Dear Residents,

The City of Rancho Palos Verdes continues to monitor the spread of the novel coronavirus in Los Angeles County and would like to share the following updates with the community:

The Latest

The Great Peninsula Movie Night June 27

Enjoy the old-fashioned experience of watching a movie from your car, while waving to your friends across the parking lot!

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Chamber of Commerce will host a drive-in screening of the 2016 hit “La La Land” this Saturday, June 27 at 8 p.m. on the top level of the Promenade on the Peninsula parking lot in Rolling Hills Estates.

Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, “La La Land” is rated PG-13 and has been called “a movie about loving movies,” filled with music, dancing, and iconic sets. This event is a fundraiser for the Chamber’s Young Entrepreneurs Academy a program to help local middle and high school students launch new businesses.

Admission is $25 per car (suggested donation)
Gate opens at 7 p.m.
Movie starts at 8 p.m.
Enter off Indian Peak Road
Takeout food options available

Registration can be made online at https://palosverdespeninsula.chambermaster.com/eventregistration/register/14747 or at the gate.

If you have questions, please contact the PVP Chamber at 310-377-8111.

L.A. County COVID-19 Business Response Survey

The County of Los Angeles understands businesses are struggling to avoid closures after many have been forced to shutter due to health and safety regulations caused by COVID-19. We understand many difficult decisions have been made during these unprecedented times which is why efforts are being made to understand the needs of the business community.

The County of Los Angeles is asking that you take 10 minutes of your time to share your experiences and insights as a business so they may be used to inform County officials about emergency services, programs, and relief. To complete the survey, please visit bit.ly/3hBkV9D.

Your response to this survey is invaluable and necessary for the future recovery of our local economy.

Meeting the Needs of People with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Listos California collaborated with the State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) and the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) to ensure Californians with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their families and caregivers have help navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keeping the community informed is key to the COVID-19 public health response. This partnership has enabled us to provide accessible, accurate information directly to people who critically need it.

Click the links below to view and download the following new resources:

Household Hazardous Waste Roundups Resuming July 18

Los Angeles County Public Works will resume Household Hazardous and Electronic Waste Collection events throughout the county July 18 with safety precautions in place.

These events offer residents a legal and cost-free way to dispose of unwanted household chemicals that cannot be disposed of in the regular trash.

A date for the next roundup event at RPV City Hall in 2021 is to be determined.

For more information, visit lacsd.org/hhw.

Revised L.A. County Budget Includes Program Cuts and Potential Layoffs Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

In the wake of the unprecedented economic crisis sparked by COVID-19, Los Angeles County’s 2020-21 Final Changes budget includes a wide range of curtailments affecting virtually every County department.

The $34.9 billion budget, which will be presented to the Board of Supervisors for budget deliberations on Monday, June 29, represents some of the most challenging fiscal decisions in recent County history.

The cuts are needed to address a projected $935.3 million budget gap, mostly due to sharp revenue declines at the same time the County also is investing in major response and reopening activities to support its communities during the pandemic.

The cuts in the proposed budget include $453.5 million in departmental curtailments and $59.3 million in management cost reductions. To bridge the gap, the budget will also draw on $351.6 million in one-time funding from departmental trust accounts.

Read more at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CALACOUNTY/bulletins/292967d

New California COVID-19 Assessment Tool Provides Access to Most Recent Data

Governor Gavin Newsom today released tools, technology, and data that will allow scientists, researchers, technologists, and all Californians to better understand the impact of COVID-19. This includes the California COVID Assessment Tool, or CalCAT, a “model of models” that contains assessments of the spread of COVID-19, short-term forecasts of disease trends, and scenarios of the course of the disease from modeling groups across the country. The state is also making the source code of CalCAT available to the public. Additionally, the Governor has directed that the state’s COVID-19 data be open and machine-readable by default, except to preserve privacy; that data be provided via dashboard, on California’s open data portal; and that the data be available by direct connection to a database.

The goal is to refine California’s and our counties’ insights and knowledge, and to spur collaboration with other states and researchers.

To this end, the Governor’s Office is instructing all state agencies and departments to make COVID-19 data and information publicly accessible, provided it does not include information that will violate privacy.

CalCAT includes:

“Nowcasts,” the rate at which COVID-19 is estimated to be spreading;
Short-term forecasts, which show what various models predict will happen over the next few weeks in California; and
Scenarios, which show what could happen over the next few months under different conditions.

To learn more about the California COVID Assessment Tool, visit calcat.covid19.ca.gov. To access the open-source code, go to https://github.com/StateOfCalifornia/CalCAT.

Governor Newsom Declares Budget Emergency to Support State’s Response to COVID-19

Also today, Governor Newsom issued a proclamation of a budget emergency to make additional resources available to fund the state’s ongoing emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring the availability of funding for personal protective equipment, medical equipment and other expenditures as necessary to support a potential hospital surge and provide necessary services to vulnerable populations.

Today’s proclamation clears the way for the Legislature to pass legislation allowing the state to draw from the state’s rainy day fund to help California continue to meet the COVID-19 crisis, which has triggered a global economic crisis and a $54.3 billion state budget deficit.

Read the text of the Governor’s proclamation at https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6.25.2020-Budget-SOE-Proclamation-text.pdf

Cases

As of June 25, there are 91,467 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Los Angeles County (population 10.17 million), including the South Bay, so the public should not think one location is safer than another and everyone should be aware and practice physical distancing. The total includes 124 cases (please note -1 decrease) in Rancho Palos Verdes (population 41,731), 49 in Palos Verdes Estates (population 13,190), 21 in Rolling Hills Estates (population 8,066) and two in Rolling Hills (population 1,874). Countywide, 3,246 people have died.

According to the Department of Public Health, 12 deaths have been reported in Rancho Palos Verdes. The City extends its deepest condolences to the families of these residents.

For a list of cases broken down by city, demographic characteristics, and settings, visit: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/locations.htm

For an interactive dashboard with maps and graphs showing testing, cases and death data by community, poverty level, age, sex and race/ethnicity visit: http://dashboard.publichealth.lacounty.gov/covid19_surveillance_dashboard/

An interactive dashboard of COVID-19 cases in the South Bay maintained by the City of Torrance is available at bit.ly/2XB1fv1. The dashboard reflects information sourced by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Always check with trusted sources for the latest accurate information about the novel coronavirus.

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health: publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus
California Department of Public Health: cdph.ca.gov/covid19
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): cdc.gov/COVID19
World Health Organization: who.int/coronavirus
California Governor’s Office: covid19.ca.gov
County of Los Angeles: lacounty.gov/covid19
L.A. County residents can also call 2-1-1
FEMA Coronavirus Rumor Control: https://www.fema.gov/Coronavirus-Rumor-Control

Sign up for “Notify Me” city listervs at rpvca.gov/notify

Be sure to also follow the City on Nextdoor, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Sign up for emergency alerts from Alert SouthBay by:

Texting “alertsb” to 888-777, which returns a link to register for Everbridge (for COVID-19-related alerts, text the keyword "cv19rpv")
Registering online at alertsouthbay.com
Downloading the free Everbridge app on an iOS or Android device from the App Store or Google Play. Select “Find an organization or subscription” and search “alertsb”

Sign up for emergency alerts from Alert LA County at https://lacounty.gov/emergency/alert-la/