BRIEFLY COUNTY DEMANDS AID FOR FOSTER KIDS.In an effort to reduce the number of missing foster children, those abused under government care and the amount of money paid out in lawsuits, 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. County supervisors voted Tuesday to develop a series of new strategies that met with success in other departments. The supervisors directed staff to report back on Sept. 9 on efforts to create a more efficient case filing system, require social workers to report within 24 hours any incident in which a foster child is harmed or a situation that could lead to a lawsuit, and require social workers to enter case information into computers. A similar 24-hour reporting requirement helped the health department reduce its medical malpractice Improper, unskilled, or negligent treatment of a patient by a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, or other health care professional. claims by 200 and saved $10 million from 1995 to 2000. - Daily News Traffic school bribe crackdown The practice of greasing the palms of traffic school instructors to obtain completion certificates may be getting a bit more dicey. Los Angeles County officials said Tuesday they plan to conduct random undercover operations at the county's 180 traffic schools looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. signs that traffic school instructors are taking bribes. The action follows a Channel 2 expose that found traffic school instructors in Hollywood and Tarzana had allegedly sold falsified traffic school completion certificates. In order to pay for the investigators, the fees the public pays the courts to attend traffic school will rise from $5 to $15. - Daily News Gold Line train off to 'real good start' PASADENA - The MTA's new Gold Line has gotten off to a ``real good start,'' tallying between 20,000 and 25,000 weekday boardings last week, the first full week of operation, a spokesman said Tuesday. The Pasadena-to-Los Angeles train has been projected to carry between 26,000 and 32,000 weekday boardings after its first year of operations. ``The Gold Line has definitely gotten off to a real good start here,'' said Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Ed Scannell. - Daily News Seabees at NCBC NCBC Naval Construction Battalion Center (US Navy) NCBC North Carolina Biotechnology Center (Research Triangle Park, NC) NCBC National Concrete Bridge Council (Skokie, IL) get new moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. PORT HUENEME Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. - Naval Construction Battalion Center, Port Hueneme, officially has been renamed Naval Facilities Expeditionary Logistics Center. The base is home to four Seabee battalions. Its old acronym, NCBC, has become familiar to thousands of sailors and civilians who worked there. In October 2000, the Port Hueneme and Point Mugu Navy bases were combined under one banner - Naval Base A naval base primarily for support of the forces afloat, contiguous to a port or anchorage, consisting of activities or facilities for which the Navy has operating responsibilities, together with interior lines of communications and the minimum surrounding area necessary for local Ventura County. And in January, the 31st Naval Construction Regiment's name was changed to the 31st Readiness Group. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. County urges 55% to pass budget 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:
Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San and Don Knabe Donald R. Knabe (born October 15, 1943 in Illinois) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, serving the Fourth District, a crescent shaped district that covers the coastline from Marina Del Rey southward to Long Beach, and southeastern Los Angeles County to voted against the motion, arguing that the proposed Budget Accountability Act would result in tax increases. ``Had this reckless proposal been the current law, taxpayers would have been given a body blow of more than 140 new taxes - costing over $4 billion,'' Antonovich said. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said only three states don't have a requirement that a majority of the legislature pass a budget. - Daily News Victims sought in car sale scam Los Angeles police Tuesday sought victims of a man suspected of selling high-mileage Volvos and Mercedes with the odometers rolled back, often while posing as an airline pilot or a cardiologist. Rudolph Eberhard Bartsch, 58, was arrested a week ago on three counts of grand theft and held in lieu of $180,000 bail, said Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department's media relations office. Bartsch allegedly met several prospective buyers at Saint Vincent Medical Center, and typically used other German-sounding names than his own, Lee said. - City News Service |
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