{"id":279,"date":"2012-01-29T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/lions\/?p=279"},"modified":"2023-12-27T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T16:53:48","slug":"new-long-beach-city-manager-speaks-at-weekly-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/new-long-beach-city-manager-speaks-at-weekly-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"New Long Beach City Manager Speaks at Weekly Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[su_row]<\/p>\n<p>[su_column size=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;] It was standing room only at our meeting this past Wed., with 39 people present to hear the new Long Beach City Manager, Jack Schnirman, address the group.\u00a0 Among the guests were:\u00a0 Darlene &amp; Mike Tangney, LBPD Police Commissioner; Steve Kohut; Gordon Tepper, Public Relations; Michael Robinson, Community Development; Phil Popper, Esq.; Dr. Denis Ryan, President of the LB School District Board of Education; and Bobby Blau, Long Beach Soup Kitchen Manager.\u00a0 Lion Len Torres introduced CM Schnirman who reported that the City Council has asked him to work on getting more efficient operations in City Hall.\u00a0 He said, \u201cWe have inherited a tremendous financial crisis,\u201d which will be addressed by him, the Council and the new Comptroller recently hired.\u00a0 We need more accountability by all employees and better control of the city\u2019s assets.\u00a0 He is very open to hearing any ideas the public has to get this done.\u00a0 He and the Council will be visiting the high-rise buildings to hold \u201cTown Meetings\u201d to get input from residents.\u00a0 In addition, he and the Council can be contacted at LBlistens@gmail.com.\u00a0 At the request of Dr. Ryan, meetings between the City Council and the Board of Education will be resuming. [\/su_column]<\/p>\n<p>[\/su_row]<\/p>\n<p>[su_row]<\/p>\n<p>[su_column size=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;]<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-281\" src=\"http:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/lions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/435739026478552niup-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"435739026478552niup\" width=\"734\" height=\"551\" \/>[\/su_column]<\/p>\n<p>[\/su_row]<\/p>\n<p>[su_row]<\/p>\n<p>[su_column size=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;]Also at the lunch, Bobby Blau addressed the Long Beach Lions, thanking them profusely for getting a new, commercial stove for the Soup Kitchen.  Particular thanks to Lion Mike Kerr for finding the stove and Lion Allen Schwartz for spear-heading the project. [\/su_column]<\/p>\n<p>[\/su_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[su_row] [su_column size=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;] It was standing room only at our meeting this past Wed., with 39 people present to hear the new Long Beach City Manager, Jack Schnirman, address the group.\u00a0 Among the guests were:\u00a0 Darlene &amp; Mike Tangney, LBPD Police Commissioner; Steve Kohut; Gordon Tepper, Public Relations; Michael Robinson, Community Development; Phil Popper, Esq.; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longbeachlionsclub.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}