– Santa Monica screws up on its plan to come up with a divorce plan for the school district.
– The city may help install a gate on the street at Escondido Canyon … to keep MRCA’s park locked up.
– Residents have had it with homeless encampments catching fire.
– The storms is a fizzle in Malibu … but we could … yet … get a shower.
This is Malibu’s only local daily news.
It’s the (((( midday ))) edition of the ((( Tuesday ))) news … from Radio Malibu ….
99 point 1 K B U U … Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.
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Two power outages hit Malibu this morning … affecting more than 6 thousand customer accounts.
KBUU details: http://www.radiomalibu.net/2-blackouts/
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Malibu’s city council rejected a request from Santa Monica school officials …. to give them more time to come up with a school district divorce between Santa Monica and Malibu.
KBUU News details: http://www.radiomalibu.net/malibu-tells-smmusd-enough/
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Last week’s fire at Malibu Knolls has residents furious … about homeless people setting fires in the middle of the night.
Steve Uhring nearly lost his house.
KBUU details: http://www.radiomalibu.net/malibu-knolls-resident-wants/
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The city of Malibu may help Sycamore canyon residents install a gate … and take zoning code enforcement action against the MRCA.
KBUU details: http://www.radiomalibu.net/sycamore-cyn-may-get-city-help/
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Malibu’s city council shifted positions … as scheduled …. last night.
Mayor Skylar Peak steps down … he’s a city councilman again.
The new mayor is Rick Mullen.
The new mayor pro tem is Jefferson Wagner.
There was a ton of news out of last night’s meeting.
We’ll have the latest on the retail ordinance … and some council unhappiness with a growing top level bureaucracy … tomorrow.
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You are listening to the latest news from Radio Malibu … 99 point 1 K B U U. ((( time ))))
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In other news …
Construction was supposed to start overnight last night … on P C H at the Escondido landslide.
Nothing happened.
Caltrans announced with great fanfare last fall that work would start soon on a 5.2 million dollar contract … to repair P C H in the heart of Malibu.
But other than putting up signs … and removing the center median divider … nothing has happened.
Cakltrans officials tells KBUU that there was some disagreement within the agency … as one set of safety engineers rejected the construction detour plans drawn up by other engineers.
Overnight construction was supposed to begin last night.
It didn’t.
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The L-A coroner has not publicly identified the man killed on Pacific Coast Highway Sunday night.
They say only he is a man in his early 30s.
No next of kin have been found.
But the Malibu mayor says he was a homeless man.
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L -A county sheriff’s deputies are offering their parking lots …. as safe zones for meet-ups to sell things via the internet.
KBUU details: http://www.radiomalibu.net/how-to-avoid-internet-robberies/
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California seems to have fallen back into a severe drought.
And it looks like watering restrictions are coming back.
Anyone caught wasting water … anywhere in the state ….may be fined as much as $500 under new rules being considered by the state water board.
The State Water Resources Control Board is expected to adopt regulation coming before the board on Feb. 20 that would make it a crime to commit any of seven wasteful water practices — including lawn over watering to street median irrigation.
Whi would administer the water penalty rules in Malibu?
In years past it has been the county waterworks agency … which runs the local water utility.
Malibu officials have quietly chafed at what they see as an ineffective effort by the county.
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A hazmat roundup is coming up in Malibu.
This Saturday … from 10 to 2.
At Malibu City Hall.
There is the usual list of trash you can drop off.
Water based paint.
Used motor oil
Anti-freeze
Automotive and household batteries.
And unbroken light bulbs.
That’s this Saturday … 10 to 2 … at Malibu City Hall.
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Traffic …
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Weather for the Malibu ….
A 20 percent chance of showers remains through tonight.
Unless it’s raining … it will be mostly sunny, with a high near 66 today today both on the beach and in the mountains above Malibu.
Winds will be calm.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 5:34 )))).
After that … 20 percent chance of showers tonight … a low of (((( 41 )))) on the beach … down to (((( 45 )))) in the canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( sunny and cool )))).
At 9 AM … at Trancas it’s (((( 48 )))) degrees.
In upper Malibu Canyon … (((( 45 )))) .
And at Civic Center Los Angeles … (((( 52 )))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( 56 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The waves today are (((( zero to one )))) feet high ….
Those are (((( awful to poor )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( tide is at ))))
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