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james murez: or I can't turn you down.

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james murez: attendees.

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james murez: And then you guys can figure it out from there on.

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james murez: Co host.

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james murez: She did not accept.

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james murez: host.

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james murez: Noel.

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I can you know well.

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james murez: yeah I can hear you you're.

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james murez: Here you're now host of the meeting, you need to let everybody else in okay Oh well.

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Noel Johnston: i've never done this before, so this would be a new experience for me, I had no idea that I was hosting this.

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james murez: yeah well let's let Isabel talk you through it it's pretty easy to do you'll make her co host and then, when she's co host.

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james murez: yeah.

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yeah.

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Noel Johnston: wow I can't I can't even hear anybody.

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james murez: You guys need to figure it out.

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james murez: and turn it over to somebody else.

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james murez: Okay.

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Noel Johnston: The video should be showing i'm not saying.

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james murez: The bell you have to accept the role change or I can't promote you and can't keep trying to do this.

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james murez: Isabel i've tried six times to promote you to panelists you have to accept being promoted before you can be promoted and I can't make you co host until you're promoted to a panelist.

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james murez: Isabel.

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james murez: Sorry guys.

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james murez: It says on my end it is.

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james murez: you're now host and i'm hanging up.

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james murez: Did you hear me.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Yes, I heard you Thank you bye Thank you very much.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I heard, to thank you goodbye.

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Isabelle Duvivier: hmm.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I see somebody else's here, but I can't.

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Isabelle Duvivier: There we are.

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Noel Johnston: As can you can you hear me.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah I can.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I can hear you I can't see you and I.

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Noel Johnston: Can that's a strange thing, because it shows me as being.

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Noel Johnston: Here, on my screen i'm unmuted and i'm on video.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Is there, I think that you've been promoted to a panelist and i'm not allowed to there's one other person on the call and I can't see who it is there's two people now on the call.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Is there, do you have the ability to.

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Noel Johnston: I do not, I don't have any options here at all i've got participants share screen and raised hand that's a.

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Isabelle Duvivier: me too.

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Noel Johnston: Okay, now I just I just turned off start video and i'm going to try to turn it on again nothing.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Sorry, you guys, this is a new.

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Isabelle Duvivier: A new way to do this and I don't think Jim shared.

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Noel Johnston: there's something wrong.

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Isabelle Duvivier: everything he was supposed to share with us, so let me call him back.

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Noel Johnston: He seemed a little cranky today.

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Noel Johnston: And virtual background is still loading.

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Noel Johnston: Start video anyway.

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Noel Johnston: Yes, use video Why is virtual background still loading.

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Noel Johnston: I don't know why virtual background would be loading.

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Isabelle Duvivier: hmm.

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Isabelle Duvivier: hey sorry constant miras calling Jim yours other.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Time my panelists sorry to keep you waiting.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Hello hey so I don't think you shared all capabilities with me, because I cannot see who's in the waiting room and I can't you have to you at your you are the host of the meeting.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Which means that you have to go to the to the attendee list, there is no attendee list, do you go down to the bottom of the screen there's an attendee was.

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Isabelle Duvivier: there.

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Isabelle Duvivier: says participants and it just the.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Participants yeah, but when I open it okay wait.

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Isabelle Duvivier: there's two tabs there one once his palace uses attendees it's Okay, then you right click on the attendee or do whatever it is that I don't want you to but there's a way to do it he's not going to check out the farmers OK OK.

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Noel Johnston: And you do that as well.

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Isabelle Duvivier: sorta.

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Isabelle Duvivier: hi Andrea and Sarah waters, I see you.

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Isabelle Duvivier: promote two panelists Okay, here we go promote to panelist you have to like Double Click it's not where it usually is there some.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Andreas did you see that I promoted you.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Okay here, he comes sorry guys.

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sarahwauters: Something.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I know right.

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sarahwauters: All right, because my.

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Isabelle Duvivier: panelists Evans here.

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Isabelle Duvivier: it's the hard part about not being in charge of her own zoom and i'm it's embarrassing to think that you guys had to listen to all of that.

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sarahwauters: Well, I mean it's Jim so.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I don't.

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sarahwauters: wish to be embarrassed.

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sarahwauters: But anyway, Evan since you already have a lot of experience of the Venice neighborhood Council i'm sure you.

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sarahwauters: you're aware that these things happen.

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Evan Corrigan: I wasn't here but.

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sarahwauters: You got.

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Evan Corrigan: I know the first 10 minutes of every meeting our.

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sarahwauters: logistics.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Yes, and no well I can't figure out how to get her face on the screen, which is a shame.

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sarahwauters: Have you have you promoted her two panelists.

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Isabelle Duvivier: She was promoted by Jim.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Let me see you.

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sarahwauters: can't so I know well, you can't see them you and stop video signs, at the very bottom left of your string.

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Noel Johnston: I can, I can do both.

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sarahwauters: And, did you click on them both.

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Noel Johnston: Yes, I have.

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Isabelle Duvivier: No matter how to spotlight her work let's see.

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sarahwauters: If I know well, are you sitting in the dark.

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Isabelle Duvivier: You know.

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Noel Johnston: And I was on another zoom earlier, so I can't I can't unless unless gemma's somehow or another, I can't imagine what it would been.

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sarahwauters: excluded, you are now.

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sarahwauters: Well let's look forward to a few more people coming I did get the notice out pretty.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Just sign up into.

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Noel Johnston: Well, I.

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andreas: was just looking to listen in so maybe I should demote myself.

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andreas: To.

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andreas: Regular attendee instead of panelists.

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sarahwauters: No that's okay just just hang just hang in.

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sarahwauters: we're going to wait for a few more people to show up let's hope that some people Barry was unable to come today.

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sarahwauters: and

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sarahwauters: I haven't heard from any other folks but I did send out the in the invitation widely.

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sarahwauters: So we'll see what happens I hope more people come because I want to.

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sarahwauters: hear what you have to say.

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sarahwauters: No well.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I spotlighted you.

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Noel Johnston: I just tried to stop my video.

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Isabelle Duvivier: That I spotlighted to like hours ago.

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Isabelle Duvivier: it's so weird I have an account and my my my account doesn't look anything like this.

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sarahwauters: There is it possible that other people are trying to get it and you can't see them.

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Isabelle Duvivier: No, I can see who's here there's five panelists zero attendees okay.

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sarahwauters: So before.

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sarahwauters: Before you.

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sarahwauters: promoted us, it seemed like you couldn't see us at all.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Correct because I couldn't you have to, for some reason, you have to Double Click on on this one and we don't really have this we just let everybody in.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Right, so we don't have this panelists attendees thing, but we have done it before it just the button didn't seem to operate i'm going to just text a few folks.

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sarahwauters: yeah i'm just wondering, because I, I came in at like 1125 and it didn't seem like you could see me.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Michael says he's on hold.

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sarahwauters: yeah, so I think.

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Noel Johnston: Some weird.

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sarahwauters: yeah.

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Noel Johnston: Particular mine Christopher Isabel i'm going to leave and see if I can get back on.

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sarahwauters: And then, if you can't no i'll text us.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And let me send.

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Isabelle Duvivier: he's on an old zoom that's why he's on my zoom.

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sarahwauters: Thought I sent them.

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sarahwauters: offers them out.

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Isabelle Duvivier: If it's some people just put.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Some do a reoccurring meeting just use the same.

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sarahwauters: yeah, no, no.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Okay.

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sarahwauters: You said, Michael there right soon.

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Isabelle Duvivier: All right.

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sarahwauters: I was wondering if you could send me the word version, did you send that to me already have the agenda so that I can take minutes.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Oh.

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Isabelle Duvivier: that's not gonna be easy for me to get right now.

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sarahwauters: that's fine i'll just do it.

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sarahwauters: Okay, so I think it's worth waiting for, Michael yes.

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Isabelle Duvivier: We can start without him whatsoever, we give it well it's already seven minutes.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah late and we have a big day.

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Noel Johnston: Did you did anybody notice that our agenda is not up on the gnc site.

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sarahwauters: yeah that's that's my fault, because I couldn't get signed in and they were supposed to send me i've been using your sign in there were spent supposed to send me a new site and they haven't done it so.

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sarahwauters: I mean eventually i'll just go ahead and use your sign and again, but it doesn't make sense now they really should send me my own.

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sarahwauters: password.

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sarahwauters: Anyway, yes, I will do that as soon as I have.

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sarahwauters: But it was a it's it's posted with the the general announcement that comes from the neighborhood Councils.

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sarahwauters: And it was posted at both the library and beyond broke as well.

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sarahwauters: And you guys got the agenda correct.

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sarahwauters: yeah okay Okay, so why don't we get started, then.

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sarahwauters: i'm.

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sarahwauters: Isabelle call to order and roll call so Isabel myself mark is not here, no well is here in areas not here, Jim is not here, but he's ex officio so that does equal a Korean I believe.

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sarahwauters: So the Minutes have not been put up either so neither of you, you nobody would have been able to review them because of the same issue.

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sarahwauters: So we'll leave approval of last minute.

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sarahwauters: The last meeting minutes.

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sarahwauters: until the next meeting, oh here's my goal right.

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sarahwauters: Okay, so let's begin with reports as well do you have a chair report you'd like to share with us what's going on with this feedback.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Oh well, as we speak there's a tree removal.

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Isabelle Duvivier: notice for 12 walnuts and toil on some to lots in the Santa Monica mountains there's another tree removal for 200 year old sycamores it for the crenshaw crossing project that Community activists and that in CD 10 have been fighting against.

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Isabelle Duvivier: metro.

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Isabelle Duvivier: there's this a lot of stuff like that nothing I don't have anything special to report, other than some of the stuff we're going to talk about today.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Okay, all.

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sarahwauters: I think that most of what I have to say has to do with what we're gonna do today, too, so I don't need to have a separate report No well, would you like to report on what's going on with the vg.

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Noel Johnston: i'm sure we are of course going to be meeting tomorrow morning at the farmers market we're going to be waiting and repairing a little equipment out there, primarily reading we hope to have milk, but we're not sure that we're getting.

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Noel Johnston: That Peters picking it up, I haven't been able to reach Peter today.

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Noel Johnston: We are also in the process of submitting a grant.

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Noel Johnston: For the skill Center um which we have high hopes for but no guarantees of course and we're going to either submit that later today or on Monday.

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Noel Johnston: We had a good zoom with the people at the skill Center.

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Noel Johnston: I think it was a.

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Noel Johnston: Little hard to tell I guess we'll find out we'll find out shortly.

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Noel Johnston: But Nicole waterman was helpful and getting that together, as you as were you Sarah and the people involved seemed.

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Noel Johnston: Less obstructionist than they were in the past, so we'll see see what happens there, as you may or may not know the boxes that were.

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Noel Johnston: planted by neighbors along the fourth street side of the Venice skill Center or vandalized somebody apparently took advantage of the of the wood that the boxes were made out of install all the wood dumping, the boxes and.

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Noel Johnston: just leaving a mess there it's grown weedy and it's it's insanely skill Center itself doesn't show much interest in the property outside their fence or hasn't been the past.

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Noel Johnston: Because it's city property and they're all US gay, so we hope we can get them a little more interested in helping us.

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Noel Johnston: straight out their property that that isn't what an activity that we usually do, but in this case because we're submitting a grant we're we're going to try to do something about it that's pretty much it.

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sarahwauters: that's great, thank you for reporting on that well I am I meant to attend that, unfortunately, I was hit very hard by the booster this week and I basically spent two days in bed Oh, I would have tried to, but I think I might have been fast asleep, the entire day.

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sarahwauters: So did was there much talk at all about working on the land that the skill Center sits on.

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Noel Johnston: Now we pretty much did not bring that up.

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Noel Johnston: it's possible that we should have it was mentioned in a cursory in a cursory manner, because our grant is specifically it's a city grant.

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Noel Johnston: So it's a beautiful Lai la grant and we we didn't bring it up, because that is la USD property on the inside, they have been very hostile.

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Noel Johnston: In the past, I mean if you try to walk on to that campus you will be stopped by a security guard the the the neighbors are.

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Noel Johnston: and have been for a long time upset about the fact that that property is tantamount to having a prison and the neighborhood the fencing around it is is hostile and they.

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Noel Johnston: School district, or at least the as its represented at that particular school is is.

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Noel Johnston: Very stays very much themselves they're really not interested in the surrounding community as far as we can tell at all so.

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Noel Johnston: It was it was broached that it would be nice to have some plantings on that on that property, but I can't say that that was met with an enthusiasm we'll just see where that goes well we'll we'll follow up on that Sir.

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sarahwauters: Okay, I just was curious, because I, it does seem like an opportunity, but um and that was what I had written in my emails to them, but yeah I I.

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sarahwauters: Every single school every single school represents a huge opportunity they look they own tons of land and now.

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Michael McGuffin: May I heard a different message I was on that call, let me see if I can find my.

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Michael McGuffin: I agree with Noel that are not going to get on the campus with this current grant but they brought up I don't remember the woman's name that they've got this.

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Michael McGuffin: Hundreds of millions of dollars lots and lots of money and even though I did go look at the.

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Michael McGuffin: The our proposal and it doesn't talk about beautification or planting or anything like that, but she brought it up as.

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Michael McGuffin: Maybe another resource that could be used, and then she said, what about this school over in Santa Monica What about this school over and short and.

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Michael McGuffin: So she was kind of pushing us to think about that, if we had opportunities, not just at the Bennett skill centers but at other schools, would we be open to that we all expressed.

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Michael McGuffin: You know, positive response that.

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sarahwauters: Oh, maybe.

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sarahwauters: yeah maybe this skill Center has challenges that we don't understand.

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sarahwauters: that's kind of what it sounds like to me like maybe the population that attend school, there is, you know something that we don't really understand the nature of what they're doing and so it's.

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sarahwauters: You know they're they're trying to let us know, in the most subtle of ways that they don't think that we're the right mix for them, but if they do have other schools that they want us to broach I think that probably is an important thing to note.

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Michael McGuffin: He talked about.

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Michael McGuffin: You know all that square footage of asphalt wouldn't wouldn't be good to put some plates and produce and the woman from the La USD said I don't think that there's a culinary arts program there, but maybe there could be if we were able to.

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Michael McGuffin: support it with plants.

