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In an effort to save their multimillion-dollar office project, the Kobor Family sought to have the Beverly Hills City Council approve changing the project from a Class A Office Building to a medical facility. But their appeal was denied in a narrow 3-2 vote by the Council who acknowledged the collapse of the office market, but ruled against the changes because of concerns of increased traffic at one of the City’s busiest intersections.
“Our burden was to affirmatively determine that there would be no significant impacts with the zone change from Class A office to medical, we could not make that finding,” said Councilman Barry Brucker, who voted against the medical proposal along with colleagues Dr. William Brien and John Mirisch.
Update/Correction 11:30 am Friday, February 5, 2010: Candy and Candy, which refused to respond to the Courier's multiple requests for clarification and information regarding this article prior to its publication, informed the Courier this morning that none of the proceeds of their loan(s) from Kaupthing were used to purchase yachts or aircraft notwithstanding that implication in the article describing Kaupthing's lending which appeared in the Jan. 24 issue of the UK Telegraph, which was a source for the Courier's article today. The Courier regrets the error and invites Candy and Candy to be more cooperative when we contact them.
9900 Wilshire Boulevard, the former
Robinsons- May building slated to
become a luxury
condo building, will be put up for public auction
after
developers Project Lotus LLC were unable to
secure payment for the $385
million loan due last
year.
On Feb. 19 at 10:30 a.m.
the 7.95-acre property will be sold at a public
auction on the courthouse steps in Norwalk.
In an effort to reduce BHUSD’s budget by over
$1.5 million,
administrative staff recommended
the layoff of 20.6 teaching positions
at a Board
of Education special study session Monday.
The recommendation comes on the heels of
an almost $1 million dollar
shortfall revealed
earlier this month after Beverly Hills Unified
School District underwent an annual
government-required independent
audit.
In a presentation led by Interim Chief Business Officer Mary Anne McCabe and BHUSD Director of Human Resources, the proposed certificated staffing cuts will be shared across all grade levels and school sites. No programmatic cuts were suggested.
The Beverly Hills Unified School District Board
of Education gave
direction to begin the process
to find a new superintendent at a
special study
session Monday.
Current Interim
Superintendent Jerry Gross is due to vacate his
position in June.
The board directed
BHUSD staff, led by Gross, to devise a timeline
that
will effectively manage the search and
utilize traditional and
non-traditional firms to
find qualified candidates.
“We’ve
gotten it wrong nine times in the past 11 years,”
said Board of
Education member Brian Goldberg. “I
am not interested in just recycling
superintendents from California.”