Passed in 2017, Assembly Bill 1221 takes effect July 1 in California requiring hundreds of thousands of bartenders, wait staff and managers at establishments serving alcohol beverages to be certified by Aug. 31.
Residents and businesses can get involved and provide input at a 9 a.m. budget workshop hosted by the Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners on June 23.
The June 7 primary election resulted in seven local offices being decided with candidates receiving more than 50 percent of the vote and eight others facing a November runoff.
Official winners and second place finishers from June 14 tallies included:
A survey of 1,037 Long Beach voters indicates that the races for mayor, auditor and city attorney “are statistically tied or have very small leads,” according to a May 27 news release from The Long Beach Center for Urban Politics and Policy at California State University, Long Beach.