WHAT HAPPENED: The City Council approved...

WHAT HAPPENED:

The City Council approved the request of Police Chief Ron

Lowenberg and David Biggs, director of economic development, to name

the Community Job Center in honor of retired Huntington Beach Police

Lt. Luis Ochoa.

WHAT IT MEANS:

The job center will be renamed in honor of Ochoa, who was

instrumental in getting the job center started in 1999, five years after he proposed the idea. Ochoa, a 37-year police department

employee, retired in January. Hired in 1965, he was the first

Mexican-American police officer to join the Huntington Beach Police

Department. Ochoa established the job center to help resolve the

problem of day laborers congregating on city streets.

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WHAT HAPPENED:

The City Council approved a request by the Public Works Department

for an additional $200,000 to cover the cost of repairs along

Brookhurst Street.

WHAT IT MEANS:

The city is currently repairing and improving portions of

Brookhurst Street between Indianapolis and Hamilton avenues. Public

works did not receive a grant it had applied for from the Orange

County Transportation Authority and so needed an additional $200,000

to complete the repairs. Similar improvements along Brookhurst were

completed last year.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The City Council adopted a resolution authorizing two construction

agreements along Newland Street and Warner Avenue.

WHAT IT MEANS:

Road improvements will be made to Newland Street between Hamilton

and Atlanta avenues and to Warner Avenue between Beach Boulevard and

Springdale Street. Worn out concrete will be removed and replaced,

cracks will be sealed and the pavement will be reinforced along both

streets.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The council approved the hiring of a consultant to develop a

Huntington Harbour clean water and safe navigation boating fee.

WHAT IT MEANS:

A total of $25,000 will be taken from the general fund attorney

fees professional services account to hire a consultant to help the

city develop a new fee, to be paid by boat owners, that would pay for

code enforcement in the harbor and dredging.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The council unanimously approved Councilman Ralph Bauer’s request

to publicly recognize the 1975 League of Women Voters for promoting

environmental ideals in Huntington Beach.

WHAT IT MEANS:

The women who can be contacted will be presented with a personal

letter of thanks at the council’s next meeting. A plaque honoring the

1975 League of Women Voters will also be permanently displayed in

City Hall.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The council approved the allocation of $15,000 to fund animal care

clinics in the city.

WHAT IT MEANS:

Over the past three years the cost of the city’s annual contract

with the county for animal care services has decreased by $15,000.

Councilwoman Pam Julien Houchen said that the cost of the those

savings will be used to establish low- or no-cost animal vaccinations

programs in the city.