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sarahwauters: And there's no program I mean like.

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Michael McGuffin: I don't think there's a gardening program there's not a learn how to grow your food Program.

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sarahwauters: Or how about learn how to become a guard a landscaper I mean that's like a skill that we actually need in a city.

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sarahwauters: Okay, well, I think it's worth.

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sarahwauters: Perhaps a little bit of other offline discussion just last thing, what was the follow up plan.

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Noel Johnston: Are you are you asking me.

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Noel Johnston: Yes, well, I think that that.

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Noel Johnston: I think that we agreed to get back to each other.

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Noel Johnston: Casey i'm was.

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Noel Johnston: i'd say where she was responsive she's mel's one's representative Casey call Canada and she she basically.

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Noel Johnston: agreed that she would get back to us, and I think we agreed that we would get back to her, we did tell them that we were applying for this grant and we thought that if we.

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Noel Johnston: A situation where we'd apply, and if we got accepted on the first round we'd reapply I don't know whether there's a third round on it or not, so it doesn't sound like something that we're going to see results for in real immediate future.

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Noel Johnston: But in any case, we agreed to get back to each other.

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Noel Johnston: They weren't they weren't anti are great application, but I can't say that they sound real enthusiastic about it either they didn't ask to see it so.

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sarahwauters: Right well, who was the person that was representing the city.

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Noel Johnston: That was.

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Noel Johnston: That was basically Casey.

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sarahwauters: Casey and who was representing the Elio St.

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Noel Johnston: Excuse me that that was that was Casey i'm the city.

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sarahwauters: I didn't know the La USD so that was Casey.

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Noel Johnston: That was Casey yeah.

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Noel Johnston: Well, you know, we had our allison was involved NICO was involved, I don't think we had a real city representative there.

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sarahwauters: Right yeah I mean I ended the principal attend or not.

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sarahwauters: No well.

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Noel Johnston: i'm sorry.

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Isabelle Duvivier: No, the principal was not there.

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sarahwauters: was not there okay okay let's.

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Isabelle Duvivier: See at the end of the day, they said that they couldn't support our proposal, because of the liability and they.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Until they determine otherwise, they also can't support us using their water yeah.

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sarahwauters: Okay, so that's that was actually stated at the meeting.

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Noel Johnston: Well, they didn't say anything about the grant Sir, those were they were they were basically talking about our about basically supporting our efforts.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah but they said they couldn't actually.

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Isabelle Duvivier: They couldn't verbally, we were hoping that we could add them as a partner.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Right in the grant application, but they said they could not support that without further you know research or effort and that.

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Noel Johnston: But they did also say that that would look into this liability situation.

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Noel Johnston: When we said to Casey Look, we have we have.

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Noel Johnston: And I said, you know Casey we have discovered that where there's a will there is a way here so that that you know if you're if you're open to this, I think it's going to happen if you're not open to it, it probably want.

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Noel Johnston: And she didn't disagree with that either, so I think I don't think they're used to thinking about this sort of thing honestly.

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Noel Johnston: allison was was very optimistic, but of course she's no longer with melody lines office Casey replaced her in melvin's office when she decided to run for CD 11.

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Noel Johnston: So it's you know i'm excited about the feeling that that if allison was in casey's place we might have gotten a more optimistic answer huh but will you know that remains to be seen, she they certainly didn't say no.

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Noel Johnston: That was it.

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sarahwauters: Okay okay well this actually does provide us with a wonderful segue because you're talking about one of the beautification grants for the area around not inside but around the La skill Center and our first order of new businesses la beautification projects so.

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sarahwauters: isn't it Isabel did you want to speak about that.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah i'm going to share, oh no not this one.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Sorry, let me stop the share otherwise stop this share.

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Isabelle Duvivier: share that was the tree removal, it was just paying attention to.

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Isabelle Duvivier: It okay So are we doing the tree inventory, are we doing.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Now, like beautification right now.

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sarahwauters: I live unification that's the first.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Okay, so we just talked about this one.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I wanted to, I wanted to talk about this in terms of strategy we are thinking about applying for three we've prepared to La beautification grants and I wonder if.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And the first one Noel talked about this is the area that we would seek to beautify.

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Isabelle Duvivier: The picture on the left is the work that we've already done that stuff on the right, is what we hope to achieve, I think I might have one more picture, this is the skill Center and this we're applying for 20 $500 through in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce.

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Isabelle Duvivier: The grant is ready to go, we have the photos we need.

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Isabelle Duvivier: The second one we're doing oh that was just something I wanted to share with them, but then I felt like I was probably being a little bit too.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I don't know anyway, these are pictures around that facility.

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sarahwauters: I like that picture.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Which one.

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sarahwauters: The one where the comments are a that one.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah yeah there was an la Times last week, so I mean you know.

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sarahwauters: I don't understand what it takes to get these people, though I wake up and smell the coffee like.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah yeah I just felt like we had had a bad first experience with them, so I didn't want to keep pestering them about it.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And there's certainly a lot of work to do, around the perimeter, not to mention the outside the second grant proposal, and you can see the tax there.

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Isabelle Duvivier: For this grant proposal is for tabor court, this is the one we would be doing in partnership with the dnc that we are on the schedule for the dnc I think on Monday they're going to have a special.

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Isabelle Duvivier: A special meeting to approve the support of this project, and this is to continue planting native plants along tabor court I think that's the only picture I have yeah.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Of that, and I think most of you are familiar with tabor court that's the alley that's adjacent irwin parallel to Abbot kinney.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Where there's native plants that were planted by la sanitation this parking lot is managed by la do it, and we would replace some of the the plantings as well as remove some of those spiky succulents that are dangerous and then the third one that know Ellen I sort of briefly.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Since these applications are so easy to fill out our for the beach dunes, which we got a preliminary thumbs up from rat last week, they they also wouldn't be able to.

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Isabelle Duvivier: expressly support the project, yet, but they were really excited by it and we're very enthusiastic about it.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So i'm going to stop the share for right now we'll come back to my share screen, but the reason I wanted to discuss these is because.

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Isabelle Duvivier: We thought originally and i'm not sure if Noel your hand is still up to discuss this one or from the last discussion.

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Isabelle Duvivier: But we originally thought we would go for all three now i'm a little concerned, since this is a competitive grant.

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Isabelle Duvivier: i'd be interested to know if you guys thought one of those three seems stronger than the others if we should just go for one if we should submit all three and see which one they might pick.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Do you do you have any thoughts in Your Eminence wisdom and age about how we should go for it.

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Isabelle Duvivier: it's a competitive ground with the city so there'll be lots of other people submitting grants and we're assuming that they're going to come back to us and say.

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Isabelle Duvivier: You know, we need more information, what are you spending the money on who's you know what's the matching grant So the question is, do we go for all three do we go for to do we just put all our eggs in one basket and go for one Robin.

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Robin: So I got it la beautification grant years back to do the ballpark and it was a larger it was $10,000 at that time that you could get, which was a tiny amount of what it cost me to do the ballpark.

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Robin: I haven't looked at what their application is yet, though we may also be submitting one but um.

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Robin: They are okay at the time the first go around they did not approve our application, because they said we had so many signatures of support.

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Robin: That they thought they were not legitimate, unlike what why didn't you contact me they were all completely legitimate I had done before and after pictures.

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Robin: and put them out at my sculpture Garden on Abbot kinney and there was an advocacy festival and everybody signed it, so you know so, then they said well do come if you don't get.

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Robin: approved the first go around contact us and we can talk about it, so I did, and they were like oh okay well so we'll apply will approve you this time but meanwhile, you know, last a year there.

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Robin: So yeah you know who knows what their.

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Robin: reviewers are going to be thinking and this time around, you need to have signatures is that one of the no.

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Robin: I don't remember.

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Isabelle Duvivier: The only thing that's requested is that required is that little paragraph that.

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Isabelle Duvivier: wow i'm one of the papers yeah.

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Robin: yeah you know I don't know what to tell you, like the I finally did get mine, though, it took you know 12 years to be able to get the permits through it.

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Robin: You know each of your sound good I just I yeah.

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Robin: I don't know, maybe you know actually what I think I would suggest is call them and ask I think they do have a contact person, and I think that's the kind of thing you could call and get their feedback on so that would be my recommendation.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Michael.

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Michael McGuffin: You did say age and wisdom, so I assume that the first one is a reference to me I.

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Michael McGuffin: I I would be concerned that, if the BG submits three proposals they're not going to grant bbg more than one.

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Michael McGuffin: And I know that when you were saying we so it's the vg in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce on the skill Center and who is it.

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Michael McGuffin: Would it be vv G and wraps at the beach and what or is it going to be bb as one of the.

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Michael McGuffin: slowest solicitors for a grant I don't look up I know which one I like best because the one I spent my time on, but I also like taper because it's already beautiful and the beach to me is the biggest challenge.

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Michael McGuffin: But.

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Michael McGuffin: If we could figure out how to put to request all three but have a different entity as the submitting organization.

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Michael McGuffin: we're still going to do the work, but I, I have to assume that they're not going to give it I don't know how many awards they have but they're not they're unlikely to give awards more than one word to one organization.

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Michael McGuffin: As my guest.

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Michael McGuffin: i'm rubbing might be right with you call them and ask them but i'm always afraid of calling and asking bureaucrats for straight answers, because I don't think they like to give straight answers.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So how.

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Noel Johnston: Can I can I speak about.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Better and.

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sarahwauters: know so I just have.

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Michael McGuffin: Not.

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Michael McGuffin: i'm gonna have to drop off.

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Michael McGuffin: For a while i'm going to try to join back.

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sarahwauters: Okay, thanks, Michael thanks for your suggestions.

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sarahwauters: i'm so so actually this was kind of a question for Michael but it's Okay, I think it's about you.

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sarahwauters: What was the what was what What did you actually say in the grant for this skill Center would be our primary focus what were we going to do there.

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Noel Johnston: So Sarah I can send you a copy of that if you'd like or I can fish around and read it to you now.

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sarahwauters: Well, just one sentence, I mean you must know off the top of your head what what.

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Michael McGuffin: Their plant trees and plants southern California native trees and shrubs on all four sides in the parkway.

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Michael McGuffin: Okay excellent to maintain.

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sarahwauters: excellent, and so, so the 20 $500 we did not discuss, and this, I think, is part of the strategy that we're, we have to match the grant, and so we have to raise money in the Community, in order to match this grant isn't that correct.

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Noel Johnston: With that.

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Noel Johnston: Or what with Michael and I have ours matched.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Yes, it's a 25% match it easy to do.

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sarahwauters: it's a 25% match Oh, I thought it was 100% match okay that's fine and the skill Center when you have matched because vg already has some funds that I brought in.

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Michael McGuffin: We got an anonymous donors, yes.

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Noel Johnston: Additional funds.

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sarahwauters: Oh fantastic that's great.

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sarahwauters: Okay, so God you guys must have been hard at work well as well and I were away that's wonderful so then um so do we have matching grants for the second one for the tape report, one.

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Michael McGuffin: When I go back to that same anonymous donor and if only one of the grants granted inquire as to whether funding would be available.

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sarahwauters: as possible from them okay.

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Michael McGuffin: Let me.

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sarahwauters: Right, I mean, I think that that we definitely should have a different a different organization apply with each of these grants, if possible, we have at least bbg now with regard to bb I think we can we can step forward as far as long as the dnc approves it.

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sarahwauters: Right so we've got two different organizations down for the third do you guys have any suggestions like is there, another organization that we're part of that would work.

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Isabelle Duvivier: But no, I was also waiting to speak with Robin are you going to answer sarah's question, or do you have something to say.

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Robin: Well i'm going to say something regarding I think your third one is you're talking about doing in partnership with reckon parks.

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Robin: mm hmm so I also have experience in doing planting project with reckon parks, that was for the median and then I also did one for centennial park.

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Robin: And my experience there perhaps it helps is reckon parks actually did the Labor and they wanted to they wanted it that way, and I just provided the plants so.

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Robin: But we did have to.

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Robin: In order to have that done so in case that helps to know that whatever.

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sarahwauters: Okay, no i'll.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Did you want to speak you're muted.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So I guess we'll come back to her.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Do I need to ask to unmute.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Our fearless leader, oh no i'm so so you guys think it's okay to just submit all three or, I guess, we can, tomorrow, we can callers Monday we can call but.

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Noel Johnston: As well i'm i'm sorry about that I got a telephone call from a dancer.

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Noel Johnston: I I do think that it's that it's probably okay to submit all all three two of them at least two of them are coming from different.

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Noel Johnston: entity, so I.

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Noel Johnston: Think it's okay and i'm i'm a little unclear Robin probably knows more about this than I do exactly how they're judging this I mean is this, it looks to me like Michael you probably took a look at this as well, it looks to me like they're they're favoring indigenous communities.

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Noel Johnston: And the most indigent area that we're talking about certainly skill Center.

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Noel Johnston: I mean that that is.

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Noel Johnston: that's a real that truly is a neglected.

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Noel Johnston: area within within Venice and.

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Noel Johnston: it's hostile in its own community, so I I I think I think tape record is great, and I, and I.

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Noel Johnston: Personally I love working on tape record and it's I think it's it's satisfying to work on, and I think it is attractive now i'm can be more attractive.

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Noel Johnston: Due to our ministrations but, but I would not say that I think it's indigent it's right there next to arrow on and it's got it it's.

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Noel Johnston: groundings are you know I would say upscale the beach is is such a huge a huge entity that I don't know how interesting they're going to be in that will remain to be seen, I don't know how interested The city is in the beach, you know.

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sarahwauters: I now that we're talking about the beach Noel would be.

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sarahwauters: The front i'm sorry.

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sarahwauters: The the each frank Walker the boardwalk committee be interested in sponsoring math I mean that does kind of make sense.

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Noel Johnston: I hate to say this because i'm on the ocean front walk committee but.

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Noel Johnston: I don't think that the ocean front walk committee this is current version has been real effective in their in their motions I don't even know I don't know what's happened to a bunch of their Martians so i've kind of lost i've lost a little faith in the efficacy of that committee altogether.

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Noel Johnston: What can what else can I say here I just I don't know whether it's worth approaching them or not.

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sarahwauters: No it's good to be fresh.

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Isabelle Duvivier: We have a new person on the call Hello new person would you like to introduce yourself.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I think.

