Bits 'n' Pieces

Memorial Day Holiday City Closures

City of Long Beach offices and services will adhere to the following schedule on Monday, May 27. City Hall re-opens on Tuesday, May 28.

Closed on Monday, May 27:

• Animal Care Services and spcaLA
• Career Transition Center
• Center for Working Families
• City Hall
• Citizen Police Complaint Commission
• Code Enforcement services
• El Dorado Nature Center
• Fire Headquarters, Support Services, Fire Prevention, & Operations, including Marine Safety Administration
• Health Department and Health facilities
• Housing Authority
• Libraries
• Neighborhood Resource Center
• Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Center
• Park offices and community park facilities
• Police administration
• Street Sweeping
• Swimming pools
• Towing and Lien Sales
• Water Department (Water or Sewer Emergencies: 562-570-2390)

Open on Monday, May 27:

• Fire Stations and Lifeguard Stations
• El Dorado Regional Park
• Main Police Station Front Desk
• Marina offices (Alamitos Bay Marina, Shoreline Marina)
• Refuse and Recycling Collection (offices will be closed by refuse and recycling will be collected as usual)
• Gas Services Dispatch is open 24/7 for emergency calls 562.570.2140

Street Sweeping

There will be no scheduled street sweeping or enforcement of street sweeping violations on Monday, May 27. Street sweeping will resume its regular schedule on Tuesday, May 28.

Parking Enforcement

Read your parking meter: Parking meters will be enforced on Monday, May 27, unless the meter states “Exempt on Holidays.” The days and hours of enforcement are displayed inside the meters.

Refuse/Recycling

Trash and Recycling will be collected as scheduled on Monday, May 27.

Towing and Lien Sales

The Towing Operations & Vehicle Storage Facility that is located at 3111 E. Willow Street between Temple Avenue and Redondo Avenue will be closed on Monday, May 27. Normal business hours are:

• Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Saturday, 8.00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Closed Sunday and Holidays.

Vehicles and property are available for release outside of the hours listed above for an additional fee. More information can be found online.

Libraries

All Long Beach Public Libraries will be closed Saturday, May 25, 2019, in observance of Memorial Day. Bay Shore, Burnett, El Dorado and Michelle Obama Neighborhood Libraries will be open on Sunday, May 26. All Libraries are closed on Mondays, per their normal schedule and will reopen on Tuesday, May 28. The Main Library remains closed as it prepares for its summer 2019 grand opening at the new Main Library (200 W. Broadway Ave.). (The library catalog, downloads and databases are available 24/7.)

Storytellers Wind Up Season 9

It might be a deathbed confession, or spying on backyard neighbors as a kid. Local storytellers step up with tales as varied as the colors in the rainbow and just as colorful. This Ninth Season of Long Beach Searches for Greatest Storyteller, has brought out the humanness of our foibles and celebrates the peak moments too.

The first Monday of the month, from January to August, locals step up to tell a true, 6-minute tale. The audience votes, along with three Long Beach authors, whose vote counts for five points instead of one. The winner walks away with $100 cash and the runner-up receives a gift certificate for Malainey’s Grill, where the event takes place.

Finals will be held Monday, Aug. 5th, because nothing can interfere with Monday Night Football, right? It is then that the monthly winners all tell their winning story to decide, Long Beach’s Greatest Storyteller.

“Stories are submitted by email. I only need about five lines or so and that helps me keep the show balanced between the OMG upbeat and poignant stories,” says producer Mariana Williams. Williams is an author of the Veronica Bennett novels; romance, comedy and accidental crime she suggests, are made for beach-reading. She was also a finalist for the NPR Radio show, The Moth, before bringing storytelling to hometown, LB.

The last two shows will be held Monday, June 3, and Monday, July 1.

For more info: marianaStoryteller@gmail.com or visit www.marianawilliams.net.

New LBCC VP, Human Resources

The Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees recently appointed Gene Durand as the new vice president of human resources.

Durand, who previously held the post of associate vice president of human resources and served as the interim vice president since June of 2018, joined the College in 2016.

As the vice president of human resources he will provide policy direction for the Department of Human Resources and will oversee collective bargaining, employee/employer relations, recruitment and hiring processes, human resources information systems management, unlawful discrimination, Title IX investigations and ADA accommodations.

Durand was the former director of human resources at College of the Desert in Palm Desert, where he was responsible for labor negotiations and employee relations, manager training, investigations and equal employment opportunity and legal compliance.

Durand earned his B.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute and his J.D. from the Golden Gate University School of Law and is a member of the State Bar of California.