WEBVTT 1 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:27.850 james murez: To find out. 2 00:00:32.689 --> 00:00:34.040 I'm sure 3 00:00:40.030 --> 00:00:42.030 james murez: for you. Hold on! I got to start this Me 4 00:00:54.140 --> 00:01:00.190 james murez: you have to remote parents to build it being 5 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:27.860 all right. Great! There we go, 6 00:01:29.730 --> 00:01:31.919 Daffodil Tyminski: Jim. Can you hear me, 7 00:01:34.590 --> 00:01:35.679 Daffodil Tyminski: Jim? 8 00:01:41.060 --> 00:01:42.119 Daffodil Tyminski: You What 9 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.130 james murez: fun! You're under my end! But just wave or something so I know you can hear me. 10 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:49.679 Daffodil Tyminski: I can hear you 11 00:01:49.690 --> 00:01:52.029 james murez: now. I I couldn't before now. I can hear you. 12 00:01:52.580 --> 00:01:54.389 Daffodil Tyminski: Okay, Thanks so much. 13 00:02:24.760 --> 00:02:26.070 Daffodil Tyminski: Hi, guys! 14 00:02:31.260 --> 00:02:35.149 Daffodil Tyminski: Ah, you guys are all muted, which is totally fun 15 00:02:35.830 --> 00:02:36.980 Daffodil Tyminski: to you. 16 00:02:55.490 --> 00:02:59.860 Daffodil Tyminski: I can't hear you chuck. 17 00:03:00.700 --> 00:03:03.090 Daffodil Tyminski: Oh, okay, sorry. I thought. Your looks are moving. 18 00:03:04.210 --> 00:03:20.219 Daffodil Tyminski: And by the way, we can keep this short. I know there's nobody around, and we have nothing urgent. I just didn't want to like skip multiple meetings, but the Friday for Labor Day is tough. 19 00:03:20.380 --> 00:03:21.620 Daffodil Tyminski: Um, 20 00:03:21.910 --> 00:03:28.879 Daffodil Tyminski: and if there's nothing urgent we need to vote on, though next month one of the things on this month put on is 21 00:03:29.220 --> 00:03:36.099 an animal rights motion. That is kind of making its way through the city. But it's not going to go to City Council until November, 22 00:03:36.740 --> 00:03:40.740 Daffodil Tyminski: so we can do it next month, too, if we don't have a requirement to vote 23 00:03:42.410 --> 00:03:43.780 um. 24 00:03:44.390 --> 00:03:48.659 Daffodil Tyminski: And I asked Sarah Waters to join us. 25 00:03:48.920 --> 00:03:55.060 You guys, I don't know Sarah, if you know Daryl and Chuck. But Sarah is the head of the Arbor committee. 26 00:03:55.870 --> 00:03:59.149 Daffodil Tyminski: Is that right, Sarah? Is that? Am I? Is it the over committee? 27 00:03:59.900 --> 00:04:01.689 Daffodil Tyminski: I know it changed names at some point. 28 00:04:01.700 --> 00:04:03.190 Sarah Wauters: Now, that's correct. 29 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:09.449 Sarah Wauters: Yeah, that's correct. We changed it so that it was very clear that we were working with trees. 30 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:11.620 Daffodil Tyminski: Okay, 31 00:04:11.720 --> 00:04:13.030 Daffodil Tyminski: Um, 32 00:04:13.040 --> 00:04:28.340 Daffodil Tyminski: and it's something. I just wanted to get this out in the neighborhoods, because Sarah is doing all this fantastic work and does volunteer sessions every week, and things like that to beautify our neighborhoods, and I don't know that neighborhood my neighborhood people know about it, 33 00:04:28.780 --> 00:04:30.650 Daffodil Tyminski: so 34 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:38.179 Daffodil Tyminski: let's see who comes on, and we can have a meeting without a quorum. By the way, we just can't do anything. 35 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:49.530 Daffodil Tyminski: So let's see if anyone else joins. If they do great. If not, I'm going to suggest. We all just reconvene the first Friday of October, unless there's something everyone wants to address that you feel like we should call another meeting. 