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Candidate Forum: Hmm.

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Nick Antonicello: Hello!

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Touch you up as well.

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Candidate Forum: What i'll need you to do is just I think I can't.

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Candidate Forum: Yeah, okay, so Jim's setting doesn't let me put you back into attendees.

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Candidate Forum: So what i'll need to do is just to re-log. In

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Nick Antonicello: Me and Jill.

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Candidate Forum: Jill.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. Jill is muted

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Candidate Forum: right? Yeah kill. So just basically leave the meeting and then come back in.

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Candidate Forum: Thank you. So this is something that's good to know.

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Nick Antonicello: So I I even got dressed up for this. You look good.

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Nick Antonicello: I was going to wear a Jack if I don't like Johnny Carson or something.

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Nick Antonicello: Well, I I got the right background. You know it's a little political, so it's kind of like a firing line something like that

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Candidate Forum: something

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Nick Antonicello: So you you you hear me? Good! Right?

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Candidate Forum: Wait, hang on. Let me see.

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Nick Antonicello: I I got your email. By the way.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, good.

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Nick Antonicello: This is a: this is about 6. Okay, though. It's 2 and a half hours.

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Nick Antonicello: And

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Candidate Forum: so as part of the technique. By the way, Nick, do you want to do technical instruction? You want me to do the technical instructions?

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Nick Antonicello: I think it's better that you do it, I think.

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Candidate Forum: Alright, Seal.

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Candidate Forum: Yeah, you just tell me which and which ones you want to give, you know, in terms of the instructions. If you want to give anything or

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Nick Antonicello: oh, oh.

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Candidate Forum: no introduction! But the instructions.

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Nick Antonicello: the instruction to the candidates.

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Nick Antonicello: I mean. I could just do the introduction and explanation and format that that you you got that all. You're all good with that program. Me good.

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Candidate Forum: Now, we just got to.

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Candidate Forum: I'm gonna let a few more people come in before I start. At least the first panel

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Candidate Forum: come in. It looks like we're gonna have approximately 12 at large to dropped out the last minute.

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Nick Antonicello: Drop that the races decide not to show up

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Candidate Forum: out of the race.

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Nick Antonicello: Who is that?

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Candidate Forum: Well, I don't want to give any names, just in case they change their mind.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah, Exactly. So you know the fact that they yeah, they're on the ballot. And that's why I don't want to.

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Candidate Forum: I don't want to do that in case they want to come back in. They're completely allowed to. In fact, if they even if they don't campaign. Don't run at all. If they win the most votes, they take the seat, if they so choose.

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Candidate Forum: and for all the candidates and public that are here early. Thank you very much for being on time. It very much appreciated.

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Nick Antonicello: It's really yeah.

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Candidate Forum: it's stopped over here. But I see over by you guys, it looks very greedy

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Candidate Forum: or

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Nick Antonicello: all day.

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Candidate Forum: Hmm.

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Candidate Forum: You have cough drops on. Stand by.

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Nick Antonicello: Are you from California? Originally

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Candidate Forum: Detroit?

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Nick Antonicello: That's right. You join me that. Okay?

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Nick Antonicello: Well, you must be happy. Michigan State's doing well in the tournament.

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Candidate Forum: It's my Alma Mater ghost party.

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Nick Antonicello: They I didn't think they'd be.

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Nick Antonicello: I think, a big win that game against Marquette.

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Candidate Forum: Actually, I didn't think they on paper. They really shouldn't be us either.

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Nick Antonicello: They've been now to the round of 16, I think 12 times under under Iso.

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Nick Antonicello: Did you live right in Detroit

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Candidate Forum: just outside, like just outside? I? You know how 8 mile is the border for Detroit. I live right? 10 and a half mile

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Nick Antonicello: 3 1 3,

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Candidate Forum: no, actually 2 4 8. Yeah. Originally it was 3 1 3, though.

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Candidate Forum: Let me go get my phone real quick.

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Nick Antonicello: Alright. I'm: i'm much older than you. But you probably remember like wrong with floor. And

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Nick Antonicello: oh, yeah. Well, in Jack, I mean when Jack Marsh is pretty good, you

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Nick Antonicello: those, I think. That was the year when Sparky Anderson was the manager. They

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Nick Antonicello: They went to the World series, and Willie Hernandez won the soya. They play. They beat San Diego

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Nick Antonicello: right.

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Nick Antonicello: That was when Steve Gormy was on the on the project.

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Candidate Forum: was he? I didn't realize that

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Nick Antonicello: he's not in the whole thing, Steve Garvey.

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Nick Antonicello: So I I came up with some the lightly I thought about, and this is how i'm going to phrase the so

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Nick Antonicello: favorite local.

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Candidate Forum: Just hang tight with the any of that right now. Yeah, we'll just

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Nick Antonicello: I mean, they're pretty. They're pretty simple. There's no big deal.

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Candidate Forum: Just hang tight with that.

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Nick Antonicello: No.

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Candidate Forum: as soon as one more person, one more at large candidate pops in will. i'll start giving instructions.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay?

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Nick Antonicello: Oh, and

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Candidate Forum: Nick, quick question.

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Candidate Forum: So basically to keep things even. I just need to know in advance. Are we doing 3 questions at 1 min or 4 questions of 45? Seconds?

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Nick Antonicello: I think 3 questions that one that

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Nick Antonicello: i'd rather have a more substantial. No, that's fine as long as we can keep consistent and fair. That's the main thing.

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Candidate Forum: and i'll probably have to give a technical instructions again, because we're probably going to have it. Looks like a lot of people come in right at 6, 30.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah. So they'll come in and come out.

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Candidate Forum: Well, no, I mean

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Candidate Forum: they're going to be coming in after the

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Candidate Forum: Tracy Park event.

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Nick Antonicello: I'd be curious how many people she got. It's probably got a couple of 100,

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Candidate Forum: so I can all set up

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Candidate Forum: it doesn't look like anyone indicated that they were going to be calling it from the phone. So that's good.

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Candidate Forum: See?

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Candidate Forum: Okay, people are starting. Come in

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Nick Antonicello: since there's only 2 Presidential candidates. Will it be more than 3 questions.

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Nick Antonicello: If you want to. Let's see how the time goes

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Candidate Forum: that's going to be really determining factor.

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Candidate Forum: Yeah, Christopher, sit type for a moment. We're just waiting for about one or 2 more people to come in.

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Candidate Forum: and once they do, i'll give full instructions. So if you want, you can lower your hand and

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Candidate Forum: we'll explain everything.

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Candidate Forum: See on my meetings I'm. Able to take people that i'm promote to panelists and put them back as attendees.

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Candidate Forum: But Jim's record meeting does not set me up that way.

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Nick Antonicello: You know enough of the zoom close here.

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Nick Antonicello: I I I think that they were able to do that.

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Candidate Forum: Go grab my coffee real quick, save a little time.

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Nick Antonicello: And

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Candidate Forum: oh, yeah, you guys got some nice dark skies down your way.

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Nick Antonicello: You

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Candidate Forum: fun Parts going to be doing the dual timer thing here.

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Nick Antonicello: What's that?

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Candidate Forum: Nothing. Just talk to myself.

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Nick Antonicello: Did you get someone to the Tommy or no?

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Candidate Forum: Well, the nice thing is, is, we're having a nice amount of public coming in. So that's a good thing.

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Nick Antonicello: No, I look. I I think that

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Nick Antonicello: I don't know how many people fall for ballots in the clerk's office. But if the number of the number is low.

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Nick Antonicello: then maybe that needs a lot of people intend to vote on election.

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Nick Antonicello: you know.

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Candidate Forum: Yeah, I guess what i'll do is i'll actually give the instructions right at 6 30.

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Nick Antonicello: Is there a way to put the email you sent to me in the in the Q. A. So people can just look at it.

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Candidate Forum: I'll. We'll give them the email again.

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Candidate Forum: We'll set up all that.

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Wait a minute

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Candidate Forum: almost got fooled. So some

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Candidate Forum: candidate names from the past.

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Candidate Forum: Okay.

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Candidate Forum: okay, Everybody welcome to the Venice Neighbor Council candidate Forum

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Candidate Forum: number one. though. This is the first of 2 candid forums. The first one is tonight, and the second one, which will be half of the

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Candidate Forum: again, half of the

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Candidate Forum: at large officers.

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Candidate Forum: and then the other half will be tomorrow night. We'll be also having the Presidents and land use and outreach tonight.

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Candidate Forum: Not necessarily in that order.

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Candidate Forum: But yeah, no, actually, I have Presidents outreach and Lupac land Use

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Candidate Forum: and communicate a secretary. whatever Nicole is.

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anyway. So I see we have hands up. But if you could Just lower your hands for a moment.

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Candidate Forum: and i'll give you instructions on what we'll be doing. If you have questions

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Candidate Forum: as an attendee, you should be able to put them into the questions and answers, and i'll answer you directly and privately.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. And let me just make one notation here.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So what we will be doing is, I'll be bringing up groups of the at large officers

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Candidate Forum: in probably groups of 6 at least. The first group will be 6, and we'll see how big the second group is.

