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Serving Artesia, Bel I flower, Cerrilos, Downey, La Mi radii, Montebello. Norwalk, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, South Gate. Whittier and surrounding communities. o6 Anaclcs (Times Saturday, October 6, and Sunday, October 7, 1984 HD Part IX School to Tighten Games' Security Unruly Fans Cause Other Teams to Boycott Dominguez Field Don SOUTHEAST By DARYL KELLEY, Times Staff Writer vs 1 PARAMOUNT 32 10 THERE 17 30 PM i 1 I a "high probability" exists that such tight controls will be enacted. "We are thinking of plans to make (the games) as safe as possible," Easter said.

"We have every intention to deal with this situation." 6 Vote to Boycott Six other principals in the San Gabriel Valley League forced the security issue Thursday by voting to boycott games at Dominguez and threatening to extend the ban through the school year if Dominguez does not develop suitable changes in security. The league ban was to begin immediately, but Kimbrough said Thursday he had not decided whether he would allow Domin crowd control and fights at two Dominguez football games in the last two years. Other similar incidents have occurred at the school, he said, but have not been serious enough to prompt league action. The league placed Dominguez on probation last fall after its fans, coaches and an armed security guard rushed onto the field to protest a referee's call. The Dominguez-Gahr game was stopped with about six minutes to go when a fight among Dominguez fans that had been quelled in the stand was resumed next to them.

A warning that one of the combatants had a gun sent fans running and left players and referees face down on the field for safety. Please see DOMINGUEZ, Page 3 Dominguez High School, its home games apparently lost for the season, was working Friday on a plan to tighten security to bring athletic contests back to the campus. Though reeling from a league ban on home games, school and district officials were pressing forward on a proposal to allow only parents and invited guests to attend sporting events at Dominguez. Stringent regulation of spectators is a key element of a plan Dominguez Principal Fred Easter forwarded to Ted Kimbrough, Compton Unified School District superintendent, as the result of a gang-related brawl at a Sept. 28 Dominguez football game.

And, Kimbrough said Thursday, guez' football, volleyball and cross-country teams to play scheduled home games at other schools. Meanwhile, Kimbrough said he fears the effect the boycott may have on Dominguez students. "This kind of action has a negative effect on how they feel about themselves, and how they think other people feel about them and their school and their community." The league administrators were reacting to fights between rival street gangs that ended the football game between Dominguez' and Gahr High School and to what they said was an "on-going concern about security" at the school. League President Douglas Roz-elle said the ban on home games was justified because of a lack of I jiMihi 1 JJt RICK CORRALES Los Angeles Times Advertising away game may be sign of the times at Dominguez. 44 Homes Affected Elementary School OKd for South Gate By SUE CORRALES, Community Correspondent SOUTH GATE-The Planning Commission has decided that a proposal by the Los Angeles Unified School District to close part of Pescadero Avenue and build a new elementary school just west of the intersection of Tweedy and Long Beach boulevards is compatible with the city's general plan.

The proposal calls for a 26-room school that will accommodate 700 children in a severely overcrowded area of the school district. A resolution stating the commission's approval will accompany a request for $4.25 million from the state to buy the land. The proposal is expected to be considered at the December meeting of the state School Building Allocations Board, said Bob Niccum, chief real estate agent for the school district. The allocations board distributes money to build schools in California. 500 to Be Relocated The money will be used to buy about 44 homes on 5.2 acres at the northwest corner of Capistrano and Wisconsin avenues, Niccum said.

City officials estimate that about 500 people will have to be relocated to make way for the new school. The residents were notified of the plan last March, he said, adding that community response has been positive. Niccum said the district will begin purchasing the homes in January. Owners will receive fair market value, moving expenses and up to $15,000 extra to buy a comparable home, Niccum said. Most of the homes in the area are worth $70,000 to $90,000, he said.

If an owner refuses to sell, the school district has the authority to condemn his property. Roadway Included After the district buys all the homes, it will ask the city to turn over 445 feet of Pescadero Avenue between an alley south of Tweedy Boulevard and Wisconsin Avenue. That property will also become part of the school site, Niccum said. Bob Philipp, director of planning, said he anticipates "no problems" with that procedure, which requires City Council approval. "Actually, it will benefit our traffic patterns," he said.

Construction is expected to begin in the fall of 1985. A second elementary school is planned at San Miguel and Missouri avenues, just north of the Leland Weaver Library. Plans for that project will reach the Planning Commission in about six months, Niccum said. RICK CORRALES Los Angeles Times No shoes allowed in South Gate cells. CARLOS CHAVEZ Los Angeles Times Gilbert Sandoval, Compton assistant police chief, in jail cell rated much improved.

Prisoners Booked, Sent to County High Costs Putting Some Cities Out of Jail Business By MELINDA BURNS, Times Staff Writer A year ago, the Compton Police Department jail was one of the worst in the Southeast, according to the county Department of Health Services. The 48-hour holding cells were dirty, overcrowded and failed meet to health standards, said Scott Kirk, a detention facility specialist for the county. "They never had anybody cleaning up," he said. 48-hour holding jail (stretched to five days if there was an intervening holiday or weekend) to a 6-hour one, said Gilbert Sandoval, assistant police chief. All prisoners now are sent to the Carson Sheriff's Station after six hours, he said.

