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jim murez: Desk. 1, 2,

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jim murez: Jim, Rob, Don't make somebody raise their hand. Makes it too hard to do it. People start doing that.

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jim murez: Lost you

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jim murez: There you are.

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jim murez: Jim Rob. I'm promoting you.

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jim murez: Vicki. I am promoting you.

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Jim Robb: Hey, Jim!

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jim murez: Hey, what's up, Jim? I clicked on that one for 60'clock. This is a 70'clock link on this one. Yeah, they're both the same link. That's okay.

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Jim Robb: because I clicked on it. It led me to the 0 land. So just fyi.

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jim murez: They're both. They're both the same link.

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Jim Robb: Okay, all right.

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jim murez: I see a daft. I don't know if that's

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jim murez: I don't know if it will promote if she's on her phone.

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Jim Robb: I tried

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Vicki Halliday: Hi, Jim

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jim murez: definitely. I'm gonna go ahead and make you co-host and If you see people coming in, we can both continue to attack it.

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jim murez: So it sound okay.

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Vicki Halliday: The

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Vicki Halliday: Jim. I don't know if you can. Why, don't you come up with me and i'll help you.

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jim murez: Yeah, no, vicki, that's what I was. I was talking. To you, Vicki: i'm gonna make you Co-host and assume that Daffodil has an intermittent connection.

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Daff: Yeah, but yeah, it's better. Vicky will be a more steady.

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jim murez: Yeah. And then, if you have to interrupt, you can get off.

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Daff: Okay, Thank you.

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It's really back.

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Vicki Halliday: I'm promoting her

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by switching over to the

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jim murez: I'm, listening to somebody to try to describe aaa insurance in the background.

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making

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jim murez: so for those of you that are tuned in. We're just waiting for a quorum, so we can get started.

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jim murez: The meeting is not scheduled to start for another couple of minutes, so we're still a little bit early, but

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jim murez: it looks like we'll probably be starting a few minutes late as well.

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Nico Ruderman: Hey, Jim?

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jim murez: Good evening. How are you, Nico?

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Nico Ruderman: I'm. Great

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Patrick. I assume that that is

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jim murez: our new Board member. Let's promote him and see.

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Vicki Halliday: Hello.

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jim murez: the Patrick.

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Vicki Halliday: Oh, I think I just did.

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jim murez: I don't know what happened now

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jim murez: it says Patrick.

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If he's on a cell phone

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jim murez: he might not be able to.

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jim murez: he promoted

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jim murez: Patrick. Are you? Raise your hand, Patrick? If you are

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jim murez: our new board member.

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jim murez: That would be star 9, I think, on your phone.

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jim murez: Tally. I'm promoting you.

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Alley Bean: Thank you.

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jim murez: You're welcome. Welcome, Welcome, Ali. They give you time off for good behavior. Huh?

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Alley Bean: Not quite

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jim murez: okay.

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Alley Bean: Bad behavior. Good time off for bad behavior.

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jim murez: Kai. I'm promoting you.

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Alley Bean: You growing a beer, Jim.

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jim murez: Oh, you know there's only so many hours in the week anymore.

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jim murez: Thank you for noticing, though now I now I feel self conscious

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Alley Bean: it's that new. Look. You know.

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jim murez: You know my daughter's in town, and she's leaving, did you? Yeah, She was with Robin today. Yeah, yeah. And and you know, I trying to spend as much time with her, and not taking care of other stuff. But still, what can I say? I won't see her for 6 months now.

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Alley Bean: Oh.

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jim murez: Cj. I'm promoting you.

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jim murez: Patrick. I'm going to try and promote you.

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jim murez: Did that work. Your hand was up.

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jim murez: I can also allow you to talk, Patrick. You're unmuted.

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Patrick: But yeah, no, i'm not the new board member. Can you hear me? I I I am not. You are not okay. So i'm going to move your permission to talk. That's okay. Okay, your problem. Thanks.

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jim murez: So that I'm promoting you.

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jim murez: Sima: I'm: promoting you.

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jim murez: Jay, i'm promoting you and then Jason. First I got him ready. Okay, and Jay, I'm promoting you. You moved.

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jim murez: Try again. There we go. J: I'm: promoting you.

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jim murez: We're still missing several people. There's Patrick

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jim murez: Patrick. I'm: going to promote you.

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jim murez: I don't know if that worked.

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jim murez: Patrick. I'm gonna allow you to. You just disappeared.

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jim murez: Maybe you move to the top.

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Vicki Halliday: I'm trying to promote you.

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jim murez: Patrick. I'm going to unmute you.

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jim murez: If if if you're on a cell phone, I can't promote you to a panelist, I can only allow you to participate by

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jim murez: speaking when called on.

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jim murez: Are you there?

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jim murez: You have to unmute yourself.

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jim murez: You're on a cell phone. I think it's Star 6.

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jim murez: Hey, Jim, this is Patrick I'm: I'm. Actually here. I don't know if you're talking to me. Yeah, no. Are you? Are you on a? No, no. I'm on a computer. Okay, i'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and promote you to a panelist. Yeah, that's when I do that

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jim murez: you should be able to accept. Now.

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jim murez: here you go.

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Vicki Halliday: Who else? Who else? Who else? Elizabeth Clay? I'm promoting?

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jim murez: you're farther down the list than me.

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jim murez: I'm going to try and promote J a second time.

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Vicki Halliday: Mike. Bravo! I'm promoting you.

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jim murez: Okay, Jay just made it. I think.

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jim murez: Jay, are you there?

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jim murez: I'm in here. I'm from Thank you.

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jay: 40.

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jim murez: Okay? Well, clearly. We have a quorum. I'm going to go ahead and start the meeting, Vicki, if you can keep an idea like Excuse me, not a not an idea, and I out on a later rivals very helpful. I won't be able to see the list while i'm

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jim murez: doing this, let's see. I want to

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jim murez: also include live kept. Let's see. Close captions are now on.

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Vicki Halliday: and if your board member, please raise your hand. There are a lot of attendees tonight, so it'd be very helpful if you raise your hand and I can find you and what you land.

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jim murez: Let me see if I can

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jim murez: find my other screen.

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jim murez: Just 1 s.

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jim murez: Okay.

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jim murez: Okay. So

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jim murez: let's go ahead and call this meeting to order.

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jim murez: We start. Save this at 604

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jim murez: and

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jim murez: take roll call.

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jim murez: James mirrors. I'm here, Daffodil.

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jim murez: everybody can unmute. We can get through this fairly quickly. Daffodil you here.

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Daff: Yeah, some here.

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jim murez: Thank you. Melissa

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jim murez: Lisa Diner

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jim murez: Jay.

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jay: Yes.

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jim murez: Vicki

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Vicki Halliday: Here.

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jim murez: Bravo! Excuse me, Bruno.

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jim murez: That was a real slip. Sorry about that

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Sima Kostov: here.

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jim murez: Thank you, Nico.

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Nico Ruderman: Present

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jim murez: Jim Rob.

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Jim Robb: Sure

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jim murez: chasing sugars.

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Jason Sugars: Here.

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jim murez: Alley.

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Alley Bean: Here.

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jim murez: Kai.

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Chie: here.

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jim murez: Mike.

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Mike Bravo: here

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jim murez: solid. Add

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Vicki Halliday: i'm promoting her. Now, Jim

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jim murez: Elizabeth.

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Soledad Ursua: I got thrown off.

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jim murez: What was that?

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Clark Brown: Clark? Here.

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jim murez: Mikhail

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jim murez: Zachary

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jim murez: Patrick.

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Patrick McKinley: here?

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jim murez: Thank you that I miss anybody. If you arrive late you gotta tell me so.

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jim murez: I did notice just now it's pop up on my screen. Vicki, that Ivan is here. I let him in already, Jim. Okay, Thank you. Alright, Any ex parte communications from anyone on the board. I had conversations with various people at the Council staff

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jim murez: about getting Tracy scheduled for this evening

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jim murez: and other items. I don't think I had anything. Let me just quickly scroll down here. I've talked to everybody about all the items on the agenda, but just about getting them on the agenda. So, having said that other than that, I've had no other special communications with anyone, Does anybody else have anything that they would like to

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jim murez: share with us all

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jim murez: about tonight? Daffodil. You have your hand up.

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Daff: Yes, I also had conversations about logistics on various items on the agenda, but no substance of conversations on anything.

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jim murez: Thank you very much.

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jim murez: Anybody else.

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Vicki Halliday: Hmm.

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jim murez: No other expertise communications. Okay.

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jim murez: let's move

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jim murez: on with the agenda.

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jim murez: Vicki is Tracy here, yet

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jim murez: I do not see her yet

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jim murez: to her she's got about a 20 min window of opportunity to speak to us tonight, not going to take any questions, No, answers. She's just going to make a presentation.

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jim murez: We also have a special meeting that we're going to take a recess from this meeting on precisely at 70'clock. Assuming the Tracy is not speaking of Tracy speaking.

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jim murez: the other meeting will have to be postponed slightly until the other meeting can be started. We use the same zoom link on both meetings. So anybody coming to attend the second meeting, which is a special meeting with just one item. They will be able to wait until we're able to start that meeting.

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jim murez: Having said all of that, i'm now going to take out of order because we had a request from Tedloo's deputy to please be able to speak early on in the meeting, and Vicki, I believe you said. I promoted her already, Jim. Okay. So let me turn over the floor at this point

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jim murez: to Ted Loose deputy.

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jim murez: and you can go ahead and introduce yourself.

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Janet Turner: Good evening, Janet Turner, Deputy District Director for for outreach, for Congressman Tedlu, the California 36 District. You now live in California 36,

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Janet Turner: Dennis and we're happy to have you so I always like to sell. Take a a little bit of time to give good news, and getting money is to me is always good news. You might have heard the fiscal year 23 omnibus bill past the end of this year, and just a couple of things that I know, have to do with homelessness, because that's a big issue that everyone has on their mind.

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Janet Turner: The the Congressman push for an increase in V, a homeless assistance programs funding.

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Janet Turner: They got an increase of 530 millionIt's now funded at 2.7 billionThat's for things like Grant per DM and Ssvf and HUD vouchers. He also asked for an increase in Section 8 housing vouchers.

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Janet Turner: He requested 31.6 billionHe was able to get an increase. It wound up, though at 30.2 5 billion

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Janet Turner: Congressman is a strong believer in in a homeless prevention programs.

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Janet Turner: and he he pushed for more money for something called the Homeless Prevention Grant Program, where you can ask for a grant to establish housing services and mental health and substance abuse services.

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Janet Turner: So

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Janet Turner: he asked for 36.4 million and it was able to get 33.7 million

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Janet Turner: there. This whole bunch of whole bunch of things. If you have a child going to to college, he was able to get an increase in the pell grants of $500. Of course he wanted more, but that he always wants more. But we're always happy. We gradually get an increase.

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Janet Turner: So it just wanted to let you know that he's very busy fighting for you in Washington. Our office is always available for any Federal case work that you might have, and thanks so much for letting me have him a a couple of minutes appreciate it.

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jim murez: Thank you very much, Janet. Have a good evening. I understand You have several more meetings yet. Let you let you carry on.

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jim murez: always appreciate it.

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jim murez: Okay, I I was just received a a quick text while she was speaking. Tracy is in route. We should expect her in about 20 min. So why don't we go ahead on with the rest of our normal agenda, Vicki. Do we have anybody from La Pd. Or Laf d here.

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Vicki Halliday: We do not have anyone from Lapd. They had a conflicting meeting tonight.

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Vicki Halliday: I'm looking to see I don't see ding zipperman, so no

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Vicki Halliday: can it

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jim murez: is somebody Lance Mikowski.

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jim murez: Is he? L. A. Fd.

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jim murez: No. Okay. I just saw his hand pop upon my

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Vicki Halliday: Well, let's see who he is. I didn't see a hand pop up

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Vicki Halliday: not showing here.

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jim murez: Oct. Up again.

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Vicki Halliday: Lands.

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Lance McCloskey: I'm sorry i'm having technical difficulties with my stuff. Yes, I'm Lance Mkowski I'm, the

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Lance McCloskey: new battalion chief assigned a Italian for Chief Zipzer, and asked me to attend this meeting. I just wanted to say, Thank you, Lance. It's it's appreciate. We didn't know who you were. No, no problem, not not so. So. Go ahead, Feel free to to to give your report. You're You're up.

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Lance McCloskey: No, I've just he told me to come on the meeting and just let and introduce myself to you guys. Let you guys know I've been here in a battalion, for I was assigned here as a captain, probably about 8 years ago. I'm. Now Vc. Of in the BC. For the last 5 years.

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Lance McCloskey: and now i'm back to the time for, so i'll be working on in the office there at 8,900. Emerson. I'm just glad to be back and get back into the

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Lance McCloskey: area here and do some work pretty much as far as the fire department goes. We're

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Lance McCloskey: we're our staffing, starting to come back up, especially with all of the hires recent hires that we've had.

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Lance McCloskey: and we're just trying to get through. You know this cold and flu season. Keep everybody at work, and then, of course, the rain. So

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Lance McCloskey: if you guys have any questions, you can give me a call at (213) 485-6274

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Lance McCloskey: or area code, (213) 485-6238.

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Lance McCloskey: That's it. It's all I have.

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jim murez: I I have one quick question for you. I just want to understand if you're if I wanted to email you, Lance, this is Jim here, as i'm present to the Venice Neighborhood Council. If If if myself or anybody wanted to email you. Is is it your first name? Period last name@lacity.org?

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jim murez: All right. Very good. Thank you. And thank you for attending, and I look forward to working with you in the future. All right. Thank you.

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jim murez: So we don't have lapd here this evening. I think it has to do with it.

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jim murez: Let's move on

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jim murez: to Government reports. Janet Turner's already spoken. Do we have anybody here from Senator Ben Allen's office

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jim murez: from Tina Mcgregor's office from Lindsey, Horbeck's office from Mayor Bass's office. Tracy will be here shortly. Do we have any of these other folks here should we turn to my

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jim murez: Yeah, I don't know if Freddie's here, I would have yeah, let's promote Freddy and give him the mic. And in the Meantime, if you see any of these other folks looking yeah, they could. They could raise their hand if they're here.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you

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jim murez: Pretty, are you there.

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jim murez: Freddy? You got the mic?

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Vicki Halliday: Well.

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Vicki Halliday: I've allowed him to talk. So there you go.

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Vicki Halliday: Yeah.

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Vicki Halliday: or did we losing?

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Vicki Halliday: He bounced off. Jim.

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jim murez: Is Michael Lynn happen to be here tonight.

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Vicki Halliday: I see, Michael, Michael, if you're Michael, when please raise your hand.

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jay: I spoke to Michael earlier. He called me. He's in a conflicting meeting. He he is going to show up.

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jim murez: You know, fit a it down the line. Okay, yeah, Great, we will. We? We're looking forward to to getting an update on the elections from him. I I know. I reached out to him with an email to remind him about the meeting. But I didn't hear anything back. So

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jim murez: let's move on. We don't have any other Government folks here, the West Side Regional Alliance of councils I attended last night.

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jim murez: There is one or 2 items that I've already sent out to the

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jim murez: committee chairs to to decide if they want to take them up on items that that the rack has on their agenda

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jim murez: and let's move on to like Yolanda Gonzales was recently appointed at at the Adcom meeting to Lank Yolanda has raised her hand. Yolanda, with us promote you to speak?

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Yolanda Gonzalez: No, no, not yet not this year.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: and always people are invited to attend. But because I there is a vote that takes place through the like of neighborhood councils, and that will be representing the Venice Neighborhood Council there.

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jim murez: Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: The the the meeting of the Department of Water and power takes place before that, and then like comes in.

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jim murez: Let's go over more of this offline. Okay, we don't need to take everybody's time on this. Now.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: Okay, very good. I'll be talking to you because you need to send in a letter to Mr. Tara's home.

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jim murez: Bye bye.

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Vicki Halliday: there's Freddy, he's back. Let me promote you.

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jim murez: Freddie.

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jim murez: Raise his hand. Freddy, Freddy, are you there.

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jim murez: Freddie?

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jim murez: Freddie, are you there? Yes, now we can hear you all right. You got the floor, Freddy

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Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): perfect. I'm just gonna keep it very short, because we do have a special speaker that's coming up soon. Just wanted to say congratulations for Venice Neighborhood Council. You have a lot of candidates are vying for positions to be part of the board. So

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Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): i'm. Looking forward to the upcoming election my mail application period will open up on the twenty-seventh of January.

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Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): so i'll be working with your Elections Committee or your outreach committee to see how we can get that vote out to Get people to to vote for your upcoming election. The rest of my report, which will detail the funding training, and the rest will be email to the whole board, as well as the monthly Profile

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Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): and the Canada Information Guide. But other than that, if you want me to work on some designs to promote candidates in the order that it comes out in the ballot. Please let me know. I'll be more than happy to make one for you other than that.

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Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): Again, congratulations as the candidate filing period did close last week. I look forward to seeing the success of Venice Neighborhood Council as they move forward.

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jim murez: Thank you, Freddie. Thank you for keeping it very short this evening. We do have a big agenda.

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jim murez: Let's move on now. Budget and finance. I think we'll give you the opportunity to speak. When you give your treasures report, Land uses Michael here.

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Vicki Halliday: I haven't seen you.

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jim murez: Okay, i'm just now getting a text that

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jim murez: I don't know if she shows up she's now texting that if she shows up. Please mark her in.

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jim murez: We will do that neighborhood committee.

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jim murez: That would be Daffodil. Do you have anything to report to?

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Daff: Is she still on? I'm looking to report. Yeah, you know, I'm here. I'm: sorry I didn't meet you and nothing report. We will be meeting on the last Friday morning of this month. Okay, Thank you.

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jim murez: Ocean Front walk, Jim, Rob.

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Jim Robb: Hi, guys.

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Jim Robb: I'm going to be doing one more

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Jim Robb: So if anybody has any suggestions or anything going on and the

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Sima Kostov: Good evening, everybody. So

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Sima Kostov: don't have much to report, especially because I see Sarah Waters in the audience. So i'm assuming Sarah will speak.

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Sima Kostov: and Happy New Year, and glad to be back.

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jim murez: Oh, thank you. Okay, great. We don't have rules and selections at this point. Did Bruno show up

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Vicki Halliday: Haven't seen him?

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Vicki Halliday: Let's see. I don't see Keith.

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Vicki Halliday: You're allowed to talk

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jim murez: Erica, do you have anything to report on

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jim murez: the Resiliency Committee? Emergency preparedness?

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jim murez: Is she there?

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jim murez: Well, we'll move on. If she shows up we'll come back. He's here. But yeah, okay, with homelessness, Vicki, You want to have anything. Do you have any? This Frank is here. Okay, you want promote Frank.

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Vicki Halliday: Let's see. Right?

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Frank: and we'll have a meeting. We're having a meeting with the homeless, with the land use and planning committee

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Frank: tomorrow, and we'll have our normal meeting at the end of the month.

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jim murez: Thank you. And what time is tomorrow night's meetings? Everybody knows about that. 70'clock, 70'clock, and it's posted on the Bnc. Calendar. So anybody that wants to understand what the 2 committees are meeting about. Be a good time to tune in. Thank you, Frank.

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jim murez: Parking and transportation. Robert, do you have anything to report.

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robertthibodeau: Hold on.

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robertthibodeau: my muted. No, we can hear you.

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robertthibodeau: We have a couple of things on the agenda tonight. One regarding advocacy between

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robertthibodeau: I mean. This is on the agenda, so you can read it. The second one is Flower and i'd I don't know if i'm moving, but I would suggest that we just take that off because it had to do with blocking the sidewalks. And

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robertthibodeau: lo and behold, the sidewalks have been cleared since we had that motion early in December.

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robertthibodeau: flower. I have one anyways. No need to waste time with that.

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robertthibodeau: We did not have the January meeting. We will have the February meeting the first, because we didn't have January, because it was fall on the New Year's. We'll have the February one at the beginning of February.

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jim murez: All right. Great. I appreciate the update. Everybody in the community. I know you guys are doing a lot of hard work. Arbor Committee. Sarah, are you here?

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Isabelle Duvivier: I'm going to be I I have. I don't have a presentation today, but i'm mostly going to talk to you about money and some events

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Isabelle Duvivier: this this coming Saturday. We're gonna be joining the Venice Historical Society, doing some weeding of the historic ndola at the circle. On February fourth. We're working with the Venice Chamber of Commerce to weed the Farmers's Market area, where, as you probably know, we planted

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Isabelle Duvivier: we applied for. And so far we've gotten 2 grants, one and, thanks to the support of the Vnc. And the Chamber of Commerce. We got a $2,500 grant to do some work at Taber.

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Isabelle Duvivier: for to restore the plant material that L. A. D. O. T. Planted there 8 years ago. That's being butchered by the businesses in the community that don't realize it's a sensitive habitat, and then we got another $2,000 grant from Metropolitan water district

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Isabelle Duvivier: to do educational signage for the same area, to hopefully educate the community that those are special native plans from the Channel Islands. We also submitted a pre application for a grant to do a Rose Avenue estuary park, where, if by a really long shot, we were to even be considered for that we would bring that to you for for a larger, broader community discussion. And lastly, we've been

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Isabelle Duvivier: working with rap, and we finally got approval from them to plant 7 new trees with the dog park. So we'll be working on that this winter.

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jim murez: That's it for me. Thank you.

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jim murez: Let's move on to Joe Murphy. Are you here for the discussion Forum or Paul? Let's see i'm looking, and I see, Erica, you're here, Erica. Would you like to update us on the resiliency?

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Erica Moore: Absolutely.

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Erica Moore: So what's happening with the the resiliency is that starting this month on January twentieth.

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Erica Moore: we will be at the farmers market representing at the outreach table, and we will have a presentation there

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Erica Moore: for the community. And then also, we are looking at setting up a forum

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Erica Moore: at the end of February, very beginning of March, hopefully not in conflict with anything election related.

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Erica Moore: That's what we're kind of. Try to choose it a little earlier. So we're really hoping that the community will come out and participate in that. We're looking to have some emt people there so more to come on that, but go ahead and put that as a save the date.

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Erica Moore: Thank you so much for letting me be a service.

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jim murez: Thank you. Thank you for participating.

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Vicki Halliday: I do not see Joe Murphy out from a robin

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Vicki Halliday: are allowed to talk

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jim murez: preserving public spaces.

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Vicki Halliday: Robin got that? She was here. She just bounced off. Yeah, I don't know. I see her hand is raised. Maybe it's up there. She is the top. Okay, yeah.

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robin murez: I so I have some good news to report

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robin murez: the motion that the Vnc. Passed to

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robin murez: save or re purpose, or consider if it could be saved. The Venice Life Card Station tower has been opening up some eyes to the factual details, and the Department of Rec. And Parks

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robin murez: heard a presentation from the county on the Life Guard tower, and having heard that, and then looked at, read the actual underlying documents which we included in our motion, they concluded that

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robin murez: we should actually exactly what our motion asks for before doing any kind of demolition.

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robin murez: both rack will be doing its own outreach.

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robin murez: because that has never been conducted, and

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robin murez: proposals for repurposing the tower, if it's not to be used for Life Guards. So that's wonderful, and it's great to see that our motion and the petition that 1,200 people signed or more, is having an effect.

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robin murez: something that one of my committee members notice that we had failed to mention, and a question had arisen regarding that. I just want to point out that

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robin murez: the assessment that the county had for the cost of repairs and upgrades

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robin murez: The cost that they currently are

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robin murez: So for those who were concerned that a lot of money was being spent to save something. It's way, more money that would be spent to demolish

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robin murez: a historic and iconic tower that could be a fabulous

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robin murez: had actually our proposal for having a

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robin murez: walking to our app was never heard.

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robin murez: It was a strange circumstance where it wasn't heard, so I would like to know that a committee wants to know if

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robin murez: the neighborhood committee that

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robin murez: wanted to do something similar, but did not have a full proposal. But ours was blocked. As a consequence. If they have done anything more.

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robin murez: I don't see that they they don't post agendas, so we've not known when they're having meetings.

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robin murez: and they don't post minutes. So it's very hard to find out what's going on. So if it's something that could be brought to everyone's attention, that would be very helpful.

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robin murez: and that's all for now.

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jim murez: Okay, thank you.

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jim murez: Jay. Do you have anything that you can report back on, whether or not

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jim murez: Okay. So what would be the process at this point to resubmit it to

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jay: They could resubmit the budget and finance, and we would have to. I would suggest they sit and talk with us about how to do it, so that

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jim murez: All right, very good.