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Candidate Forum: The format will be. Everyone will give a 1 min statement. Oh, and I shouldn't, I'll give you that minute, I guess. 1 min statement.

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Candidate Forum: followed by questions. probably 3 questions that you'll have a full minute to answer. and then a lightning round of questions

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Candidate Forum: that all these questions will be done by our moderator.

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Candidate Forum: Nick Anton. A cello, or how do you say your last name? By the way.

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Nick Antonicello: Antonio.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, and you gotta say it with that New Jersey accent. It's important.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So again, if you have questions, please use the Q. A. Down at the bottom of the screen. and I can probably answer if they're to, of a technical nature. Otherwise i'll call your name, and when your's, when you'll be, we will promote you to panelists, so you'll need to accept the promotion.

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And then, after the panel is done.

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Candidate Forum: we'll need everyone who is a panelist to leave the meeting and re-log back in. Unfortunately, the controls aren't set for me to put you back as an attendee.

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Candidate Forum: so we'll need to do that at that point in time.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, with that

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Candidate Forum: i'm going to call the following names.

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Candidate Forum: and actually hang on. Second. I need to do this in order, so I don't lose everybody. I'm gonna lower all hands just because I won't be able to find everybody if hands are up.

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Candidate Forum: So please don't raise your hand. No, Clark, please don't raise your hand.

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Candidate Forum: It's going to mess me up. Okay. So nobody raise your hand for the moment. No, Clark, really, please, Don't, raise your hand. It's going to mess me up.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, i'm going to bring in. Hi.

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Candidate Forum: Christopher Lee.

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Candidate Forum: C. J.

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Candidate Forum: Mark

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Candidate Forum: RAM,

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Candidate Forum: where to go.

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Candidate Forum: and then

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Candidate Forum: chill.

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Candidate Forum: Actually, you know what I can probably bring in James as well

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Candidate Forum: teams.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So I should have 7 up here. If i'm not mistaken

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Nick Antonicello: you, You're missing one. There you go.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, so at this point for our for our current panelists only not anyone else

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Candidate Forum: do you have any technical questions that you want to ask right off the bat. Otherwise we'll let Nick give, give introductions and go right into it.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So yeah, Clark, go ahead. You need to unmute yourself.

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Clark Brown: Yeah, Mike, I apologize about the raised hand. I have a raised hand computer malfunction on this on this computer, and I have a difficult time controlling it. My, my apologies

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Candidate Forum: Gotcha.

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Candidate Forum: Oh, and okay, so wait.

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Candidate Forum: Graham is Well, I'm confused in a second.

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Candidate Forum: Did I accidentally grab somebody that one?

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Candidate Forum: Okay, yeah, hang on Graham. Hang on just a second coming to get you.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. now, we're good. Okay, I thought I had Graham, but I didn't

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: great. Thank you.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, Thank you. And let me just kind of clear that real quickly.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, there we go.

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Candidate Forum: trying to keep it all clean. Okay.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So no problem. We'll keep an eye out for your hands. So everyone should stay muted at this point. and only unmute yourself when I call on you, or when Nick calls on you.

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Candidate Forum: and then, after we're done with the opening statement, just mute yourself, or i'll meet you, and the object is, so we don't have background, noise. There'll be interfering.

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Candidate Forum: And with that. Nick, take it away.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. I just first of all, I want to thank the candidates for running and taking the time to be part of the community. public services and noble in Denver.

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Nick Antonicello: and we need good people involved to keep Venice moving in the right direction. Having said that

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Nick Antonicello: I'm going to introduce the candidates from left to right. Taiwan.

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Nick Antonicello: Christopher Lee, C. J. Cole.

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Nick Antonicello: Jill Crosby.

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Nick Antonicello: James Dawson and Graham sell Dusky. Did I get that right?

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. Okay, make sure I got your names right.

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Nick Antonicello: having the last name answer the cello people. But you my name all the time. So, anyway.

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Nick Antonicello: what we're going to do this is not a debate. This is a this is a discussion. It's it's a candidate forum.

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Nick Antonicello: So i'm going to direct the questions to you, and then you would direct your responses back to me.

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Nick Antonicello: We're not looking for a lot of cross conversation. so i'm going to ask 3 questions. But before we do that everyone's gonna get 1 min to introduce themselves and say whatever you like. Then we're going to ask 3 questions to the whole group.

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Nick Antonicello: and then you'll have a closing remarks. Is everybody?

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Nick Antonicello: It's pretty simple.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. So at this point, Kai, you can make your opening statement.

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Candidate Forum: and Kyle, before you go, and this goes for everybody. When you get to 10 s away i'll just yell out 10 s, and then that way you can wrap it up

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Chie Lunn: whenever you're ready. Kai. Thank you. Hi, i'm Kyle L. I live in East Venice. I've been on the Vnc. For the last 2 years, and I'm running again.

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Chie Lunn: I'm running because I strong believer that kids need safety. I've been very vocal about that. I'm. I just actually recently went on a trip to Turkey with my kids, and the day before we left our house was broken into with, leaving my 12 year old to confront the perpetrator

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Chie Lunn: so, and protect his sister, who's 9 years old. They were home alone. This has left me very vulnerable feeling, very uncomfortable, but it also motivated me to continue to run and fight for Kids safety, and to continue to contribute to my community and show my kids that. That's why I did it from the beginning, and that's is important for me

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Chie Lunn: is putting kids first. That's it.

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Chie Lunn: That's why I'm here. Thank you. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: The next speaker will be Christopher Lake.

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Christopher Lee: Hello, everyone. My name is Christopher Lee. I'm. Running as an out large community officer for this upcoming election.

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Christopher Lee: I've been a member of the Venice Neighborhood Council's outreach committee for the last 3 or so years since moving to Venice, and in that time I made the. As soon as I moved to Venice I made the choice that was going to be home, that it is home, and

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Christopher Lee: part of that was immediately making the choice to create some positive change. Here in Venice. I created the nonprofit community clean up, which goes around all parts of Venice from the city streets to the beach, just simply picking up trash. It's my belief that individual actions

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Christopher Lee: lead to a community connection and change, and through Venice Committee clean up. I've been blessed to connect with the East Venice Neighborhood Association, the Venice Chamber of Commerce, and then a speech bid the Abbey Kenny Merchant Association safe place for youth, path, and start, hearing all the critical conversations that compose Venice

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Christopher Lee: from that.

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Christopher Lee: and from listening to the concerns that Venice and all the Venetian care. I'm sorry, Mr. 10 s there. Sorry

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Christopher Lee: Got it. I'll wrap it up shortly. So i'm out. I I understand that we increase transparency, accountability and communication within the Vayncy and out to our community. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, Thank you. At this time we'll have C. J. Cole.

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Nick Antonicello: yeah, she's right. Cj. Kept on the unmute button. Oh, there you go. Yeah, My, My, no, that's my

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CJ Cole: mouse Isn't. Working great. Okay, Hi, I'm. C. J. Cole. I am a Venice property owner, resident.

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CJ Cole: Community Act with this I've been very active since 1,968, and I'm. Asking for your vote as a community officer at large. I will advocate for the rights of property owners.

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CJ Cole: renters, and businesses to curb, cry

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CJ Cole: crime, and clean up our neighborhoods. I'm. Passionate about the preservation of the unique qualities that make up the Venice community. I support moderate growth while keeping a small town. Vibe.

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CJ Cole: Local issues stemming from oversaturation of our own house population, and then are my is one of my primary concerns, and I'm. Against the massive, proposed Venice Medium Project.

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CJ Cole: I don't know what else to

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CJ Cole: That's fine. That's enough for one round.

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Candidate Forum: Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. At this time we'll have a clock. Brown.

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Clark Brown: Thank you. I have lived and owned property in Venice since 1,969 I am a retired real estate lawyer. I was on the first Venice Town Council. I am a community officer on this Council.

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Clark Brown: Homelessness is our biggest problem.

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Clark Brown: During the time I've been on the Council I have focused entirely on the homelessness issue. I'm. The only candidate who's done that

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Clark Brown: this year I worked with the neighbors on Flower Avenue to remove the homeless encampment there. I am the only candidate who did that.

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Clark Brown: I have continually lobbied the city to establish safe camping and tiny home villages on its vacant land at Lax. I have written 9 articles about this in the Times, the Argonaut and Yo Venice.

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Clark Brown: Please visit my website@clarkbrownforvenice.org, and that's numeric, for

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Clark Brown: Thank you very much.

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Candidate Forum: Alright, Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: A. At this time we'll have Jill Cross.

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JIll Crosby: Hi, I'm. Jill Crosby. I'm a Venetian, and I've lived here for 30 years. I started off as a renter for the first 10 years, and then gratefully, was able to purchase a home and work in film and television. So I spent about 20 of those years for 18 h a day on set

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JIll Crosby: growing my home. I've worked very, very hard to be where I am. I was also a building owner on the West Side as well had to give that up during the pandemic, as it was very, very hard to provide housing under those contacts.

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JIll Crosby: I'm. Closing in in 30 years over in a couple of weeks, and I say that because I work directly hand in hand with those who are actively getting sober, and I work with that community.

