The school board meets at Malibu City Hall tonight.

Routine business … but also an opportunity to react to Monday’s decision against a Malibu school district.

The Zuma Beach cleanup project is Sunday.

How to make your kid real happy … unload that ton of candy for charity.

And it’s homecoming weekend at Malibu … as the volleyball team advances in the state playoffs.

This is Malibu’s only local daily news.

It’s the   ((((  Thursday  ))) edition of the news … from Radio Malibu  …. 97 point 5 K B U.

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Malibu Might Vent Tonight AT 5:30 School Board Meeting

Malibu residents tonight have a chance this evening to react to the Santa Monica school board … which told Malibu it would reverse course on the proposed independent Malibu school district.

The school board has its regular meeting … and this time it’s at the Malibu City Hall.

The school board scheduled a special meeting to talk about Malibu independence … last Monday … and that meeting was inexplicably held not in Malibu … but in Santa Monica.

The board does rotate its meetings … every fourth or fifth session … out to Malibu.

Tonight’s meeting starts with a call for public comment … at 5:30 … at Malibu City Hall.

The Monday meeting has Malibu talking.

As we reported … some Santa Monica school board members have gone back on their promises … and decided not to let Malibu have local control of its schools after all.

Instead … talks will begin between the district and Malibu … over some sort of limited autonomy.

The Monday night meeting has left school parents and the city council furious.

AMPS has posted an acid-tongued note … saying it’s nice that the Santa Monica school board is meeting tonight discuss what they call more lovely additions to their new Santa Monica campus … while completely ignoring Malibu children.

An awful rat infestation, putrid restroom conditions, and PCBs still in the old wrecked building …says AMPS.

Writes one parent … Scott Hosfeld …

“Unbelievable…is there no recourse? I have already pulled my kids out due first to the environmental irresponsibility … and now because we are the powerless tail paying all the bills for the big dog….!”

The outgoing Malibu High P T S A president Melanie Goudzwaard urges parents to “get involved and support AMPS… 

“We’ve been working on this for seven years! 

“We need supporters, donors, word spreaders, people to attend meetings…  Plenty to be done and AMPS has been leading the way on this for a long time now.”

Again . the Santa Monica school board members met tonight at 5:30 at Malibu City Hall.

There’s a call to the public on the agenda … but it’s not clear exactly what time that will occur.

Forecast: Drizzle, Drizzle, Drizzle, Drizzle, Rain, Rain

Rain is falling in Los Angeles this morning … a heavy drizzle.

Not here at Trancas … though.

Malibu may get a dose of actual winter rain … but not until midweek.

Cool and unsettled weather will continue across the area through  arly next week.

There will be some drizzle or light showers today tomorrow and Saturday.

Sunday and Monday … a chance of more widespread light rainfall.

Tuesday and Wednesday a  possibility of a more significant  period of rain.

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Automatic Circuit Reclosers May Have Caused Brushfires

On the night of October Eighth …. a firestorm spread across the mountains and vineyards north of San Francisco.

The San Francisco Chrnoicle reports that the Pacific Gas and Electric power lines wup there are programmed to try to restart themselves in case service was interrupted — even if they were knocked to the ground or tangled in a tree.

These are called reclosers — similar to automated circuit breakers —

They are set to shoot pulses of electricity through lines that have tripped off . and if the power does not short out … these reclosers would automatically restart power.

That rasies the question …. how do the power lines in Malibu work???

Our utility … Soithern California Edison … uses automatic reclosers on its system.

That’s why a downed power line … even if it looks dead…. should be avoided at all costs.

Power may automatically come back.

Southern California Edison turns off the automatic function

If, however, the lines were in contact with branches or brush, those pulses of electricity could have started a fire.

State investigators are trying to determine whether PG&E’s power lines played a role in triggering the wildfires that swept across Wine Country that night, destroying whole neighborhoods and killing at least 43 people. No cause has been determined.

