Is the Los Cerritos Wetlands land swap cooking up a fiscal emergency—or worse?

NOT MIKE CONWAY AND TOM DEAN (L TO R)
At their last meeting on July 21, the members of the Long Beach City Council took a look at the mess they’ve made of their budget and voted to declare a fiscal emergency. At their [...]

We’re in the money
The California Coastal Conservancy—a state agency that’s been restoring California’s shoreline since 1976—approved a $50,000 disbursement to the City of Long Beach this afternoon. The money, coming from the agency’s annual budget of $53 million, will help fund a reconnaissance study intended to measure the cost-effectiveness of reconfiguring the Long Beach Breakwater.

Army Corp sends parameters for Recon Study, Coastal Conservancy may be sending money
The parameters for the Long Beach Breakwater Reconnaissance Study have arrived, and the list of federal regulations sent by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers amounts to a job description for a job that’s never been described before.”
Army Corps staff informs us that [...]