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JIll Crosby: and I do it for free. There is no payment. I don't work with a charity or a 501, c. 3. It's just a part of my life, and I believe so. I really believe we need to take Venice back. I think there is so much happening in Venice that needs work. I'm. I don't have enough time in this comment to say it, but i'll get to it

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Candidate Forum: after that. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you very much. Okay, Jim Dawson

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got it. I'm. James or Jane Dawson. I'm running for a community officer. So you. I'm the best neighborhood council. just like

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everyone here. I love Dennis. I moved around several times my childhood early adult life. but I feel super blessed to call the west side of Los Angeles home. It's a dream come true for a

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come up from the Midwest. Trust me.

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and then philosophy put out of for Venetians right? We have beautiful beaches. We have awesome culture, iconic landmarks. This is where the rest of Los Angeles comes to enjoy their weekends, but we face a lot of challenges, and I want to do the work and advocate for a better future for our community.

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From the last few years.

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I actually work closely with small business leaders to help them compete with large corporations.

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providing more affordable ancillary and medical benefits. So I know my skills are going to translate being a really great activist for the community. I'm: a chromatic, hey chromatic problem, Solver: i'm a role much to do the work, and i'd be on, and during your vote march 26. I do everything to be a good steward for Venice.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. At this time we'll have

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: Hi! All my name is Gramps and Dels, Kate and I'm. Running for a community member for the officer at large as a Vnc.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: I've been fortunate to call Venice home for the past 4 years, and through those 4 years that's just been so inspired by the community at wires. They have just wanted to kind of take that participation to the next level, and really helped everyone to bring Venice

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: to its potential. I've worked in the landscape architecture, architecture and urban planning field for the past 13 years, and I feel like that's experience that's given me a unique look at a lot of the issues that for plague Venice, as well as gives me a lot of experience working with different community members stakeholders to hear them out and reach their goals.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: If i'm all elected to the Vnc. As a community member at large. One of the most important thing that's for me will be education and engagement it's just get. People know that this Council exists, and get here in one's voices and get them involved, because when we have most people involved that's the better the Council.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: So I look forward to helping bring that to its potential and hearing what everyone has to say. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Okay. What we'll do is I'll ask the first question, and I'll start from Christopher, and i'll go to Kai Jill, Cj. James and Craig

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Nick Antonicello: and you here's the first question.

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Nick Antonicello: Homelessness and crime Continue to be issues of universal concern in the community.

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Nick Antonicello: How can a member of the Vnc play a positive role in solving this crisis

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Nick Antonicello: and we'll start with Christopher.

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Christopher Lee: start getting questions to start us off on Nick. So

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Christopher Lee: honestly I get that homelessness is a huge concern, and the crime that seems attached with homelessness is something that's present on every venetian's mind.

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Christopher Lee: Now the approaches we've had have occurred to some as pretty heavy-handed like removing encampments and such and just

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Christopher Lee: pushing accountants out and that I would say, is addressing the cough, not the cold. We need to take a systemic look at the service providers we have, and started assessing where services can best be provided for. These people start addressing the cold rather than the cost

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Christopher Lee: as soon as we can start addressing the cause, the root cause of this homelessness. Then, taking on the cough, then approaching people, offering housing vouchers, offering and suffering, housing or solutions, we have whatever they need is going to start effectively long term solving this crisis.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Kai.

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Chie Lunn: Okay. I think homelessness and crime are 2 separate issues that we're facing right now for crime. I find that I just have 0 tolerance. I think, as a neighbor of a community person we have to speak up. We have to support our neighbors, and we have to take a 0 tolerance.

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Chie Lunn: Homelessness is something that is separate, because I think that it's really led right now by our fentanyl pandemic, and I think that we need to really start looking at getting people the real help that they need on getting off drugs and getting mental health. And then from that point. We can then start getting people willing to better their lives and get off the street.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Jill.

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JIll Crosby: Yeah. I kind of concur with Ty. I mean my feeling, isn't, that we continue to serve in the manner that we have been in terms of outreach to homeless myself being an addict and in recovery. I understand that to me there's almost an inextricable

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JIll Crosby: connection that has to happen, and treatment has to happen first. It's just absolutely the first step. There is no way around this. You're not going to house people out of this situation, and we just don't have enough money to do that, so we have to be conscientious of keeping the community healthy. I believe in enforcement, and I do not believe, for enforcement is punitive.

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JIll Crosby: I feel like there's compassion without permission. I believe you can have both, but I feel like, rather than building our way into permanent housing. I do believe in low income. Housing. Permanent housing is not a structure I believe in until I see institutions for recovery and mental health built first period.

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Nick Antonicello: Thanks. Clark.

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Clark Brown: Homelessness is a as a cause of of crime. It's not the only cause of crime.

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Clark Brown: but it's important to pay attention to the people who are homeless, and try to help them to stabilize their lives, and an important way to do that is to provide them with some kind of shelter where they're out of the elements, and where they can receive services.

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Clark Brown: and the way you provide them with with shelter is safe camping.

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Clark Brown: Then, later, tiny homes, and in the long run provide them with with permanent housing. I agree that permanent housing is the ideal situation, because it allows people to have a to have privacy, and they have some stability in their lives.

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Clark Brown: So you have to start, I think with, and then move on to other forms of housing to help people stabilize their lives and get them away from crime.

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CJ Cole: Oh, boy, okay.

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CJ Cole: First of all, as a console.

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CJ Cole: I think we need to somehow get passed the infighting.

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CJ Cole: We every time we have anything having to do with homelessness on our agenda. It goes on for ours whether it be the general public, or whether it be our committee.

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CJ Cole: we need to somehow decide to go forward and work with our Council. People work with our police department. We do need to enforce our laws.

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CJ Cole: but we also have to be compassionate.

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CJ Cole: but it doesn't mean we have to be the end result.

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CJ Cole: you know, doing nothing more than servicing the homeless population. We have to serve the Venice population and our business population. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, James.

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Nick Antonicello: On you. Okay?

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. Sorry, my man. Yes, you You feel like after 3 years of zoom. I know how to do it, but my thoughts on homelessness and crime is that

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when every every single morning for the last 3 years I have been going down o Avenue, taking a ride on Venice and driving right past the Memorial Hospital all my way to work.

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until recently there had been a large, homeless, and candid there, and I saw things as I drove by every day that shocked me, because those very same homeless people were becoming victims of crime themselves.

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It's not compassion to let homelessness and and let those people become victims themselves. It's not compassionate to allow unfettered drug use, and it's not compassionate to

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to create that public safety issue as well. And so the the Council really needs to advocate

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It's not necessarily. It's not a crime at all to be homeless. That is not what we're looking to punish. What we need to do is we need to advocate for State community. We need to make sure that people are getting help they need if they're an addict, and we need to make sure that we're putting our best look forward as a group

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for the betterment of all of them, because even if they're homeless, they're still members of the Venice community.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Graham.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: Yeah, I think, regardless of where anyone sits on this extremely complex issue. Everyone can agree that what we're doing this is state as a city, and everybody isn't currently working, and there's a ton of minds sort of brilliant people to the money being pumped into this issue. So I think what we, what we really need to do the capacity as we can as a council is to take a look at what's been done, and

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: so far? And why isn't that working kind of one of my failures. I think the other thing that we need to do is to involve and listen to all our neighbors. All our community members pull in panels of experts in different fields, because again, it's a multi fast and complex issue, and not one person is going to have the answer. And so I think we need to hear from experts in the field and bring people together as a community and feel like what's the best way

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: going forward is as a group as a unit, and you know, trying multiplicative approaches because it's not going to be, is not a panacea. It's not going to be a silver bullet that solves this issue. But we do with openness, transparency, and compassion has to be the only way forward.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: Thank you

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Nick Antonicello: correct. Okay. My next question. You guys kind of touched on it a little bit in this past conversation. The question is, how do you intend to build board consensus and unity.

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Nick Antonicello: Is it even possible? And we'll start with?

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JIll Crosby: consensus and unity.

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JIll Crosby: you know. I i'm kind of up the mind that these conversations you know. First of all, the issue in in Venice regarding homelessness is fairly new, considering Venice, it's really been at the beginning of the pandemic. So a lot of these conversations are that the genesis of very complex situations, and I understand that

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JIll Crosby: building consensus, I think, is partially a part of having decorum and respect at the meetings that I haven't seen

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JIll Crosby: not a ton of. So I don't know I I You know I I I think we're gonna have to navigate that these this is very complex. There isn't to see. In simple answer to that question. I mean, I would like to politicize it and say something great. But this is just not an easy. This isn't an easy situation. So I think just being involved is part of the solution.

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Nick Antonicello: i'm just going to mix it around. Kai. You want to take a step at that.

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Chie Lunn: Sure. So I think bringing everyone together is something that's going to be new and fresh because we have a Council woman who listens to us when this when we started the last 2 years, we did not have that, and I think that a lot of people just had a as under level, like a under level of frustration.

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Chie Lunn: feeling like we're unheard, and no matter what we say or do is not going to make a difference. So we so we just had a lot of frustration coming into the meetings for some people. I think that with the new group coming in. I just think that we're gonna come in just more mature, more together

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Chie Lunn: and and feel heard. So I think that that's what's really going to bring everything together?

