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NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL POST OFFICE BOX 42254 LOS ANGELES, CA 90042 TELEPHONE: (866) LA-HELPS http://www.ASNC.us OFFICERS Ernest E. Sanchez PRESIDENT Joseph Riser VICE-PRESIDENT Tina Zabala SECRETARY Jeremy Dillard TREASURER Zara Scoville REGISTRAR |
CITY
OF LOS ANGELES
CALIFORNIA  C/O Department of Neighborhood Empowerment 305 E. First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Telephone: (213) 485-1360 Fax: (213) 485-4608 |
GEOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIVES Pablo Lopez (‘07-'08), Hermon Joseph Riser (‘08-'10), Hermon Jack Fenn (‘07-'08), Montecito Heights Tina Zabala (‘08-'10), Montecito Heights Jeremy Dillard (‘07-'08), Monterey Hills Darlene Roker (‘08-'10), Monterey Hills Zara Scoville (‘07-'08), Mount Washington Paula Sirola (‘07-'08), Mount Washington Hank Shaeffer (‘08-'10), Mount Washington Ann Walnum (‘08-'10), Mount Washington Jason Renfro (‘07-'08), Sycamore Grove Sylvia Robledo (‘08-'10), Sycamore Grove AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES Ernest E. Sanchez, Community Non-Profits Clifford Moseley, Education & Youth Marybelle C. Ang, Environment AJ Mora, Faith-Based Organizations Amado Machorro, Healthcare & Seniors J. Michael Walter, Recreation, Culture & the Arts Efrén Chepi, Retail, Wholesale, & Service |
ARROYO SECO NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
MEETING AGENDA
BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, August 25, 2008
7:00PM to 10:00PM
Montecito Heights Senior Center
4545 Homer Street, Los Angeles, California 90042
Supporting documentation for this meeting can be found at:
http://www.asnc.us/2008-archives/08-Aug/_0808archives.htm
ASNC MINUTES - DRAFT
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CALL TO ORDER. Roll call. Meeting called to order at 07:15PM. Ernest E. Sanchez, presiding. Present: Pablo Lopez, Joseph Riser, Jack Fenn, Tina Zabala, Darlene Roker, Zara Scoville, Paula Sirola, Hank Shaeffer, Jason Renfro, Sylvia Robledo, Ernest E. Sanchez, Marybelle Ang, Amado Machorro, J. Michael Walker, Efren Chepi. Excused: Jeremy Dillard. |
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PUBLIC COMMENTS. 1. Brian Lucas, Principal, Latona Avenue Elementary SchoolMontecito Heights, introduces himself and talks briefly about his school. 2. Wendi Riser, Friends of Hermon Dog Park, passes out card from their last event and thanks ASNC for their support for their last event. 3. Laurie Arroyo, President of Arroyo Arts Collective, introduces Motion 16 for ASNC to contribute the cost of banners for the Arroyo Arts Collective’s annual Open Studio Tour. There will be two street banners, one on Eagle Rock Blvd and one on Colorado Blvd. Ms. Arroyo announces that the Arroyo Arts Collective will also be getting shuttles from Councilman Reyes’ office for the event. |
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COMMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT. (Ernest Sanchez) 1. Has e-mails from various neighborhood councils regarding website maintenance which will help in the research and discussion of the budget for maintenance of the ASNC website. He wants the website to be less costly related to agenda item #3, following) |
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DISCUSSION & POTENTIAL ACTION ITEMS: |
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Approval of minutes of July 2008 meeting held on July 28, 2008. |
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Treasurer’s report (Jeremy Dillard) |
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Discussion and possible action re: reducing the portion of the ASNC budget now spent on administrative services and fees in order to leave more funds for community projects.
