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Volume 21 Issue 240
08.26.22
Council approves new eviction protections
Elks BBQ
EMILY SAWICKI SMDP Staff Writer
Qualifying rent-controlled tenants living in Santa Monica who cannot afford to pay rent increases over 3% due to COVID-19 will be protected by a new emergency temporary eviction moratorium beginning Sept. 1. Earlier this summer, the Santa Monica Rent Control Board
reluctantly approved a maximum 6% monthly rent increase for the rent control year beginning Sept. 1. The increase is in accordance with an algorithm tied to inflation and came about despite board members expressing anxiety over tenants’ ability to make their monthly rent, which could increase a maximum of $140 per month under city rules currently in place. The newly approved eviction
moratorium is targeted to rentburdened tenants who are under financial stress due to COVID-19 and who stop paying rent due to a monthly rent increase above 3%. It protects tenants for the period from Sept. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023, at which point councilmembers anticipate new rent control caps will likely come into effect (following SEE RENT CONTROL PAGE 8
Spread slows for COVID-19 and monkeypox EMILY SAWICKI SMDP Staff Writer
Photograph by Army Veteran RA Pickett, PDDGER BBQ: The Santa Monica Elks Lodge sponsored a Summer BBQ for 400 veterans at West LA VA. The lodge gave out hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, baked beans and a water to all in attendance. Pictured from Left to Right: With a part of the Vets served in the background, Navy Veteran and SCCD Veteran Chairman Dan Baccelliere, PDDGER, Navy Veteran and Lodge Chair Frank Frazier, PER, Santa Monica Elks 906 Exalted Ruler Tom Roszhart with CHEA South Central Coast District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Alyssa Santos.
Samohi officials detail security measures after knife assault MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
A week after a knife fight injured a student on the first day of school, the Samohi campus has additional security measures in place and students are scheduled to receive additional information on code of conduct/behavior expectations.
In a letter to parents, officials confirmed the fight occurred between two students who knew each other. A small, sharp object, believed to be a knife was used that caused cuts to both individuals. The suspect initially fled campus but was taken into custody shortly SEE SAMOHI PAGE 7
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As the latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to level off, local health officials have announced there are signs the concurrent monkeypox outbreak in Los Angeles County has also begun to lose steam. “Although a month ago, we were seeing a doubling of monkeypox cases in as few as nine days, we are now seeing a leveling in the number of new cases per week and our doubling time has increased to 16 days,” LA County Department of Public Health (DPH) Disease Control Bureau Director Dr. Rita Singhal said during a press briefing on Thursday, Aug. 25. “This may be an early indication that transmission is beginning to slow. Similar trends are being noted in countries where the outbreak first began, and in other jurisdictions across the United States.” When it comes to monkeypox vaccines, DPH said that with vaccine vials recently promised to Los Angeles, LA County would have the capability of fully vaccinating
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CASES: Monkeypox is centered in the western portion of the county. about 100,000 people with the twodose series, accounting for 56% of the at-risk population countywide. Singhal reported that there remained no local deaths attributed to monkeypox and that, over the course of the outbreak this summer, 47 people have been hospitalized due to the disease in LA County. Across the United States, there remained zero deaths attributed to a monkeypox infection. In the past week, there were
six additional cases reported in “congregate settings” such as homeless shelters, but zero new cases discovered in correctional facilities in LA County. Demographics of known monkeypox infections in LA County continued to follow earlier trends: of 1,264 known cases countywide (excluding Long Beach and Pasadena, which each SEE MONKEYPOX PAGE 7
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