PG&E crews restoring electricity top of a blackened hill on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 in Sonoma, CA. PG&E could pay dearly for North Bay fires, even if it followed A crew from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company works to restore power in an area where power lines were damaged by wildfires in Sonoma County, Calif., Oct. 18, 2017. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) PG&E cited for late maintenance work more often than other state Workers from PG&E work on replacing a downed power line on Cleveland Ave. Oct. 10, 2017 in Santa Rosa, Calif. Underground power lines don’t cause wildfires. But they’re

Reclosers are a key tool for preventing blackouts, but they have been implicated in wildfires before. The danger they pose is significant enough that two of California’s three investor-owned utility companies — San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison — routinely reprogram them during fire season so that the devices don’t automatically try to restart power lines.

PG&E, California’s largest utility, has been conducting a pilot program this year to do the same thing, spokesman Keith Stephens said. Some of PG&E’s reclosers in the North Bay were part of that pilot program, he said. When the windstorm hit, they functioned as programmed and let power lines that went dark stay dark.

But other reclosers in the area were not part of the experiment, Stephens said. Instead, they were programmed to try up to three times to restart power lines that had shut down.

Zuma Beach Cleanup on Sunday

The Zuma Beach Clean-Up Day is Sunday … at Tower 1.

It’s sponsored by the Harry Barovsky Memorial Youth Commission and Heal the Bay.

The Heal the Bay Marine Debris Database keeps  an online record of trash and other debris removed from the beaches by volunteer groups.

Malibu High kids can get community service credit.

Details at the school office …. or at the city parks office.

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Here’s a great way to really honk off your kids. 

Make them pick the best ones … give you a few … and then take all the surplus Halloween candy to the local school.

For 28 years now …  volunteers are collecting surplus Halloween sugar bombs.

They will donate the candy to food banks, homeless shelters, Malibu Thanksgiving Dinner…etc…

The more thy collect … the more they can distribute.

Do your kids a favor .. collect the extra candy and take it to school. 

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The Malibu High school girls volleyball team is advancing to the second level of the C I F F championships.

They beat Milken High Monday night …

They took three sets to do it … with Malibu up 25-16 … 25-15 … 25-21

The girls travel up to Valencia this afternoon for their second round in the playoffs … bu varsity taking on Trinity Classical Academy today at 4 p.m.

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It as a close one … but the Malibu boys water polo team got eliminated from the CIFF playoffs.

They were beaten by Northwood High School … from Irvine .., in the Shark tank.

The teams played to a 4-4 tie in the first half … but the Sharks were edged out for a final score of 14 to 11.

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On the football field …  Malibu plays Fillmore tomorrow.

It’s the homecoming game at Malibu High … under the lights.

The game is at 6:30 tomorrow night.

Malibu is 5 and 4 on the season ,… coming off a tough skunking last week at the hands of Santa Clara of Oxnard. .

Fillmore is 0-9 on the season …

Shark Fans are encouraged to wear BLACK.

The half-time show will hve performances by the MHS cheerleaders, dance team and drum-line,.

Also … the Homecoming Court and Class Float Parade.

The homecoming dance is Saturday night at the MJCS …

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Weather for the Malibu ….

Patchy drizzle with a slight chance of rain this morning … highs around  ((((   66  )))) degrees today on the beach … ((((   68   )))) in the mountains above Malibu.

Winds will be be gusting down the coast at about    (((  20  )))) miles per hour this afternoon.

Sunset tonight is at   ((((    5:57   )))).

After that … A 20 percent chance of rain after 11pm. … a low of  ((((  54   )))) on the beach … down to  ((((   53   )))) in the mountains.

Tomorrow should be   ((((   damp   )))).

Right now … at Trancas it’s ((((     62  )))) degrees.

In upper Malibu Canyon … ((((  53     )))) .

And at Civic Center Los Angeles … ((((   61   )))).

And remember …. daylight saving time ends Sunday …. fall back.

In the ocean … it’s ((((       )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.

The lifeguards say the waves today are   ((((   1 to 2  )))) feet high ….

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Minor NW swell. Small SSW swell. Poor to Fair conditions  ))))

Those are ((((  fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.

(((((   tide is at     ))))

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