VNC Board Meeting Agenda
Board of Officers Meeting Agenda
Westminster Elementary School (Auditorium)
1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, 90291
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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PUBLIC COMMENT: The public is requested to fill out a “Speaker Card” to address the Board on any Old or New Business item on the agenda and the Treasurer’s Report. Comments from the public on these agenda items will be heard only when that item is being considered. Comments from the public on other agenda matters or on matters not appearing on the agenda but within the Board’s subject matter jurisdiction will be heard during the Public Comment period. Public comment is limited to two (2) minutes per speaker, unless modified by the presiding officer of the Board.
DISABILITY POLICY: The Venice Neighborhood Council complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and does not discriminate on the basis of any disability. Upon request, the Venice Neighborhood Council will provide reasonable accommodations 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.
1. Call to Order in memory of Lynne Newton, member of Venice Neighborhood Committee representing the Oxford Triangle. Roll Call of Current Board
2. Approval of outstanding minutes submitted by Secretary
May 18, 2010 Board Meeting Minutes
(see http://venicenc.org/files/100518VNCBoardMinutes_0.doc)
[Committee Reports are provided in written form when available]
3. Swearing in of New Board Members by LA Councilman Bill Rosendahl
4. Call to Order and Roll Call of New Board
5. Approval of the Agenda
6. Announcements & Public Comment on items not on the Agenda
[15 min, no more than 2 minutes per person – no board member announcements permitted]
7. Treasurers Report See Exhibit A
Discussion and Possible Approval of the following:
Hugh Harrison (310-487-2533; chezhaha@aol.com) on behalf of the Budget Committee:
A Attached is the report on expenditures for May 2010. Pursuant to new mandates from DONE, also attached is a copy of the monthly purchase card billing for the VNC.
B We have filed our reconciliation reports with DONE.
8. Scheduled Announcements (no more than 1 minute per report unless otherwise stated)
A President’s Report Linda Lucks (president@venicenc.org):
(i) Report on proposed legal settlements on OPD Lawsuits and CCC Meeting
(ii) Ivan Spiegel & Linda Lucks (310 921-9556; ivan13147@verizon.net): The Lincoln Place advocates have prevailed in a David vs. Goliath struggle against AIMCO and have succeeded in returning more than 600 affordable housing units to our community. The VNC Board has already taken a position supporting them. Certificates of Appreciation are to go to: Sheila Bernard, Jan Book, Laura Burns, David Ewing, Amanda Seward, & Laura Silagi
B Governmental Reports
• LAPD: Officer Peggy Thusing, Senior Lead Officer (310-622-3968; 25120@lapd.lacity.org)
• State Assemblyperson Ted Lieu: Jennifer Zivkovic, Field Representative (310-615-3515; Jennifer.zivkovic@asm.ca.gov)
• Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: Jennifer Badger, West Area Representatives (310-479-3823; jennifer.badger@lacity.org)
• City Councilperson Bill Rosendahl: Arturo Piña, Field Deputy (310-568-8772; arturo.pina@lacity.org)
• PlancheckLA: Challis Macpherson (Chair-LUPC@VeniceNC.org)
• LADWP/MOU: VNC Representative DeDe Audet
C Venice Art Crawl This will be a presentation about the upcoming Venice Art Crawl by Daniel Samikow.
D Parking – Food Truck and related issues Report
Robin Rudisill & Jed Pauker (310.827.0144; gojednet-parkingAbK@yahoo.com) on behalf of VNC Board: Per the May 18, 2010, VNC Board motion to direct Robin Rudisill and Jed Pauker to act on its behalf as follows:
1. Investigate benefits, detriments and complaints regarding Food Trucks on Abbot Kinney and report back to the Neighborhood Council with recommendations,
2. Investigate Food Truck-related and valet service abuses of parking and zoning laws on Abbot Kinney and make recommendations to the Neighborhood Council,
3. Work directly with CD-11 staff, LA Department of Transportation and Parking Enforcement, LA City Planning and the Venice Neighborhood Council’s Land Use and Planning Committee as the representative of the Venice Neighborhood Council regarding Abbot Kinney parking issues,
4. Report back to the Venice Neighborhood Council Board regarding items one and two above one month after the passage of this resolution.
