BRIEFLY BOARD SEEKING CHROMIUM 6 WORK.The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
The supervisors also voted to send a letter to the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board to issue cleanup and abatement orders. A recent study, conducted by court-appointed water master Mel Belvins, revealed that ground water contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. with chromium 6 had migrated near wells and water-treatment facilities that service Burbank, Glendale and Los Angeles. The report called for federal intervention to order the 60 companies suspected of ground water contamination to add chromium 6 to the list of pollutants the companies are currently required to remove from water supplies. - Daily News Grand Avenue set for major overhaul A $14.5 million contract to spruce up Grand Avenue for the October opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. was approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The board approved the project last year, but its future was in jeopardy because state funding earmarked for it was not forthcoming. The state is facing a budget shortfall of nearly $35 billion, according to the governor. After delaying a decision on the project, the California Transportation Commission late last week approved $9.5 million in funding. - City News Service Board to improve tax bill notices The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, responding to a case in which an 85-year-old man lost his condominium over a $546 tax bill, voted Tuesday to improve methods of notifying property owners about delinquencies. The county will start sending out notices of past-due property taxes each year and printing past-due amounts in boldface on bills with a color background. - City News Service Social workers to help homeless The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to have social workers accompany police on ``sweeps'' of Skid Row. Teams from the Department of Mental Health and the Alcohol and Drug Program Administration will join officers during operations aimed at clearing the sidewalks on the east side of downtown. County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke proposed the idea to ``facilitate matters so that homeless people, especially those who are mentally ill or who have a substance abuse problem, aren't going to simply be routed into jail, as opposed to being taken somewhere else where they could be treated,'' said aide Glenda Wina. - City News Service Judge orders feds to protect fish A judge in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that a federal wildlife agency must protect the waterways where the Santa Ana sucker The Santa Ana sucker, Catostomus santaanae, is a sucker found only in a handful of rivers in southern California. They are closely related to mountain suckers, and quite similar in appearance. , a bottom-feeding fish, is found. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for the fish, which used to be common throughout the Los Angeles Basin The Los Angeles Basin is the coastal sediment-filled plain located between the peninsular and transverse ranges in southern California in the United States containing the central part of the city of Los Angeles as well as its southern and southeastern suburbs (both in Los Angeles . The fish was listed as ``threatened'' under the Endangered Species Act The federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) (16 U.S.C.A. §§ 1531 et seq.) was enacted to protect animal and plant species from extinction by preserving the ecosystems in which they survive and by providing programs for their conservation. in April 2000. The ruling is the result of a lawsuit brought by the American Fisheries Society, California Trout, Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity combines conservation biology with litigation, policy advocacy, and an innovative strategic vision to secure a future for animals and plants hovering on the brink of extinction, for the wilderness they need to survive, and by extension for the and Friends of the River. - Associated Press Firetruck collides with ambulance A Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. ambulance and fire engine responding to a reported emergency collided at a busy midcity intersection Tuesday, resulting in minor injuries, a city fire official said. The crash at Venice Boulevard and South Western Avenue was reported at 4:32 p.m., said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The ambulance was going north on Western, and the ``engine company'' was moving east on Venice when they collided, he said. - City News Service |
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