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Christopher.

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Christopher Lee: Could you repeat the question one more time?

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah. how do you intend to build board consensus and unity. And is it possible?

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Christopher Lee: great? Is it possible? Yes.

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Christopher Lee: How do I intend to build that?

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Christopher Lee: What's really there for anybody who's

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Christopher Lee: volunteering to be on the Vnc. Is a deep commitment to serve Venice, and we forget that often as we debate and argue frankly about the issues so repressencing ourselves to our commitment to Venice, and how we would like to serve Venice is of vital importance.

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Christopher Lee: In that commitment. We can disappear our frustrations and our anger, and start

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Christopher Lee: approaching these meetings with the decorum and the civility that Venice deserves, that will lead to constructive conversations that

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Christopher Lee: hopefully will lead to consensus and advice that is powerful for city council.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you, Clark.

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Clark Brown: I think one of the reasons that there is

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Clark Brown: lack of cooperation

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Clark Brown: and sometimes bad feelings on the Venice Neighborhood Council is that the Board is required to handle so many very, very complex issues, and there's not the opportunity to look at those issues in in real depth

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Clark Brown: and develop sound proposals to address them, and that can be remedied, I think, by focusing on on the committees and the Board should require the committees to develop proposals

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Clark Brown: and to develop a background for the proposals, and after they are fully developed, to present them to the Board itself. Once that happens, I think the Board would be more inclined to

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Clark Brown: grant, respect, and and and defer it to the work that came out of the Venice nick out of the committees, and if that happened, I think we would then have more harmonious relations.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you, Graham.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: Yeah, I think a respect is a key word. I think you know, this is obviously easier than done, but getting everyone to respect each other is a huge thing, and building just general goodwill. I don't know if consensus is necessarily the right word. In my opinion, you know, I don't know if we need everyone to come to a general agreement. But what I think is really important is that everyone can find a sense of compromise.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: and in a respect for the the governing body and its decisions to realize that not everyone's going to get their way all the time. But I think that you know, as previously mentioned, feeling heard it's an important thing I think one can understand not getting their way, but it's when one feels unheard that they start to resort to. Probably you know uncivil tactics. I also think that going back to in-person meetings will do a great deal of help, at least for the board members.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: because I think there's something that's lost when you know we're all kind of

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: fragmented. Hear the Internet versus seeing someone face to face in person.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Jim.

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Yeah. So to your question about whether unity is even possible. I say 100% unity no way, because we're not a hive mind. We all have different thoughts and and needs. But I agree with

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People are arguing, and, I think, getting back in person and being face to face and being able to understand it Here, tone a lot better understand and see body language. A lot better will help people kind of calm down. We'll help people come together and say, all right. We might not agree 100% on the tactics, but the common goal of a better future for Venice.

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Candidate Forum: so we'll i'll. I'll all sacrifice a little bit of what I want. You'll talk about a little bit about what you want. We'll meet in the middle, and we'll all do a better job for this community.

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Nick Antonicello: after I unmuted? Cj.

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CJ Cole: Are you unmuted? Me?

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CJ Cole: Are you muted me? Okay. I kind of agree with

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CJ Cole: for meetings, or that wasn't corporate that was great. Everything going back to our board meetings. We'll make a lot of difference in our communication amongst ourselves.

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CJ Cole: but probably more than anything else, the biggest problem that we particularly the last year, I've noticed.

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CJ Cole: and if we're not educated on the issues we're never going to agree because we're not going to get past our own personal little niche that we think we are in

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CJ Cole: the committees must become the focal point of our existence. The committees have to be the place where we learn what's on the agenda. We just don't have time to show up, not reading an agenda attachments and being able to vote on something.

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CJ Cole: and I do think that that's our biggest single problem. That as a board we have is that we just

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CJ Cole: don't care enough to learn what we're talking about and voting on. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: The final question.

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Nick Antonicello: where you displayed true leadership that could be transformed to public service.

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Nick Antonicello: And I'll. I'll repeat that if it's too long.

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Nick Antonicello: name an example in your personal professional life. where you displayed true leadership

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Nick Antonicello: that can be transferred transferred to your public service.

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Nick Antonicello: and i'll start with the grant.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: so I I guess it's a bit in the abstract, but you know there are plenty of times in work in my work as a landscape architect and leading a team of people above and globally

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: where you've got to kind of put your own interest aside, you know, and you step aside and you real. You take one for the team whether it's something that went wrong down the line that you're responsible for, or it's stepping up for something that may or may not be desirable.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: But it's this idea of putting the ego aside and kind of not viewing yourself as an individual, but as a larger member of the team, and maybe making one to be to make a more difficult choice, or situate in a situation and a sacrifice, and I think that's the key word that you've kind of mentioned, Nick, is that you know these positions are public servants, and you know as an extreme that may sound. You are a servant to the public, and it shouldn't be about one's own goals or aspirations. It may be even coming to conclusions that you don't necessarily

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: agree with, or when you might not have cut your mind and kind of agreed with them who you started out in the endeavor. But it's kind of realizing the best course of action for the greatest number of people.

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Nick Antonicello: great. Thank you, James.

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and still I am in sales currently working with with a lot of people. So what we found is that no one likes to be sold right. We have this idea of a used car salesman. I was trying to check somebody 11,

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is a direct translation of what I do daily with business owners in this community. and what I do with employees at these businesses on a daily basis is give freely and work for a better solution.

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All I think, is, you know, strangers are just friends. You Haven't met yet, and you definitely go to a friend with different advice.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Christopher.

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Christopher Lee: repeat the question, please.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah, Name an example in your personal professional life. where you displayed true leadership that can be transferred to your public service.

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Christopher Lee: Got it

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Christopher Lee: So.

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Christopher Lee: as I mentioned during my introduction.

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Christopher Lee: I lead a regular

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Christopher Lee: trash clean up here in Venice.

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Christopher Lee: One of the things that I've discovered is regardless of whether or not other volunteer shop. It's incredibly important to have the integrity to do this

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Christopher Lee: every Other Week is my commitment, and just show up. Is it that creates a cadence and rhythm for people to rely on you.

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Christopher Lee: and showing up with that integrity is something that is vitally important to the community. In my opinion, showing up

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Christopher Lee: having the integrity to be present for people, whether or not they're there to support you, and being your commitment.

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Christopher Lee: that's my example. Thank you, Nick.

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Nick Antonicello: Thanks, Kai.

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Chie Lunn: Okay, I think, being a teacher, I lead every day by empowering my students to shine and to see their potential, and how that transfers into community service is

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Chie Lunn: in the same sense of me, supporting Tracy from the beginning and supporting my community and shining, I lead by standing up for what's right. I lead by when it wasn't

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Chie Lunn: very popular, to understand and hear our police, and to support our police force here and teach my kids how to get to know their local slo. I think that these are ways that I have led, and I continue to lead

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Chie Lunn: It's just by showing more than anything our community and children how to learn to speak up and stand up in their in their own space.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. C. J.

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CJ Cole: Okay. First of all, i'm not an actual leader.

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CJ Cole: and I will be different than all the rest of you. I'm a doer. You give me something to do, and I will do it. It will get done, whether it be the original website that I built for the Venice Neighborhood Council many, many years ago, when I was the treasurer

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CJ Cole: to being on the Venice Canals Association is the treasurer active in Venice politics, if you want to call it, from the original Venice Action Committee, Chamber of Commerce. I was on the board of the Chamber, and I'm still very active.

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CJ Cole: But I am a community worker and a community believer, and that's just me. I'm just not gonna be your president, and I don't want to be. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Clark.

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Clark Brown: I think the same rules apply across the board, whether it's your business life, or whether it's your extracurricular service Life and I found helpful rules to be first of all to identify something that needs to be done

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Clark Brown: and to take it on and do it as well as you can. Next is to give credit to others.

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Clark Brown: Don't try to take the credit yourself.

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Clark Brown: try to play up others next which I think is is is very important, is to try to seek common ground among all the people who are involved in a

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Clark Brown: in a certain activity or a certain project, so that all can work together and move the project ahead, and I found that those rules apply in any activity I undertake.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you, Jill.

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JIll Crosby: So in my personal life I've I've been a department head of multi 1 million dollar movies, which means that I have to manage a team under me, and that team has to manage sometimes hundreds of people, so I manage that direction as well as manage up the managerial letter with producers, directors, executives, etc., along with

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JIll Crosby: a lot of people. So there's a lot of political climate involved in what I do for a career. I think that can translate as well. But in my personal life

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JIll Crosby: I'm. In a recovery community that has absolutely 0 government that has worked since, like the 1930 s to sustain itself. And there is there are tenants and applications of that way of living that I use in my everyday life that do translate into the way that I am of service to other people individually.

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JIll Crosby: I, too, since the beginning of the pandemic, have been very active in my local government. I've supported Tracy Parks. I know my slo very well.

