Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse took to the podium in front of a sold-out audience on Sept. 28 to deliver this year’s State of the City Address at “An Evening with the Mayor” sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. With the elegant Greystone Mansion gardens serving as a backdrop, Bosse shared her vision for the city and progress at the halfway mark of her third term as Mayor.
At her installation in April, Bosse unveiled a new Real Time Watch Center that uses state-of-the-art technology to monitor the city’s sprawling surveillance network 24/7, which includes CCTV cameras and automatic license plate readers. “I am bringing our safety to a whole new level,” Bosse said in her speech. “We do not defund police; we fund our police!” The city is actively recruiting new police officers, and recently augmented salaries to ensure its officers are the highest paid in Southern California.
