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EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET INVOLVED - Tell your family, friends, & neighbors VOTE YES ON 22 - November 2010 Statewide Election (MORE INFO) City of El Monte Mayor And City Council
Rene Bobadilla - City of El Monte City Manager City Manager’s Monthly Message Summer is such an exciting time. As you will learn in this newsletter, there has been a lot of activity in El Monte this past month. The City continues to work hard in making progress with its scheduled projects and we are doing so successfully. Thank you, René Bobadilla, P.E., City Manager California's Budget Shell Game Weakens the State's Economic Recovery |
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El Monte City Hall along with most City offices will have shortened official business hours. The new hours of operation will be: Monday – Thursday
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SACRAMENTO CONTINUES TO THREATEN TO REDUCE LOCAL COMMUNITIES REVENUE TO BALANCE THE STATE’S BUDGET VITAL LOCAL SERVICES and TAX PAYERS DOLLARS AT RISK VOTE YES ON 22 - November 2010 Statewide Election
The Community And The City Staff continue Working Together With The Optimism To Help El Monte Grow Through This Crisis
July 2010 ROCKIN WEDNESDAYS—CONCERT IN THE PARK
June 2010 Grant could help “REOPEN” Fire Station City receives GRANT to help Gibson Mariposa Park’s future look promising Latest enhancement to El Monte’s Citizen Relationship Management Solution from Government Outreach, Inc. El Monte’s “Beach Bus” Service Running through Summer Slain sheriff's deputy remembered with boxing in El Monte “Jerry Ortiz Memorial Boxing and Youth Fitness Gym”
May 2010 Wal-mart one step closer to opening a store in the City of El Monte
April 2010 Council agrees to Wal-mart extension
March 2010 Town Hall Meeting - Mid Year Budget Presentation - March 18 - 7:00p.m. - El Monte Community Center
January 2010 Rene Bobadilla Appointed City Manager Cable Channel 3 now available via City’s website http://www.ci.el-monte.ca.us/channel3/index.html
December 2009 Mayor & City Council Approved a Ad-Hoc Committee to oversee the City Budget Ad-Hoc Committee - Mayor Andre Quintero & Councilmember “J” Gomez
JUNE 29, 2009 City Employee’s Have Volunteered To Take Cuts Again To Prevent Layoffs, And Preserve City Services 1) Employees’ Will Help By Paying $200 A Month Toward Medical Ins. 2) Deferring The July 1, 2009 Increases: SEIU Employees’ 3% Salary Increase POA 4% Salary Increase 10% Furloughs Will Continue SEIU Employees And Mid-Managers Have Volunteered To Help Pay Their Retirement Benefits Los Angeles County Fire is facing a tough decision to close a Fire Station to help reduce $2,000,000 from the city’s budget
The Community And The City Staff continue Working Together With The Optimism To Help El Monte Grow Through This Crisis |
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El Monte opens door to Wal-Mart By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer
EL MONTE - The City Council paved the way Wednesday for a Wal-Mart to open at Valley Boulevard and Santa Anita Avenue within two years, reversing an earlier decision. The Council, acting as the city's redevelopment agency, voted 4-1 to extend its contract with developer Festival-Capri Santa Fe Trail LLC for 90 days, allowing the developer to continue negotiations with Wal-Mart. If these negotiations produce results that meet the city's approval, ground could be broken within one year and construction could be complete a year after that, officials from Wal-Mart and Festival said. "The decision you are making tonight is about allowing us more time to continue our discussions those long-term goals that we'd had about bringing a store to El Monte are potentially realized here we're close," Wal-Mart spokesman Aaron Rios told the Council at Wednesday's meeting. "But without the extension, those negotiations can't continue." More than a dozen residents voiced support for the project, though many also raised concerns about the developer. No one spoke against it. "It will bring jobs. It will bring an income to our city It's a chance we shouldn't miss," resident Charles Castaneda said. "But you need to be a little harder with these developers, draw some lines." The city has been working with Festival for nearly a decade to redevelop the 16-acre site with no results. Festival managing member Mark Schurgin defended the developer's work. "We've worked tirelessly it's taken us seven years to get Wal-Mart into this room tonight. We haven't sat around," he said. "This hasn't been an easy one. It's tough to bring tenants to a city you have to do a sales job. It's not been easy." This is the first time Festival has ever produced a written agreement from a business to open on the property, according to former councilman Art Barrios. Barrios helped rally support for the project over the past week and presented the council with a petition with more than 200 signatures in favor of it. Last week, the Council denied Festival's request to extend its contract, which was set to expire at the end of the month. Council members said they were frustrated by the company's failure to produce a real project proposal even after a 60-day extension in December. Those frustrations lingered for Mayor Andre Quintero, who was the sole vote against the extension. "Like many of the residents that spoke tonight, I don't have confidence in the developer to be able to deliver anything serious to the city. And I'd like to have a fresh start we have a chance to do things different in this town," Quintero said. "Maybe we could do something better with it." Wal-Mart's Rios said the company has been interested in opening a store in El Monte "for a long time" and if this particular project doesn't work out, the company would consider other sites in the city. With the contract extended, Wal-Mart and Festival will now continue negotiations. City staff will scrutinize the product of those negotiations to determine whether it "makes sense for the city and residents to move forward with Wal-Mart," city attorney Clarke Moseley said.
