Meeting Time: July 23, 2025 at 6:30pm PDT
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Discussion and Potential Action Item: Approval of the 2025-2031 Six-Year Strategic Plan

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    Mark Nelson about 1 month ago

    Goal A is faulty. The Community is undefined. The community must be defined as the 3 beach cities comprised of resident-taxpayers in Hermosa, Redondo and Manhattan Beach. Measure BC was soundly rejected. It would have funded the 91% non-resident service area of ALLCOVE. The rejection is a clear voice of the BCHD owners that out-of-district services should not be provided.

    Goal B is also faulty. It too fails to define Community as the resident-taxpayers of the three beach cities. Clearly, the failure of Measure BC was a vote not to extend services to the rest of SPA8 and disapproval to build any ALLCOVE facility for non-residents.

    Goal C is defective. BCHD spends roughly $1M annually on marketing-communications. The resident-taxpayers of the 3 beach cities cannot afford any more "bought and paid for" awareness. The limit of BCHD communications must be the contiguous limit of the three combined cities.

    Goal D is defective. BCHD is thoroughly inept and untrustworthy with the funds of resident-taxpayers. BCHD plans to accept a meager $6.3M ALLCOVE grant that will require 30-years of operation of both the ALLCOVE building and ALLCOVE program for the 91% non-resident service area of SPA8. The estimated 30 year cost is in excess of $150M. BCHD is either incapable of computing the 30-year cost, or refuses do so. That is based on BCHD CPRA responses.

    BCHD's Measure BC was rejected. Voters who are the resident-taxpayers of the District rejected the plan to demolish the Hospital. They rejected the plan to create open space. They rejected the plan to fund an ALLCOVE building and they rejected any more wasted funds on the HLC development or consultants. Clearly the resident-taxpayers voted "no confidence" in the BCHD Executives and future spending plans.