2/10/2017 Supervisor Lovingood encourages AAE students to 'keep moving' toward success

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Supervisor Lovingood encourages AAE students to'keep moving' toward success

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APPLE VALLEY — First District Supervisor Robert Lovingood spoke to apacked high school audience at the Academy for Academic Excellence last week.

Sharing his perspective on what it takes to lead a successful life, Lovingood toldthe students that all of them could be millionaires if they set their mind to it,were willing to work hard and "always look for hidden opportunities."

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He quoted Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotels Founder, as saying, "Success seems to beconnected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, butthey don't quit."

Lovingood also expressed that individuals can accomplish anything they want if"we are willing to work a half day. Which 12 hours do we want to work?" Heused Lisa Lamb, CEO of the Lewis Center for Educational Research, AAEPrincipal Wes Kanawyer and LCER Founder Rick Piercy as examples of strongwork ethic.

Lovingood spoke about the importance of students finding their interests andpassions and then exploring college options without saddling themselves withdebt that could follow them for years. He urged students to consider communitycollege, trade school and military as strong options.

He also spoke about being on the Lewis Center Board and knowing Piercy formany years. He said Piercy worked hard for his dream and made many sacrificesfor it to come true, encouraging students to do the same.

"The room we are standing in today is here because Mr. Piercy had an idea tohave a great charter school for kids in the Victor Valley," Lovingood said.

Senior Morgan Lamb was "impressed that Supervisor Lovingood was able to callmany students by name and that he took time out of his busy schedule to helpthem think about their options for their future and success in college and life."

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aría Soledad Valencia, 26, and Isabel Gallegos, 24-both residents of Ontario, left school at an early age to facepersonal situations. They set aside their academic goals and with it, they slowed down their dreams in life.

At the age of 16, Valencia became pregnant with the 驱�rst of her four children. This forced her to leave schoolaltogether to face her role as mother.

"It has been very dif驱�cult to face reality, because without high school it is very difÝcult to Ýnd a good job, " said Valencia.

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Isabel Gallegos, mother of the small Jocelyn, seeks to become a chef and form a company.

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For his part, Gallegos stopped going to high school in the 10th grade for low grades as a result of chronic absenteeism to classes,which he attributes to the lack of attention of his parents.

"Nowadays they ask you for high school, even to work in a fast food place," added Gallegos.

Despite attempts to return to school, both mothers have faced greater obstacles, including lack of Ýnancial resources and thedifÝculty of Ýnding someone to take care of their children, among others.

"The truth is that we can not be in a classroom for eight hours and then go home to do homework and at the same time take careof our children and maintain a home," says Valencia.

"It's not that we do not want [to attend] but it's very complicated, almost impossible," says this mother, who has little ManuelSalvador Valencia, 3 years old.

However, very soon, neither Valencia nor Gallegos, nor any other parent residing in the county of San Bernardino and who hascertain requirements, will have an excuse not to 驱�nish high school.

In order to reduce the poverty rate in San Bernardino County and all the effects that this social problem entails, school authorities -in conjunction with the County Children and Families Commission and the program known as First 5- will begin Offer in the nextfew days an online course for a high school diploma.

"This is an excellent opportunity to totally change the lives of at least 100 families, to potentially lift them out of poverty and to givetheir children a better future," said Diana Alexander, director of the County's Pre-School Services Department.

What is needed?In order to be able to qualify, parents must have children enrolled in the county pre-school system (PSD), according to JosephPrologo, a preschool program manager.

The free program will be offered through the county libraries, which facilitates access to computers with Internet service.

It should be noted that this plan offers the high school diploma and not the certi驱�cate known as GED, Prologo added. "Thedifference between them is that many colleges and universities do not validate the GED."

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Another bene驱�t of the program, and that is optional, is that it offers certiÝcation in different branches such as child care andeducation; Security ofÝcers; OfÝce management; Commercial chauffeur and food service and customer service , among others,added Prologo.

"Each student will be paired with his / her own academic trainer who will provide the parent with an individual trajectory. Theprogram will provide continuous guidance, assess performance and connect the student with the resources needed to succeed ,"Prologo said.

"The student will have a maximum of 18 months to complete the program, but could take fewer [courses] depending on the creditsthat each student requires."

According to county data, PSD serves more than 6,000 families, of which 94 percent live at or below the federal poverty level.

In addition, 35 percent of parents in preschool programs do not have a high school diploma or GED.

In ÝguresStudies indicate that the lack of a high school diploma or GED promotes the cycle of poverty, county school of驱�cials said.

"Education is the key to getting families out of poverty. Every year a person spends in school means a 10 percent increase inpotential income , "said Josie Gonzales, area supervisor. "The vicious cycle of poverty and violence will continue unless weintervene."

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According to Prologo, for now the program will be offered in English, but it is possible that it will be offered to students of Englishas a second language in the future.

Valencia and Gallegos are excited and ready to resume their studies. They do so for several reasons: to be able to help theirchildren in school and to realize their goals in life.

Once obtained the diploma, Valencia has plans to study cosmetology and in the future to open its own business. While Gallegosplans to become a professional chef and become an entrepreneur.

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Mold closes San Bernardino fire station

By Ryan Hagen, The Sun

Thursday, February 9, 2017

SAN BERNARDINO >> The San Bernardino County FireDepartment has temporarily closed the station on Kendall Drive nearUniversity Avenue after discovering mold in the 40yearold modularbuilding.

The firefighters were reassigned to another station and there has beenno decrease in response times since the Jan. 20 closure, said AssistantChief John Chamberlin, who oversees the San Bernardino area.

“My intention is to have that station reopen at some point because ofits strategic position serving Cal State and other areas,” Chamberlin

said Thursday. “We’re working cooperatively with city staff to do that as soon as possible.”

When they absorbed the city fire department in July 2016, county fire officials reviewed the fire stations anddetermined that three of them contained asbestos. The worst of those was Fire Station 225, at 1640 W. KendallDrive, which has served the area since 1976, officials say.

“As we dug into it, we noticed the exterior was giving way and we got a strong smell of mildew,” Chamberlinsaid. “We brought in an industrial hygienist who did an air sampling and determined there was aerial mold.”

Officials are still determining the extent of the needed repairs, which will eventually require not just removingmold and asbestos but other updates such as bringing the building into compliance with the Americans withDisabilities Act, Chamberlin said.

Funding is also a question, as the fire budget anticipated capital expenditures in the long term but not in YearOne.

As a result, officials haven’t yet determined when the station might reopen.

The asbestos in the other stations is not aerosolized and so is not an immediate danger to firefighters, but thedepartment has already asked companies to bid for contracts to remove it, Chamberlin said.

Already, more than $1 million has been invested in the city’s fire response, such as mapping technology toimprove response times, he said.

The closed station’s threeperson crew, which operates a Type 1 Fire Engine, a Medic Engine and a BrushEngine, has temporarily relocated to Fire Station 221, at 200 E. Third St.

Eleven county fire stations now serve the city, not counting the Kendall Drive station.

  

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2/10/2017 Sisterinlaw of San Bernardino terror attack shooter pleads guilty in marriage fraud case  LA Times

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Sister-in-law of San Bernardino terror attackshooter pleads guilty in marriage fraud case

By Veronica Rocha

FEBRUARY 9, 2017, 6:45 PM

he sisterinlaw of one of two shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack pleaded guilty Thursday

to helping arrange a sham marriage that was uncovered in the aftermath of the attack. 

