Outreach and Assistance to People Experiencing Homelessness
Parking Enforcement Changes
On-Street Parking on Street Sweeping Days
Price Gouging Is Prohibited
Feeling Blue? You Are Not Alone.
Do You Need A Volunteer?
Call for Volunteers
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
1. Outreach and Assistance to People Experiencing Homelessness
City staff and the Culver City Police Department’s Mental Health Evaluation Team (MHET) have been and will continue to reach out to people in the community who arecurrently experiencing homelessness. Overthe last two weeks, Culver City staff and CCPD MHET have distributed hand sanitizers and COVID-19 educational material along with installingthreehand washing stations in the City’s largest area of unhoused individuals. The team also provided individuals with information about LAHSA’s extended Winter Shelter program. Staff is also actively working to bring portable toilets to the location. The goal is to ensure that there are hand washing stations throughout Los Angeles County. Staff will continue to reach outto our unhoused communities throughout the City. You can keep track of the City’s efforts on theCity’s Coronavirus webpage.
2. Parking Enforcement Changes
To make every effort to help people stay home and slow the spread of COVID-19, the City of Culver City will continue relaxed parking enforcement through April 27, 2020.
Relaxed Enforcement includes:
Relaxed enforcement of street sweeping restrictions in residential areas
Relaxed enforcement around closed schools
Moratorium on ticketing and towing for abandoned vehicles and oversize vehicle overnight parking fines
Freeze on parking fine increases for the next 60 days
Extended grace period for people dropping off or picking up groceries and goods
Immediate extension on all deadlines for payment due until June 1
The relaxed enforcement will be in place until April 27, 2020 and is subject to extension. Enforcement will be maintained on operations that prioritize health, safety, and emergency access — including colored curbzones, peak-hour restrictions, and residential permit parking. Parking enforcementwill also continue at metered spaces to encourage parking availabilityfor businesses and restaurants relying on takeout and deliveries.
For questions, please call Lieutenant Brandon Vanscoy at (310)253-6251 or brandon.vanscoy@culvercity.org.
3. On-Street Parking on Street Sweeping Days
While parking enforcement on street sweeping days has been temporarily suspended, street sweeping services are still occurring. Understanding that the street sweeper must maneuver around parked cars, many residents have inquired about the relaxed enforcement, and on their own have moved their vehicles off of the street on posted street sweeping days.
The City kindly requests motorists to move their cars when possible on street sweeping days during this relaxed enforcement period. If there are any leaves or trash in the curb area that the sweeper cannot reach because of parked cars, the City asks residents to sweep such material out into the street beyond the parked cars an hour or so before the scheduled sweeping time. Or, residents can sweep up the materials and place in their green bins for collection.
4. Price Gouging Is Prohibited
Once a state of emergency is declared, California Penal Code § 396 prohibits “excessive and unjustified increases” on a range of basic goods and services. Barring justification, an excessive increase is an increase of more than 10 percent above the price charged by the person in question for the same goods or services immediately before the declaration of emergency. Learn more at the Los Angeles County Department of Business and Consumer Affairs website.
5. Feeling Blue? You Are Not Alone.
If the news surrounding COVID-19 is making you feel stressed, anxious, or depressed, call LACDMH 24/7 hotline at (800) 854-7771 or text LA to 741741 to get help.
6. Do You Need a Volunteer?
If you or someone you know has a non-emergency, non-medical need related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and you would like assistance from a volunteer, please email the City or call the City’s Coronavirus Hotline at (310) 253-6890 (7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.). If you email or leave a message at the Hotline after hours, please include your name, address, phone number, email address, and your need. In an emergency, please dial 9-1-1.
7. Call for Volunteers
If you would like to volunteer to help the City assist those in need (including older adults), please email the City or call the City’s Coronavirus Hotline at (310) 253-6890 (7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.). If you email or leave a message at the Hotline after hours, please include your name, phone number, email address, and any special skills you may have (language, equipment, certifications, etc.) and preferred volunteer activity (deliver groceries to older adults, make phone calls, etc.) You can also find additional volunteer opportunities on the California Volunteers webpage.
8. Neighbors Helping Neighbors
If you are able to assist a neighbor who is 65 or older, or a neighbor who has an underlying medical condition, reach out via phone, text, or drop a note on their doorstep to ask if they need anything before you go to the grocery store or pharmacy. We are all in this together.