If you want to save the library/ pool etc.. do yourself a favor and contact the city controller's office and request a copy of the city of Long Beach Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the years 2006, 2007, and 2008. In it you will clearly see that the city actually has BILLIONS in SURPLUS cash right now that has nothing to do with a budget. The city, state, and federal goverments have been investing our tax dollars into the top 30 blue chip corporations on the stock market since the 1945 when the Federal Reserve was created. This is pure FRAUD!! Go see for yourself..
Duke
· 1 year ago
Don't have any idea what Crash Crowley is talking about, but I would like to address the notion that the city is responsible for the courthouse. It isn't. That building is a county/state responsibility. It's irresponsible to keep lumping in the courthouse with the rest of the area as a city expense.
As for City Hall and its seismic integrity, in a major earthquake, it's already been determined through studies that in all probability, the building itself, as it's on rollers, would remain reasonably intact. What could happen is that the stairways employees would utilize to leave the building (the "wings" on the place), likely could fall away, leaving everyone inside stranded. There are no internal stairwells that go all the way to the street. They're all affixed to the outside of the main structure, and apparently not very well at that. If a quake hit during business hours, it could take the Fire Department a period of days to get everyone out via cranes or hook and ladders.
Janis Populi
· 1 year ago
I would like to send in a contribution to the District Weekly to help compensate for losses in advertising from disgruntled business special interests. Really concerns me that both business and the City Of Long Beach have threatened to pull advertising from media because they don't like the content.
Please set up paypal account so we all can toss in a few bucks into the hat to support FREE PRESS in Long Beach.
Andy
· 1 year ago
Absolutely...what a weenie to drop the advertising. I don't think that the proposal is entirely a bad thing, but it definitely should be publicized and debated.
Mike Ruehle
· 1 year ago
Didn’t The District Weekly sponsor the last “stroll and savor” for the Belmont Shore Business Association? Isn’t Mr. Rotondo President of that same BSBA? Does it seem right that Mr. Rotondo accepts TDW’s money to sponsor the BSBA event, yet consider TDW an unworthy place for their advertising?
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This is pure FRAUD!! Go see for yourself..
As for City Hall and its seismic integrity, in a major earthquake, it's already been determined through studies that in all probability, the building itself, as it's on rollers, would remain reasonably intact. What could happen is that the stairways employees would utilize to leave the building (the "wings" on the place), likely could fall away, leaving everyone inside stranded. There are no internal stairwells that go all the way to the street. They're all affixed to the outside of the main structure, and apparently not very well at that. If a quake hit during business hours, it could take the Fire Department a period of days to get everyone out via cranes or hook and ladders.
Please set up paypal account so we all can toss in a few bucks into the hat to support FREE PRESS in Long Beach.