SB 707 is the new law which allows anyone to comment from phone or online on any city council in the Southern California counties. This is especially important for the cities such as Industry who like holding their meetings during the day to evade accountability.
https://bbklaw.com/resources/la-101025-major-brown-act-updates-under-sb-707
“This was a result of unintentional human error during the printing setup process with a vendor contracted to print this job by our contracted printing company, US Printing. City staff had no involvement in the insertion of these images,” Mark Gluba, Pomona assistant city manager, said in a Tuesday email.
The city first acknowledged the matter in a now-archived statement on its website on June 8, though posts are still live on Facebook and Instagram.
The city contracts printing services with US Printing, which has locations in Chino and Montclair, according to Gluba.
Gluba said the same owner owns both the Montclair and Chino US Printing locations, and that “the error was actually generated with a third-party printer, who they contracted the job out to,” he said by phone, Wednesday, June 24.
A Chino US Printing staff member said management was unavailable for comment, and an employee at the Montclair location said management declined to comment, as of Wednesday morning, June 24.
Only three to four copies out of 26,000 contained explicit images, according to Gluba. Earlier, Gluba said the images appear to be pages of adult content ads in place of planned city content.
“Our related staff’s last action on the matter prior to print was to approve the final proof, which had no identifiable issues, and absolutely no inappropriate images,” he said.
At a June 15 council meeting, City Manager Anita Scott said that after the investigation, the city is “confident that we are placing in quality controls with any future printers that we use, evaluating our contracts and ensuring that that error does not happen in the future.”
“All proofs that were approved were 100% correct,” Scott added.
“This was completely a printer error that they have taken accountability for, and responsibility for, and are enormously apologetic, although that doesn’t discount the error in itself,” she said.
After its investigation, the Pomona Police Department determined that no crime was committed.
Line 490 gets grafted onto Line 498, the Fairplex Park and Ride stays open and line 499 continues to just serve Via Verde, and Line 493 will be cancelled when the Puente Hills Mall closes, to be replaced by more 495 service and re-deviating the 482 to serve the Industry Metrolink station to mitigate impacts for those who were able to board the 493 without driving.
If anyone in town rides the bus, a reminder that the transit agency is “celebrating” Juneteenth by not running any service tomorrow. They do not take any of the other minor holidays like Presidents or Veterans Day off but they elevated this to a Christmas/Independence Day level.
Most agencies do nothing, at least for the public facing side (operators may get OT for working that day).
Santa Monica is closing their transit store but not otherwise changing service. No other big agencies, even the ones that take holidays like MLK or Presidents Day to lower or no service levels, are changing service.
But for some odd reason Victor Valley and Riverside shut down their entire options that day. Both have historically taken all big six holidays off, and VVTA also takes off Martin Luther King Day. Riverside doesn’t even take off MLK Day. To their discredit, VVTA even used ChatGPT to drop a “no bus service” virtual wrap on their bus and posted it on their home page.
So far I’ve just seen Santa Clarita, SunLine (Coachella Valley), and Riverside (not much of a loss since they have a fare sale with 25 cent fares June, July, and August).
Anyone else celebrating?
The survey asks about improvements they could make to encourage people to ride Gold Runner Thruway Bus more often, as well as if people would use Gold Runner to connect to an airport, locations that should be served, and prioritize things like on time performance, frequency, new routes, better connections, improved amenities, and cost. The survey is open until September.
On election night Cobarrubias was down by 228 votes but made it all up in the last week. There are about 40k votes left countywide and less than 100 votes left in the entire district.
What a terrible mayor who loved to hear himself talk, and will now serve next to the person who defeated him (Tim Sandoval).
They will be heard by the SCAG Community, Economic, and Human Development Committee this Thursday for adoption in July.
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They have been posting these two weeks in advance and it is a little late but still useful for planning.
Looks like they have the archives going back at least to *2009*
URL format for the top of the hour newscasts is https://audio.cbsradionewsfeed.com/YYYY/MM/DD/HH/Hourly-HH.mp3 (where HH is 01 to 24 for time in Eastern Time) and https://audio.cbsradionewsfeed.com/YYYY/MM/DD/HH/Update-HH.mp3 for the bottom of the hour news brief.
Wonder what the best way to download it all might be, if anyone isn't already downloading it. Probably would be placed in directories by year and month, with the filename including the day and hour to avoid too many subfolders. Put it on the Internet Archive and/or Usenet. It would probably be about 100 MB a day though, 4 gigs a year, 70 gigs for the whole thing, and while the actualities are great there is also a lot of mundane stories about stuff like holiday travel and random fires in the west. Any interest in this?
Looks like she will be calling in from the Treasure Island. State law requires that they state exactly where they are calling and also require the public to be present in the same space and able to give comments if they want. If you wanted the job, you should be able to attend, as the dates of the meetings are all known at the start of each year, and not go on vacation and phone it in.
Great value for low rollers a five minute cab or bus ride away from the Strip.