Pacific Palisades home destroyed by wildfire. (Photo: Katy Grimes for California Globe)
Governor Newsom Touts New Online Dashboard to Track LA Recovery
A vanity project for bureaucrats
By Katy Grimes, February 10, 2025 5:01 pm
This might make you spit your coffee – Governor Gavin Newsom just announced that his administration launched a “new dashboard to track LA recovery.”
I’m remembering his Covid dashboard and what an absurdity that was, as well as constantly (deliberately?) inaccurate.
But this new one for “LA Recovery” – it’s just a brag site – bragging about how many:
•People helped
•Schools reopened
•Properties cleaned up
•Water restored
•Air quality
Does Newsom ever stop crowing about his “accomplishments” when they aren’t? Maybe after the Palisades is rebuilt he can talk about “accomplishments.”
The news release about the new dashboard boasts:
“The new features build on the CA.gov/LAfires website, which was rapidly launched in the days following the start of the firestorms, and soon after was significantly overhauled to better integrate with in-person Disaster Recovery Centers.”
Wow, the LA Fires website was “rapidly launched in the days following the start of the firestorms,” but had to be “significantly overhauled” – probably to be able to communicate with humans.
“Since its launch, there have been over 550,000 visits to the website.” More bragging. Who cares about how many visits to the website there have been? “This latest update means impacted Californians can access all of the same resources offered at Disaster Recovery Centers – completely online.”
Who writes this stuff? Aren’t there humans working in Newsom’s offices?
The far more important launch is, the “new recovery services finder tool that helps survivors and businesses connect with state and federal resources, including housing, individual assistance, personal document replacement, employment, cleanup timelines and more.”
And that is a far more helpful website with information and links that actually assist fire victims with information about returning home, insurance assessments, Phases 1 and 2 for the cleanup process, a listing of household hazardous waste, and more.
It’s nice that LA County is accepting Right of Entry forms, but when I spoke with Pacific Palisades homeowners last Thursday who lost everything, accessing a computer to do this is near impossible for many.
Residents can go to Disaster Recovery Centers:
- Where to Get It:
- Complete the opt-in form online: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/ca0e6e24c8db4598b5c49642b2ff4615
- Download and complete a form: https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/lac/1176418_Opt-InForm.pdf
- In Person: Right of Entry forms are available at Disaster Recovery Centers.
It’s reminiscent of the FEMA folks in North Carolina who claimed they were going door to door handing out flyers with information on how to access recovery information. Only, there weren’t many homes left. And those still standing didn’t have electricity and were also severely damaged.
How about you deploy teams to meet and talk with residents where they are? Or call neighborhood meetings, and have staff present to help?
At the meeting last Thursday in Pacific Palisades with President Trump’s Special Envoy Ric Grenell, and Trump’s White House representative on the ground in California, he got the word out to residents that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Major General Jason Kelly, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regional administrator Bob Fenton, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and many colleagues and staffers would be there to speak directly with them about how to get the Right of Entry process started, as well as understanding which agency is responsible for what, and the process and coordinating cleanup.
It was amazingly effective.
The “new dashboard to track LA recovery” is a vanity project for bureaucrats.
Get to work with the people on the ground – real people who need your help.
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The great thing about this website is the more negligent Newsom and the Democrats are, the higher the number go, After they let everyone’s house burn down in California, they can hit their target of $39 million people. I can hear the reservoirs draining already.
Bet this BS is built on a Tableau dashboard sitting on top of a Salesforce instance courtesy of Marc Whatshisnose …
Too bad they didn’t do preventative fuel management BEFORE the Santa Ana’s kicked up, like they have since the days of the Spanish ranchos….
Gavin amuses, always posturing like C-3P0 with a short on its motherboard.