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sarahwauters: You did yeah they're muted.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So, if you would like we'd love to hear from you um alright, well, I think that answers that question well.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah i'm still trying to see if I can help them on mute but.

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Robin: I just to make sure i'm clear with you all, so you know I started this other ad hoc committee the preserving public places.

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Robin: And we too are probably submitting.

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Robin: A beautification grant just so you know but, and I think with regard to noel's question.

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Robin: I think that beautification committee looks at all of La, and so they may want to choose, you know one from Venice one from you know.

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Robin: he's still a you know they may.

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Robin: Look at that kind of diversity, but I think you should apply, and I think the idea of having come from different entities that you work with sounds good and give them a try, because who knows what their criteria is.

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yeah.

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sarahwauters: yeah I think it's also.

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sarahwauters: I think it's also instructive for us that if, if this is the type of thing that we'd like to do we could start applying for grants elsewhere and i'm sure Robin you did a lot of grant applications, when you did the ballpark i'm sure it was.

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Robin: nope that was more like that.

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Robin: anonymous donor.

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sarahwauters: Oh, I see.

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Is.

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Robin: Maybe $100,000 on projects in Venice but.

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sarahwauters: Oh, my gosh okay well.

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sarahwauters: But in any of that.

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Robin: And i'd have to say so, the application used to be really a bear if it's not now that's great but yeah my experience with these grants are that they can be such a hassle to do that it's just much easier to pay for it myself.

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sarahwauters: yeah you know I get I get I also hear that as well, so if if anyone is interested in exploring the grants market.

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sarahwauters: The grant you know sort of world out there i'm sure there are other things available that we could come up with, especially as you point out.

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sarahwauters: Noel with regard to that skill Center because let's face it, if it really does get beautified it is going to benefit the students who go there.

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sarahwauters: And, and so that's something really to think about um you know the mystery of what's going on at the skill Center and really who they're serving is you know still kind of shrouded but, but I do think that that's that's a good point.

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sarahwauters: Okay does anyone else have any other I don't think we need to do any emotions at this point for the grants Is that correct.

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sarahwauters: Isabel.

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Noel Johnston: Isabel you're muted.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I know, but I was shaking my head.

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sarahwauters: No okay okay.

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sarahwauters: Great excellent okay that head shaking I didn't see it because you're not on my screen okay so um tree inventory, so we talked about that now.

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sarahwauters: Oh.

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Isabelle Duvivier: i'm going to share my screen again.

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sarahwauters: Okay, great.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And i'm going to tell you about so they finally finished the Venice tree inventory, these are the results of the inventory and urban forestry is going to be presenting in June to the V nc.

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Isabelle Duvivier: they're going to be allowed, I think, five minutes to present and I think Jim said they won't be able to have a dialogue with the Community, because that would take too long.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So i'm not sure, so I guess they're going to present for like five or 10 minutes, but you can see our number one tree is the Mexican fan palm.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And number two is the Queen palm.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And number.

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Isabelle Duvivier: You know number five is the King palm.

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sarahwauters: Where are you looking at you're looking at.

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The.

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Isabelle Duvivier: bar yeah so we don't really have a ton of shade, we have a lot of trees, which is great, we have 1000 trees, we have a 12% vacancy rate, which is, you see, in that pie chart.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So we have basically 3000 spots where we could plant trees, according to the inventory and i'll give you another look at that this is comparing to some other neighborhoods so mar vista has 10,000 trees to our 3000 they have a 25% vacancy.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And then valley village in the valley has.

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Isabelle Duvivier: You know, fewer than us, and they have a larger vacancy rate.

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Isabelle Duvivier: That they have 400.

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Isabelle Duvivier: vacant sites that are 10 foot or wider that's number right here.

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Isabelle Duvivier: wow, whereas we if I go back you can see that we only have seven vacant sites that are 10 foot or wider So these are just really interesting things to compare to.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And this is useful to us, because if you actually go to the inventory and I just took some screenshots but it's alive.

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Isabelle Duvivier: it's live, and I have a few screenshots here, so I can go through it really quickly, I mean you can see the blue dots are where they declared their to be vacant sites and the red are the stops.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So you can see roses, quite a few stumps and a few vacant spots.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Some of the streets north of roads have large number of vacancies indiana still has a lot of aiken spots so it's useful to see to look at your neighborhood and if michaels here, this is a close up around the skill Center.

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Isabelle Duvivier: You can see some of our folks that were planted are here, a lot of our trees on indiana are here, but then I want to show Michael his neighborhood.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So michaels neighborhood so we had a 30% vacancy rate and we've talked about this before, but it's one of the lower vacancy rates in the city of La.

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Isabelle Duvivier: But the reason it's so low is because we have so many places where you can't actually plant a tree, and you can see, all of this neighborhood where Michael lives there are no trees plant that are planted apple.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And that's also true of the street, where I live, and Linden so there's a lot of streets in ella in Venice, where you couldn't even plant a tree so just food for thought.

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sarahwauters: Does it does the inventory indicate canopy coverage because.

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Isabelle Duvivier: It has it has it does, but there is a better site, which was the site, I think I showed.

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Isabelle Duvivier: You Sarah when we the the lidar data, so you can look at Council districts.

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Right.

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sarahwauters: I mean the reason why I say this because I think the 12% vacancy rate is kind of misleading.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Totally.

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sarahwauters: As as you were showing like.

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Isabelle Duvivier: 30% yeah, but what is interesting, is it shows the Eco benefits, so they actually can calculate based on the tree size, when you go in Oh, this is the thing I wanted to show you.

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Isabelle Duvivier: You can click on a tree see that little red star I clicked on that tree and it popped up this information on that tree.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And that tree was a tree i'd been wondering about it's right across the street from gold's gym in front of the lofts there.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And right now it's got these little pretty white flowers and I just didn't know what it was so I went there and checked it out and.

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Isabelle Duvivier: If you click on this little eyeball you can get as a picture of it it'll take you to the Google map, so you can see a picture of it, it tells you what the db h's, which is the.

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Isabelle Duvivier: The the diameter of brass tight, which is how they measure all trees and then based on that information they calculate the greenhouse gas benefits the water benefits the energy benefits so.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Even though we only have half of our trees counted in the city of La it's a 90 million ECO benefit per year.

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Isabelle Duvivier: wow pretty significant.

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sarahwauters: that's amazing yeah.

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Isabelle Duvivier: So that's why i'm so excited about the inventory and you know, and the fact that they've finished ours so unless you have questions i'm going to stop the share.

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sarahwauters: wait before you go, I just want everyone to notice so on sunset avenue all of our little baby oak trees are there.

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sarahwauters: So they counted those trees and they didn't outlaw them because they weren't allowed, which is great.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah these were the tree police, these were you know this was a consulting firm a.

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sarahwauters: Car right.

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Isabelle Duvivier: The way let's click on it you'll see it says one inch gbh so.

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sarahwauters: yeah so the little trees.

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Robin: yeah So these are our street trees right they don't do anything for private property.

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Isabelle Duvivier: No, but interesting enough they didn't have tabor court.

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Isabelle Duvivier: They have, it also has the parks, all the city parks, but if they don't have la do T le which is weird.

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sarahwauters: So this this consulting group.

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sarahwauters: Robin was when when were they contracted to do this as well, several years ago right.

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Isabelle Duvivier: yeah they've been working on it for about a year, a little more than a year.

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sarahwauters: yeah and the city, I mean you have a sense, I think, a better sense than I do, of course, of what the city intends to do with the inventory.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I don't know that the city knows what they're going to do with inventory it's just a way to keep track of our trees that's the first step to knowing what we have.

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Isabelle Duvivier: If, for example, if we, here in this group want to see where there's a toy on planted in the city of La.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Because we wonder if there's a great example of a toy on as a tree, not a shrub you can actually you know you can search on this website for toy ions and you can look at find out where they are.

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Isabelle Duvivier: And then you can go visit them, which is really cool super cool i'm going to stop the share because I also can't see if there's anybody waiting to attend, no, there is not.

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Robin: that's a really cool site and your explanation of it brings.

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Robin: brings it to life.

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Robin: So yeah like share it everywhere that's great.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Well, urban forestry will be bringing this to the dnc So hopefully there'll be interested enough to ask some smart questions.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Since Jim ends up being the resident tree guy everybody else to first him and they all act like they don't care so hopefully this might excite some of the.

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Robin: i'm sure it's not i'm not sure it's an act I just I am just shocked always by how many people do not know the benefits of trees and.

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Robin: Well, you know as a bell when you build a house like how many people really think about it, and think about how much they can save on energy by having trees in the right positions and so yeah I think.

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Robin: i'm your explanation of it is great and kind of showing those measures, I think, will maybe wake up a few people that just don't think.

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hmm.

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sarahwauters: yeah that's great I really appreciate you showing it to us, and that the fact that all of the trees that we planted are reflected there is quite gratifying um so does anybody else have any comments or questions about that before we move on to the next subject matter it's me.

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sarahwauters: Okay, that sounds like a no um so Lincoln is our next subject matter and.

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sarahwauters: Evan kurgan is with us today, and he sits on the transportation committee the parking and transportation committee and.

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sarahwauters: Presently, there is a drive to improve the transportation along Lincoln I believe it's called Lincoln fast forward.

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sarahwauters: And Evan is working together with several different agencies so Evan are you are you able to share with us what's going on there, and maybe show us some of the work you did with respect to possibly planting a number of trees, as part of that make an improvement.

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Evan Corrigan: Definitely, so can you see my screen.

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sarahwauters: Yes, we can.

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Evan Corrigan: um so the CD 11 it's working with la to T and caltrans so has caltrans gives Lincoln back to the city and good working order they're going to.

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Evan Corrigan: repay that put in some.

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Evan Corrigan: crosswalks like you know kind of signal crosswalks.

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Evan Corrigan: And a bus only lane during Russia our times on North and South.

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Evan Corrigan: So we you know I think they're kind of moving forward with.

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Evan Corrigan: Oh shoot.

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Evan Corrigan: Sorry guys an electrician just came here, this is his time ago can we skip can we can we like do this after another agenda item.

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sarahwauters: yeah sure.

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Evan Corrigan: that's fine i'm so sorry.

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No worries.

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sarahwauters: Okay, the next agenda item is Venice boulevard west of Lincoln.

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sarahwauters: It looks like whether we're in for a status, update and I don't know who you had giving that status update is about was that you was that someone else.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Can you hear me.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Yes, okay yeah I was just going to share with you one six so was this West or east of Lincoln well west of Lincoln is Noel and she seems to have dropped off the call.

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sarahwauters: or something else that she had to do Oh, let me take my.

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Noel Johnston: i'm here, but I shouldn't be.

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Isabelle Duvivier: Okay.

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i'm having.

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Noel Johnston: i'm having a sewer problem.

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sarahwauters: It seems to be the the bad luck of houses day.

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Noel Johnston: Whatever i'm here for a minute.

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sarahwauters: Okay, so give us a status update on what's going on West of Lincoln.

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Noel Johnston: Last of Lincoln.

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Isabelle Duvivier: What are your plans for link for Lincoln of Venice boulevard.

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sarahwauters: Venice boulevard west of Lincoln.

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Noel Johnston: starring well are we are we talking about the farmers market.

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Isabelle Duvivier: know the rest of link and the rest of Venice.

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Noel Johnston: well.

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Isabelle Duvivier: I guess, we should have warned you we put this on the agenda, I put this on the agenda you in the past, you have you have mentioned that Venice, you want to finish Venice boulevard.

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Noel Johnston: Well, I wouldn't like we still have some agro Perm do remote from a couple of trees there, there are some things along there that need some tlc but we haven't really discussed them.

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Noel Johnston: I think that that some of the medians that other groups and work done and looking pretty terrible I actually thought we might we might help some of the.

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Noel Johnston: medians up just because they look so wrong, and I know the one that rest clutter was working on his suffering he's been very he's been busy lately um I would you know, I would like to remote some of those sycamores I think.

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Noel Johnston: i'm worried about them, because I know that the rainy season is now over, and nothing that nothing got much water along there, which is a shame.

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Noel Johnston: I would.

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Noel Johnston: I, and again I, this is probably not the form to bring this up, but I am worried about the the sprinkling of equipment around the farmers market we're.

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Noel Johnston: Trying to do some small repairs on it, but we can't do everything over there, so that would be what i'm thinking of a long tennis ball bar, which is actually too much less to handle.

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sarahwauters: So, so the only question I have is that those mediums that are farther East from Abbot kinney which I think is what you're referring to all of them do look a little rough and they look like they haven't been watered and a lot of.

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Noel Johnston: What you're talking about is too bad, but Kenny i'm strictly talking about Western bad.

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sarahwauters: Oh, you are okay okay.

536
01:04:26.190 --> 01:04:35.340
sarahwauters: Although since west of Lincoln does include those areas I have a question have we ever interacted with kiss the ground at all with regard to.

537
01:04:36.780 --> 01:04:44.790
sarahwauters: Working together with them to beautify the mediums that are close to their their garden there in front of bronze beyond Baroque mm hmm.

538
01:04:45.660 --> 01:04:47.070
Isabelle Duvivier: I think that's a great idea.

539
01:04:48.180 --> 01:04:49.650
Isabelle Duvivier: I think that's a great idea yeah.

540
01:04:49.710 --> 01:04:51.780
Isabelle Duvivier: and actually I don't I feel like Noel.

541
01:04:51.780 --> 01:05:03.270
Isabelle Duvivier: misspoke when she said she doesn't mean the medians because there aren't a lot of medians west of Abbot kinney that we're not already working in.

542
01:05:03.720 --> 01:05:15.180
Isabelle Duvivier: So I think she might have met not talking about East of Lincoln but anyway, I was bringing it up because, like you suggested, Sarah we've we've talked many times about.

543
01:05:15.990 --> 01:05:33.390
Isabelle Duvivier: Between Abbot kinney and Lincoln that those areas really need tlc there's a bunch of folks missing that have died, Jim has asked if we could replace some of them, they need mulching and then rest has been adding succulents in some of the parkways that just look really sloppy.

544
01:05:34.590 --> 01:05:43.500
Isabelle Duvivier: We could do some understory planning, so I brought I put it on the agenda to have like maybe a general discussion, I think, a partnership with cuts the grounds, a great idea.