We recommend that the VNC Board take the following actions:
1. Establish an ad hoc committee or task force, to analyze and recommend action on each of the following impacts:
a) Food trucks on local parking congestion, public safety and Abbot Kinney business association relations, b) Valet parking on Abbot Kinney – both legal and abusive, on local parking congestion, c) Existing ordinances & codes that regulate parking and mobile food vending as they affect the Abbot Kinney area,
2. Balance the group membership via input from the Neighborhoods Committee, LUPC, affected business and residential stakeholders,
3. Consider the submitted stakeholder survey template, as well as a possible Town Hall meeting, to gather timely input,
4. Direct the group to maintain pertinent contact with relevant City departments,
5. Establish a term of 90 days, at which point recommendations based on the above items 1-4 are to be submitted.
E Report on setting up web to allow placing meeting recordings on it
Ira Koslow (310-392-0868; ira.koslow@venicenc.org) on behalf of REC: REC considered and asked Communication Officer of the VNC to research ways to place audio files of all Board and Committee meetings on the web page of the Board and web pages of all committees; in a recent conversation, he has indicated that he will do so.
9. Old Business
Discussion and Possible Approval of the following:
CIP Applicant Presentations & Approval of Community Improvement Project funding for FY 2010-11 Ivan Spiegel (310-921-9556; ivan13147@verizon.net): As per standing rule, the VNC Board must approve funding for the 2010-2011 Community Improvement Projects at its June meeting. The Neighborhood and Budget Committees have reviewed the applications and their findings were presented to the Board at the May meeting. The applicants will be invited to address the Board (as per the April AdCom meeting). Approximate time = 40 minutes.
RANKINGS FOR 2010-2011 VNC COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
# Applicant Project Requested Allocated
1 Masters In The Chapel Concert Series 2000 2000
2 Boys And Girls Club Sew What? Sewing Club 2000 2000
3 Ballona Institute Grand Canal Lagoon Restoration 1958 1026
4 Westside Leadership Magnet School Pacific Leadership Garden 2000 2000
5 Friends Of Coeur d’Alene Elementary Schl Reading Courtyard 2000 2000
6 Westminster Elementary School Westminster Network Printers 1996 1996
7 Mark Twain Middle School Garden Club Supplies 2000 2000
8 Milton Rosenberg Venice Beach Music Festival 2000 2000
9 Esquire Jauchem Carnevale! 2000 2000
10 826 LA Printing “The Venice Wave” 2000 1470
11 Venice Vintage Motorcycle Club Venice Vintage Motorcycle Rally 2000 1508
Total 21954 20000
10. New Business
Discussion and Possible Approval of the following:
A Election of 4 members of Administrative Committee (by the Community Officers of the new Board)
B Review of Application and Open nominations for election of LUPC (election by new Board within 30 days)
(See http://venicenc.org/files/2010-6-15%20LUPC%20APPLICATION%20by%20CM-JP-Re… for LUPC Application)
C Review of Application and Open nominations for election of Neighborhood Committee (election by new Board within 30 days)
(See http://venicenc.org/files/NC%20application4Final.doc for Neighborhood Committee Application)
D Community Officer Assignments (each to serve on one Standing Committee, and to serve on or chair other committees)
E Japanese American Memorial Marker NW corner of Venice & Lincoln
Phyllis Hayashibara (310-390-1576; phyllishayashibara@earthlink.net):
Consider a motion: to support the efforts of the Free Venice Beachhead, the Venice Arts Council, and New Media Academy students at Venice High School, with endorsements from the Venice-Culver Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, the Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, and the Venice Japanese Community Center to erect a monument (design pending) at the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards, where on April 25, 1942, Japanese Americans in the Venice community lined up for bus transport…
F Letter Supporting Assembly Joint Resolution AJR 41 See Exhibit B
Laura Silagi (310- 396-5702; lrsilagi@gmail.com) on behalf of VNC Ad Hoc Santa Monica Airport Committee: request a letter of support by the VNC Board for Assembly Joint Resolution AJR 41 to be sent to Assembly Member Ted Lieu and Senator Fran Pavley.
