Promote a green attitude now that Yuletide is over.

CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING: Christmas has passed and it’s time to get rid of the tree before the living room is buried in pine needles. Environmentalists say the best thing to do is to recycle--the trees are ground into mulch--and South Bay trash haulers in some cities have made it easy to be green.

We’ve made a list--checked it twice--of South Bay cities that offer curbside pickup for Christmas tree recycling. Flocked trees (those with fake snow) cannot be recycled. In the following cities, just put out the tree without stands or decorations (including tinsel) on regular trash days:

El Segundo: Jan. 4 through 15

Gardena: Jan. 4 and 8

Inglewood: Jan. 4 and 8

Manhattan Beach: Jan. 4 and 8

Redondo Beach: Jan. 4 and 8

Torrance: through Jan. 8 (Trees taller than five feet should be cut in half.)

Palos Verdes Estates: Jan. 9

Rolling Hills: Jan. 6 to 8

Rolling Hills Estates: Jan. 6 to 8

Hawthorne: Jan. 4 to 8

Los Angeles (Harbor Gateway, Harbor City, Wilmington, San Pedro): Jan. 11 to 15 only for residents served by the city’s automated refuse collection service.

The curbside deadline has passed in Carson and Hermosa Beach. Trees will be picked up, but there’s no guarantee they will be recycled.

Other cities and the County of Los Angeles provide drop-off points for tree recycling. Trees should be stripped of stands and all decorations, especially tinsel:

Los Angeles County: Alondra Park, 3850 W. Manhattan Beach Blvd., Lawndale, Jan. 3, 9 and 10, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

El Segundo: City yard, 150 Illinois St., from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Jan. 15.

Carson: Western Waste Industries, 321 W. Francisco St., 6 a.m to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, through Jan. 9.

Harbor City: Harbor Regional Park, 25820 Vermont Ave., 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Jan. 9.

Lawndale: City yard, 4722 Manhattan Beach Blvd., from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Jan. 9.

Lomita: City Hall, 24300 Narbonne Ave., Jan. 4, 5, 11 and 12, any time at the designated area in the parking lot.

Palos Verdes Peninsula: The Recycling Center, 26031 Crenshaw Blvd., Rolling Hills Estates, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Jan. 11.

SHADES OF TAMMANY HALL?: Some people wonder about the jobs committee recently created by Hollywood Park in Inglewood to oversee and advise on hiring for the park’s yet-to-be-built card club.

The committee chairman is . . . Guess who? Inglewood Mayor Edward Vincent. And the committee members? Except for a smattering of Hollywood Park and city employees, they are all political cronies of . . . Guess who? Mayor Vincent.

There is Roger Smith, a longtime Vincent pal whom the mayor handpicked to run the recent card club referendum campaign. There’s Inglewood elementary school principal Vivian Shannon, another longtime friend of the mayor.

The Rev. Benjamin Reid, the only clergyman to support the card club referendum, is also on the committee, along with two other close political allies of the mayor--Jose Marrero, president of the Latin American Inglewood-Lennox Chamber of Commerce and Robert Lee, the mayor’s personal ambassador to the city’s Asian community.

Councilmen Daniel Tabor and Garland Hardeman are crying foul. Isn’t it a conflict of interest, they’re asking, for the mayor to have so much power over hiring?

IN SCOTT THEY TRUST: Patrick W. Scott, retired former director of the Centinela Valley YMCA, is the new president of the Board of Trustees of the El Camino Community College District. On the college board, Scott, who holds a doctorate in urban studies, represents the Inglewood Unified School District.

TICKETS, POR FAVOR: So many people have been flocking to one of United Airlines’ Los Angeles International Airport gate concourses these days that during certain hours nobody without a ticket can get to the gate.

Such restrictions usually are imposed when the threat of terrorism heightens. But that was not the case at this concourse, which serves late evening flights to Latin America.

Officials at the Chicago-based airline said that during the holidays, too many people have been seeing off passengers on late evening flights to Mexico and El Salvador, loading them up with Christmas gifts to take back to relatives and friends.

An extra security checkpoint for the concourse, serving gates 80 to 84, was put in place to handle the crowds, but the congestion was still too heavy. Some passengers reported trouble getting to their gates because of the crowd, said Howard Lackey, United’s operations spokesman at LAX.

In some cases as many as six people accompany passengers, loading them up with gifts just before they get on the plane, Lackey said.

“They work here and are sending home what they earn,” Lackey said. During the week before Christmas, airport police had to be called to clear the concourse so passengers could get through.

The restriction has rankled some relatives wishing to see relatives off or to greet visitors at the gate as they come off their planes. The airline said the restriction was an experiment and will be lifted this week.

Next year, United probably will use its other, larger concourse for the flights, Lackey said.

GOVERNMENT MEETINGS THIS WEEK Avalon: 7 p.m. Tuesday, 209 Metropole. (310) 510-0220. Televised live on Channel 3 (Catalina Cable) and repeated Saturday morning. Carson: 6 p.m. Tuesday, 701 E. Carson St. (310) 830-7600. Televised at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on Channel 26 (Continental Cablevision) and repeated the following Wednesday. El Segundo: 7 p.m. Tuesday, 350 Main St. (310) 322-4670. Televised live on Channel 22 (Paragon) and repeated at noon Wednesday. Inglewood: 7 p.m. Tuesday, 1 Manchester Blvd. (310) 412-5280. No cable telecast. Lawndale: 7 p.m. Thursday, 14717 Burin Ave. (310) 973-4321. Televised live on Channel 60 and repeated several times during the week. Lomita: 7 p.m. Monday, 24300 Narbonne Ave. (310) 325-7110. No cable telecasts. Los Angeles: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 200 N. Spring St., Los Angeles. In San Pedro, (310) 548-7637; in Wilmington, (310) 548-7586; in Harbor City/Harbor Gateway, (310) 548-7664; in Westchester, (310) 641-4717. Televised live on Channel 35; meetings repeated individually at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and collectively on Sunday starting at 10 a.m. Manhattan Beach: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 1400 Highland Ave. (310) 545-5621. Televised on Channel 3 (MultiVision) at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Rancho Palos Verdes: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Hesse Park, 29201 Hawthorne Blvd. (310) 377-0360. Televised live on Channel 3; repeated at 7:30 p.m. the following Thursday. Redondo Beach: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 415 Diamond St. (310) 372-1171. Televised live on Channel 8 (Century); repeated at 3 p.m. Wednesday and 6 p.m. Sunday. Torrance: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, 3031 Torrance Blvd. (310) 618-5880. Televised live on Channel 22 (Paragon), and replayed at 10 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, and at 10 a.m., 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.