Sean Spicer reacts to new sanctuary cities … including Malibu.
Demolition plans emerge for the familiar facade of Malibu High School.
And the one and only Malibu hearing on the proposed 2-story shipping container building is tomorrow night.
Caltrans quietly plans to close Trancas Beach … to rebuild the bridge.
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As predictable … the TV stations showed up in Malibu yesterday to tell the rest of the world that trendy Malibu had joined such less-famous locales as Santa Ana and Petaluma …. as a sanctuary city.
The city council voted Monday to prevent the expenditure of city funds to further federal immigration efforts ….
And it has the specific language that the spending ban will exist … quoting “except as required by federal or state statute, regulation, or court decision.”
There are no state or federal laws or regulations or court decisions requiring Malibu to spend its public money to enforce federal immigration laws.
In Washington yesterday …. presidential press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about cities that are thumbing their nose at President Trump by declaring sanctuary status in the face of promised federal action.
Spicer said 80 percent of Americans oppose cities becoming sanctuaries.
SPICER AAAA :36 QQQ: IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.
“I think if you are a mayor or a councilman or a state representative or a governor, in a state, you need to answer to the people that elected you, whether or not you are going to support this. “From a federal perspective, I think the president has been very clear: that we are not going to use federal taxpayer dollars to support cities that support services for people who are in this county illegally.
“But I think, at the end of the day this is a question for mayors and councilmembers at the local level, who have to answer people that elected them, with a position that is clearly not in keeping with what most Americans believe.”
The 80 percent figure that Spicer cited is … not … accurate.
The poll he cites did not ask about sanctuary status … it asked if Americans favor the deportation of violent criminals who are not supposed to be in the United States.
There’s a big difference.
And the latest reputable poll on the issue found 53 percent of Americans oppose to the establishment of sanctuary cities.
Politifact says Spicer’s use of a figure of 80 percent opposed to new sanctuary cities was not supported by the question actually asked in that particular poll.
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Caltrans officials have nailed up some placards at Trancas Beach … on telephone poles and a lifeguard tower.
It’s a beach closure notice …. and a strange way of communicating to the public.
The state plans to rebuild the PCH bridge at Trancas lagoon.
And it has put up public notices saying the project will eat up the western end of Zuma beach … next to Trancas Creek … as a temporary construction yard.
But the placards raise more questions than answers.
There’s a public comment period open … right now … on the beach closure.
But the state does not say how long the beach will be taken away for construction.
The state does not say how the bridge construction will deal with the 22 thousand truck loads of sand that are supposed to be unloaded … at that exact spot … next winter for the Broad beach sand project.
If the two projects are one after another …. we could lose that stretch of beach for more than a year … maybe much more than a year.
Other construction details … such as the design of the bridge itself … are not being publicized by Caltrans yet.
Instead … three options are presented.
Either leaving the old … crumbling bridge in place.
Building a replacement bridge of the same length … or building a longer bridge to accommodate a proposed lagoon rehabilitation.
So — Caltrans is required under federal law to ask Malibu beach users how they feel about closing the beach … with a March 29th deadline … without any details at all about how long the beach will be taken away.
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And just up the beach from there …. the Broad Beach sand replenishment project came in for more blows from the public at the city council meeting Monday night.
The Malibu West Homeowners Association is furious that their members are paying … about a thousand dollars per family per year … for the sand replacement project that has yet to move one grain of sand.
At Monday night’s city council meeting … three Malibu West residents stood up and asked the city to fins a way to get the eastern end of the beach out of the beach sand tax district.
The eastern end includes the Malibu West Swim Club building … which cannot have protective rocks in front of it like the rest of Broad Beach.
Malibu West resident Dermot Stoker says the swim club building is getting flooded because of the rocks that protect their neighbors houses.
STOKER AAA :18 QQQ: LIFEGUARD TOWER BACK.
“Because we don’t have any protection, the waves come in and they come around the edge of the rock revetment and they actually pull out a lot of our beach.
“We’ve lost over a hundred feet of our beach, we have no more playground, we had to move our lifeguard back…”
City attorney Christi Hogan told the city council that the geological hazard assessment district doing the work is it independent political body … and the city council does not have control over it.
City manager Reva Feldman said the district has work to do before it can move sand.
REVA GHAD :14 QQQ: CAN’T MOVE FORWARD.
“What we understand from speaking with Costal Commission staff, is that there are still 10 conditions in that permit that still have to be met, and until those conditions are met, they can’t move forward.”
After the meeting … Broad Beach attorney Kenneth Ehrlich reacted.
He told KBUU News that the Board Beach residents are working as hard as possible to place sand on the beach and restore the natural dune system this Fall.
Ehrlich says Broad Beach should have its final permits from the U-S Army Corps of Engineers by this summer … and will start moving sand by this fall.
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Details are emerging on the new plan to replace the old single floor middle school building at Malibu High … with a two-story structure.
School officials say the Board will need to approve an addendum to the Environmental Impact Report … which then goes to the city planning director for review and approval.
Then … the Coastal Development Permit goes to the Coastal Commission … in May.
This is a fast track schedule …. there’s a court-ordered timeline to get all the PCBs on campus removed.
The District has determined that the it Middle School Building needs complete overhaul … including new windows and doors … to remove potential sources of PCBs.
An E I R Addendum does not require public hearing or notice similar to an E I R . the district says.
But it has scheduled a public presentation to hear from Malibu High neighbors and others .. about the plan.
The public hearing is at about 6:30 tomorrow night at Malibu City Hall… not the high school … the city hall.
The district has also put up story poles to illustrate the proposed changes to the structure.
Included in that is the new two story building … built out of shipping containers … proposed for the eastern end of the campus.
6:30 tomorrow night at Malibu City Hall.
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And the timetable for demolition of the front of the campus is becoming clear.
An 8 point 3 million dollar construction contract is set to be awarded tomorrow night
Construction of the new student parking lot above the football field will begin over Spring Break . this month.
Demolition of the front of the campus … including the Library and Administration wings …. will start this summer.
The offices and library will be in relocatable classrooms on the upper campus.
The music, art and special ed rooms will be stripped to the walls and rehabilitated this summer … under a separate contract estimated at around $1 million.
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In KBUU Sports … the Malibu High boys baseball baseball team won yesterday’s game at Foothill Tech … score … 10-4.
They next play in a tournament at Sierra Canyon in Chatsworth on Saturday.
The Malibu High girls softball team has a home conference game versus Grace Brethren at 3:30 on Friday.
They are coming off a loss yesterday … Villanova Prep beat them …. 8 to 4.
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Weather for the Malibu ….
Areas of dense fog before 11am. Otherwise, partly sunny, .
It will be (((( 68 )))) degrees today on the beach … (((( 82 )))) inland.
Winds will be gentle.
Downcoast winds will be ((( 10 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 7 o’clock straight. )))).
After that … expect patchy fog again tonight … a low of (((( 53 )))) on the beach … down to (((( 52 )))) in the canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( much the same )))).
Right now … it’s (((( 53 )))) at Trancas.
(((( 71 )))) in upper Malibu Canyon.
And it’s (((( 55 ))) at Civic center Los Angeles.
In the ocean … it’s (((( 59 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( 2-3 )))) feet high ….
(((( Tide is coming in … to a 4 foot high at 11:55.
Low tide is at ten minutes til 6. ))))
Those are (((( fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( tides ))))
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