36 00:04:53.030 --> 00:04:56.780 Daffodil Tyminski: So I believe that's up to you guys. I don't have everything I had. I 37 00:04:56.890 --> 00:04:58.900 Daffodil Tyminski: put on the agenda for the moment. 38 00:04:59.010 --> 00:05:05.289 Sarah Wauters: That's fine by me. I would almost I would probably be better prepared in October. 39 00:05:05.300 --> 00:05:17.670 Sarah Wauters: Yeah. Some of what I want to talk about is the planting season which is coming up in the winter, and so get to the winter the better because it's fresh in people's minds. Right? So 40 00:05:18.980 --> 00:05:35.689 Daffodil Tyminski: okay, for the moment. Um, it's so funny the the two people we have on Darrell and Truck are among two of the more active people in the community. Um! So is there anything that we need to promote for you that we can maybe get out to our email lists and stuff like that. 41 00:05:35.700 --> 00:05:46.630 Sarah Wauters: Chuck! Hi! Nice to see you. Chuck is pretty active. He he always follows, He doesn't necessarily come to our meetings, but he follows what we're up to, and 42 00:05:46.690 --> 00:06:05.930 Sarah Wauters: the things that need to be promoting are just simply Saturdays. We work from eight to ten to yeah, eight to ten on most Saturdays, maintaining, planting, watering, and our trees. But I wanted to talk to you guys more about policy issues, and 43 00:06:05.940 --> 00:06:16.030 Daffodil Tyminski: you know it's a it's a little bit of a complex conversation. So if I think that if we have more folks attending, because it then does. This could be me. But you're 44 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:18.660 Sarah Wauters: sorry. 45 00:06:22.150 --> 00:06:24.219 Sarah Wauters: Got it? Okay, 46 00:06:24.860 --> 00:06:27.590 Sarah Wauters: Um. But the 47 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:45.189 Daffodil Tyminski: the main thing that we will be promoting when I do a full presentation is just that the importance of trees. It's one of our most important cities for both resilience and for environmental health, including climate change and biodiversity. 48 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:57.460 Sarah Wauters: So i'll talk more about those in detail once I present. But folks who want to come out and get their hands in the dirt. We're doing it every Saturday, and all they need to do is 49 00:06:57.470 --> 00:07:14.800 Sarah Wauters: email me. Let me know that they're interested. And then we typically will put someone on text stream and the text stream tells you exactly the address and what to bring. So it's very easy, very simple. And folks can feel like they're really making a difference, and it's only two hours. 50 00:07:16.100 --> 00:07:22.520 Daffodil Tyminski: I have a question just was thinking of you this way, sir, or could you put me on the textbook? 51 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:23.720 Sarah Wauters: Yes, 52 00:07:24.210 --> 00:07:30.710 Sarah Wauters: I was speaking of you this morning because Nbc. News did a thing on the 53 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:36.499 Daffodil Tyminski: Los Angeles and shade, and how those places with shade. 54 00:07:36.650 --> 00:07:40.290 Charles Rosin: It's a much more manageable temperature. 55 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:47.290 Sarah Wauters: Yeah. So here in Venice do we have the same disparity with neighborhoods? 56 00:07:47.300 --> 00:08:06.649 Daffodil Tyminski: Yes, we are. We are a tree challenged neighborhood. One of the reasons is because the way that streets were built Here we have very narrow parkways in quite a lot of instances, and the city refuses to plant trees in narrow core ways. 57 00:08:06.660 --> 00:08:24.650 Sarah Wauters: Sometimes they'll plant a tree, but it'll be a very small tree, a tree that doesn't mature at a broad level. So we are shade, challenge, and it does cause quite a number of deaths. I think it's something like between twelve and one thousand four hundred deaths a year in the city, which are heap related. 