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Some part-time workers,especially in the events andprogramming-heavy parksand recreation depart-ments, haven’t been pickingup their usual hours buthave been given work op-portunities elsewhere in thecity, she said.

The city also identified$2.6 million in savings inprofessional and contractservices for the balance ofthe year.

In contrast, fiscal year2020-21, which starts July 1,is “exceptionally challeng-ing” to forecast withoutknowing the duration ofstay-at-home orders andassociated high unemploy-ment, Matusiewicz said.Consumer reluctance togather and travel is un-known and the sharpnessof the economic drop-off is

hard to compare to previ-ous crises.

But if using the Great Re-cession of 2008-10 as ananalogue, revenues coulddrop by 8% to 10%, or$24 million. More conser-vatively, the finance depart-ment outlined losses of upto $39 million.

“We don’t know how allthis is going to unfold ex-cept that most of our fore-cast is assuming that mostof fiscal year 2021 will beimpaired to some level,”Matusiewicz told the city fi-nance committee at anApril 16 meeting, wherethey reviewed his depart-ment’s projections.

At Tuesday’s City Councilmeeting, staff will broachthe topic of canceling ordelaying capital projects tocut expenses next year. Butbefore next year, Mayor WillO’Neill, who chairs the fi-nance committee, encour-aged the city to cut now be-

cause every dollar thatmakes it to the new fiscalyear won’t need to be cut ortake out of reserves then.

He noted that some ofNewport’s neighbors have itworse — Costa Mesa, forexample, is projecting a$10 million-$18.5 million, ormore, revenue loss for theremainder of the fiscal yearbut their budget is only$174 million, while New-port’s potential drop comesfrom a pre-pandemic gen-eral fund of $231 million.And notably, Newport hasdiversified, property tax-heavy revenue streams. It isnot majorly reliant on salestaxes.

“I am sure there are goingto be cities, particularly theones that rely heavily onsales tax, that the hole is al-most Armageddon,” hesaid.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom’sMarch 16 executive orderexpires, and renters wouldhave 120 days after that topay. But the former mayorssaid some commercial ten-ants are taking advantage ofthe ordinance and skirtingthe rent, even if they havethe means to pay it.

“When the power goesout at night in a major city,we can see who our neigh-bors really are. When our of-ficials are the cause of theblackout, and then use thedarkness to expand theirpower over daily life, we cansee who our officials reallyare,” the letter read.

“This is a moment oftruth for our local officials.We expect them to act onour best interests. We counton them to remember theConstitution they swore toprotect. We expect them toremember that they governonly because the peoplehave allowed it.”

asked the council to “revotethese issues” at its nextmeeting.

Almost exactly a monthago, Costa Mesa announcedit would close all city parksand the Costa Mesa CountryClub, the city-owned publicgolf course.

The council later ratifiedthe decision in a 4-3 vote,following a lengthy discus-sion. Mayor Pro Tem JohnStephens, who voted againstthe motion along with Man-soor and Genis, advocatedfor closing parks except forpassive walk-throughs.

At Tuesday’s meeting, theCity Council again broachedthe topic, after a litany ofcomments — many of themalso strongly-worded —from people desperate forthe city to reopen the parksand golf course.

“Open the damn parks,”one commenter said. “Givepeople the opportunity to

go out and about before youhave blood on your hands.”

Mayor Katrina Foley saidTuesday that a few coun-cilmembers would workwith the Parks, Arts & Com-munity Services Commis-sion “to craft very quicklysome plan so that we canopen up some public spacefor our residents.”

Foley said the city plansto reopen park paths forwalking and biking throughand the golf course on Tues-day. The mayor emphasizedmultiple city staffers andcouncilmembers have beenworking on crafting a pro-gram to reopen the econo-my locally.

The former mayors’ letteralso referenced the council’s5-2 vote a month ago —Mansoor and Genis dis-sented — prohibiting land-lords from evicting com-mercial and residential ten-ants unable to pay rent be-cause of the coronavirus.

Under the urgency ordi-nance, landlords may beginasking for unpaid rent once

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It allows our dedicatedteam to continue their tire-less, around-the-clock workto fight this pandemic andcare for everyone in our fa-cility. We’re grateful for theircontinued efforts.”

OC Health Care Agencyreported 33 new casesthroughout the county Fri-day for a total of 1,845 in-cluding 36 deaths. Theagency recognized 162cases in Huntington Beach.

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HUNTINGTONVALLEYHealthcare Center facility said ithas identified 62 cases of coronavirus, among its approximately100 residents and 34 cases among its healthcare staff.

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friends at 32nd Streetand played Spikeball,though they made sureto use disinfectant wipesfor the ball.

“It’s a hot day, so youwant to go down to thebeach,” Polley said.“We’re kind of tired ofbeing in our houses andjerking around. We’vebeen keeping up withthe news lately … andwe really believe that thisheat wave will drop peo-ple out, weaken the virusat least.”