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jim murez: Robin. I assume you heard that. And, Robin, when is your next meeting.

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jim murez: We'll be having another another meeting in a couple of weeks. But I want to point out that Jay, you did not ever, robin. We're not going to get into a discussion here. You you you! You understand what needs to be done, and we'll take it up offline

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jim murez: if there's anything more.

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jim murez: Michael Lynn Has Michael Lynchon up?

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jim murez: President's report.

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jim murez: You know we really have a lot of work to do before our term ends, and several of the tasks that we, as the Board members, need to do, and one of the things that I personally feel, and I've been involved in the neighborhood count in this neighborhood. Council for

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jim murez: 20 years now is very much lacking, is is what I would consider it's normally termed a final report.

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jim murez: a report that

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jim murez: can be presented to the community that can be kept in the archives of the Bnc. That says, what did I do right? What did I do wrong? What did I learn? And what did I accomplish?

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jim murez: And I would like to see that from all of the committees and all of the committee chairs, it could be done as a Committee project.

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jim murez: I think it would be very helpful for all of the officers that are elected

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jim murez: to come up with a final report for themselves sort of a a scorecard, a report card, whatever you want to call it, grade yourself. What work, what didn't work, and if you have an ideas about how to make it better in the future. Let's include that in there, too. I think that that would be very helpful, and I would like to turn that over to the next board.

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jim murez: and and I think some of the things that need to be included need to go into rules and selections. I think that we need to be able to have a rules and selections chair, and that person can only be a community officer. No one else on the board can volunteer for that position.

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jim murez: We have an election officer, our election administrator, which is Michael at this point. So really we're only talking about

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jim murez: working on the standing rules.

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jim murez: And and if we wanted to modify anything about how the B. And C operates, this would be the person that would be sharing that meeting.

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jim murez: So I really hope that in the next month somebody reaches out to me and raises their hand, and says, I will take on the responsibility of rules and selections, so we can move forward with that. This has been on our agenda for the last 5 months, and no one has wanted to step up and do anything about it.

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jim murez: Having said that. That's Mike.

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jim murez: President's report at this point

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jim murez: is Tracy here yet. Haven't seen her yet, Jim. Okay, Well, let's keep moving on. We got a lot to go through

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jim murez: approval of prior board minutes

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jim murez: with somebody like to make the motion.

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Michael Jensen: This is me account. I'll make the motion.

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jim murez: Thank you. Oh, Michael, let me check you in. I don't think you can make the motion until I do.

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jim murez: Did you just arrive

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Michael Jensen: at the beginning of your President's report.

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jim murez: You Haven't seen Melissa by chance. Have you

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Michael Jensen: have not? Okay.

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jim murez: Okay. So Mikkel is making the motion.

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Vicki Halliday: and we have a second.

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jim murez: Thank you. Vicki.

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jim murez: Do we have any public comment?

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Vicki Halliday: Let me see here.

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Vicki Halliday: I don't see one hand up

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Vicki Halliday: sunny, Sunny.

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jim murez: Let's keep in mind, people, if you're making public comment, you're making public comment on the item that is on the

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jim murez: calendar right now on the agenda. This is not general public comment which means that you want to make public comment on the minutes of the previous meeting.

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jim murez: Go ahead, please, sonny.

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Soni: i'll. I'll hold my public comment, for

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Soni: later in the meeting at that, at the appropriate time.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you. Thank you.

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jim murez: You said there was more than one.

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jim murez: They took their hand down.

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jim murez: Okay, so see no additional hands raised. Is that correct, Iggy?

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jim murez: Correct. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and close public comment. Do we have any committee? Comment?

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jim murez: Anybody on the board

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jim murez: seeing none? Let's take a vote

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jim murez: I will vote. Yes.

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jim murez: Daffodil.

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I need to abstain

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jim murez: Jay.

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jay: Yes.

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Vicki Halliday: thank you, Vicki. Yes.

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jim murez: Sima.

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jim murez: seem, Are you there?

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jim murez: I'll come back. Nico.

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Nico Ruderman: Yes.

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jim murez: Jim, Rob.

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Jim Robb: Yes, thank you, Jason.

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Jason Sugars: Yes.

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jim murez: Kelly.

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Alley Bean: Yes.

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jim murez: Kai.

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Chie: Yes.

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jim murez: Mike.

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Mike Bravo: Yes.

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jim murez: solid down.

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Soledad Ursua: Yes.

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jim murez: Cj.

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CJ Cole: Yes.

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jim murez: Elizabeth.

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Elizabeth c: Yes.

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jim murez: Robert.

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robertthibodeau: yes.

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jim murez: Clark.

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Clark Brown: Yes.

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jim murez: Michelle.

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Michael Jensen: Yes.

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Patrick

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Patrick McKinley: Epstein

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jim murez: and SIM Are you there?

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Sima Kostov: Yes.

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Sima Kostov: and I vote. Yes, okay. Thank you.

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jim murez: So that carries motion carries 16 and 2 abstentions. 1,602

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jay: treasurer's report. J. You have the floor. So the the treasurer's report is as written.

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jay: I think it's pretty concise. Tells the story.

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jay: Nothing to add.

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jim murez: Okay, thank you.

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jim murez: And is Tracy here yet? No? Okay.

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jim murez: Then let's go ahead and start our public comment period.

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jim murez: These will be items, not on the agenda.

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jim murez: You'll get 1 min to speak.

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jim murez: and during that time you can speak about anything you like that has to do with the Bnc. That is not currently on this agenda.

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jim murez: We may have to interrupt the public speaking period

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jim murez: if if Councilwoman Park does arrive, and at that point we would return back to

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jim murez: public comment, and those folks that didn't have a chance to speak will still get a chance to speak.

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Vicki Halliday: Vicki, if you can call out people's names on first step is Shawn O'brien Shawn. Where do you go ahead, please?

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Sean Obrien: Awesome. Thank you. Guys Happy new! You're doing a great job.

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Sean Obrien: It's my understanding that there's going to be a bunch of new development on Lincoln Boulevard.

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Sean Obrien: and it's also my understanding that it's going to be height. Increase

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Sean Obrien: is going to be up to 75 feet high.

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They're going to have the density bonuses.

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Sean Obrien: They're gonna have the

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Sean Obrien: 0 parking restrictions and or no parking.

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Sean Obrien: So I believe this would be our best time

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Sean Obrien: to ask the city to get involved with the developers

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Sean Obrien: to help us remove

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Sean Obrien: the power lines and telephone polls along that stretch.

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Sean Obrien: So when they redevelop that whole block. They can do the underground.

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Sean Obrien: they can do the underground of wiring

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Sean Obrien: and take that blight away.

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Sean Obrien: There's no other community benefit that these developers will be able to provide for Venice, and I hope you guys can help out with this. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Sean

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Vicki Halliday: Yolanda, Go ahead, please.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: Yes, Good evening in continuation with Shawn's comment regarding the link and development. I'd like to remind that here we have all this development going on. We're still in a drought, and I was just sent a notice to cut back.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: and to restrain from using water. Number one number 2. One thing that people have to remember that when play. A delay was developed. They went ahead and built all these apartments and all these condos.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: But no schools were in place, and that's something that needs to be taken into consideration, and I would like to tell people that because I will be heading back to the department of water and power and meetings. If anybody has in doubt that they

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Yolanda Gonzalez: or gas. As a matter of fact, if you haven't doubt that maybe you are being overcharged, I will be sending no a notice to our communications, officer of people of the office that you can contact.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: and that will happen. I try started today, and i'm just waiting to see if they get back to me because of Covid. These people have been replaced

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Vicki Halliday: on Sunny. Go ahead, please.

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Soni: Yes, I want to know how this committee will respond how this council will respond to police brutality.

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Soni: Now I want to know how. How will Tracy Park respond as well?

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Soni: Tasers are lethal

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Soni: in lethal force should only be used as a last resort

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Soni: when when absolutely necessary.

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Soni: Keenan Anderson

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Soni: was on the ground under the control of 4 app officers. There was no you you no need to use lethal force.

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Soni: Keenan Anderson was murdered on Venice Boulevard on January third.

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Soni: I want to know how this council will respond. This council needs to respond

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Soni: by putting out a statement

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Soni: after you are your investigation, and also putting pressure on our on Tracy Park

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Soni: to

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Soni: and investigate and denounce police brutality and make policy

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Soni: where lethal force is the absolute last resort.

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Soni: She made despicable comments, blaming keen and Anderson for his, for her his own murder, and she needs to be held accountable.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Phone Number ending in

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Vicki Halliday: 603, Go ahead, please.

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1747****603: Hi! This is Ruth. This is really Ruth, the unhoused person that calls in that. So the dad sometimes imitates.

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1747****603: I wanted to comment

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about

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1747****603: Ken and Anderson getting murdered by Lapd.

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I

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1747****603: think that Tracy Park should absolutely condemn this immediately.

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1747****603: Lapd should not be murdering people, especially in her just district, and when she's silent about it, it makes it look like that's what she wants.

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1747****603: Also

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1747****603: L. A. M. C. 41 18

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is

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1747****603: an anti-caming ordinance that

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is

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1747****603: it might be expanded for 9 zones.

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1747****603: This will definitely force

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1747****603: unnecessary encounters between unhouse people

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1747****603: and L. A. Pd. And as we know that sometimes ends in us getting murdered.

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1747****603: so please oppose this. It's

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not constitutional. The

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1747****603: The coastal zones are included in the 41 18 expansion, and that's not even legal.

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1747****603: so please save yourself the

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1747****603: exposure to litigation and oppose this. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Joe Crosby. Go ahead, please.

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Jill Crosby: Hi. Thank you so much for the V. And C. Service, and I'm.

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Jill Crosby: Looking forward to hearing Tracy Park. I'm just wanted to chime in on 8,502,

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Jill Crosby: and i'm hoping that we can

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Jill Crosby: bring it out of its sunset

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Jill Crosby: and start activating it again. Venice Beach is a tourist town, and it's Residents

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Jill Crosby: take on a lot of out of towners. I believe that we need stricter parking regulations as a result of this area really kind of taking on too many Rvs.

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Jill Crosby: Oh, lately, and them not abiding by the the legal parking

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Jill Crosby: permits. So thanks really me

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Jill Crosby: time in.

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jim murez: Thank you, Jill. Go ahead, please, Vicki. Excuse me before anybody else starts. I believe Tracy just logged on. Can you check and see?

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Vicki Halliday: I do not see her, Jim.

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jim murez: Okay, let's take one more. I just got a text that she was logging in, but we'll go ahead and take one more.

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Lisa Redmond: Yeah, hi! Good evening. I have to first acknowledge that Tracy benefited in her campaign, when, by the millions she received from the most murderous police force

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Lisa Redmond: in the country, and I've got to recognize in this week, when we're all

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Lisa Redmond: you know. Talking about Martin Luther King and his legacy. He did say injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Well, that injustice finally showed up in Venice, where a young man, Keenan Anderson, was murdered by the lapd.

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Lisa Redmond: When Martin Luther King was asked how Los Angeles can help the Birmingham Revolution and what was going on in their fight for justice, he said, the most important thing you can do is set la free because you have segregation and aggression here, and police brutality.

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Lisa Redmond: This Neighborhood council has to stand up and say, hey, Lapd! What the fuck is going on. This is unacceptable.

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Lisa Redmond: We need to have better police forcing and not just right away gaslight. Everyone by saying they were on drugs.

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Lisa Redmond: and they were having mental illness breakdowns before Corners report. Even so, you're going over your Time

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Vicki Halliday: Council Member. It looks like the Council member. Our team have joined it's it's under it's under Cm.

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Vicki Halliday: It's under Cm.

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Nico Ruderman: Yes, Council, Member

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Nico Ruderman: Cm. Tracy Park.

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Vicki Halliday: Oh, there it is! Thank you.

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jim murez: Hi! Good evening, Councilwoman. Park. How are you this evening

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jim murez: before you start? We will not be taking any questions or answers at this meeting at this time. I I will not allow it to happen. If it happens, I will have to interrupt, and and if they disrupt the meeting more than one time, I will remove them from the meeting. Having said that I also

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jim murez: contacted your staff to get a list of all of your staff members which I have posted as a text document on the Vnc website along with this agenda. If anybody would like to download a copy of telephone contacts or email addresses, that document is@thevenicenc.org website under tonight's meeting

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jim murez: Tracy with having said that, please. I should say Councilwoman Park. Excuse me, I've known you a while already, and it's become personal, I guess. But at any rate, please, that microphone is yours. If everybody else could please mute, that would be great. Thank you

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CM Traci Park: all right. Well, thank you so much for the invitation to be here this evening. It is a real pleasure to have an opportunity to address you, and to give you some updates on what we have been doing here in CD 11, as most of you know. I took office on December twelfth.

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CM Traci Park: and immediately began the process of recruiting and hiring our new CD 11 staff, the team that will be here to serve you and to work with the Vtis community as well as other communities across Council District 11. I am very, very excited about the team that we've hired. I believe our new district director, Gabriela Medina, is on this evening.

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CM Traci Park: I believe our Venice field Deputy Ashley, is here as well. I will kick it over to them in a few minutes, and I apologize if I actually have other staff members who are joining us as well. I can't see everybody in the Brady bunch set up on my screen, so i'll kick it over to them in a few minutes.

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We have been working

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CM Traci Park: diligently behind the scenes to build out the team. Jim, I did hear you say that you've distributed our contact information to everyone. Thank you for doing that. I would also encourage people to visit our new CD. 11 website.

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CM Traci Park: that is, Council District 11.la city dot org. Our contact information is there as well. You can also read more about our various neighborhoods and our better 11 initiative that we have been rolling out, which includes all of the different initiatives that we are undertaking on behalf of the district, both with respect to housing and homelessness and economic development and infrastructure.

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CM Traci Park: and we will be keeping folks updated on those efforts on the CD. 11 website. You can also sign up to receive our weekly communications.

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CM Traci Park: and we send those out on Saturday mornings, and we use that as an opportunity to share with the broader community events that are going on around the district motions that we've introduced, or items of note that have occurred in council

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CM Traci Park: things in ways for people in the community to get involved so feel free to sign up to receive those newsletters through the new website.

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CM Traci Park: As you are probably all aware, we have been very, very busy

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CM Traci Park: in addition to really working with neighborhoods and constituent groups and business organizations all across the district. We have been focused on delivering on the campaign promises that I made in the year and a half prior to my election, and probably the one most notable to this community is the very successful partnership that I brought to Venice with Mayor

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CM Traci Park: bass to roll out her inside safe initiative to get folks who were living in the encampment around the Venice Bridge home into housing, and in less than 2 weeks we were able to house over 100 individuals

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CM Traci Park: who were encamped in that area, and I think a lot of you probably know and recall that that was a day, One commitment that I made to this community, and to be able to have executed on that as quickly as we did

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CM Traci Park: is something that I am very proud of, and the outpouring of gratitude from the community has been heartwarming as well, and I think for all of us the fact that the folks who were living in that encampment

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CM Traci Park: are now in safe locations and getting connected to the services that they need is something that we should all, as a community, be very proud of.

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CM Traci Park: This is an effort that I will continue to bring around the district. We made some significant progress at the Lincoln and Flower encampment. I am well aware that there are numerous other locations here in Venice, as well as other parts of the district

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CM Traci Park: that deserve the same level of attention and urgency and compassion that we brought to the effort around the Venice Bridge home. Unfortunately, you know, between the time I took office on December twelfth. Then today.

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CM Traci Park: shelter and housing didn't magically appear in the district. The county didn't send me 30 mental health outreach teams overnight.

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CM Traci Park: I I Don't have any more resources available to me than we had in place. But those are things that I am going to continue to lobby and to advocate, for. So I am aware of those other issues, and we are going to continue to lead and to innovate on the solutions here from CD. 11.

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CM Traci Park: I am also proud to announce that we introduced legislation to incorporate performance metrics into our city contracts with our service providers. Many of you will recall that this is something that I talked a lot about during my campaign, and something that I look forward to moving forward as well. I also met with a our representatives from neighborhood and community councils across the district to identify locations for

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CM Traci Park: or possible 41, 18 enforcement. There are a number of those in Venice, and you know. I just want to be very clear here to folks that just as we did with my partnership and the mayor's office around the Venice Bridge home encountered.

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CM Traci Park: A all of our efforts are going to be service driven

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CM Traci Park: and led with outreach and offers of housing to folks who are living in those locations. So those were a few of the promises that I made as a candidate to this community and to others across the West Side, and I will continue to do everything that I can to keep those promises. So I just want you to know that I am here to be your partner and to be your advocate. I will be happy to come back as often as I can.

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CM Traci Park: Probably you know that we have received our committee assignments now at City Hall. I have been selected to chair the trade travel and Tourism Committee, which I am very excited about

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CM Traci Park: with the airport in our district, and so much of our West Side economy being tourism driven. I think this is an excellent opportunity for us, as we emerge from the pandemic to really get our local economy kick started again. I have also been assigned a seat on what is now called economic and community development.

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CM Traci Park: and it is not lost on me that in many regards the Council President has placed economic development and recovery squarely in my wheelhouse, and so I very much welcome the partnership with our local businesses here on the west side, as well as across the entire city, to make sure that we have an economy that is strong and thriving, and providing good jobs and equitable access to everyone in our community. I will also be sitting on the

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CM Traci Park: Public Safety Committee, and I will be vice-chairing the Transportation Committee as well as sitting on the city claims board. So I'm going to be very, very busy with my City hall duties and obligations. But I am going to continue to be present here in the district. In all of the remainder of my time we have a lot to work on together as a community, and I will be here and available to do that with you. So those are some of the big initiatives we do like, I said, keep

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CM Traci Park: folks updated through our weekly communications, and as we move our agenda and our legislation forward, we will keep you updated on all of that, both on the website and through our weekly communications, and so with that

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CM Traci Park: I want to kick it over to our new district director, Gabby. Medina Gabby has joined us from CD. 15. She has been a friend and an ally to CD 11 for a long time, and frankly, her district handled constituent relations for our district for a long time, so she's already pretty familiar with it, and I'm going to turn it over to her to give an update on what she and the field team are working on. So, Gabby, take it away.

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Gaby Medina: Thank you, Councilwoman. As you mentioned, I've now been with the city for a number of years. Actually, my 12 year starts in a in a week or so. I'm a very proud and dedicated public servant. As I like to see it as well. I definitely feel that some people are born to serve, and myself and Ashley take a lot of pride in doing our work. We're very excited to be joining the better 11 team it's been. It's been an exciting time so far.

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Gaby Medina: I've told the Council woman on many occasions. We have a very dedicated and involved constituency which always leads to bettering more efficient city services, as I, as I like to see it, and we look forward to just growing those partnerships in the community.

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Gaby Medina: We've been busy building the team. As you mentioned, the City Hall team is pretty much, I would say, complete, and we are about one staff member away from being a complete team and a district staff. We have 3 field deputies. We have Ashley to Sada. We also have Shawn, Silva, and we have Michael Amster, who starts on Friday

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Gaby Medina: and joining us to oversee to be our coordinator for homelessness housing. He will actually be starting tomorrow, and I look forward to introducing him. His name is Kwan to the space, and to talk about some of the short term and long term solutions that we have for some of our encampments and in sheltered communities.

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Gaby Medina: As the councilwoman mentioned, we do have an overwhelming amount of encampments, both people living on the streets through either tents or makeshift, and we also have a lot of vehicular dwelling, as many of you may know that it may be either vehicles, but the majority and recreational vehicles we have what we call some of our hotspots, which consists of some public safety issues as well as other quality of life issues that are affected through these dwellings, and we definitely are looking at all of them from a holistic approach.

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But as she mentioned, we're not able to.

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Gaby Medina: you know, technically remove any encampments without offering suitable housing for them. So we are working with our partners across the district from Saint Joseph to Path and our our La County public health, and us also mental health partners to see what options we do have available to us.

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Gaby Medina: Ultimately our goal would be to have a full assessment of the district understand where some of our more critical areas are, and where our less critical areas are, where we can still render city services through care. But ultimately our care plus services, if you're familiar with the comprehensive post, clean ups with la sanitation will definitely be deployed to areas in greater need. So if you do have a location that you've reported in the past, and you have a service request number.

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Gaby Medina: Please go ahead and forward it to us. As Jim mentioned, he shared our contact information, and we've been getting a lot of emails, a lot of calls of folks asking just for status updates on service request, feel free to send them in. We'll work with our departments to find out where your service lies, and and hopefully get a timeline for you.

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Gaby Medina: I don't want to take up too much of the time, because I know that Ashley has a a report for you as well, and we've asked all of our field deputies to attend these monthly meetings, provide a written report. I believe this one will be, or a report, but the next one moving forward will be written.

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Gaby Medina: and if you have any questions, or just, you know any pending items from the previous administration, please, like, I said, mention it to us, and we'll try to have it to you in a timely manner, or present it in this space for everyone to here. Other than that we look forward to working with you again to grow in our partnerships, and if you or someone you know, is connected to an organization in Venice, feel free to make that introduction, and we'd love to go out in the field and meet them there as well.

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Gaby Medina: And now i'd like to queue actually, if that's okay.

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Ashley Lozada: Hello, everybody. My name is Ashley Logata again. Well, to begin with, i'd like to introduce myself, and sure a little bit about myself to you all. As Gabby said, I was with Council District 50

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Ashley Lozada: of Councilman Jeffousy in his office. I was there for about 5 years, so I have about about 5 years of experience in the city of La.

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Ashley Lozada: I do have a masters and a bachelors in public administration, and the way that I like to work, and I just like to make that clear that everybody is. I like to be very transparent, right? And I like to be a I like to be able to communicate with you all as much as possible.

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Ashley Lozada: I'm very responsive when it comes to email. But to do that, I feel like we all have to

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Ashley Lozada: work on respecting each other, right and our boundaries, and knowing exactly how we talk to each other, to make everything smoothly and successful.

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Ashley Lozada: On top of that i'll go ahead and start with my report. A lot of the things have to do with what the Council won't already Touch on but a little bit more details in case some of you, Don't, know what the motions are, or what insights it might be.

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Ashley Lozada: For example, i'll begin with the resolution that was introduced for 41 18, so municipal code provides that the

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Ashley Lozada: by resolution may designate specified areas for enforcement.

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Ashley Lozada: lying, sleeping, during using, maintaining, or placing personal property

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Ashley Lozada: or otherwise obstructing the public right away in order for a person to be found in violation of any of these prophet prohibited behaviors.

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Ashley Lozada: and some of the locations that we added in Venice, where the Venice Boardwalk.

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Ashley Lozada: E. Canal Park, a Bo Cany Memorial Branch Library, and the Venice abh.

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Ashley Lozada: and in regards to inside safe in case some of you don't know what the Insights safe initiative is out. Mayor Karen Bass Executive Directive launching inside safe in La City. Wide proactive housing led strategy to bring people inside from tents and encampments

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Ashley Lozada: for good, and to prevent encampments from returning insights. Safe Will Ss Street homelessness across Los Angeles, and then proactively engage with people living in tents and encampments based on which locations are most chronic, and where people are most in crisis.

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Ashley Lozada: so insights safe, we'll support the following 5 goals which is reduced the loss of life on our streets. Increased access to mental health and substance of these treatment and these encampments eliminate street encampments.

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Ashley Lozada: promote long-term housing stability for people experiencing homelessness, and enhance the safety and hygiene of neighborhoods for all residents, businesses, and neighbors.

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Ashley Lozada: So outreach as you already know has begun to people living in

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Ashley Lozada: surrounding the Abridge home site. So the Abh.

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Ashley Lozada: at the intersection of Sunset Avenue and Pacific Avenue, and people have already accepted housing like the Council woman said, we have actually house a total of 108 individuals.

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Ashley Lozada: and we do have daily meetings with all involved to continue the efforts smoothly and successfully.

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Ashley Lozada: and I know some of you may have questions in regards to the rose path. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of details in regards to that yet. But we will be meeting with the Bureau of Street Services this month.

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Ashley Lozada: or actually this week, to get a detailed report on the project to know more. So once I have more information. I'll be happy to share that with you all at our next meeting. I also wanted to share with you all a couple of services that we do have and work with.

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Ashley Lozada: and we do have an L. Acc. Team. The La Cons Conservation Corp is an environmentally focused youth development, nonprofit organization by offering paid work is experience.

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Ashley Lozada: community projects and innovative after school and secondary and vocational.