58 00:08:24.660 --> 00:08:29.390 Daffodil Tyminski: So when you don't have shade on the street, you necessarily 59 00:08:29.460 --> 00:08:48.820 Sarah Wauters: ah generate quite a bit of reflected light and heat, and then, if you don't have straight on buildings, as you guys are probably experiencing today. You have a much hotter interior, much much. If a building is shaded by a large tree. It can be, 60 00:08:48.830 --> 00:08:56.350 Sarah Wauters: you know, ten, twenty degrees cooler than not. So it's a very, very significant public health issue. 61 00:09:01.790 --> 00:09:04.400 Sarah Wauters: Oh, you're muted! Oh, there you go. 62 00:09:04.410 --> 00:09:06.180 Charles Rosin: I also want to uh 63 00:09:06.210 --> 00:09:10.409 Charles Rosin: you to know that you know Kenan and the committee as well 64 00:09:11.560 --> 00:09:24.349 Charles Rosin: that you know we've been at Coastal Commission dealing with the Venice Median, and from your committee. No. L. Johnson actually 65 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:25.590 Charles Rosin: much appreciated. 66 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:26.190 Sarah Wauters: Yeah, 67 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:40.510 Sarah Wauters: i'm aware. I also wrote a letter actually to the Commission about the specific trees that are in the public parkway that surround that site. 68 00:09:40.520 --> 00:09:49.869 Sarah Wauters: I made them aware that if those trees are removed it will cause significant lowering of the 69 00:09:50.730 --> 00:10:03.299 Sarah Wauters: environmental benefits those trees provide which very, very specifically, they catch stormwater, and they keep stormwater polluted storm water out of the canals and out of the ocean. 70 00:10:03.340 --> 00:10:10.120 Sarah Wauters: So this is a very significant environment. It's an environmental issue that Hasn't even been addressed. 71 00:10:10.190 --> 00:10:30.069 Sarah Wauters: Unfortunately. So you know, we don't know what the plans are with regard to the removal of those trees. But we've been told they're going to be removed, and these are mature trees, and I think probably you guys are aware, takes twenty five years to grow a mature tree, so mature tree is exponentially 72 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:59.590 Sarah Wauters: more beneficial to the residents of a neighborhood than a replacement tree which will not be able to provide those environmental benefits for many years to come. I mean, i'm sure you guys have seen our little trees, our baby trees that we plant everywhere, and we are caring for them, nurturing them. But they are not providing shade, and they won't quite a number of years. Of course you have to get started somewhere. So it's really important that those trees 73 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:14.530 Sarah Wauters: the tree is actually the sycamores that are on Venice. I'm sure you guys are aware. If you drive down Venice, it's actually quite beautiful, and the trees that might be removed if the medium goes forward are part of those legacy trees. 74 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:44.360 Sarah Wauters: So Jim participated, I think, twenty five years ago I think it's more than twenty five years ago in planting all of the sycamores from Lincoln down to the ocean, and I think it's something like twenty trees will be if the median has to remove those trees for construction, so it's something worth getting The coastal permission to put a restriction on the even if the development goes forward, they should say, Yeah, those trees must remain, and you 75 00:11:44.370 --> 00:11:54.170 Sarah Wauters: will be fine heavily if they're not. That's you know. That's something that I'm suggested to the commission. The other thing that I think is very significant 76 00:11:54.180 --> 00:12:21.780 Sarah Wauters: is Lincoln Boulevard has been an eyesore, as i'm. Sure all of you are aware of for a long time, and it does not have sufficient tree canopy cover, and presently Caltrans is going to be transferring that street back to the city, and it is supposed to. It is obligated to pass the street back in good working order, and presently. It is not. 77 00:12:21.790 --> 00:12:34.169 Sarah Wauters: Those sidewalks also are part of Caltrans authority, and I think we need to lobby hard to force caltrans to plant trees and to put in planters of a very significant degree. 