BRIEFLY.Chick to audit fire, police pensions City Controller Laura Chick, the mayor and City Council announced Tuesday that audits will be conducted of the city's fire and police pension plans, as well as the city's employee retirement system. The audits, required every five years, will look at the efficiency and effectiveness of the current structures. They should be completed in five months. The audits come as pension systems across the country grapple with growing debt. The 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. Department of Fire and Police Pensions and the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Retirement System are among the few pension systems in the state in the black. - Daily News Ludlow still on job at AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. office Martin Ludlow Martin Ludlow (born 1964) was a member of the Los Angeles City Council, USA, from 2003 to 2005. He represented the 10th district. He was elected May 20, 2003 and resigned on June 30, 2005. remains at the helm of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, a week after announcing his resignation in light of a criminal probe into his 2003 City Council election activity, officials confirmed Tuesday. Ludlow continues to report to work and draw his salary pending a decision by the group's executive board, said Mary Gutierrez, spokeswoman for the federation. ``He left it up to the board to decide what his final date would be and, as of yet, they haven't decided,'' she said. - Daily News L.A. commuters' trips get longer The average commute for workers in Los Angeles County was 29.2 minutes in 2004, nearly three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. longer than in 1990, according to a report released Tuesday by the Public Policy Institute of California Public Policy Institute of California is an independent, nonpartisan, non-profit research institution. Based in San Francisco, California, United States, the institute was established in 1994 with a $70 million endowment from William Reddington Hewlett. . According to the study, 70.4 percent of Los Angeles drivers commute to work alone, while about 15 percent carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. . About 6.3 percent take a bus, subway or rail, while about 3.6 percent walk or bike. The report found that Los Angeles County had the fourth-longest average commute time in the state, behind first-place Contra Costa County (32.2 minutes), San Joaquin County (31.5 minutes) and Riverside County (30.8 minutes). - City News Service Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. seeks state volunteers The California Academic Decathlon is seeking volunteers to help run the state competition in March. Ken Scarberry, CAD state director, said more volunteers are needed this year than in previous years because the competition expanded from 50 nine-member teams to 55 teams. The rigorous 10-subject academic competition is set for March 17 and 18 in Los Angeles, with the award ceremony on March 19. - Daily News SMMC SMMC Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps SMMC Scottish Motorsport Marshals Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) SMMC Scottish Midweek Mountaineering Club (UK) SMMC System Maintenance Monitoring Console gives grant for Simi parkland SIMI VALLEY - The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open has awarded a $975,000 grant to the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District to acquire 158 acres in Tapo Canyon connected to a wildlife corridor northeast of Simi Valley. The property, to be acquired from the Marr Ranch for about $1.3 million, will connect with other park district open space to Rocky Peak Park, a 4,500-acre nature reserve owned by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority. The park district's board of directors had already voted in December to allocate the remaining $300,000 to buy the Marr Ranch land. - Daily News New rules require project posting Developers will be required to post a brief project description and other information at all construction sites in Los Angeles, under a plan approved Tuesday by the City Council. The council unanimously voted to require developers also to post a description of regulations covering job sites; work hours allowed by law; city agency contact information; and a 24-hour contact number to report complaints involving the site. The measures are aimed at strengthening construction site regulations, according to Councilman Jack Weiss, who introduced the Neighborhood Protection Package. - City News Service Council OKs new panel members The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Tuesday confirmed two of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's appointees to the Commission for Children, Youth and Their Families. The council unanimously voted to confirm television producer Donna Brown Guillaume and Sandra Martinez, director of special programs for the California Wellness Foundation, to the 15-member panel. - City News Service |
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