Tatiana Farook, 32, entered a guilty plea in federal district court in Riverside to one count of

conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles. 

She is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 13. Farook faces up to five years in federal prison.

Tatiana Farook is married to Syed Raheel Farook, the older brother of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan

Farook. The younger Farook carried out the Dec. 2, 2015, attack at the Inland Regional Center in San

Bernardino with his wife, Tashfeen Malik. The shooting during a staff Christmas party left 14 people dead

and 22 others wounded.

Syed Raheel Farook, left, is released on bail at the Riverside Federal Courthouse in April 2016. He and wife, Tatiana Farook, havepleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud related to a sham marriage. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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Tatiana Farook is accused of helping plan and arrange the fraudulent marriage between her sister, Mariya

Chernykh, and Enrique Marquez Jr., according to court documents.

Marquez, who was a longtime friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, is charged with buying weapons used by the

couple in the attack, the U.S. attorney’s office said. He was a neighbor of the couple.

Prosecutors said Chernykh, a Russian citizen who came to the U.S. on a shortterm visa in 2009, married

Marquez to obtain legal U.S. residency. The couple did not live together and never had a marriage ceremony.

According to prosecutors, Syed Raheel Farook created a fraudulent lease agreement that suggested Marquez

and Chernykh had been living together with he and his wife since November 2014.

Syed Raheel Farook pleaded guilty on Jan. 10 to conspiracy to commit immigration fraud. Chernykh pleaded

guilty on Jan. 26 to conspiracy, perjury and making false statements to the FBI.

The charges against the trio are not connected to the 2015 shootings. But details of the marriage scam were

uncovered during the shooting investigation. 

With Tatiana Farook’s plea, U.S. Atty. Eileen M. Decker said prosecutors are closer to wrapping up their cases

stemming from the attack. 

“Specifically, three members of the shooters’ family now face federal prison,” Decker said. “These convictions

are a testament to law enforcement’s ongoing commitment to ensure that everyone related to the terrorist

attack are brought to justice.”

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Before Tatiana Farook pleaded guilty Thursday to immigration fraudresulting from an elaborate fakemarriage scheme, Assistant U.S.Attorney Jay Robinson read the steps that prosecutors say were taken toportray a marriage. The steps included:

•Raheel Farook asked Marquez to marry Chernykh so she could get legalstatus in the United States and agreed to pay Marquez $200 per month.

•Marquez and Chernykh never had a marriage ceremony, but claimed tohave one on Nov. 29, 2014, at the Islamic Society of CoronaNorco.

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•Raheel and Tatiana Farook signed a marriage license that said they witnessed a marriage ceremony thatnever happened.

•Raheel Farook took photos of Marquez and Chernykh at a party that was described as a postweddingreception to show officials at an immigration hearing.

•Marquez and Chernykh signed immigration documents saying they lived together on Forum Way in Corona.That is actually where Raheel and Tatiana Farook live. One document they signed, a Petition of Alien Relative,warns that “(U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) seeks criminal prosecutions when family relationshipsare falsified to obtain visas.”

•Raheel Farook created a false legal agreement for the fake couple that said they lived on Forum Way.Marquez actually lived in Riverside and Chernykh lived in Ontario with her boyfriend, with whom she had achild.

•Raheel Farook told Chernykh not to post photos of herself and her boyfriend.

•Marquez changed his address on his driver’s license to Forum Way.

•To keep up appearances, Tatiana Farook and Chernykh shopped for a wedding ring for Chernykh, buying onefor $50.

With all of that planning, Marquez and Chernykh still were noshows for their immigration hearing in late 2015,and their request to allow Chernykh to remain in the U.S. was denied.

That hearing had been scheduled for Dec. 3.

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2/10/2017 SB terror attack was underreported? That’s news to us: Editorial

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SB terror attack was underreported? That’s news to us: Editorial

By The Editorial Board, San Bernardino County Sun

Thursday, February 9, 2017

If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps President DonaldTrump really is waging a war against the media.

Certainly the new administration’s credibility took a hit locally whenthe White House distributed a list of 78 terror attacks considered bythe administration to have been underreported — and the Dec. 2,2015, attack in San Bernardino was on the list.

Well, actually, the White House spelled it “San Bernadino” — butwe’re pretty sure they meant us. The item also says, “ATTAKERS:Two US persons,” so apparently neither accuracy nor spelling was a

priority for this list.

But spelling is not our real concern here. Rather, it’s the White House claim that the attack carried out in SanBernardino was underreported. That is simply untrue, as any reader of The Sun, the PressEnterprise or theDaily Bulletin could testify.

Hundreds of stories, photos, columns, opeds and editorials about the terror attack and its aftermath ran in thosethree newspapers and on their websites. We’ve printed special sections about it, including one on the firstanniversary of the attack two months ago. We’ve had a few reader complaints that there was “too much”coverage, but no one — until now — said there was not enough.

And it wasn’t just our Inland newspapers. The attack was covered extensively by news organizations up anddown California and across the nation from coast to coast, many of which picked up some of our stories. If theadministration missed all that coverage, maybe it needs to read more newspapers.

“If White House didn’t know how to spell San Bernardino they should’ve read one of thousands ofheartbreaking articles remembering victims,” Rep. Mark Takano, DRiverside, tweeted.

Rep. Pete Aguilar, DSan Bernardino, who has criticized President Trump for citing the San Bernardino attackas a reason for his travel restrictions — when the attackers had no links to any of the banned countries —tweeted: “You can’t even spell #SanBernardino but you exploit our community to justify your #muslimban.”

Facts matter. It would be a good idea to actually check out media coverage before dumping on it. And next time,it would be nice to spell San Bernardino right, too.

  

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THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 9, 2017

California sheriffs back Sessions' stance on immigration

After their meeting, the sheriffs said they are seeking Sessions' support once he becomes attorney general. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

By SUSAN CRABTREE (@SUSANCRABTREE) • 2/7/17 2:42 PM

Six sheriffs from some California's biggest counties met with Sen. Jeff Sessions Tuesday on Capitol Hill to back his

nomination for attorney general, just a day before his expected Senate confirmation, and as President Trump is

threatening to withhold federal funding to cities that shelter illegal immigrants.

Sheriff John McMahon of San Bernardino, the site of the December 2015 terrorist attack that killed 14 people, was

strongly enthusiastic about Sessions.

"He wants to bring law enforcement together with the U.S. attorney general's office and [have] everybody meet

and talk about collaborative solutions to problems that we're all facing locally, not only just in California but

across the entire nation," McMahon told the Washington Examiner. "And a good, close relationship with the

attorney general's office makes a big difference in what we're able to do every day."

After their meeting, the sheriffs said they are seeking Sessions' support once he becomes attorney general as

expected on Wednesday. That includes working together on several California-specific problems that are tying

their hands when it comes to keeping illegal immigrants convicted or charged with major crimes detained in order

to work with federal immigration authorities.

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The sheriffs said they are already severely limited in how long they can hold illegal immigrants before they are

forced to release them. California lawmakers also are advancing measures that would further restrict their ability

to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain illegal immigrants charged but not convicted of

crimes.

"Everyone in this room has the same issue," McMahon said.

When inmates are booked into county facilities, local authorities send their fingerprint to ICE to determine

whether they are wanted for deportation based on their charges and past records. If ICE wants to come pick them

up, they have a very short window — less than 48 hours — in order to do so.

