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Chiquita Canyon Landfill can now apply for relocation assistance through a new website set up by the landfill's operators.Residents living near the Chiquita Canyon Landfill and persistent odor problems can now apply for relocation assistance and other relief through a new website set up by the landfill's operators.
But the program has run into a funding snag. Gov. Gavin Newsom, trying to plug a budget hole that some officials say could be $78 billion, now plans to delay $25 million in next year’s funding — about how much the state is spending this year on the effort. The organizations that receive the grants are expected to develop apprenticeship programs for careers in health care, education, information technology and more.Typically apprenticeship programs are federally registered and involve at least 144 hours of classroom instruction and 2,000 hours of on-the-job work under the supervision of a professional.
“That hasn’t necessarily resulted in the closure of the workforce and economic disparities that people expected it would,” White said. It’s now clear that young people need more options, she added. When Catalina Govea, a Linden High senior, applied to the program, she thought she was applying for a summer job. It turned out to be a lot more, she said.
The program, Govea said, has helped her mature and handle stressful classroom environments, experience she might not have otherwise gained until years later.Knapp said the apprenticeship program works well because the county Office of Education functions as an intermediary between employers, school districts, and the state Division of Apprenticeship Standards.
The initiative oversees, funds and authorizes several pre-apprenticeship programs with school districts and juvenile detention centers across the Bay Area. They are in the process of developing programs for at least five more school districts and Laney Community College in Oakland. The report says occupational segregation is key to starting wage disparities, highlighting the need to recruit to diversify various occupations.
California’s apprenticeship grant language targets groups that serve youth who are typically shut out of these opportunities, said Burnes, of the state apprenticeship standards division. The state program also tries to ensure organizations can support youth through the completion of their programs. Morrison-Smith said supporters of the Youth Apprenticeship program are lobbying Senate and Assembly leaders to ensure it remains a priority in budget negotiations.Jackie and Shadow’s three bald eagle eggs in Big Bear Valley aren’t likely to hatch again this year, disappointing tens of thousands of people that’ve been keeping a close eye on aFriends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit that manages the cameras, told LAist the couple’s quiet caretaking can teach us a few things about ourselves.
There’s really no way of knowing why they haven’t hatched. Friends of Big Bear Valley said on social media it could be environmental, such as the oxygen levels at high altitude, humidity percentages, and temperature. Steers said they’ve laid more than one clutch a year, so we could see even more eggs pop up on the livestream.A rendering of a possible immersive theme park expansion on the existing surface parking area near the Disneyland Hotel, Downtown Disney District and Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel.The city’s planning commission approved the DisneylandForward plans 5-1 in a meeting on Monday. The proposal will go to the city council in April for final approval.
That would be in addition to the $40 million Disney would pay the city if the sale of three public streets: Magic Way and two entry drives into Disney parking, goes through. Tonight's lows will drop to low 50s, and the upper 40s for the valleys. Taking a look ahead — the National Weather Service forecasts a Santa Ana wind event on Thursday.
and addiction challenges. It also proposes changes to a longstanding tax on personal incomes over $1 million, known as the Mental Health Services Act, by requiring counties to spend 30% of that revenue on housing instead of other services. Jon Coupal, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, said the results so far show that Californians are concerned about government spending.
Last year, Newsom signed a law easing restrictions on California’s decades-old’ conservatorship law, which limits who can be placed inA coalition of small mental health organizations, disability advocates and current clients of county mental health programs opposed Prop. 1. They argued that the measure would increase the amount of involuntary treatment and divert money from local organizations that serve hard-to-reach populations, such as LGBTQ people and communities of color.
In an emailed statement Friday afternoon, the Probation Department said it had received and “thoroughly reviewed” the inspector general’s report and was taking steps to increase staffing by directing some 200 officers with field assignments to report to Los Padrinos., 100 probation staffers were scheduled to work at Los Padrinos on Nov. 4 — the minimum required — but about 60 did not show up.
Referencing a separate matter at another facility, the Probation Department said Monday that an employee had been arrested and charged with “sex with an inmate” and “arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd purpose."
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