The City is spending $8M to $12M a year fixing things. Available project funding for next year: $4.7M. A pandemic-era cushion that papered over the gap is gone and the unfunded backlog has now grown to somewhere between $148 million and $280 million, with the Pier replacement now added to the list.
A $3.2 million structural deficit has been sitting under Hermosa Beach's budget for five years, masked by pandemic relief, vacancy savings, and unspent carryforward. With all three now exhausted, the council inherits a problem its predecessors chose to defer.
A large crowd walked the Strand Sunday in the largest local protest yet against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies.
Organized by South Bay Takes a Stand, the march began at the Manhattan Beach Pier and continued to the Hermosa Beach Pier before returning—the same route the grassroots group established during its inaugural march last June.
Sunday's turnout appeared to be substantially larger, with crowds filling the beachfront pathway as marchers carried signs and chanted.
South Bay Takes a Stand was founded last year by Manhattan Beach resident Tanya Monaghan, Redondo Beach native Luisa Cabrera Faist, and podcaster Meghan Judge after ICE raids began occurring locally.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively sided with a local homeowner on Wednesday, finding the city acted outside its authority when it banned short-term rentals without state approval.