"If our bus goes to the place to release them and ICE is not there, that person walks off the bus and is back in the

community — we no longer have the ability to hold them for 48 hours like we used to," McMahon said. He was

referring to a court decision which said holding these people violates their 4th Amendment rights against

unreasonable search and seizures.

"All we're asking, and not just here but all over, is a process to allow a warrant, a probable cause declaration, some

type of judicial review that will give us the ability to hold them for up to 48 hours so ICE has time to come pick

them up," he said.

Geoff Dean, the sheriff of Ventura County, said many of the immigrants in question are either convicted or face

charges for serious crimes such as murder, rape and assault with deadly weapon.

"They are a small percentage in my county in Ventura, .08 percent of our total inmate population. It's not like

we're deporting a lot of people — last year it was people charged with homicide to multiple DUIs, rapes,

everything," he said. "It seems common sense. I'm not sure anybody would want someone who has someone who

has committed a murder, rape, or child molests in the country illegally to stay."

Others who participated in the meeting were Sheriffs Donny Youngblood of Kern County, Steve Freitas of Sonoma

County, Scott Jones of Sacramento County and David Livingston of Contra Costa County, and Undersheriff Don

Barnes of Orange County.

The meeting between Sessions and the California county sheriffs came amid a war of words between Democratic

leaders in the state and Trump.

During an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly Sunday, Trump said California "in many ways is out of control as

you know."

He specifically said the state's consideration of legislation to create statewide sanctuary for people living in the

country illegally is "ridiculous" and threatened to withhold federal funds as a result.

"I don't want to defund anybody. I want to give them the money they need to properly operate as a city or a state,"

Trump said. "If they're going to have sanctuary cities, we may have to do that. Certainly. that would be a weapon."

Leaders of the state Legislature pushed back Monday, pointing to the state's economy and strong job growth as

important contributions to the nation, according to the Associated Press.

"If this is what Donald Trump thinks is 'out of control,' I'd suggest other states should be more like us," said

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount.

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L.A., Orange counties are home to 1 millionimmigrants who are in the country illegally,analysis shows

By Corina Knoll, Cindy Carcamo and Brittny Mejia

FEBRUARY 9, 2017, 3:50 PM

he chatter of Spanish serves as the backdrop of PicoUnion, where the aroma of pastries from the

panaderia merge with the synthetic smells of an auto repair garage. A predominantly Latino

neighborhood, it has for decades been a first stop for immigrants — both legal and illegal — coming

from various corners of Latin America.

Over the years, this community has faced challenges, including from politicians threatening crackdowns on

illegal immigration. But to many in this densely populated area near MacArthur Park, the presidency of Donald

Trump poses a threat of an altogether different scale. Trump has vowed mass deportations of those here

illegally, which if carried out, could fundamentally alter the rhythms of life in PicoUnion and numerous other

immigrant enclaves around Southern California and beyond.

The potential threat of emptied homes and shuttered businesses has residents envisioning the worst.

San Diego

Los Angeles

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“Una desolación. Imagínate no más,” worried Graciela Sandoval, 79, who has lived in PicoUnion for five

decades.  A desolation. Just imagine it.

“It’ll be a ghost town here,” added Manuel Blanco, 42, a lifelong PicoUnion resident who runs an auto repair

shop in the area. “It’s not even going to be worth being in business.”

An analysis released Thursday by the Pew Research Center underscores just how much immigrants here

illegally have been embedded into the culture and economy of Los Angeles. Woven, often seamlessly, into

dozens of cities’ infrastructures, they have become a workforce and community that makes up much of the

fabric of Southern California.

Nearly 10% of the nation’s 11.1 million immigrants who are in the country illegally reside in Los Angeles and

Orange counties, according to the research center. The region is home to 1 million such immigrants, second

only to the greater New York area, which has 1.2 million. Third on the list was Houston with 575,000. The city

of Los Angeles alone has an estimated 375,000.

Up to 8 million people in the country illegally could be considered priorities for deportation, according to

calculations by The Times based on interviews with experts who studied internal documents related to Trump’s

directive. Trump has said that his order allows immigration officials to detain nearly anyone who has crossed

the border illegally.

The Pew analysis, using augmented 2014 data collected by the American Community Survey, which is

conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, focused on the 20 major metropolitan areas with the highest numbers of

immigrants here illegally. It showed that the population tends to live among legal immigrants and is highly

concentrated.

In 2014, 61% of immigrants here illegally lived in those 20 metropolitan areas, whereas only 36% of the total

U.S. population lived in the same regions. All but one of the areas remained in the top 20 over the previous

decade.

Five of those — including Riverside, San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose — were in California, a state at the

forefront of the sanctuary movement, where leaders have insisted cities will continue to offer refuge to

immigrants in the face of Trump’s threat to cut their funds.

Although Los Angeles has not explicitly declared itself a sanctuary city, it has taken measures to protect those

here illegally. Early this month, City Council members pushed forward a plan to draft a law that would

decriminalize street vending. Many, if not most, who peddle items like baconwrapped hot dogs, fruit and ice

cream are in the country illegally, and city leaders hope to keep them from being charged for selling goods or

food on the sidewalk — which would make them more vulnerable to deportation.

If the unauthorized population were to leave areas where they contribute to the local economy, cities could find

themselves in trouble.

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“They would face not just a loss of population or loss of labor … but also loss of buying power,” said Louis

DeSipio, a professor of political science at UC Irvine who specializes in immigration from Latin America.

Immigrants who are here illegally often contribute to the economy even in neighborhoods where they don’t live,

as service workers in restaurants or in the homes of the more wellheeled.

 

In Santa Ana, businesses catering to immigrants kept the downtown financially viable after white residents left

decades earlier. The county seat of Orange County, Santa Ana boasts a downtown with gourmet restaurants

and hipster shops, but its vibrancy is fueled by the Mexican immigrant community — a good portion of which

lacks legal status.

On Sundays, vehicles cruise 4th Street blaring Mexican ranchera music while families amble about bridal and

hair salons, snack carts, jewelry shops and checkcashing stores that wire money to Latin America.

Claudia Arellanes, secretary of the Santa Ana Business Council and owner of a furniture store, said the area is

reliant on its immigrant clientele.

“Many people don’t understand this,” she said. “It would be devastating. The downtown area would fail.”

Businesses that don’t specifically cater to new immigrants, such as mainstream malls, movie theaters and

restaurants, also reap the benefits from a large unauthorized population that quickly acculturates to its

surroundings, DeSipio said.

In Maywood, a 1.2squaremile municipality that declared itself a sanctuary city more than a decade ago, the

effects of Trump’s directive have residents envisioning a collapsed community. According to the U.S. Census

Bureau, the city has a population of 28,000, but city officials say that number doubles when immigrants in the

country illegally are included. 

Residents can point out neighbor after neighbor who don’t have documents. Most have relatives in the same

situation. Friends, too.

“You would have empty homes and empty apartments,” Mayor Pro Tem Eduardo De La Riva said of

potential mass deportations. “People would be afraid to come outside.”

To read this article in Spanish, click here.

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About 6 in 10 undocumented immigrants in the United States live in oneof 20 metro areas, with three regions in Southern California combining tomake up the largest cluster of people living in the country illegally.

The high concentration of undocumented immigrants in these metro areassuggests that the impact of President Donald Trump’s immigrationpoliciesincluding his plans to ramp up deportationswill be most widelyfelt in the nation’s largest cities.

The RiversideSan Bernardino area is home to about 250,000 immigrantsliving in the country illegally, the ninth most in the United States.

