N.2. 20-1702 RECEIVE AND FILE A REPORT ON THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY AND BEACH CITIES HEALTH DISTRICT TO IMPLEMENT THE SAFE IN THE SOUTH BAY PROGRAM TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY WELLNESS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) PANDEMIC
Object to 20-1702. Item should be rejected. BCHD is 100% funded by the property taxes and asset revenues of the 3 beach cities of Hermosa, Manhattan and Redondo Beach. As an owner, Redondo Beach is failing in its fiduciary responsibility to protect the funding of its residents and taxpayers if it cooperates in a public relations scheme by BCHD to spend our taxpayer-owner funds outside of the 3 Beach Cities. BCHD willfully admits that the program is extended to El Segundo, PVP, and Torrance (at least) without any co-funding. Further, BCHD willfully admits that 85% of the COVID tests administered by BCHD are for nonresidents of the 3 Beach Cities without a clear path to cost recovery. It is well understood that LA County Health is the agency funded for such testing outside of the 3 Beach Cities, and yet again, BCHD seeks PR buzz while failing its basic fiduciary responsibility to its taxpayer owners. Fewer children would have died from suicide and fentanyl overdose in the 3 Beach Cities had BCHD spend our funds in a meaningful way inside the 3 Beach Cities instead of willy-nilly outside the 3 Beach Cities. The City of Redondo Beach MUST REJECT this PR move by BCHD and act as a responsible fiduciary. According to BCHD CPRA response, BCHD has spent over $300,000 on testing through July 2020, 85% of that for non-residents of the 3 Beach Cities, and has a only a Hail Mary of recovery via Via for only 75% of costs. Even in the best case, the 3 Beach Cities residents will pay 2-3 times more testing than it would have cost had BCHD served the needs of only the 3 Beach Cities. BCHD must be rejected until they have full cofunding for Safe in the South Bay, Bluezones, and any other scheme extending outside the 3 Beach Cities, such as the 80% of tenants for BCHD's 793,000 sqft development that will be PV or completely outside the 10 mile radius of BCHD, including tenants speculatively from net in-migration per BCHD's report from MDS consulting.
Object to 20-1702. Item should be rejected. BCHD is 100% funded by the property taxes and asset revenues of the 3 beach cities of Hermosa, Manhattan and Redondo Beach. As an owner, Redondo Beach is failing in its fiduciary responsibility to protect the funding of its residents and taxpayers if it cooperates in a public relations scheme by BCHD to spend our taxpayer-owner funds outside of the 3 Beach Cities. BCHD willfully admits that the program is extended to El Segundo, PVP, and Torrance (at least) without any co-funding. Further, BCHD willfully admits that 85% of the COVID tests administered by BCHD are for nonresidents of the 3 Beach Cities without a clear path to cost recovery. It is well understood that LA County Health is the agency funded for such testing outside of the 3 Beach Cities, and yet again, BCHD seeks PR buzz while failing its basic fiduciary responsibility to its taxpayer owners. Fewer children would have died from suicide and fentanyl overdose in the 3 Beach Cities had BCHD spend our funds in a meaningful way inside the 3 Beach Cities instead of willy-nilly outside the 3 Beach Cities. The City of Redondo Beach MUST REJECT this PR move by BCHD and act as a responsible fiduciary. According to BCHD CPRA response, BCHD has spent over $300,000 on testing through July 2020, 85% of that for non-residents of the 3 Beach Cities, and has a only a Hail Mary of recovery via Via for only 75% of costs. Even in the best case, the 3 Beach Cities residents will pay 2-3 times more testing than it would have cost had BCHD served the needs of only the 3 Beach Cities. BCHD must be rejected until they have full cofunding for Safe in the South Bay, Bluezones, and any other scheme extending outside the 3 Beach Cities, such as the 80% of tenants for BCHD's 793,000 sqft development that will be PV or completely outside the 10 mile radius of BCHD, including tenants speculatively from net in-migration per BCHD's report from MDS consulting.