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Renaghi said detective Martinez delivered the keynote and remembered recently fallen officers including John Cucci and Gordon French. He said Gordon French died after an altercation while trying to prevent an escape from the city jail and that the length of time to get to a hospital contributed to his death — a circumstance Renaghi said was a factor in the later construction of a hospital in South Weyona.

\"Recognizing those who've fallen is important,\" Renaghi said. \"We owe everything to our law enforcement who keep us safe and who take a note to protect and defend the constitution of The United States.\" The mayor described the event as an annual community commemoration.

The radio segment reported description and remarks from the ceremony but did not record a formal city action or proclamation text during the interview.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Stu News Laguna's Fair Game with Tom Johnson and Mayor Alex Rounaghi | May 8, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","Mayor Alex Renaghi described an annual remembrance ceremony that honored fallen officers, including John Cucci and Gordon French, and said the city's history prompted later hospital construction in South Weyona after French's death.","taxTitle","Laguna Beach, Orange County, California","taxId",56774,"location","headline","shortSummary",{"_33":75,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":76,"_41":77,"_43":78,"_45":79,"_47":80,"_49":81,"_51":82,"_53":83,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":84,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":85,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":56,"_73":56},6567974,"Laguna Beach and school district plan collaboration on pool, sustainability and safety",86,587000,673000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3239299-8891b6e99eb84e37eb24110dd329340b&start=587&end=673","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3239299-8891b6e99eb84e37eb24110dd329340b/thumbnail_587000.jpg","/articles/6567974/Laguna-Beach/Orange-County/California/Laguna-Beach-and-school-district-plan-collaboration-on-pool-sustainability-and-safety","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6567974-b2e5029780eaccff8286ce69ad2935da/orig.mp4?Expires=1770440206&Signature=NxhCm1UJsMh7F-W0dyckdYVra8sd~DDrs7lrfYieU-1n~3HaDX~ORTFF8Rbq3CH-yCzmsaeVsYMdGt4fKUQNcJ~jXhCSMMOkV7K4-h95eYIB6~a06bOX565OrfNDrSH4uN0FI2tHDZkl3rZXcBRmovPCq1oY7IEX2AKlR7NYHqp9ZliULE2jHuF3KWesMFyvV5L1eVD4S9~sCS8eK4letrXEP4q2TVrjI1MsrFQsalxe9NcwV1uaPlhvbTcyn9bXJEtENy5kwrkRf~DE6daKxm6NrSIUWvwxcgixN6NtSPWPYzwZNjV-rEqd-UoO90p0BHDnXAD2W9VMMDxeYxGguA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Mayor Alex Renaghi told Fair Game Laguna Beach that a planned joint meeting with the Laguna Beach School District produced areas of consensus on facilities, sustainability and safety.

\"We\u0000are separate and distinct entities. We have a different role than the school board does. But at the end of the day, we all ... have an investment in having the best schools that can that can exist,\" Renaghi said. He said the parties agreed to move forward with a memorandum of understanding on a proposed 45-meter pool and to collaborate on sustainability and energy-efficiency initiatives.

Renaghi described the school district's sustainability plan as \"ambitious\" and quoted a target in the district document as \"02/1930\"; that phrasing is from the document he read and was not clarified on air. He said the city and the district discussed coordinating on solar procurement and leveraging tax credits and other incentives to reduce long-term energy costs.

The mayor said public-safety topics included a problem with people entering school-district open space where illegal access has raised concerns about wildfire risk; he said Laguna Beach Police Chief Calvert raised the issue. Renaghi also described an ongoing technical problem around 911 calls in the El Morro area that sometimes route to the Orange County Sheriff's Department rather than the Laguna Beach Police Department and said staff are working to fix the dispatch routing to reduce delay.

Renaghi also noted the long-standing shared funding for school resource officers, saying the city and district split funding for two officers on a 50/50 basis.