78 00:12:34.180 --> 00:12:41.809 Sarah Wauters: And this is this is something i'm working on with the parking and transportation folks. But we're kind of stalled at the moment 79 00:12:41.950 --> 00:12:46.230 Sarah Wauters: we need um. We need some help and some money on that regard. 80 00:12:49.060 --> 00:12:50.890 Daffodil Tyminski: Just imagine, 81 00:12:50.900 --> 00:12:56.219 i'm trying to promote who, I believe, is our new Venice Deputy. 82 00:12:56.970 --> 00:13:00.560 Daffodil Tyminski: Just so he can say, Hello, Okay, 83 00:13:02.250 --> 00:13:15.949 leiva: and Louis. Good morning, everyone. Yeah. I'm in transit. My name is Louis Leva. This is my first speak with Council Member Mike Bonnan's office. So, wrapping up the first week playing catch up. But I wanted to make myself available to you all, 84 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:20.919 leiva: and I will share my email address uh my Covid 85 00:13:21.460 --> 00:13:40.639 leiva: One one. I think you all for the invitation, and I know that there's a lot of ah attention! That. Ah, the neighborhood of the block really needs. So. Ah! I am excited to be working with you, all excited, to get to know you all. I'll drop in um my contacts again. I'm still being oriented on how to take care of things and how to process certain orders and 86 00:13:40.650 --> 00:13:59.079 leiva: of the sort. But um again, we're really thinking for the group the work that the Neighborhood Council does. Um. And ah, yeah, ah, sorry about being a little short. I have a sick kid. But um, yeah, I'm really looking forward to meeting you all, and my email is available. I started receiving inquiries already 87 00:13:59.090 --> 00:14:09.069 leiva: from focus on the Neighborhood Council. So again, I really thank you all for your support. And right now, patients as I'm. Still getting on board it, but definitely available to you all. 88 00:14:11.630 --> 00:14:15.410 Sarah Wauters: Hi, Louie. Welcome. Thank you so much. 89 00:14:18.270 --> 00:14:19.770 I'll let you know. 90 00:14:20.260 --> 00:14:22.530 Daffodil Tyminski: Yeah, welcome. 91 00:14:22.540 --> 00:14:32.730 Daffodil Tyminski: Um. I'll let you know the and if you want to come back in, one can probably help, 92 00:14:36.940 --> 00:14:40.860 Daffodil Tyminski: because we're all we've all been while you're getting up the speed. If you need something, just please. 93 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.239 Daffodil Tyminski: I appreciate it. Thank you so much 94 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:50.070 Sarah Wauters: kind of cutting in and out. 95 00:14:52.070 --> 00:14:53.530 Darryl DuFay: Hello! 96 00:14:53.630 --> 00:14:56.650 Daffodil Tyminski: Oh, sorry about that. Um! 97 00:14:57.500 --> 00:15:06.150 Daffodil Tyminski: I was just saying to Louis. Welcome and reach out if we can do anything for him, because there's a lot of institutional knowledge here, 98 00:15:08.090 --> 00:15:12.910 Charles Rosin: and none, and none more than Darrell to fade, who just wanted to speak there. So, 99 00:15:13.660 --> 00:15:15.590 Charles Rosin: Daryl, What were you saying, 100 00:15:16.520 --> 00:15:21.440 Darryl DuFay: I wonder if Lai Va. Is a first or last name. 101 00:15:23.190 --> 00:15:26.989 I'll give Louis's contact information over email. Daryl: 102 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:28.050 Darryl DuFay: Thank you. 103 00:15:28.990 --> 00:15:32.820 Charles Rosin: I I have a question back for Sarah, 104 00:15:32.970 --> 00:15:35.020 Charles Rosin: which has to do with the 105 00:15:35.640 --> 00:15:36.710 the true way 106 00:15:37.310 --> 00:15:44.360 Daffodil Tyminski: in Centennial Park. Are they getting any? Why, they what's going on? It looks awful. 