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Ashley Lozada: You know, programs. So this team is very important to me. I personally have a really close relationship with our L. Acc. Team.

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Ashley Lozada: and what they take charge of is any sites that have any illegal dumping, any overgrown vegetation or anything like that, or simply sites that you feel in the community needs some Tlc.

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Ashley Lozada: I would encourage you to please email me a lot of the times. It's helpful. If you have an image. If not, I will be happy to drive out there myself, and we can send out the team within 24 h to have the area cleaned up.

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Ashley Lozada: I also would like to flag the important applications and websites that actually help us do our job. The first one that is very important is my la, 3. 1 one, you guys can. I don't know if a lot of you are familiar with it.

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Ashley Lozada: We can use an app, or you can go on 3, 1 one on the website mile a 3, 1 one.org, or you can even just simply call 3. 1, one, and an operator will help you, and they will take care of illegal dumping homelessness

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Ashley Lozada: if there's an animal on the loose any street improvements that means potholes or tree trimming any of

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Ashley Lozada: You're more than welcome to report that there, after you reward it. They give you a number. It's called an Sr. Number

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Ashley Lozada: in the case that your case is closed

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Ashley Lozada: and the issue was not repaired.

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Ashley Lozada: Please feel free to send that as our number directly to me, and I will be happy to get in contact with the department directly on your behalf, and say, hey, I have a receipt. It was reported, and nothing's been done, even though you closed it. So i'd be happy to do that for you all.

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Ashley Lozada: But that's all I have for today. Again. I'm happy to be here, happy to be working with you all. You guys all have my email and feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

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CM Traci Park: So just to dovetail on that, and close out the presentation from me and my staff, I again want to welcome and to thank Gabby and Ashley. We are incredibly lucky to have them supporting us here in the district and Ashley here in Venice.

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CM Traci Park: I am a 100% confident that we already have the best team at City Hall and out in the field. And, you guys, we have a lot of big challenges ahead of us.

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CM Traci Park: We have a lot of work to do, and I just. I want everybody to know that me and my team are here to serve.

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CM Traci Park: We are here to partner. We are here to advocate for you, and the things that you want to see happen in our communities, and we do welcome the opportunity to create a better 11, and to make sure that the West Side has has achieved the full potential that it really has for all of us, and so thank you for your service on the Venice Neighborhood Council, and I look forward to joining you in the work that we are going to do, and the heck of a lot of good

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CM Traci Park: we are going to do as a community together. So thank you for having us tonight. We'll see you again soon.

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jim murez: Thank you, Councilwoman. We do appreciate you participating and all the work you're doing for us.

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jim murez: Okay, let's get back to our meeting. We were on public comment.

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jim murez: Vicki. I don't know if you noticed. But I promoted Bruno Bruno. Are you here?

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jim murez: Can I check you in Bruno?

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jim murez: Yes, I'm here. Thank you. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and do that now and then.

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jim murez: Let's go back to public comment.

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Vicki Halliday: it's a different order now, because muscles took their hands down. A robin. Mira is. Go ahead, please.

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robin murez: Hi. So I just want to say something as a

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robin murez: citizen. This has nothing to do with the committee. I work on.

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robin murez: I am so glad that

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robin murez: the

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robin murez: deplorable conditions that have existed with people living in encampment

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robin murez: is being addressed and eliminated. The number of people, the number of women who have been raped.

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robin murez: the number of people who have been assaulted and murdered, and have died of overdoses because of these completely inhumanitarian conditions on our streets is absolutely unreasonable, and it is tragic. When a person dies also

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robin murez: in the hands of the police, there is no understanding that all of these are tragedies, but the overwhelming number of people who have suffered both in the encampments and in the communities, is absolutely unreasonable. So

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robin murez: thank you, Tracy Park, and let's make this a better place for everyone.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Robin

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Vicki Halliday: Eva Green. Go ahead, please.

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Eva Greene: Hi, Can you hear me?

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Vicki Halliday: Yes.

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Eva Greene: okay. I wanted to also say, Thank you, Tracy Park and Mayor, for the fast work that you have both been doing to help Venice, because Dennis is a representation of the pretty much only large beach and visitor community

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Eva Greene: to people from around the whole county and from around the whole world. It's a shame and a horrible disgrace.

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Eva Greene: What the previous administration did, and I I look at how quickly they are able, this Miss Bass and Tracy to formulate a plan, and I look back on the previous administration, and I find such a derelict of duty that we have to ask, Why?

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Eva Greene: Why did they allow that if they could have been taken care of

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Eva Greene: pure, dear election of duty we have to investigate. We have to find out why it was allowed. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thanks, Eva

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Vicki Halliday: Kathleen Crowley. Please go ahead.

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Kathleen Crowley: Hi! Very quickly. I'm having severe asthma issues, so I hope I can get through this without an issue. But I want to say that I agree with every single thing that Ruth and Lisa said previously, and I also want to say that I think you all have a very false sense of success, seeing the

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Kathleen Crowley: encampments moved. Given the conditions, the fact that Number one people are be giving temporary housing. There is no permanent housing, and the conditions that they're being asked to sign to live in, they will very soon

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Kathleen Crowley: be back on the street, I promise you.

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Kathleen Crowley: And

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Kathleen Crowley: I think that your focus on public safety is very short-sighted. I think you should be focusing on community health. So I think that if you talk to experts or people with lived experience, you would understand far better that you're creating a bigger crisis. You're not minimizing it. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Kathleen Kathryn Tattersfield. Go ahead, please.

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Katherine Tattersfield (she/her): Hi, Good evening. Everybody. I just wanted to say in the memory of Keen and Anderson, I think it would be very appropriate for this

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Katherine Tattersfield (she/her): Neighborhood Council to submit a community impact statement in favor of the office of on our responses and safety. That's Council File 2, 2, dash 0, 9, 7, 8.

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Katherine Tattersfield (she/her): Your Council member, Tracy Park, just said that she is the chair of the Public Safety Committee at City Hall, and this happened in her district. We've all seen her statement.

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Katherine Tattersfield (she/her): and you know

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Katherine Tattersfield (she/her): we've all known that she did not come to Keenan's memorial, so I think it would be a powerful statement for this board to advocate

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Katherine Tattersfield (she/her): for something that could have saved Keenan's life.

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Katherine Tattersfield (she/her): Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Catherine.

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Vicki Halliday: Margaret Molloy. Go ahead, please.

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Margaret Molloy: I I want to say that I think Tracy Park is uniquely unqualified to serve

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Margaret Molloy: anybody who

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Margaret Molloy: swore an oath to uphold the California Constitution as well as the city charter.

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Margaret Molloy: is committing to equal representation in equity across all demographics of constituents in the city and in their Democrats in their area.

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Margaret Molloy: Tracy Park, as a private individual, defended a city employee, using the N word repeatedly in the workplace which violates both the California Constitution and the city shorter. She is unqualified.

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Margaret Molloy: and all of you, standing behind her are acknowledging racism in your own belief system.

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Margaret Molloy: So I want to put that front and center.

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Margaret Molloy: You can't say. A person who defends racism in a public capacity as a public employee

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Margaret Molloy: is fit and qualified to operate in a capacity as a representative of CD. 11.

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Margaret Molloy: So that's a starting place. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Margaret

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Vicki Halliday: Rick Garvey, Go ahead, please.

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Rick Garvey: I I just want to echo a lot of the comments about Keenan Anderson and Tracy Park's statement, which I thought was reprehensible. She needs to do something about La Pd. And I appreciate Lisa bringing up the fact that her backers were basically the Police Protection Union and the

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Rick Garvey: officers didn't even call a crisis management team. There was one available. They didn't call, and instead they killed him. It reminds me of Brendan Glen the last time that Lapd murdered a young man in our neighborhood, you know I was half a block away, and I remember it to this day as if it happened yesterday

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Rick Garvey: that said, I do want to give a little bit of credit to her for housing 108 people. Now it's not housing, as was just mentioned. It's temporary shelter. I want to see what follow through is gonna be on this. But credit words do it. It was cold, it was rainy, and people got a safe place to sleep that night

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Rick Garvey: hopefully. That's going to last several months hopefully as as many as 6 months.

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Rick Garvey: But what happens after that? I think we need real solutions. Thanks.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Rick

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Vicki Halliday: Jodi Mortimer, Go ahead, please.

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Vicki Halliday: Jodi.

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it

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Jody Mortimer (homeless committee): Can you hear me? Yes.

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Jody Mortimer (homeless committee): Oh, thank you. I just wanted to say thank Tracy for the hard work, and I wanted to also mention with the the follow through

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Jody Mortimer (homeless committee): the California Care Courts.

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Jody Mortimer (homeless committee): I've been approved with the this county in the county now, and they will be implemented. So some of the fall through with the care system is coming this year just a little bit of patience, and later on, if you look on the agenda for the the meeting, there is a a motion

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Jody Mortimer (homeless committee): for some more housing, for if these individuals with, if they don't stay in their You know the temporary housing, that's all I wanted to say. Thank you.

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Jody Mortimer (homeless committee): and I think to be promoted to.

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Jody Mortimer (homeless committee): It makes sense. Thanks.

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Vicki Halliday: Keaton! Gannon, Go ahead.

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Keaton Gannon: Hi! This is Deborah Keaton.

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Keaton Gannon: I want to congratulate Tracy Park on her win and on the quick

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Keaton Gannon: work that she and our new Mayor have done to undo some of the damage that was done by the previous administration. All you really needed to have was the willingness, and the previous administration was not willing to do the work that needed to be done.

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Keaton Gannon: and he was not willing to work with other departments to make sure the work was done, and Tracy has been doing that

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Keaton Gannon: immediately, which is what needed to happen, and i'm thrilled to have her. I trust her implicitly. I do not think she's a racist, and I don't think that you can judge any person by one action, and I think it's nonsense that people are saying about her.

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Keaton Gannon: She is an educated, wonderful, kind.

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Keaton Gannon: individual, and she's going to be.

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Keaton Gannon: She's a wonderful addition to our our district. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Let's see. Here, Joe Crosby.

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Vicki Halliday: Go ahead, please.

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Jill Crosby: Hi. Sorry. I just wanted to try, and I I just wanted to

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Jill Crosby: say something that it almost sounds like the

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Jill Crosby: there are certain folks who are displeased with the people who are being placed in housing because it isn't sufficient to what they think that they

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Jill Crosby: need. It is such an important first step.

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Jill Crosby: and it is, it is incredible to me. Being 29 and a half years sober, I came into the rooms of alcoholics, anonymous

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Jill Crosby: as I was broken, and coming out of civil brand.

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Jill Crosby: I didn't have a triple H fund. I didn't have housing. No one cared what was happening, so I think that what is being offered to a lot of people now is a good first step. We have a long way to go in terms, but you know, shelter is absolutely necessary forever. Placement. I think we need to start discerning things between homelessness, drug addiction, and mental health issues.

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Jill Crosby: We need to start splitting these terms up because they're not all the same, and we can't address them all the same.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Jill

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Vicki Halliday: Colette Bailey, Go ahead, please.

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Colette Bailey: Hi, everyone. I just wanted to address. The fact that

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Colette Bailey: Tracy came on the show gave us very good information. Her team seems very capable, and

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Colette Bailey: I will have to say that i'm really annoyed with all the people using racism as a black woman. I find it very offensive that people are using this term against her, especially when the previous administration

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Colette Bailey: kept countless of black and brown people on the street to die.

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Colette Bailey: And, as we also said, you know, to be hurt within the groups of of homeless people, and, as a previous caller pointed out, we need a start, and we need a good first step. I think, what she's doing, and what the mayor has done is a great for steps. So what i'd like to see the board, and even as a member of the Homeless committee has to do is

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Colette Bailey: just reach out with a formal thank you to the Mayor and to the Council office. Thanks.

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Vicki Halliday: thanks a lot.

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Yolanda. Go ahead, please.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: Thank you.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: I also want to express what Colette just said. As a Latin. I feel insulted by the people who are going against Tracy. She's she's only been in office less than 25 days, and she's doing a fabulous job.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: And if there's anything that i'd like to in is get the police department and write a message to more that we need to get our community police advisory boards back, which I was a member of for several years. Then we convent ourselves out there with the police department, and that way it can go back to our Council woman representative

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Yolanda Gonzalez: not only that.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: being here for over 25 years, and what we have gone through, and my fence was set on fire.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: I want to remind people that there are nasty people out there wanting to destroy who we are, what we are and what we represent in this community. We've done a lot.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: We've helped people out. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you. Yolanda

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Alan s

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Vicki Halliday: Go ahead, please.

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Alan S: Yeah. First of all, I'm very happy to see Tracy Park and her team come to this meeting and come to them and come to all the meetings.

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Alan S: and I do think she's a nice woman, and I think she's a good listener, that, having been said, I understand

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Alan S: why we're frustrated with her, even though she's new on the job because of how she won

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Alan S: with her supporters, tearing down at least 700. Aaron darling signs

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Alan S: The I also want to mention about the

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Alan S: recent Lapd police killings.

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Alan S: My issue is not so much race. It's at it's that

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Alan S: where many of us are scared to call the lapd when we need them.

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Alan S: In the case of Keenan Anderson, the gentleman died after being tased at point blank range 6 times in rapid, rapid succession over 2 min, when he's already immobilized at hogtide.

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Alan S: Same with Takar Smith

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Alan S: shot dead

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Alan S: in when he was by himself in an apartment

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Alan S: 2025 feet away from the nearest officer, separated by bicycles and chairs.

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Alan S: and I just hope that I hope that Ms. Park will do something to rein in the lapd so that we can rely upon them.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Lisa.

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Vicki Halliday: You already spoke, but go ahead.

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Lisa Redmond: Well, I just wanted to take another opportunity, because Yolanda and Jill got to speak again, too.

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Vicki Halliday: I'm sorry

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Lisa Redmond: I didn't think you administered the oath of office to Mr. Mckinley. That's all.

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Vicki Halliday: Jim. You're muted.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Lisa colony. Go ahead, please.

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Kalani W: I, to support sending a letter of apology to Tracy Park, and letting her know that this council

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Kalani W: will allow her time to prove her muster. I think we need to start addressing

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the

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Vicki Halliday: I believe we lost you.

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Kalani W: Is she still there?

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Vicki Halliday: There you back?

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Kalani W: Could you hear me initially?

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Vicki Halliday: Initially? Yes, and then you dropped off.

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Kalani W: Yes, I'd like to voice that. I'd like to urge the Council to show support to Tracy Park and let her know that we will give her time to prove her muster. And I do. We do need to get ahead of the issue where people are

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Kalani W: are endangering our democracy by questioning our free and fair elections. With all of these these, these accusations and and refusal to accept what

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Kalani W: a majority of our voters

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Kalani W: stated, and if they don't like it, they they'll have in 4 years. They'll have the opportunity to

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Kalani W: to to voice their make their voices known. In the meantime, get on board and help us build a better community instead of trying to sabotage the person who is at who is currently

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Kalani W: holding power. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: You You did that, Jim, and then i'll. I'll just let people in phone number ending in 603. Please go ahead.

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1747****603: Hi! This is ruth the on-house person that solid that imitates.

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1747****603: I have you.

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Vicki Halliday: No, nobody's speaking twice tonight. Sorry, Ruth. 3 people did. No, nobody has spoken twice. Yeah, that I I made the mistake, Jim, because when we came back

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Vicki Halliday: some people I didn't realize it already spoken so.

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Vicki Halliday: Well, we're not it. Wasn't done intentionally, Ruth, we're not. We're not taking another minute for for a second comment. Sorry.

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Vicki Halliday: Amy, Would you like to go ahead, please?

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amy: Hi, Yes.

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amy: I just wanted to thank Tracy Park for utilizing the existing resources to get people indoors, and not having to beg for extra money to do an ounce of anything she's demonstrated that she's capable of working with others to get things done and fast, which is really appreciated

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amy: keeping a campaign promise out. The gate is also impressive, and I hope she can continue especially with tackling the Rvs. On Venice, Washington, and Culver Boulevards. The horrible damage has been done to the environment, and the poor animals that are in trapped in these encampments is just heartbreaking.

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amy: and I think, as a community we would be more willing to

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amy: accept and extend a helping hand if the UN. House would

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amy: show that they, too, care about the community and the environment.

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amy: So thank you to Tracy.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Amy.

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Vicki Halliday: 603. That's Ruth. I believe, lowering that hand. Kathleen Crowley, you've spoken.

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Vicki Halliday: Erica.

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Vicki Halliday: I believe Erica spoke. Correct, Jim.

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jim murez: Erica only spoke as a giving a report on the so she's go ahead and speak as an individual. Yeah.

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Erica Moore: thank you. I did not speak before. I just wanted to chime in and let people know of an experience I had and a concern I have. As a result.

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Erica Moore: there's a homeless gentleman in a wheelchair that comes to my business

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Erica Moore: for food often.

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Erica Moore: and it's on men's boulevard. He's in a wheelchair, and when it was torrentially raining, not this time, but the last time, like a month or 2 ago.

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Erica Moore: I tried to get him help because he's trapped in a wheelchair, and he can't, just, you know, walk in somewhere and say I need she shelter?

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Erica Moore: I call 3 1 1.

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Erica Moore: I called all these different city places to get this man help to get him off the street. I physically could not load him in a car and drive him somewhere, and every place I called basically said there was nothing they could do unless he walked through the door.

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Erica Moore: That to me is something that absolutely should not be happening. There needs to be services available, and this person does have mental health issues

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Erica Moore: for people that are unhoused

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Erica Moore: to be able to be brought up and taken somewhere, when.

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Erica Moore: especially when rain and things like that are happening.

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Erica Moore: Thanks so much.

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Vicki Halliday: Let me let me interrupt. For a second I noticed Daffodil has her hand up. I know there's a came back in. She bounced off, and i'm letting her back in

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jim murez: public comment Speakers? Oh, great! Okay. Then i'm gonna go ahead and close public comment. And now we're going to recess this meeting, and we're going to switch over to our special 24 h noticed meeting, which is overdue now by about

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jim murez: 30 min to start. So let's go ahead and take this on the time. Now let me start this other meeting.

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jim murez: We will start this at

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jim murez: What's the time?

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jim murez: Time is 6 to 7, 29. And now we have to take another roll. Call

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jim murez: I'm Here, Daffodil

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Daff: here.

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jim murez: Thank you, Melissa.

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jay : Jay, yup.

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Vicki Halliday: Mickey. Yes.

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jim murez: Bruno. Here.

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jim murez: Sima.

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jim murez: Sima

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Sima Kostov: Nico here.

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jim murez: So that was seema, not Nico. Yeah, you know. I get confused every so often.

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Jim. Rob.

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Jim Robb: Yeah.

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jim murez: Jason.

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Jason Sugars: Here.

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jim murez: Allie.

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Alley Bean: here.

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Chie: Kai here.

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jim murez: Mike

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Mike Bravo: here

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jim murez: solid. Add

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Soledad Ursua: here.

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CJ Cole: Cj: here.

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jim murez: Elizabeth.

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jim murez: Elizabeth.

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jim murez: I'll come back. Robert here.

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jim murez: Clark

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Clark Brown: here.

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jim murez: Michelle

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Michael Jensen: here.

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jim murez: Zach

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jim murez: Zachary

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jim murez: I'll come back, Patrick.

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Patrick McKinley: Here.

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jim murez: Elizabeth, are you here.

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jim murez: Zachary? Are you here?

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jim murez: I will. We will move on exparte communications. I spoke to 2 individuals about the urgency of getting

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jim murez: this Council file on the agenda tonight, and that's why I created a a special 24 h meeting, so we could hear the the item

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jim murez: and and respond

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jim murez: within the time limit. So it can go on the Council file at City Hall for those of you that Don't know the Venice Neighborhood Council is allowed to to submit an an item directly to a city council file. If it's an item that we've heard, the the process is called the community impact statement. And and that's what we're doing tonight.

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jim murez: Having said that, did anyone else have anything they wanted to report on this

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jim murez: expertise communications about this anything on this agenda, which is just the one I.

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jim murez: Okay, seeing none. Let's move forward. We have announcements a public comment of items, not on this agenda, and this only has to do with with the

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jim murez: you know. If there's something you want to tell us about this, then we can get back to our regularly scheduled meeting.

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So now, Vicki, let's take public comment.

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jim murez: and I think at this point, because we just heard public comment, i'm going to reduce the amount of time

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jim murez: that public comment can be

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jim murez: had to 30 s instead of one sort of our normal 1 min

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jim murez: we just anything very briefly.

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jim murez: and and

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jim murez: that'll give us 30 s and let me reset that.

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jim murez: Okay.

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Vicki Halliday: So, Vicki, whenever you're ready, I see 2 hands that are up. First one is Ruthy Ruth. You go ahead, please.

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Vicki Halliday: Pretty

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jim murez: okay. Let's move on.

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Vicki Halliday: Excuse me. I just got my microphone unmuted. You just allowed me to unmute. You'd reset the time.

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jim murez: Okay.

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1747****603: i'm an UN house person. I've viewed the the contract for for the

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1747****603: the interim housing. They're allowed to kill you like they literally you. It it's

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1747****603: you cannot sue them if they kill you.

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Okay.

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1747****603: are not

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1747****603: crazy for not wanting to sign that contract.

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1747****603: 41, 18,

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1747****603: 40, 40. Excuse me. Excuse me, Ruthy, I have to interrupt you. I'll stop the clock.

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jim murez: You can't speak of items on the agenda. We're not on the agenda. Item, These are only items off the agenda. I'll put a couple of seconds back on here, but I think you need to finish up what you have to say. Okay.

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1747****603: go ahead.

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1747****603: So Yes, I have people who do not choose to sign a contract in which their life loses all of its

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1747****603: the the rights granted to citizens from

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1747****603: being Board of the United States, and being able to sue someone that kills them.

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is not a sign of mental illness. It's sign of sanity.

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Vicki Halliday: Next Speaker, please, Vicky Jessle one. Go ahead, please.

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Jessalyn W. Office of Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell: Hi! Good evening. My name is Jesslyn Waldron. I'm. Actually with Supervisor Holly Mitchell's office at the County of Los Angeles, and

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Jessalyn W. Office of Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell: somebody from your board has reached out to try to connect with me. I called and emailed them back, and I've actually been trying to connect with you all because Supervisor Mitchell is working on a lot in the Marina, and as neighbors in the Marina, we value your opinion. So I just wanted to encourage you all to connect with me if needed. You can find my email address on her website.

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Jessalyn W. Office of Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell: I'll just say it really quickly. Here it's J. Waldron, W. A L. D R. O. n@beos.l a county Gov.

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Jessalyn W. Office of Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell: And that's it for me.

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Jessalyn W. Office of Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell: Thank you.

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Lisa Redmond. Go ahead, please.

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Lisa Redmond: Jim. After this is all over. You mentioned that you did talk to a few people about the urgency of this, but that's

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Lisa Redmond: i'd like to know more. I'd like more transparency. I'd also like you to give Ruth more time to talk, because that was totally discriminatory for you to take away her opportunity to speak a second time, when many people got an opportunity to speak a second time

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Lisa Redmond: so totally unfair and very discriminant and very rude.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Lisa Yolanda, Go ahead, please.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: Yes, I would like to have more of an explanation

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Yolanda Gonzalez: regarding what kind of a community impact statement are you referring to?

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I would like to also find out

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Yolanda Gonzalez: how much of the section 8 vouchers are going to be distributed into our community. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Yolanda Erica More. Go ahead, please.

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Erica Moore: Hey? There. I just wanted to alert you guys

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Erica Moore: that I've had another catalytic converter stolen

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Erica Moore: very frustrating. This is a 6 time.

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Erica Moore: So it's really happening here in Venice. Still.

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Erica Moore: catalytic converters are being stolen at an alarming rate.

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Erica Moore: It's really important that when crime happens to you that you report it to the police.

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Erica Moore: I know there's a lot of controversy about the police right now, but the bottom line is.

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Erica Moore: Please report when crime happens to you, so that the numbers that they have on what's occurring are accurate. A lot of people become complacent and think it's a hassle and don't do it so they're not. The numbers are skewed. Thank you, thank you, Erica.

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Margaret Molloy: just to not alert you to the fact that the city does not have a permit to operate a park at the beach. So the application was for a beach, Park, Lmc. Under L. A. M. C. 63.44 B.

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Margaret Molloy: Dot 1 4 B. And

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Margaret Molloy: restricting access to the park with the curfew. It's not active. It was applied for in 2,017. The director of the Coastal Commission appealed that application, and

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Margaret Molloy: it has stayed pending a decision on the appeal.

