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[grvnc] Town Hall and Special Election!

Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council Announcement
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Creating Jobs For Neighborhood Youth

Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council 
Town Hall Meeting
Oakwood Recreation Center
Thursday, May 6th 
6:00pm community dinner 
7:30pm meeting


"Creating Jobs For Neighborhood Youth" is 
the keynote subject of a Town Hall meeting 
to be held Thursday, May 6, at the Oakwood 
Recreation Center, 767 California Avenue in Venice.  

Sponsored by the Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood
Council (GRVNC), the meeting will feature an address 
by Richard & Thomas Schiffer, owners of Abbot's Pizza 
in Venice.  The Schiffer brothers employ local youth 
in their 10 year-old business, seeing this as a way to

teach basic job skills and respect for one another.  
In an area with significant gang activity and youth 
joblessness, GRVNC supports such efforts and 
encourages other local businesses to reach out to the 
youth in our community.  

"This is an excellent opportunity for businesses and
community members to learn and network about some 
positive initiatives for our youth," said Sheila 
Bernard, GRVNC President.

Other organizations, such as Venice YouthBuild, 
which provides education, job training and placement 
to at-risk youth, and Venice Arts in the Neighborhood 
will make presentations at the Town Hall meeting.  
In addition, the public will be provided the
opportunity to comment on these subjects, or anything 
else of interest and concern to the community.  Food 
provided by Oakwood Senior Citizens will be served at 
6 p.m., with the program beginning at 7pm. 

RSVP for community dinner to rsvp@grvnc.org. For more
information on GRVNC please visit www.grvnc.org.

 

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 CONTENTS
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1. Election/Candidates' Information Meeting 
2. Special Election


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Election and Candidates' Information Meeting

3:00PM
Saturday, May 8
Venice Library
501 S Venice Blvd.

Come for information about the June 27 GRVNC 
Election.  The Election Procedures will be explained,
and copies of those and the bylaws will be given out.
Questions will be answered about the duties of those
who get elected to the board, vote by mail 
procedures, election day procedures and you will also
be encouraged to run for office!

The last day to declare yourself a candidate and be on

the printed ballot is May 27.  After that, you will 
have to convince alot of people in Venice to write 
your name in.  For information on becoming a 
candidate, email candidates@grvnc.org.

For auto-response instructions on voting by mail,
send an email to vote.by.mail@grvnc.org.
All other questions may be sent to
elections@grvnc.org.


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Special Election

Thursday, May 6, 7:00 PM
Oakwood Recreation Center
767 California Ave
Venice

DETAILS:

At the Executive committee meeting on April 7,
a stakeholder submitted a petition signed by
at least 50 stakeholders to hold a vote on
an initiative to amend the bylaws.

Basically, the initiative contains seven provisions,
each to be voted on separately, which seek
to amend the bylaws to affect the way elections
could be run.

Exact bylaws language changes proposed are here:

http://grvnc.org/NewSite/organizing/BYLAWS%20CHANGE-short[1].htm

In order to have this election as soon as possible
and at a place where a large number of stakeholders
would already be gathered, the executive committee
negotiated some election details with the initiative 
proponents.

Therefore, this is a cooperative endeavor that should 
be seen as a sign of good faith towards those who are 
not ready for the type of election rules that are
proposed to be used at the GRVNC Election on June 
27.  This is also a good faith measure on the part of 
the initiative proponents.

In the interest of moving GRVNC forward and reaching 
compromise or settling the issue for this year, 
the standard procedure of convening the election 
committee to create a separate set of
rules for this special election was not followed.  
Therefore, rules previously created by the election 
committee will fill in where the executive committee 
and the initiative proponents left off last week.

This leeway-in-the-interest-of-rapprochement was felt
acceptable, especially in light of the fact that the
board is expected to have to approve by 2/3 vote the 
results of this Special Election anyway.  

Tom



	
		
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