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[grvnc.org] BONC Approves New GRVNC Election

Grass Roots Venice Communications Officer Announcement
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 CONTENTS
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1. BONC Votes to Assist GRVNC with a new Election

2. New "Venice Skatepark" Community Design Meeting

3. University of Venice Symposium: "Venice Self-
   Government: Strategies and Alternatives"

4. Celebration of Venice Centennial : "An Afternoon 
   of Traditional Mongolian Song and Music"



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1. At their April 5 Hearing, the Board of Neighborhood
Commissioners (BONC) voted unanimously to assist 
GRVNC with a new election.

It is their first action taken since DONE found GRVNC 
had lost its quorum last year. The motion approved 
unanimously calls for public hearings, overseen by 
BONC itself, to approve the election procedures for a
new GRVNC election.

BONC asked their staff members at DONE to supply
an election timetable to them at their next meeting
on April 19, however no steps were taken to
assist GRVNC with a recognized quorum in the interim.

All 21 GRVNC board seats will be open for election.

(More details to follow after the April 19 hearing)


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2. The New Venice Skatepark

There is the first community meeting to discuss the
skatepark design. All are invited.

Tuesday, April 12th
6 PM
boys and girls club
2232 Lincoln Blvd
Venice

More Info: email Melanie at sendtomelanie@yahoo.com


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3. A University of Venice Symposium

"Venice Self-Government: Strategies and Alternatives"

How can Venice control development, maintain
a mix of incomes and ethnic groups, promote the arts, 
and remain a unique and vital community?

2 - 5 PM
Saturday, April 16
Venice United Methodist Church
2210 Lincoln Blvd.

FREE

FORMAT: Short panel presentations followed by 
questions and discussion.

Panelists & Topics:

* Prof Arnold Springer (Venice Historian): "City of 
  Venice & Secession and Annexation Movements"

* Suzanne Thompson (Elected President of GRVNC, June 
  2004) : "Neighborhood Councils"

* Michael Feinstein (Former Mayor of Santa Monica):
  "Creating a Santa Monica County"

* Bill "Sweet William" McNally (Writer/activist) :
  "Recent efforts to restore Venice Cityhood"

* Presenter: Jim Smith (GRVNC Treasurer)


For more information: email jsmith@freevenice.org


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4. Venice Arts Council Centennial Celebration

"An Afternoon of Traditional Mongolian Song and Music"

* Traditional Mongolian Romance
* Long Song
* Throat Singing
* Unique Mongolian Instruments
* Clasically Trained and Honored Musicians

  Featuring: Badma Khanda from Ulan Ude, Buryatia


A FREE Outdoor Concert

Sunday April17, 2005
3:00pm - 5:00pm

SPARC
685 N. Venice Blvd. 
Venice, California, 90291

Art Exhibit
April 11th thru April 30th

SPARC Gallery

Images of Mongolia: by Kenneth Chan MD; 
Holly Engelman; David Warburton MD - Children's
Hospital, Los Angeles

Art of Mongolia: from the collection of 
Arnold Springer PhD - Venice, California 

http://veniceartscouncil.org




		
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