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		<title>Cruise ship fees to rise to $7.50 a passenger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week the Avalon City Council unanimously adopted new wharfage fees for cruise ships that visit Catalina Island. The new rate of $7.50 per passenger aboard each cruise ship will go into effect Jan. 1, 2026. The council also ended the marketing incentive in the Municipal Code that returned 50% of wharfage fees collected for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Avalon hospital in financial trouble</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A slide depicting a forecast of days with “cash on hand” showed the local hospital’s cash decreasing until June. Jason Paret, CEO of Catalina Island Health, told the Avalon City Council on Tuesday, Jan. 9, that he might be able to hang on until June. Paret said he was not asking the city for money. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City attorney reviewing Conservancy permit application</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 19:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[City Attorney Scott Campbell told the council this week that City Manager David Maistros had directed Campbell to review the permit application to the state that would allow the eradication of the Island’s mule deer application. In related news, the council on Nov. 7 unanimously adopted an ordinance that bans the feeding, luring, poisoning, capturing, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Avalon seeks FEMA funds for more FD staff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Avalon City Council this week unanimously authorized staff to apply for a grant for FEMA funds for more Avalon Fire Department staff. FEMA’s Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grant “will distribute approximately $360 million to 300 agencies,” according to the staff report. This wasn’t a Consent Calendar item, but it came at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ponce wins tie breaker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The commander of the Avalon Sheriff’s Station held the hat while the deputy city clerk drew the name from the hat. The name was that of Michael Ponce. The drawing broke the tie between Ponce and Oley Olsen for one of two seats on the Avalon City Council. Mary Schickling won the most votes in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>2022 Avalon election update: the candidates</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sales tax and transient occupancy tax increases also on ballot Anni Marshall and Cinde MacGugan-Cassidy will compete for the Avalon mayor’s office in the June 7 election. Candidates are listed here in the order in which their names will appear on the ballot, according to City Clerk Denise Radde. The winner will serve two years. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City hires fireworks vendor for July 4th show</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Avalon City Council this week unanimously voted to hire Garden State Fireworks, Inc., to be the 2022 Fourth of July show vendor. Avalon has already hired a barge service. Garden State’s bid of $38,000 was $3,000 higher than the competing bid from Pyro Spectaculars. The council essentially voted to get a lot more bang [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City updates Planning Commission membership residency requirements</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The City Council voted unanimously this week to introduce an ordinance updating the residency requirement for members of the Planning Commission. The proposed code amendment would require a planner to be physically present in Avalon at least nine months of the year. Mayor Anni Marshall asked about the residency requirement. “It’s nine months residency on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Council meeting stopped</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A technical glitch forced a halt to event Technical difficulties forced the City Council to stop the meeting that was held (in part, anyway) on Tuesday, Aug. 17. The city announced the problem on its official Facebook page. “As there were issues with public access of the meeting on Catalina Broadband Solutions channel 3 and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Council OKs new lease with Tuna Club</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Avalon City Council unanimously approved the Tuna Club’s new 20-year lease with the city. The new lease could be extended twice, for 10 years. The lease could run until 2061. This was a Consent Calendar item, but was pulled for separate consideration. “During the April 20, 2021 City Council meeting, City Council directed Staff [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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