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JIll Crosby: I think, like if I was gonna comprise myself, it would be very tenacious, very passionate, and I have a lot of common sense. I want to get back to common sense, and I look for other projects around the world that could apply to Venice, because I think we need to seek outside help.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. Yeah, that wraps up the question portion. We're gonna have what we call a lightning round. So we'll ask this stuff. That's a little lighter, and then you'll have your final

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Nick Antonicello: final statements. So the first one is, and try to answer as quickly as you can. So we get around to everyone. and i'll start with Ky. Who is your mentor?

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Chie Lunn: Who is my mentor?

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Chie Lunn: Oh, gosh!

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Chie Lunn: I would say.

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Chie Lunn: my mentor.

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Chie Lunn: that's a tough one. I would say. My husband.

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Chie Lunn: he's my best friend, and I learned so much from him after answers his lightning round short short, there you go, but

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Christopher Lee: I haven't had to consider that in a while.

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Nick Antonicello: I'm just gonna throw this out there, Mother Teresa. There you go. C. J.

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CJ Cole: I just Don't even have anybody particularly in business. Years and years ago Deborah Berman was, but that was probably 40 years ago.

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Nick Antonicello: I just don't have a real mentor now. Thanks. floor.

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Clark Brown: My mentor was the Dean of freshman men when I was in college.

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Clark Brown: and would he not lightning lightly? No explanations?

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Nick Antonicello: he brought me that. That's it. They get lightning ground.

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Nick Antonicello: J: makes sense. James.

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Yeah, my mentor would be my father.

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Candidate Forum: Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. And Graham.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: I would have to be my high school, English and German teacher.

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Nick Antonicello: next one is, if you had to pick one

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Nick Antonicello: for the limited time we have remaining with it. Tik: Tok.

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CJ Cole: None of the above.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. I guess we'll ask one more If you don't win. Will you be willing to serve on a committee? Yes or no?

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Nick Antonicello: Yes, Hi, yes, Chris outreach again. Yes.

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Nick Antonicello: Clark. Yes. absolutely. James.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: looking forward to it.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, and we'll ask one more real quick. So for a swim, pick one. Hi, swim. Chris

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Christopher Lee: surf.

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Nick Antonicello: Dj.

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Nick Antonicello: Windsurf. There you go. Nothing that involves sharks.

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Nick Antonicello: All right, mister. We we have enough time. We we pretty much want to wrap up now with okay the closing things. We'll start with Graham. It's 1 min.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: all right. Well to be honest. I don't think there's much I haven't already covered in my answers in my opening statement. So appreciate you all for coming once again, whether i'm elected or not, i'm. Looking forward to being more involved in the Council and community at large.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: and I'm. Excited about everyone's engagement, and just getting the word out about the Council and increasing participation. Thanks for your time and remember to go vote this Sunday. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: James.

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Yeah. I'd like to echo that, you know. I'm really looking forward to being a more involved member of the community. Chris

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I'm. Gonna connect with you. I'm gonna try to figure out when this next trash cleanup is. I'd love to help.

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and I was wondering if I could actually serve on a committee, even if I lost the election. So very excited for a chance to get more involved.

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very happy to be welcomed in this community. It really means a lot to me. So hopefully, I can earn your vote on Sunday. But no matter what you should go and vote

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Clark Brown: almost. This is the biggest problem that we have, and for that reason I think you should choose as a as a community officer, someone who has a lot of experience on that.

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Clark Brown: I want to encourage everyone to take a look@mywebsiteclarkbrownforvenice.org, and it's numerical for to read what I have done and what people have said about my efforts. I want to quote one person who is on Flower Avenue

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Clark Brown: after we removed the encampment there, and he said, Thank you, Clark, for all your leadership and time that you have afforded to this problem. I certainly cannot Thank you enough, and I wish we had more people like you as our elected officials.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Cj.

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CJ Cole: Okay. I just want to thank everybody for coming. It looks like we have a pretty nice audience out there, and yes, I would love to go another round. I've been involved for years with the Neighborhood Council.

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CJ Cole: and I am probably a little bit unique of a lot of you. My My platform is pretty specific. You can go to my website, which is C. J. For Venice, and that's F. O. R. venice.com.

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CJ Cole: and it this basically outlines what I stand for, which

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CJ Cole: is, you know, very specific. Thank you

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Chie Lunn: I just want to say that there's tons of amazing people running. I would be really honored to work with some of these people again, and I just want to say Thank you for listening tonight to all of us, and to please get out and vote. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Chris.

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Christopher Lee: So whether or not i'm elected. I'm committed to my service here in Venice. James, You can find out more information about the clean ups@venicecommunitycleanup.org or on Instagram at Venice Community clean ups. I'm glad to serve if elected, and if not elected, continue my capacity as a volunteer on the outreach committee. So, Graham.

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Christopher Lee: any strategies we can get for getting the word out further about this, please join our committee, and if not, i'm all ears for it. and I look forward to bringing a generous listening to the community, so that we can implement the voices that are composed. Venice. So thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: and we'll wrap up with you.

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JIll Crosby: Thanks. I. I, too, want to commend everybody who's running, and is being of service, and has been a service. Venice is a very, very unique and very, very special place, and it requires.

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JIll Crosby: I think, some special attention. Being kind of a jewel of Los Angeles. I have a deep investment in loss in in Venice lots of friends who own small businesses, and I completely support them. I, too. I am a mom. I'd like my daughter to have the safety that they're used to existing

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JIll Crosby: Venice. I think it's time for us to start looking at new ways of handling the homelessness and kind of bring back some enforcement

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JIll Crosby: to Venice. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: I I just want to say how incredibly impressed I am with all of you, and I I wish you all the best on Sunday. and Venice can certainly use your help, no matter what the results are. So thank you for participating.

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Candidate Forum: Thank you, Nick. I can't push you over to the attendees, so i'll need you guys to just kind of leave the meeting and then log back in and

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Candidate Forum: will be perfect. Thank you.

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Candidate Forum: And after they do that i'll call up the next round of candidates.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, good. That went faster than I thought.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So let's see. Go my My notes we have. Okay, now. Nobody raise their hand until I say to raise your hand for some reason. Okay, I'm gonna bring in Ali.

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Candidate Forum: see where's Deborah.

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Candidate Forum: Would you go? Hang on?

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Candidate Forum: There you are.

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Candidate Forum: Let's see. You get Erica.

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Candidate Forum: Wait. Yeah.

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Candidate Forum: Nobody raise your hand. It messes me up. Okay.

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Candidate Forum: Yeah, Erica, are you? You have to accept? There you go. Okay, and let's see. Where did my other people go? I know we had more people.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, I had 2 more people that are not. If i'm missing any of the at large candidates who are scheduled for tonight. I want you to please raise your hand.

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Candidate Forum: Patrick, I add you for tonight. Okay.

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Candidate Forum: well hang on. Wait, Patrick. I did, or didn't have you for tonight

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Candidate Forum: waiting?

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Candidate Forum: Graham. How did you get back in here?

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: I don't know I've I've left twice now, and it keeps.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: Pull me back in every time I click on the link so

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: I can I I'll try leaving again. Let me see if I try removing if that makes the difference.

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Candidate Forum: and then hopefully, that will work.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So, Jason, I had you for tonight.

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Candidate Forum: And, Patrick, I had you for tonight. So let me bring you in.

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Candidate Forum: it. It it it did. It did boot me out, I mean. I can just

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: have camera off and just sit in silence if there's no other way to do it. Let's just do that.

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Graham Sandelski (he/him) | RIOS: Sorry. Try one more time to to see if that works. But

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Candidate Forum: yeah, if not, just sit in silence.

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Nick Antonicello: You'll be in the community officer time out.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So let me just make sure I got everybody. So we got Allie.

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Candidate Forum: Then

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Candidate Forum: Erica.

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Candidate Forum: Deborah

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Candidate Forum: and Patrick.

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Nick Antonicello: We have 5 right now.

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Candidate Forum: Yeah, hang on. Where did

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Candidate Forum: We're missing Jason? Where did Jason go?

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Candidate Forum: Okay, Somehow we're missing Jason Sugars he was there, and

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Candidate Forum: huh?

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Candidate Forum: I don't know what happened to him.

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Alley Bean: It's same with I'm trying i'm texting him.

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Candidate Forum: Where do you see them?

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Candidate Forum: Oh, he's up at the top he's, raising his hand. Okay, hang on Jason. Okay, Jason, When I promote your panelists you have to accept it.

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Candidate Forum: See? When you raise your hand, it takes you to the top, and then I don't see you in the middle of the list.

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Candidate Forum: All right. Why isn't it not bringing it in?

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Candidate Forum: This is frustrating guys. Sorry.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, Jason, except panelists. You have to hit. Accept.

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Nick Antonicello: There you go.

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Candidate Forum: We Gotcha.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, okay, so this is our second wave of the officer candidates. There's 37 of them.

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Nick Antonicello: and so we'll have a very spirited and competitive election from Sunday. The candidates that you see now are Ally Dean Deborah Keaton.

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Nick Antonicello: Erica Moore. Ben Valentine. Patrick Mckinley. and Jason Sugar.

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Nick Antonicello: So what we'll do is we'll have an opening statement of 1 min.