The study also shows that a big swath of the nation’s undocumentedpopulation lives in communities that voted against Trump in the last election, which could minimize the politicalfallout for the White House as it moves to implement some of the president’s hardline immigration agenda.

“Some of these areas could be affected by the Trump administration's promise to take action against localitiesthat do not cooperate with federal officials in identifying unauthorized immigrants,” according to the study. “Thepresident's executive order promises to cut federal funds to these `sanctuary jurisdictions.’ Mayors in several bigcities have said they will not comply with the order.”

Pew, which has tracked the undocumented population for several years, pegs the total number ofundocumented immigrants at about 11.1 million nationwide.

In Southern California, about 1.4 million undocumented immigrants live between the southern Ventura Countyborder and the U.S.Mexico border  the biggest cluster of undocumented people in the country.

Overall, undocumented immigrants make up about 3.5% of the nation’s population. Pew noted that some citieswith the highest concentration of undocumented residents include Houston (8.7%) and Las Vegas (8%).

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Upland abruptly ends contract with city attorney, law firm

By Liset Márquez, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Thursday, February 9, 2017

UPLAND >> In an abrupt move, the City Council has dismissed its city attorney and the law firm that providedlegal services to the city for the last 4 1/2 years. Fullertonbased Jones & Mayer had represented Upland sinceSeptember 2012. The council announced in a special meeting Tuesday it has directed the interim city manager tonegotiate a contract with Los Angelesbased Richards Watson & Gershon, and attorney Jim Markman, who alsorepresents Rancho Cucamonga.

Upland’s contract with Jones & Mayer, which was set to expire in 2018, will terminate Sunday, City AttorneyRichard Adams said.

Upland Mayor Debbie Stone declined to comment because the matter was handled in closed session.

This will be Markman’s second turn serving as city attorney. He actually started in Upland by providing legalcounsel to the city’s thenredevelopment agency in the 1980s. He became city attorney in the early ’90s, whenthe previous city attorney retired after 40 yeas on the job, Markman said he served in that position for abouteight years until another colleague took on the position.

“I’m not out looking for night work but my fondness for Upland draws me back,” said Markman, who has 40years of experience representing local public agencies.

Interim City Manager Marty Thouvenell said he is still evaluating the contract with the new firm, which isscheduled for council review and approval its meeting Monday night.

“Jim is a very experienced attorney and knowledgeable about water rights issues in California. He’ll do a greatjob for us,” Thouvenell said.

The news did come as a surprise, Adams said, adding he believed he had developed a good relationship withThouvenell.

Adams said he was told by several council members “that we did our job well and didn’t elaborate beyond that.It leaves a question mark.”

Adams has more than 25 years of municipal law, landuse and redevelopment law experience. He also serves asthe city attorney for Grand Terrace, assistant city attorney for Whittier and deputy city attorney for several othercities represented by the firm.

Upland’s search for a new city attorney April 2012 came after years of steep legal fees and questionssurrounding the billing practices of its law firm, Los Angelesbased Richards Watson & Gershon.

The city paid the firm about $7.9 million since June 2003. The law firm has been the city’s legal counsel since1993, and William Curley served as city attorney since 2003.

Markman said Thursday that his firm actually resigned because of the complex legal issues involving formerCity Manager Robb Quincey and accusations he made against their firm.

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In September 2012, the council elected to bring on Jones & Mayer. Kimberly Barlow served as the city’sattorney until 2014, when Adams was brought on in an interim basis. He was officially named city attorney in2015.

That same year, the council amended its contract with the law firm and extended it to 2018, Adams said.

For now, Adams was told Upland will retain Jones & Mayer on an asneeded basis, representing the city on anyopen cases not only involving marijuana enforcement but other litigation.

“Until further notice,” he said Thursday morning by phone.

Markman said he is well aware of all the marijuanarelated legal battles Upland has faced in recent years, addinghis firm has one of the most experienced attorneys in the state who can handle the issue. The firm helped Uplanddefend against G3 Holistics, he said. In November 2011, the Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled in favor ofthe city’s ban.

Tuesday’s agenda for the special meeting not only included the city attorney’s contract but a workshop on themidyear budget. At Adams’ suggestion, the council moved the closed session to the end of the meeting.

He presided over the meeting but did not participate in closed session, which last about a halfhour, he said.

It wasn’t until after the closed session that he learned of the council’s direction. Adams said he even had toinstruct Stone how to announce the action because he couldn’t do it himself.

“I’m still city attorney and I take the job very seriously, and will do my utmost to the end,” Adams said.

  

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2/10/2017 3.5 magnitude quake strikes near Yucaipa

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3.5 magnitude quake strikes near Yucaipa

By City News Service

Friday, February 10, 2017

PASADENA >> A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck southern SanBernardino County today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The quake hit at 2:10 a.m. at a depth of 5.5 miles, its epicenter 6 milesnorth of Yucaipa, according to a computergenerated report from theUSGS.

  

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Amazon to open more fulfillment centers in Redlands and Eastvale

By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Amazon will open two new fulfillment centers in the Inland Empire inRedlands and Eastvale, adding 2,000 more jobs, the companyannounced Thursday.

The online retailer already operates similar centers in those two cities,as well as San Bernardino, Moreno Valley and Rialto.

In Eastvale, future Amazon employees will process smaller customeritems, such as books, electronics and toys at a 1 millionsquarefootfacility now under construction and developed by the AustraliabasedGoodman Group.

Future Amazon employees at the 750,000squarefoot Redlands facility, being developed by San Franciscobased Prologis, will handle larger customer items, such as sports equipment, patio furniture and pet food.

The Redlands site, at 27317 Pioneer Ave., will open sometime in the middle of 2017, Amazon spokeswomanAshley Robinson said. Meanwhile, the Eastvale location, which is in an early phase of construction at 4950Goodman Way, will open sometime in 2018.

“We’re very pleased that Amazon continues to partner with the city of Redlands in terms of its expansion in theInland Empire,” Redlands Mayor Paul Foster in a phone interview. “Amazon is a wellknown corporate entitythat is bringing great jobs to the Inland Empire, so we’re very pleased with the announcement that was issuedtoday.”

More to come.

  

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Asked to consider the worst-case scenario, Logan Oldssaid it would be at least 2.5 years before the agency wouldhave to face the unenviable task of repaying $31.7 millionbecause there were "three major steps" before thatcircumstance could rear its ugly head.

By Shea Johnson

Staff Writer Follow

Editor's note: This is the irst in a series of follow-up stories on the audit of the Victor

Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority. Early next week, an article will focus on the

agency's steps during the project process and its shock over the audit's unexpected

indings.

VICTORVILLE — Of the four recommendations made by federal auditors intheir scathing yet fiercely disputed report against a local wastewater agency, onestands out more than the others.

In finding that the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority

mismanaged $31.7 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency

grant funds for a major pipeline replacement project, auditors recommended

that FEMA disallow the funds as "ineligible costs."

Such an action, outside of acting as an overwhelming concurrence by FEMA ofthe audit's findings, would guarantee that the burden of repaying those millionsof dollars would then fall on ratepayers in Victorville, Apple Valley, Hesperiaand unincorporated county areas served by the wastewater agency.

The city of Victorville, which funds far more of the agency than any of its threejoint powers authority partners, would be struck the hardest.

"The full ramifications of the OIG report and what it means for VVWRA are tobe determined as FEMA decides any enforcement actions," city spokeswomanSue Jones said. "Presumably, any repayment of funds would be split in the same

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manner as all funding at VVWRA, meaning Victorville would be responsible for70 percent."