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Motion that the ASNC oppose the proposed development at 3938 Latrobe Street in the absence of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). (Montecito Heights Local Issues) |
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Discussion and possible action re: prioritizing neighborhood council funding for sponsored events and community projects. (Ann Walnum) (Tabled from last meeting.) Motion tabled. Ms. Walnum absent. |
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| 6. | [Formerly Item # 16]: Motion requesting ASNC to contribute $1000 towards the purchase, printing, and installation of three banners to get the word out about the Arroyo Arts Collective's annual Open Studio Tour. (J. Michael Walker) Motion (J.Fenn/H.Shaeffer) to approve. Motion passes. |
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Motion that the ASNC should call on the City Councilmembers representing Districts 1 and 14 to establish formal, written tracking methods for use by their staff members in logging, moving forward, and reporting back on the ASNC’s forwarded, approved motions. Within 30 days of receipt of formal requests, council staff would log, and then acknowledge the request (by mail or e-mail), advising the identified ASNC contact for that request with which staff person they should follow up -- see attached example from CD1, related to Mount Washington Local Issues. (Joseph Riser) (Tabled from last meeting.) |
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Request for funding from the ASNC in the amount of $4,000 for the June 2009 Lummis Day festival. (Ann Walnum on behalf of the Lummis Day Committee) |
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Discussion and possible action regarding establishing a Fairness Policy in the spirit of the action of June 2004 requiring that ASNC funding be recognized appropriately and proportionately in advertising, publicity and program materials. (Ann Walnum) Motion tabled by President until Ms. Walnum can get a group together for an action. |
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Request for ASNC to join with other Northeast neighborhood councils in requiring that the aggregate of neighborhood council funds allocated for Lummis Day be used to establish sponsorship and order of recognition as was done with the initial Lummis Day 2006. It is further requested that all Northeast neighborhood council presidents or their designated representatives be given opportunity for pre-publication review of the Souvenir Program Booklet. (Ann Walnum) |
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Motion to authorize $703.80 from ASNC community projects fund for the installation of 6 dog waste bag dispensers in Montecito Heights. Proposed Locations: (1) 3900 N. Berenice Avenue at Avenue 39; (2) 4005 Sinova Street at Montecito Drive (approved by property owner); (3) 1040 Montecito Drive at Fenn Street ; (4) 1050 Montecito Drive; (5) 1468 Montecito Drive adjacent to public easement (approved by property owner); and (6) Corner of Reynolds and Roberta at Debs Park Pedestrian entrance. (Montecito Heights Local Issues on behalf of MHIA). Amendment to motion (Z.Scoville): To add ASNC logo on bags and dispensers. Motion (J.Fenn/J.Riser) to approve. Motion passes. |
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Motion for ASNC to provide matching funds, up to $1000.00, for field trips and tutoring for Latona Avenue School fundraiser to be held September-October, 2008. (Montecito Heights Local Issues on behalf of MHIA).
Motion (J.Fenn/Z.Scoville) to approve. Motion passes. |
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Appointment of Candidate Recruitment Committee (Ernest Sanchez) J.Riser: Just to tell you what this is. This is called for in the bylaws. The purpose is to recruit and encourage more candidates than there are openings for each geographic and At-large Board position. It shall consist of seven members as follows: every ASNC community shall be represented by at least one member and no community shall have more than two members. Subject to ratification by the members, the President shall appoint the Candidate Recruitment at the July meeting. The committee shall elect its chair from among its members. The committee shall report at the August and September meetings. It doesn’t just have to be board members. It can be stakeholders. It can be people from their own community. The following board members volunteered: Paula Sirola (Mt. Washington), Zara Scoville (Mt. Washington), Darlene Roker (Monterey Hills), Pablo Sanchez (Hermon), Jason Renfro (Sycamore Grove), Jack Fenn (Montecito Heights), and Joseph Riser (Hermon). Paula Sirola agreed to convene the first meeting. |
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Review of results from stakeholder evaluation forms submitted. (Joseph Riser) J.Riser: This is in review of what’s in your Board packet. These are the tallies of our stakeholder evaluation forms that we collected from stakeholders and turned in by committee. I don’t want to spend a lot of time on it, but I want to go over it and I also want to be careful about how we put out the information. It’s public information. It’s been in the agenda. I’d like to suggest that some type of presentation be prepared to explain. This is very good and important for the neighborhood council in a lot of ways in terms of communication with the stakeholders, in terms of addressing issues that stakeholders are concerned about. It allows the stakeholders to speak and to be heard, and that’s been a condemnation of some neighborhood councils. Item #5 is all about the board and how meetings are run. Results show meetings were run well and people were courteous to each other. Item #6, the issues that concern our stakeholders most is neighborhood crime and improvement of roads, streetlights, and public areas, not land use. Item #7, 63% said they voted in the last neighborhood council election. That’s good and bad. Looking at #8, we had had a lot of people who have attended 1-3 meetings in the last six months. Item #9, not a lot of people are willing to serve as volunteers or board members. The make-up of the group was interesting. The race and ethnicity are overwhelmingly mostly White and Latino. We skew more towards older participants which is not uncommon, and we have mostly homeowners. 23% are business owners, non-homeowners. I’d like to suggest something along the lines of a communiqué or a press release of the survey results. We didn’t actually collect 100 surveys. We fell short. However, the percentage that we fell short is about the same percentage that we are smaller than the average neighborhood council. The average is about 40,000 residents, and we have about 27,000. |
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Board review of content for first election mass mailing. (Joseph Riser, Rules & Elections) J.Riser: The mailing is a bit like what we sent last time. It’s just been altered here and there. The verbiage on the front and back have been altered and there’s not enough space for adding anything more. Any comments or revisions of contents to be sent to Mr. Riser by 29-AUGUST-2008. Motion (J.Fenn/J. Walker) to approve. Motion passes. |