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Nick Antonicello: Then we'll have a 3 and 3 rounds of questions. a light lightning round of sorts. and then we'll have closing state. So we'll begin with an opening statement from left to right. Ali Bean will go first.

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Alley Bean: Okay, am I unmuted? You are awesome. Well, we're all just coming off of that zoom with our councilman, Tracy Park, including the people in the audience, and I I just have to say, you know

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Alley Bean: I'm so moved by finally having somebody listen.

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Alley Bean: I feel like her leadership is so interesting, because what she did is she brought in a service providers that everybody was having quite a bit of problems with

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Alley Bean: in in the job that they did, and got them to be transparent about

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Alley Bean: admitting that they weren't doing a good job, and have all the the citizens of Venice be really honest about what they were going through, and they were listened to, and I feel so optimistic, and I really

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Alley Bean: hope that our new Council can be that we have not. We've been very divisive. It has not been a good 2 years. I think everybody that comes to Council meeting, so that's my my dream is that we will be united there. There's very difficult problems to tackle, but we have to listen to the community, even if we do it or Don't agree and and have them know that we are transparent, that we're all nobody's in this for anything except

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Alley Bean: problems that make Venus awesome. Again.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, opening statement from Deborah Keaton.

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Candidate Forum: you any time to meet yourself ever

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: I got it.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: Hi, Deborah Keaton Ally, I agree with everything you just said, and

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: to Pony up on that I also feel incredibly helpful that so much will be done now, because I don't feel like we're shouting

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: into a hurricane. You know we we've got someone who actually listens to our needs and our once, and who is willing to do something about it. And I think that the frustration was evident in the council

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: because they stopped listening to one another, and they just kind of went to their own corners each corner, and they they just would. They just couldn't get to a point where they could agree on anything. And I think that's gonna change a lot when now that they know that they're being heard.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: and I've I've a long time, Venice Resident. I've lived to over 30 years. I own my own home. I bought it when it was dangerous to live here, and a long time ago, and I've got a daughter and a husband, and we've done a lot of work to try and keep our neighborhood safe and clean and and for everyone. And now i'm ready for the next step. I want to do that in a more official capacity

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: and the Venice Neighborhood Council, and be a part of this wonderful community in any way I possibly can. And that's why i'm here.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Erica Moore.

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Erica Moore: Well, hey, there I'm Erica Moore, and, as my little signs say, you get more with more.

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Erica Moore: My son. My 20 year old actually was like Mom, good to use our name. So there you go. I'm listening to my 20.

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Erica Moore: I've been in this community for over 40 years. I'm a business owner for over 38 years.

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Erica Moore: I have a catering event, planning company, Although

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Erica Moore: the type of catering I do now and have done since the pandemic is, I feed the elderly via meals on wheels.

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Erica Moore: I also feel you need the homeless through a

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Erica Moore: a certain program that's through Culver City, and i'm actually up for a contract to feed people that are being brought into some hotels for some temporary housing that will be for extended periods of time. So

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Erica Moore: i'm excited to be of service in that way, and that's really who I am. I'm about service.

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Erica Moore: I'm a volunteer who acts like i'm being paid.

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Erica Moore: I love to be of service. and that's what I want to do here on Council. Thanks.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Then down time.

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Ben Ballentine: Hi, everyone. I'm ben Valentine. I'm a third generation. Venetian. This is in the blood. It's it's i'm incredibly proud to be from Venice.

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Ben Ballentine: You know, I I think that Venice needs some common sense leadership.

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There's a lot of it out there, and I hope to be

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Ben Ballentine: a continued part of the solution.

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Ben Ballentine: making benef better for the next generations. I've I've got 2 kids and and seeing how they grew up in Venice compared to how I grew up in Venice, you know. Kind of leads a lot of my decision making. I think there's there's a lot can be done with some common sense leadership.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Patrick Mckinley.

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Patrick McKinley: Great thanks. Everyone for calling into. I know how difficult it actually is to attend these such meetings. The purpose of having folks like us on this board, and thanks Nick for jumping on this last minute to to Monterey. But so i'm actually new to this I haven't been around in Venice that long. I got really lucky, and bought a house at the very start of the

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Patrick McKinley: pandemic, which now now I probably couldn't afford in the area so good for me. Maybe not so good for others. But what I bring as a is a different perspective. I think I've I was asked actually to serve on the board by my neighbors. After talking to him at a dinner party.

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Patrick McKinley: I was reluctant to do it, but you know now that i'm on it. I'd like to see it through. I bring 25 years of experience in both the government and private sector, so i'm a retired and ringcentral lieutenant. Colonel, I currently work as a career civil servant.

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Patrick McKinley: I work for the Us. On the core. Engineers doing flood risk management projects. So that's my background. Public services, what I've been doing my whole entire life. I'm also a father of 2 young, 2 young kids that hopefully will go to public school. I'm glad you put me on tonight, because tomorrow I need to go to a Broadway elementary fundraiser

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Patrick McKinley: to support the neighbors. Great Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you and thank you for your service. Jason. Sugar.

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Jason Sugars: All right. My name is Jason Sugars. I, too, i'm in operational Venetian, for out of sixth generation my grandkids live just over off of Lincoln with her mom.

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Jason Sugars: all of whom we grew up here i'm looking for, I hope to running on it on

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Jason Sugars: a bit more of a we've talked about stability that we're lacking, but we have in the one term that i've served so far we have one been on mine the entire time, and never had in person meeting.

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Jason Sugars: and we have number 2 had an extremely contentious and kind of compartmentalized

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Jason Sugars: council, I'm. Hoping to get a better sense of experience. I'm brand, too, and I still I feel like I haven't even gotten a chance yet to give it a try. I do hope, for my own sake, to be more useful

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Jason Sugars: and creating community you within our communities. So there's a lot of us here. Some of us are brand new to the city, some to the area. Some of us have been here all of our lives. We're all going to be here, and so we'll very many others

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Jason Sugars: like another said I would love to see. I've been as as nice, wonderful, playful, eclectic, and electric and eccentric. The one I grew up in Don't. Be safe and clean for my kids and grandkids.

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Jason Sugars: See there?

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, Thank you very much.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. The first question is fairly straightforward. What is the most pressing issue facing Venice. And why? And i'll start with the Deborah.

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Candidate Forum: Yeah, it needs to on mute.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: all right. Well, the most pressing issue has been crime. and a lot of that has been driven

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: not entirely by the homeless. But it isn't a coincidence that the crime rate has gone 65 gone down 65% since January, and that's when Tracy and our new Mayor got together and started housing people that were on the streets, and I think that that needs to be noted.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: But crime is a huge issue in Venice, and I and homelessness like I said, They go hand in hand, and I've been very involved in in in dealing with the homeless. I lived right across the street from a very large, homeless encampment for a long period of time, and the the amount of

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: of insanity that was going on in that camp for the many, many months that it was there was scary. It was dangerous, and my young daughter was witness to all of it, and every morning she would come out to go to school in the morning, and she would walk right by people doing drugs and being naked and and

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: and it it was just. It was something that my daughter should never have to see. I mean Jason and Ben were talking about growing up in this community when it was a nice place to live, and

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: it needs to be that again.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Ali.

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Alley Bean: Yeah.

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Alley Bean: Am I muted? You are not? Yeah. Well, I I I

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Alley Bean: agree with Deborah.

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Alley Bean: except I wouldn't call it crime, because I I think they're They're sort of 2 different issues, crime and homelessness.

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Alley Bean: although they, of course become related. But I I would say homelessness is definitely the most difficult and most pressing issue for all of us in Venice, because we certainly are the epicenter other than Skid Row.

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Alley Bean: I have worked since I was in my twenties down at the Union Rescue Mission, and I'm, now 71. So that's a bit of a long time. But talk about a a great mentor. Andy bails

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Alley Bean: really knows how to get people off their feet, I mean on their feet so, but out of drugs and and given a chance at life.

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Alley Bean: and that's what I feel we have to focus on. I i'm really hope to work with Councilwoman Park, so I know that she she's looking at kinds of amazing people information, and I I love meeting with her, but I I I feel that's the number one issue, and we gotta be humane. We have to do this right, but we have to get people off the streets so that Deborah Doesn't have to live

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Alley Bean: with people and my my family to my kids, my all my grandkids around here right on their doorstep. It's it's not there.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, Erica.

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Erica Moore: Hi! There's a lot of pressing issues and absolutely crime and homelessness are ranking up in the top. I deal with that pretty much daily. I've had 6 catalt converters stolen

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Erica Moore: in like 5 years. It's pretty intense, but what I'm really concerned about, and what is a huge problem is housing.

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Erica Moore: and what I mean by that is, first of all, there's some different laws that are enacted now that are creating situations where the housing that was affordable in different of different streets is not now. They're putting in giant houses. There's also some issues. There's a lot of vacancies on on Lincoln

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Erica Moore: a lot of things for lease, and there's not affordable housing being built. The Rso. Housing is being removed. These are the things that

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Erica Moore: feed into homelessness. When people people can't afford to live in their apartments because the the rents are raised so high they have to be, They're displaced, and some of them get displaced onto the streets. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Jason.