545
01:05:44.340 --> 01:05:52.020
sarahwauters: Okay, I do know somebody who works pretty extensively with kiss the ground, not in La they they seem to be doing work.

546
01:05:53.160 --> 01:06:01.140
sarahwauters: In other cities as well, and so i'll touch base with her and see who she knows that's really doing work around here.

547
01:06:01.590 --> 01:06:10.620
sarahwauters: i'm i'm not aware of I don't know the rest of the people there, but their garden is beautiful and I know that they also.

548
01:06:12.180 --> 01:06:14.610
sarahwauters: My impression is that they work together with.

549
01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:17.550
sarahwauters: Oh gosh what's the name of the.

550
01:06:18.630 --> 01:06:19.140
sarahwauters: place.

551
01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:28.800
sarahwauters: spine spine and we're going to respond to to get that work done and they might be interested in partnering with us to to.

552
01:06:29.370 --> 01:06:39.840
sarahwauters: improve the medians there because the medians are looking pretty desperate and I think that actually Jim did say to me, Jim euro's for the benefit of all the listeners that.

553
01:06:41.070 --> 01:06:45.270
sarahwauters: There is a watering system that's supposed to be watering all of the media.

554
01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:47.730
sarahwauters: But it has not been maintained by.

555
01:06:47.730 --> 01:07:08.070
sarahwauters: The city and that might be something to really explore like if we could get a grant for that just to fix the watering system mm hmm that would really improve the lives of all of those trees along there, and you know, yes, those trees are established, but not all of them are very healthy.

556
01:07:08.460 --> 01:07:09.540
sarahwauters: As we all know.

557
01:07:09.690 --> 01:07:12.870
sarahwauters: Looking at the way they're kind of struggling through the drought.

558
01:07:14.880 --> 01:07:16.650
sarahwauters: So that's something that I have Robin.

559
01:07:17.940 --> 01:07:29.970
Robin: So I planted a bunch of the the tall grasses that are at the tip of Venice boulevard at you know from centennial park up to Abbot kinney and then going east.

560
01:07:30.330 --> 01:07:42.600
Robin: And yeah, the problem is they don't get watered regularly actually the ones at the tip grow really well, because that is not considered reckon parks, so they don't have them down to death.

561
01:07:42.900 --> 01:07:52.650
Robin: One of the big problems and Jim knows about it, too, is that we're reckon parks does have authority, they will kill plants because they hack them, apparently, they are.

562
01:07:53.130 --> 01:08:09.090
Robin: paid by how many loads of clippings they take away so they hack things to death, and so I like done a replanting in centennial park and things quite hacked to death it's very frustrating, and then they don't run the sprinklers at the right times.

563
01:08:10.260 --> 01:08:24.420
Robin: But yeah so going East from Abbot kinney there's a desperate need, and you know, there is the planting plan you guys probably have that right at him yeah so he you know, has always been very clear on wanting that to be adhered to.

564
01:08:25.440 --> 01:08:43.350
Robin: But yeah it looks really scraggly and horrible one other thing i'll just mention to you words of warning some moron stole the timer solar timer that I had bought and was installed at my ballpark, and so we can't run our sprinklers.

565
01:08:43.650 --> 01:08:44.790
Robin: Because we don't have.

566
01:08:45.510 --> 01:08:57.600
Robin: You know the automatic timer so the craziest things are still going on, I mean that was stolen a few months back, but so you know yeah sprinkler heads get stolen all around Venice.

567
01:08:59.040 --> 01:09:05.490
Robin: it's crazy this stuff goes on, but yeah I think it would be great to improve those plantings.

568
01:09:08.580 --> 01:09:21.090
Isabelle Duvivier: Not in that same vein it'd be great if we could have a mulch pile down there somewhere, and I was speaking to some do T guys and they suggested in the spark parking lot.

569
01:09:21.630 --> 01:09:39.000
Isabelle Duvivier: Behind the fire station there's a corner area where there's only some sand to the nobody could park there and that may be, I mean, I wonder if we could just do a dump there and see if do T complains about it.

570
01:09:41.070 --> 01:09:41.400
Isabelle Duvivier: or.

571
01:09:41.460 --> 01:09:42.660
sarahwauters: VIP land.

572
01:09:43.170 --> 01:09:55.710
Isabelle Duvivier: Yes, the do T parking lot and in the past when we did it at the farmers market we just dumped it there and it took him about two weeks to complain and then we were able to get rid of it right away.

573
01:09:58.290 --> 01:10:14.490
Isabelle Duvivier: So if we decided to do some work days over there in the summer, like that's kind of good summer work to do, because we really can't plan a lot, maybe we do mulch dump there and then just plan on trying to get rid of it as quick as we can, even if do to sort of.

574
01:10:15.660 --> 01:10:23.610
Isabelle Duvivier: Both a little bit will have at least accomplished what we needed to do, which was to get that those areas mulch for the summer.

575
01:10:24.120 --> 01:10:28.590
sarahwauters: So this is, I don't know i'm not familiar with the location that you're talking.

576
01:10:28.590 --> 01:10:33.540
sarahwauters: about this would be for mulching east of Abbot kinney and West.

577
01:10:34.140 --> 01:10:35.310
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah okay.

578
01:10:36.060 --> 01:10:41.280
Robin: I also have experienced with a few years back, I hired a kids through spy.

579
01:10:41.700 --> 01:10:51.210
Robin: know this before they started that garden over there, so they used to come and help me with weeding out in centennial park after I had done the beautification there.

580
01:10:52.530 --> 01:11:00.990
Robin: So what I would recommend it if you want is good just go over there they're over there, working a lot of the time.

581
01:11:02.280 --> 01:11:20.070
Robin: By beyond broke and just talk to people right there and ask them who you might talk to they had a policy at one point of only working on edibles I think that's not necessarily the case i've also had the experience of working hiring people through.

582
01:11:21.270 --> 01:11:31.380
Robin: Stan Mohammed, who is now in the neighborhood Council, he has a group called Venice 2000 and I hired them to plant some of the median portions.

583
01:11:32.430 --> 01:11:49.620
Robin: years back thing to know about planting on the media and, of course, is it, it can be treacherous you have to be you know, everybody has to be wearing a vest and it's it's dangerous out there drivers are lunatics and drive fast alone Venice boulevard so um.

584
01:11:50.970 --> 01:11:51.450
Robin: You know.

585
01:11:51.480 --> 01:12:00.150
sarahwauters: yeah you probably need to have a meeting beforehand and coach everybody on safety and make sure that they're all following kind of safety protocol.

586
01:12:00.210 --> 01:12:02.730
Robin: yeah and maybe like put ropes up.

587
01:12:02.820 --> 01:12:08.310
Robin: Along the edges of the media and even and yeah just be super careful because.

588
01:12:08.850 --> 01:12:12.810
Robin: You don't want anything to happen and people drivers are just so stupid it's amazing.

589
01:12:13.350 --> 01:12:16.980
Robin: Okay, but yeah anyway, so I would just go over there, go over to.

590
01:12:18.570 --> 01:12:22.080
Robin: Beyond broke, you know, to the garden and ask them directly.

591
01:12:23.040 --> 01:12:25.620
Isabelle Duvivier: And and you're thinking to ask him about what.

592
01:12:25.740 --> 01:12:30.540
Robin: Robin if you want them to help with the actual work of planting.

593
01:12:30.870 --> 01:12:32.310
sarahwauters: yeah I was thinking that.

594
01:12:32.400 --> 01:12:36.690
sarahwauters: Those see the see have drive those mediums look.

595
01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:38.430
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah here oh yeah.

596
01:12:39.270 --> 01:12:45.120
sarahwauters: They look so dry, I mean really the first thing we should try to work on is I need to talk to.

597
01:12:46.260 --> 01:13:00.150
sarahwauters: Jim about where are the watering systems and and then we have to look and see if we can actually water those those areas if we can water them then it's worth doing so understory planting.

598
01:13:00.420 --> 01:13:00.840
Isabelle Duvivier: um.

599
01:13:00.870 --> 01:13:06.180
sarahwauters: But can't water them, then I think it's worth at least mulching at the bottom of the trees.

600
01:13:06.420 --> 01:13:06.990
hmm.

601
01:13:09.300 --> 01:13:13.590
sarahwauters: Right and so, though, that medium that's right across from the same place for you.

602
01:13:14.040 --> 01:13:26.070
sarahwauters: hmm That would be a natural place for us to to say to the folks if you're on the road, would you like to work together with us, we have a volunteer force that you know numbers.

603
01:13:26.790 --> 01:13:36.060
sarahwauters: Know anywhere from 10 to 15 and we'd love it if you guys would join together with us and work on mulching the trees and that media and and trying to unify the media.

604
01:13:37.020 --> 01:13:42.360
Isabelle Duvivier: Right across the way this is the area where I thought we could put the mulch right there.

605
01:13:42.600 --> 01:13:43.350
sarahwauters: right idea.

606
01:13:43.440 --> 01:13:44.340
Isabelle Duvivier: That it's like.

607
01:13:45.420 --> 01:14:02.820
Isabelle Duvivier: it's dirt, this is what the do to guy recommended it's kind of out of the way we tried to get permission to put mall chair and that didn't work, so if we were to do it, we would just do it and have it out of there as quick as possible.

608
01:14:02.970 --> 01:14:06.480
sarahwauters: So that's awesome so who usually parks there.

609
01:14:07.260 --> 01:14:11.370
Isabelle Duvivier: There their public lot see they've got a lot number it's.

610
01:14:11.400 --> 01:14:11.850
sarahwauters: it's.

611
01:14:12.120 --> 01:14:23.430
Isabelle Duvivier: A unity it's free parking I think it's like 10 our parking it city parking it might be for these these businesses here it's probably for spark it's just public parking right.

612
01:14:23.490 --> 01:14:39.750
Robin: Well, yes, some of it is definitely sparks and I actually with the preserving public places have been trying to get a dialogue with spark because they have been blockading it so that nobody could park and now that, like the.

613
01:14:41.190 --> 01:14:57.660
Robin: Pacific resident theatre starting up again, you know these spark parking spaces right beside spark there's no I don't know of any good reason why they have them blockaded so that nobody can park there but yeah I think your plan to just go put it there.

614
01:14:57.900 --> 01:15:00.120
Robin: That makes the most sense and.

615
01:15:01.170 --> 01:15:06.900
Robin: You know if spark dares to complain on tell me that's just you know it's.

616
01:15:07.200 --> 01:15:11.790
Isabelle Duvivier: They have that building for them, I would worry about do to to.

617
01:15:11.910 --> 01:15:23.430
Isabelle Duvivier: Have it out of there really quick so right, and they were pretty nice about that last time they're just worried that we're going to park it there, and leave it there forever, but we would you know in two weekends, we could have it all use that.

618
01:15:23.490 --> 01:15:38.130
Robin: right that sounds like a perfect plan and also do you know who controls it's not record parks that controls the media, it may be like bureau of engineering or street services or whatever they're called they're the ones that control the median.

619
01:15:39.360 --> 01:15:40.590
sarahwauters: on the street services.

620
01:15:42.120 --> 01:15:45.810
sarahwauters: Like who who controls the park ways that we plant in.

621
01:15:46.830 --> 01:15:51.630
Isabelle Duvivier: that's the city of La urban forestry bureau street services.

622
01:15:51.750 --> 01:15:53.190
sarahwauters: Right so yeah.

623
01:15:54.780 --> 01:16:00.360
Robin: yeah and I would definitely try to coordinate with them because, again, if you look at what they do.

624
01:16:01.740 --> 01:16:05.820
Robin: They hacked out the kill things by getting them to low.

625
01:16:05.940 --> 01:16:14.760
Robin: yeah so definitely try to coordinate with them in some capacity and and I think they then have control of the watering.

626
01:16:15.900 --> 01:16:21.660
Robin: When I did the planting along Venice boulevard I only planted where there were sprinklers.

627
01:16:21.930 --> 01:16:26.190
Robin: Because you know if you plant and they're none you guys know they're not going to.

628
01:16:26.460 --> 01:16:27.930
Take huh.

629
01:16:29.070 --> 01:16:41.430
sarahwauters: yeah okay okay um well i'm wondering if our electrician has left the building.

630
01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:45.930
sarahwauters: Thank you for sharing that map as well.

631
01:16:46.020 --> 01:16:49.500
Isabelle Duvivier: Oh i'm just preparing to talk to you about west of link.

632
01:16:51.960 --> 01:16:52.170
Isabelle Duvivier: Is.

633
01:16:52.680 --> 01:16:53.940
Isabelle Duvivier: still not ready.

634
01:16:54.420 --> 01:16:54.900
sarahwauters: He isn't.

635
01:16:55.290 --> 01:16:57.000
Isabelle Duvivier: No, I don't know if he is or not.

636
01:16:59.070 --> 01:16:59.640
Isabelle Duvivier: So.

637
01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:01.380
sarahwauters: he's not raising his hand.

638
01:17:01.560 --> 01:17:05.430
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah so here is um.

639
01:17:06.450 --> 01:17:23.820
Isabelle Duvivier: So this is kind of mar vista ish I guess it's the edge of Venice right, this might be the East Venice neighborhood we have been asked by the learning garden, to help them plan some oaks in this median here and.

640
01:17:26.490 --> 01:17:34.290
Isabelle Duvivier: it's really dismal, it also has irrigation um it's really awful.

641
01:17:34.500 --> 01:17:37.140
sarahwauters: This is across from this is basically next to the high school.

642
01:17:37.260 --> 01:17:38.430
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah that's the.

643
01:17:38.430 --> 01:17:44.160
Isabelle Duvivier: street from the high school and the whole thing is really terrible so.

644
01:17:44.880 --> 01:17:47.430
Isabelle Duvivier: dry just you know I don't know.

645
01:17:48.780 --> 01:17:50.700
Isabelle Duvivier: We have ordered some trees.

646
01:17:52.110 --> 01:18:05.730
Isabelle Duvivier: But you know there's and we have to repair the irrigation we kind of need more friendly plumbers to work with us because the one that we work with he's so busy repairing all this stuff that.

647
01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:17.910
Isabelle Duvivier: You guys know any friendly pump plumbers, but anyway, I don't know that I have anything specific to say about it just that it's in the hopper it's something that we could try to loop in of nah.

