INGLEWOOD – The city of Inglewood has provided a partial agreement between the Hollywood Park Management Company and Inglewood Police Department that was only valid between August 13, 2021 and January 10, 2022. The agreement was released under a public records request.
The agreement signed by representatives of both entities expressly conveys that all costs associated and expenses with police staffing and equipment to be paid by the City.
The agreement designated a specific area that the City could park six UTV’s for use at the SoFi Stadium. UTV’s are a golf cart like vehicle that can more easily manipulate driving around the stadium.
The contract expired Monday, January 10, 2022 at 10 pm with the City incurring “overtime fees” of $2,500 per day that the UTV’s remained on the property.
A NFL fan was brutally beaten in the stadium parking lot nearly three weeks later with many wondering why police didn’t find the unconscious man sooner.
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The Inglewood Police Department continues to be in internal strife with its leadership over a multitude of things. Mandated overtime, decreasing staff numbers, offensive license plates on the police chief’s car, and the rank and file police union endorsing the District 2 councilman without a full vote from its membership.
The mayor continues to be questioned about the exorbitant law enforcement costs related to securing the stadium on event days saying we will “eventually” be reimbursed. According to the released agreement and stadium initiative the City will barely break even.
In FY 2020-2021 the City entered into multiple contracts with CHP, Los Angeles County Sheriff, and Hawthorne Police to provide support on event days with a cumulative cost of $15 million. This amount doesn’t include costs for IPD.
The stadium initiative details some costs the City can expect to receive on admissions tax.
The rate for the YouTube venue is $0.56 per ticket. For events at SoFi Stadium that exceeds 22,000 people, the per ticket admission tax is 10% of the ticket price with the admission tax capped at $15 million each year.
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So how many are laughing that we have to pay Kroenke within 5 days yet our Mayor says we may “eventually be reimbursed” for police service by NFL?
Remember the aye,aye,aye,aye,aye choir went along with this agreement .
Shall we remember their names : GEORGE DOTSON,
ALEX PADILLA,
ELOY MORALES,
RALPH FRANKLIN
and the self proclaimed team leader JAMES BUTTS
as the names To remember in NOVEMBER who NOT TO VOTE FOR ?
SO with that being put in a signed document can surmise STAN KROENKE and the BUTTS CHOIR BELIEVE the Brown act need not apply to them ? !! Rather Miranda ish isn’t it?
And our City Clerk made certain the public had no access to the information, could that be another reason why she got her raise ?
And there we have it spelled out plain as day.
Is it any wonder there was such a delay in making this document available?
For those events less than 1,000 Inglewood gets $. ZERO. No not nada.
For events greater than 1,000 guests Inglewood will get $00.56 aka fifty six cents per admission
With a $15 million dollar cap and $15 million dollar non-Inglewood police department Contracts it does appear only those who managed the Inglewood Unified Bond Measure Money would think this is a good deal. Let us put that in the old fashioned math format shall we.
For events where seating is greater than 22,0000 ie football/soccer/Olympic games and concerts
$15,000,000.00 tax cap found in Section 9-6 Admissions NOT TO EXCEED
-$15,000,000.00 Contracts with other police agencies (let’s not forget their lunches)
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$ 00.00. Hmmm
Sounds like even if there are many “extra” events there is no more than zero extra income to go to anything that actually benefits residents!
But math word problems are fun so let us do another one for a reality check
70,240 fans attended SUPERBOWL 2022
X $ 6,000 Price of average ticket some paid very much more
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$ 421,440,000.00 Ticket income for NFL on Super Bowl Sunday not including:
parking, food, drinks, or gift shop sales
Let us not forget all the other FOOTBALL games were not free to fans nor did all the concert goers pop in for free concerts.
But let’s go ahead and play another math word problem
For events less than 22,000 seating capacity ie the YouTube theatre with seating capacity between 3,400 and 6,000. The city of Inglewood will receive $ 0.56 per ticket – Yes folks little more than half a buck so on complete sell out day no matter what the guest-pays for the ticket Inglewood will may get a whopping $3,360 dollars if every ticket is sold if the seating arrange is at its highest possible.
In exchange for all the noise, traffic, pollution, aggravation- we the residents will be footing the bills for the overtime of “our” police to protect the out of town fans, we will pay for all the code enforcement personnel. We will enjoy the seemingly endless waiting for the fans to have traffic lights assisting their speedy exit. We will continue to pay for our employees to keep the “public areas” clean and will have the joy of fans disturbing our community as they drop their litter in our streets, while our business neighbors will have to pay extra security for parking lots, all so that OUR MAYOR can enjoy PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES with his Sports Hero’s.
Oh but wait and none of that includes the new up coming joys of short term rentals -residential housing which could provide our unhoused community members with housing and provide our future youngsters moving away from Mom and Dad with reasonably close to home housing.
YEP if this doesn’t tell you who our council has been working for well then perhaps the moon is made of apple pie which once a month is eaten by the sun !!
Take into consideration how much Inglewood will miss out on from admission tax for World Cup, Olympics etc if they are already capped out by the time the event arrives that year. Who would agree to this?