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Culver City Releases Plan to Reimagine Public Safety; Will the City Council Bury It?
It has been ten years since the vigilante murder of Travon Martin inspired the Black Lives Matter Movement and three and a half years since the police murders of George Floyd, Brionna Taylor, and numerous others brought hundreds of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds into the streets to demand change.
Culver City Council Majority Paves Way to Remove Dissenting Voices from City Committees
At Monday’s City Council meeting, a seismic shift in city governance occurred, though if you blinked, you may have missed it. Buried inside a list of seemingly mundane proposed changes to the city’s committees, boards, and commissions (CBCs) was a clause to enable the removal of a CBC member “with or without cause... upon a majority vote of the City Council.” The previous policy required a 4/5 vote, a much more difficult threshold to meet.
Culver City Council Reconsiders Cannabis Distribution Tax
Cannabis may get a little more affordable in Culver City over the next two years. On Monday night, the city council discussed the merits of whether to waive a 2 percent tax on the distribution side of the cannabis business after complaints of economic hardship from those businesses.
City Begins Review of Lawsuit Over “Move Culver City”
Protected bike lanes in Downtown Culver City may not be changed after all. The Culver City Council discussed litigation against the city meant to maintain the current Move Culver City project configuration in a closed session Monday. It was the first meeting in which a discussion was agendized following the submission of a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuit against the city on October 17. The plaintiff in the suit (Case 23STCP03833) is identified as “Friends and Families for Move Culver City.”
Culver City Releases Plan to Reimagine Public Safety; Will the City Council Bury It?
It has been ten years since the vigilante murder of Travon Martin inspired the Black Lives Matter Movement and three and a half years since the police murders of George Floyd, Brionna Taylor, and numerous others brought hundreds of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds into the streets to demand change.
Culver City Council Majority Paves Way to Remove Dissenting Voices from City Committees
At Monday’s City Council meeting, a seismic shift in city governance occurred, though if you blinked, you may have missed it. Buried inside a list of seemingly mundane proposed changes to the city’s committees, boards, and commissions (CBCs) was a clause to enable the removal of a CBC member “with or without cause... upon a majority vote of the City Council.” The previous policy required a 4/5 vote, a much more difficult threshold to meet.
Culver City Council Reconsiders Cannabis Distribution Tax
Cannabis may get a little more affordable in Culver City over the next two years. On Monday night, the city council discussed the merits of whether to waive a 2 percent tax on the distribution side of the cannabis business after complaints of economic hardship from those businesses.
City Begins Review of Lawsuit Over “Move Culver City”
Protected bike lanes in Downtown Culver City may not be changed after all. The Culver City Council discussed litigation against the city meant to maintain the current Move Culver City project configuration in a closed session Monday. It was the first meeting in which a discussion was agendized following the submission of a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuit against the city on October 17. The plaintiff in the suit (Case 23STCP03833) is identified as “Friends and Families for Move Culver City.”
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