648
01:18:19.260 --> 01:18:23.700
Isabelle Duvivier: Probably looping people who work at the learning garden.

649
01:18:24.960 --> 01:18:29.910
Isabelle Duvivier: We wouldn't be able to include David King because we wouldn't want to get him in trouble.

650
01:18:30.330 --> 01:18:30.750
sarahwauters: is only.

651
01:18:31.080 --> 01:18:35.700
sarahwauters: To get is David king, the person who contacted you originally.

652
01:18:35.790 --> 01:18:39.420
Isabelle Duvivier: I can't say who contacted me sorted.

653
01:18:39.450 --> 01:18:47.580
sarahwauters: yeah so um so that is the plan to order yard trees or street trees for that.

654
01:18:47.580 --> 01:18:49.770
Isabelle Duvivier: Maybe an answer that we're being recorded.

655
01:18:50.280 --> 01:18:52.290
Isabelle Duvivier: But Andrea has his hand up.

656
01:18:53.070 --> 01:18:56.850
andreas: i'm not sure whether that's irrelevant, but I think anything Easter.

657
01:18:58.050 --> 01:19:00.060
andreas: Easter ball growth is my vista.

658
01:19:00.540 --> 01:19:01.140
i'm.

659
01:19:02.850 --> 01:19:04.620
andreas: Sure, I don't know whether that's irrelevant.

660
01:19:04.860 --> 01:19:08.790
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah well, maybe that would be a good way to loop them and.

661
01:19:10.230 --> 01:19:22.800
Isabelle Duvivier: You know plenty of work to do on Venice boulevard in Venice there's this media in here this media in here, actually, I think this is the one that has a really nice bottle brush let's see, we can see it.

662
01:19:30.330 --> 01:19:34.500
Isabelle Duvivier: Now this is the mellow Luca there's a really beautiful gold rush further down.

663
01:19:35.700 --> 01:19:37.770
Isabelle Duvivier: Am I going the right direction, I think so.

664
01:19:41.310 --> 01:19:43.650
sarahwauters: yeah there are some very nice mature trees.

665
01:19:43.680 --> 01:19:46.260
Isabelle Duvivier: or yeah there's a bottle brush there's.

666
01:19:46.350 --> 01:19:53.280
sarahwauters: Oh yeah there's that's big wow i'm there are some very nice mature trees along now they're just really spaced out.

667
01:19:53.610 --> 01:20:01.830
sarahwauters: hmm there's there are quite a number of vacancies, and I think that that actually is a good point that undress makes that the Mar vista treat room.

668
01:20:03.180 --> 01:20:06.900
sarahwauters: Maybe we could you know, bring them in and we can.

669
01:20:06.900 --> 01:20:12.120
sarahwauters: work together on this, because obviously been a couple of our really is a major feeder to our neighborhood.

670
01:20:12.390 --> 01:20:18.210
sarahwauters: I drive Venice boulevard all the time, because I live, you know South in the southern part know.

671
01:20:19.050 --> 01:20:31.710
sarahwauters: So, having that beautified I mean i've often dreamed of seeing more trees along there, and so I think it's a it's a it's a great idea to put some oats in there, we need some more native trees along that stretch, and I think we should.

672
01:20:32.820 --> 01:20:39.510
sarahwauters: I think it would be a nice thing to unify together with our best to be with as a as a as a you know do a group.

673
01:20:39.930 --> 01:20:40.500
hmm.

674
01:20:41.580 --> 01:20:44.730
Isabelle Duvivier: I I got the bad news yesterday.

675
01:20:45.810 --> 01:21:03.270
Isabelle Duvivier: The marvelous arbor group meeting that the city of La is planning on narrowing the median on westwood boulevard to add another lane of traffic, so that they can have a designated bike lane designated bustling so.

676
01:21:05.370 --> 01:21:06.420
Isabelle Duvivier: Venice.

677
01:21:09.300 --> 01:21:13.710
Isabelle Duvivier: that's certainly bad news that we should probably.

678
01:21:15.720 --> 01:21:24.180
Isabelle Duvivier: should probably pay more attention to because they may try to do that on our you know in our median where we've got all of our sycamores and oaks.

679
01:21:26.340 --> 01:21:27.780
Isabelle Duvivier: And you know the real well.

680
01:21:29.040 --> 01:21:35.790
Isabelle Duvivier: If we're gonna if we're going to fight climate change it's not making more lanes it's taking more cars off the road so.

681
01:21:36.660 --> 01:21:47.910
Isabelle Duvivier: Put in a bustling great, but then eliminate a lane of traffic or put the bustling on one side with the bike paths and then put the cars on the other side, I mean they really need to just.

682
01:21:48.570 --> 01:21:58.530
Isabelle Duvivier: restructure Venice boulevard but keep all of our mature trees, because, so I don't know if anybody's interested in trying to follow up on that.

683
01:21:59.610 --> 01:22:04.950
Isabelle Duvivier: Where where the median reduction is planning to occur.

684
01:22:05.730 --> 01:22:12.690
sarahwauters: I when we find out what would that be, just like doing research into the transport folks.

685
01:22:12.750 --> 01:22:29.790
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah so I put a plea out, I mentioned that when I spoke with David King today he mentioned that he'd seen a presentation on it, and that he would get me the information, but I also heard it from the marvelous neighborhood Council.

686
01:22:30.990 --> 01:22:32.610
Isabelle Duvivier: The Green committee.

687
01:22:33.720 --> 01:22:40.380
Isabelle Duvivier: team drew drew really so it's out there, we just have to look for it.

688
01:22:40.590 --> 01:22:47.550
Robin: Okay, so how about the Robert tibbetts Oh, the or Evan you said is on the transportation committee and being.

689
01:22:47.700 --> 01:22:48.690
Isabelle Duvivier: right here yeah.

690
01:22:49.380 --> 01:22:54.540
Robin: yeah I think they should be aware of it, and we should try to lobby against that happening.

691
01:22:54.870 --> 01:22:55.500
um.

692
01:22:57.750 --> 01:23:11.760
Robin: You know it's like just ever shocking and horrifying to me that this world class city, we have has this major boulevard leading to our only beach and it looks.

693
01:23:12.900 --> 01:23:13.470
Robin: horrible.

694
01:23:14.550 --> 01:23:14.760
Isabelle Duvivier: well.

695
01:23:14.970 --> 01:23:15.810
sarahwauters: I mean it's the same.

696
01:23:16.740 --> 01:23:22.860
Robin: yeah right well, but you know this is perpendicular this goes to the beach and you're not the only one.

697
01:23:23.370 --> 01:23:39.210
Robin: That you know takes Venice boulevard every young people who live all over north and south in La either they take the 10 freeway and that leads them to Santa Monica beach, or if they're coming to Venice beach, or if they're coming to a beach of La the beach of La is only Venice beach.

698
01:23:39.720 --> 01:23:44.520
Robin: they're going to take Venice boulevard but for that stupid road diet which now has.

699
01:23:44.730 --> 01:24:03.780
Robin: You know, made it treacherous you know so now more people might take Washington, but if you look at a map of La you know Venice boulevard is a major thoroughfare that really brings people from far and wide out to the West and it's just pitiful it looks so pitiful.

700
01:24:05.220 --> 01:24:22.140
sarahwauters: It is, I agree, I mean I I think I said this last time, but you know, I was in West Hollywood i've been going to West Hollywood a lot lately for my work and some of their major major streets like Santa Monica boulevard is a major thoroughfare and it is beautiful.

701
01:24:22.200 --> 01:24:33.960
sarahwauters: Right it's beautiful it has huge mature trees that have grown in the last 10 years and they have put sculptures and gardens in their median there's no reason.

702
01:24:34.530 --> 01:24:35.970
sarahwauters: no reason why.

703
01:24:36.300 --> 01:24:37.470
Robin: there's always thought that Venice.

704
01:24:37.470 --> 01:24:41.370
Robin: boulevard should look like Santa Santa you know Santa Santa come to the beach.

705
01:24:41.640 --> 01:24:49.140
Robin: is beautiful this giant coral trees it's you know it's a jogging path, I mean it's pitiful what we have it's it's.

706
01:24:49.350 --> 01:24:59.430
sarahwauters: unconscionable I don't I don't understand why Los Angeles is so much less capable than every other small city within this county I mean it's kind of flooring.

707
01:25:00.180 --> 01:25:01.170
Robin: We don't need to.

708
01:25:01.290 --> 01:25:12.330
Robin: elect the proper CD 11 official who cares about parks and creating spaces and not somebody who you know we currently have who doesn't believe in open space and.

709
01:25:13.350 --> 01:25:14.310
Robin: That that'll help.

710
01:25:14.490 --> 01:25:18.960
Isabelle Duvivier: Are you allowed to tell us who that who that person is Robin.

711
01:25:20.010 --> 01:25:20.580
Robin: well.

712
01:25:20.670 --> 01:25:22.290
Robin: I think they're trying to date.

713
01:25:22.320 --> 01:25:24.000
Isabelle Duvivier: And I guess you probably can't yeah.

714
01:25:24.060 --> 01:25:30.930
Robin: Well, no, I think you know, I would just say, there are two candidates that have i've heard speak out a lot about having.

715
01:25:31.380 --> 01:25:36.990
Robin: You know the importance of green space and open spaces, one of them is related to me, Jim your as.

716
01:25:37.740 --> 01:25:44.610
Robin: The other is Tracy park Tracy park is a huge advocate for parks and open spaces and.

717
01:25:45.030 --> 01:25:58.920
Robin: We need to preserve, we need to fight to keep them and to get more if there's a real challenge, well, I mean bond and has tried to just do away with them, so, and you know we just really need you guys, we need this committee.

718
01:25:59.400 --> 01:26:09.210
Robin: And we need to all you know, make sure we still have open spaces and Isabel spoke last night at on that what was that meeting, we were on Luca.

719
01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:22.380
Robin: yeah his goal was excellent in bringing that up because it's just to me it's shocking how what a complete failure of urban design, there is, when they make these changes that.

720
01:26:23.430 --> 01:26:24.960
Robin: destroy our own workspace.

721
01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:26.070
Isabelle Duvivier: native design.

722
01:26:28.020 --> 01:26:30.720
Isabelle Duvivier: And Lou pack i'm sorry we're being recorded but.

723
01:26:31.080 --> 01:26:44.610
Isabelle Duvivier: loop back they're just they all they want is density density density, God knows why they're so concerned about density, but they're not interested in any of the things that density provides or requires.

724
01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:50.910
sarahwauters: Well yeah and they're not actually interested in density they're interested in enormous single family homes, is what they've been.

725
01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:52.050
Isabelle Duvivier: Around they wanted a.

726
01:26:52.470 --> 01:26:53.250
Isabelle Duvivier: density.

727
01:26:53.880 --> 01:27:02.040
Robin: Will they want all of it, they want to tear down yeah they want to tear down, you know anything that's not huge and then they want to let.

728
01:27:02.460 --> 01:27:19.110
Robin: Big things be built, and yet it's not necessarily allowing for more inhabitants, or you know it's it's not necessarily more than single family that project they passed last night for their to tear down to 800 square foot homes to put up two gigantic or homes.

729
01:27:19.440 --> 01:27:22.950
Robin: And, to me it just sounds like greed gone haywire.

730
01:27:23.010 --> 01:27:24.240
sarahwauters: Well, and if there is no.

731
01:27:24.300 --> 01:27:25.200
Robin: A low income.

732
01:27:25.590 --> 01:27:36.690
sarahwauters: yeah if they're complaining if they're complaining about not enough housing or lower and middle income families those two houses are going in the opposite direction.

733
01:27:37.200 --> 01:27:37.380
sarahwauters: that's.

734
01:27:37.710 --> 01:27:39.630
sarahwauters: The opposite direction, that is not.

735
01:27:40.230 --> 01:27:53.340
Isabelle Duvivier: What complaint, they made to loop back that was a separate discussion that happen before the complaint, they made to 2000 CP Community was that three storey buildings wasn't going to provide us with enough density.

736
01:27:53.700 --> 01:27:59.250
Isabelle Duvivier: that we need to change the building heights and Venice, so we can have real density.

737
01:28:00.480 --> 01:28:04.080
Isabelle Duvivier: And I just thought you know, three stories, can you can get a lot of.

738
01:28:04.860 --> 01:28:06.900
Isabelle Duvivier: Housing in three stories.

739
01:28:07.470 --> 01:28:12.240
Isabelle Duvivier: and build one single family home there so anyway, I just agree with.

740
01:28:12.510 --> 01:28:21.870
Robin: Another thing i'll just mention my screen froze oh so along those lines that what about open space mark MAC the architect pointed out to me.

741
01:28:22.230 --> 01:28:29.430
Robin: One day how you know are lots of Venice are so small that we actually already have and Isabel you probably know, the.

742
01:28:30.030 --> 01:28:35.100
Robin: ratio more we already have greater density here then like lots of parts of La.

743
01:28:35.430 --> 01:28:47.250
Robin: And we have as much density, I guess, as areas in West la that have apartment buildings, because our lots are so tiny and a lot of them have historically already had like at least duplexes on them.

744
01:28:47.670 --> 01:28:59.760
Robin: But the other thing that goes with having small lots that are you know filled in with housing is then you need to have parks and open spaces, you know, we have no place to.

745
01:29:00.240 --> 01:29:11.040
Robin: run and move, and so we can't let our open spaces be destroyed in our green spaces, you know we've got to protect them and even get more if possible.

746
01:29:12.300 --> 01:29:13.410
Robin: So keep at it, you guys.

747
01:29:14.280 --> 01:29:16.170
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah well you're us.

748
01:29:16.320 --> 01:29:34.350
sarahwauters: Yes, you're part of us, I do think that that the this news with regard to the media and reduction, it sounds like it might be limited to what is defined as mar vista, but I do think that, if there's anything that we can do to help mar vista fight that.

749
01:29:35.730 --> 01:29:39.390
sarahwauters: We might want to put our heads together with folks over there.

750
01:29:41.490 --> 01:29:43.320
sarahwauters: So i'm.

751
01:29:44.100 --> 01:29:47.640
Robin: it'd be great to know yeah to what the facts are.