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Jason Sugars: I think that I think that while we've already touched on the 2 that we know crime and and homelessness, or the unhouse community that we both know are kind of high and forcing. I think consistency and compassion and dealing with those things are going to be a bit helpful. I think one of the most pressing issues we have right now is this unity

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Jason Sugars: and and a lack of compassion and kind of a lack of humane circumstance. It's great to play lip service, to wanting to be helpful, and how in command it is to allow people to soak and resource

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Jason Sugars: in the unhouse community, and how they must have help with their mental and or efficiency issues. And these are all things that we are unregistered experts that repeating and regurgitating what we've heard about these people. But no one's really doing quite enough as yet to really work with them, because it is true. This cannot be the way that it's been our on a nice little slide into a much better way over the past few months. It would be nice to see us clear this entirely up, so I have to agree that

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Jason Sugars: the home, the on House, what our our residents without residents are the biggest and most pressing issue. We've just got to find some better ways to address and deal with that in a in a more compassionate and living way.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you, Patrick.

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Patrick McKinley: Sure, thanks. I I I think I think the question is actually quite complicated. I mean you're basically asking what's the closest alligator to the boat, and I i'd like to feel like you know

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Patrick McKinley: those questions should be handled by the City council, I think, where the our our community and our board comes in is what are we doing to be proactive about future thoughts and and and I agree, like

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Patrick McKinley: a lot of these are systemic issues that have been going on for decades. You know the the root causes of these have been feeders for a while. What are we doing about the rising cost of living, the rising cost of housing that is basically going to make

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Patrick McKinley: Venison Island to the rest of the La, where we're just going to continue to pay more for construction and continue to be more for everything. You're going to restaurant. We've got to solve housing. I am pro housing of any kind, I believe, density is the answer. More density of housing.

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Patrick McKinley: more market rates go down the more market-race housing there's a that would need to be smartly done, and it needs to be done in a way where you know we can do it as a community. And I've got some ideas, but that's not the job of the board. The board's job is to be the telescope for the city council and speak for the people in your neighborhood.

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Patrick McKinley: and really press like what the issues are and say how this affects our community. Yeah, Patrick, Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, Great Ben.

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Ben Ballentine: Yeah. I mean, Obviously, you know, the homelessness and crime is is one thing you know. I think it's just broader than that. It's more public safety. It's. It's all about. Make people feel, you know, safe in our community, and I don't think that

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Ben Ballentine: it is necessarily

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Ben Ballentine: just the homelessness. I think that that's that's that's part of it. I think that a lot of debate happens around this topic, it consumes a ton of time and energy, and I just want to make sure that that while that is being addressed that we're not.

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you know.

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Ben Ballentine: taking you, turning a blind eye to talking about the future of Venice, and talking about how Venice continues to evolve in a in a way that is something that we're all really proud to be a part of.

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Ben Ballentine: We absolutely need to handle the public safety issue at hand. We need to be able to to for our kids to walk, to walk them, feed safely and go up and pull into our homes.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, thanks.

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Nick Antonicello: The next question is about essential services.

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Nick Antonicello: What services do you think the city does? Well.

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Nick Antonicello: and what services do you believe that need to get better addressed? And how, as a community officer. Can you impact the delivery of services and making them better and cheaper and faster?

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Nick Antonicello: And i'll start with the Jason.

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Jason Sugars: We have to remember that our power is only as much as we have influence and access to our governance above us with the city Council. So one of the things that has been a problem. And the contingency that we spoke about that I talked about earlier is that we've had a very contingent

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Jason Sugars: and negative kind of relationship with our city councilman for District 11 the entire time that I've been on the board, and luckily it seems that that has changed almost a 180 degrees in almost no time.

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Jason Sugars: so not as much taking advantage of it, because that doesn't sound right, but relying on the leaning into that access, and having a more cooperative and collaborative relationship with our City Council member in the Tracy parts, and any other. So the best thing that we can do as a informing

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Jason Sugars: body, because we don't make the decision is to work much slower closely together to make sure that we're coming up with decisions that work for more of us in all of the part the sub communities here, and making sure that those are delayed in a concise and comprehensive way to those that really can do the help up in the district 11 and beyond.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah, I I just wanted to make a comment. I, The Neighborhood Council serves as a buffer between the public and the local city Council district here at District 11.

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Nick Antonicello: So and it is an Advisory Board, so it's You don't make decision to make recommendations. I just wanted to put it out there to public so based on that ally, what do? What do you think?

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Alley Bean: I? Well, I mean I I I I think what Jason just said is true. What you just said is, that's the thing is we are an advisory board. I think, as far as services are concerned.

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Alley Bean: You know

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Alley Bean: the we have a a public works department, I call them often. There's things like potholes in Venice, I mean. I don't know how how huge a question this is, Nick, for this for him. But that's okay. I I think I I love my garbage man. Know them by name.

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Alley Bean: You know I I I think

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Alley Bean: that we could stand to have a lot of a lot of services improve here in Venice. Our infrastructure is in great need of repair, especially the streets.

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Alley Bean: I also think in in in you know, in terms of the this influx of housing which we are about to see a lot of increase in density.

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Alley Bean: We have to really be mindful of our infrastructure. We have tiny streets, and so so we have to have a real conversation with the city of how we're going to be able to absorb this oncoming density

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Alley Bean: without it, you know, creating huge traffic problems. I think that's I don't know if you consider that a service issue, but it's it's something i'm really thinking about a lot is, we have to, you know, make these new arena numbers and bring in density like

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Alley Bean: where we're going to put it and make sure there's public.

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Nick Antonicello: Patrick

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Patrick McKinley: I I I'll give you a 2 quick answers. One is law. Enforcement is actually a service, and I think safety is a concern of the neighborhood, and we have a lot of laws in the books that are already there. They just need enforcing. However, we need to make sure our police force is actually trained to enforce them

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Patrick McKinley: in humane, and you know proper way, and have proper responses. So we don't have the instances like we added Washington and and Venice, and then the other is is transportation.

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Patrick McKinley: I would argue in Los Angeles. There is no mass transportation in Los Angeles. You take public transportation out of necessity, not out of convenience, as you do in other major cities. We live in one of 2 of the world cities in the United States, Los Angeles and New York are it? They're the world's culture producers.

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Patrick McKinley: Yet we have a transit system is almost non-existent, and we have one of the best public access

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Patrick McKinley: it

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Patrick McKinley: one of the pup that's public accesses in the in the State. We have the beach, and no one can get here. It is hard there is parking, but there's no transit, and I I don't know what the issues is, but you know we need to start listening and asking for studies and pushing the City council to kind of look into these issues and look into long term solutions and be proactive instead of reactive in nature as we are now.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: that's interesting, because I was thinking about well what are essential services, and and how do we affect them? And I?

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: I was thinking about the fact that when Venice we all the the the city of Venice was created by one man originally, and i'm sure he had helped. But he planned Venice, You know there was a plan.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: and it's obvious when you look at maps, but that puts them thrown in the garbage. And now we're just sort of like catches catch. Can you know we do this? We do that we do this. We don't think about the effects of what we're doing here on what we're doing over there, what we're not doing, and then we need a master plan of some kind, even if it's just.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: you know, just a a a rough one, so that we can make intelligent choices about what we're doing. And as for the you know, getting people to the beach, I know that there have been there's been a lot of articles about what's been happening with the Metro, now that it goes all the way to Santa Monica, and you have a crime that's taken place, and how

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: one of the things that we need to do with the central services have more security

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: at these Metro stops so that people will use the transit system and won't. Be afraid to take them, because even the drivers are afraid at this point, because I really aren't people that are watching out for them. But I think it really comes down to a master plan.

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Nick Antonicello: Then.

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Ben Ballentine: Yeah, I mean, I think it it

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Ben Ballentine: reitering. I think that it it comes down to public safety, and I think that our you know our our civic commission is is incredible. They they they do. You know, the best job that they can? I think that they just need more support, more funding.

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Ben Ballentine: you know, and that that sort of the the advocating that we need to do as we nations is, is let it be known that that we need additional help; that when we, when we call for you know, call to report crime that it gets taken seriously, and something gets done about it. I think right now there's a feeling of helplessness

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Ben Ballentine: that that crime is happening around us, and there's nothing we can do about it. So I think we're resolving that as the biggest.

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Ben Ballentine: the biggest. I'll look at something that we can do.

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Nick Antonicello: Erica

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Erica Moore: Nick, Can you please reread the question?

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah, the question is regarding essential services. What services do you think the city does? Well, and what ones need to do better? And how is you? As a community officer. Can it impact

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Nick Antonicello: I increasing the value of the of of Central Services City services. You could pick whatever one that you want to speak about.

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Erica Moore: Okay, actually, I think that there's a lot of essential services that it it's hard to actually pick which ones are doing well, sadly.

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Erica Moore: Everything from trash removal, which is a real serious problem. I'm very hyper aware of that because of the industry i'm in. There's also a prolific issue with rats.

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Erica Moore: and that is a result of that, and that as partially connected to the homelessness also with law enforcement. They're spread so thin they cannot even service us properly. I mean it's. It's not because they don't want to. They They were. Their hands were tied before, because our Council member was not supporting them. Now our Council member does.