Compton police estimate an annual savings of $55,000 in personnel, laundry, cleaning, Please see JAILS, Page 4 This year a health inspection revealed only minor problems a missing toilet grate, an inadequate supply of towels and shaving supplies, Kirk said. A Sept. 10 evaluation by the county grand jury complimented the department on the "clean and professional" operation of the jail. The turnaround for the Compton jail resulted from its converting last year from a Hawaiian Gardens Recall Petition Drive Falls Short By MELINDA BURNS, Times Staff Writer qualified because voters had moved to a different address in the city, and 126 were thrown out because signers registered to vote at the same time they signed, Schultze said. According to the registrar, he said, voter registration is not legal until the card is stamped by the county.

Schultze said if the challenge fails, his group will begin another recall effort. "It's not hard to get signatures against Jack Myers," he said. Organizers of the recall effort had focused on Myers' participation in an unsuccessful effort to legalize gambling in the city last year. Myers helped push through a 3-2 council vote legalizing poker, but Please see RECALL, Page HAWAIIAN GARDENS-A petition for the recall of Mayor Jack Myers has fallen 25 signatures short of qualifying for a vote. A citizens' group led by former Mayor Donald Schultze turned in 995 signatures on the recall petition last month, but 230 were disqualified by the registrar, City Clerk Carol Dorfmeyer said Thursday, the deadline for certification of the signatures.

Petitioners needed 790 verified signatures before the measure could go before the city's more than 3,000 voters, Dorfmeyer said. Thirty-nine of the signatures were disqualified because they were found to be duplicates, she said. Schultze said his group may challenge the disqualifications. Thirty -six signatures were dis 1 11 III i si RICK CORRALES Los Angeles Times CARLOS CHAVEZ Los Angeles Times Serves its purpose, says Ted Heidke. One of five South Gate jailers checks cells that hold about 8,000 prisoners a year.

Long Beach Taps Ultimate Resource People to Map Future By JUDY PASTERNAK, Times Staff Writer so new for cities," said Sorkin, "it's a little early to judge how it works." There are pitfalls, she added. "You can fall on your face." It may be impossible to reach a consensus, she said. Government leaders can be publicly tied to a plan they' consider impractical, and it may be difficult to limit the number of issues considered. In fact, Sorkin said she believes Long Beach is taking on too many topics. "In San Francisco, they had four and they thought that was too many.

When you're doingiit for the first time, the process is hard enough." Still, she added, "It can be very useful." Said Newland: "There would be more problems if Long Beach did not start planning strategically. That would be more of a risk." Residents already participate in city government through public commissions and advisory boards, which make decisions on specific matters. And the city has sponsored "futures forums" at which experts lectured on population and business trends. But the Year 2000 plan, as Kell has christened the effort, is designed so that citizens will identify top priorities for long-range action, inside and outside of government, city-wide. "We'll be deciding questions like do we want to be the biggest port in the West, do we want to put up with the freeway congestion that goes with that?" Kell said.

"Or do we want to develop another part of the economy? And how would we do that? What do the citizens want Long Beach to be?" Kell said he would not make a Strategic planning has been used as a management tool by large corporations since the 1960s. In the past two years, cities including San Francisco, Philadelphia and Memphis have started using large-scale citizen participation to determine municipal goals and how to reach them. 'Consider Them Intuitively "A lot of these things are items that public boards consider when making decisions," said Donna Sor-kin, director of the community and economic development program for Public Technology Inc. "People consider them intuitively, but there are very few cities that do this in a rigorous, systematic way," The nonprofit corporation, based in Washington and Long Beach, published a guide to strategic planning last month. "But the process is LONG BEACH In an effort to determine the direction of this changing city where Asians and Latino immigrants are moving in large numbers, the West Coast's largest port continues to grow and bus and school systems face financial crunches the council will appoint more than 130 people to as many as seven task forces to map a strategy for the next 16 years.

The committees, which city officials say will include many people who have not previously been involved in municipal government, are to work for a year deciding what Long Beach should be like in the Year 2000. They will make recommendations on how current resources, both private and public, can be used to improve the county's second largest city. A preliminary report will be prepared in June, said Mayor Ernie Kell. commitment to follow all the recommendations developed by the task forces. He said the council will make the report public and then decide which actions to take.

"We'll probably be implementing recommendations we never thought of or even things that we have been against," Kell said. Specific Issues Each task force will deal with one of the following issues: basic services (such as health, public safety and libraries) for a changing population; the quality of housing; the city's physical facilities (such as parks, streets, sewers and public buildings); economic development, transportation and quality of life, such as culture and recreation. A task force on education will be established if officials from Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach City College and the Long Beach Unified School District agree to participate. The topics were selected by the council in meetings during the last three months at which they were assisted by Chester Newland, a University of Southern California professor of public administration. The process, known as "strategic planning," will be explained Oct.

20 at a meeting at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, Kell said. Sign-up sheets for the task forces will be circulated. Council members also are inviting people in their districts to volunteer for the project. Each task force will consist of 23 people with each of the nine council members appointing two committee members and the mayor appointing five more "for racial and geographic balance," Kell said..