752
01:29:48.150 --> 01:29:50.250
sarahwauters: yeah so um.

753
01:29:51.390 --> 01:29:57.540
sarahwauters: I think we're ready for Evan Evan is ready for us Evan are you with us now.

754
01:30:00.210 --> 01:30:02.070
sarahwauters: you're on mute that much I know.

755
01:30:02.400 --> 01:30:04.560
Evan Corrigan: hey hey i'm here just.

756
01:30:05.970 --> 01:30:06.480
sarahwauters: kidding.

757
01:30:11.040 --> 01:30:16.560
Evan Corrigan: that's sad to hear about the median shortening.

758
01:30:19.170 --> 01:30:19.860
sarahwauters: happened yet.

759
01:30:23.790 --> 01:30:33.030
Evan Corrigan: So they're they're proposing a bus only lane on linkedin which me personally i'm not opposed to because.

760
01:30:35.400 --> 01:30:37.680
Evan Corrigan: You know I grew up taking the bus having a great.

761
01:30:38.040 --> 01:30:40.950
Evan Corrigan: Bus system dedicated lane to go all the way down link into the.

762
01:30:40.950 --> 01:30:46.440
Evan Corrigan: Airport, all the way up to Santa Monica when I first moved here I use that bus a lot and.

763
01:30:48.150 --> 01:31:07.410
Evan Corrigan: You know the bus system is not here yet, but it will get there, and those might give spaces to light, rail or other forms of transportation in the future, other thing it provides is kind of a wider 14 foot bike bus chair lane for bikes which is cool thing is.

764
01:31:08.610 --> 01:31:16.350
Evan Corrigan: I think they're moving forward with it, but we just wanted to see if you get some kind of improvements aesthetic improvements to the sidewalks.

765
01:31:17.970 --> 01:31:25.440
Evan Corrigan: You know if if they're going to take away some parking during rush hour on that bus lane like let's try to get some people walking.

766
01:31:26.640 --> 01:31:27.540
Evan Corrigan: businesses.

767
01:31:28.950 --> 01:31:34.950
Evan Corrigan: You know, we can use trees to make Lincoln boulevard you know.

768
01:31:36.060 --> 01:31:46.080
Evan Corrigan: trees and curb cuts to make it feel prettier and you know even with those power lines kind of create a barrier between the road and the sidewalk make it a little less hot.

769
01:31:47.910 --> 01:32:01.710
Evan Corrigan: Maybe there's potential opportunities for like I think bios whales kind of into those curb cuts increasing ground permeability and not running everything the sewers and then the other thing is just like.

770
01:32:03.360 --> 01:32:14.520
Evan Corrigan: You know, decreasing stress of driving down that boulevard and making it, you know prettier hopefully encouraging less stress and Road rage things like that.

771
01:32:16.410 --> 01:32:22.590
Evan Corrigan: This is a mood Board of you know what it could look like you know even with power lines.

772
01:32:24.330 --> 01:32:37.500
Evan Corrigan: And again, like this is kind of just the concept of like all the places that could have a better sidewalk with curb cuts and trees, I know the city has different requirements for those sort of things.

773
01:32:38.880 --> 01:32:42.210
Evan Corrigan: Let me know if i'm going too fast or skipping over anything.

774
01:32:42.600 --> 01:33:08.670
sarahwauters: No, I I I think you're doing great I actually have some other photographs i'll send you have some of the street states that I saw in Europe that include the bike path in the sidewalk basically, along with the trees, which could provide you with some other ideas to put for.

775
01:33:09.870 --> 01:33:13.050
sarahwauters: Your partners, the partners in linking fast forward.

776
01:33:13.470 --> 01:33:18.210
Evan Corrigan: Oh yeah I mean the bike path completely separated from traffic and a sidewalk is.

777
01:33:18.240 --> 01:33:20.610
sarahwauters: yep it's completely separated yeah.

778
01:33:20.850 --> 01:33:31.560
Evan Corrigan: Totally awesome like how they haven't figured out in Amsterdam and comparisons out in infrastructure to, but the sidewalk just kind of narrow and Lincoln.

779
01:33:32.250 --> 01:33:32.670
sarahwauters: yeah.

780
01:33:32.850 --> 01:33:48.270
Evan Corrigan: i'm not one mile stretch, and so the plan is to they're going to narrow slightly narrow the lanes the Center turn lanes and the two lanes on each side and now provide like a 14 foot bustling which bus and bike will share.

781
01:33:50.640 --> 01:34:05.010
Evan Corrigan: i'm not sure, because I think the width requirement for a bike lane is like five or six feet so i'm not sure having a dedicated bike lane would be approved it's you know all the city standards and Ada accessibility things.

782
01:34:05.550 --> 01:34:11.100
sarahwauters: Right does that mean that they will be losing the parking.

783
01:34:11.970 --> 01:34:12.840
Evan Corrigan: So the bus.

784
01:34:13.980 --> 01:34:17.100
Evan Corrigan: i'm not sure yeah so though during rush hour like.

785
01:34:18.960 --> 01:34:36.360
Evan Corrigan: I think 7am to 9am northbound and 4pm to 7pm southbound i'm not that might be the opposite, but that bus only lane would go into effect the rest of the time it would be available for parking.

786
01:34:36.990 --> 01:34:53.040
Evan Corrigan: But the studies, they did they found that you know that parking in that one mile stretch was pretty underutilized I guess during the week during those times because it's a lot of commuters on the weekend it's can be a very different story.

787
01:34:55.530 --> 01:35:11.100
Evan Corrigan: So walking down Lincoln, so I think it's stretch from Commonwealth to lucille, and these were all spaces, that we kind of identified so there's some existing trees here but there's so many areas.

788
01:35:12.660 --> 01:35:24.120
Evan Corrigan: That previous curb aprons could be filled in from unused old body auto body shops, there could be a curb cuts with planters small trees.

789
01:35:25.980 --> 01:35:29.220
Evan Corrigan: You just could go down a full block and it's just concrete.

790
01:35:30.330 --> 01:35:30.780
Evan Corrigan: So.

791
01:35:30.930 --> 01:35:41.400
sarahwauters: So let me, let me just question you so your methodology here was you were looking at fully concreted areas that could be cut and planted.

792
01:35:42.690 --> 01:35:57.570
Evan Corrigan: A bit of both it's like more of a concept of like hey like there's a lot of opportunity to green a filing here, and it will help from a mobility standpoint as well, courage, people to walk and kind of slow down and.

793
01:35:58.860 --> 01:35:59.160
Evan Corrigan: You know.

794
01:36:01.980 --> 01:36:07.770
Evan Corrigan: possibly have encouraged people to take the bus while waiting for the bus there on Lincoln boulevard I.

795
01:36:09.900 --> 01:36:17.550
Evan Corrigan: there's some proposed spots of potentially we could add in Center median green Center median no that's super expensive.

796
01:36:20.310 --> 01:36:23.010
Evan Corrigan: But just going down the street there's there's a lot of.

797
01:36:24.930 --> 01:36:37.560
Evan Corrigan: You know there's the the trees outside of right at ralphs but you know down that stretch there's just so many segments of that sidewalk that could be cleaned.

798
01:36:39.540 --> 01:36:40.230
Evan Corrigan: and improved.

799
01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:52.560
sarahwauters: So that so that the green cuts that you're showing there was that something that um that the Department of Transportation identified, have you done or.

800
01:36:52.800 --> 01:36:55.020
Evan Corrigan: That this is all us like.

801
01:36:55.080 --> 01:37:01.650
Evan Corrigan: i'm great just kind of walking down the street and going block by block and seeing what could be added and where it could be added.

802
01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:17.430
Evan Corrigan: This is not an official you know landscape design plan, but more of like an opportunity to see if the city would work with us and caltrans and led ot to potentially.

803
01:37:18.990 --> 01:37:21.330
Evan Corrigan: Make the street, a bit more walkable greener.

804
01:37:23.070 --> 01:37:27.000
Evan Corrigan: I know they all like this kind of stuff like permeability and.

805
01:37:29.940 --> 01:37:31.380
Evan Corrigan: trees to some extent.

806
01:37:32.430 --> 01:37:36.630
Evan Corrigan: But so that's that's pretty much the concept so.

807
01:37:38.100 --> 01:37:52.290
Evan Corrigan: The ideas you know we proved distributing this plan or concept to the officials through the parking and transportation committee it's going to go to the dnc will briefly talk about it there and.

808
01:37:53.580 --> 01:37:57.150
Evan Corrigan: How emotion of like you know, should we approve this and.

809
01:37:58.470 --> 01:38:02.100
Evan Corrigan: distributed to the city of like this is what we want to make Lincoln boulevard.

810
01:38:03.390 --> 01:38:09.000
Evan Corrigan: A bit more beautiful for gonna you know do all this construction work on it and out in a bustling land.

811
01:38:10.530 --> 01:38:23.280
Evan Corrigan: So that's the idea here is just to kind of start a conversation with them and show the opportunity and tell them that we as a Community, would like to see Lincoln have more green have more.

812
01:38:24.990 --> 01:38:27.450
Evan Corrigan: You know ground permeability.

813
01:38:28.830 --> 01:38:31.380
Evan Corrigan: increasing safety all these things is a high.

814
01:38:31.680 --> 01:38:34.530
sarahwauters: Right um Now I know that.

815
01:38:35.700 --> 01:38:48.420
sarahwauters: there's a lot of competition for that people beautification grant, but it seems like there might be a need for some like a real designer to dig in.

816
01:38:50.100 --> 01:38:56.040
sarahwauters: Is that something that you guys have talked about the transportation committee or is it it's too early days.

817
01:38:57.090 --> 01:39:00.870
Evan Corrigan: I think it's probably I mean that would be great but.

818
01:39:01.980 --> 01:39:09.300
Evan Corrigan: I mean if it was actually going to be achieved, then we really need to design it me towards you to.

819
01:39:10.320 --> 01:39:21.390
Evan Corrigan: kind of look at what species of trees and plants would really work in the situation under those power lines and would increase the kind of pollinator effect and.

820
01:39:23.160 --> 01:39:27.960
Evan Corrigan: What would be native and be okay with upkeep and things like that.

821
01:39:28.350 --> 01:39:28.770
sarahwauters: Okay.

822
01:39:29.130 --> 01:39:32.610
Evan Corrigan: Right now, is just talk to them and say like.

823
01:39:34.110 --> 01:39:44.190
Evan Corrigan: So we understand where you're going to do this link and fast forward plan, but we really want to see these sidewalks improved as a part of that process.

824
01:39:44.490 --> 01:39:48.510
Evan Corrigan: Right trees to be trees and creams, to be installed.

825
01:39:49.170 --> 01:39:52.530
sarahwauters: And they has the city discussed with you, what kind of.

826
01:39:54.660 --> 01:39:58.320
sarahwauters: Budget, they have for this project and where the money is coming from where the funding.

827
01:39:59.490 --> 01:40:00.720
Evan Corrigan: For Lincoln fast forward.

828
01:40:00.810 --> 01:40:07.650
Evan Corrigan: Yes, um so caltrans will fund it because they have to give back.

829
01:40:08.700 --> 01:40:11.340
Evan Corrigan: Whatever streets or highways to the same.

830
01:40:11.520 --> 01:40:15.330
Evan Corrigan: Great water so that's where the funding is coming from.

831
01:40:16.920 --> 01:40:26.490
Evan Corrigan: We can question is, can we siphon some of that funding away to improve the sidewalk i'm not sure if the sidewalk is included in into their scope of work at all.

832
01:40:29.010 --> 01:40:35.820
Evan Corrigan: We just want to say hey, this is what we'd like to see and and talk it out with them and say well.

833
01:40:36.090 --> 01:40:38.250
sarahwauters: I wonder if there's a way to make an argument that.

834
01:40:39.570 --> 01:40:53.670
sarahwauters: That returning that this the highway because it's basically highway one right yeah they're returning the highway one to the city, are they doing that, with Santa Monica as well, I would imagine they probably are um.

835
01:40:55.230 --> 01:41:02.370
Evan Corrigan: I don't know Santa Monica that portion might have already been returned I know it's looks very different.

836
01:41:02.940 --> 01:41:03.540
It does.

837
01:41:04.710 --> 01:41:13.890
sarahwauters: yeah um but it might be that there's an argument for saying listen if you're going to return it in good working order, it has to be in compliance with good climate.

838
01:41:14.610 --> 01:41:29.010
sarahwauters: values, and that would mean that it needs to have canopy and shade, or at least plan for canopy like trees planted that are going to eventually when mature will be shading this straight to the degree that it's not adding to the urban heat.

839
01:41:30.060 --> 01:41:31.410
sarahwauters: That we already experienced.

840
01:41:32.730 --> 01:41:34.560
sarahwauters: But this is great work.

841
01:41:35.820 --> 01:41:40.170
sarahwauters: So you guys are going to be going to the dnc on the next fancy meeting Is that correct.

842
01:41:40.410 --> 01:41:41.520
Evan Corrigan: yeah on the 17th.

843
01:41:41.940 --> 01:41:45.300
sarahwauters: Okay, so it looks like it's about has her hand up.

844
01:41:48.630 --> 01:41:52.500
Isabelle Duvivier: I wanted to know Do you know anything about the power lines are they.

845
01:41:53.610 --> 01:41:54.900
Isabelle Duvivier: Are they going to go anywhere.

846
01:41:55.260 --> 01:41:56.130
Evan Corrigan: So that's.

847
01:41:57.600 --> 01:41:59.460
Evan Corrigan: la wp what's.

848
01:42:01.500 --> 01:42:01.920
up.

849
01:42:03.240 --> 01:42:06.810
Evan Corrigan: I yeah I mean you'd have to talk to them about that.

850
01:42:07.890 --> 01:42:09.630
Evan Corrigan: that's not a caltrans or.

851
01:42:10.320 --> 01:42:10.740
well.

852
01:42:12.090 --> 01:42:13.770
Evan Corrigan: We could talk to them about it.

853
01:42:13.860 --> 01:42:21.240
Isabelle Duvivier: But yeah it's likely that it won't so they'd have to be trees that we could grow underneath those power lines which there are some.

854
01:42:21.510 --> 01:42:30.930
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah my second, I just wanted to make the point that there's a few really good examples of improved medians like that in.