Beach parking lots inthe city also remainclosed, as well as thepiers, the OceanfrontBoardwalk and the Bal-boa Island BayfrontWalkway, NewportBeach police spokes-woman Heather Rangelsaid in an email.

Outdoor recreation fa-cilities, including tennis,basketball and pickleballcourts and athletic fields,also remain closed.Rangel said there wouldbe a “visible presence”from police officers, life-guards and park patrolstaff on the beach thisweekend.

The city has taken aneducational approachwhich has resulted incompliance, and cita-tions have not been is-sued.

Laguna Beach citybeaches have beenclosed since March 23.Earlier this week, MayorBob Whalen asked theOrange County Board ofSupervisors to also closecounty beaches andtrailheads, but AlisoBeach in south LagunaBeach remains open.

Laguna Beach marinesafety captain Kai Bondsaid that signage notesthe closures at the topeach of each beach ac-cess point, and violatorsare subject to citation.

Daily Pilot staff writerJulia Sclafani contrib-uted to this report.

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It was mid-March whenstudents got word that theywould be sent home andbegin distance learning dueto concerns over the co-ronavirus.

High school seniors wereunaware then they wouldnot return to the classroom.Spring student-athletes didnot know that they hadplayed their last game of theseason.

The class of 2020 has hadto endure unimaginabledisappointment as the co-ronavirus pandemic calledinto question the future of,and at the very least, alteredthe end-of-year events.

Among the most cele-brated of these are prom,graduation and Grad Night.

The latest domino to fallfor many high school sen-iors last week was the can-cellation of Grad Nite atDisney’s California Adven-ture.

“While there is still muchuncertainty with respect to

the impacts of the unprece-dented COVID-19 situation,the safety and well-being ofour guests and cast mem-bers remain the top priorityof the Disneyland Resort,” astatement posted on theDisneyyouth.com websitesaid. “In light of recom-mendations by school andgovernment officials to limitgatherings for the remain-der of the academic year, weare making the difficult de-cision to cancel DisneylandResort Grad Nite 2020.”

Locally, Costa Mesa, Edi-son, Huntington Beach,Ocean View and PacificaChristian Orange Countyhave been confirmed ashigh schools that intendedto have their Grad Night cel-ebration at the populartheme park.

“Because Grad Niteevents require a substantialamount of planning, coor-dination and travel, we feltthat this was the right deci-sion to make at this time,”the statement continued.“We know how disappoint-

ing this news will be to themany students who wereplanning to join us thisyear.”

Ocean View seniorMiguel Flores, who is com-mitted to Hope Interna-tional University for soccer,said he never cared muchabout attending schooldances, but there were twosenior events he was verymuch looking forward to.

Those were graduationand Grad Night, which hehad been eager to attend tosince hearing of his sister,Adriana’s, experience lastyear.

“You have that excite-ment, that emotional climaxof graduation,” said Flores,who also competed incross-country and track andfield for the Seahawks.

“There’s tears, there’scheers, there’s a lot of emo-tion that goes into gradua-tion, and then right after,you get to spend basicallythe next day, and then thatfollowing night, all the wayinto the morning, with

friends and just having fun.It’s kind of this last goodbyeto them.”

Word of mouth travelsfast. Pacifica Christian sen-ior Brooklyn Motske, whoplans to play soccer and golffor Vanguard Universitynext year, said that she hadalso heard plenty of positivefeedback from previousgraduates that had attendedGrad Nite at Disneyland.

“I remember talking tosome seniors that graduat-ed last year, … and they al-ways talked about how funDisneyland was,” Motskesaid. “It’s hard becausethose memories, we can’tget back.”

As the commissioner ofpep and spirit for Edison’sASB, if Cole Koffler was notholding court on the foot-ball field or on the track, hewould be doing so in thestudent section.

Though the letdownshave been numerous, sen-iors have not yet becomenumb to the disappointingnature of the coronavirus’

impact on their lives. Koffleralso used the word “bum-mer” to describe the cancel-lation of Grad Night.

“It’s the right choice thathas to be made during thesetimes to keep us safe,” Kof-fler said. “We understand,but it’s a bummer that we[have] to miss out on all ofthese senior activities thateveryone usually gets fromyears past and all the yearsto come. We’re going to bethe class that either didn’thave that or had a modifiedversion of it.”

Koffler realizes that he isliving in an extraordinarytime, and the seniors of to-day will have a unique storyto tell.

“My mom and dad weretelling me this, ‘No one’s go-ing to forget this,’ ” Kofflersaid. “‘No one’s going to for-get that the class of 2020didn’t get this, this, this andthis because there was aworldwide pandemic.’”

Grad Nite at Disneyland canceled due to coronavirusBYANDREWTURNER

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