Responding to a wave of criticism, the city of Manhattan Beach announced that it would not be filling the four new positions it created about a month ago in an email sent out Tuesday morning.
“I’ve not seen a split in the community as big as this since [the proposed] redevelopment 40 years ago,” former Hermosa Beach councilman George Schmeltzer told the Hermosa Beach city council at the start of last Thursday’s city council meeting.