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Tips for Managing High Gas Bills
This winter natural gas bills are higher than average. Some customers in Southern California have experienced a three- to seven times increase in their natural gas usage and utility bills. Here are some tips to help you save money from SoCalGas:
- Have your air ducts tested for leaks and repair to save up to 30% on heating and cooling costs.
- Save on water heating costs by washing and rinsing your clothes in cold water.
- Save up to 10% on heating costs by lowering your furnace thermostat by five to eight degrees, if health permits.
- Reduce the temperature on your water heater. Lowering the temperature on your water heater or setting it at 120 degrees, can save up to 22% in energy costs.
- Take shorter hot showers.
- Clean or replace your furnace filters according to manufacturer recommendations.
- Install proper caulking and weather-stripping to save roughly 10 to 15 percent on heating bills.
- Fix leaky faucets and pipes. Hot water leaks cause increased demand on the water heater which increases natural gas use.
If you’re having trouble paying your gas bill, SoCalGas’ customer assistance programs may be able to help. >> Learn more.
Eviction And Tenant Rights Information
The Los Angeles County Eviction Moratorium took effect initially in March 2020, protecting tenants from evictions, freezing rent increases for certain units, and extending protections for non-payment of rent due to financial hardship related to COVID-19.
On January 24, 2023, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors extended the Eviction Moratorium through March 31, 2023. LA County and LA City are both reviewing revisions to the eviction moratorium and eviction processes. Many tenants may be at risk of becoming homeless due to eviction.
For more resources, visit: StayHousedLA.org
Hermosa is Hiring Update
As we continue recruit the best and brightest, please join us in warmly welcome Jake Whitley as an Assistant Planner in our Community Development Department.
February 26 is National Skip the Straw Day
Did you know that in the U.S. alone we use and discard 500 million plastic straws every day? That’s enough straws to fill 125 school buses.
Hopefully they all make it to a landfill (FYI they are not recyclable) rather than wind up on a beach, in a creek, or out in the gyres of plastic trash in our oceans. No matter where it goes, that plastic represents a whole lot of non-renewable petroleum going to waste.
You can take the pledge to skip the straws you don’t need at https://pledge.ourhands.org - be sure to select our nearby aquariums here in the South Bay (Aquarium of the Pacific or Cabrillo Marine Aquarium).
And to learn more about Hermosa’s ban on single-use plastics, visit: hermosabeach.gov/plastics.
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