Antonovich Seeks Reimbursement
added 8/12197The Board Unites In Opposing MTA Reconfiguration Proposals in the Legislature
Added 6/6/97Announces Operation Immunization For Santa Clarita
05/30/97MTA Vote Inviting Private Sector Proposals 05/28/97 Antonovich Seeks Reimbursement
added 8/12197
The Board Unites In Opposing MTA Reconfiguration Proposals in the Legislature
Added 6/6/97
Announces Operation Immunization For Santa Clarita
05/30/97
MTA Vote Inviting Private Sector Proposals 05/28/97
Editor's note: One of the Centers is the Acton Rehab located in Acton not the Antelope Valley. They have one of the best success rates of and public agency. They also take "private" clients with drug problems at a very low fee.
Last year Los Angeles county taxpayers were socked with over $73,000 for drug and alcohol rehabilitation for people living in other counties. To end this financial drain the Board of Supervisors has approved a motion by supervisor mike Antonovich. It instructs the Director of Health Services and County Counsel to:
Draft an out-of-county reimbursement policy.
Draft an agreement with counties referring patients to the Antelope Valley Rehabilitation Center
And for full repayment for services per formed the new policy calls for financial screening so that individuals with the means to do so will pay for rehabilitation.
Antonovich says this will include recovering the costs for services that have been provided over the past two years.
"I am deeply concerned that the board was not informed of this wasteful policy sooner this raises serious questions about similar polices in other departments," he said.
The director of health services has been instructed to report back within 30 days with a report outlining action taken.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted its opposition to Legislative proposals by Assemblyman Steve Kuykendall and Senator Richard Polanco that would radically change the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board of Directors.
County Supervisor Mike Antonovich said the Board opposes the legislation "because it would reduce the County representation on the MTA Board and because the real problem of the MTA has been, and continues to be, a dysfunctional Board whose tunnel vision has led to a $350 million per mile subway, which like a tapeworm, has consumed the limited tax dollars needed for a comprehensive, County wide transit system."
"Our 88 cities and 137 unincorporated communities have been starved as a result of the subway tapeworm's fiscal appetite," Antonovich said. "The residents of Los Angeles County deserve an MTA Board which is dedicated to serving them and not the political or parochial needs of the subway's special interest lobby."
"To right itself, the MTA Board needs a chief executive officer who will stop the costly subway, and a reconfigured Board which would serve all of our cities and communities," Antonovich said. Antonovich has suggested that the MTA Board be reconfigured along one of three proposals:
1) Five supervisors who are elected County wide; or
2) Five supervisors, one representative from the City of Los Angeles, one representative from the City of Long Beach and four representatives from the other 86 cities; or
3) Five supervisors, one representative from the City of Los Angeles and five representatives from the other 87 cities.
Kuykendall's Bill, AB 1481, would reduce the MTA Board from 13 voting members to 9 (3 members of the Board of Supervisors, 3 appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles, and 3 representatives from the smaller cities within Los Angeles County). Polanco's Bill, SB 567, proposes among other things to reduce the MTA Board from 13 voting members to 11 (2 members of the Board of Supervisors, 4 from the City of Los Angeles, and 5 from the smaller cities).
Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is pleased to announce the availability of free immunizations for all children of the Santa Clarita Region. These services will be delivered through the 1997 Annual Operation Immunization for Santa Clarita, a communitywide organization effort.
The program will begin in May and continue through August 1997.
The Operation Immunization Santa Clarita provides immunizations for each child aged six weeks and older at no cost, regardless of family income. Vaccines available will be Diphtheria, Tetanus and, Polio, MMR (Mumps, Measles, and Rubella), HIB (Meningitis), Hepatitis B and Tetanus. Tuberculosis skin tests will also be available. All children must be accompanied by parent or legal guardian, who need to bring copies of any previous immunization records for each child to be vaccinated.
This massive immunization effort encompasses the entire Santa Clarita region. Specific immunization sites have been designated for Castaic/ValVerde, Saugus, Newhall, Canyon County and the Acton/Agua Dulce areas, including several evening and weekend sessions so that working parents can have their children immunized without taking time from work. Operation Immunization for Santa Clarita is providing a unique opportunity to all children in need of immunization against diseases to take advantage of this free). Fliers providing specific information will be sent home with each elementary school child in the region within the next two weeks.
Operation Immunization for Santa Clarita is sponsored by the County's Santa Clarita Valley Service Center, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and LACO Valleycare, the Northeast Valley Health Corporation, the Samuel Dixon Family Health Center, Inc.; and the Latin American Civic Association Headstart with the collaboration of the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, the County Department of Probation, the County's Olive View Hospital and the County Department of Children's Services: the ActonAgua Dulce, Castaic, Newhall, Saugus, Sulphur Springs and William S. Hart School Districts and respective PTAs; Santa ClaritaNewhall Optimist Club, ValVerde Boys and Girls Club, Acton Helping Hands, Unidas, United Mothers, Stonegate Castaic Homeowners Association, and the First Presbyterian Church.
For more information, please contact the Los Angeles County Santa Clarita Valley Service Center at (805) 2540070.
Thursday June 19 and Tuesday August 19
3 pm 7 pm at Acton Community Club 3478 W. Nichols Avenue, Acton
Supervisor Mike Antonovich hailed the unanimous vote by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board of Directors to invite private sector proposals for rail service throughout the County.
"The MTA has flashed a green light to the private sector requesting its expertise, financial resources and managerial abilities in constructing and operating rail lines, Antonovich said. " Under the MTA's current long range plan, there is no possibility of extending rail service to the San Fernando Valley in the next 20 years. Now the San Fernando Valley has hope. I'm confident that the private sector will step forward with cost effective proposals that will bring mass transit to the San Fernando Valley around the turn of the century."
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