Letters
Healthy openness Dear ER: The beach cities have been selected as a finalist in a project called Vitality City (“BCHD makes bid to become Vitality City,” ER Sept. 2, 2010). The Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) is promoting this project. It is advertised as a project to work with the community to improve the health and well-being of its citizens. BCHD is willing to commit $1.8 million dollars of it reserves to this project when perhaps it should be concerned about balancing its operating budget next year. There have been no public meetings on this project except one on August 23 in the Manhattan Beach Joslyn Center. This meeting was promoted as a chance to hear “an internationally recognized explorer” Dan Buettner. Buettner gave a power-point presentation for over an hour with little time for the public attending to ask questions. The lack of public information and input is alarming. The details of Vitality City’s project are vague and stated in broad terms in their promotional materials. It has no track record of success, having done a project in a community in Minnesota half the size of Manhattan Beach. City staff will be asked to help with the project and rob our citizens of…
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