I have lived in Arcadia my whole life. It’s where I went to school, it’s where I have my business and it’s where I have chosen to raise my family.
My accomplishments, since you first elected me to City Council in 2016, include:
- I championed harmonious and compatible design of new homes with new design review rules, a Floor Area Ratio (FAR): limiting the size of new homes to a percentage of the lot size, and the first Historic Preservation Ordinance for Arcadia;
- I secured $167,000 from LA County to help homeless in Arcadia find housing;
- I helped introduce the Ring Doorbell home security program to our residents, making neighborhoods safer;
- I created a Financial Advisory Committee made up of Arcadia residents, to provide recommendations to pay down the unfunded pensions, promoting transparency and accountability;
- I worked to bring back a basketball court with the renovation of Eisenhower Park, reinforcing the priorities of the community;
- I brought the Patriotic Festival, Holiday Fair and Halloween Haunting to Downtown Arcadia, enhancing the quality of life for residents;
- I connected to the community through many activities including Mahjong with the Mayor and Coffee with the Mayor;
- I convinced LA County to re-open the Spreading Basins in the Highlands, so more water was diverted into our aquifer instead of flowing to the ocean;
- I currently serve as Mayor.
I hope I get the opportunity to meet you in person and share more of what I have done and what I plan to do if re-elected.
Sincerely,
-April Verlato
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I had been working with our case manager and some of the residents at the encampment to find them housing. As I explained to Terry Miller, there are no local options and this makes it difficult to find them shelter. Encampments are a danger to both our housed and unhoused community. A lot of questions were raised about why the City of Arcadia allowed this encampment to remain as long as it did. The answer is simple, the wash area is County jurisdiction. The City notifies the County and then waits for the County to take action. In the meantime, the City of Arcadia sends out our “HELP” Team and case manager. After the City feels they have waited long enough, they start asking for permission to go in and clean it up themselves. It’s a lot of coordinating between different County departments and the City assumes responsibility if one of the campers sues for a civil rights violation. In contrast, when tents were set up at the Transit Plaza, the City was able to immediately give notice to clean the area. That notice has to be posted for 72 hours before the City staff can clean up the area. But, in the end, clean ups don’t solve the problem. Clean ups are a band-aid. Some of the group at 2nd and Colorado was from 1st and Foothill. When that area was cleaned up in February, they moved to 2nd and Colorado. Before that, the group at 1st and Foothill had come from the National Forest, they had been driven out by the Bobcat Fire. The encampment at 2nd and Colorado had recently grown right before the fire due to Cal Trans doing a clean up that the City had reported several months prior, farther down the wash that fell into Cal Trans’ jurisdiction. The City prefers to find housing or shelter for these people to stop the cycle. With no local options, the problem remains, just in a different part of the City. This contributes to the nearly $1 million of General Fund dollars per year the City spends responding to calls about homelessness. #HomelessSolutions #foodwatershelter #shelterisanecessity #thisisarcadia #seedsofhope #itsagameofhotpotato
Fire displaces encampment on unhoused residents in Arcadia
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Late last month there was a fire at Second Avenue and Colorado Boulevard where several unhoused men and women were camping. One of the...