The radio segment reports steps toward cooperation rather than any formal, signed agreement recorded during the interview.","Mayor Alex Renaghi said a joint meeting with the school board produced consensus to pursue a memorandum of understanding for a 45-meter pool, collaborate on sustainability goals and address public-safety issues on district-owned open space and 911 dispatch routing at El Morro.",{"_33":87,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":88,"_41":89,"_43":90,"_45":91,"_47":92,"_49":93,"_51":94,"_53":95,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":96,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":97,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":56,"_73":56},6567979,"Laguna Beach mayor urges shifting budget priorities to fund wildfire prevention",134,210000,344000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3239299-8891b6e99eb84e37eb24110dd329340b&start=210&end=344","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3239299-8891b6e99eb84e37eb24110dd329340b/thumbnail_210000.jpg","/articles/6567979/Laguna-Beach/Orange-County/California/Laguna-Beach-mayor-urges-shifting-budget-priorities-to-fund-wildfire-prevention","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6567979-544c0daa40b1ed7dc43679443278c9a6/orig.mp4?Expires=1770440207&Signature=I-nHlM8jh0SO-ruhPN8tIQ6iyoM3bdgJz6ah7H6QRWdzcRhC2FLWQemPHEPgJDJ85Yiln1dAbQfd1QRbJ1ZEtELc7JB~1ORhppSfTW-LyhMGOxO4-rupZJUv8pITqDvTT2Wi7js10O~t~3B2nOnMAOkgvkTgLfiIEMIlaPd75yxZ5RonlReO36JvLOVvxGmTFdWe4Gf0OAPG4T1LjoCxbavEIdj2t5IEwH25~0dwir3NJCF6AfGcOZoYJtzCchMQ3v~Wp0Xittw6eqHULUhQ6GVkgGc92U8vqH0JiXXORFDGtFSfqa97iFw5JEztULzhFC~avPQ2QDyDnojuGN4-9Q__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Mayor Alex Renaghi said on the Fair Game Laguna Beach radio program that the city completed an updated wildfire mitigation plan and is moving to implementation, while urging a major budget shift to pay for prevention.

Renaghi, speaking with host Tom Johnson, said the plan — updated by staffers Bob Whalen and Sue Kim within the 90-day window — covers utility undergrounding, fuel modification and early detection technology and involved both the Laguna Beach County Water District and the South Coast Water District. \"We discussed our updated wildfire mitigation plan,\" Renaghi said. \"The question is not if, but when the next wildfire happens.\"

The mayor described several barriers to faster fuel-modification work, including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requirements and coastal-zone permitting that can take years. He said the administration is examining whether a recent governor's executive order could speed approvals for some actions. \"How do we take advantage of the executive order to get those zones approved so that we can ... create the necessary fuel modification that we need to protect the community?\" he said.

Renaghi urged a substantial reallocation of city resources to prevention. \"We should really be putting 10% of our general fund, which is could would be around $10,000,000 a year in a wildfire prevention,\" he said on the program. He identified implementation and budgeting as the next steps and said the allocation would be a priority-setting question for the council.

On financing and cost savings, Renaghi described exploring contract renegotiations and a consulting arrangement with a firm he identified as Procure America to capture recurring savings on utility and other vendor bills. He said the city captured savings on electricity bills in the tens of thousands of dollars — \"less than a hundred thousand, but ... more than, I think, 50,\" he said — and proposed reviewing the largest vendor contracts for further savings.

Renaghi said the plan also discusses use of AI-enabled cameras to detect fires earlier and that local water districts participated to confirm water-supply roles in wildfire response. He cautioned that implementation will require funding choices and staff work: \"It was a collaborative process ... The next step is sort of implementation. And that's gonna be a key budget question because it really comes down to priorities.\"

Practical next steps: Renaghi told listeners the city's published budget is on the city website and the first public budget study session is scheduled for next Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. He invited public review and input ahead of subsequent hearings.

The discussion described council direction given to staff to update the city's 2019 wildfire mitigation plan; Renaghi credited the staff work for meeting the 90-day update target but said further implementation action remains to be budgeted and scheduled.

For now, the conversation was a policy and budget preview during a radio interview rather than the text of a formal council motion or vote.","Mayor Alex Renaghi told a local radio program the city finished an updated wildfire mitigation plan and he proposes dedicating roughly 10% of the general fund (about $10 million) annually to wildfire prevention; implementation and funding were framed as the next steps.","actionData","errors"]

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