CITY OF MALIBU
NOTICE OF POLLING PLACES AND
PRECINCT BOARD MEMBERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, at the General Municipal Election to be held in the City of Malibu on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, there shall be 7 voting precincts consisting of consolidations of the regular election precincts in the City established for the holding of State and County elections. The polling places for the respective precincts are the places designated and the persons named will serve at their respective voting precincts.

Voting Precinct #2 and #4
consolidated
Duke’s Restaurant
21150 Pacific Coast Highway
Officer: Sally Benjamin
Officer: Norma Heinz
Officer: Joe Heinz
Officer: Stanley Zahn

Voting Precinct #57
Malibu High School
30215 Morning View Drive
Officer: Diane Altagen
Officer: Helen Hening
Officer: Marjorie Dukatz
Officer: Nita Boyum

Voting Precinct #14 and #208
consolidated
Malibu Public Library
23519 Civic Center Way
Officer: Mei Meimandi
Officer: Vidia Gosh
Officer: Richard Joy
Officer: Kristina Bacon

Voting Precinct #51 and #56
consolidated
Malibu West Swimming Club
30756 Pacific Coast Highway
Officer: Marie Stapel
Officer: Sally Womack
Officer: Judy Kimble
Officer: Kay Furgurson
Officer: Shirley D Haenens

Voting Precinct #64 and #65
consolidated
Bluffs Park
24250 Pacific Coast Highway
Officer: Maureen O’Connell
Officer: Jack Corrodi
Officer: Julianne Merriman
Officer: Ron Merriman

Voting Precinct #60 and #62
consolidated
Point Dume Marine Science Elementary
School 6955 Fernhill Drive
Officer: Candace Ferguson
Officer: Howard Ferguson
Officer: Leonard Zahn
Officer: Leonard Stern

Voting Precinct #59 and #63
consolidated
Christian Science Church
28635 Pacific Coast Highway
Officer: Dwan Sylvester
Officer: Jeff Meyer
Officer: Virginia Calkins
Officer: Patricia Hill
Officer: Stephanie Richardson

The polls will be open between the
hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
____________________________
Lisa Pope, City Clerk
Dated: March 29, 2010
Publish Date: April 1, 2010

Family of Mitrice Richardson Plans Multi-Area Field Search on Sunday

• LASD Says It Plans to Employ SDSU Drone But Provides No Specifics on When and Where

BY ANNE SOBLE

A series of citywide field searches for the Los Angeles woman who disappeared after a Malibu-based incident resulted in her being booked at the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station last Sept. 16 will take place this Sunday.
The mother of Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old honors college graduate who may be bipolar, Latice Sutton, and a circle of relatives and friends plan to send search teams in groups of a half dozen or more to Malibu, Calabasas, Santa Monica,Venice, Hollywood, Skid Row and the South Central area from noon to 4 p.m. on March 28.
Family members describe Sunday’s effort as “the biggest volunteer one-day search yet.”
The group needs more volunteers. Those interested in taking part can visit www.findmitrice.info for contact numbers.
On the law enforcement agency investigation front, Richardson’s mother says she has received an email from Lt. Michael Rosson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Division indicating that there are plans to use the San Diego State University Immersive Visualization Center drone in a separate effort the week of March 29.
Rosson did not respond to telephone messages and emails requesting more specific details.
The drone is a small unmanned aircraft equipped with cameras. The SDSU Viz Center says the drone has the ability to go deep into canyons and can search through dense brush.
The craft, also dubbed the “bird,” can fly lower than a helicopter in difficult terrain and obtain high resolution, close-up images and video.
The drone is credited with discovering lost people and skeletal remains in a number of instances when traditional search efforts failed.
For more information about the status of the Mitrice Richardson case, see Sutton’s website at www.findmitrice.info; the father Michael Richardson’s website at www.bringmitricehome.org; contact Dr. Ronda Hampton at 951-660-8031; or LAPD Homicide Lt. Charles Knolls and Detective Steven Eguchi at 213-486-6900.

