Stainbrook said that raising the base salary by 14% over three years would achieve parity with the fire department and "make the city and the department more competitive in the recruitment marketplace."
During the forum, Beverly Hills resident TJ Wilk agreed with Reiss. "I live on Reeves and she's right," Wilk added. "There's a smoking issue, and it would be amazing if there was a way we could eliminate that somehow."
City staff presented findings from a survey in which the majority of 148 respondents indicated interest in seeing the space occupied by a new café, market, health food store, or a police substation.
While governments like the United States and Germany have poured billions of dollars' worth of weapons into the conflict, an ad hoc network of individual households outside the fold of state departments and NGOs have opened their doors to those in need.
While the forum saw crime and public safety again take top billing among issues, the candidates touched on new topics and responded to the recent leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision that would end the constitutional right to abortion.