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Margaret Molloy: Pursuant to coastal acts. Section 323 the operation effect of the local action is stage that is, that is

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jim murez: from the Coastal Commission.

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Margaret Molloy: You need to know that

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Vicki Halliday: Sunny. Go ahead, please.

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Soni: Yes, Just in response to someone who said, You need to report your crimes to the police. I my window busted out

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Soni: couple of months ago. I try to make a report.

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Soni: I call down there. No one answers the phone on multiple occasions, and so I was never able to make a report.

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Soni: And I just.

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Soni: you know I just feel that that's a very unprofessional. You know where, where's the service when when things happen to people?

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Soni: My little brother is actually jump not too long ago, and we we made a report, and nothing was fall through on at all. So when

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Soni: it seems like certain people are victims of crime that they don't follow through.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Sonny

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Vicki Halliday: Kathleen Crowley, go ahead.

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Kathleen Crowley: I just want to say a couple of things. I agree. It was completely discriminatory that both Ruth and I were not allowed to speak a second time when other people were Also, I want to make it clear.

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Kathleen Crowley: I appreciate temporary housing. I just don't appreciate it being referred to as permanent housing.

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Kathleen Crowley: and additionally. The requirements that people are being told to sign are not setting them up for success. They will be back on the street very quickly, I promise. Given my experience, and they're giving no promises in writing.

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Kathleen Crowley: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: That's the end of public comment, Jim.

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jim murez: Thank you. Okay. Now let's return to our agenda.

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jim murez: So we're closing public comment. Now we're going down. We need a motion, a maker to to somebody to make the motion.

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robertthibodeau: Thank you, Jay, who was the second

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jim murez: Roberto.

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jim murez: as in Robert Tibeto.

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jim murez: Very good. Thank you. Now

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jim murez: for anybody that doesn't know. The documents were posted online. The information is there? There's a resolution before the the city council that we voted on later this week. The urgency that was being asked about had to do with

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jim murez: the the.

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jim murez: the, the the need to get the Vnc's comment in about whether or not we support

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jim murez: 41 18 being

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jim murez: executed in our community, and on the sites described on the resolution

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jim murez: for those of you. That haven't seen the resolution.

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jim murez: This is what it looks like.

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jim murez: The sites are spelled out down here at the bottom.

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jim murez: We don't need to go into a lot of discussion about this. Let's go back to public comment, if we may.

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jim murez: I will take the time period back up to 1 min.

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jim murez: Oh, hang on 1 s! I have to reduce this a tiny bit to see it.

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jim murez: The clock and Vicki, if we have anybody that wanted to speak on this item. We're only speaking directly about this motion to submit support in a community impact statement for the resolution as posted. Thank you. We have quite a few hands up, Shauna Brian. Go ahead, please.

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Sean Obrien: Yeah, Hi, I support the motion. Can't wait for more areas to be included.

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Sean Obrien: I support Tracy Park.

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Sean Obrien: and

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Sean Obrien: how come I didn't get my turn to speak?

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Sean Obrien: No, i'm ke i'm kidding, that's all. Thank you guys.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you. Shawn

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Joe Crosby. Go ahead, please.

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Jill Crosby: Hi, yes, I am absolutely in support of 41 18, Yes, please. I I've lived in Venice 30 years.

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Jill Crosby: and I believe that regulating certain areas is incredibly crucial to the overall health of a community. I'm. Also in support of supportive housing. I'm. Also in support of what Tracy Parks is doing so

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Jill Crosby: rapidly, and really getting people to a place where we can get services to them quicker. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Jill.

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Mike Bravo: My order real quick. Sorry it? Has the motion been made? Sorry.

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Vicki Halliday: Mike. The motion was made. We're in public comment. Okay, Sorry I I didn't hear it. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Margaret. Go ahead. I'm: Sorry.

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Margaret Molloy: Hello. So

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Margaret Molloy: coastal development permit 1707, I believe.

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Margaret Molloy: 17.0 7 was the city's application for

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Margaret Molloy: a Cdp. To implement provisions of Los Angeles municipal code, 63, 44 dashb, 14 or period

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Margaret Molloy: 14 b.

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Margaret Molloy: In order to impose a curfew at

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Margaret Molloy: city parks.

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Margaret Molloy: They don't have a cdp you can't impose this

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Margaret Molloy: this motion 41 18

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Margaret Molloy: in the whole boardwalk area of Venice. And you people are full of shit because you have tons of experience on land use. And you know this. You know about coastal access and the constitutional rights of coastal, unfettered coastal access to all people.

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Margaret Molloy: There is no Cdp. It was appealed by the Director of the Coastal Commission, and it has

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Margaret Molloy: stayed pending

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Margaret Molloy: any action on that Cdp. That was 2,017. You all know a. Cdp. Expires after 2 years.

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Margaret Molloy: You can't approve this.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Margaret

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Vicki Halliday: Rick. Garb. You go ahead, please.

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Rick Garvey: Yeah, I oppose this motion as well. I think 41, 18 is terrible policy.

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Rick Garvey: It does nothing to provide services. And you know I just applauded Mayor. You know Bass and Tracy Park in doing this inside program, because that did provide services. There was money behind that. There is no money behind 4,118. It is simply criminalizing people for having nowhere else to go, and I think it's ridiculous.

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Rick Garvey: You know we've been doing a study where we've been doing. These counts on the streets in Hollywood, where they've been implementing 41, 18, and I can tell you it doesn't work. It just moves people from one part of the neighborhood to another. So if you don't like them at the beach, you're really not going to like them in your neighborhood, so I think it's just terrible policy, and I hope you don't support it.

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Thanks.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Rick.

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Vicki Halliday: Ruthy. Go ahead, please.

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1747****603: Hi, okay.

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i'm an UN house person and I've lived in my exact neighborhood

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1747****603: since at least 2,017 continuously outdoors.

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01:50:42.450 --> 01:50:56.639
1747****603: and moving on house people around, remove them from their neighborhoods, and they can't develop relationships with their neighbors, and they can't become established in their communities. Settlement does happen without permanent housing.

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01:50:56.650 --> 01:51:03.260
1747****603: In other time trees, when there is an earthquake, and people end up living in tarps and tents because their houses fell down.

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01:51:03.290 --> 01:51:04.910
1747****603: You know they they still

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1747****603: are a part of their community, and they are still living right where they used to live, but but in a tent or a tarp, and they get to reintegrate back into their communities as resources become available.

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01:51:14.840 --> 01:51:26.870
1747****603: and other countries do this fine. I don't know why the United States has such a problem implementing these things that allow, announce people to upgrade voluntarily into housing in their neighborhoods.

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or without violating their human rights.

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1747****603: The UN. Has a study in Haiti, where they outline how the United States can do it if we wish. I highly recommend, please, reading that a study as well as Eloni far has papers for adequate housing rights. Thank you.

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01:51:44.830 --> 01:51:46.920
Eva. Go ahead, please.

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Eva Greene: Hi. I want to say that it's about time.

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01:51:51.540 --> 01:52:01.459
Eva Greene: It's about time. I don't see why handicapped people have to suffer with all of the tents that are on the street that don't allow them

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01:52:01.490 --> 01:52:09.379
Eva Greene: to use the sidewalks and have to roll around in their wheelchairs on the streets with a car zooming by them.

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01:52:09.670 --> 01:52:28.049
Eva Greene: We can have sympathy for both, and we can have it work for both. We can have a work for the handicapped people, and over and over again for years. Then it's been ada violations, and nothing has been done about it. So yes, for those homeless advocates, I say, have sympathy also for the people who are handicapped.

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Eva Greene: and who are being forced to go on to the streets in very dangerous situations, and you know it's not just about the handicap, but mothers with children and other people as well. Yes, please, and forces. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Aba

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01:52:44.920 --> 01:52:47.199
Vicki Halliday: Frank. Go ahead, please.

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01:52:54.340 --> 01:52:56.170
Frank: Sorry about that.

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01:52:56.410 --> 01:52:57.309
Frank: Yeah.

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01:52:59.440 --> 01:53:01.430
Frank: I want to say that you know

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01:53:02.130 --> 01:53:05.240
Frank: having people accommodated on the streets

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Frank: of the city. It's just inhumane, brutal and unsafe unsanitary

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01:53:12.420 --> 01:53:16.119
Frank: shelter solution that we could conceive of.

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Frank: So the fact that Tracy Park and Karen Bass within 2 weeks.

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Frank: have come out with an aggressive, constructive, sensitive

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Frank: solutions. Oriented responses is

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Frank: greatly appreciated.

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Frank: As far as having proximity as 41.1 8.

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Frank: It points out as proximity to certain places and and and

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Frank: places to camp.

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Frank: It's a perfectly

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01:53:47.830 --> 01:53:50.290
Frank: perfectly reasonable Ask.

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Frank: Thank you.

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01:53:52.640 --> 01:53:53.719
Vicki Halliday: Thanks, Frank

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Vicki Halliday: Darren. Go ahead, please.

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Daren Reifsneider: Hi, yes, I strongly support this. I think that for families with children, especially across from Lenola Park this will be a game changer. It's also a dog park. I'm not concerned about the dog Park. I'm more concerned with the families that live directly across the street that have not been able to use this park for

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Daren Reifsneider: I think, 4 years, because it's just unsafe. There's glass pipes everywhere. I mean it's a disaster, so I strongly support when Tracy Park is doing, I think. Obviously it's not ideal if you don't have supportive housing at the end of it. But this is more so to protect the vulnerable people that can't, you know, protect themselves.

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Daren Reifsneider: So yeah.

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Vicki Halliday: okay, thank you, Darren

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Lisa. Go ahead, please.

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Lisa Redmond: I am against this motion. I think we are rushing it, especially in a 24 h. Notice

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Lisa Redmond: with a holiday weekend, 41, 18 is a grotesque overreach of power, in order to banish the visibly growing population of houseless Angelina's. It's a return to failed strategies and tactics that simply push the problem

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Lisa Redmond: from one area to another, essentially guaranteeing incarceration, use of forth litigation and death.

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Lisa Redmond: So it is a wolf in Wolf's clothing.

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Lisa Redmond: There is no kindness in nicety like what happened in the last 2 week with Karen bass's. Program it is. We are just getting rid of you. We don't want to look at you. Let's make it go away, and it just goes away to another street to another neighborhood.

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Lisa Redmond: and

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Lisa Redmond: people lose their medicine. They lose their hot belongings, they lose their ids.

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01:55:49.720 --> 01:55:53.940
Lisa Redmond: It's awful. It's horrible, and it's not a way to effectively treat

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Lisa Redmond: homelessness.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Lisa

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01:55:57.650 --> 01:55:59.759
Vicki Halliday: Kathleen. Go ahead, please.

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01:56:02.130 --> 01:56:07.779
Kathleen Crowley: I oppose it, and I would ask each of you who support it, to locate

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Kathleen Crowley: any data to support it any data. It's been around long enough that there would be data to support it and publicly share that data, because all of the data shows it diverts funds, it diverts resources, it prolongs homelessness. It results in death. Stop choosing short term outcomes that add to the crisis because they make you feel better for 5 min rather than choosing long term community solutions that actually create sustainable solutions. And additionally.

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Kathleen Crowley: those of you who are obnoxiously talking about families with children and mothers and disabled people. Oh, my gosh! We should protect them! Do you know how many unhous people are all of those things?

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Kathleen Crowley: So why don't you widen it, and stop thinking about short-term outcomes and think about long term. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Kathleen Robin Meres. Go ahead.

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robin murez: Hi. So

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robin murez: the first duty of governments is to make a community safe.

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robin murez: That is why we have government.

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robin murez: That is what a society is about.

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robin murez: If we cannot live in a safe

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robin murez: society.

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robin murez: then

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robin murez: any sense of government is a total failure.

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robin murez: It is not safe for people to be living on the street.

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robin murez: They have experienced tremendous

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robin murez: crime and

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inhumane circumstances.

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robin murez: This is the first step, at least, to have parks and public spaces

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robin murez: safe.

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robin murez: That is the very

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robin murez: beginning of fixing this safe camping, and a parking would be an immediate solution. That again.

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robin murez: the Tracy Pluck's predecessor refused to consider. Those are some immediate things that we need to look at.

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robin murez: This is the first step, and it's essential.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Robin. Last speaker is, call it Bailey, call it. Go ahead.

1069
01:58:11.520 --> 01:58:19.279
Colette Bailey: Hello again. I want to reiterate what Robin just said about having laws and having a society that follows laws.

1070
01:58:19.320 --> 01:58:36.610
Colette Bailey: We need rules and laws to help us facilitate getting people inside and off the streets. It is not humane to have people just live on the streets. Some of this, I believe, I believe, is a a way of the housing advocates to use

1071
01:58:36.860 --> 01:58:41.780
Colette Bailey: the homeless to actually get their political agenda through.

1072
01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:44.389
Colette Bailey: and it's just not going to work. So

1073
01:58:44.450 --> 01:58:57.629
Colette Bailey: let's start here. Let's go to the next level in the next level and get people off the streets. Let's get people taken care of who need mental health care who need physical health care, who need

1074
01:58:57.690 --> 01:59:11.639
Colette Bailey: other types of care who just need a a hand to get them back into a job, into a situation where they can take care of themselves. There are all different things that people need drug treatment. So we gotta give them off the streets in order to make that happen.

1075
01:59:13.090 --> 01:59:14.300
Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

1076
01:59:15.190 --> 01:59:17.769
Vicki Halliday: That's the end of public comment. Okay.

1077
01:59:17.790 --> 01:59:21.609
jim murez: Thank you, Vicki: okay, let's go back to

1078
01:59:22.160 --> 01:59:33.410
jim murez: close. I'm going to close public comment at this point. Let's go back to the the motion that's on the floor. Did anybody on the board wish to speak on this item? Raise your hand, please.

1079
01:59:34.140 --> 01:59:38.779
jim murez: Ally. Your hand is up, Clark, your hand is up. Alley will start with you.

1080
01:59:38.930 --> 01:59:40.020
Alley Bean: Go ahead, please.

1081
01:59:40.170 --> 01:59:49.820
Alley Bean: I I I just have a really ignorant question. I'm so sorry that I don't know the answer to this. I'm. I'm. In hearing the public comment. Is it true that that

1082
01:59:49.840 --> 01:59:56.279
Alley Bean: housing is not offered to people in 41, 18? They they're not offered shelter.

1083
01:59:56.390 --> 02:00:00.200
Alley Bean: Given that opportunity, because I didn't realize that I thought that.

1084
02:00:00.220 --> 02:00:04.860
Alley Bean: like when they swept the library, I thought they were offered shelter.

1085
02:00:04.890 --> 02:00:06.990
Alley Bean: So does anyone know the answer to that.

1086
02:00:08.840 --> 02:00:32.709
Clark Brown: is it, you know, are there are the other people that are being removed from these locations. So, Ali, let me come back to you, Clark Clark. He also wants to respond to that, please. We respond to what Ally said. There are 3 Federal cases which I think make very clear that 41, 18 can't be enforced unless we offer shelter to the people against whom 41, 18 is being enforced.

1087
02:00:32.720 --> 02:00:42.199
Clark Brown: If we offer that shelter, then 41, 18 is a a constructive part of an overall strategy to deal with homelessness, and for that reason I support it.

1088
02:00:43.220 --> 02:00:53.219
Alley Bean: Thank you, Clark. Alli did that answer your question

1089
02:00:53.740 --> 02:00:57.670
Alley Bean: Shoulder has to be offered as a

1090
02:00:57.710 --> 02:00:59.480
Clark Brown: 41, 18.

1091
02:00:59.550 --> 02:01:01.900
jim murez: Thank you.

1092
02:01:02.120 --> 02:01:05.560
jim murez: Anybody else have any questions before we take a vote.

1093
02:01:08.190 --> 02:01:10.380
jim murez: seeing no other hands.

1094
02:01:10.420 --> 02:01:13.110
jim murez: I'm gonna go ahead and call for the vote.

1095
02:01:13.890 --> 02:01:16.159
jim murez: Start with David Del Daffodil. How do you vote?

1096
02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:18.110
Daff: Yes.

1097
02:01:18.450 --> 02:01:20.349
jim murez: thank you.

1098
02:01:20.540 --> 02:01:21.820
jim murez: Jay.

1099
02:01:22.050 --> 02:01:22.870
jay : Yeah.

1100
02:01:23.790 --> 02:01:25.599
Vicki Halliday: Vicki: Yes.

1101
02:01:25.780 --> 02:01:26.760
jim murez: Bruno

1102
02:01:29.820 --> 02:01:32.370
jim murez: Bruno, I'll come back to you.

1103
02:01:32.580 --> 02:01:33.620
jim murez: Sima

1104
02:01:35.910 --> 02:01:37.519
Soledad Ursua: Schema.

1105
02:01:38.230 --> 02:01:39.879
jim murez: Nico

1106
02:01:42.280 --> 02:01:44.880
Nico Ruderman: Nico.

1107
02:01:44.990 --> 02:01:46.280
Jim, Rob.

1108
02:01:47.120 --> 02:01:48.830
Jim Robb: come back to me in a second.

1109
02:01:49.550 --> 02:01:50.660
jim murez: Jason.

1110
02:01:51.180 --> 02:01:52.480
Jason Sugars: I will abstain.

1111
02:01:52.990 --> 02:01:55.500
melissa diner: Yes, who was that

1112
02:01:57.420 --> 02:01:59.200
robertthibodeau: Melissa Alley?

1113
02:01:59.800 --> 02:02:00.730
Alley Bean: Yes.

1114
02:02:01.810 --> 02:02:03.670
Chie: Kai. Yes.

1115
02:02:04.150 --> 02:02:05.000
jim murez: Mike.

1116
02:02:05.530 --> 02:02:06.260
Mike Bravo: Oh.

1117
02:02:07.910 --> 02:02:09.090
jim murez: solid. Add

1118
02:02:09.620 --> 02:02:10.540
Soledad Ursua: yes.

1119
02:02:11.240 --> 02:02:12.320
jim murez: Cj.

1120
02:02:12.490 --> 02:02:13.469
CJ Cole: Yes.

1121
02:02:14.440 --> 02:02:15.370
jim murez: Robert.

1122
02:02:15.680 --> 02:02:16.519
robertthibodeau: Yes.

1123
02:02:16.880 --> 02:02:19.190
robertthibodeau: Clark, that was Melissa.

1124
02:02:19.340 --> 02:02:21.919
jim murez: Okay, i'll come back. Michelle.

1125
02:02:22.860 --> 02:02:23.679
Michael Jensen: Yes.

1126
02:02:24.250 --> 02:02:25.170
jim murez: Patrick.

1127
02:02:25.880 --> 02:02:26.989
Patrick McKinley: All up same.

1128
02:02:30.850 --> 02:02:36.150
jim murez: I want to say yes, ha! Hang on 1 s, Jim Melissa, Are you here now.

1129
02:02:37.890 --> 02:02:38.840
jim murez: Melissa?

1130
02:02:41.530 --> 02:02:44.380
melissa diner: Yes, thank you.

1131
02:02:44.530 --> 02:02:48.789
jim murez: And and Zach. Are you back, or Elizabeth? Are you here?

1132
02:02:51.080 --> 02:02:53.220
Elizabeth Clay: Yes, I'm. Here, Jim.

1133
02:02:53.380 --> 02:02:56.230
jim murez: Oh, okay, what did you get to hear this item?

1134
02:02:57.740 --> 02:03:01.609
Elizabeth Clay: Yeah, I was here. Okay, Zachary, Are you back?

1135
02:03:03.150 --> 02:03:05.710
jim murez: Okay, Melissa, how do you vote

1136
02:03:10.250 --> 02:03:12.000
Chie: the Luca has already.

1137
02:03:12.140 --> 02:03:14.439
jim murez: Yes, thank you, Melissa

1138
02:03:16.200 --> 02:03:18.380
jim murez: Jim Rob, You said yes.

1139
02:03:20.160 --> 02:03:21.530
jim murez: and

1140
02:03:22.060 --> 02:03:23.730
jim murez: Elizabeth, how do you vote?

1141
02:03:25.060 --> 02:03:26.110
Elizabeth Clay: Yes.

1142
02:03:26.720 --> 02:03:27.730
thank you.

1143
02:03:28.150 --> 02:03:41.269
robertthibodeau: Jim. I think, Pat, I Excuse me, Patrick, but I think Patrick said he was going to abstain. Yeah, i'm just for the record to get it right.

1144
02:03:41.320 --> 02:03:45.969
jim murez: Yes, I did.

1145
02:03:45.990 --> 02:03:50.729
jim murez: No problem. Just wanted to get it right. Okay. And is Bruno back?

1146
02:03:51.360 --> 02:03:57.020
Bruno Hernandez: Yes, yes.

1147
02:03:59.510 --> 02:04:03.220
jim murez: okay. I think i'm the only one that Hasn't voted. I'm going to vote. Yes, also

1148
02:04:04.990 --> 02:04:09.229
jim murez: did I miss anybody? I don't think so. The only person that's not here is Zachary. Is that correct?

1149
02:04:10.830 --> 02:04:14.599
jim murez: So the motion carries 17, 1, 2.

1150
02:04:18.410 --> 02:04:19.300
jim murez: Okay.

1151
02:04:19.340 --> 02:04:21.279
jim murez: So we're going to call this meeting

1152
02:04:21.650 --> 02:04:24.860
jim murez: concluded at 7 58,

1153
02:04:25.970 --> 02:04:31.270
jim murez: and it will now be final. And now we're going to go back to our original scheduled meeting.

1154
02:04:32.580 --> 02:04:34.890
jim murez: Oh, boy.

1155
02:04:35.990 --> 02:04:37.030
jim murez: we were in

1156
02:04:37.260 --> 02:04:40.559
jim murez: public comment when Tracy came on

1157
02:04:41.240 --> 02:04:44.749
jim murez: and finished public comment. Huh!

1158
02:04:44.910 --> 02:04:50.030
robertthibodeau: Public comment was done.

1159
02:04:50.370 --> 02:04:53.569
robertthibodeau: General consent. Thank you, Robert.

1160
02:04:56.020 --> 02:05:07.589
jim murez: and on consent. We have item number 14, which is secure and accessible document storage for the homeless that was approved by the Homeless Committee 7 0. 0.

1161
02:05:08.100 --> 02:05:12.030
jim murez: We also, I guess that's the only item that's on consent.

1162
02:05:13.770 --> 02:05:18.450
jim murez: Anybody want to pull that off of consent. Speak now, or raise your hand

1163
02:05:18.540 --> 02:05:24.129
jim murez: to have this item heard. If it's, decides to be heard, it has to move to the end of the calendar

1164
02:05:24.200 --> 02:05:26.000
jim murez: after everything else.

1165
02:05:26.020 --> 02:05:39.299
jim murez: Yeah. So, Ruthie, state your reason why you want to have it; and if you have a a sufficient reason why it should not be approved.

1166
02:05:39.950 --> 02:05:48.969
jim murez: then we'll take it off of consent, and we'll have a full hearing on it at the end of the meeting. Go ahead, Ruthie. What's your reason for wanting to take it off of consent?

1167
02:05:50.160 --> 02:05:51.550
1747****603: The last person

1168
02:05:51.590 --> 02:05:55.510
who asked a question on the board was provided a false answer.

1169
02:05:55.600 --> 02:05:58.120
1747****603: I would like them to have a chance to hear the real truth.

1170
02:05:58.340 --> 02:06:09.150
1747****603: which is that it's not against 41, 18. But housing is never actually that. Ruthie Ruthie. Excuse me, Ruthie, the word Never up here, Ruthie. Excuse me.

1171
02:06:09.280 --> 02:06:21.249
jim murez: Ruthy. Excuse me. We're talking about? Item Number 14. Are you opposed to secure and accessible documents, storage for homeless people being approved on consent.

1172
02:06:23.090 --> 02:06:25.079
1747****603: I would also like it to be heard. Thank you.

1173
02:06:25.510 --> 02:06:30.449
jim murez: You would like it to be heard. What is your reasoning for wanting to have this item heard?

1174
02:06:30.810 --> 02:06:33.060
1747****603: Do you believe that there's something.

1175
02:06:34.440 --> 02:06:36.660
1747****603: and and we haven't had a chance to speak about it.

1176
02:06:38.900 --> 02:06:45.099
jim murez: Okay, we'll give you a chance to speak about it if you're not here at the end of the meeting. We're going to approve it, anyway.

