About Town Redondo: Power plant’s closing ceremony, city deal with unions [UPDATED]
New Year’s eve event to celebrate power plant closure A ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, Sunday, December 31, to mark the closing of the AES power plant, after 69 years of operation. [Easy Reader previously reported the ceremony was on New Year’s Day, January 1]. State Senator Ben Allen, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, Mayor Bill Brand and others plan to attend. The plant was originally scheduled to close in 2020, but was extended for three years as a backup for the state’s power grid. It is set to permanently close at midnight Dec. 31. The State Water Resources Control Board first voted in 2010 to phase out ocean-water cooled power plants. Holly Mitchell secures $800,000 for Redondo pallet shelter expansion Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell announced an $800,000 award to the Redondo Beach homeless pallet shelter Tuesday night, to add 25 units to the 20-unit facility. The money comes from the county’s Second District Homelessness Fund. “We’re fighting every day to find options for our unhoused,” Mitchell said. The Redondo Beach city council voted Nov. 7 to expand the shelter to 45 units, if it could find the funding. City reaches deal with two of three…
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