That share would be tantamount to roughly $22 million for the city alone. Jonessaid that the city anticipates VVWRA will raise its rates if it's forced to repay themillions of dollars being questioned.

"In turn," she said, "this would mean a rate increase for Victorville residents'sewer fees."

FEMA is expected to decide by July 31 on the recommendation, made by theDepartment of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General, whichconducted the audit and published its findings late last month.

If FEMA were to disagree with the OIG's conclusions, however, the situationwould be resolved by this summer without any consequence if not for a publicrelations blemish to the authority.

VVWRA General Manager Logan Olds on Thursday reiterated his strongdefense of the agency and again pushed back against the audit's conclusions,saying that VVWRA worked closely with FEMA and the California Office ofEmergency Services throughout the project, which broke ground in March 2014.

Asked to consider the worst-case scenario, Olds said it would be at least 2 1/2years before the agency would have to face the unenviable task of repaying $31.7million because there were "three major steps" before that circumstance couldrear its ugly head.

For one, the agency is meticulously preparing a close-out document to present toFEMA that is required as the project nears its official completion. And if FEMAchooses to accept the audit's findings, there are two layers of appeal afforded toVVWRA that could end with the agency in court.

Olds insisted he wasn't relying on blind optimism, but instead the agency wouldensure its close-out document met FEMA standards. Piero Dallarda, the agency'slegal counsel, however, said officials will "prepare for the worst."

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But Victorville City Councilman Jim Kennedy, who has represented the city onthe VVWRA board for six years — five as the primary member — and has beencritical of the agency's spending, said Tuesday that he expected the issue will beresolved without a staggering financial implication.

"I believe when the dust settles on that OIG audit, they will not ask VVWRA torefund $32 million," he said during the Victorville City Council meeting. "I thinkthey had legitimate concerns of some change orders, but overall the project washuge. It's finished, it's completed, it accomplished its objective."

The $42 million Upper Narrows Pipeline Replacement Project, declared"functionally finished" in July, permanently replaced a portion of temporarypipeline installed after severe storms in December 2010 washed out andruptured a portion of nearly 30-year-old sewer line in the Mojave River.

The incident caused 42 million gallons of sewage to spill into the river. Facedwith a whopping $420 million fine by state regulators, the agency's promise tobuild out a project ensuring such an incident would not re-occur reduced thefine to $94,000, Olds said.

In its audit published Jan. 24, the OIG concluded that VVWRA improperlymanaged $31.7 million in three contracts for the project, including agreementsfor construction, construction management and engineering.

A follow-up report is expected to target "misleading information the Authorityprovided to FEMA to develop the scope of work" for the project.

Olds, who has noted how technically complex the project had been while facingseveral unforeseen hurdles, said the agency had submitted appropriatedocumentation and focused on transparency throughout the project.

"This isn't just an affront to me," he said. "This is an affront to every singleperson who ever worked on the Upper Narrows."

Shea Johnson can be reached at 760-955-5368 or SJohnson@VVDailyPress.com. Follow

him on Twitter at @DP_Shea.

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A new study of overweight Latino children in Los Angeles finds exposure to air pollution may increase their risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

The USC study, published in the journal Diabetes, involved more than 300 Latino children, mostly in east Los Angeles, who were overweight or obese.Researchers regularly checked the children's glucose and insulin levels over a period of years. The results indicated how well the cells in the pancreas thatproduce insulin were functioning.

The study found that among the children living in areas with higher levels of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter, those cells were more inefficient, whichput the youngsters at higher risk.

"We measured how badly [the insulinproducing cells] were deteriorating over time and that was our measure of progression towards type 2 diabetes," saidMichael Goran, Director of USC's Childhood Obesity Research Center and a senior author of the study. 

He said it's not yet clear how air pollution is affecting the functioning of the cells. 

Other studies have examined the effect of air pollution on diabetes, but researchers say this is the first time a study has looked at effects on children overtime. 

Sung Kyun Park, who researches pollution at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, called the study "very valuable and important."

Noting that the findings can only be generalized to overweight and obese Latino children, he said, "the next question is whether air pollution also impacts theperson with a body mass index within the range of normal — not overweight."  

The number of people developing type 2 diabetes has risen in recent years, among them a growing number of children. Researchers have suggested that theincrease is in part due to a rise in childhood obesity. The rate of diabetes is higher among Latinos.

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oak up these rainy days, Southern California. They are not going to

last forever.

Summer will be here before you know it, and then you’ll be back to

ordering takeout because you can’t bear to turn on the oven.

You’ll battle hours of traffic on PCH just to feel the ocean breeze.

You’ll crank up the air conditioner, skip your usual workouts and eat more

ice cream than you know you should.

After all, when the temperature tops 100 degrees for five days straight,

what else can you do?  

If you think the city is too hot, you’ve got company at City Hall. Los

Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti agrees, and he wants to do something about it.

As part of a sweeping plan to help L.A. live within its environmental

means, Garcetti has pledged to reduce the average temperature in the

metropolis by 3 degrees over the next 20 years.

It’s a noble goal. Not only will it make you more comfortable, it will reduce

energy consumption and improve air quality. It may even save lives

— extreme heat kills more people each year than hurricanes, floods or

tornadoes.

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Morning traffic begins to swell in the San Fernando Valley near White Oak. Climate models suggest that by 2050, the valley could see 92 days of extreme heat per year, compared with 54in 1990. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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But how do you turn down the thermostat of an entire city in a warming

world? And in a place as vast, sprawling and heterogeneous as Los

Angeles, how do you measure success?

Fewer hot days

Professor George BanWeiss and his team at USC’s department of civil and

environmental engineering performed model simulations that quantify how

temperatures can vary across Southern California on a typical July day. The sea

breeze drives temperature increases farther from the ocean, but localized heat and

cool islands occur due to differences in land cover.

Los Angeles and neighboring cities

SantaMonica

67°

95°

Downtown

MalibuBeverly

Hills

73°

88°

Glendale

85°

Griffith Park

87°

Montebello

80°

South Pasadena

= 1.5 square miles60° 70° 80° 90° 100°

Temperature (°F)

Detailed

Los Angeles

5

101

134

405

10

110

101

WoodlandHills

Santa MonicaMountains

Sources: Mapbox, OpenStreetMap. Model data provided by Professor George BanWeiss and Dr. PouyaVahmani from USC.

These questions have never been more relevant. L.A.’s heat problem is

expected to worsen over the coming decades.

Climate models suggest that by 2050, the temperature in downtown L.A.

will exceed 95 degrees 22 days per year. In 1990, only six days were that

warm. The San Fernando Valley is expected to see 92 days of this  extreme

heat per year, compared with 54 in 1990.

“”— George BanWeiss, professor of environmental engineering at USC.

Palm Springs

Bakersfield

Mojave Desert

Riverside

Palmdale

San Gabriel Valley

Downtown Los Angeles

Long Beach

San Gabriel Mountains

Santa Monica

135

111

90

58

36

32

6

4

0

0

19812000

158

134

120

98

71

74

22

16

1

1

20412060

179

154

141

128

104

117

54

37

8

3

20812100

Days of extreme heat in Southern California

@latimesgraphicsSource: UCLA Center for Climate Solutions

Climate change is primarily responsible for the warming trend, but it’s not

the only force at work. Angelenos are also contending with an

additional layer of misery caused by what’s known as the “urban heat

island effect.” It means that cities — with their asphalt streets, dark roofs,

sparse vegetation and carclogged roads — are almost always a few degrees

warmer than the more rural areas that surround them. 

