The mission of the NRBBA is to coordinate all activities that may help or hinder business in North Redondo Beach (Zip 90278, including businesses on Artesia, Aviation, 190th).

City Programs of Interest

• Business Improvement District (PDF's)
  • What is a BID
  • BID Basics I
  • BID Bascis II
• Artesia Blvd Median Renovation Project 2006
• Recycling
  • Solid Waste and Recycling
  • Earth Day 2008 handout on plastics
  • Waste Recycling / Disposal 2003
• Commercial Rehabilitation (CR) *
• Handyperson (HP) *
• Mobility Access/Emergency Repair (MA/ER) *
• Deferred Payment Loan (DPL) *
• Section 8 Housing (Rent Assistance)

* Part of the Community Development Block Grant  (CDBG) Program. Home improvement programs also funded by the City's Redevelopment Agency.

City Handouts of Interest

• Crime Prevention
• City Phone #'s Quick Reference
• Citizen Police Academy

County / State Programs of Interest

• Los Angeles
  • LADWP Water Conservation Ordinance
  • Saving water ...
• Air Quality Management District (AQMD PDF's)
  • AQMD Services
  • Clean Air Congress
  • Clean Fuels Program
• Electronic Waste Disposal - "eWaste"
  • Hyperion S.A.F.E. Collection Center

Emergency Preparedness

• Are You Prepared? / Evacuation "To Go" Bag

Cards show many of the businesses active in the NRBBA.

Join us every:

Second Thursday of each month
8:00 am - 9:00 am
First Federal Bank of California (meeting room)*
2233 Artesia Blvd
Redondo Beach CA 90278

Just show up -- there's nothing to join, enroll, or pay! Send email to info@nrbba.org for more information; or, leave a voice message at (310) 376-6911 x65.

* New location! Courtesy of Vivian Amanious while the new North Branch Library is under construction.

Open Discussion Topics

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• Senior Condos - click on image to see video clip
• New North Branch Library funding - see Easy Reader "City Council funds N. Branch library," 11/22/2007, p.22.
• Holiday lights
• BID
• How name the new Community Center / Library facility?
• Is there a parking problem along Artesia?

Emergency cell phone numbers

Drivers who want to report an emergency from their vehicles via a cell phone can call 911, which is usually routed to the California Highway Patrol. Or they can call the local police department directly.

Emergency crews will likely to be able to respond to a scene faster when the local police department is called directly. The following is a list of police department phone numbers in the area (as posted in local papers):

• El Segundo P.D., (310) 524-2760
• Gardena P.D., (310) 323-7911
• Hawthorne P.D., (310) 675-4443
• Hermosa Beach P.D., (310) 524-2750
• Inglewood P.D., (310) 412-8771
• Los Angeles County Sheriff in Carson, (310) 830-1123
• L.A. County Sheriff in Lawndale and Lennox, (310) 671-7531
• L.A. County Sheriff in Lomita and Rancho Palos Verdes, (310) 539-1661
• L.A. P.D. Harbor Area, (310) 832-7211
• Long Beach P.D., (310) 435-6711
• Manhattan Beach P.D., (310) 545-4566
• Palos Verdes Estates P.D., (310) 378-5211
• Redondo Beach P.D., (310) 379-5411
• Redondo Harbor Patrol, (310) 318-0632
• Torrance P.D., (310) 320-2611