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The Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) Board of Education addressed district spending, professional development for teachers and several proposals for new initiatives at its March 25 meeting. 

Members of the Beverly Hills City Council faced criticism at the March 18 Regular Meeting for the city’s alleged involvement in a health care facility’s failure to open in the city.

The city of Beverly Hills is inviting designers, artists and architects to take part in its search for a design concept that will be chosen as its permanent Oct. 7 memorial display to honor the lives lost in the tragic terror attack. 

The Beverly Hills Planning Commission at their Feb. 27 meeting conditionally approved a Development Plan Review for a three-story Cartier retail and office space and reviewed the city's progress on its General Plan and Housing Element Annual Report. 

Following a contentious back-and-forth between Beverly Hills City Councilmembers and a lawyer representing an applicant for a proposed Builder's Remedy project on South Camden Drive, the council at its March 4 meeting denied the applicant's appeal to overturn an incompleteness determination. 

At the Beverly Hills Recreation and Parks Commission meeting on Feb. 25, commissioners voted to move forward with proposed accommodations for pickleball players at Roxbury Tennis Center and La Cienega Tennis Center, and recommended priorities for the Community Services Department Commission's annual work plan.

The Beverly Hills City Council approved fee waivers at its Feb. 19 Regular Meeting for Palisades Charter High School seniors to use city parks and facilities for their upcoming events and also adopted new changes to city housing law.

The City Council Policy Manual Ad Hoc Committee convened on Feb. 18 to discuss revisions to the City Council Policy and Operation Manual.

Beverly Hills’ first rooftop restaurant application was approved during a Beverly Hills Planning Commission hearing on Feb. 13.

During a meeting on Feb. 18, the Commission Standardization Ad Hoc Committee discussed the possible merger of the Human Relations Commission with the Health and Safety Commission, and the Recreation and Parks Commission with the Arts and Culture Commission. The committee members, Vice Mayor Sharona