The mayor’s plan to cool the region won’t compensate for all the effects of

climate change.

“We can’t geoengineer the atmosphere,” said Matt Petersen, chief

sustainability officer for the office of the mayor.

But Petersen believes we can do something about the way the city

traps heat. By counteracting this heat island effect, he hopes to reduce the

amount of warming L.A. will experience in the future. 

In early July, Petersen’s team convened a group of about 20 civil servants

and university scientists to determine how to bring the city’s temperaturemore in line with what it would have been if Los Angeles had never been

developed.

“What we are trying to do is create a research collective to help us reach

our target,” Petersen said. “It’s a huge challenge.”

The city has already teamed up with USC environmental engineer George

BanWeiss. A veteran of the Lawrence Berkeley Heat Island Group, he said

there is no better place to test different ways of reducing urban heat than

L.A. 

There is all this variation across the city. You can’t get a richer place to study climate and meteorology.

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“There is all this variation across the city,” BanWeiss said. “You can’t get a

richer place to study climate and meteorology.” 

Southern California

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

SAN BERNARDINOCOUNTY

RIVERSIDECOUNTY

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

VENTURA COUNTY

Los AngelesSanta Monica

Long Beach

Riverside

San Bernardino

ORANGECOUNTY

AngelesNational Forest

Lancaster

San BernardinoNational Forest

San Diego

El Monte

Newport Beach

Oxnard

= 1.5 square miles60° 70° 80° 90° 100°

Temperature (°F)Highways

The built environment is mostly responsible for the problem. More thanhalf of city surfaces are covered by dark pavements and dark

roofs. Traditional asphalt absorbs up to 90% of the sun’s radiation. As the

asphalt gets hotter, it warms the air around it, adding to the overall heat.

Even after the sun goes down, that accumulated heat lingers  for hours and

continues to transfer warmth to the night air. 

One way to combat this heat sink is to replace the city’s streets and

sidewalks with hightech materials that reflect more sunlight and stay

cooler during the day and at night. Some of these “cool pavements” reflect

light only in the infrared part of the spectrum, which we cannot see. 

In the summer of 2015, the city’s Bureau of Street Surfaces tested one of

these cool pavements at the Balboa Sports Complex parking lot in

Encino. The new surface was approximately 11 degrees cooler than regular

pavement in the midafternoon.

San Fernando Valley and north L.A. County

118

= 1.5 square miles60° 70° 80° 90° 100°

Temperature (°F)

73°Castaic Lake

5

14

AngelesNational Forest

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Palmdale

Northridge

91°

Lancaster

93°

70°

Scientists and policymakers are also investigating “cool roofs” and their

potential to reduce the overall temperature of the city. Studies have found

that in Los Angeles, widespread deployment of cool roofs could reduce the

city’s temperature by as much as 2 degrees Fahrenheit. 

But it’s unlikely that a single strategy will be the most effective option

for all neighborhoods.

“The heat island effect is a regional phenomenon, and the way you choose

your mitigation strategy could vary block to block,” BanWeiss said.

San Bernardino andRiverside County

= 1.5 square miles60° 70° 80° 90° 100°

Temperature (°F)

102°

59°

98°

87°

103°

15

40

San Bernardino National Forest

Barstow

Victorville

10

210

15

215

San Bernardino

Riverside60

Palm Springs

Mt. San Jacinto

George BanWeiss, right, with environmental engineering graduate student Arash Mohegh, removes a mobile thermometersensor from the roof of the car the team drives through Los Angeles neighborhoods searching for pockets of heat.(GaryCoronado / Los Angeles Times)

If an area has no tree cover but lots of cool roofs, adding more cool roofs

won’t be as useful as planting trees. On the other hand, if an area has lots

of trees, adding reflective pavements won’t reduce temperatures because

the sidewalks don’t get much sunlight anyway. 

Also, some regions of the city require more cooling than

others. The biggest factor affecting temperature in the

Southland is the influence of sea breezes. As those winds

travel east, they pick up heat from the land and deliver it to

those who live inland. 

To address the hyperlocal nature of the heat island

effect, BanWeiss and his graduate students

are modeling microclimates of areas as small as a few

city blocks. They started with a neighborhood in El Monte,

a city that is relatively warm compared to its surroundings.

After painstakingly building a computer model that

included each tree and building, the researchers were able

to analyze the effects of various heat mitigation strategies,

comparing how it would feel if streets had more reflective

surfaces, if every grassy yard were shaded by trees, and ifevery roof were covered in grass. 

They found that cool roofs and green roofs had little effect

on the thermal comfort of a person walking down the

street, and that putting more trees in unshaded areas was

the most effective cooling strategy. However, in areas that

were already shady, the most significant effect came from

cool pavements. 

In another project, the team determined that the current zeal for

xeriscaping could make L.A. up to 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the

daytime by depriving the soil of water and limiting the amount of

evapotranspiration that occurs.

“Evapotranspiration works as an air conditioner,” BanWeiss said. “When

water evaporates, it removes energy from the system and cools it down.”

But at night, different forces are at work: Heat rises from the subsurface of

the Earth, moves through the soil and dissipates into the air. Dry soil slows

this heat transfer. That means droughttolerant landscaping could reduce

the nighttime temperature by about 5.4 degrees.

BanWeiss’s computer models have identified regions of greater Los

Angeles that are particularly hot compared with the areas around

them (downtown L.A., Northridge), and those that are particularly

cool (South Pasadena, San Marino).

With funding from the California Energy Commission, he is installing

about a dozen hightech weather stations to measure these hot and cool

islands and watch how they change over time.

“We’re spending a lot of time and going to a good deal of effort to

determine the best places to put these weather stations,” BanWeiss said.

“We want to make sure that we put them in locations that will measure the

heat island effect, and not the signal from the ocean.”

That’s why two of BanWeiss’ grad students spent weeks roaming the

streets of Los Angeles with a tubeshaped contraption on the roof of their

car. The tube holds a needlethin thermometer that Arash Mohegh and Mo

Chen have been squiring around, searching for pockets of heat. 

Heat islands

Arash Mohegh and Mo Chen, two members of BanWeiss’ team, drove across the

San Fernando Valley and measured temperatures over the course of the day on

June 2, 2016. They found a variability of over 20 degrees between downtown L.A.

and areas of the valley like Northridge and Canoga Park.

Los Angeles County

Downtown71.4°

94.3°

96.1°

70.2°

88.2°

92.1°

94.6°92.7°

91.6°

11010

405

101

101

5170

2

Encino

Canoga Park

Northridge

San Fernando Angeles National ForestAngeles National ForestAngeles National Forest

Santa Monica MountainsSanta Monica MountainsSanta Monica Mountains

Sea breezes headed toward the San Fernando Valley are blocked by the mountains, leading to higher inland temperatures.

Sources: Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, USC Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Measurementswere acquired as part of a project to measure urban heat islands in Los Angeles, in collaboration withLawrence Berkeley Lab.

The job is tedious. To get accurate measurements, they spend

hours weaving up and down streets in their target neighborhoods. They

visited the San Fernando Valley on a particularly scorching day in June. 

“We’re about to go from an industrial area to a more residential

neighborhood, so we’ll see how the temperature changes,” Mohegh said as

Chen steered the car through Chatsworth.

