May 26, 2017 

Mayor's Message
  • Live Inglewood Stadium Construction CAM - See the construction LIVE
  • Stadium opening pushed back to September 2020 due to rain delays
  • Superbowl for Inglewood Pushed back to 2022 due to league rules
  • Inglewood property values increase 24% over last year
  • Mayor Butts profiled as one of 30 most significant leaders over 30 years by the Southern California Leadership Network
  • Senior Center on budget/on time for 3rd quarter 2017 opening
  •  Inglewood Olympian Althea Moses hosts exercise clinic @ Darby Park Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:30-7:30pm
     
 

LET'S PLAY BALL
Darby Park's two baseball diamonds reopened this weekend with the dedication of the Dodgers Dreamfield.  The Dodgers through their RBI program have provided over $280,000 in grant funds to refurbish and renew baseball diamonds in Inglewood.  Special thanks to Adrian Gonzalez of the Dodgers who donated $12,000 to pay the league fees for all the little leaguers in the upcoming season.

Home prices are surging in LA's 
priciest neighborhoods


Home Prices across Los Angeles are rapidly approaching pre-recession levels, with the median home price in LA County  rising to $549,000 last month, according to a recent report from CoreLogic.

But some neighborhoods are experiencing more explosive growth in home prices than others, and a new  heat map from The MLS shows that prices are surging in some of LA's most exclusive communities.

The map, which tracks recent single-family home sales recorded by the listing service, indicates that tony areas such as Brentwood, Beverly Hills, and Cheviot Hills have seen median sale prices rise significantly over the last year


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INGLEWOOD'S FORCEFUL MAYOR WANTS PEOPLE TO FOLLOW HIS NFL LEAD


F or so many years, people did exactly what James T. Butts Jr. told them to do.
It works like that when you are a police chief and your officers must follow every command. But after Butts got elected mayor of Inglewood in 2011, he ran smack into a couple of City Council members who kept opposing him.

"The meetings were clown shows," he recalls. "When you're used to order and discipline ... it was tough to take."

So the mayor dipped into his campaign funds, lent tens of thousands to help a businessman and a former police buddy defeat the incumbents, and created a council in which, he says, "everyone is dialed in that there is one quarterback."



INGLEWOOD MAYOR JAMES BUTTS - WEEK 7: 30-IN-30 HONOREE


SCLN is proud to honor Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, Jr. as one of Southern California Leadership Network's 30-in-30, a campaign to celebrate SCLN's 30 th   anniversary by honoring 30 outstanding alumni throughout 2017.

Mayor Butts is a graduate of Leadership L.A. 2001 and has 45 years of public service experience including 19 years in the Inglewood Police Department rising to the rank of Deputy Chief and 15 years as the Chief of Police for the City of Santa Monica. He was elected Jan. 11, 2011 as the City of Inglewood's 12th mayor. In less than five years, his strategic vision and operational expertise prevented impending bankruptcy of the city.

Watch Mayor Butts' video below to learn more about his role as Mayor and his personal leadership journey.






Live Inglewood Stadium Cam




 
Los Angeles Super Bowl Pushed Back to 2022 Due Construction Delays at Inglewood Stadium


Call it the Super Bowl Reshuffle.

Five days after the Rams announced their Inglewood stadium would be finished in 2020, a year later than the original plan, the  NFL is looking at pushing back the Los Angeles Super Bowl by a year until February 2022.

Tampa will play host to the 2021 game.

Owners of the league's 32 teams gathered Tuesday for their annual one-day May meeting and decided to giving L.A. some breathing room rather than moving forward with the unprecedented plan of a stadium playing host to a Super Bowl in its inaugural season.



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