El Monte: Swimming pool to open one month early
The city's aquatic center will open one month earlier than planned thanks to a unanimous city council decision this week to allocate $15,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to the pool. The additional funds will allow the pool to open March 1 and provide senior swim, lap swim, water aerobics, El Monte Sharks swim team practice, and dive team practice. The pool has been closed since December because of the city's budget constraints. Since last year's $12 million budget deficit, El Monte eliminated all general fund support for the aquatics center, requiring it to be 100 percent self sufficient. The block grant funds, which are not part of the general fund, were originally slated for an after-school youth sports program. However, a different grant that was supposed to fund most of that program has been postponed, freeing up the block grant funds.
Southland economist predicts jobless recovery By Kevin Smith, Staff Writer SGVT
As the nation's jobless rate soars to 10.2 percent, one Southland economist said California is facing a jobless recovery. And Sacramento lawmakers have compounded the problem by driving up the state's budget deficit - a shortfall that's expected to reach $20 billion next year, economist Jack Kyser said Friday. "Unemployment will probably go up," Kyser said. "It's going to be painful." Speaking to a breakfast gathering of business and community leaders at the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel in Pomona, Kyser presented an economic outlook on the nation, California, Los Angeles County and the San Gabriel Valley. The event was sponsored by the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership. Kyser, founding economist with the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., was joined by Linnea McCord, an associate professor of business law at Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business & Management. Kyser noted that the San Gabriel Valley's annual average employment for 2009 is estimated at 629,300, down from 649,600 the previous year. And 2010 is expected to be worse, with a drop-off to 622,000. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent - its highest point since early 1983. Locally, things have already gotten worse. Los Angeles County posted a jobless rate of 12.7 percent in September, up from 12.2 percent the previous month and well above the year-ago rate of 8.3 percent. California was close behind, with an unemployment rate of 12.2 percent in September, down from 12.3 percent in August but up from 7.8 percent a year earlier. "Construction is creating a drag on California's job market," Kyser said. "Home prices are starting to go up, but we're being warned that a lot more foreclosed properties will be hitting the market - and we have an ongoing state budget crisis." Kyser said California's stringent mandates and environmental policies have been tough on business, prompting out-of-state recruiters to aggressively move in and try to lure companies away from the Golden State. "Las Vegas is trying to poach our conventions from Anaheim and Los Angeles," Kyser said. "We've just got an unfriendly business environment." The San Gabriel Valley's economy is getting a welcome boost from the new Pasadena Convention Center and The Breeders' Cup, which returned for the second year in a row to Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, he said. But the Valley's six economic drivers - higher education, health care, business and professional services, tourism, international trade, and manufacturing - are all lagging, according to Kyser. Slow growth is predicted for the higher education sector, tourism prospects are muted and continuing job losses are occurring in the region's manufacturing sector, he said. Demand for health care services in the San Gabriel Valley is strong, Kyser said, but those businesses also face continuing financial pressures. "They're dealing with a lot of uninsured patients," he said. Kyser said a slow recovery is under way with the international trade sector, although business at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is slow. McCord stressed that the nation must maintain a culture of trust. But that trust, she said, must be based on facts and research - not sound bites coming from so-called experts. "You must think for yourself," she said. "Don't let the experts do it for you." McCord views the current decade - which weathered bubble bursts in the technology, housing, and credit and finance sectors - as "greed on steroids." And the next bubble on the horizon? "Government spending," McCord said. "The missing link is morality ... simply knowing the difference between right and wrong. We must establish a culture of trust. Trust is essential, and we've forgotten why." People are blinded to trust because of ignorance, arrogance and complacency, she said. "We are on borrowed time and borrowed money," McCord said. "But we are a self-organized culture capable of making massive change. The age of entitlement is over and the age of responsibility is upon us." Jeff Cox, director of development for Cal Poly Pomona's College of Business, attended Friday's event and said the school believes higher education is part of the solution. "We try to give our students the tools to get out there and be creative and find solutions to this mess we're in," he said. "A lot of the education at Cal Poly is hands-on - we work with case studies. You're studying the history of what's gone on in the past. It gives you the tools to head your career in the right direction."
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
The Community Building Initiative is a 10-year effort to comprehensively revitalize City of El Monte by engaging residents, developing their leadership, improving their physical environment and the quality of social and educational services. The CBI is a pilot project that seeks to document and measure the success of CCF’s multiyear, multimillion-dollar investments and partnerships in improving the quality of life of residents in City of El Monte targeted areas. Community Foundation Land Trust activities and grants, CCF will invest about $1 million a year over the next 10 years. The CBI target areas are: Little Five Points: Located in southeast El Monte where the majority of the residents are low and moderate income. |