1177
02:06:45.860 --> 02:06:47.380
jim murez: on consent.

1178
02:06:48.520 --> 02:06:52.509
jim murez: Okay, so that will be moved. We'll have to come back to it. Old business

1179
02:06:53.770 --> 02:06:56.250
jim murez: land use and planning consent items.

1180
02:06:57.700 --> 02:07:07.319
jim murez: 17 is a property at 2818, Cloom. It was approved. 6, 0, 0,

1181
02:07:08.150 --> 02:07:12.920
jim murez: 919. Millwood it was approved. 6, 0, 0,

1182
02:07:13.450 --> 02:07:19.519
jim murez: and Number 19 is 2324 Pacific. It was approved.

1183
02:07:19.910 --> 02:07:25.709
jim murez: I assume, on consent by the land use in planning committee next time i'd like to get a vote on that guys.

1184
02:07:25.790 --> 02:07:28.000
And then Walgrove

1185
02:07:28.040 --> 02:07:31.480
Michael Jensen: Jim, if it was consent, it means it was an ATM

1186
02:07:32.400 --> 02:07:35.030
Michael Jensen: in an administrative. That's why.

1187
02:07:36.230 --> 02:07:38.299
Michael Jensen: So it actually doesn't require here.

1188
02:07:40.420 --> 02:07:44.049
jim murez: Okay, i'm not sure why you submitted it to us then. But okay.

1189
02:07:44.400 --> 02:07:58.039
jim murez: at any rate, it's on here for consent. I do see. One hand has been raised for those 4 items. Margaret Malloy would like to give us a reason on any one of these items which one or all of them. Would you like to have heard

1190
02:07:58.050 --> 02:08:06.360
Margaret Molloy: mit Ctl. And so I think it's very disingenuous that you put items up that doesn't give you in a direct read what the square footage is of the proposed one

1191
02:08:06.430 --> 02:08:26.129
Margaret Molloy: new construction or addition. Why is that like this is supposed to be community friendly? We're not land, use professionals, and we need a quick read. We don't have time to be clicking links and trying to figure stuff out, so i'm opposed to the way that this is presented. Not one of them has square footage except

1192
02:08:26.140 --> 02:08:38.829
Margaret Molloy: the adu which has a Bso for it. So are you asking, are you asking? I'm. Just making a comment. Bs are not available, but it's on here, and the consent item that could be a

1193
02:08:38.950 --> 02:08:41.950
Margaret Molloy: could be, you know, a ha require a hearing

1194
02:08:42.180 --> 02:08:57.230
jim murez: the sos are not appealable like You're making shit up, you guys, and it's just really intolerable. I think I think, Margaret, I I want to address this, because you know what they've done is they've put a link directly into the

1195
02:08:57.660 --> 02:09:08.579
jim murez: the the item itself that if I click on that, it opens a document that takes me to the city planning website and brings up all of the material

1196
02:09:08.980 --> 02:09:25.699
Margaret Molloy: right, but none of it is directly accessible, so I can't read on the on the face of the planning case. What the footage is, what the square footage is that's one of the primary issues in all Venice development. Is it mass scaling, character, compliant or not? Do we think it is versus you guys?

1197
02:09:25.750 --> 02:09:30.479
Margaret Molloy: So i'm just saying, Why can't you make it easy for the public to participate.

1198
02:09:31.070 --> 02:09:41.750
Margaret Molloy: What would be so strenuous about putting the square footage of the existing property, the proposed new property, or any addition. Can you do that in the future

1199
02:09:41.950 --> 02:09:49.230
Margaret Molloy: we'll we'll, we'll take it into consideration. Thank you. And why? Why is the a. A. Vso. On this

1200
02:09:50.100 --> 02:09:57.729
Margaret Molloy: list? When Vs: those are not appealable. So are you suggesting that this is a. We can, you know, have a discussion about the Vso.

1201
02:09:57.800 --> 02:10:03.070
Margaret Molloy: If there's something new in the land, use law pertaining to V. So I wish you'd explain it here and now.

1202
02:10:03.530 --> 02:10:09.569
Michael Jensen: There, Isn't, Margaret, this is actually just an act to be more transparent. But if you'd prefer that they just

1203
02:10:09.600 --> 02:10:17.299
Margaret Molloy: don't appear on the agenda. I'll take that into consideration.

1204
02:10:17.830 --> 02:10:24.139
Margaret Molloy: I I want to see all the so, and Cx is because most of them are not what I would consider compliant, but

1205
02:10:24.380 --> 02:10:29.880
Margaret Molloy: the idea that we can discuss it is new. I would like to understand it.

1206
02:10:29.900 --> 02:10:37.729
jim murez: Yeah, let's do me a favor, Margaret. Let's take this discussion up in the land use and planning committee, because then we can get it right

1207
02:10:37.770 --> 02:10:40.470
jim murez: before it gets to here. Okay.

1208
02:10:40.580 --> 02:10:43.490
jim murez: i'm not objecting to what you're saying. I'm just saying.

1209
02:10:43.560 --> 02:10:44.559
jim murez: Let's not

1210
02:10:44.780 --> 02:10:52.249
Michael Jensen: prolonged this. You're welcome to attend our meetings there on the first and last Thursday of every month. The same cases came up.

1211
02:10:52.550 --> 02:10:54.989
Michael Jensen: you know, come up before they can be a Vnc.

1212
02:10:55.640 --> 02:11:03.020
Margaret Molloy: I appreciate that it's just very time consuming for all of us, so it would be real easy, but it was just on the face of the

1213
02:11:03.630 --> 02:11:09.909
Margaret Molloy: item number. Please.

1214
02:11:09.920 --> 02:11:25.499
jim murez: I thought, Wait, Jim. I thought you already closed public comment for this. No, no, no, we're just talking about the Mikkel. Let me let me run this at this point. We're we're on to whether or not, they can be on consent or off a consent if anybody wants to pull them off. I gave everybody the opportunity to pull them off. That's all we're doing

1215
02:11:25.800 --> 02:11:31.869
jim murez: so, Margaret didn't, and we got into a big discussion. Lisa, did you have anything you needed to take off consent?

1216
02:11:36.540 --> 02:11:42.129
Lisa Redmond: I actually want to go back up to 14. I had asked it at Com for that to come off consent.

1217
02:11:42.790 --> 02:11:45.220
That motion needs to be rewritten.

1218
02:11:45.420 --> 02:11:57.470
Lisa Redmond: Okay, well, we're we're at. It's already off of consent. So we're moving on. 14 is off of consent.

1219
02:11:58.440 --> 02:12:00.420
jim murez: So, not having

1220
02:12:00.540 --> 02:12:04.689
jim murez: anybody in the public asking to take it off of consent.

1221
02:12:05.130 --> 02:12:08.629
jim murez: Does anybody on the board want to take it off of consent.

1222
02:12:09.720 --> 02:12:13.209
jim murez: seeing none. Those items

1223
02:12:13.350 --> 02:12:16.459
jim murez: all pass on. Consent, and let me just make

1224
02:12:17.020 --> 02:12:18.940
jim murez: a quick note here.

1225
02:12:21.070 --> 02:12:24.089
jim murez: What was it? 16

1226
02:12:24.880 --> 02:12:26.790
jim murez: through 20

1227
02:12:26.940 --> 02:12:28.019
approved?

1228
02:12:32.350 --> 02:12:33.520
jim murez: Thank you.

1229
02:12:34.060 --> 02:12:36.409
jim murez: I think I misspelled that. But i'll worry about it later.

1230
02:12:41.970 --> 02:12:49.049
jim murez: Okay, now, we're on a new business item number 23, Abbott Kenny traffic slowing

1231
02:12:51.130 --> 02:12:54.110
jim murez: Would somebody like to make the motion? How about Robert

1232
02:12:56.560 --> 02:13:02.169
jim murez: Robert making the motion? Thank you, Robert, for those of you that don't know Roberts the chair of this committee.

1233
02:13:02.270 --> 02:13:04.840
Vicki Halliday: It's almost it's per day.

1234
02:13:05.170 --> 02:13:08.290
jim murez: Happy birthday, is it? Robert? Is your birthday today?

1235
02:13:08.520 --> 02:13:16.550
jim murez: Guilty is charged.

1236
02:13:18.930 --> 02:13:22.809
Vicki Halliday: I need somebody to second this, please.

1237
02:13:22.860 --> 02:13:23.900
jim murez: Who was that?

1238
02:13:25.140 --> 02:13:28.210
Vicki Halliday: Whoever else it wants can go. Okay, Vicki.

1239
02:13:29.970 --> 02:13:33.590
jim murez: Okay, let's take public comment on this item.

1240
02:13:42.340 --> 02:13:45.010
Vicki Halliday: Okay, we have 2 hands up

1241
02:13:45.310 --> 02:13:51.259
Vicki Halliday: our as followed by Margaret Moy, and then public comment will be closed. Go ahead ours.

1242
02:13:53.090 --> 02:13:56.799
RS: Hi. Thanks for taking taking me.

1243
02:13:57.240 --> 02:14:13.610
RS: I just in general. I'm in favor of this. It's just that the last bullet Point number 4, the removal of the Turn Lane. It just is gonna end up in making that road a lot less useful, and causing all kinds of backups.

1244
02:14:13.730 --> 02:14:16.830
RS: so I'm. Generally in favor of the

1245
02:14:16.860 --> 02:14:25.549
Vicki Halliday: making it safer. But I think we're moving. The turn Lane is a bad idea.

1246
02:14:26.930 --> 02:14:42.730
Margaret Molloy: so I think fundamentally, there's a conflict of interest issue with Robert Tibeto proposing this motion, since he has a major contentious and illegal development at 8, 12 name that's currently under construction, or at least

1247
02:14:42.800 --> 02:14:44.400
Margaret Molloy: it appears to have

1248
02:14:44.430 --> 02:14:50.160
Margaret Molloy: really strong issues, and he's also a developer at 9, 10, a Mckinney.

1249
02:14:50.460 --> 02:14:51.170
Margaret Molloy: and

1250
02:14:52.160 --> 02:15:05.739
Margaret Molloy: these benefit those particular developments and those particular clients. And this happens over and over again in Venice, and it cannot be allowed to happen so strike the motion. There's a conflict of interest on the face of it.

1251
02:15:06.850 --> 02:15:09.189
jim murez: Thank you. Hold on, Vicki.

1252
02:15:10.220 --> 02:15:20.130
jim murez: And can I speak to that?

1253
02:15:20.360 --> 02:15:34.700
jim murez: Conflicts of interest or anything here, and actually it's up to Robert to to to to take up whether or not it's a conflict of interest. But as I read this, it's traffic slowing on Abbot Kenny between Venice, Boulevard and Washington. Both of the sites that

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jim murez: Margaret just mentioned are at the north end of them, at the north end of Abbey, Kenny, at Maine and Abbott Kenny, which is more than a quarter of a mile away, so i'm not sure

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Vicki Halliday: what she's alluding to. We'll continue with public comment.

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jim murez: And Yolanda. Yeah, we're going to more public comment. After that we're not going to take Margaret again. We heard her comment. Thank you. Okay, Evan, go ahead, please.

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Evan Corrigan: Hey?

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Evan Corrigan: I'm Evan. I'm co-chair of the parking transportation committee. This this motion, or this idea, was actually brought to us

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Evan Corrigan: by a few different community members who have.

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Evan Corrigan: you know. I'll talk to the neighbors for months and years, and they wanted to see some safety improvements

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Evan Corrigan: on Abbott Kinney in that more residential apartment. Kind of district of Abbey Kenny.

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Evan Corrigan: So this is, you know. This is something that came from the community, and we

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Evan Corrigan: took it on, because we just wanted to see some safety improvements there.

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Evan Corrigan: And I I do have a presentation.

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jim murez: Oh, no.

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jim murez: If you want to run through that, or we can. Yeah, no, I didn't, Evan, I didn't. I didn't realize that there was a presentation. Let me stop the clock on this, and we'll give you the opportunity to make the presentation. But let us finish public comment first. I think how many of our public comments Well, we we just had Yolanda, and now someone else has put their hand up after Teresa.

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Vicki Halliday: No more public comment on this item.

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Vicki Halliday: So go ahead, Yolanda.

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jim murez: Yeah, London, you know. Excuse me, Vicki, for maybe we should let Evan make the presentation first. So that way

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jim murez: Heaven let me do this. Did you want me to share the screen?

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Evan Corrigan: Yeah, sure that sounds good.

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jim murez: Okay, hold on 1 s.

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jim murez: I have to make screen sharing multiple participants. Okay, go ahead and share the screen. If you could do me a favor. Just take, you know, like what? Less than 5 min maybe.

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Evan Corrigan: Yeah, i'll go. I I can't. I don't have screen sharing.

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jim murez: Oh, oh, oh, Where are you? Here you are! Let me promote you to a panelist first.

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jim murez: Are you on?

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jim murez: Why am I not able to promote you to panelists? Hold on.

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jim murez: I have to remove your permission to talk, I think, for oh, let me go into the list.

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jim murez: Where's the list, Evan?

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jim murez: Remote Pant now to remove permission. Now, where did you go

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jim murez: now? I have to find you again.

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jim murez: Vicki. Do you see?

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jim murez: And there we go.

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jim murez: Okay, Evan, i'm promoting you to panelists soon as you get in. There you go now. You should be able to share screen.

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jim murez: Evan, are you there? There we go.

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Evan Corrigan: Yeah. So let's see here.

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Evan Corrigan: Yeah, I just wanted to run everybody through it really quickly. So you know, a lot of people Haven't seen this. Basically it was brought to the Park Interest Transportation Committee from the community

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Evan Corrigan: that lives adjacent to that section of the

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Evan Corrigan: between Venice and Washington.

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Evan Corrigan: and a lot of the the comments that were brought up. Specifically, we're about that Mar Street crosswalk.

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Evan Corrigan: There's kind of an on demand prospect there, and it's hard to see definitely, you know, during sunrise and sunset

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a lot of cars. Don't see it.

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Evan Corrigan: A lot of pedestrians don't feel safe.

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Evan Corrigan: So this is just like

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Evan Corrigan: a way for the parking and transportation committee to generate some ideas and hopefully get

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Evan Corrigan: the conversation started with the city

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Evan Corrigan: and those neighbors that I talked about, who also brought the idea to us.

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Evan Corrigan: They went out, and they got about

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Evan Corrigan: 200 or so signatures from kind of surrounding neighbors wanting to see these improvements happen as well.

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Evan Corrigan: So this is just a mood board of, you know. Maybe some ideas raising the crosswalks, more planters filling in extraneous slip lanes, things like that

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Evan Corrigan: just making the street more comfortable for everyone

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Evan Corrigan: with the idea here, just getting a conversation started with the city and seeing what we can do.

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Evan Corrigan: just running it through quickly.

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Evan Corrigan: So this is that crosswalk I talked about in our street.

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Evan Corrigan: super hard to see

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Evan Corrigan: during sunset here.

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Evan Corrigan: both for cars and pedestrians.

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Evan Corrigan: so figuring out a way to make that more visible and more possible.

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Evan Corrigan: So people, you know.

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Evan Corrigan: you know there's been a lot of near misses there when people are crossing the street, so

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Evan Corrigan: just some suggestions of painting it, raising that crosswalk curb

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Evan Corrigan: or adding in a new beacon. That would be kind of like a red light. They're adding these those in on Lincoln Boulevard.

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Evan Corrigan: Another big thing was I'm sure. You all know there's big kind of funnel like slip lines on a lot of those

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Evan Corrigan: streets that intersects ab to Kenny.

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Evan Corrigan: So I think this is Washington way.

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Evan Corrigan: and, as you see from above, you know kind of channels out in this big funnel.

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Evan Corrigan: It's kind of difficult with scooters and cars and

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Evan Corrigan: bikes and pedestrians, nobody knows really where to be

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Evan Corrigan: so just defining those spaces a little bit better.

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Evan Corrigan: filling those in and adding in crosswalks to all those intersecting streets with.

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Evan Corrigan: Be a big improvement.

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Evan Corrigan: and that's you know how this could look.

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Evan Corrigan: We could paint it in the beginning.

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Evan Corrigan: You know, some members of the Harbour Committee, I think, would be really interested in using this extra concrete space

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Evan Corrigan: for planting space and green space

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Evan Corrigan: drainage Bios whales things like that.

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Evan Corrigan: and I think it would just be a big improvement to the

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Evan Corrigan: walking experience and the biking experience, and even the

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Evan Corrigan: the driving experience.

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Evan Corrigan: One thing is there's this street called so Mar Street kind of intersects here. I don't know if you can see my mouse, but

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Evan Corrigan: there's no sidewalk.

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Evan Corrigan: Another thing we like to discuss with the city.

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Evan Corrigan: We haven't really figured it out. But

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Evan Corrigan: how Queen, maybe at a sidewalk on Mars Street.

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Evan Corrigan: so pedestrians can actually walk around Mar Street and access the path at the arena, or

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Evan Corrigan: access houses, or whatever it may be.

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Evan Corrigan: There's actually a I think, a dedication, or a portion that's dedicated to be a sidewalk.

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Evan Corrigan: But it's kind of just filled up with utilities now.

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Evan Corrigan: So just be nice to talk with the city and see what's possible.

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Evan Corrigan: The other idea.

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Evan Corrigan: You know.

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Evan Corrigan: There's a lot of different modes of traffic, you know whether it be cars walking bike, scooters.

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Evan Corrigan: skateboards, whatever

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Evan Corrigan: you know. One thing we could do is take away that center, turn line to create some dedicated space for those alternative modes of travel

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Evan Corrigan: that are definitely becoming more popular and more used.

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Evan Corrigan: Just so. We can have less kind of interactions between cars. And

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Evan Corrigan: you know 2 wheels.

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modes of transport

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Evan Corrigan: so that's how Abbot can he currently peers cross-section. This is centrally in the middle.

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Evan Corrigan: and this would be like a very you know, straightforward option to adding in a buffered

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Evan Corrigan: bike lane

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Evan Corrigan: and again, These are just ideas and suggestions to make the street more safe.

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Evan Corrigan: and our goal is to kind of just

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Evan Corrigan: get this conversation started with the city.

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Evan Corrigan: Another cool thing just adding in, you know. There's this Marvin broad bike path.

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Evan Corrigan: and it might be nice to just add some signage in

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Evan Corrigan: around Mar street. And then this kind of cut through here.

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Evan Corrigan: just so bikers can be kind of more aware of it.

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Evan Corrigan: you know less looking at the phones and distractions and things like that.

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Evan Corrigan: because that's very heavily used for people to get around Marina and and you know, bike down. Apply it already, and things like that

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these are some other kind of

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Evan Corrigan: safety toolkit things from the La City Guide. So bike boxes just giving some more

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Evan Corrigan: visual aids to show where bikers are where scooters are.

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Evan Corrigan: and these are some other ideas that the community brought to us. So, extending this treatment to the commercial

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Evan Corrigan: quarter of a Kenny.

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Evan Corrigan: creating some car-free streets on our beginning and first Fridays maybe.

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Evan Corrigan: Yeah. And you know this to reiterate this is brought to us by the community.

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Evan Corrigan: They went out there they got signatures.

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Evan Corrigan: This is kind of

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Evan Corrigan: a consolidation of their ideas into something more succinct.

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Evan Corrigan: But yeah, we just wanted to bring this to you and then hopefully get a discussion started with CD 11 and the city. Thank you.

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jim murez: Thank you.

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jim murez: Okay, let's go back and

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jim murez: restart public comment on this. I know that

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jim murez: that seems like an inconvenience. But it seems as though

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jim murez: there were people that didn't really understand it. So we'll go ahead and take public comment. If everybody could keep it as short as possible.

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Vicki Halliday: We're we're starting to run late, and we have a lot more material to cover

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Vicki Halliday: for hands to go up, and then i'm going to close it

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Vicki Halliday: that way. We're not repeating people. So we want to speak. Get that hand out.

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Vicki Halliday: Okay. The last person to speak will be Ruthy

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Vicki Halliday: First one. Yolanda. Go ahead, please.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: Yes, Yolanda.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: I would like to.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: I am a resident property owner

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Yolanda Gonzalez: on Abbot Kenny here in Venice.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: and and

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Yolanda Gonzalez: I

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Yolanda Gonzalez: have. You have no idea

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Yolanda Gonzalez: what how people go through this street really fast

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Yolanda Gonzalez: starting at 70'clock in the morning.

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Yolanda Gonzalez: and then when they come from work. It is really really fast. I know about Mars

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Yolanda Gonzalez: Street. It's become very dangerous. The overgrowth of foliage, because you want to make that left hand turn coming in from Mar into Abbott. Kenny has become very dangerous. You have to stick out a little bit more because you can't see the opposite traffic coming in from the south side on Abbot Kenny, and then you have the contrary traffic coming in

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Yolanda Gonzalez: from Abbott, Kenny and and and Venice

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Yolanda Gonzalez: Chewy, or the Oscar and I worked on this and also that. Yeah, that medium that's there. It's there for a purpose, because

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Vicki Halliday: the city park 6 buses their trucks right there.

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Teresa Conrow (she,her): Hi! My name's Teresa and I live right around the corner from this area, and it there's some very simple things that can be done like even getting

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Teresa Conrow (she,her): the overhead like Evan was showing, so that the cars actually stop. So we're not talking about slowing any traffic. The cars already have to stop Whenever a pedestrian pushes the yellow light. The problem is, they don't.

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Teresa Conrow (she,her): And so the comments that we've gotten on the petition are just really heartbreaking. There's like one from Jan, who says daily, i'm trying to risk my at risk when I try to cross Abbott Kenny, where it intersects with Mar. When I walk my dogs speeding cars off and blow through caution lights at the crosswalk or break unpredictably, only coming to a stop at the last minute, and she goes on. The problem is, there's a curve in Abbott Kinney right there, and so cars don't see it.

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Teresa Conrow (she,her): and on Lincoln, on Santanella. The city has put up overheads where the lights in the middle of the street. Right now the flashing lights are only on the side. So it we're not talking about slowing traffic. All we're talking about doing is making some immediate improvement.

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Teresa Conrow (she,her): and we've had a lot of risks of life.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

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Margaret Molloy: So

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Margaret Molloy: evidently

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Margaret Molloy: you're saying you have community support, but it is a inclusive of the whole of epic Kinney. So again Robert should be recused. He shouldn't have anything to do with this.

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Margaret Molloy: and when you are proposing projects on aviation that are majorly intensifying the use

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Margaret Molloy: and the density of what exists there, including the Venice Place Hotel.

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Margaret Molloy: Why would you say? Oh, now we need remedy for the residential. They're interactive. But nobody presented this cumulative impact. When you were guys all supported. The Avocadi Hotel. Rob is trying to get through a project at 8, 12 main, you know it's languished since 2,007. Give me a break.

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Margaret Molloy: We're not talking about a minor change you're talking about, and a very extreme change to the whole character of the street, and I would notice that

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Margaret Molloy: Jim tried to get this 3 years ago on the Transportation Committee, and it favored him with the cross section at a

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Vicki Halliday: and the

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Eva. Go ahead, please.

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Eva Greene: All right.

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Eva Greene: I think there's some really good ideas here like the raised crosswalks

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Eva Greene: that will slow down down traffic a little bit. But it'll be more visible. That's really good.

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Eva Greene: I do think that putting a sidewalk on Mar is a really great idea. A lot of people walk. Their dogs have to go under the street, and it's kind of hidden miss. It's a little creepy there.

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Eva Greene: but I don't think that you should get rid of a left hand turn line. I think that's silly, because you yourself said that there's a lot of zooming traffic there. How do people have to make a left? I get across so it's really important that that that remain. But a lot of the other ideas are really spot on. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Eva.

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Vicki Halliday: Next one is an email address, only starting with D. Zx.

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Vicki Halliday: Go ahead, please.

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Oops.

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Vicki Halliday: Oh.

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Vicki Halliday: that person seems to

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Vicki Halliday: have disappeared.

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Vicki Halliday: Okay, Steve Friedman, Go ahead, please.

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Vicki Halliday: Steve.

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Steve Freedman: Okay, okay. I want to speak to one aspect of this plan only.

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Steve Freedman: and that is the center media to provide some history for the Traffic Committee. I appreciate your work. I work for years on traffic and transportation committees in in and for Venice.

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Steve Freedman: The center median is there

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Steve Freedman: because the community requested.

