Gust Winds Tonight As VC Tallies Blackout Problems

• =    More turmoil at the sheriff’s department … the Malibu liaison is transferred out … again.
• =    Jennifer Seetoo had built strong community bonds … over just 51 weeks out here.
• =    More santa Anas coming this weekend … no Malibu blackout alerts … yet.
• =    Edison is picking uo the tab for a city listening session.
• =    And the local red legged frogs did not all get vaporized in the fire … as feared.

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Malibu’s Only Local Daily News … from Radio Malibu  …. F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.

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After almost exactly one year in the job … Lieutenant Jennifer Seetoo has been bounced out of the L A County sheriff’s office Malibu Lost Hills Station.

Details:   https://www.radiomalibu.net/lt-jennifer-seetoo-removed/

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Here we go again.  Gusty mountain winds from the north are expected to increase this afternoon and increase all weekend.  This, as nearby Ventura County is taking stock of its first round of intentional power outages … imposed by Southern California Edison as winds topped 50 miles per hour.   Details:   https://www.radiomalibu.net/mild-santa-anas-predicted/

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Eyebrows are being raised in some corners …. as the City of Malibu is going to host a fire  resiliency listening exercise … paid for by Southern California Edison.

Two sessions are gojng to be held … for the city to listen to residents abiout resiliency.

Paid counselors from Pepperdine University will be the facilitators.

The city wrote a small grant request … Edison funded it.

Some in Malibu are not very happy … not very happy about that at all.

They note that the City of Malibu has sued Southern California Edison for millions.

And that the city should bot be in bed with Edison on anything.

City manager Reva Feldman is looking into to the appearance of a conflict of interest.

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The Calfiornia Coastal Commission and Malibu’s largest condominium complex have a showdown today.

Th Outrigger condos … on Bilionaires Beach … has 42 units.

It also has an easement … a required beach accessway … on the west side.

That’s the site of the old Malibu Yacht club … the vacant lot that for decades was the home of a fleet of catamaran sail boats.

Coastal Commission staff contends that the condos put part of a septic system and a parking lot on the vacant lot 40 years ago.

And that development blocks the accessway that was promised to connect PCH to the beach.

Coastal and the condominium association have been tussling over this for decades.

Now … a proposed settlement goes to the Coastal Commission this morning.

Two separate cease and desist orders – one to Outrigger and one to the owners of the vacant lot … are being proposed,

The Outrigger will remove unpermitted riprap and a private beach access walkway … take out permits for the septic field and the parking lot … and pay a half million dollar penalty.

The Outrigger condos will also dedicate an easement for the entire stretch of beach in front its property.

A new walkway will be built from from Pacific Coast Highway to the beach just west of the expanded parking lot. This new vertical easement will be twenty-feet-wide, … double the width of the extant Easement.

Outrigger will also pay for the construction of an Americans with Disability Act (“ADA”) compliant vertical accessway, which will include amenities such as benches and a shade structure to allow members of the public of all abilities to enjoy this heretofore difficult to access portion of the coast.

The owner of the old yacht club lot … the Sterling Family Trust … will sign a consent agreement to allow all this to happen on their vacant lot.

All this goes before the Coastal Commission this morning … in Chula Vista.

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Biologists in the local mountains say they are thrilled to have discovered a total of 28 California red-legged frogs …, alive … after the fire.

During a number of night surveys … over the last few weeks, a handful of frogs were found in each of the four reintroduction sites.

To say that National Park Service ecologist Katy Delaney is amazed and thrilled would be an understatement.

She has been tracking the frogs since several bunches of eggs were introducted into the mountains several years ago … after they had been wiped out and disappeared 40 years ago,

She had worried that  a huge wildfire followed closely by catastrophic mudslides could have potentially meant the end for these small, nocturnal amphibians. . The bad news is that the habitat may be unsuitable for breeding for years. We’ll see… . The project stemmed from the idea of using a source population of frogs found in the nearby Simi Hills that could help reintroduce the species in the Santa Monica Mountains in four streams. Biologists hypothesized that they would eventually mature, mate and reproduce on their own. . California red-legged frogs have not lived in the Santa Monica Mountains since the 1970s. They are listed as federally threatened under the Endangered Species Act and they are a state species of special concern.

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And you had to see this one coming.

A Santa Monica man was arrested for drunken driving after he crashed his rented electric scooter into a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

SMPD officers were sent to the area of Main St and Ocean Park for a traffic collision with injuries. A male subject on an electric scooter struck a pedestrian as they were crossing the street. During the investigation, the scooter rider displayed symptoms of being under the influence of alcohol. The scooter rider was in violation of failure to stop for red light when he struck the pedestrian. He was also arrested for DUI. Jeffrey Barclay Mast, 39, from Santa Monica was arrested for operating a motor school while under the influence and running a red light. Bail was set at $100.

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Weather for the Malibu ….

((((     )))) … highs  ((((  71   )))) beaches … ((((   78    )))) mountains and canyons.

Santa Ana winds …  (((  up to 25    )))) miles per hour this afternoon in some places.

Sunset tonight is at   ((((    6:20    )))).

After that … (((   mild Santa Anas   )))) tonight … low ((((   63   )))) beaches …  ((((   54  )))) mountains and canyons.

Tomorrow should be   ((((    much the same    )))).

Sweeping down the coast …

At Leo Carrillo Beach it’s  ((((       )))) degrees.

KBUU Trancas … (((    ))).

Paradise Cove … (((    ))).

Big Rock … (((    ))).

In upper Malibu Canyon … (((    ))).

Calabasas … (((    ))).

And Civic Center L-A … (((    ))).

In the ocean … it’s ((((    67    )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.

The lifeguards say the waves today are   ((((   1 to 3    )))) feet high …. SSW swell and fading SSE tropical swell.

Those are ((((  poor to fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.

(((((  High  tide is at 10:58am.

Low tide is at 5:51pm.    ))))

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