855
01:42:31.980 --> 01:42:35.190
Isabelle Duvivier: culver city on Washington boulevard.

856
01:42:35.430 --> 01:42:35.850
Evan Corrigan: yeah right.

857
01:42:35.910 --> 01:42:37.860
Isabelle Duvivier: Now it's big rebuilding yeah.

858
01:42:38.190 --> 01:42:39.720
sarahwauters: Is that that yeah that's.

859
01:42:40.410 --> 01:42:42.090
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah that's really nice.

860
01:42:43.050 --> 01:42:43.500
Evan Corrigan: I mean.

861
01:42:43.680 --> 01:42:52.080
Isabelle Duvivier: And also, Pico boulevard does a really great I noticed that you had your medians had lots of space in between from one to the next.

862
01:42:52.710 --> 01:43:02.190
Isabelle Duvivier: and on Pico boulevard they give the turning lane very little space, so that cars actually stack up in the.

863
01:43:02.760 --> 01:43:15.870
Isabelle Duvivier: In the traveling, which is good for traffic, I mean it slows traffic down so people can zoom by crosswalks so you've probably looked at, Pico, but I think that's another really great example where they put in those central medians and.

864
01:43:17.010 --> 01:43:20.010
Evan Corrigan: it'd be really cool to look at yeah that's another thing you know.

865
01:43:20.340 --> 01:43:21.600
sarahwauters: ocean park has been Sir.

866
01:43:22.140 --> 01:43:33.960
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah see look at how much space, you have between those instead of thinking of it as a continuous way, with a few little cuts in it, you know for turning you've got.

867
01:43:35.340 --> 01:43:35.760
Isabelle Duvivier: yeah.

868
01:43:36.000 --> 01:43:37.140
Isabelle Duvivier: But anyway, I think this is.

869
01:43:37.140 --> 01:43:38.100
Isabelle Duvivier: Great I love.

870
01:43:38.220 --> 01:43:40.290
Evan Corrigan: we're up to me like the whole thing which is be.

871
01:43:40.320 --> 01:43:41.040
Isabelle Duvivier: centered yeah.

872
01:43:41.100 --> 01:43:47.760
Evan Corrigan: But I know how people are not have to get to their neighborhoods and that can be really a pain, especially down and big boulevard.

873
01:43:48.150 --> 01:43:48.600
When.

874
01:43:50.580 --> 01:43:50.790
sarahwauters: Oh.

875
01:43:50.850 --> 01:43:51.180
Sorry.

876
01:43:52.740 --> 01:43:54.060
Robin: I just wanted to.

877
01:43:55.140 --> 01:44:08.460
Robin: ask about the the medians don't have circles like as though they are intended to have trees and so would you be planning on having trees, though in them and.

878
01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:12.000
Robin: i'll be great yeah.

879
01:44:12.300 --> 01:44:16.530
Evan Corrigan: I don't knock this whole thing out myself, and I was a little short on time.

880
01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:34.530
Robin: yeah well that's great so yeah I just would encourage you to to yeah put those trees and because trees, will make just so much more difference it's cutting down the noise and the visual ugliness and and then I just have a question also as to.

881
01:44:35.790 --> 01:44:51.360
Robin: Whether it's better to have those median sections or versus having wider sidewalks with you know more green so i'm just kind of positing that as a question and.

882
01:44:53.640 --> 01:45:02.340
Robin: You know, which would be, which would make the experience of driving down a major boulevard more pleasant and safe.

883
01:45:03.390 --> 01:45:05.580
Robin: I mean I open that up for anybody yeah.

884
01:45:07.230 --> 01:45:20.190
Evan Corrigan: Taking away those Center medians and having a bigger sidewalk and the bike lane integrated into it and planters and trees on both sides that would be so awesome I know you probably get a lot of pushback about.

885
01:45:21.900 --> 01:45:32.070
Evan Corrigan: kind of having those those turn lanes because traffic could back up pretty far on certain like on the.

886
01:45:33.090 --> 01:45:37.920
Evan Corrigan: I don't know, maybe on to like when they're crossing out of the Rose rose or something like that.

887
01:45:40.830 --> 01:45:43.110
Evan Corrigan: But I could.

888
01:45:44.430 --> 01:45:54.600
Robin: i'm just throwing it out there, I don't know I mean also you know Isabel do you have a thought on what makes you know, depending on whatever however many lane road.

889
01:45:55.110 --> 01:46:08.010
Robin: Lincoln is there, like would we benefit more from having more trees and wider sidewalks or from having Center islands that also have trees on them, I mean it would be great to.

890
01:46:08.970 --> 01:46:10.860
Isabelle Duvivier: power lines, the Center.

891
01:46:11.910 --> 01:46:25.440
Isabelle Duvivier: A tree planting down the Center is probably going to be a better option for us because it'll be a really wide it'll be like at least eight feet wide so you can get really big tall trees in there, which wouldn't be.

892
01:46:25.920 --> 01:46:34.830
sarahwauters: yeah and then I don't have to be constantly topped The other thing that is also been a problem on Lincoln trees have been.

893
01:46:35.520 --> 01:46:44.790
sarahwauters: consistently planted along there, but the business owners tend to hack them to pieces, I mean the number of just mergers prunings i've seen.

894
01:46:45.300 --> 01:46:56.700
sarahwauters: On Lincoln is you know it's just add insult to injury it's so if the and the reason why they do that, of course, is because they don't want their sign blocked.

895
01:46:57.660 --> 01:47:03.450
sarahwauters: They want drivers who are driving along link and to be able to see their establishment.

896
01:47:03.930 --> 01:47:13.980
sarahwauters: And I think it would be much less likely if we had trees in the median for business owners to you know hire an irresponsible landscape are going to come along and.

897
01:47:14.520 --> 01:47:26.580
sarahwauters: Just chop the tree down because they'll really view that tree as that as owned by the city and they're not going to view that tree as blocking their side, so I do think that medium trees have a certain.

898
01:47:28.620 --> 01:47:31.920
sarahwauters: uni in this instance and.

899
01:47:32.310 --> 01:47:43.920
Robin: Those are good suggestions I would think also there's a fear of large trucks, you know, cutting leaves off of the branches on trees so.

900
01:47:45.090 --> 01:47:46.680
Robin: That to as an issue along.

901
01:47:47.880 --> 01:47:48.720
Robin: Without all of our.

902
01:47:48.930 --> 01:47:53.940
Isabelle Duvivier: You go, can we can we make a motion to support this.

903
01:47:54.810 --> 01:47:56.430
sarahwauters: yeah that's yeah.

904
01:47:57.030 --> 01:48:01.920
Isabelle Duvivier: And then, I just wanted to ask you, Sarah I don't remember what time are we supposed to end.

905
01:48:02.220 --> 01:48:04.200
sarahwauters: we're supposed to end at 130.

906
01:48:04.560 --> 01:48:13.590
Isabelle Duvivier: Okay, because I have a public hearing for the crenshaw crossing tree removal that I know a Budget Committee meeting that i'd like to attend.

907
01:48:15.030 --> 01:48:16.230
Isabelle Duvivier: So if we could make.

908
01:48:16.230 --> 01:48:19.680
Isabelle Duvivier: This motion and then i'm going to leave you guys running it.

909
01:48:20.760 --> 01:48:22.470
Isabelle Duvivier: But I need to get on the call.

910
01:48:22.740 --> 01:48:27.180
sarahwauters: Okay, so um what would be like to say in this motion that.

911
01:48:28.290 --> 01:48:30.270
Isabelle Duvivier: Evan What would you like us to say.

912
01:48:31.380 --> 01:48:32.580
Evan Corrigan: um.

913
01:48:35.880 --> 01:48:37.740
Evan Corrigan: let's see what this thing is called.

914
01:48:37.950 --> 01:48:38.610
yeah what is that.

915
01:48:41.280 --> 01:48:42.900
Evan Corrigan: The Lincoln fast forward.

916
01:48:44.100 --> 01:48:45.570
Evan Corrigan: Green architecture plan.

917
01:48:47.190 --> 01:48:48.690
Evan Corrigan: proposed by the.

918
01:48:51.510 --> 01:48:56.700
Evan Corrigan: Venice parking transportation committee to be sent to the dnc Council something like that.

919
01:48:57.210 --> 01:49:02.250
Isabelle Duvivier: Right or that we just support it, we know we don't have to mention that other.

920
01:49:03.330 --> 01:49:08.640
Isabelle Duvivier: Committee right it's just another it's another unless the that committee produced it.

921
01:49:10.290 --> 01:49:13.200
Isabelle Duvivier: Did that committee produce it or did they just support at.

922
01:49:13.590 --> 01:49:14.970
Evan Corrigan: The PTC.

923
01:49:15.360 --> 01:49:19.830
Evan Corrigan: yeah we kind of produced it and supported it to send it to the dnc.

924
01:49:21.030 --> 01:49:21.510
Isabelle Duvivier: Okay.

925
01:49:22.020 --> 01:49:24.630
Isabelle Duvivier: So then yeah we can support your subcommittee right.

926
01:49:28.500 --> 01:49:31.620
Isabelle Duvivier: Thank you so much for bringing this to us it's super exciting.

927
01:49:31.770 --> 01:49:33.060
sarahwauters: yeah that was.

928
01:49:33.480 --> 01:49:34.500
sarahwauters: really exciting.

929
01:49:34.860 --> 01:49:35.220
Evan Corrigan: I just.

930
01:49:35.310 --> 01:49:37.230
Robin: Did the work that's great you're.

931
01:49:37.560 --> 01:49:52.530
Evan Corrigan: Drawing some wonderful, thank you, I listened in a couple of meetings on YouTube and I thought I should come talk to you guys, because all the cool work you guys are doing and getting those grants and knowing what kind of trees to plan, and I think it's really cool important.

932
01:49:53.280 --> 01:50:01.980
sarahwauters: All right, well thanks for that yeah I mean, I think this is the other thing I think I think that we had talked about the trees when both came.

933
01:50:02.580 --> 01:50:13.590
sarahwauters: From my vista and I attended that meeting that was the link and fast forward meeting and when is the next time they're going to hold one of those meetings when those stakeholders are assembled.

934
01:50:14.130 --> 01:50:21.570
Evan Corrigan: I don't know a I don't know if CD 11 is going to hold another one before and.

935
01:50:22.080 --> 01:50:23.130
sarahwauters: Okay okay.

936
01:50:24.660 --> 01:50:26.010
sarahwauters: Great so so the.

937
01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:28.560
sarahwauters: emotion.

938
01:50:29.580 --> 01:50:44.160
sarahwauters: reads presently in Venice Venice over committee supports the link and fast forward green architecture plan as drafted by the Venice neighborhood Council parking and transportation committee which is.

939
01:50:45.270 --> 01:50:45.960
sarahwauters: To.

940
01:50:49.980 --> 01:50:51.540
sarahwauters: To be considered.

941
01:50:54.990 --> 01:50:55.980
sarahwauters: By the.

942
01:50:57.630 --> 01:50:58.830
Isabelle Duvivier: dnc.

943
01:51:00.750 --> 01:51:01.230
sarahwauters: or.

944
01:51:02.880 --> 01:51:04.110
sarahwauters: officers for it right.

945
01:51:08.550 --> 01:51:18.030
sarahwauters: That How does that sound does anybody else have any advice i'm not the best or most experienced strapped are in this regard, but I think that we can pass that right.

946
01:51:20.670 --> 01:51:23.880
Robin: I don't even think you need to limit it to saying anything about.

947
01:51:23.880 --> 01:51:28.590
Robin: Who it's being presented to you and the point is that you just want to support their.

948
01:51:29.880 --> 01:51:30.600
Robin: Their design.

949
01:51:32.670 --> 01:51:33.000
sarahwauters: Okay.

950
01:51:33.060 --> 01:51:36.240
Robin: That you know increases the greening of.

951
01:51:38.070 --> 01:51:43.050
Robin: Venice boulevard or yeah of Lincoln boulevard you know, maybe put that in.

952
01:51:43.320 --> 01:51:44.070
sarahwauters: yeah okay.

953
01:51:44.670 --> 01:51:49.380
Robin: intelligently intelligently increases, you know the greening of.

954
01:51:50.610 --> 01:51:53.010
Robin: Lincoln boulevard or something like that.

955
01:51:55.170 --> 01:52:02.220
sarahwauters: Increases the greening of greening and incorporation of trees.

956
01:52:04.260 --> 01:52:09.000
sarahwauters: Along Lincoln boulevard actually as part of.

957
01:52:11.010 --> 01:52:12.240
sarahwauters: As part of.

958
01:52:14.370 --> 01:52:15.840
sarahwauters: The eminent.

959
01:52:20.040 --> 01:52:20.940
Robin: caltrans.

960
01:52:21.120 --> 01:52:22.620
sarahwauters: yeah caltrans.

961
01:52:26.160 --> 01:52:42.000
Robin: I mean yeah you don't necessarily need it to be that narrow, I mean if they if it's beneficial to them to have a motion that supports that for any reason, and you know, like, even if they don't get caltrans to do it, you know you're still supporting it right.

962
01:52:43.140 --> 01:53:00.720
sarahwauters: Right right that's true um I mean the reason why i'd like to include That is because I wanted to be included as part of that, I think that that having access to caltrans funds is that's a pretty big deal is about with your hand up.

963
01:53:02.910 --> 01:53:11.130
Isabelle Duvivier: Oh no I don't sorry I haven't taken it down, yet I was just hoping that i'd have time to share with you the Budget Committee hearings that are happening right now.

964
01:53:11.460 --> 01:53:23.130
Isabelle Duvivier: And if somebody wants to call in it's the mayor's budget the budget and Finance Committee talk about the budget we'd love to have some people calling in asking them for more money for urban forestry.

965
01:53:23.430 --> 01:53:24.090
Isabelle Duvivier: Okay, I didn't.

966
01:53:24.360 --> 01:53:32.040
sarahwauters: have my hand up sorry that's all right i'm happy to do that, thank you for that announcement How did we get that link is it just we get to the city website.

967
01:53:35.820 --> 01:53:37.320
sarahwauters: Isabel you're muted.

968
01:53:42.300 --> 01:53:43.560
sarahwauters: Isabel we can't hear you.

969
01:53:47.910 --> 01:53:50.700
Isabelle Duvivier: I was just sharing with you the.

