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Malibu surfside news | April 12, 2018 | 3<br />

malibu City council<br />

PCH traffic woes<br />

discussed by City<br />

City asks for LACOE<br />

petition to be heard<br />

Michele Willer-Allred,<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Caltrans officials said too<br />

many construction projects<br />

coupled with too many<br />

spring break visitors created<br />

a “perfect storm” for<br />

traffic congestion on the<br />

Pacific Coast Highway.<br />

“We’ve heard all the<br />

concerns from the public,<br />

as well as the City, regarding<br />

the congestion on PCH,<br />

especially during the last<br />

three or four weeks where<br />

it’s been very unusual,” said<br />

Abdi Saghafi, Caltrans office<br />

chief of traffic engineering,<br />

at the Monday, April 9 City<br />

Council meeting.<br />

Saghafi said Caltrans is<br />

working to alleviate congestion<br />

at Cross Creek by<br />

having an electrical engineer<br />

evaluate traffic patterns<br />

and add more “green<br />

time” on lights at PCH.<br />

Caltrans is also reportedly<br />

working on improving public<br />

traffic alerts, and it is<br />

moving some construction<br />

work to evening hours.<br />

Saghafi said “the pain is<br />

short term,” and all of the<br />

improvements will improve<br />

highway safety for<br />

pedestrians, bicyclists and<br />

motorists.<br />

Councilmember Skylar<br />

Peak said the timing of the<br />

light at PCH at Topanga<br />

Canyon should also be<br />

looked at.<br />

“That is a public safety<br />

hazard in our community,”<br />

Peak said.<br />

Saghafi said it is a challenge<br />

since that is where<br />

two major highways intersect,<br />

but an engineer will be<br />

studying the area to come<br />

up with a better plan for<br />

distributing “green time.”<br />

Saghafi said a “roundabout”<br />

is also being studied.<br />

LACOE petition action<br />

The council also unanimously<br />

agreed to ask the<br />

Los Angeles County Office<br />

of Education to move forward<br />

with the City’s petition<br />

for a unified Malibu<br />

school district.<br />

At its March 20 meeting,<br />

the Santa Monica-Malibu<br />

Unified School District<br />

Board of Education agreed<br />

on a 50-year revenue sharing<br />

framework and asked<br />

the City to withdraw or hold<br />

its petition until an agreement<br />

can be made.<br />

The council is asking<br />

LACOE to accept the petition,<br />

but then will look to<br />

request a temporary suspension<br />

on further action,<br />

pending the outcome of negotiations<br />

with the district.<br />

Councilmember Laura<br />

Rosenthal said withdrawing<br />

the City’s petition<br />

might be “detrimental” to<br />

the City’s efforts.<br />

Rosenthal said that once<br />

it is accepted, LACOE can<br />

help with negotiations. Further,<br />

if special legislation is<br />

needed, she said it’s important<br />

for legislators to know<br />

that the petition was accepted<br />

and that LACOE and the<br />

City are still engaged in<br />

unification process.<br />

“We think it’s important<br />

for our Malibu stakeholders<br />

to know that the petition<br />

has been formally accepted<br />

and suspended as we move<br />

on to our next steps,”<br />

Rosenthal said.<br />

Schwarzenegger’s former advisor, a Malibu resident, dies<br />

Staff Report<br />

Malibu resident Bonnie<br />

Reiss, who served as<br />

the director of the University<br />

of Southern California<br />

Schwarzenegger Institute,<br />

died April 2 of cancer.<br />

Arnold Schwarzenegger<br />

described Reiss, 62, as a<br />

“true treasure” in a public<br />

statement on April 3.<br />

“For the past year, she<br />

has bravely fought cancer,<br />

just as she fought for equality<br />

and justice, students and<br />

the environment, and every<br />

other important issue you<br />

can imagine throughout<br />

her life of public service,”<br />

Schwarzenegger’s note<br />

states. “It was in her DNA<br />

— Bonnie never accepted<br />

things as they are — she<br />

was born to shake the status<br />

quo to its core and shape<br />

the world.”<br />

A scholarship in Reiss’<br />

honor has been created at<br />

the University of Southern<br />

California Price School of<br />

Public Policy.<br />

“I will miss her dearly, but<br />

I am so happy that she will<br />

continue to leave the world<br />

better than she found it<br />

through each of the students<br />

whose lives she impacts,”<br />

Schwarzenegger wrote.<br />

Schwarzenegger appointed<br />

Reiss as the University<br />

of California regent<br />

in 2007. In that role, Reiss<br />

served as chairwoman of<br />

the Education Policy Committee<br />

as well as on a taskforce<br />

which sought to address<br />

sexual violence.<br />

University of California<br />

President Janet Napolitano,<br />

in an April 3 statement, reflected<br />

on Reiss’ tireless advocacy<br />

efforts.<br />

“Our students, faculty,<br />

and staff — both current<br />

and those to come — have<br />

benefited from Bonnie’s<br />

efforts to improve policies<br />

that combat sexual harassment<br />

and sexual assault,<br />

and her work to ensure that<br />

California’s public research<br />

university maintains its<br />

academic excellence while<br />

remaining accessible to our<br />

state’s students,” Napolitano’s<br />

statement read.<br />

Napolitano further reflected<br />

on Reiss’ passion<br />

to combat climate change,<br />

and announced that UC’s<br />

Carbon Neutrality Student<br />

Fellowship Program has<br />

been renamed the Bonnie<br />

Reiss Carbon Neutrality<br />

Student Fellows Program.<br />

“These accomplished<br />

and extremely promising<br />

UC graduate and undergraduate<br />

students will now<br />

be known as Reiss Fellows,”<br />

Napolitano states.<br />

“Their work will become<br />

part of Bonnie’s long and<br />

distinguished legacy. The<br />

University of California,<br />

and I personally, will deeply<br />

miss her.”<br />

According to bonniere<br />

iss.com, Reiss was a 1976<br />

magna cum laude graduate<br />

from The University of<br />

Miami School of Business,<br />

with a major in accounting<br />

in finance. In 1978,<br />

she enrolled at Antioch<br />

Law School in Washington,<br />

D.C., and graduated at<br />

the top of her class before<br />

working for U.S. Sen. Edward<br />

Kennedy in 1979.<br />

Reiss moved to Southern<br />

California in 1981 to practice<br />

entertainment law and<br />

later founded the Hollywood<br />

Womens’ Political Action<br />

Committee. In the late ’80s,<br />

Reiss began to focus on environmental<br />

matters and<br />

Malibu Urgent Care<br />

founded the Earth Communications<br />

Office, of which<br />

she was the CEO until 1993.<br />

Reiss was also responsible<br />

for producing the opening<br />

ceremony of the 52nd<br />

Presidential Inaugural.<br />

“Bonnie passed on the<br />

opportunity to stay in D.C.<br />

and work in the Clinton<br />

Administration to return<br />

to Malibu, California and<br />

continue her high impact<br />

nonprofit work,” Reiss’<br />

public profile states.<br />

In California, she worked<br />

as senior advisor to former<br />

Gov. Schwarzenegger. Reiss<br />

and Schwarzenegger<br />

collaborated on a variety<br />

of education-focused efforts,<br />

including the creation<br />

of the voter-approved After<br />

School Education and<br />

Safety Act in 2002.<br />

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