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A new fence surrounding an outdoor terrace at Long Beach’s Billie Jean King Main Library cost taxpayers nearly $790,000, according to the city. But public records obtained by NBC4 Investigates show the company hired to build the fence was paid significantly less.
The records show Quality Fence Co. was hired to furnish and install the fencing for an original price of $398,168. A subsequent change order added $20,395.20, bringing the documented fence construction work to $418,563.20.
That leaves a difference of $371,436.80 between the documented fence construction costs and the city’s publicly stated cost for the overall project.
So what accounts for the rest?

Hi, moved here with my wife almost 2 weeks ago from Chicago, and i am a Turkish guy which lived, 2 years in Chicago, but i have to admit this city is the most dangerous and fucked up city i ever seen.

Its so beatiful it doesnt deserve any of these lunatics, homeless people brutalizing and destroying it.

Its 5.27 am right now while i am writing this reddit and my wife is at work and we have to call on a lunatic that trespassed the place that she works in, its been 45 minutes yet 0 cops arrived, guy wandered off, as i am writing this text in belmont shore there is a guy wrapper in a blanket speeping under a jevelry stor next to me. I hate that i have to be here at least for a year, but after that i am escaping this shit hole.

I signed up for community solar last year through PowerMarket. I could not myself put solar panels on my place because I lived in an apartment. PowerMarket gave me a way to "buy into" a solar farm. The electricity produced by the solar farm was attributed as a credit on my Southern California Edison bill. PowerMarket then sent me a separate bill where they billed me for the credit on my SCE bill but at a lower rate. In that small apartment my bill was between $60 and $80 per month. I got a breeze during the summer and used the most electricity during the cold months. I am no longer with PowerMarket because I moved to a place where electricity is included in my rent. So now that I no longer live in that apartment I'm willing to share a screenshot from my PowerMarket account. The credit I was getting was about 10% of my bill. Had I been using more watts per month or more watts during peak hours the credit probably would have made even more of an impact.

PowerMarket dashboard

The other way am saving money this summer is on gasoline. For the longest I've been purchasing my gas at Costco because they are consistently the lowest price gasoline and because it's so convenient for me to buy gas just while I'm there shopping. Recently I downloaded the Exxon Mobile app from the Google Play Store. I did this for car washes. The Exxon Mobile on Bellflower and Stearns is my goto drive through car wash. For years you could save your car wash receipts and when you had five receipts you could turn them in and get a free car wash. Well that's changed. So I downloaded the app in order to track my car washes.

In downloading the app I see Exxon Mobile is currently running a promotion. If the user attaches a payment method to the app (my attached payment method is Google Pay so I did not actually give Exxon Mobile any of my credit card information) and then makes purchases THROUGH the app, the user gets credits. The credits are pretty generous. I filled up my gas tank (purchase one) and added a car wash (purchase 2) and paid for both THROUGH the app. I got $5 in credit to use at the pump or in the store. So my next $12 car wash will be only $7 due to my $5 credit. And this does not appear to be a one-and-done promotion. If I keep buying stuff through the app at Exxon Mobile I can keep earning points. If I had an AARP card the points earned per purchase would increase.

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So those are just two ways I'm saving dough in Long Beach this hot ass summer. Hope this helps somebody. I am not an employee, contractor or affiliate of PowerMarket or Exxon Mobile by the way.

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Long Beach Fire Chief Dennis Buchanan says he does not want to make the millions of dollars in cuts proposed for his department, but understands the difficult financial position facing the city.
“Do I want to do this? Absolutely no, but I understand the seriousness that we are in right now,” Buchanan told NBC4 in an exclusive interview.

I know they finished that giant building just a few years ago and now all the balconies edges are covered in blue mesh and there’s scaffolding- anyone have the tea? ☕️

Are chucks of concrete about to start flying o to Ocean blvd 🙈🙈🙈

My wife and I are moving from the Bay Area to Long Beach, and I’m hoping to find a good place near the ocean where I can swim and then rinse off or clean up afterward.

I currently swim year-round in the bay, and in San Francisco I use the Dolphin Club at Aquatic Park. It has lockers and showers, and a really convenient setup for warming up and changing after a cold-water swim. Is there anything similar around Long Beach or Seal Beach? It doesn’t have to be an actual swim club—a nearby gym, health club within a couple blocks of the beach, beach club, locker room, or even a reliable outdoor shower setup would be great.

Any recommendations from local swimmers would be much appreciated.

The space at the Current is up for rent again. Starbucks pullout of that space and now Qargo. Is it plagued?
I really didn’t like Qargo, the service was horrible although it has been getting better… but the inside felt like a cheap version of Starbucks.

Wanted to post straight from r/longbeach but these idiots attempted to break into my neighbor's garage and managed to unplug my cameras yesterday Happened near cherry and Anaheim. Cops say they can't do anything because nothing happened.