This is disgusting. It is such a slap in the face. But what has Newsom (et al) done that HASN’T been a slap in the face? The atmosphere down here near the Eaton Fire is thick with dread and grief and anxiety. Is Newsom NOT FAMILIAR AT ALL with the aftermath of a huge fire and its effects on actual human beings? After all he has cockily presided over and hand-danced beside so MANY burned-down places in California, for which he has also been largely responsible, he SHOULD be well acquainted. But if fire victims were allowed near him during the photo-ops I missed it. What Katy Grimes recounted above about last Thursday’s meeting in the Palisades is the way to do it. Thus examples of the right thing to do obviously exist for Newsom et al to follow, which WOULD be very helpful and effective, and help to calm a lot of nerves, for a start, if Newsom could contain himself from word-salading and prancing around and making love to the camera for two seconds. But as we know he has no interest in doing this.
By the way, remember THIS Newsom outrage from almost two years ago? Nothing has changed.
“Gov Newsom Vacays in Baja as Snowed-in Californians Freeze to Death”
https://californiaglobe.com/fr/gov-newsom-vacays-in-baja-as-snowed-in-californians-freeze-to-death/
The data on Hair-gel Hitler Newsom’s “LA Recovery dashboard” looks suspect? How is the data being collected and is there any actual backup documentation to support it? Probably not? As Katy pointed out, it’s a vanity project to make it seem like he’s doing something helpful while he’s really doing next to nothing.
Meanwhile, Breitbart is reporting that two former disaster recovery experts at Hagerty Consulting, which L.A. Mayor Karen Bass appointed to lead rebuilding efforts after the recent wildfires, pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to defrauding New York City of Hurricane Sandy relief funds. (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/10/former-lead-recovery-consultants-at-hagerty-firm-hired-by-bass-pleaded-guilty-to-stealing-disaster-funds/)
Oh great. What’s the difference between these politicians, their consistently crooked hires, and the looters who prey on devastated property of fire victims? There is no difference. Thanks TJ for posting.
Breitbart has another article detailing how Steve Hagerty, the founder of Hagerty Consulting, which Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass chose behind closed doors last week to lead the city’s rebuilding effort, had a disastrous tenure as mayor of the liberal college town of Evanston, Illinois. He “took part in a George Soros-funded mayors’ program, appointed his city’s first chief equity officer, and signed a resolution to recognize that his city’s land was stolen from Native Americans by ‘white colonizers’.” Within a couple months of taking office, Hagerty violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act by improperly calling an emergency meeting to reconsider raising the minimum wage. He failed to hire a city manager for years even though about $100,000 was spent on hiring firms and countless hours deliberating.
This is crazy? Why was this deep-state WEF globalist monster chosen to lead LA’s rebuilding effort?
(https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/11/steve-hagerty-head-of-firm-karen-bass-chose-to-rebuild-l-a-was-disaster-as-evanston-illinois-mayor-one-term/)
Why? Because commie mayor Karen Bass is unfortunately and undeservedly in charge of this crap and that’s exactly what these people do. You can count on them to pick not only the most “woke,” most unreasonable, and most incompetent people. Who always live in another part of the country, on top of everything else. And Bass is probably BFFs and joined at the hip with this guy. They have likely been scratching each others’ backs for a long, LONG time now.
Yes, this is CRAZY, and it’s completely UNACCEPTABLE, and it has to STOP. Now
For crying out loud, wouldn’t you think that knowledge of what these fire victims have gone through (and will go through) would make the woman take a moment and seriously reconsider this B.S.? For once? But noooooo. Bass is a sociopath like all the others in her very large circle of like-minded political crooks.
At the same time, I’m hearing news blurbs where we hear Bass bragging about and taking credit for how fast the cleanup is proceeding and how they are on to Phase 2. Not because of HER efforts! You can count on that! Sickening.
Thanks very much for posting the additional information on this disastrous pick, TJ.
On the “bright side,” it’s lucky that Breitbart’s Joel Pollak is (was) a Palisades resident. Because of it he will dig and dig and dig even harder to expose ALL of the dirt on these disgusting politicians, especially Karen Bass. Maybe Karen should have checked the Palisades manifest before accidentally-on-purpose letting the place burn to the ground.
Because Newsom’s “LA 2.0” “reimagining”….
https://hsr.ca.gov/about/project-update-reports/2023-project-update-report/
CAHSR dashboard for comparison.