11. Announcements & Public Comment on items not on the Agenda
[15 min, no more than 2 minutes per person – no board member announcements permitted]
12. Adjourn (approx 10:00PM)
Exhibit A – Treasurers Report
2009-10 Expenditures to Budget May 2010
(See Supporting Document link below)
Exhibit B – Letter Supporting Assembly Joint Resolution AJR 41
Letter
Dear Assembly Member Ted Lieu and Senator Fran Pavley,
The Venice Community Council strongly supports your Assembly Joint Resolution AJR 41. The Venice Community is adversely affected by noise and air pollution caused by over 150 prop and 25 jet flights per day over Venice. A comprehensive study of the areas surrounding the airport is sorely needed. Your resolution, “which would memorialize the Federal Aviation Administration, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the federal Department of Transportation, and the members of the California congressional elegation to work collaboratively to review noise levels and the safety of flight operations at Santa Monica Airport, to carefully examine the air pollution impact on the communities that surround the airport, and to enlist the help of expert scientists to study the effects of emissions from the airport and apply that science into remediation efforts, among other things,” is the beginning of making an important change for all communities surrounding the airport. Thank you for your work on this important environmental resolution.
Sincerely,
Linda Lucks, President
Venice Neighborhood Council
Background
The figures of 150 props and 25 jets per day comes from the Santa Monica airport which estimates over 190 props and 25 jets fly out of Santa Monica daily. At the present time, the flight path has changed for about 17 instrument props per day flying over Santa Monica. The rest continue to fly over Venice. The residents of Santa Monica are up in arms over this new flight path experiment that will end around June 8th. The purpose of this experiment by the FAA is to better coordinate the take-off by jets between LAX and Santa Monica Airport. The diverting of these props (instrument flight props) means that these slower planes are out of the way for the SM jets to take off when given the signal… The flight path for the LAX and the flight path are too close and therefore have to be coordinated by LAX. This causes jets at SM to idle for quite a while on the runway waiting for the signal to leave causing extreme pollution to those east of the airport in particular. The true solution would be for the jets to take off over SM toward the pier and thereby leaving enough distance between LAX and SM jets. (This was done before and in 1991 the residents of SM complained and the flight path was changed to go over Venice —-over Rose.) Also, the other props (visual instrument props)all fly over Venice, especially affecting those south of the airport. A large number of these are small props practicing. There are 6 flight schools out of SM airport. The flight path to the south is also for the convenience of Santa Monica residents.
Mar Vista letter (possible alternative letter to consider)
Ted Lieu, CA Assembly member – 53rd Assembly District
California State Assembly
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0053
email address: assemblymember.Lieu@assembly.ca.gov
June xx, 2010
Resolution of the Mar Vista Community Council
To SUPPORT California State Assembly Joint Resolution AJR 41
(Authored by California Assembly member Ted Lieu – 53rd District)
(Coauthored by California Senator Fran Pavley – 23rd District)
(Sponsored by Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution)
TOPIC: Relative to Santa Monica Airport
Whereas: Santa Monica Airport is surrounded more closely by densely populated residential neighborhoods than other comparable airports in the country, and
Whereas: Santa Monica Airport is the busiest single runway airport in the nation with total annual jet operations growing from approximately 1,000 in 1983 to over 18,000 in 2007, and
Whereas: West Los Angeles, Mar Vista, Venice, and Santa Monica are heavily impacted by the emissions and noise from Santa Monica Airport jet operations, and
Whereas: A recently published study of air quality downwind from Santa Monica Airport using a state-of-the-art California Air Resources Board mobile monitoring unit showed very high levels of particulates well into the Los Angeles community of North Westdale, and
Whereas: A February, 2010 Health Impact Assessment report by a team of UCLA resident pediatricians analyzed the impacts of a lack of a buffer zone, noise, and air quality. One of their recommendations was to adopt the precautionary principal given the evidence of the potential harm from the byproducts of airport pollution on animal and human health.
Be it resolved that:
1) The Mar Vista Community Council strongly supports this resolution AJR 41, and
2) The Board of the Mar Vista Community Council shall send this official letter of support to California State Assemblyman Ted Lieu.
Respectfully submitted by
Albert Olson, Chair
Mar Vista Community Council
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