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Public employees' retirement and pensions are costing cities up to 25% of the city budget. In March, CalPERS announced its stock portfolio had lost 39.8%. Costs for retirees are ballooning and El Monte and West Covina budgets have been hit hard from the recession. Arcadia, which had the fourth highest pension costs of the 24 cities surveyed, spent $6.7 million last year for its 357 current employees and retirees. The city's general fund budget is $46 million.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
City budgets
Pensions
Recession
Retirement benefits
Item ID
31665AN
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Pasadena councilman and treasurer for the Council of Governments said the agency will run out of money before the end of the fiscal year. The Council of Governments was an agency founded to foster cooperation among cities in the region.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments
Item ID
30069AN
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The Council of Governments decides to hire an outside bookkeeper.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2006
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments
Bookkeepers
Accounting
Item ID
30187AN
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A shortage of trauma centers leaves people in the East San Gabriel Valley unprotected. Officials from the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments are upset that the valley received 1.4 percent of Measure B though it paid 19.8 percent of the tax.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 2004
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p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 2004
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Trauma centers
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments
Huntington Hospital
Measure B
Item ID
29513AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia's Paramedic Membership Program continues to accept enrollments from both Arcadia residents and businesses. For $42/year ($40 if paid in lump sum), all permanent residents of a member's household or permanent employees of a business in the city will receive emergency paramedic ambulance transportation without direct cost. The subscription program was first offered to Arcadia residents and businesses on December 1, 1994.

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Arcadia Weekly,
Date
September 27, 2001
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly,
Date
September 27, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Ambulances
Arcadia Paramedic Membership
Item ID
33528AN
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Arcadia City Council unanimously voted to draft language that could potentially be inserted into future contracts that preserves the city's right to ask contractors for documentation of their employees at any point. The move could be considered a token gesture, since the city already requires contractors to generally comply with all state and federal laws, including the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2008
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Contract workers
Contracts
Illegal immigrants
Immigration
Item ID
31384AN
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The U.S. Census Bureau opened its East Los Angeles office in preparation for the 2010 Census. The office at 1255 Corporate Center Drive will need 600-800 employees to gather information on residents that live roughly from Burbank to Arcadia.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2009
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2009
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Jobs
United States Census Bureau
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31562AN
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Air quality concerns were raised by track employees over fumes and breathable fibers being emitted by the artificial track known as the Cushion Track, which was treated for drainage problems by Pro-Ride Racing in late August. Cal/OSHA hired Colin Young, a certified industrial hygienist to study health risks posed by the track. Young will recommend the artificial race track poses "absolutely no health risks."

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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2008
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2008
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Artificial turf
California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA)
Cushion Track
Pro-Ride Racing
Young, Colin
Item ID
31385AN
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The city is asking residents to vote by mail by July 15 on a plan that would change the way the city splits the cost of street lighting. The city expects street lighting to cost about $1.15 million next year. Single-family homes on lighted streets would pay the most, $25.70 a year. Under the proposal, the assessments would no longer be tied to the value of a home but rather to the benefits that residents receive from street lights. If voters reject the plan, the current lighting assessment districts will expire in 2010. If that happens, the city will be responsible for paying the entire costs of street lighting.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 11, 2008
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p. News 16
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 11, 2008
Pages
p. News 16
Subjects
Lighting assessment districts
Lighting districts
Street lighting
Street lights
Item ID
31202AN
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Rick Caruso has agreed to pay for a revision of the environmental impact report for the Shops at Santa Anita, the proposed mall development on the parking lot of the Santa Anita Park race track. The original environmental impact report cost almost $1 million. The new revision will require new studies and new public meetings and could cost another 6-figure amount.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2006
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Caruso, Rick
Malls
Mall war
Shops at Santa Anita
Environmental impact reports (EIR)
Item ID
30132AN
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The Arcadia City Council has approved a $46 million budget for fiscal year 2009-2010. The city made deep budget cuts across the board, including freezing positions and cutting employee travel. The budget includes roughly $2 million in cuts and concessions from all four city employees' unions, and projects about $45.1 million in estimated total revenues, $45.7 million in proposed expenditures, and $270,000 in employee compensation and benefit deferrals.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 2009
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 2009
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Arcadia city budget - 2009-2010
Item ID
31732AN
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A special report on the Asian population of the San Gabriel Valley. Arcadia is a city with an Asian population near or above 50 percent. A chart shows Asian presence in the San Gabriel Valley and the percentage who speak English "not well" or "not at all."

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Asians
Chinese-Americans
Immigrants
Population
San Gabriel Valley
Item ID
29684AN
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The State will pay San Gabriel Valley cities back amounts withheld from Vehicle License fees in 2003. Arcadia is owed $830,074.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2005
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Vehicle license fee (VLF) reimbursements
California State government
Proposition 1A
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29792AN
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The police station is scheduled to be demolished and a new one will be built behind the current facility. The project is estimated to cost $16 million. The new building will be 52,000 square feet and slated to open in the first part of 2003.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 17, 2001
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 17, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Station
Buildings
Item ID
29779AN
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Employees of Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen's Club played a football game at Arcadia County Park for charity.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2005
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Football
Fundraisers
Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen's Club
Item ID
29973AN
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State officials have shut down 5 Arcadia massage parlors and fined one business $1.83 million for alleged labor code violations. Inspectors discovered that employees were not being paid hourly wages but got paid every time a massage was given. New Life Acupuncture at 610 E. Live Oak was fined $1.83 million for allegedly violating laws requiring employers to provide pay stubs and workers' compensation insurance. The four other locations fined were Ocean Health Center, C.H. Health Center, Arcadia Spa, and Best Health Center. The fines and closures continued a crackdown on massage-related businesses in Arcadia.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 5, 2009
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 5, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
California Department of Industrial Relations
California Employment Development Department (EDD)
Labor laws
Massage parlors
New Life Acupuncture
Item ID
31549AN
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No end seen for market strike. Labor dispute between employees of Vons Pavilions, Albertsons and Ralphs grocery stores.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 16, 2003
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p. 1, 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 16, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
Albertsons
Grocery Stores
Labor strikes
Ralphs
Vons Pavilions
Item ID
33298AN
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City council is considering a proposal to help subsidize the wages of city employees who are called away to military service.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2001
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2001
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
City Council
Subsidy, wages
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22431AN
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Methodist Hospital will close down its Active Health gym in August. It is the region's first medically based fitness center. It was losing money and took up space needed for other uses.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2005
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Methodist Hospital
Gyms
Fitness centers
Active Health Gym
Item ID
29773AN
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Newspaper Index
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Whittier Narrows Dam project.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 1, 1947
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 1, 1947
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
3890AN
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Newspaper Index
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