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Steve Freedman: when we were working many years ago with the Venice Mobility Action Committee, a

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Steve Freedman: Committee of Venetians working with department of transportation

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Steve Freedman: work for a number of years to get that center medium put in with left turn lanes

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Steve Freedman: for those that have been in the community for a long time. You may know that Venice advocacy was much, much

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Steve Freedman: more dangerous with faster traffic. There were 2 lanes in each direction. When there wasn't a center median, and

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Steve Freedman: if you read driving at reasonable speed, people would pass you on the left or right anything they had to do to pass you. That's all. Been resolved with the center median in the left turn lanes. Thank you.

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Shawn O'brien, Go ahead.

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Sean Obrien: Yeah. I like the plans. I also want to

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Sean Obrien: state that I think it's a big mistake to remove the center line

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Sean Obrien: that will impede the traffic on people wanting to turn eastbound

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Sean Obrien: on

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Sean Obrien: on the Garfields and whatnot, and and the school, and all that.

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Sean Obrien: So if there's any way we could just omit removing the center lane. Otherwise i'm all in favor. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Shawn.

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Vicki Halliday: Robin. Mirrors! Go ahead.

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robin murez: Hi! I just want to say that I am a person who has been on my bicycle and pushed that yellow, blinking light, and the traffic did not see or did not talk. It's happened on many occasions. So this is a reality that it is dangerous the way that yellow, blinking light is functioning, or where it's placed on Mars

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robin murez: A at Mar on Abbott Kenny Doesn't cut it.

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robin murez: and so I think that Evans got some really good suggestions. I particularly like

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robin murez: greening places, taking out concrete islands that needn't be there and having them have trees or greenery, and having those brightly colored green bike lanes might be a good thing. But yeah, and whatever the placement of that

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robin murez: linking light needs to be fixed so that people actually see it. Thank you. Good work. Oh, and happy birthday, Robert.

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02:34:05.140 --> 02:34:08.119
Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Robin Lisa: Go ahead.

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Lisa Redmond: Yeah, i'm actually in favor of this I

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Lisa Redmond: I think I come across often, as i'm against everything. But I am in favor of this. I live in that neighborhood. I walk there. That is a mega dangerous crosswalk, and nobody pays attention to it.

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Lisa Redmond: and it's also heavily used. So that's why it really needs to be carefully looked at.

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Lisa Redmond: I love the idea about putting a sidewalk there on Mars Street until about a year and a half ago people parked there.

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02:34:40.520 --> 02:34:43.450
Lisa Redmond: and there were always cars parked there, and

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Lisa Redmond: it was unbelievable until someone finally painted it red, and so that with people would across the street with their dogs and with the cars park there. They would now be walking in the middle of that little short street of mark where people are whipping in and out around the corner, coming in from Mar the other way.

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Lisa Redmond: going north, or people coming from advocating and cutting in quickly. And I would also love to see that little area reimagined there at Washington way. It is so hard with the turns of Abbott Kenny.

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Lisa Redmond: to make a right turn. You can't look backwards and see your your Lisa. Your time's up. Sorry

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Vicki Halliday: Dzx reappeared. I'm going to try him again. Everyone else. His hand is up. Went up long after the cut off, so i'll leave that up to Jim if he wants.

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Vicki Halliday: How many, how many more hands are we talking about?

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Vicki Halliday: 3 after Dzx: yeah, we'll go ahead and hear the 3. It's 3 extra minutes and and give them as long as they're people that haven't spoken before.

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Vicki Halliday: Hi! Can you hear me?

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dzx@posteo.net: Hi, my yeah, my name is Daniel Zachs. I I've worked with Evan over the last few months to come up with some of the ideas and I I appreciate the presentation this isn't complicated people tried 55 miles an hour, and a 30 on Abukini. This isn't just any road this is abbott kenny in Venice, and people are like almost getting hit

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dzx@posteo.net: every single day on this crosswalk. So these are just ideas. I really appreciate Evan bringing this forward, and I I think it's really important. If this isn't like at, you know. We can debate all day about some of these initial ideas, but I think this is the beginning of the process, but I think it needs to get done, and it's, and it's tile. It needs to happen

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dzx@posteo.net: because it's it's very dangerous. This this shouldn't be a complicated thing. It's seeing how fast people are driving, and the contour of this road from Dennis to Washington makes it so. People dry fast. This isn't about people being slow during rush hour. This is every other time during

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dzx@posteo.net: during the day. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

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Ruthy. Go ahead, please.

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1747****603: I feel like I'm in a different meeting.

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1747****603: You like are letting more people speak and like oh, it's only 3 min, and before you weren't like that at all, and also like you let the guy give a whole presentation. I've made presentations on Ruthy, Ruthy. I'm going to stop the time for a second. I want you. I want to be very clear.

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jim murez: Your your You need to speak on topic

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jim murez: to this motion. This motion is about street improvements on Abbot Kenny and Mar. Some of the other areas in that area. This is just about. I have an ideas on street improvement. So please please address, please. We are demonstrating my point now. I had a presentation about this. Would you let me give it.

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jim murez: Ruthie? Please, please make your point to the motion that's on the floor.

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jim murez: Thank you. You make. I think most people getting murdered by cars is a great thing.

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Vicki Halliday: Now, if I could see on 41, 18 next time, like that comes up or or before. When that comes up, you don't let me speak.

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1747****603: You are being discriminatory. This is proof of discrimination.

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jim murez: Okay, Ruthy, Are you done?

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jim murez: Okay, Vicki? Let's move on to the next speaker. Erica. Go ahead, please.

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Erica Moore: Hi, there! I wanted to first say, Happy birthday, Robert, my son's birthday is today, too, so I'm going to be actually in the meeting right after this.

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Erica Moore: I just wanted to say that I was actually attended the transportation meeting a transportation meeting where they did discuss this, and

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Erica Moore: I really appreciate Evans presentation, and I am in favor of them.

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Erica Moore: Looking at what can be done because something definitely needs to be done. I also ride by on Abbott Kenny.

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Erica Moore: and have experience what they're talking, what many people have brought up, and I also think it's really important that there' be a curb on. I believe it's more

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Erica Moore: so. Thank you so much, and have a great night.

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Vicki Halliday: Thanks, very good.

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Vicki Halliday: Teresa Conro. Go ahead, please.

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Teresa Conrow (she,her): I've already spoken, so I don't want to take more time. I was actually just trying to get

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Teresa Conrow (she,her): Daniel to be able to get to speak, so I raise my hand to make.

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Vicki Halliday: Okay, that's it, Jim.

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jim murez: Okay.

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jim murez: let's go back to the meeting.

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jim murez: So the motion

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jim murez: includes several things.

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jim murez: and I guess if if

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02:39:38.840 --> 02:39:42.099
jim murez: we have discussion. I see Cj. Has her hand up.

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jim murez: and you know, after we have a little bit of discussion on this, perhaps we want to consider.

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jim murez: Item number 4 of the motion

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jim murez: where it talks about removal of the center lane.

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jim murez: Not that we necessarily need to do that, because

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jim murez: clearly La Dot will come back to us with a

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jim murez: a a design or an improvement project that we would then have to look at and reapprove. And maybe we want to put wording in there that describes that we want led ot to come back to us with the proposed solution to these 4 items. But let's take a little bit of comment. First. Cj: Go ahead, please.

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CJ Cole: Okay. First of all, this is way premature.

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CJ Cole: Okay.

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CJ Cole: Number 2. You're correct. J. Jim. I think it's fine for us to.

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CJ Cole: even if we want to list some of the concerns and ask led to to come back with some proposals.

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CJ Cole: But this is not in condition for us as a board to recommend that L. I do these improvements.

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CJ Cole: and that's exactly what the guy D. Z, or whatever his name with just said, is, this is real preliminary, and it's not ready for a motion, as is so. I don't know what I can do, but I would like to propose that we do not

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jim murez: let. Let's take a little bit more comment from the board, and then maybe we can create an alternate motion

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jim murez: that would allow us to send something to Dot that gets the ball rolling, but that they could then come back to us. We've done this in the past, I mean. I was chair of this committee for 5 years, and we usually we. We usually wrote it the other way, asking the La do to come back to us with the proposal, and then we would then refine that for, agree with that proposal that they came back with Nico, You have your hand up. Go ahead, please.

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Nico Ruderman: Yeah, I mean, I I understand what Cj. Is saying.

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Nico Ruderman: as as far as

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Nico Ruderman: you know, as being maybe premature with these this specific of recommendations.

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Nico Ruderman: But I will say that this intersection scares the life out of me. I mean I. You know that section of advocacy between Venice and Washington

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Nico Ruderman: is like the Wild West

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02:42:06.500 --> 02:42:09.139
Nico Ruderman: kind of seems to be like anything goes.

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Nico Ruderman: you know. I mean as as far as Section 4. The removal of the Center Turn Lane. I have very mixed feelings about that one. I I think it's turn. Turn. Lane

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Nico Ruderman: helps

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Nico Ruderman: eliminate people rushing around who are in a big hurry, but the flip side of it is I? I drive

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Nico Ruderman: down this section, I guess, North

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Nico Ruderman: every single morning after I drop my son off at school, and at least twice a week. Somebody uses that center turn link to pass me

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Nico Ruderman: because i'm cause i'm driving maybe 45 and a 35, and they're going about 80,

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Nico Ruderman: and so you know clearly something needs to happen here. You know it. This and that intersection at

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Nico Ruderman: sunset and

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Nico Ruderman: specific both just absolutely terrifying me. Every time I cross, and I I I actually cross this intersection pretty regularly, because that is like a major bike path. You know I when i'm driving, riding my bike down in the Marina. No trader, Joe's, or whatever

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Nico Ruderman: that's like the main way to go. So it it definitely definitely needs some consideration. But I I agree that maybe we should

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Nico Ruderman: rewrite this motion in a way that's that's more more conducive to Dot studying it versus giving them specific recommendations like this.

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jim murez: Okay, thank you. Nico: yeah, I I think a lot of the committees need help sometimes learning about how to write motions where we can actually hear them more quickly on the board, but we'll get into that on another day. Patrick, you have your hand up. Go ahead, please.

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Patrick McKinley: Yes, thanks, Jim. I I I agree with Nico and Cj. Just looking at this. I know the area while I go there. I've run through it all the time. I drive through it, so i'll fully agree there's some dangerous intersection, especially with the crosswalks visibility, and no sidewalk from our. But item number 4. I think you know we should be asking D. O to study it.

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Patrick McKinley: There's no way we really understand the impacts of to first responders. Are they using that center to get the areas in neighborhoods to respond quicker. You know what what are the impact? So I think the way the motion is written. It needs to be redone.

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jim murez: Okay, thank you, Patrick.

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jim murez: By the way before you can vote on things. I just realized. Have you taken any of your trainings yet?

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Patrick McKinley: No, you just called me before this

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jim murez: and see, we gotta do all of that. So i'm gonna have to go back and and remove your votes. But I it doesn't change anything subsequently. So it's

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jim murez: we'll we'll forgive for now, but you can't vote until you take your trainings. We'll talk more about that offline later. Daffodil. Go ahead, please.

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Daff: All right. 3 quick things. One I haven't pointed this out, and just one other absolute, fatal flaw with this

1536
02:44:53.710 --> 02:45:02.710
Daff: intersection is the way the sun hits it in the morning. At night. I run down there routinely, and you do end up in a a very difficult, precarious situation

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Daff: 2 with respect to the motion itself.

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Daff: D Ot. Jim, You're right. They're not gonna just like, Take our recommendation and change it. This is sort of the first step to get them to consider it, and I worked with my neighbors for years to get pacific and brooks fixed. And what we eventually found is that without asking for something specific

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02:45:23.780 --> 02:45:27.270
Daff: and just asking for a study. No one takes any action.

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Daff: It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation with getting.to make improvements at intersections, so I think we could fix this very easily by just changing one or 2 words in the motion.

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Daff: The line that says motion. The Board of Officers recommends that dlt. Did it make the following improvement.

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02:45:47.020 --> 02:45:54.280
Daff: I think we could just say, Recommend that I do to improve the intersection, and consider the following, or something like that.

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jim murez: Let me do this. Let me let me take a love. The last one or 2 public comments out of the committee comments, and we'll come back and and let's work. Let's work on the wording. Then, because I think

1544
02:46:07.710 --> 02:46:16.310
Daff: Sorry to call you, I would just wouldn't encourage everyone not to let perfectly be the enemy of good here, because there really is no perfect in the led to the ot situation.

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jim murez: Robert, your hands up. Go ahead, please.

1546
02:46:23.000 --> 02:46:26.710
robertthibodeau: A couple of comments to try and keep it quick.

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02:46:27.410 --> 02:46:43.699
robertthibodeau: I mean I'm i'm fine with adjusting things. This was just our stab at doing this, because something needed to be done. And so this was. This was brought to us by a Dzx, and and he, he and Evan worked on it really hard.

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robertthibodeau: Maybe instead of I do, it makes the following improvements to studies. The following improvements, or we are requesting, led to to study the following improvements: something that simple might be.

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and then.

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robertthibodeau: in terms of the center lane. There was some back and forth on committee on that, too. I think that

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robertthibodeau: that did go in, because again.

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robertthibodeau: you know, perfect being the enemy of good or whatever the thing is that did go in. But there was some that wasn't that wasn't, even on committee 100 like, yeah.

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robertthibodeau: there was some

1554
02:47:25.940 --> 02:47:27.250
robertthibodeau: thought on that one.

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robertthibodeau: The reason, though, that that didn't get put in was

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robertthibodeau: because of the standards for the bike lanes.

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02:47:36.540 --> 02:47:39.780
robertthibodeau: If you want bike lanes both sides of the street.

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02:47:40.390 --> 02:47:47.900
robertthibodeau: It takes up, I think it's a minimum of 6 feet, and with with the protected area for the door swing.

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robertthibodeau: and that that actually takes up enough street

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robertthibodeau: that then there's not enough room for the the the center turn link, and i'm not a traffic engineer, you know I do this committee, but i'm not by no means a traffic engineer, but that's how I kind of understood

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robertthibodeau: why that came about what it was.

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robertthibodeau: I take a left on on advocating all the time, so it actually hurts me to remove that as well. You know I

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robertthibodeau: this my neighborhood. I I, I turn turn off of this.

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robertthibodeau: And then

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02:48:18.070 --> 02:48:32.800
robertthibodeau: there there was a bunch of comments that I maybe i'll just skip those. They were sort of in kind of offbeat comments that an angry woman had earlier, and maybe i'll just skip those. But

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robertthibodeau: you know this this doesn't have this public safety stuff Doesn't really have to do with

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02:48:38.060 --> 02:48:40.690
robertthibodeau: with the financial interest and

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robertthibodeau: and a project, or what I'm. Not sure what she was getting at. She just seemed

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robertthibodeau: angry.

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jim murez: Okay, Thank Thank you, Robert, and lower your hand for me if you would please anybody else, have any comment for the first. Go around.

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jim murez: Okay, seeing none.

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jim murez: Let's go back and talk about how we can

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jim murez: rewrite this. So what i'll do is i'll click on this, so we get a voter tally. Later

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jim murez: i'll copy the motion down

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jim murez: and let's. Now

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02:49:13.390 --> 02:49:17.680
jim murez: think about how do we want to rewrite this? And then we'll get a

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02:49:17.830 --> 02:49:19.480
jim murez: maker and a second

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jim murez: a board of officer recommended. La Dot makes the following improvement.

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jim murez: And so I guess.

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jim murez: Daffodil, you had some particular wording. Cj: You have your hand up. Go ahead. Did you have an idea about how we can improve this. I I personally would like to see whatever we do, asking L. a.to return to us

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jim murez: with a a proposed plan of how these things might be done.

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02:49:51.640 --> 02:50:03.879
CJ Cole: Yeah, I just think 4 has to come up, and you could just say the you know. Ask the Ildt to consider Number 1, 2, and 3,

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02:50:05.370 --> 02:50:06.499
CJ Cole: or, you know.

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CJ Cole: but for I think has to come out it just.

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CJ Cole: you know we can't have a street. That's just one lane on each side and give room for bicycles every time that Robert wants to make a left hand turn everybody behind him is going to have to stop until he can.

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Patrick McKinley: Yeah, I a slow driver to Cj. Patrick, You You have your hand up. Go ahead. Yeah, I I was just gonna say I don't think you need to remove one through 4. I think they're fine. I think someone made the common already. Just change the top to the partner at transit returns a feasibility. Study

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Patrick McKinley: on the following improvements. Therefore you'll find an answer. Whether or not the removal of the center lane is even feasible, and what the impacts are.

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jim murez: So the Board of Officer requests led Ot.

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jim murez: Make a feasibility study.

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Daff: Maybe. Jim say, conduct a feasibility. Study.

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Patrick McKinley: Yeah, there you go or provides.

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Yeah.

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jim murez: help me on feasibility.

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jim murez: Ph.

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Jason Sugars: Just one person.

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CJ Cole: It's just F. G. As I

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02:51:46.290 --> 02:51:49.109
CJ Cole: forget it.

1598
02:51:49.350 --> 02:52:01.099
jim murez: Let's see is feasibility. There we go.

1599
02:52:01.590 --> 02:52:04.309
jim murez: That's a feasibility study

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02:52:06.310 --> 02:52:07.199
jim murez: and

1601
02:52:07.430 --> 02:52:08.789
jim murez: reports.

1602
02:52:19.150 --> 02:52:20.430
jim murez: How's that?

1603
02:52:21.700 --> 02:52:23.760
CJ Cole: They should not be plural

1604
02:52:23.800 --> 02:52:25.940
CJ Cole: conduct and reports

1605
02:52:26.270 --> 02:52:28.069
CJ Cole: It's just a singular.

1606
02:52:35.570 --> 02:52:37.689
jim murez: and it should be improvements.

1607
02:52:39.540 --> 02:52:44.589
jim murez: Okay, how's that? Look we like that.

1608
02:52:46.080 --> 02:52:51.350
Patrick McKinley: Do we want to limit them to just these 4, or we? We like to look at other suggestions?

1609
02:52:51.580 --> 02:53:03.849
jim murez: Well, this is the only for that. We're on the agenda, so we can't take it farther. I don't know who that was who was speaking. But this is that that was Patrick Jim. I just mean you could just add it, or it provides other recommendations.

1610
02:53:04.750 --> 02:53:15.830
jim murez: Yeah, no. These are the only for that. We're on our agenda, so we can't bring in new information. We can just change the little bit of the tune and continue to move forward. Evan, you have your hand up because you were the

1611
02:53:16.170 --> 02:53:25.509
Evan Corrigan: co-chair of this committee. Did you have something you wanted to add to this?

1612
02:53:26.000 --> 02:53:29.100
Evan Corrigan: We want to see if it's possible for a buffered bike lane.

1613
02:53:29.260 --> 02:53:31.839
Evan Corrigan: It's not about removing the center train land, but

1614
02:53:32.110 --> 02:53:34.340
Evan Corrigan: we want to see some

1615
02:53:34.630 --> 02:53:37.500
Evan Corrigan: division for a bike lane, if possible.

1616
02:53:37.630 --> 02:53:38.860
jim murez: Okay.

1617
02:53:40.080 --> 02:53:41.770
jim murez: So

1618
02:53:41.920 --> 02:53:47.920
jim murez: instead of remove the center turn line on Abbot Kenny between.

1619
02:53:48.630 --> 02:53:50.050
jim murez: Let's try it painted

1620
02:53:52.480 --> 02:53:54.929
jim murez: So if I just take this out.

1621
02:53:55.760 --> 02:53:56.590
jim murez: See

1622
02:53:57.110 --> 02:53:58.749
Daff: how many Kenny.

1623
02:54:01.330 --> 02:54:04.820
Daff: I don't, Jim. It's it's staff. I don't think you need to do all that.

1624
02:54:05.280 --> 02:54:11.279
Daff: I think I would just say at the top the board of officers request that led ot improve

1625
02:54:14.270 --> 02:54:15.699
Daff: the intersection.

1626
02:54:17.440 --> 02:54:21.030
Daff: and conduct a feasibility study, considering the following

1627
02:54:21.880 --> 02:54:23.750
Daff: Well, but I

1628
02:54:23.810 --> 02:54:35.240
jim murez: I think his point. I think this point is well taken. Maybe we don't need to remove the center by Cl, the center turn lane. And now this solves everybody's with it. Just create a bike lane between there and there.

1629
02:54:35.370 --> 02:54:38.899
jim murez: and and see what they come back with.

1630
02:54:38.930 --> 02:54:42.960
Daff: That's fine. I guess that partially depends on what was passing committee. But

1631
02:54:43.020 --> 02:54:47.200
Daff: yeah, I don't have a

1632
02:54:48.990 --> 02:54:55.110
jim murez: I mean I could put the word on buffered in there. But let's see if they can come back with buffered. I mean whatever let's see what they come back with.

1633
02:54:55.520 --> 02:54:56.430
jim murez: Okay.

1634
02:54:57.790 --> 02:55:05.180
Daff: I don't. I just think we need to actually ask them to improve it

1635
02:55:05.480 --> 02:55:09.060
Daff: right rather than just study it, because they may not do it.

1636
02:55:09.140 --> 02:55:12.079
jim murez: We're requesting a.

1637
02:55:13.130 --> 02:55:18.489
Daff: So what! What are you saying? You don't want to request a feasibility, study and report back.

1638
02:55:18.540 --> 02:55:24.269
Daff: I'm i'm saying, we do. It's just that my experience has been. If we don't ask for an improvement.

1639
02:55:24.830 --> 02:55:27.550
Daff: you know, following a feasibility study

1640
02:55:27.660 --> 02:55:30.020
Daff: like they just may never do anything

1641
02:55:30.290 --> 02:55:34.070
Daff: right. It just goes on some backbone or some engineers desk, and

1642
02:55:34.460 --> 02:55:54.320
jim murez: but you know we know we're even in a very proactive. This is. This is a new day, and and and our Council woman is on the Transportation Committee. I I would assume that there is nothing going to get pushed to the back burner at this point, and let's see if we can't get some more positive

1643
02:55:54.330 --> 02:55:58.039
jim murez: reaction, I mean, for the last 8 years we've had somebody that

1644
02:55:58.270 --> 02:56:17.710
jim murez: wanted to everything his way, and we didn't get here. Heard very often. I know the a lot of these portions of this motion were put through 4 years ago, when I was still chair of that committee, and you know they went to the city, and they got dropped on the floor. We could go back in the old agendas and minutes and find them, but

1645
02:56:17.720 --> 02:56:34.220
Elizabeth Clay: you know, let we're. Let's just deal with this at this point and move forward. If that is correct, we spent a lot of time on this, and just to ask them for a feasibility study when actually you want to action. So I think we can be a little bit more pointed in our request

1646
02:56:34.270 --> 02:56:35.639
that we

1647
02:56:35.990 --> 02:56:39.759
Elizabeth Clay: and you can even mention something about the safety and security at that

1648
02:56:39.810 --> 02:56:41.000
of

1649
02:56:41.490 --> 02:56:47.079
Elizabeth Clay: pedestrians and whatnot. I I think it just needs to be made a little bit more serious.

1650
02:56:47.100 --> 02:56:52.170
Elizabeth Clay: like a feasibility study could go on in 2, 3 years. They get it back to you, and then what

1651
02:56:52.250 --> 02:56:54.109
Elizabeth Clay: this is already about.

1652
02:56:54.530 --> 02:56:57.619
jim murez: So the the description

1653
02:56:57.810 --> 02:57:00.170
still talks about these.

1654
02:57:00.200 --> 02:57:07.729
Elizabeth Clay: and and you know you can list list them and say that that's

1655
02:57:08.270 --> 02:57:10.379
Elizabeth Clay: including, but not limited to

1656
02:57:10.400 --> 02:57:12.330
Elizabeth Clay: these points.

1657
02:57:13.980 --> 02:57:24.809
Elizabeth Clay: you know. There it's almost discussional at our end, because we don't have much say once they get their engineers involved, they're going to do what they want to do. But we want to get that ball rolling.

1658
02:57:25.250 --> 02:57:42.000
Elizabeth Clay: and whatever we say here, we all know that we have like a very small percentage chance that any of it's going to happen. So if we get 2 out of 4 things at the overjoyed.

1659
02:57:42.060 --> 02:57:49.840
Elizabeth Clay: not not a post, I think you can put. You can leave feasibility in there, but maybe just focus a little bit on what that's saying. With respect to

1660
02:57:49.950 --> 02:57:51.490
Elizabeth Clay: producing something.