Sure enough, as blocky office buildings gave way to treelined streets with

green lawns, the dashboard thermometer dropped from 102 to 100

degrees.

Petersen said work like this will help the city identify which areas should

be targeted for cooling and which strategies will work best. By 2019, he

hopes to have a better idea of how realistic the goal of lowering the

temperature by 3 degrees really is, as well as the best way to achieve it. 

The cooling of Los Angeles is still years away, but the groundwork has

begun.

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A former assemblyman looks to run for Riverside CountysupervisorBy JEFF HORSEMAN20170209 10:00:24

If Eric Linder is launching a political comeback, it appears it won’t be inSacramento.

A Republican assemblyman who lost his seat last November, Linder hasfiled paperwork to form a campaign committee for Riverside Countysupervisor in 2018, according to information provided by the countyRegistrar of Voters, which received documentation for “Eric Linder forSupervisor 2018” on Feb. 2.

A representative of Linder did not respond to a phone call seekingcomment.

Linder served in the Assembly from 2012 to 2016, representing the 60thAssembly District, which encompasses part of the city of Riverside inaddition to Corona, Norco and Jurupa Valley.

When he was first elected, the 60th had more GOP voters than registeredDemocrats. That changed by November 2016, and Linder lost his reelection bid to Democrat Sabrina Cervantes despite being the first

Republican in two decades to receive the endorsement of Service Employees International Union.

Linder appears to be targeting the supervisorial seat held by John Tavaglione, who does not plan to seek reelection when his term expires at the end of 2018. Tavaglione represents the second supervisorial district, whichincludes part of Riverside city in addition to Corona, Norco, Jurupa Valley and Eastvale.

Assume he moves ahead with his plans, Linder would join a competitive field for Tavaglione’s seat. Coronacouncil members Eugene Montanez and Karen Spiegel and Riverside Councilman Mike Gardner also arerunning.

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The share of California home buyers who could afford the state’s median priced home remained at just31 percent during the last quarter of 2016, according to a new report.

That percentage was the same as the previous quarter. That home affordability index has been under40 percent for nearly four years, according to the report by the California Realtors Association.

Jordan Levine, a senior economist with the association, says the reason home prices remain high andaffordability low is simple:

“One of the big issues is supply. Supply and affordability go hand in hand. We really haven’t kept pacewith population growth in terms of building new housing units.”

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The report says the median priced home in the state held relatively steady at $511,000. That’s downslightly from $515,000 the previous quarter.

It says home buyers needed a minimum income of nearly $101,000 to reasonably afford the state’smedian priced home.

 

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Homeless services providers say L.A.'s rental market has gone from bad to worse in just the past few months—and that's brought a standstill to efforts to getpeople off the street quickly. 

"We used to be able to house people in a month, now for some of our families it's taking nine months," said Cristina Nieto, senior manager of housing servicesfor HOPICS, a placement agency in South Los Angeles. "It's hard to tell people, 'sorry, you still have to be out on the street, there's no housing available.'" 

HOPICS provides temporary rental assistance to formerly homeless to get them back on their feet, with the assumption they'll eventually take over the rentthemselves—an assumption that was easier to believe seven years ago, when the program started. 

"When I first started doing rapid rehousing, we could find a studio for, at the cheapest, $650," Nieto said. "Now, we're looking for $1,000 to $1,100 for astudio. For a single mother with a few kids, looking for a twobedroom, even if she's making more than minimum wage, she's not going to be able to affordrent."

In the past six months, Nieto said, her organization has only been able to house four families.

Permanent housing assistance programs aren't faring much better, despite guaranteeing a tenant's rent for life, or for as long as they remain lowincome. 

Over at the Housing Authority of the City of L.A. (HACLA), which runs voucher programs for lowincome renters, homeless individuals and homelessveterans, success rates have also dropped. 

Currently, 40 percent of those who receive Section 8 rental assistance vouchers through HACLA end up giving them up because they can't find a place to rent.That's according to most recent figures, which span the first half of 2016. 

In 2014, that number was 27 percent and in 2015, 36 percent. 

"All of this is because of the vacancy rate in the city, which is at an alltime low of 2.7 percent, and that factors into the high cost of housing," said Carlos VanNatter, director of HACLA's Section 8 program. 

Van Natter said it's tough to be competitive as a renter in such a tight market, especially since Section 8 rent is capped at a maximum of $1,314 for a onebedroom. For the HUDVASH program, which exclusively serves veterans, the rent cap is $1,500.

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HACLA is turning more and more attention towards committing Section 8 vouchers to developments that are aimed specifically at housing the homeless, hesaid. 

"If there's a change in the market, we're right there still with tenantbased assistance, but we are pushing forward and doing a lot in terms of projectbasedvouchers," Van Natter said.

HACLA has also received money from the City of L.A. to do landlord outreach and recruiting. The city can provide landlords security deposits for formerlyhomeless tenants, as well as money set aside for if a tenant causes damage to a unit.

The County of L.A.'s housing authority is even offering cash incentives to landlords who sign up for the program. 

The two agencies, along with L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl's office, are hosting a landlord information session in Hollywood February 15.

"We're losing the ability to house middle class and especially working class people," Kuehl said. Affordability issues, she said, are among L.A.'s greatestchallenges going forward.

"Government doesn't create these issues, but we are trying to help work through them," she said.

Los Angeles isn't the only city struggling with affordability—it's become a regional issue.

In Santa Ana, for instance, the housing authority is seeing 66 percent of its rental vouchers returned for lack of a place to use them. 

"We're struggling with the same issues," said  Judson Brown, housing division manager for the city. 

Brown said the city is taking steps to help, including funding a housing navigator position to help people find rentals, but there's no help from the federalgovernment when it comes to landlord outreach and other incentive programs.

Brown said the city is trying to figure out a way to fund some of the programs L.A. has, including security deposit help. In the meantime, he said, the agency'sdoing what it can with limited resources.

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2/10/2017 Middleclass workers can’t afford to buy homes in L.A. County and the future looks dim

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Middleclass workers can’t afford to buy homes in L.A. County and the future looks dim

By Kevin Smith, San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Oscar Sol has spent the past five months searching for a home he canafford to buy.

But so far, he has struck out.

“I’m looking for a condo or town home, something in the price rangeof $300,000 to $350,000,” the 37yearold North Hollywood residentsaid. “Homes are too expensive here so now I’m looking in SantaClarita.”

Good luck with that. Santa Clarita’s median home price — the point atwhich half of the homes cost more — was $550,000 in December, up 17 percent from a year earlier, accordingto price tracker CoreLogic. And that’s not the worst of it.

Studio City’s median price rose 28 percent during the same period and other communities posted even biggerannual price hikes, including Montrose (up 34.4 percent), Tarzana (up 44.2 percent), South Pasadena (up 47.8percent) and Malibu (up 52.6 percent).

Middleclass workers are struggling to find affordable homes

Sol, who is married with three children and works as an event coordinator, is not alone. Scores of middleclassworkers in Southern California are struggling to find homes they can afford. But their search has been hamperedby prices that continue to rise. The price hikes have been fueled by tight inventories and the fact that developersare not building nearly enough homes to keep pace with demand.

Speaking Wednesday at a “Housing Our Workers” forum in Van Nuys, representatives from housing, urbandevelopment, city leadership, finance, public health, neighborhood councils and other organizations met todiscuss the issue. The event was presented by the Southland Regional Association of Realtors and cosponsoredby BizFed Institute, The Valley Economic Alliance and the National Association of Realtors.

