International Boardwalk pavers go in Sept. 3
The pavers project for the International Boardwalk at Redondo Beach Pier is set to begin Sept. 3, estimated at 60 days for crews to lay in little rectangular pavers from the R10 bar and restaurant down the boardwalk, past Quality Seafood at the south corner, rounding to the edge of the skate park.
The pavers – similar to those on the upper Monstad original Pier area – will replace the existing asphalt.
Greg Kapovich, the city’s waterfront and economic development director, notes that pavers are easier to clean and maintain. If a paver gets chipped, it can simply be replaced vs. having to re-pave asphalt.
Redondo Union 2024 graduation rate: 99%
Redondo Unified School District reports a 99% graduation rate for the Class of 2024.
A total of 765 students met the requirements to earn their diploma in June, with only two not graduating. In the previous five years, the RUHS graduation rate was 94-97%.
RBUSD Superintendent Nicole Wesley points out that the numbers help the district financially.
“What is important to us is that we see improvement from the previous year, and within the last three years, because our budget is tied to attendance,” she said. “And it is approved for three years at a time.”
City council sets city attorney pay at less
than city manager
City Councilman Zein Obagi, Jr., made a motion Aug. 20 to establish that the next city attorney’s pay remains less than that of the city manager, to confirm that the latter is the top executive of the city.
Obagi pointed to the current rate for the city attorney at $274,000 per year base salary and city manager at $280,000.
City councilman Scott Behrendt seconded the motion. Councilman Nils Nehrenheim offered a substitute motion to reduce the city attorney’s salary to $238,000 base pay, his reason being to put it closer to salary-per resident rates of other cities.
Nehrenheim asked Councilman Behrendt, a lawyer, if he is planning to run for city attorney.
“I am not,” Behrendt said.
Obagi’s motion passed with a 4-1 vote, with Nehrenheim against it.
The vote included a raise for the city attorney, starting in March 2025, to $280,000, with three percent bumps in year two, three and four of the four-year term.
The city manager’s pay will appear in a council agenda in December or January.
The elected Redondo Beach city attorney’s salary may only be adjusted before each new four-year term.
The salary has long been higher than the city manager’s.
“The city manager is the boss of enacting policy by the council,” Obagi said.
The council has recently discussed switching the town’s practice of electing a city attorney to appointing one.
Current City Attorney Mike Webb has said he will not seek another term in 2025.
His salary was last adjusted in 2016. The council made no adjustments to it for the 2021-25 term. New City Manager Mike Witzansky began in 2021 at a salary of $250,000. ER