1661
02:57:53.230 --> 02:57:55.090
jim murez: Well, we're asking them

1662
02:57:55.130 --> 02:58:02.080
jim murez: on the following improvements: i'm not sure. I'm understanding. You want me to put the word improvement in the sentence. One more time.

1663
02:58:02.440 --> 02:58:15.599
jim murez: Maybe Doc can come back in and help me out.

1664
02:58:15.810 --> 02:58:21.689
Elizabeth Clay: Let's just move forward with it as opposed to it. Cj: Are you have a problem with this?

1665
02:58:23.130 --> 02:58:32.250
CJ Cole: I only had a problem with what Liz Elizabeth was coming up with

1666
02:58:32.440 --> 02:58:34.080
jim murez: Robert. You want to make the motion

1667
02:58:34.250 --> 02:58:35.350
robertthibodeau: happy to

1668
02:58:35.720 --> 02:58:37.689
jim murez: thank you. I need a second.

1669
02:58:38.800 --> 02:58:39.850
Jim Robb: I'll second it.

1670
02:58:40.100 --> 02:58:41.980
Jim Robb: Who was at

1671
02:58:42.220 --> 02:58:43.390
jim murez: Thank you, Jim.

1672
02:58:45.510 --> 02:58:49.539
jim murez: and we've had discussion. Let's take a vote.

1673
02:58:49.910 --> 02:58:51.820
jim murez: Daffodil. How do you vote?

1674
02:58:56.440 --> 02:58:58.870
Okay, Thank you.

1675
02:58:59.330 --> 02:59:01.680
jay : Jay. Yes.

1676
02:59:02.460 --> 02:59:04.049
Vicki Halliday: Vicki: Yes.

1677
02:59:04.760 --> 02:59:05.650
jim murez: Bruno.

1678
02:59:08.190 --> 02:59:10.949
Bruno Hernandez: Yeah. Sorry about that. Yes.

1679
02:59:11.590 --> 02:59:12.710
jim murez: Sima.

1680
02:59:12.940 --> 02:59:13.690
Sima Kostov: Yes.

1681
02:59:14.280 --> 02:59:15.190
jim murez: Nico.

1682
02:59:17.690 --> 02:59:18.490
Nico Ruderman: Yes.

1683
02:59:19.120 --> 02:59:20.199
jim murez: Jim Rob.

1684
02:59:20.260 --> 02:59:21.110
Jim Robb: Yes.

1685
02:59:21.490 --> 02:59:22.550
jim murez: Jason.

1686
02:59:22.610 --> 02:59:23.470
Jason Sugars: Yes.

1687
02:59:23.570 --> 02:59:24.490
jim murez: Ali.

1688
02:59:24.610 --> 02:59:25.470
Alley Bean: Yes.

1689
02:59:25.950 --> 02:59:26.880
jim murez: Kai.

1690
02:59:28.430 --> 02:59:29.380
Chie: yes.

1691
02:59:29.790 --> 02:59:30.619
jim murez: Mike.

1692
02:59:31.090 --> 02:59:31.990
Mike Bravo: Yes.

1693
02:59:32.320 --> 02:59:33.460
jim murez: solid. Add

1694
02:59:33.560 --> 02:59:34.530
Soledad Ursua: yes.

1695
02:59:34.630 --> 02:59:35.770
jim murez: Cj.

1696
02:59:35.900 --> 02:59:36.890
CJ Cole: Yes.

1697
02:59:37.350 --> 02:59:38.470
jim murez: Elizabeth.

1698
02:59:38.970 --> 02:59:39.850
Yes.

1699
02:59:40.200 --> 02:59:41.949
robertthibodeau: Robert, yes.

1700
02:59:42.290 --> 02:59:49.280
jim murez: Clark. Oh, I abstain. I think I may be within 500 feet of Morrison at a

1701
02:59:52.390 --> 02:59:53.390
jim murez: Michelle

1702
02:59:58.160 --> 03:00:02.400
jim murez: and Patrick. I'm going to put you down as

1703
03:00:03.940 --> 03:00:06.550
jim murez: because I don't think you can vote until you take the

1704
03:00:06.910 --> 03:00:09.590
jim murez: and I'm going to put you down as in eligible for now.

1705
03:00:09.670 --> 03:00:12.219
jim murez: Sorry about that, and i'm going to go ahead and vote. Yes.

1706
03:00:12.280 --> 03:00:16.219
jim murez: the motion carries 16 0,

1707
03:00:16.340 --> 03:00:19.350
jim murez: 1 0 1.

1708
03:00:19.420 --> 03:00:24.939
jim murez: I'm going to leave this up to the Parking and Transportation Committee to make sure that these improvements

1709
03:00:25.040 --> 03:00:28.860
jim murez: get pushed forward in the department of transportation, so

1710
03:00:29.080 --> 03:00:34.529
jim murez: we can all be right about having gotten something done out of parking and out of transportation downtown.

1711
03:00:34.690 --> 03:00:47.549
jim murez: The next motion Flower Avenue sidewalk access. I believe, Robert, did you want to pull this from the agenda? Because this is already been taken here? I would like to. Can we pull this? Yeah, we can pull this. We'll just move on.

1712
03:00:48.480 --> 03:00:51.929
jim murez: Okay. So now we're done with our meeting.

1713
03:00:52.390 --> 03:00:55.090
jim murez: We have to go back to the items

1714
03:00:55.760 --> 03:00:58.369
jim murez: that were on consent.

1715
03:00:59.190 --> 03:01:03.270
jim murez: and it started up here with 14. Ruthie, are you still here.

1716
03:01:03.600 --> 03:01:06.190
Vicki Halliday: Vicki? Do you see Ruthie in the

1717
03:01:06.430 --> 03:01:08.369
jim murez: Okay, Ruthy.

1718
03:01:09.100 --> 03:01:13.290
jim murez: let's see. First, let's get a maker on this motion. Can I get somebody to make the motion?

1719
03:01:14.900 --> 03:01:17.250
Vicki Halliday: I'll make the motion, Jim. Thank you, Vicki.

1720
03:01:17.360 --> 03:01:18.820
jay : and I know

1721
03:01:18.970 --> 03:01:22.720
Vicki Halliday: somebody wanted somebody one a second.

1722
03:01:23.200 --> 03:01:24.489
jim murez: Thank you, Jay.

1723
03:01:25.730 --> 03:01:28.039
jim murez: Okay, let's take public comment.

1724
03:01:28.130 --> 03:01:30.919
Vicki Halliday: Okay, with the now you can go.

1725
03:01:33.100 --> 03:01:45.439
jim murez: Hold on, Ruthy, speak, speak to speak to the topic. This has to do with this, this yeah, Ruthy, this has to do with secure and accessible document storage for homeless people.

1726
03:01:45.560 --> 03:01:54.250
jim murez: Okay, we're trying to create that, and we're gonna send a note to the city if we can get this approved this evening. So go ahead. You got a minute.

1727
03:01:55.480 --> 03:02:02.389
1747****603: My friend Dakota was 24. He lived in tent by me, and he had asthma, like I do, and his

1728
03:02:02.450 --> 03:02:09.689
1747****603: Kent and his nebulizer were thrown away in a sweep, and he died of asthma on July 30 first

1729
03:02:09.720 --> 03:02:17.240
1747****603: 2,020, this healthy 24 year old is dead because he was not allowed to have his nebuliser or his tent.

1730
03:02:17.260 --> 03:02:19.919
1747****603: and and he got asthma, and he died

1731
03:02:20.130 --> 03:02:26.440
1747****603: like more than just our documents need storage, you know. We need to be able to keep our stuff and stay alive

1732
03:02:26.530 --> 03:02:37.040
1747****603: and to send ourselves, and we need to be able to speak and give presentations about items that affect our lives, because whenever an encampment is slept, Boston University proved that

1733
03:02:37.090 --> 03:02:39.109
1747****603: our chances of death go up

1734
03:02:39.140 --> 03:02:41.789
40% for 9 months.

1735
03:02:43.040 --> 03:02:45.099
1747****603: Whenever we are displaced from our encampments

1736
03:02:45.950 --> 03:02:49.820
40% increase of mortality for 9 months after the sweep

1737
03:02:50.210 --> 03:02:53.020
1747****603: we need to be able to offend our lives and speak to you.

1738
03:02:53.810 --> 03:02:59.149
jim murez: Thank you. Thank you, Ruthy. I I assume you are in support of this motion. Is that correct?

1739
03:03:00.170 --> 03:03:03.600
1747****603: Yeah, I don't care about it. It's fine. Thank you. Thank you.

1740
03:03:03.730 --> 03:03:08.639
Vicki Halliday: Do we have any other public comment? We do. We have several, Jim Jodi. Why don't you go ahead?

1741
03:03:10.940 --> 03:03:13.389
Vicki Halliday: Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes.

1742
03:03:13.960 --> 03:03:18.069
Jody Mortimer homelessness  committee: I am in favor of this motion

1743
03:03:18.130 --> 03:03:36.870
Jody Mortimer homelessness  committee: Also, when it comes to. If they do, are doing the the sweeps, it gives the persons that that that refuse to go into the temporary shelters or the shelter, or take a room key. They will have a place to keep those nebula, those asthma medicines and stuff like that

1744
03:03:36.880 --> 03:03:47.199
Jody Mortimer homelessness  committee: while they're doing the sweeps. I do think Ruthie needs to check her statistics a little more clearly and and stay on topic. Thank you. I, in favor of this motion very much.

1745
03:03:47.260 --> 03:03:48.500
Vicki Halliday: Thank you.

1746
03:03:48.580 --> 03:03:50.540
Margaret. Go ahead, please.

1747
03:03:52.200 --> 03:03:55.850
Margaret Molloy: I think you need to think bigger than this, because

1748
03:03:55.880 --> 03:04:01.560
Margaret Molloy: to go to the winter shelter, for instance, you can take one bag of belongings on a bus

1749
03:04:02.020 --> 03:04:10.390
Margaret Molloy: if you have a shopping cart or a a trolley cart with a plastic bag with your belongings. I've seen them turn away a middle aged lady

1750
03:04:10.490 --> 03:04:21.179
Margaret Molloy: in a sleetless shirt on a cold winter night, and say it's 2 items can't come on the bus. It's the same bus crew every night, and there's 2 bus pick ups every night.

1751
03:04:21.430 --> 03:04:26.029
Margaret Molloy: so where do people store stuff in Venice? This is a first step.

1752
03:04:26.320 --> 03:04:27.940
Margaret Molloy: but please think bigger.

1753
03:04:28.050 --> 03:04:28.940
So

1754
03:04:29.000 --> 03:04:37.299
Margaret Molloy: you're running 4,118 to ban people from. You know the library and all kinds of places that are public access places.

1755
03:04:37.410 --> 03:04:39.619
Margaret Molloy: but you are providing nothing

1756
03:04:39.850 --> 03:04:44.889
Margaret Molloy: that would help them sustain their meager amount of, you know. Survival tools

1757
03:04:45.170 --> 03:04:50.240
Margaret Molloy: and paperwork isn't it. That's not all all that's included. So

1758
03:04:50.740 --> 03:04:52.030
Margaret Molloy: please think bigger.

1759
03:04:53.120 --> 03:04:56.119
Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Margaret Eva. Go ahead, please.

1760
03:05:02.870 --> 03:05:03.770
Eva Greene: Hello.

1761
03:05:04.400 --> 03:05:05.570
Vicki Halliday: Hi, Brett!

1762
03:05:05.790 --> 03:05:20.540
Eva Greene: Hi! I just wanted to say that i'm in support of storage lockers as well for the homeless with their Id, or some office that they can go to and retrieve it. Maybe that might be a a a better idea

1763
03:05:20.550 --> 03:05:36.199
Eva Greene: where they have safety deposit boxes, but a specific office that they go to, maybe say Joe's or somebody a service provider that's willing to work with the city to have safety deposit boxes for them. That's all. Thank you.

1764
03:05:36.610 --> 03:05:38.639
Lisa. Go ahead, please.

1765
03:05:42.240 --> 03:05:45.560
Lisa Redmond: Yeah, it's a start.

1766
03:05:52.030 --> 03:05:54.449
Lisa Redmond: We lost you.

1767
03:05:56.730 --> 03:06:08.659
Lisa Redmond: So am I going, or what? In my end.

1768
03:06:09.570 --> 03:06:13.260
jim murez: Oh, okay, Well, let's let's start again. Go ahead, Lisa.

1769
03:06:14.160 --> 03:06:15.340
Lisa Redmond: I think

1770
03:06:16.380 --> 03:06:19.010
Lisa Redmond: this is a start. It's poorly written.

1771
03:06:19.150 --> 03:06:19.810
Lisa Redmond: but

1772
03:06:20.040 --> 03:06:33.490
Lisa Redmond: it's it's a small start like Margaret said, You need to think way bigger. I think this has been characterized so poorly. Even Jyoti Mortimer just said it that it's a place for people to keep their debilizers. No, it's not.

1773
03:06:34.120 --> 03:06:38.429
Lisa Redmond: People need their nemalizer on them that's life-saving medicine.

1774
03:06:38.450 --> 03:06:40.249
Lisa Redmond: That was Ruth's point

1775
03:06:40.480 --> 03:06:43.689
Lisa Redmond: people of characterized in the Homelessness Committee. Well, then.

1776
03:06:43.760 --> 03:06:48.329
Lisa Redmond: then, they have their documents. So if the police stop by need to see them, no.

1777
03:06:48.390 --> 03:06:50.970
Lisa Redmond: their documents will then be in storage

1778
03:06:51.130 --> 03:06:54.890
Lisa Redmond: that cannot be accessed at all times at any place.

1779
03:06:55.750 --> 03:07:02.030
Lisa Redmond: But people do need storage because there are horrible sweeps where people do lose important documents

1780
03:07:02.140 --> 03:07:05.240
Lisa Redmond: that I'm constantly having to help people replace.

1781
03:07:05.410 --> 03:07:15.410
Lisa Redmond: So please rewrite at least the bottom port of this motion that was written last year before. There were all kinds of administrative electoral changes.

1782
03:07:15.720 --> 03:07:16.520
Lisa Redmond: Thank you.

1783
03:07:17.120 --> 03:07:18.340
Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Lisa.

1784
03:07:18.560 --> 03:07:22.179
Vicki Halliday: Last speaker, Joe Crosby. Go ahead.

1785
03:07:24.740 --> 03:07:26.250
Jill Crosby: Hi, thanks. Can you hear me?

1786
03:07:26.300 --> 03:07:27.080
Vicki Halliday: Yes.

1787
03:07:27.340 --> 03:07:32.429
Jill Crosby: Okay. Yeah. I'm. In support of this. I'm. I think it's an amazing first step, and

1788
03:07:32.460 --> 03:07:44.250
Jill Crosby: I think that those that have asked you to think bigger I wrote down, think bigger. I'm actually not hearing any actionable solutions other than criticism

1789
03:07:44.380 --> 03:07:52.579
Jill Crosby: from them. So I would really, if they have bigger thoughts in terms of like what solution, rather than just

1790
03:07:52.930 --> 03:08:02.480
Jill Crosby: complaining about this not being big enough. I'd love to hear him, because I think this is amazing, and I I could be completely wrong, but I believe that

1791
03:08:02.600 --> 03:08:16.429
Jill Crosby: there is a 3 day notice before a sweep can happen, so they have to notify people. And of course nothing is perfect like we're not working with perfect solutions here. Whatsoever we're in a state of emergency.

1792
03:08:16.440 --> 03:08:23.670
Jill Crosby: So what we need to do is operate as though we're triaging, and I think that this is an incredibly good first start. Thank you.

1793
03:08:27.450 --> 03:08:28.970
jim murez: Was that last one, Vicki.

1794
03:08:28.990 --> 03:08:29.710
Yes.

1795
03:08:29.770 --> 03:08:30.580
jim murez: okay.

1796
03:08:30.940 --> 03:08:34.469
jim murez: Let's go back to the meeting.

1797
03:08:35.150 --> 03:08:37.350
jim murez: Do we have any committee comment?

1798
03:08:37.920 --> 03:08:39.149
jim murez: Anybody on the board.

1799
03:08:40.570 --> 03:08:42.789
jim murez: so that I see your hand went up.

1800
03:08:42.850 --> 03:08:43.780
jim murez: Welcome.

1801
03:08:43.880 --> 03:08:54.609
Soledad Ursua: Hi, everyone! So i'm all for this. I just have one question. I thought, seeing Joseph's was doing that. I thought that they had boxes right for don't they

1802
03:08:54.850 --> 03:09:01.920
Soledad Ursua: don't they account for wasn't it me like 500 people that they received mail on behalf of some, All for that. I just I thought we have this already.

1803
03:09:02.130 --> 03:09:03.579
Soledad Ursua: I don't know somebody can.

1804
03:09:03.720 --> 03:09:09.860
Vicki Halliday: Yeah. Vicki has her head a piggy. Do you know you're on the they get male at St. Joseph's.

1805
03:09:10.000 --> 03:09:14.180
Vicki Halliday: The the idea behind this and yes, I know it's a small start.

1806
03:09:15.650 --> 03:09:19.860
Vicki Halliday: not only in sweeps, but just in life. In general

1807
03:09:20.140 --> 03:09:25.719
Vicki Halliday: people lose their driver's license, as Lisa says. She's helped them replace things that can take months.

1808
03:09:25.860 --> 03:09:26.860
Vicki Halliday: Sometimes

1809
03:09:28.730 --> 03:09:31.310
Vicki Halliday: if they have a place to store

1810
03:09:31.470 --> 03:09:35.260
Vicki Halliday: important papers. They can always have a copy of them with them.

1811
03:09:35.630 --> 03:09:40.510
Vicki Halliday: but if they lose that they can go, get the originals and make another copy.

1812
03:09:40.650 --> 03:09:50.900
Vicki Halliday: and it's just a start. Yes, other storage needs to be done, but this is one critical area, and Jody brought it forward who has been homeless

1813
03:09:50.980 --> 03:09:55.679
Vicki Halliday: and realize the valuability of this whole thing. So

1814
03:09:55.980 --> 03:09:58.189
Vicki Halliday: that's why it is what it is.

1815
03:09:59.110 --> 03:10:00.159
Soledad Ursua: Okay, Thank you.

1816
03:10:01.360 --> 03:10:02.640
jim murez: Anyone else.

1817
03:10:05.980 --> 03:10:11.050
jim murez: Okay, seeing none. Let's take a vote, Vicki, if you could drop your hand, that would help.

1818
03:10:11.620 --> 03:10:12.860
Vicki Halliday: Yes.

1819
03:10:13.530 --> 03:10:17.500
jim murez: all of those in favor. Let's start with Daffodil. Go ahead, Daffodil.

1820
03:10:18.160 --> 03:10:19.010
Daff: Yes.

1821
03:10:19.310 --> 03:10:20.460
jim murez: thank you.

1822
03:10:20.590 --> 03:10:22.340
jay : Jay. Yes.

1823
03:10:22.630 --> 03:10:24.199
jim murez: Vicki. Yes.

1824
03:10:24.430 --> 03:10:27.009
jim murez: Bruno. Yes. Sima.

1825
03:10:27.370 --> 03:10:28.140
Sima Kostov: Yeah.

1826
03:10:28.600 --> 03:10:29.490
jim murez: Nico.

1827
03:10:30.280 --> 03:10:30.960
Nico Ruderman: Yeah.

1828
03:10:31.380 --> 03:10:32.250
jim murez: Jim.

1829
03:10:32.450 --> 03:10:33.220
Jim Robb: Yes.

1830
03:10:33.640 --> 03:10:34.650
jim murez: Jason.

1831
03:10:34.910 --> 03:10:35.780
Jason Sugars: Yes.

1832
03:10:35.860 --> 03:10:36.750
jim murez: Allie.

1833
03:10:36.950 --> 03:10:37.789
Yes.

1834
03:10:37.880 --> 03:10:39.640
jim murez: Kai. Yes.

1835
03:10:39.830 --> 03:10:40.730
jim murez: Mike.

1836
03:10:42.400 --> 03:10:43.060
Hmm.

1837
03:10:43.510 --> 03:10:46.270
Soledad Ursua: Yes. Okay.

1838
03:10:50.440 --> 03:10:51.449
jim murez: Cj.

1839
03:10:51.670 --> 03:10:52.590
CJ Cole: Yes.

1840
03:10:53.040 --> 03:10:54.070
jim murez: Elizabeth.

1841
03:10:54.370 --> 03:10:55.240
Elizabeth Clay: Yes.

1842
03:10:55.370 --> 03:10:56.300
jim murez: Robert

1843
03:10:56.620 --> 03:10:57.480
robertthibodeau: Yes.

1844
03:10:57.570 --> 03:11:00.190
jim murez: Clark Yes, Michael

1845
03:11:01.980 --> 03:11:02.980
jim murez: Michelle

1846
03:11:04.850 --> 03:11:05.710
jim murez: Poops

1847
03:11:07.960 --> 03:11:10.840
jim murez: and I'm going to vote. Yes.

1848
03:11:10.860 --> 03:11:14.200
jim murez: motion carries 1,601.

1849
03:11:14.500 --> 03:11:20.339
jim murez: Patrick is ineligible at this point. Okay? And then we had these consent items on land use and planning.

1850
03:11:21.890 --> 03:11:24.559
jim murez: I forget who who took those off.

1851
03:11:26.730 --> 03:11:32.670
jim murez: Anybody remember who took these over? Oh, Margaret did. Okay. So Margaret's still here.

1852
03:11:34.360 --> 03:11:36.260
robertthibodeau: I don't think Margaret did take them off.

1853
03:11:37.030 --> 03:11:42.159
jim murez: Margaret talked about them. She didn't actually take them off.

1854
03:11:42.800 --> 03:11:45.730
jim murez: Okay, so. Oh, that were these all. Maybe I made a note.

1855
03:11:45.810 --> 03:11:49.030
jim murez: These were all oh, yeah, these were all approved on consent. Okay. So we're done.

1856
03:11:49.140 --> 03:11:57.909
robertthibodeau: You. You told Margaret that you were going to work with her on these. These were all approved on consent. Okay. So I think we're all done.

1857
03:11:59.420 --> 03:12:04.380
jim murez: and it's 905, Robert. We still have time to go out and celebrate.

1858
03:12:05.050 --> 03:12:09.550
jim murez: Would somebody like to make? Would somebody like to make the motion to adjourn the meeting?

1859
03:12:10.010 --> 03:12:13.240
Sima Kostov: I make it most interesting. Happy to say to Robert.

1860
03:12:13.590 --> 03:12:20.149
jim murez: Oh, we can do that. But let's adjourn the meeting first. That's actually excuse me. We have item number 25

1861
03:12:20.220 --> 03:12:23.529
jim murez: board of officer comments, items not on the agenda.

1862
03:12:24.230 --> 03:12:46.019
Sima Kostov: So I think this is where we can sing Happy birthday to Robert.

1863
03:12:46.030 --> 03:12:50.780
robertthibodeau: Yeah, i'm blushing. Love you guys

1864
03:12:51.060 --> 03:13:02.209
jim murez: all right. Do we have anything else on the agenda that anybody wants to bring up anything that wasn't on the agenda that we can now talk about, perhaps anything for a future item on the agenda.

1865
03:13:02.760 --> 03:13:19.329
jim murez: Let me ask a quick question. Do we want to have any more of our public representatives come to the meeting? I could certainly reach out to our new supervisor. That might be interesting to invite her to introduce herself and tell us about

1866
03:13:19.350 --> 03:13:21.560
jim murez: what she plans to do to help us

1867
03:13:21.620 --> 03:13:25.389
jim murez: any other thoughts. Nico, you have your hand up.

1868
03:13:27.030 --> 03:13:41.910
Nico Ruderman: I mean on that. I'm all for getting people here as often as possible to listen to them, and hopefully them listen to us. So yeah, I think we should invite them all I I that wasn't. Why, I raised my hand. I raise my hand because i'm curious.

1869
03:13:42.250 --> 03:13:47.660
Nico Ruderman: I i'm still trying to understand this most recent legislative report.

1870
03:13:47.870 --> 03:13:51.740
Nico Ruderman: Where where there's 2 motions by city Council

1871
03:13:51.860 --> 03:13:56.789
Nico Ruderman: about in person versus hybrid versus

1872
03:13:56.810 --> 03:13:59.749
Nico Ruderman: Zoom Meetings.