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Motion to authorize $455 from ASNC community projects for monies expended by the MHIA on a very informative Earthquake Preparedness Seminar held last 16-August-2008 at Lincoln High School. (Montecito Heights Local Issues on behalf of Montecito Heights Improvement Association) Motion (J.Fenn/J.Riser) to approve. Motion passes. |
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| 17. | Moved that In the interest of better meeting its stated purpose to "engage stakeholders in deliberation and collaboration on matters affecting the community" and to "promote stakeholder participation in City governance and decision making processes" (Bylaws, Article II) and of allowing them more say in positions taken and funding requests before they reach the board of representatives, all standing committees of the ASNC, as identified in its bylaws, be required to meet at least three times a year. And, ad hoc committees of this neighborhood council should be encouraged to do the same. (Joseph Riser)
J.Riser: The purpose of the ASNC (reads purpose statements from ASNC Bylaws). Neighborhood councils were created as an experiment in participatory, not representative democracy. We need to think of the neighborhood council not just as a board but as an entire community. I’m suggesting we give stakeholders more say by having all standing committees be required to meet three times a year. I think prior to these standing committee meetings people should go out and find out what their community wants to talk about, what issues they have, what services they need. That’s my suggestion. The standing committees are Rules and Elections, Budget and Finance, Communications and Outreach, Local Issues, Recreation, Arts & Culture, and Environment. Motion (J.Riser/P.Sirola) to approve. Motion passes. |
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| 18. | Request that the ASNC join other Northeast L.A. organizations in formally supporting a pending application before the city's Cultural Heritage Commission to declare Griffith Park an L.A. City Historic Cultural Monument. (Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council)ser) (Tabled from last meeting.) Motion tabled at the request of Mr. Riser. |
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COMMITTEE REPORTS. | ||
| a. | Local Issues: | ||
| i. | Hermon (J. Riser) Meeting scheduled in two weeks. | ||
| ii. | Montecito Heights (J. Fenn) Had pretty successful meeting last week regarding the installation of dog waste bag dispensers and Latona Avenue School fundraiser. | ||
| iii. | Monterey Hills (D. Roker) They’re trying to schedule a meeting on September 6th but that has not been confirmed. | ||
| iv. | Mount Washington (P. Sirola) They had their Pizza In The Park event which was very successful and well attended. They discussed park safety as well as safety on Cleland Avenue. | ||
| v. | Sycamore Grove (J. Renfro) A new traffic signal has been put up at the center of Sycamore Park. | ||
| b. | Rules and Elections (Joseph Riser) |
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| c. | Communications and Outreach (Zara Scoville)
Requests a motion on next month’s agenda for an advertising budget. She was told that this is a committee-only decision, and does not believe a vote is needed by the board. J. Riser suggested that this is one interpretation, but disagrees. |
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| d. | Budget and Finance (Jeremy Dillard)
Mr. Dillard absent. |
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| e. | Recreation, Arts & Culture (J. Michael Walker)
There is an all-night poetry reading at the Avenue 50 Art Studio Saturday August 30th beginning at 10Pm. There is a $5.00 suggestion donation. |
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| f. | Environment (Marybelle Ang) Met last week. Three attended. They discussed residents and public facilities with no recycling bins. Residents may call Richard Miles at 213-485-3076 to have the city provide recycling bins for apartments and condos. |
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REPORTS FROM LIAISONS. |
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| a. | LADWP/MOU Oversight Committee (Peter Parrish) |
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| b. | Planning Dept./MOU Oversight Committee (Zara Scoville) | ||
| c. | Friends of Southwest Coalition (Ann Walnum) | ||
| d. | Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils Coalition (Bill Murray) | ||
| e. | Controller Chick’s NC’s (Maggie Barto) | ||
| f. | Animal Welfare (Lezle Stein) | ||
| g. | MW Elementary School Multipurpose Room (David Brunk) | ||
| V. | NEW BUSINESS (Committee referrals and/or future Board agenda items). |
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Comments from the Board on subject matters within the Board’s jurisdiction, and suggestions for future agenda
items.
J. Riser said he will move to reduce the Website maintenance budget at the next meeting, based on the research provided at this meeting in item #3. |
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Future meetings dates and location (Ernest Sanchez). |
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ADJOURNMENT Meeting adjourned at 09:15PM. |
Funding requests – Unless otherwise stated in the approved motion, any funds appropriated for community projects as a result of this meeting’s actions: (1) will be drawn from the 2008-09 ASNC budget; and, (2) under ASNC standing rules, expenditure of any such funds must begin no later than 30-June-2009, or the appropriation will automatically lapse.
Process for Reconsideration – The Board may reconsider and amend its actions on items listed on the agenda in accordance with Robert’s Rules of Order.
The public is requested to fill out a “Speaker Card” to address the Board on any item of the agenda prior to the Board taking action on an item. Comments from the public on Agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the Agenda that is within the Board’s subject matter jurisdiction will be heard during the Public Comment period. Public comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker, unless waived by the presiding officer of the Board. Agenda is posted for public review at Mount Washington Elementary School Bulletin Board, Carlin G. Smith Recreation Center, Albertson’s at Avenue 43 and Figueroa, Rock Rose Café, Montecito Heights Senior Center, Montecito Heights Recreation Center, Monterey Business Center, ASNC’s Official Web site and distributed on ASNC’s Email list. As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices, or other auxiliary aids and/or services may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least 3 business days prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Naheed Qureshi, Project Coordinator (213) 473-5391.
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ARROYO SECO NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
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Phone (866) LA-HELPS
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