107 00:15:44.540 --> 00:16:03.370 Sarah Wauters: It does look awful, and we have been bugging the um wreck and parks to let us get in there and water those trees um, and we haven't had any answers from them. Unfortunately, Um Isabel does have some pretty good contacts and wreck inside of 108 00:16:03.380 --> 00:16:14.310 Sarah Wauters: um. We haven't gotten any answers, and we've been asking, probably for i'd say two months now, ever since the encampment was, 109 00:16:15.090 --> 00:16:21.610 Sarah Wauters: you know, disbanded. So we do. We have been running poses 110 00:16:21.620 --> 00:16:41.850 Sarah Wauters: from the farmers market over to the trees that are the baby oak trees, and the other mature trees that are in the sort of west end of the library. But we haven't been able to get any water into the um the trees on that side. The fact is that most of the Moors don't get water at all. 111 00:16:41.860 --> 00:17:03.110 Sarah Wauters: Um, unless we're watering them. And so we've watered all of the trees that we released from their concrete. I don't know if you guys saw that project, but quite a number of the sycamores were being choked off by agriculture, which is supposedly a permeable concrete, but it's not really permeable. 112 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:14.160 Sarah Wauters: So we removed that concrete and we watered extensively those trees that were suffering because they were being choked at the trunk. 113 00:17:14.410 --> 00:17:29.570 Sarah Wauters: Those trees have received water, and you might notice It's patchy. Some of the sycamores are doing well. Some are not, and it's hard to explain which ones are and which are not. Centennial Park is particularly vulnerable, because they're not next to any dars. 114 00:17:29.580 --> 00:17:42.039 Sarah Wauters: If people are watering their yard, then the water goes down and the tree can find it. But since it's on the other side of the street. It really needs irrigation, and we've been asking. But nobody is giving us any answers, 115 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.640 Sarah Wauters: so i'm sorry I can't really report a happy 116 00:17:46.550 --> 00:17:49.790 Daffodil Tyminski: respond. Are you? Can you hear me? 117 00:17:49.800 --> 00:17:51.110 Daffodil Tyminski: Yes, I can 118 00:17:51.120 --> 00:18:09.750 Daffodil Tyminski: work in progress very quickly, Guys, I know you're in the middle of things. So 119 00:18:09.760 --> 00:18:12.030 Darryl DuFay: who's the sir? You're talking to 120 00:18:12.040 --> 00:18:13.559 Sarah Wauters: leave that. 121 00:18:13.570 --> 00:18:28.260 Daffodil Tyminski: Oh, I see. His name is still okay. 122 00:18:29.380 --> 00:18:36.450 Daffodil Tyminski: He's only been here for a couple days. It just may have been a little too early. He probably doesn't even know what that is. Yeah, let him up this. 123 00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:38.690 Daffodil Tyminski: Yeah, I'm taking notes. 124 00:18:38.700 --> 00:18:44.530 leiva: I hear you. I know that you all are frustrated. I understand. 125 00:18:44.540 --> 00:18:48.470 leiva: I'm from Los Angeles, Nood of Venice. 126 00:18:48.880 --> 00:19:07.980 leiva: Thank you, notes. I hear you. I know how fast it you all are. I know how much you care about your community. But with that again, like the most that I can do right now, because i'm only forty is in is take notes. I can follow up accordingly. Like I said, I shared my contact information with Daffodil. Um, I'm 127 00:19:08.410 --> 00:19:09.810 leiva: I I you! 128 00:19:09.820 --> 00:19:13.990 Sarah Wauters: I think Darryl was going to say something. Darren, would you go ahead. 