1873
03:13:59.980 --> 03:14:13.299
jim murez: and it would, Jim, did you read these Council files that they I I've been paying attention. I haven't read them in detail, but I did have this conversation with people last night. Somebody's echoing.

1874
03:14:13.980 --> 03:14:16.149
jim murez: Somebody has 2 devices turned on.

1875
03:14:17.560 --> 03:14:20.479
jim murez: I did. I did

1876
03:14:24.820 --> 03:14:26.089
Ivan: It's not me.

1877
03:14:26.150 --> 03:14:31.130
Ivan: It could be Ivan.

1878
03:14:31.290 --> 03:14:33.470
jim murez: Let me stop sharing for a second.

1879
03:14:34.220 --> 03:14:36.250
jim murez: Now I can see everybody. Okay.

1880
03:14:37.940 --> 03:14:47.539
jim murez: I did have the conversation with folks last night at Rack. There was actually somebody on the the meeting and rack for those of you that Don't know is the West

1881
03:14:47.820 --> 03:15:04.660
jim murez: area West West Side Regional alliance of Neighborhood Council. So it's there's 14 neighborhood councils in the group. Most of them are in CD. 11, but they include CD. 5 as well, which is our neighboring community to the East.

1882
03:15:04.670 --> 03:15:13.969
jim murez: The discussion was had with this person from the State, the States actually trying to revise the Brown Act which allows for teleconferencing.

1883
03:15:13.990 --> 03:15:32.109
jim murez: But the restrictions for teleconferencing under the current Brown act are very restrictive, and they wouldn't work at all for us. It actually means that you have to post ahead of time where people would be calling in from, and that just doesn't work. So they're trying to come up with new wording that the Governor would be able to

1884
03:15:32.120 --> 03:15:34.590
jim murez: put into place along with the legislator

1885
03:15:34.680 --> 03:15:40.390
jim murez: to create a modification to the Brown act. And the question is

1886
03:15:40.450 --> 03:15:50.980
jim murez: how that's gonna fit into neighborhood councils as well. There hasn't been any conclusion. So, whatever the city is claiming it, this point it's still premature.

1887
03:15:51.140 --> 03:15:54.710
jim murez: because it hasn't been adopted, and they may have the more direct

1888
03:15:55.000 --> 03:16:00.039
jim murez: knowledge of when something's going to finally drop about how it's going to be conducted.

1889
03:16:00.110 --> 03:16:04.589
jim murez: But they at this point the city last I heard from the city was

1890
03:16:04.640 --> 03:16:07.089
jim murez: maybe February or march.

1891
03:16:07.580 --> 03:16:11.760
Vicki Halliday: So that's what we're working towards.

1892
03:16:11.860 --> 03:16:15.689
Vicki Halliday: There was a motion in council today where

1893
03:16:16.260 --> 03:16:20.730
Vicki Halliday: Remote is gonna continue for the foreseeable future.

1894
03:16:21.920 --> 03:16:25.100
Vicki Halliday: and that's and it includes neighborhood councils.

1895
03:16:26.060 --> 03:16:28.090
Nico Ruderman: That was. Was there a vote on that picky?

1896
03:16:28.570 --> 03:16:29.810
Yeah.

1897
03:16:30.580 --> 03:16:31.960
Vicki Halliday: And it passed.

1898
03:16:34.160 --> 03:16:45.409
Nico Ruderman: I I I think we're a bit late. I mean, I I was going to suggest. I mean I I I personally am in, you know, favor of going back to I mean, I think a hybrid model would be great, and you know I mean I I.

1899
03:16:45.500 --> 03:16:47.770
Nico Ruderman: This past weekend was on

1900
03:16:48.060 --> 03:16:55.639
Nico Ruderman: my Union meeting, you know my local 6, 9, 5 meeting, and it was hybrid. It was the first time that we'd had people back in person.

1901
03:16:55.870 --> 03:17:02.270
Nico Ruderman: and it it. It was brilliant how they ran it, and it seemed actually way easier than than you know any of the

1902
03:17:02.390 --> 03:17:05.549
Nico Ruderman: conversations I've had with anybody about how to do Hybrid.

1903
03:17:05.750 --> 03:17:15.530
Nico Ruderman: You know it was actually, you know, I think, about very simple and effective, for both the people in the audience live and the people in the audience on Zoom. It was

1904
03:17:15.590 --> 03:17:18.799
Nico Ruderman: very in our interactive, and everybody is able to hear each other, and

1905
03:17:19.120 --> 03:17:22.069
it was was as if everybody was in the same room.

1906
03:17:22.180 --> 03:17:25.630
jim murez: Yeah, the coast. The Coastal Commission has been doing it for several months.

1907
03:17:25.750 --> 03:17:38.699
jim murez: But it's not clear exactly how it's gonna work with the Brown act. And and I think that that's gonna be the underlying as long as they keep it under the state of emergency. Then they can continue to operate the way they are. But at some point in time they have to come out with a

1908
03:17:39.050 --> 03:17:40.160
jim murez: a revised.

1909
03:17:40.400 --> 03:17:45.080
Nico Ruderman: but but I I guess if if a motion is passed to the Council, then an impact statement from us would be

1910
03:17:45.320 --> 03:17:46.710
Nico Ruderman: pointless at this point.

1911
03:17:48.560 --> 03:17:49.260
jim murez: Yup!

1912
03:17:49.600 --> 03:17:53.959
jim murez: If they've already heard it doesn't help Bruno. Your hand is up. Go ahead, please.

1913
03:17:55.340 --> 03:18:09.219
Bruno Hernandez: Yeah, I I just want to say that I had a meeting with the district attorney's office today, and they said they'd be interested in coming and and sharing with the strict 11 any questions concerns either Gusco and himself or representative from his office.

1914
03:18:09.230 --> 03:18:18.360
Bruno Hernandez: But I I I suggested that they come and make themselves more accessible, and to share a lot of information. I know they get a ton of bad press, so they said they're definitely interested.

1915
03:18:18.770 --> 03:18:24.360
jim murez: Would you do me a favor and send me the Contact Person and i'll reach out to them. And

1916
03:18:24.940 --> 03:18:28.629
Bruno Hernandez: excuse me, figure out what kind of scheduling we can do.

1917
03:18:28.670 --> 03:18:31.009
jim murez: Thank you solid. Add

1918
03:18:31.430 --> 03:18:47.269
Soledad Ursua: so. My question was also about the the in-person meetings, and I did want to bring up Coastal commission. How I really like how they did the the hybrid that was something that I went to recently. I think it's really important for us to try to get back to in-person meetings.

1919
03:18:47.280 --> 03:19:04.679
Soledad Ursua: You know, if you look at some of our attendance, I mean it's really dropped, and I think that it's just not, you know, interesting and engaging to be on zoom sometimes. So I really like for us to to try to get back to. You know, a hybrid model where there are some people in person. So that's all. I have.

1920
03:19:04.850 --> 03:19:18.699
jim murez: No, I appreciate it. And and One of the best things that I remember about the the in-person meetings was the ability to be able to get up and talk to somebody in the audience or the somebody in the audience to be able to get up, for instance, interact with the police

1921
03:19:18.710 --> 03:19:31.329
jim murez: department or something outside the door if they wanted to follow on question where we don't have to take them at the board, but it gave the people the opportunity to interact, and I think that that was one of the big pluses that we have definitely missed out on

1922
03:19:31.360 --> 03:19:35.880
jim murez: Freddy. I see your hand is up. So do you want to?

1923
03:19:35.970 --> 03:19:41.199
jim murez: Yeah, I just wanted to clarify. What happened in council today

1924
03:19:41.260 --> 03:19:44.850
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): was approval of items 20 and 21

1925
03:19:44.940 --> 03:19:53.390
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): 20 was Council File, 23

1926
03:19:53.490 --> 03:20:03.959
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): which the movers were Councilmember John Lee and councilmember, Hugo Soto Martinez, with the second to being Councilmember yaroslavi ski.

1927
03:20:04.330 --> 03:20:23.050
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): That council file was for the 2,023 2,024 State legislative program, so that they support for legislation to amend the Ralph M. Brown Act to permit the city of Los Angeles Neighborhood Council system to choose to operate remote meetings, and definitely.

1928
03:20:23.140 --> 03:20:24.409
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): and then item

1929
03:20:24.500 --> 03:20:31.730
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): 21, which is Council File, 23 0, 0, 0, 2 S. 17

1930
03:20:31.900 --> 03:20:38.110
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): which was moved by Council Number Blumenfield and Council Member Korean, seconded by by

1931
03:20:38.140 --> 03:20:39.780
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): Councilmember Mccoy.

1932
03:20:39.860 --> 03:20:57.769
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): This was a resolution for the 2,023, 2,024 State legislative program in support of legislative action that would amend the Raf. On Brett Brown Act to allow local legal legislative bodies, including appointed boards, commissions, advisory bodies, and neighborhood councils to continue to conduct

1933
03:20:57.780 --> 03:21:11.599
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): most meetings virtually in absence of any special circumstances, subject to appropriate safeguards, to ensure full and robust opportunities for public participation, including by persons who lack means of digital access.

1934
03:21:11.980 --> 03:21:18.100
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): Those are the 2 council files that were approved by a margin of 12 to one

1935
03:21:18.320 --> 03:21:23.370
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): with another Council member being absent at today's meeting.

1936
03:21:23.670 --> 03:21:28.800
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): Well, 2 Council member absent, so it's 13 total votes, but 2 absences not present.

1937
03:21:29.710 --> 03:21:33.470
jim murez: So I don't Nico. I don't know if you understand the

1938
03:21:33.570 --> 03:21:42.369
jim murez: the what's in between the lines there, but it's they're both tied back to the Ralph Brown and M. Act, and until that is modified

1939
03:21:42.530 --> 03:21:46.439
jim murez: these other things would only take place after

1940
03:21:46.540 --> 03:21:49.970
jim murez: It's been approved and adopted at the State level.

1941
03:21:51.090 --> 03:21:54.770
jim murez: And then these other things could then happen within the city.

1942
03:21:56.240 --> 03:22:15.669
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): Yeah. And also someone to hunger did file a council file, even after Council voted on it because it could still be, You know, re-reviewed, or at least shown to State legislatures, neighbor councils input on either one of those council files, since it will have to go through State legislative authorities

1943
03:22:15.680 --> 03:22:21.360
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): in order for you know to show that there are stakeholders in certain areas that being represented

1944
03:22:21.400 --> 03:22:23.689
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): that want this or it does not want this.

1945
03:22:24.430 --> 03:22:26.879
jim murez: If If somebody we don't have a

1946
03:22:27.140 --> 03:22:36.940
jim murez: committee for communications. We have an officer, but Nico, you know it. It. It seems like you're gonna inherit that title very soon.

1947
03:22:37.020 --> 03:22:45.220
jim murez: Maybe you and Vicki and anybody else that wants to participate in that could write up some sort of a

1948
03:22:45.310 --> 03:22:54.210
jim murez: community impact statement that we could file on those 2 motions in case they come back needing to be modified for some reason or form

1949
03:22:54.350 --> 03:22:59.140
jim murez: that we would then have had some input on to what they say. But

1950
03:22:59.240 --> 03:23:05.699
jim murez: it's not clear if there's really anything that we want to say about the mother, and then we support being able to have meetings again.

1951
03:23:07.610 --> 03:23:08.490
jim murez: Okay.

1952
03:23:08.700 --> 03:23:10.789
jim murez: Ivan, you have your hand up.

1953
03:23:14.710 --> 03:23:15.710
jim murez: Maybe not.

1954
03:23:16.500 --> 03:23:18.619
jim murez: See, My! You have your hand up. Go ahead

1955
03:23:22.410 --> 03:23:23.330
Vicki Halliday: unmute

1956
03:23:27.250 --> 03:23:32.780
Sima Kostov: right if you're still there. Essentially, what you're saying is that nothing's been decided

1957
03:23:36.080 --> 03:23:53.419
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): Currently, those council files are just asking. It's the State, the city asking the State 2 different perspectives on how to amend the Brown Act. It currently has not been changed other than Ab. 2,449, which was made into effect January first of this year.

1958
03:23:53.470 --> 03:24:05.889
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): which is the everyone's going back in person. If emergency decorations and local recommendations for social distancing have been lifted with a limited hybrid option and heavily limited hybrid option.

1959
03:24:07.780 --> 03:24:12.630
Sima Kostov: So and for I I don't know. Maybe I need to talk about this offline. But how does that affect committees?

1960
03:24:13.290 --> 03:24:28.079
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): So? Boards and committees are both brown acts, so they would both have to be in person with limited, high limited, a hybrid access or options for board members, not necessarily for the public, and

1961
03:24:28.090 --> 03:24:36.049
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): our department is trying to work on some talking points for our staff, so that as the

1962
03:24:36.160 --> 03:24:40.060
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): emergency decorations are being lifted

1963
03:24:40.350 --> 03:24:47.750
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): when they get lifted, and when that goes into effect we'll be able to support and answer questions from neighbors councils.

1964
03:24:47.840 --> 03:24:52.810
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): I think there was an email sent out last week on Friday by my director, Tom.

1965
03:24:52.990 --> 03:24:57.480
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): So if you have any additional questions. We're trying to gather it in that email.

1966
03:24:57.740 --> 03:25:00.619
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): And that was an email sent out to the whole board.

1967
03:25:01.740 --> 03:25:04.319
Soledad Ursua: Can I ask another question for Freddy, because

1968
03:25:04.450 --> 03:25:23.900
Soledad Ursua: go forward. So I have a a technical question for you, you know, because so now that we're moving toward like potentially hybrid. So, as you know, when we email, there's issues where you know. Recently, like, you know, Jim will say, we need to stop communicating. This could violate the Ground act.

1969
03:25:23.920 --> 03:25:39.090
Soledad Ursua: So is there a situation where, let's say, we're back in person at a meeting? But then some people are maybe texting or communicating via email like. Could those be almost different meetings going on at at one time?

1970
03:25:40.490 --> 03:25:43.229
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): So that okay, so

1971
03:25:43.260 --> 03:25:54.979
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): first of all, any violation of Brown act, this claims would have to be going through the city attorney, but in in any like, if just as if it were Pre. Covid.

1972
03:25:55.000 --> 03:26:01.609
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): if there are any communications that were done between board members in the same meeting of in person.

1973
03:26:02.980 --> 03:26:11.489
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): If they're talking about board business that would pose an issue. Members of the public could ask for such communications through a Pra.

1974
03:26:12.650 --> 03:26:21.769
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): And you would be subjecting your phone or email communications that are talking about Nc. Board business to that Pra. By the public

1975
03:26:23.480 --> 03:26:35.760
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): again, you. You'd also if you were in person and doing that. And people in the public are looking, and also people online, or maybe viewing it through a webcast, or virtually just the the

1976
03:26:36.020 --> 03:26:51.430
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): The perspective or perception might not be, You know, kind of favorable, especially when you're not looking as an active board member trying to listen to the items are going before the Board, or members of the public trying to speak, or members of the Board trying to speak.

1977
03:26:51.460 --> 03:27:01.650
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): so I would heavily advise that such actions by any Board member be as attentive as possible when there are items before the board that you'd be voting

1978
03:27:01.740 --> 03:27:10.719
Soledad Ursua: because I was thinking about like social media. If somebody is posting actively, you know, this is so. We have people in person who are not communicating, not.

1979
03:27:10.760 --> 03:27:14.960
Soledad Ursua: you know, online. So i'm just wondering how we kind of merge it all together.

1980
03:27:15.910 --> 03:27:23.560
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): like if someone's trying to post like a social media post for the board during the meeting

1981
03:27:23.740 --> 03:27:34.889
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): again. That that's that's something that wouldn't be like a brown act issue, but it'd be more like, Where's your attention? You know, being sought out after.

1982
03:27:34.960 --> 03:27:39.260
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): and what the public can see, and what the Board can see. But I,

1983
03:27:39.300 --> 03:27:52.990
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): you know, like I, we as a Ne. A. And his Department can't control how you would be acting on the board while on the board, whether in person or virtually. We would just recommend that, you know, just as long as there's attention to what is being

1984
03:27:53.020 --> 03:28:09.840
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): presented before the Board and voted on it's it's being voted on mindfully, and respect to the to the the will of the public, and to the board itself, as it's, you know, a a a final decision maker other than a committee, you know. Committee brings up those suggestions to the final Board General Board

1985
03:28:09.850 --> 03:28:19.000
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): to make those final decisions to bring up to city Council, or to a commission and the like. So. But if it's like an outreach chair trying to do live tweeting on that

1986
03:28:19.100 --> 03:28:30.239
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): again, I don't see an issue there. I've seen it, Pre Covid, in still my neighbor Council, where they did live streaming of the of the board

1987
03:28:30.250 --> 03:28:48.579
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): through Facebook, and they they hired, and another individual to help with social media outreach to live tweet certain things, and maybe some links to agenda items and the like to engage with their stakeholders. But that's something that one neighbor Council did.

1988
03:28:48.590 --> 03:28:55.850
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): But that's not necessarily. You know the course of action that all neighbor councils take because of costs or time, or you know

1989
03:28:55.960 --> 03:29:02.539
Freddy Cupen-Ames (He/Him/His/El): I want to challenge you on that, sol it out. I think it would be a big mistake

1990
03:29:02.570 --> 03:29:20.029
jim murez: to do that if you were tweeting or posting about items that we were currently hearing, or we're going to hear in future of the meeting. If it was things that had already happened in the past of the meeting, it wouldn't be a problem. But the perception could be

1991
03:29:20.040 --> 03:29:39.539
jim murez: that because it's you as an individual, and i'm not suggesting you're doing it. I'm just saying you in the plural you. It could be perceived that if if someone was posting something of their own opinion about an item that was currently being discussed, that another Board member

1992
03:29:39.550 --> 03:29:42.980
jim murez: could be seeing it as a private conversation.

1993
03:29:43.230 --> 03:29:57.149
jim murez: and that could be considered because it's being sent out to Theoretically, everyone on the board. It would be more than 50% of the quorum, and therefore it could be a serial meeting that would be conducted.

1994
03:29:58.580 --> 03:30:02.540
jim murez: So I would just caution you. It's it's a very slippery slope.

1995
03:30:06.050 --> 03:30:12.520
jim murez: Besides that, it's not being attentive, like Freddy said. We want to be in. We want to be aware of. You know what's going on in the meeting.

1996
03:30:12.750 --> 03:30:22.370
jim murez: Ivan. Your hand is still up. Are you back with us? Yeah, I'm here. Okay, You gotta kill one of the 2 microphones. You got a we're doing it. Hang on.

1997
03:30:22.970 --> 03:30:23.670
Ivan: Okay.

1998
03:30:25.170 --> 03:30:26.740
Ivan: It was a second.

1999
03:30:26.890 --> 03:30:27.470
Yeah.

2000
03:30:27.620 --> 03:30:29.140
Ivan: Okay, here's all

2001
03:30:29.330 --> 03:30:30.960
Ivan: okay. This is better.

2002
03:30:31.000 --> 03:30:31.940
jim murez: Yes.

2003
03:30:32.700 --> 03:30:35.740
Ivan: Jim. Yes, I I can hear you, Ivan.

2004
03:30:36.020 --> 03:30:37.850
Ivan: I can here. Wait a minute.

2005
03:30:38.470 --> 03:30:41.600
Ivan: All right. There I am.

2006
03:30:41.890 --> 03:30:48.009
Ivan: Now, can you? Okay? So Michael didn't make it tonight. I guess

2007
03:30:48.140 --> 03:30:53.640
Ivan: I have a couple of things I've been meeting with him about the elections.

2008
03:30:53.740 --> 03:30:55.959
Ivan: Some things people need to know

2009
03:30:56.740 --> 03:30:58.110
Ivan: first of all.

2010
03:30:58.300 --> 03:31:02.899
Ivan: because i'm starting to hear comments about how the term is ending.

2011
03:31:03.900 --> 03:31:10.870
Ivan: Remember, this board is seated until at least the beginning of July.

2012
03:31:11.710 --> 03:31:20.640
Ivan: It doesn't change. When the election happens. It will be a lame duck board for April, May, and June, but this board is still the board.

2013
03:31:20.870 --> 03:31:24.740
Ivan: so please don't make plan to be anywhere all right.

2014
03:31:26.490 --> 03:31:28.420
Ivan: Next the

2015
03:31:29.140 --> 03:31:32.700
Ivan: I want to caution the board members

2016
03:31:32.800 --> 03:31:35.580
Ivan: who filed for re-election.

2017
03:31:36.240 --> 03:31:39.869
You may not use city resources

2018
03:31:40.460 --> 03:31:46.029
Ivan: for campaigning, which means you can't use your board email address

2019
03:31:46.510 --> 03:31:50.489
Ivan: for campaign. You have to use your private email address.

2020
03:31:51.450 --> 03:31:57.470
Ivan: right? And if you have questions about it you can contact me and I'll I'll go through it in more detail.

2021
03:31:58.080 --> 03:31:58.910
Ivan: Okay.

2022
03:31:59.110 --> 03:32:03.259
Ivan: Last thing is, we're trying to work out a calendar.

2023
03:32:03.450 --> 03:32:12.209
Ivan: We're going to have events coming up, one of which will probably be within a couple of weeks. We're going to be doing a a candidate orientation

2024
03:32:12.700 --> 03:32:16.130
Ivan: to explain how the Board works and and

2025
03:32:16.420 --> 03:32:20.949
Ivan: ways to campaign in our neighborhood. So we just watch out for that.

2026
03:32:21.110 --> 03:32:28.039
Ivan: and you can contact michael@electionsatvenicenc.org

2027
03:32:28.700 --> 03:32:32.060
Ivan: elections at

2028
03:32:32.250 --> 03:32:35.840
Ivan: We're going to redo the election page on the website.

2029
03:32:35.910 --> 03:32:38.590
Ivan: Then we're gonna have a specific warning

2030
03:32:38.710 --> 03:32:41.420
Ivan: to information for candidates.

2031
03:32:41.470 --> 03:32:47.339
Ivan: and any one of the public can access it. But this will be to clear up some of the clutter.

2032
03:32:47.550 --> 03:32:50.289
Ivan: and it will be simply for 10 min.

2033
03:32:50.580 --> 03:32:51.350
Ivan: Okay.

2034
03:32:51.550 --> 03:32:55.210
Ivan: So that's true. If you have any questions, you know where to find that

2035
03:32:56.040 --> 03:33:01.800
jim murez: Ivan on that note on that note, because Michael is our administrator.

2036
03:33:01.840 --> 03:33:14.500
jim murez: or the orientation was not part of the election plan that was approved. Michael will need to bring back to the board. A request to that describes what it is he wants to do

2037
03:33:14.510 --> 03:33:22.689
jim murez: with an orientation. No, you should want to do events, and there's money in the budget for. Yeah, but they weren't.

2038
03:33:22.790 --> 03:33:23.619
Ivan: Okay.

2039
03:33:23.710 --> 03:33:26.399
jim murez: I'm not going to argue with you. Thank you.

2040
03:33:26.430 --> 03:33:28.360
Ivan: Anybody else.

2041
03:33:30.640 --> 03:33:37.479
Sima Kostov: I I just wanted to say that part of the training that Ivan is referring to is actually done by the city.

2042
03:33:37.690 --> 03:33:42.989
Sima Kostov: So there's the ones that are promoting it. So Ivan, to your point.

2043
03:33:43.790 --> 03:33:48.550
Sima Kostov: Training is that different from the training.

2044
03:33:48.740 --> 03:34:06.949
Ivan: It's totally different. You, I mean. I recommend people go to the city training also, but this is going to be specifically about Venice. How our board is structured, how the campaigning works within our neighborhood, and the events that we're going to be holding.

2045
03:34:08.430 --> 03:34:19.150
jim murez: Alright Does anybody who are Ivan? I need to hop off this meeting. Does anybody else have anything that's a urgent matter. Something emergency just came up.

2046
03:34:21.560 --> 03:34:30.320
jim murez: I think we concluded. Can I get somebody to.

2047
03:34:31.130 --> 03:34:37.259
jim murez: We'll see you on the we'll see you on the next. Go around. Have a good evening. Thank you for everyone for attending

2048
03:34:37.330 --> 03:34:38.850
Alley Bean: Happy birthday.

2049
03:34:39.520 --> 03:34:40.210
Ivan: Yeah.

2050
03:34:40.270 --> 03:34:43.059
Ivan: Sima, I need to talk to you, please. Columbia.