BRIEFLY CITY TO MULL CUTS TO BUSINESS TAX.Declaring that small businesses in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. need tax relief, City Council members Wendy Greuel Wendy Greuel is President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 2nd District. Greuel was elected in 2002 to fill the remainder of the term of Councilman Joel Wachs. She was elected in her own right in 2003 and reelected in 2007. and Eric Garcetti Eric Garcetti (born 1971) is the son of former Los Angeles county district attorney Gil Garcetti, and was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2001. He was reelected in 2005. on Monday asked city officials to consider lifting the city business tax on companies with $100,000 or less in revenues. The council members, who co-chair the Small Local Business Advisory Committee, wrote that smaller businesses have a particular challenge navigating the city's ``onerous and cumbersome'' business tax system. They called on city officials to study eliminating the tax on smaller businesses, charging a $25 filing fee on businesses with revenues of $100,000 or less or charging a $25 filing fee on businesses with revenues of $50,000 or less and a $50 fee for businesses with revenues of $50,000 to $100,000. - Daily News 18-month term for fraud scheme STUDIO CITY - A Studio City man imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- for his role in an oil-and- gas Ponzi scheme A fraudulent investment plan in which the investments of later investors are used to pay earlier investors, giving the appearance that the investments of the initial participants dramatically increase in value in a short amount of time. was sentenced Monday to an additional 18 months in a separate case. Cary S. Greene, 43, pleaded guilty in April to one count of securities fraud. He was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson. Prosecutors said Greene claimed a Glendale company, Broadband Concepts and Technologies Inc., had developed a means to compress data and send it via copper phone wires. - City News Service Retired priest faces charges A retired Roman Catholic priest was charged Monday with molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Los Angeles County juvenile facility. Authorities said the alleged crimes occurred between March 2001 and the end of January 2002, while Stephen Charles Hernandez was counseling minors at Eastlake Juvenile Hall. Hernandez, now 70, is scheduled to be arraigned June 23 in Los Angeles on 10 counts of lewd acts with a child, and two counts of using a minor for sex acts, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the District Attorney's Office. - City News Service Greuel would cite for blight blight, general term for any sudden and severe plant disease or for the agent that causes it. The term is now applied chiefly to diseases caused by bacteria (e.g., bean blights and fire blight of fruit trees), viruses (e.g., soybean bud blight), fungi (e.g. A Los Angeles city official called on Monday for reducing red tape between agencies in order to do a better job of citing properties that become blighted blight n. 1. a. Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues. b. . ``Visual blight, such as graffiti, overgrown overgrown said of a part that has not been kept trimmed. overgrown hoof overgrown hooves put unusual stresses on bones and tendons and allow for distortion of the wall and sole. vegetation and accumulation of trash, negatively affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods,'' Councilwoman Wendy Greuel said in her proposal to be presented to the full City Council today. Studies indicate that the accumulation of visual blight makes communities more susceptible to crime and public safety threats. Under her proposal, individual city agencies would be empowered to cite property owners when they see blight, without having to call in other agencies to determine if there are violations. - Daily News Departments get traffic grants Nearly $75 million in federal traffic safety grants were allocated to California, it was announced Monday. The money is administered through the state's Office of Traffic Safety, according to Business, Transportation & Housing Agency Secretary Sunne Wright McPeak. The grants to cities and counties will fund programs that combine education, prevention and enforcement designed to reduce traffic-related injuries and fatalities, McPeak said. - City News Service |
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