129 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.750 Darryl DuFay: Yeah, Because 130 00:19:15.800 --> 00:19:23.319 Darryl DuFay: I totally agree with all you're saying. But but we're talking about H. Twoo, and we're in a drought, 131 00:19:23.460 --> 00:19:43.389 Sarah Wauters: and there are people asking people to stop watering a do do do? I would suggest that in any discussion about watering trees you need to. So you need to get some type of volume that you use, and or how often how it is. Besides the benefit it has. 132 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:55.480 Darryl DuFay: So there it is, it's It's nice to talk about them, but I never hear anybody say It's It's like when they're saying we're going to build new houses for five hundred thousand people. 133 00:19:56.610 --> 00:20:00.309 Darryl DuFay: I always think about water water the city, 134 00:20:00.320 --> 00:20:04.640 Sarah Wauters: Darrell. The city, has advised us that we need to water the trees. 135 00:20:04.650 --> 00:20:22.039 Sarah Wauters: They have advised us that there must be water in the trees. And the reason for that is because if the trees perish, our heat and water situation rose far worse. 136 00:20:22.130 --> 00:20:30.390 Darryl DuFay: But please put that into a presentation, so that those people like myself are saying. What about that? 137 00:20:31.910 --> 00:20:33.609 Darryl DuFay: That's all i'm gonna say 138 00:20:33.620 --> 00:20:43.360 Sarah Wauters: it's. I mean, I I appreciate what you're saying. Unfortunately, the most of those mature trees, the sycamores 139 00:20:43.370 --> 00:20:59.659 Sarah Wauters: we're not being slaughtered prior to this most recent drought, because they were fine with the level of water we were receiving. But Now there's so little rain that even mature trees with deep root systems are suffering. 140 00:20:59.670 --> 00:21:16.310 Sarah Wauters: So it's impossible really to say how much is needed unless you have studied very intently the amount of rainfall that we've had over the last three years. Typically, what we do is we do a drip uttering for about a half an hour, 141 00:21:16.470 --> 00:21:27.989 Sarah Wauters: so we put the hose at a very low level of volume, so that it flows very slowly, and can be absorbed fully by the soil at the root ball of that tree, 142 00:21:28.360 --> 00:21:32.440 Sarah Wauters: so that, you know equals. I don't know 143 00:21:33.820 --> 00:21:47.160 Sarah Wauters: maybe ten gallons not a lot. So we're trying to do the watering as efficiently as possible, and I would ask everyone here to water the trees on your property in that same manner with the hose at a drip 144 00:21:47.170 --> 00:21:59.400 Sarah Wauters: at the drip line of the tree, which means usually the outside of its perimeter, the tree canopy outside of that perimeter, and do it for about a half an hour. 145 00:22:02.590 --> 00:22:03.710 Charles Rosin: Thank you. 146 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:04.840 Daffodil Tyminski: You're welcome. 147 00:22:04.990 --> 00:22:06.190 Thank you. 148 00:22:06.540 --> 00:22:10.259 Daffodil Tyminski: Um, All right, guys. Should we reconvene next month? 149 00:22:10.700 --> 00:22:12.570 Sarah Wauters: Yes, let's do that. 150 00:22:13.290 --> 00:22:14.740 Daffodil Tyminski: Thank you. Sure. 151 00:22:14.820 --> 00:22:22.700 Daffodil Tyminski: Ok, I want to thank you guys, you just going to leave email and provide him with some work to do, 152 00:22:23.500 --> 00:22:28.269 Sarah Wauters: Sarah. I will send an email out with the Committee on it. Okay, Thank you. 153 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:30.529 Daffodil Tyminski: Thanks so much for your time. 154 00:22:30.540 --> 00:22:34.900 Daffodil Tyminski: All the best. All right. Guys have a great labor Day weekend. 155 00:22:35.150 --> 00:22:37.190 Sarah Wauters: You, too. 156 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:38.690 Daffodil Tyminski: I will stay cool, 157 00:22:44.100 --> 00:22:46.430 Daffodil Tyminski: alright, alright, bye, Guys.