970
01:53:52.710 --> 01:53:54.000
Isabelle Duvivier: The information.

971
01:53:55.050 --> 01:53:55.680
sarahwauters: Oh, you were.

972
01:53:56.250 --> 01:53:56.820
sarahwauters: I big.

973
01:53:57.150 --> 01:54:02.820
Isabelle Duvivier: juicy Can you see the share anyway i'm sorry let's finish this this thing and then i'll share with you.

974
01:54:03.000 --> 01:54:05.250
Isabelle Duvivier: My colon information.

975
01:54:05.520 --> 01:54:16.200
sarahwauters: OK, so the motion i'll repeat it one more time and then everyone who's on the committee let's go ahead and raise our hands if we approve so.

976
01:54:16.950 --> 01:54:33.600
sarahwauters: Here it is the Venice arbor committee supports the Lincoln fast forward green architecture plan as drafted by the dnc parking and transportation committee which intelligently increases the greening and incorporation of trees along Lincoln boulevard.

977
01:54:37.290 --> 01:54:38.220
Isabelle Duvivier: i'll second that.

978
01:54:39.210 --> 01:54:43.230
sarahwauters: Okay uh i'll did somebody else first it.

979
01:54:44.160 --> 01:54:45.810
Isabelle Duvivier: You did oh.

980
01:54:45.960 --> 01:54:46.530
Isabelle Duvivier: I first.

981
01:54:46.890 --> 01:54:51.060
sarahwauters: knew Okay, we have a problem, though, because noel's not with us any longer.

982
01:54:52.380 --> 01:54:53.220
Isabelle Duvivier: michaels here.

983
01:54:53.670 --> 01:54:56.880
sarahwauters: Oh, Michael okay Michael go ahead, are you in approval.

984
01:54:58.950 --> 01:55:00.150
sarahwauters: We just need to hear from you.

985
01:55:01.530 --> 01:55:09.210
Michael McGuffin: You may be on his other call swim in approval, but I don't think i'm a formal member of far but if I am I approve.

986
01:55:09.750 --> 01:55:10.170
Every.

987
01:55:11.520 --> 01:55:12.570
Isabelle Duvivier: Everyone in the call.

988
01:55:12.570 --> 01:55:15.960
Isabelle Duvivier: So allowed to vote so Andreas Robin you guys can all, though.

989
01:55:16.080 --> 01:55:21.060
sarahwauters: Okay, everybody about them go ahead and raise your okay good Robin.

990
01:55:23.910 --> 01:55:24.600
Isabelle Duvivier: I don't mean.

991
01:55:25.470 --> 01:55:26.700
sarahwauters: she's unmute.

992
01:55:26.880 --> 01:55:29.220
Robin: yeah absolutely i'm full approval.

993
01:55:29.490 --> 01:55:31.560
sarahwauters: Okay, and calling user number two.

994
01:55:35.280 --> 01:55:36.060
sarahwauters: you're on mute.

995
01:55:37.590 --> 01:55:38.520
sarahwauters: Do you like to vote.

996
01:55:42.990 --> 01:55:46.800
Robin: I don't know that you can take our boots though I think it has to be your voting.

997
01:55:46.980 --> 01:55:50.160
sarahwauters: board that, but it has to be there, I think it has to be the committee to but.

998
01:55:50.520 --> 01:55:53.880
Isabelle Duvivier: i'm seeing other b&c subcommittees do this so.

999
01:55:54.150 --> 01:56:02.130
sarahwauters: Are you okay okay so uh let's see i've got me Andreas Isabel Robin and Michael.

1000
01:56:10.830 --> 01:56:17.670
Isabelle Duvivier: All right, you guys, I have to get off this call, so I can let it let it run, but it did you want to see the colon info.

1001
01:56:18.030 --> 01:56:19.110
sarahwauters: Yes, I do want to see.

1002
01:56:23.880 --> 01:56:25.020
Isabelle Duvivier: Can you see that.

1003
01:56:26.280 --> 01:56:27.210
sarahwauters: Oh, my gosh.

1004
01:56:27.840 --> 01:56:35.610
Isabelle Duvivier: it's just the stuff in yellow it's the budget and Finance Committee special meeting.

1005
01:56:39.000 --> 01:56:44.220
Isabelle Duvivier: And I don't I have no idea what they're talking about so just.

1006
01:56:44.220 --> 01:56:45.750
Isabelle Duvivier: call in and say that.

1007
01:56:46.680 --> 01:56:52.170
Isabelle Duvivier: If you want call in and say that urban forestry is woefully under.

1008
01:56:53.190 --> 01:56:59.490
Isabelle Duvivier: Most most cities get 1% we barely give a quarter of a percent of our budget.

1009
01:57:00.030 --> 01:57:14.880
Isabelle Duvivier: right that trees are dying there's no enforcement we're on a 20 year trimming cycle it's well known that we should be at least trimming our trees every five years and that's probably good enough.

1010
01:57:15.780 --> 01:57:18.150
sarahwauters: Right Okay, yes.

1011
01:57:19.980 --> 01:57:25.080
sarahwauters: Okay, so um, thank you for that Isabel when is that call beginning.

1012
01:57:26.040 --> 01:57:28.980
Isabelle Duvivier: Like five minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes ago.

1013
01:57:30.240 --> 01:57:43.590
sarahwauters: that's fine Okay, so we should probably wrap up here pretty quick since we're at 115 um we have a couple more issues, it sounds like Isabel you're gonna you're gonna go and.

1014
01:57:45.090 --> 01:57:48.840
sarahwauters: leave us with these we have 123 more.

1015
01:57:50.460 --> 01:58:05.550
sarahwauters: agenda items that we plan to discuss the big watering the pen mar golf course and then the tree wall expansion throughout Venice so um do you want to stay for any of those items as well, or do we want.

1016
01:58:05.550 --> 01:58:06.030
Isabelle Duvivier: to know.

1017
01:58:06.150 --> 01:58:07.860
Isabelle Duvivier: The next I wanted to jump on this call.

1018
01:58:07.950 --> 01:58:09.450
Isabelle Duvivier: Okay huh.

1019
01:58:10.680 --> 01:58:11.190
sarahwauters: Okay.

1020
01:58:12.420 --> 01:58:12.660
sarahwauters: Good.

1021
01:58:12.720 --> 01:58:15.450
Isabelle Duvivier: To stay on i'll leave i'll leave the zoom going.

1022
01:58:15.720 --> 01:58:16.170
sarahwauters: Okay.

1023
01:58:16.350 --> 01:58:21.960
Isabelle Duvivier: leave this none of those other things are really urgent and noel's not here to talk about the bid stuff so.

1024
01:58:22.110 --> 01:58:23.250
sarahwauters: yeah, so I think.

1025
01:58:23.310 --> 01:58:24.660
Isabelle Duvivier: Probably just adjourn.

1026
01:58:24.840 --> 01:58:30.030
sarahwauters: I can address i'll address the old business kind marvel for us because I did get a report from.

1027
01:58:31.050 --> 01:58:36.450
sarahwauters: Barry on that and so i'll address that and then we'll adjourn.

1028
01:58:37.470 --> 01:58:43.710
sarahwauters: Okay, all right okay so as some of you probably know, there has been.

1029
01:58:44.910 --> 01:58:59.310
sarahwauters: A lot of discussion with regard to how we're going to replace the the dirt walk that goes along with the pen mark off course, there was, as you guys are unsure painfully aware that there was a.

1030
01:58:59.970 --> 01:59:06.630
sarahwauters: There was an encampment there for quite some time and then there were a number of fires and because of the safety issues.

1031
01:59:07.140 --> 01:59:18.240
sarahwauters: The residents in that neighborhood were finally able to get the city to remove the encampment and now the city wants to replace that dirt area that's alongside the golf course with a concrete path.

1032
01:59:18.840 --> 01:59:27.570
sarahwauters: And Barry and a number of other people in East Venice have proposed something actually kind of similar to what you're proposing Evan.

1033
01:59:28.770 --> 01:59:30.840
sarahwauters: And they have been.

1034
01:59:31.920 --> 01:59:41.700
sarahwauters: Passing around a petition and they've gotten funding number of signatures at this point and they're trying to force the city or at least you know.

1035
01:59:41.730 --> 01:59:49.050
sarahwauters: pleased with the city to put in something that's quite a bit different than the concrete sidewalk that they're envisioning.

1036
01:59:49.410 --> 01:59:56.580
sarahwauters: So there is a new meeting coming up, I think the signature level is at least greater than 250 signatures at this point.

1037
01:59:57.030 --> 02:00:06.480
sarahwauters: And then the next probably The next meeting will have Barry and her cohort will be able to come to us and let us know what's happening with the city.

1038
02:00:07.050 --> 02:00:15.030
sarahwauters: They they did try to get a meeting with my phone and and it was all scheduled and they went to his offices and he just didn't show up so.

1039
02:00:16.260 --> 02:00:32.220
sarahwauters: they're they're continuing to really lobby hard not to have concrete fill in that end of rows so that's all for that report at the moment um does anybody else know anything else about that that they'd like to add, or do they have any questions.

1040
02:00:32.970 --> 02:00:46.680
Robin: So I know that it's a decompose granted pathway with plantings along so um yeah it looks you know very enjoyable it looks very you know, like serene as opposed to just being more concrete.

1041
02:00:47.190 --> 02:00:49.350
sarahwauters: yeah it looks and I think they've added quite a.

1042
02:00:49.350 --> 02:01:07.260
sarahwauters: Number of natives um so it would be basically you know, extending the green area of the golf course out into that that sort of pathway next to it and then people would be able to circumnavigate the golf course again and where they used to be able to do.

1043
02:01:07.740 --> 02:01:13.500
Evan Corrigan: yeah the plan looks beautiful it's like exactly what everybody wants to see.

1044
02:01:14.220 --> 02:01:25.110
Evan Corrigan: And yeah on the golf course side of rose or doesn't really need to be parking on before between Lincoln and pen mar.

1045
02:01:26.760 --> 02:01:30.300
sarahwauters: yeah I agree, yes yeah cuz nobody's working there anyway.

1046
02:01:30.750 --> 02:01:37.620
Robin: yeah and it's a better surface for jogging and yeah I was able to actually at one time the city.

1047
02:01:38.940 --> 02:01:41.940
Robin: we're trying to tell me that I couldn't put in decompose Granite.

1048
02:01:42.750 --> 02:01:55.200
Robin: In the corner ballpark but they ended up changing their ways and allowed it, so I know that decompose granted is permitted, I think they're dealing with record parks, I think it's wrecking parks were controlling and i'm not sure that.

1049
02:01:55.830 --> 02:01:57.840
Robin: Now, its ability to develop.

1050
02:01:58.260 --> 02:02:12.390
sarahwauters: they're trying they actually want to try to get record parks to to take over the land and that's The difficulty is that who's going to maintain it right who wants to put it into their budget for maintenance and that's the.

1051
02:02:13.560 --> 02:02:22.740
sarahwauters: that's I think part of the rub is then the different various agencies that are involved don't believe that they have to keep this thing, going so.

1052
02:02:22.770 --> 02:02:31.380
Robin: Will it, it was the city that allowed me finally to put decompose granted in the corner ballpark and it, it maintains really well, I mean it stays where it's supposed to be.

1053
02:02:31.710 --> 02:02:32.160
sarahwauters: It looks.

1054
02:02:32.400 --> 02:02:39.510
sarahwauters: It looks really good, what is the what is the agency that actually has authority over the park.

1055
02:02:40.980 --> 02:02:41.970
sarahwauters: The ballpark I mean.

1056
02:02:42.660 --> 02:02:43.080
Oh.

1057
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Robin: Well it's two different divisions of the city, but I carry the insurance for it, then when I have a revocable permit so whenever you do something like that, and yet, maybe that's what they should be doing is getting a remarkable permit and doing it themselves.

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Robin: You know, you might mention the ask Barry if she's ever looked into that because that's how I built the ballpark.

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Robin: And then, and then it's it's pretty insane and then I have to carry the insurance, I mean she'd have to beat them, they can form well they've got their East Venice neighborhood group and maybe they as an entity could carry the insurance for it, or something like that.

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Evan Corrigan: What is.

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sarahwauters: A revocable permit Does that mean that the city can say we're revoking your permit.

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Robin: yeah but they don't they you know they last, for you know hundreds of years or something.

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sarahwauters: Okay that's a really great suggestion thanks Robin okay um any other questions or suggestions.

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Robin: Oh, I have a question um what have you been able to find out about a watering truck I know that Jim said that the trailer I have cannot carry his water tank and i'm just wondering if you've been able to make progress and what what you're able to do.

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sarahwauters: I did I did present at the last meeting.

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sarahwauters: Numbers with regard to what it would be to hire someone to do the watering and it turned out that it was in order to you know, once a month, it would be 1000 to $2,000 is pretty expensive.

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sarahwauters: So we haven't really explored any further to to into getting something a little bit more catches catch, can you just kind of down and dirty and.

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sarahwauters: You know I think that's just none of us really own a truck and we haven't discussed yet we haven't found someone that does um but yeah we'd have to be something that was really party to.

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sarahwauters: Put you know big tanks of water on the back of it and that's really what we're talking about, so now we haven't made any progress on that, but I think that Noel had something that she's been referred to us.

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sarahwauters: And then she couldn't get a jump off the call because of something that was going on for her so so we may hear from her again next month.

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Robin: So, but it's not an immediate need to your okay.

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sarahwauters: yeah I mean it isn't it isn't right, we want to water things as fast as we can, we do have a way that we've been watering things but it's not going to.

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Robin: Be oh.

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sarahwauters: Good abby we have a small trailer.

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sarahwauters: Okay okay folks i'm so glad everybody came today, it was a smaller meeting than usual, because I was a little bit late off the mark getting my my my notifications out but we certainly had a lot of information that's really useful and interesting and I think.

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sarahwauters: West of blink and i'm going to try to talk to kiss the ground and if any of these other tasks i'm going to get the agenda of theirs, but this possible.

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sarahwauters: You guys can do some lifting or help out on that would be great so Okay, I think we're ready to adjourn.

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sarahwauters: Okay, thanks for coming Evan your presentation was really great.

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sarahwauters: Okay bye guys.

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sarahwauters: Thank you.