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Happy Holidays!
Councilwoman
Hahn with staff and friends in the annual Wilmington
"Heart of the Harbor"
Parade
Councilwoman Hahn with members of her
Watts Gang Task Force in the annual Watts
Parade
Councilwoman Hahn with Councilman LaBonge and
Carmela and Gianni Funiciello, who rode on the Sister City
float, at the annual Hollywood Christmas
Parade
Councilwoman Hahn in the annual San Pedro
Parade
DOWNTOWN WILMINGTON
IMPROVEMENTS COMING SOON
As part of an overall
improvement project in downtown Wilmington, I am pleased to
announce that the City will soon purchase and install 29 new
decorative street lights for the area surrounding the Anaheim
Street and Avalon Boulevard intersection.
This is just the
beginning of a number of great improvements for downtown
Wilmington. We will be installing these new lights, planting
new trees, improving the sidewalks and installing stamped
crosswalks. We are working closely with the local
Business Improvement District to really make a difference in
this busy shopping corridor.
HARBOR GATEWAY COMMUNITY MEETING
ANNOUNCEMENT
On Thursday, December 28, there
will be a Harbor Gateway Community Meeting regarding the
racial tension and recent shooting of 14 year-old Cheryl
Green.
The community is invited to join the
Councilwoman, LAPD, the neighborhood council, the City
Attorney's office and other representives at Bethel
Baptist Church, 1501 West Carson Street, Torrance at 6
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November/December
2006
Ischia Becomes a Sister
City
 I was so pleased to be able to sign the official
papers to make Ischia, Italy the 22nd Sister City to Los
Angeles.
What I love most about Ischia is its
close ties to San Pedro. Councilwoman Hahn and Ischia Secretary
General Montouri sign the official Sister City
agreement
Ischia is a beautiful island of about
50,000 people off the coast of Naples. Like San Pedro,
it is a big fishing town and also boasts incredible wineries
and ceramic art, making it a wonderful tourist
destination.
Our Sister City
relationship will allow us to officially share ideas,
people and materials in a number of ways. We will share
our music, our art, our sports and our culture. This is
just the beginning of an ongoing relationship with
Ischia.
A Living Wage for Hotel Workers
on Century Boulevard
 As the chair of the City Council's Trade,
Commerce and Tourism Committee, I oversee the Port of Los
Angeles, the airport and tourism in L.A. One project
that we have been working on is improving the Century
Boulevard Corridor near the
airport.
Councilwoman Hahn, with hotel workers, watches
as the Mayor signs the new ordinances into law
While discussing the improvements, concerns
were raised about the working conditions of the hotel workers
near LAX. These men and women are the faces of
hospitality in Los Angeles to visitors of the City.
Most concerning to me is the low wages,
and lack of benefits for these workers. Perhaps most
shocking is the fact that items on guest checks that are
labeled 'gratuity' (room service, banquets) do not
always go to the workers, but back to management.
In response, the City Council passed, and the Mayor signed,
three new laws to allow the workers to keep their tips,
require a living wage for the workers, and to require hotels
to retain workers for 90 days following a change of
ownership.
 As Author David
Shipler said, "the term working poor should be an
oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in
America." The City Council had an opportunity to make a
difference for the Councilwoman
Hahn greets hotel workers that will benefit from new
laws working poor in our city, and it was an
opportunity that we could not afford to pass up.
It
was especially rewarding to enact these laws right before the
holidays!
Welcome Park
Plans Unveiled
 I was so pleased to
unveil the designs for the long-awaited San Pedro Welcome
Park.
The Welcome Park
will be constructed on the currently blighted Councilwoman Hahn, with Welcome Park
visionary Jim Hussey
property on Gaffey Street,
at the end of the 110 freeway.
The new park, which will
begin construction in February and completed by the
Summer, will finally give people the right impression of San
Pedro. We will welcome residents and visitors alike with
a park of trees and nautical components. It will be the
perfect greeting to the great town of San
Pedro.
COMING SOON: THE BRAND NEW HARBOR
CITY/HARBOR GATEWAY LIBRARY TO OPEN IN EARLY
2007!
Don't
forget to visit our website for regular updates, announcements
and information: www.janicehahn.com.
And visit my blog for regular updates on what we are
doing: http://janicehahn.org |