Woman Foils Sexual Assault at Point Dume Headlands

BY ANNE SOBLE

A female jogger, 35, believed by residents in the area to be someone who regularly runs on the Point Dume Headlands, was reportedly assaulted in the state park on Friday, March 12.
The alleged assailant is described as male, medium complexioned, 35-40 years old, 5’10”, 200 lbs., stocky build, light colored eyes and no front teeth. He was wearing a black leather jacket and blue jeans and no shoes.
According to the official Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station statement, at approximately 11:55 a.m., a call was received from an informant who stated that she had been asked to assist someone who had been “attacked and possibly sexually assaulted.”
The victim told the responding sheriff’s deputies that she had walked to the edge of the cliff on the headlands, and was grabbed from behind by the suspect who attempted to sexually assault her.
The victim said she struggled with the suspect for several minutes before she was able to break away, run down a hillside and jump/slide down the cliff.
The suspect did not follow her, but had taken her car keys and drove off in the vehicle in an unknown direction. The vehicle is a 2004 Toyota Land Cruiser, white with silver trim, with California license plate number 6CHF554.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment. She sustained abrasions and bruises predominantly from the descent down the face of the cliff.
LASD Crime Lab personnel processed evidence at the crime scene. Anyone with additional information about this incident is asked to contact Detective Tom Lewis at the Lost Hills Sheriff Station at 818-878-1808.

Malibu Election Central

Four more Malibu City Council candidate forums will be held in March.

Thursday, March 11
The Point Dume Community Association is sponsoring a candidates forum from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. at the Point Dume Marine Science Elementary School, 6955 Fernhill Drive. Residents are asked to submit questions for the candidates in advance of the meeting at www.pointdume.org.

Saturday, March 13
The Malibu Township Council is hosting a candidates forum at the Malibu Performing Arts Center on Stuart Ranch Road from 10 a.m. to noon. The candidates will be able to set up booths outside the location so voters can meet with them before and after the forum. The event will be recorded and replayed on local TV. FI: www. malibutownshipcouncil.org

Saturday, March 20
The Paradise Cove Association is sponsoring a candidates forum at 10:30 a.m. in the Paradise Cove Mobile Home Park recreation room.

Sunday, March 28
The Malibu Park Homeowners Association is hosting a candidates forum from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Malibu United Methodist Church, 30128 Morning View Drive.

Residents in Corral Fire Area Organize to Attend Court Date

• Two Men Expected to Plead Guilty to Starting Malibu Wildfire on March 18

BY ANNE SOBLE

Motions to dismiss by the two men viewed as the most culpable in the starting of the Nov. 24, 2007 Corral Fire—William Thomas Coppock and Brian Alan Anderson—failed, and the pair are now scheduled to return to court on March 18.
The Operation Recovery group that formed after the disastrous Santa Ana wind-driven blaze that claimed 55 homes, is marshalling Corral Canyon residents to attend the hearing.
Operation Recovery coordinator Beverly Taki said the group is pleased with the court’s decision last week to rule against dismissing the two arson counts against the duo.
The third count, that the fire was started under a governor-declared state of emergency was dismissed because the original document lacked a necessary seal to be “official.”
Taki told her neighbors that their participation on March 18 is “imperative.”
She said she has been told the attorneys for the defendants have indicated that when the pair returns to court on March 18, they likely will plead guilty to both counts and be submitted to the court for sentencing.
Taki added, “Subsequent to that, the court will select a date for sentencing, and [at that time] it will finally be [the residents’] turn to address the court.”
Individuals going before the court usually prepare written statements that they then read to the judge.
Only a limited contingent of local residents attended last week’s hearing because OR was told to expect another continuance. Many of the local residents have attended numerous court sessions in Van Nuys that were continued.
According to a resident who went last week, “Judge [Susan] Speer determined Anderson and Coppock’s behavior that night to be reckless, based on the evidence presented at the preliminary hearings.”
As for the other two defendants, Eric Matthew Ullman and Dean Allen Lavorante, who had left upper Corral before the wildfire began, court observers expect them to end up with misdemeanor counts.
If Anderson and Coppock do plead guilty, Judge Speer is expected to send them to prison for 90 days and have them undergo psychiatric evaluation that might result in longer sentences or probation.
A fifth defendant, Brian David Franks, has already been convicted of starting the blaze as part of a plea bargain package that required him to testify against the other defendants.