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		<title>Hospital requests $2.8 mil from city</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Catalina Island Health recently asked the City Council to approve a non-binding letter of interest for a potential $2.8 million advance from the Avalon General Fund. The council considered the and unanimously approved the on March 18. The money would go into a state program that would receive matching federal funds that would go back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sidewalk vendor update</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The City Council had a second discussion about sidewalk vending permits at the Oct. 1 meeting. Sidewalk vendor Daniel Felts and the council reached an informal agreement on two additional locations for vendors. Felts also proposed a streamlined, online process for permit applications. He also proposed increasing the number of permits from the current cap [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letters to the Editor: published Jan. 19, 2024</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catalina Islander Readers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Avalon City Council: At the special meeting regarding the hospital, the CEO made an extensive presentation as to why our hospital is always in a precarious position financially. Look around-half the restaurants and activities are closed for the winter. They send all their workers home and turn off the lights to save money because [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Council OKs new noise ordinance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Permit process allows amplified outdoor music The City Council this week voted unanimously to replace Avalon’s noise ordinance with a new one. The new ordinance applies to outdoor music. City Manager David Maistros told the council that from the information he has, the concerts are not the problem. According to Maistros, the noise ordinance applies [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Avalon Council OKs contract to redesign city&#8217;s website</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Avalon council this week unanimously approved a one-year contract with CivicPlus to redesign the city website. The contract is for a maximum of $50,000. Administrative Analyst Devin Hart (who wrote the staff report) told the council that the city currently uses four vendors for the one website. Staff expects to consolidate those services by [&#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>Avalon City Council looks at budget for 2021-2022</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Avalon City Council reviewed the 2021-22 budget this week at a special Thursday, June 24, meeting that took place while the Islander was in production. The resolution to formally approve the budget will be brought to the next council meeting for formal adoption. Councilmember Michal Ponce told Finance Director Matthew Baker that this was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City sewer, saltwater, trash fees increased</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[City fees will be appearing on county property tax bill The City Council approved the maximum allowable increase in Avalon sewer, trash, and saltwater fees at the Tuesday, June 1 meeting. The number of written protests did not reach the threshold to prevent the fee increase. According to the city attorney, the council can revisit [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>California rental assistance program extended thru June</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Apodaca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tenants and landlords can apply for funding With the California Senate’s signing of SB91, protections for renters and landlords will be extended through at least June of this year. SB91 was signed into law on January 29 and it extends evection protections for tenants who have been impacted by COVID-19 that were established in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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