Meet The Community Ambassadors Who Care…
On Saturday, May 13, Community members from throughout the area joined forces to help clean up Historic Gardena Blvd in the community of Harbor Gateway North. Volunteers from Enviromental Charter Middle School, the Boys & Girls Club, Athens Park Concerned Citizens Group, Harbor Gateway North Neighborhood Council Homeless Committee & the Harbor Gateway South Neighborhood Council picked up the waste around the schools & the Boys & Girls Club. We also drove street by street and picked up all the dumped items.
Another Success CARE+ Clean Up In Harbor Gateway North
A chronic area with homeless living in an alley, large amounts of debris and illegal activity taking place near our Boys & Girls Club. Getting our homeless outreach providers & mental health specialists is the very first step. Using www.LA-HOP.org to submit the request, a team is then deployed to the location within 48 hours. The assessment begins and resources are offered.
Homeless Policy Deputies’ Meeting Thursday, May 11th at 2pm!
We just received notification this meeting was taking place today. Feel free to join in on the call using the call in number 323 776 6996 Passcode is 665324311# or via Microsoft Teams (link is on the agenda)
Below is the Agenda or visit the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office agendas website, under Homeless Policy Deputies Meeting.
Second Annual Bring It On The Blvd
Second Annual Community Event!
SAVE THE DATE. Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 from 11a-3pm
Join us on Historic Gardena Blvd as we come together and have fun!
How We Spend Our Days….
We are not your ordinary Chamber of Commerce. We are having to tackles the issues that most chambers would not touch. We are having to literally create new resources to find quick solutions.
On Monday, we had an overdose in the blue RV. The female that passed away died on our streets in a rented RV. According to Fire Station 95, this is becoming the norm in our area. They are responding to these Medical Emergencies on a daily basis. Once the body was removed from the vehicle, the vehicle was left on the street. This is the third incident involving drugs in the last month. We notified the Sheriff’s HOST team, St Joseph’s Center, and HOPICS so they could contact the caseworker. The caseworker could then assist law enforcement with contacting next of kin.
RV Pilot Program How Will It Address The Issues?
If you were unable to attend the recent meetings held in East Gardena regarding the RV Protocol Program, attached is the information that provided to the community. The protocol addresses the RV’s and nothing further. The county is still working on the plan for street people living on the sidewalks and how they plan to enforce the areas once it has been cleaned up.
What We Are Doing To Assist our Homeless?
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What We Are Doing To Assist our Homeless?
May 10, 2023
As your Chamber of Commerce, we are focused on the homeless and all the issues that are impacting our streets, railroad areas, and freeway easements. The unincorporated areas have historically lacked proper resources and very limited law enforcement. We took a different approach to find additional resources to help our area. Instead of sitting in an office, we began working on the streets. We started by reporting all the issues from illegal dumping, graffiti, stolen vehicles, compromised fire hydrants, nonworking street lights, illegal power connections and community clean ups. Suspicious fires began to happen with the RV’s. What we discovered during these incidents was alleged fires being set for non-payment of rent,
a lack of reporting to the elected officials regarding the fires. In 2022, the unincorporated areas experienced 179 RV fires. These fires took out infrastructure from internet, phones and power. Often times, causing local businesses to close for several days until the repairs were completed. For the first three months of 2023, the area saw 14 RV fires.
Red Curbs & Enforcement In The Unincorporated LA County Areas
The RV Pilot Program is scheduled to take effect at the end of May. This program will remove up to 75 nonworking, unregistered, no ownership RV’s from the streets throughout the Unincorporated LA County areas. The plan is to destroy those 75 RV’s and remove them from circulation. In addition, the county will take up to 15 RVs that are registered & in working condition to a newly created SafePark location where these individuals will have a place to park 24 hours/7 days a week and receive services including housing options.
I want to be very clear with our businesses, the enforcement piece once they are removed has not been shared with us. Therefore, I am asking EVERY business owner, building owner & resident to send emails to Supervisor Holly Mitchell’s office demanding official RED CURBS to be implemented immediately. Her office has the power to make this happen.
If you are a member of the Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce, I have sent a direct email with Supervisor Mitchell’s email address.
For all nonmembers, please use the email addresses listed below:
Kyle Lee, Constituent Services for East Gardena, West Rancho Dominguez
email klee@bos.lacounty.gov
Working Hard To Find Solutions Before Someone Is Injured.
We are on the streets everyday. Reporting the waste, the graffiti and requesting aid for those living on the streets, in lots, in vehicles or near our freeways. It has been our top priority. We typically provide updates to the County, Law Enforcement, Elected Leaders, Edison & Golden State Water.
Yesterday, we requested Edison to disconnect some illegal power connections from Athens Way & 129th. This area has been notorious for illegal activity. What we discovered this morning was a first for us. Outlets being attached to the bases of the wooden power poles then connected to the transformers using a nail & copper wiring.
Arson Fire Unincorporated LA County East Gardena
An arson fire destroyed a vacant warehouse located at 128 W 154th Street in East Gardena. According to firefighters, this was the second incident at this location. It took firefighters over 2 hours to extinguish the flames. No one was injured.