“We know there are challenges with the homeless and transitional housing, but we don’t give enough attentionto our middle class worker,” Mel Wilson, Southland Regional’s government affairs director, told the group.“Middleclass workers are being squeezed. They don’t make enough money to qualify and purchase a home or acondo, and they make too much to qualify for some of these low down payment and subsidy programs. No oneis standing up for the middleclass workers.”

Developers are not building enough homes

Developers are building an average of 80,000 new California homes a year but that falls well below the 180,000that are needed, according to recent figures from the California Department of Housing and CommunityDevelopment.

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When viewed through a longer lens, California will need more than 1.8 million additional homes by 2025 tokeep pace with the state’s evergrowing population. The state housing and community development departmentand state Department of Finance based that on population projections and household formation data.

Builders are inundated with fees and regulations

Holly Schroeder, president and CEO of the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corp., attendedWednesday’s housing event and said builders are hampered by all of the fees and regulations.

“We have a general policy in California that people think of as being equitable, which is that housing has to payits own way,” she said. “That’s a great sound bite, but I think we have to think through what the consequencesare. That means that every house — before you put a shovel in the ground or put a piece of lumber up — isgoing to pay fees for roads, for schools, for fire stations, sheriff’s stations, parks and community centers ... all ofthat, including water and sewer.”

And those costs add up quickly.

“All of these fees, cumulatively in a typical city, are between $80,000 and $100,000 per home,” Schroeder said.“There is also a lot of litigation that makes it hard to build. We’ve been underproducing, which contributes to it.And in addition to the financing, the housing often skews toward more upper income people.”

Middleincome workers are leaving California in search of affordable housing

Beacon Economics released a trio of reports last year that said the search for more affordable housing is sendinglow and middleincome workers out of state, while higherwage workers continue to move in.

“California has an employment boom with a housing problem,” Christopher Thornberg, a founding partner withBeacon, said when those reports were released. “The state continues to offer great employment opportunities forall kinds of workers, but housing affordability and supply represent a significant problem.”

Aside from all the costs, the process of securing land for development can be lengthy.

The approval process can be lengthy

“The approval process can take years to get through, so a real estate cycle could have come and gone by the timeyou get your master plan approved,” said Bill Holman, vice president of land development for ChristopherHomes and for Rosedale Land Partners, master developer of the 1,250home planned community of Rosedale inAzusa.

The biggest constraint, Holman said, is a lack of available land.

“Southern California is pretty spread out and opportunities for largescale developments are often far fromwhere people want to live,” he said.

Glen Longarini, KB Home’s division president for Los Angeles and Ventura counties, said the developmentprocess varies from city to city.

“Some jurisdictions try to streamline it more than others,” he said. “But broadly speaking, the entitlementprocess can take months, and in some cases, years.”

KB Home has a variety of new homes for sale in such cities as Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Van Nuys andPalmdale.

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The groups that came together at Wednesday’s event agreed on several factors that would spur increased homeconstruction:

• The development process needs to be streamlined

• Cities and developers need to engage with neighborhood councils and other community groups early ratherthan later when housing proposals are under consideration

• Elected officials need to lead with innovative ideas instead of being fearful of neighborhood councils and theirconstituents

• Housing needs to be looked at in a more holistic manner, taking into consideration how long commutes impactfamily life and people’s stress levels

• Planning processes should be updated every six years rather than every 10 years or even longer, which hasbeen the case in some cities.

  

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Drought dwindling in Southern California

More than half the state out of drought conditions, figures show

By Suzanne Hurt, The PressEnterprise

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Snow and rain keep putting the hurt on California’s weakeningdrought, which now encompasses less than half the state for the firsttime in four years.

This week, 53 percent of the state is out of drought and only 11percent remains in “severe” to “extreme” conditions — with more rainand snow expected in the region today and Saturday.

“Extreme” drought conditions linger in a sliver of northwest LosAngeles County and parts of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties,according to this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor.

Southern California made other significant gains. The “severe” drought gripping half the region has shrunk toportions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Diego and Imperial counties, and the rest of SantaBarbara County.

Meanwhile, Riverside and Orange counties are now experiencing nothing worse than moderate drought.

California’s “abundant” rain and snow over several months are paying off, said Renobased Western RegionalClimate Center scientist David Simeral.

“These series of storms over the past 90 days have definitely impacted the state overall in terms of improvingsoil moisture levels and surface water flows, which fill our reservoirs with water,” he said.

The Sierra Nevada snowpack water content now measures 179 percent of normal, or 126 percent of the April 1average.

Since October, precipitation that’s 4 to 8 inches above normal has fallen in Orange County, Los AngelesCounty’s southern threequarters, Riverside County’s western third and San Bernardino County’s southwestcorner, said Simeral.

He produced the country’s Feb. 7 drought assessment put out by the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration, U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Drought Mitigation Center.

The assessment is based on a range of indicators including the Palmer Drought Severity Index, soil moisture,precipitation, stream flow activity and, in California’s Sierra and farther north, snowpack water content.

The last time less than half of California was plagued by drought was April 16, 2013, when 48.39 percent was indrought. That rose to 63 percent by April 23, Simeral said.

The waning drought is “fantastic,” said Western Municipal Water District Director of Water Resources Tim Barr.

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The state Water Resources department has agreed to supply state water project contractors, who buy NorthernCalifornia water and sell it to customers, with 60 percent of requested amounts, which is the total they got forthe past three years, Barr said.

Like other suppliers, Western Municipal officials think the state is out of a drought emergency and wantmandatory water savings requirements ended — as many told the State Water Resources Control Board onWednesday before the board extended an emergency conservation regulation for 270 days.

Suppliers encourage users to save water through pricing. The board shouldn’t require suppliers to enforce theregulation’s bans on such things as landscape runoff, Barr said.

“I think it’s up to every local supplier to determine whether they can meet the needs of their customers’demand,” he said.

  

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"Raise your hands if you've ever felt lonely," Anthony Owliaie, a therapist and

presenter, asked of the several hundred kids gathered in the auditorium of

Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School.

Nearly all hands went up. "Me!" "I do!" "All the time!" broke the silence.

Owliaie had come to talk about "Just Say Hello," a campaign organized by the

nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise to prevent social seclusion, stave off isolation

and help students learn to talk to each other.

One thing that can help, he told them: knowing a few ice breakers.

Sandy Hook Promise was created by parents who lost children in the 2012

shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Their

goal: prevent violence before it starts. Reach kids who feel left out early on.

The program teaches students how to spot loneliness and potential signs of

violence, both in person and on social media.

One student came out of the presentation with a message for her peers:

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jade 🍭 @crybbygrl_ yayyo i'm a person who won't bite, so if you ever want to talk im here for you

♡ #startwithhello #sandyhookpromise 2:23 PM - 9 Feb 2017

School districts countrywide are trying the program. Its directors say they get

regular feedback, but the partnership with L.A. Unified will be the first time

they use data to track its effects.

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Andy @yourcoachandy @JMCMiddleSchool excellent day, amazing STUDENTS who embrace using handwritten notes to #startwithhello#SandyHookPromise @BlairFreedman 4:18 PM - 8 Feb 2017

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JMC Middle @JMCMiddleSchool "Say Hello!" with Andy Payne! #StartWithHello#sandyhookpromise @yourcoachandy @MDCPSSouth Thank you Ms. Dally Pelaez for joining as well! 5:12 AM - 9 Feb 2017