A two story building built out of shipping containers … at the heart of Malibu High School … will get its only public hearing in Malibu tonight.
The American Apparel store in Malibu … the one with the big ocean wave on PCH … will close soon.
And the first steelhead salmon in decades … make it up Arroyo Sequit.
This is Malibu’s only local daily news.
It’s the Thursday edition … from Radio Malibu …. 97 point 5 K B U.
Good morning Malibu!
A woman and her 14 year old daughter are recovering after being rescued late night in the Santa Monica Mountains.
The pair had been hiking and got caught by sunset.
They called 9-1-1 on their cellphone.
The Malibu Search and Rescue squad helped them out.
The exact location of the rescue was not available this morning.
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The Santa Monica Malibu School District is on the cusp of approving divorce between the two cities.
The agreement hammered together over a year of negotiations moves into the Malibu City Council’s realm later this month … a week from Monday to he exact.
But the school board will meet tonight … at Malibu City Hall … on the pressing issue of rebuilding Malibu High.
The district is caught in a tight deadline … imposed by the federal court on the P C B lawsuit … to remodel the school.
One building…. should be replaced instead of remodeled … the district has determined.
They recommend a two story building … where there is currently a one story building.
The school board will make that decision tonight at Malibu City Hall.
The plan is to use prefabricated modules … called GrowthPoint Buildings.
These are essentially shipping containers.
How will that fit in aesthetically?
What will these look like?
How will they function as classrooms … and as the heart of the largest public facility in Malibu?
The district;s construction chief … Carey Upton .. says “The GrowthPoint building, made of shipping containers, could be permitted and built / assembled in
less time than traditional construction.
“The modular construction of this product has many advantages and is also very environmentally friendly.”
Last time the school board built classrooms in Malibu … it was a functional disaster.
The new two-story classroom building near the gym … built in the mid 1990s … is so badly designed that the first team of consultants working on this decade’s project initially recommended tearing it down.
The recycled shipping containers … stacked two stories high … may look and function great.
They are cheap and fast …. is the essential message from the district.
And there is only one public hearing on the proposal … tonight at Malibu City Hall …. at about 6:30.
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Time has run out for the American Apparel store on the eastern edge of Malibu.
Employees at the store tell KBU News it will close in a few weeks.
The store has been there about 14 years or so … it’s landmark building frequently festooned with a poster of scantily clad humans of the female variety.
The parent company once was a fashion industry darling … but American Apparel could not stand the loss of its founder in a sex harassment controversy.
American Apparel … closing its Malibu store soon.
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Lee Baca … called the Teflon sheriff …. faces the very real likelihood of federal prison time today.
Yesterday … he was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation into abuses in county jails … and of lying to cover up the interference.
Jurors reached their verdict on their second full day of deliberations.
It marks a fall and disgrace for the man who was the elected sheriff in L-A County for 15 years as sheriff of the agency.
He was the de facto police chief of Malibu.
Baca had built himself into a national law enforcement figure known for progressive ideas on criminal justice issues.
Baca is 74 and suffers from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, now faces the likelihood of time in federal prison.
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Just three months ago … work was finished on a new bridge at Leo Carrillo State Park.
The park’s access road used to cross the creek in Arroyo Sequit on a bridge that had a concrete creekbed underneath … which prevented steelhead salmon to pass underneath.
Then came the storms … a lot of water down the creek … and now … a 19-inch oceangoing salmon was spotted by state biologists last week …. upstream from the new fish-friendly bridge.
A second steelhead … 11 inches long .. . was also spotted.
State parks superintendent Craig Sap tells KBUU News the return of steelhead to upper Arroyo Sequit has him tremendously excited.
It shows that the endangered fish will immediately return to a restored habitat … if impediments can be removed.
Such benefit is the reason why state parks is supporting the 166 million dollar removal of Rindge Dam … the 90 year old blockage of Malibu Creek.
Steelhead salmon are an endangered species … and up and down the west coast of the Unietd States dams are being removed to restore their breeding grounds.
Removing Rindge Dam will open up abut 20 miles of creek banks for the salmon the lay their eggs.
An opponent to the dam removal … Ron Rindge …writes in this week’s Malibu Times that the old dam is historic.
Rindge says keeping the dam is important to hold sewage in case a line ever breaks upstream.
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Speaking of fish … the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and other groups are going to review the effectiveness of Malibu’s marine Protected Area next week.
The area around Point Dume and along Zuma Beach has been put off limits to most types of fishing.
The move was quite controversial … with many Malibu divers and fisherwomen and fishermen opposed.
The state … the Ocean Protection Council and the Ocean Science Trust are inviting everyone .. including opponents of the MPA … to an informal community gatherings along the coast.
Next Wednesday afternoon … the informal meeting will be held to learn about key findings from marine protected area baseline monitoring conducted in the region.
The meeting is next Wednesday … march 22nd … from 4-6pm at the Wishtoyo Chumash Village … near Matador Beach in western Malibu.
The address in on the KBU Newswire … at the Malibu Times website.
ADDRESS: 33904 Pacific Coast Hwy
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Finally … back to the sheriff’s office.
The L-A Times has uncovered a plan to replace the belt buckles on Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies … from silver to bronze colored.
Cost —- 300 thousand dollars.
The department says this will make deputies look more professional in their jobs and could help make them safer.
Belt buckles and other metal pieces of gear will be changed from silver to gold.
Sheriff Jim McDonnell says the brass will match the gold-hued tie clips, lapel pins and six-pointed star badges that deputies already wear.
Why?
The L-A Times reports that the sheriff says the change is important … to maintaining a professional look for deputies on the job.
And some deputies say that looking sharp can project an aura of authority.
But some rank-and-file deputies argue that it’s a misuse of money … according to the newspaper.
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Weather for the Malibu ….
It will be cool on the beach … hot in the hills. (((( Sunny and 68 )))) degrees today on the beach … (((( 80 )))) inland.
Winds will be gentle. Downcoast breezes will be ((( 10 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 7:02 )))).
After that … expect it to be ((( partly cloudy )))) tonight … a low of (((( 57 )))) on the beach … down to (((( 51 )))) in the canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( hotter )))).
Right now ((( at 8 o’clock )))) … it’s (((( 53 )))) at Trancas.
(((( 63 )))) in upper Malibu Canyon.
And it’s (((( 59 ))) at Civic center Los Angeles.
In the ocean … it’s (((( 58 )))) degrees in the water at Trancas Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( 1 to 3 )))) feet high ….
There is a small WNW swell mix, fading SW swell.
Those are (((( fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( Tide is coming in to a moderate high tide at 12:37 PM.
There’s a low at 6:15 PM ))))
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