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Erica Moore: but they are spread very thin, and they don't have enough people.

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Erica Moore: What I can do as a community officer is, I could be on committees that help with these different things. I'm. On resiliency. Resiliency is about disaster prepared in seconds. This is something we all need to be concerned about how we are going to show up in a disaster

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Erica Moore: we need to be. We need to be educated. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. The next question is as we come out of pandemic. Unfortunately, because of the strike, we couldn't have this in a live event. So we're resorting to zoom as a backup.

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Nick Antonicello: But how will in-person meetings change your personal style as an elected official.

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Nick Antonicello: and i'll start with the I'll start with Jason

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Nick Antonicello: since he's been on the board and has lived through Covid.

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Jason Sugars: I've been on the board. I'm. I'm. Really looking forward to to having the in person meetings for a number of reasons. First of all, I would love to attach them

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Jason Sugars: smiles. They keep in some grimaces to some of these faces that we hear every week that are, I have to say, as we're more engaged in mid come out that are on the Council to come in. They know their business like to learn from them as much as the other members of the Council. I work better in person. I'm an actual Venetian, so can I tell you it's like

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Jason Sugars: I get it. I we we like to get out there and get a little gritty and get to to each other a bit. Be that good, that ugly or wonderful. So i'm looking forward quite a bit to, you know, and maybe meeting go puppet face to face. That'll be cute

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Jason Sugars: meanwhile, and in between time, I think that it would really help to engage. I don't know if it works. No, I won't go long, but I work better with people, as people instead of screens, and look forward to being able

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Jason Sugars: and receive in in that environment.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you, Patrick.

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Patrick McKinley: Sure, I I think in person, in-person meetings is a way to, go, I think personal connection with other Board members, and with the public is the only thing that's actually going to foster a collaboration.

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Patrick McKinley: I came out to the board in January. I have really no contact with those on the board of the didn't come in these meetings. I would love to actually talk to some folks and ask what you know their backgrounds are. But there's situations. I fully realize that's certainly this post, like my situation in Venice, is different than all those People's situation is nice, and you've got to be able to listen to understand

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Patrick McKinley: before you listen to respond. And you know, without actually being in person and talking to each other. It's really hard to make that happen. It's really hard to really empathize with someone Else's situation, whether it's the public, or whether it's another member on the board that speaks for the neighborhood, or speaks for others, that Don't have a voice which is the point of being here. Not everyone has time to attend these meetings. Not everyone has time to devote hours to this, and

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Patrick McKinley: that's what we're supposed to be here for. So now the pandemic is gone. It's great. My neighborhood, I actually get to go around and talk to neighbor, so that that's good. I'm hoping everyone asks us to do that, too. But I actually just met my neighbors, probably about a year and a half ago, after being in here already for 8 months. So hopefully everyone else is opening up as Well.

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Nick Antonicello: thank you, Erica.

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Erica Moore: Well, I'm all about people. So I love being in person with people. I think that the level of communication will improve. This really should be a team.

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Erica Moore: It's a team we're supposed to work together. We're supposed to, even though we might disagree. That's fine. We have to learn how to disagree with each other civilly, and and to agree to disagree.

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Erica Moore: I feel that there's a lot of connection that will happen when people are in person. I think that some of the dissension that happens, especially with callers, won't be happening because it's quite different when you have to be in person and say what you have to say, instead of hiding behind a blank screen.

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Erica Moore: And then you can also impersonate people that has happened on meetings where people take over other people's identities and call in multiple times. I think it's going to clean up a lot of issues that are occurring. I think camaraderie should be developed, and I think that it is an opportunity.

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Erica Moore: I think it is an opportunity for us to all be supportive of each other.

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Erica Moore: and to actually, you know, embrace the differences that we do have. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Ali.

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Alley Bean: Yeah. I I totally agree with Erica. I I think that when you're sitting at a meeting, and you can actually make eye contact with the people that you're listening to, and really feeling what they're saying about what's going on, You know, As Patrick was saying, you know

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Alley Bean: we all come from different places. So what's going on in Deborah's doorstep, which I happen to know, because I know her doorstep.

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Alley Bean: which what she was facing it. You can really feel what's happening in the community. We desperately need it. I mean, having been on the board on zoom, we really didn't have it, and i'd also want to have that feeling with my fellow board members. Sure, we have different opinions. We're Venetians. That's what makes Venice beautiful to me, but it can't get uncivil. It can't get

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Alley Bean: divided and and unfriendly. You know we we have different on land use. We have different opinions on homelessness. but I I really think the major thing is to be able to make eye contact with and listen to everybody in Venice, and I hope that more and more people will come out to the meetings at Westminster School because we, the the Town Hall tonight with Tracy, was awesome, and we just need to have town goals

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Alley Bean: and have people express their frustration.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Then.

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Ben Ballentine: Yeah, I mean, obviously in person is great. Some of the the best debates about Venice.

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Ben Ballentine: But this policy has been a slight that happened, you know, over over Burgers that can Honest, you can't. You can't really argue that that in person is incredible.

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Ben Ballentine: My my concern is that it? A lot of the a lot of meetings, a lot of the the

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Ben Ballentine: in-person ones. They You know They require a lot of effort, you know, requires people to. I've got. I'm missing bad time right now for my kids. I've got another, you know, and a house i'm supposed to be stopped by, like I've got a lot of things going on, and that's very typical for every Venetian.

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Ben Ballentine: So i'm concerned that that we're going to be getting a lot of the vocal minority, and we're not getting a true representation of a lot of people's voices where they're out there just because

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Ben Ballentine: it's gonna be a lot more difficult to get them into meetings. So I love the in person. But i'm really concerned with how many people are going to be excluded just because of other.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you, Deborah.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: That's a really good point. Then. Yeah, I I've I've I've come to a few Zoom Meetings lately, and and they go on forever because people are comfortably sitting in their homes

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: on their computer monitors and their phones viewing them. And they can go on forever, because you don't have to go home, you know. I mean you're just already home, so I think it'll make things like, you know you'll wrap it up. You don't have to keep talking forever and ever, and making your point, you know you can actually come to a consensus and make something really happen. And I think that things are going to move along a lot quicker

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: when we're working together face to face. But I do think that it is gonna be a problem for a lot of people like. I have a kid, too, and I know what it's like when you miss bed time, and and you know, and and I work late sometimes, so it's gonna be. It's gonna be a problem for me to get there sometimes, but I will. I'll be there

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: but for some, but also for people who like to just sort of listen in and comment like the goat guy who I just like, what the but anyway.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: Yeah, I I I think it is gonna be hard for them, you know. Maybe they can't get around as well, but they've got something to say, and there's important things going on in their lives, and it's important that they be able to contribute. So maybe there's a way that we can do a little bit of both. Maybe we can have a zoom element to our meetings, and we can integrate that in, so that those people can be a part of these meetings, too.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: and have a limited amount of conversation with them as well. I I think part of the problem, too, with this, with the outside people jumping in is the people. Thank you as the ones that Erica was talking about in personating people and things like that, I mean, that's just ridiculous.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: So, anyway. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, that ups up the question portion. We have a little lightning. Now. There's a little lighter.

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Nick Antonicello: so i'll ask you a question, and you'll just pick one or the other.

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Nick Antonicello: So the first question is. you pick from one of the 3 board war bypass or peer.

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Nick Antonicello: and i'll start with Erica

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Erica Moore: the bike path.

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Nick Antonicello: What's that. Patrick?

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Patrick McKinley: Surfing? No, I mean my next question. All right, Jason

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Jason Sugars: been a proud member of the Venice Boardwalk Empire, 1,967.

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Nick Antonicello: Then

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Ben Ballentine: here.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: Deborah.

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Nick Antonicello: do I have to pick? I'll say Pier, i'm a bike rider by.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: If I had to find you in Venice other than your home.

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Nick Antonicello: Where would I find you.

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Nick Antonicello: Erica?

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Nick Antonicello: I'd probably be an avatar nation hanging with my pizz, moon juice or body certain

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Ben Ballentine: Here, wait. What? No?

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. That

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Patrick McKinley: you can find me at the breakwater easy during the week at lunch time, when I have a board meeting.

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Nick Antonicello: Jason.

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Jason Sugars: check the coffee shop.

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Nick Antonicello: There you go, Deborah.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: walking my dog on the walk streets.

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Nick Antonicello: Ali.

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Alley Bean: I I wish you I could say James Beach, or how I meant the passing of those beautiful institutions. So I i'm a walker. So you'll see me walking. I walk, especially the beach. I love walking to the beach every day, but lightning, lightning, lightning.

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Nick Antonicello: But before I ask the next question is, how many you just raise your hand? How many of you are? Dodger fans?

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Okay

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Nick Antonicello: with preferences. I'm gonna ask the question. Now. Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: based on the man of hand. The question is

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Nick Antonicello: again

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Nick Antonicello: the question that the the question is Kurzweil or profax?

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Nick Antonicello: And i'll ask Ben

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Ben Ballentine: Krishna.

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Nick Antonicello: pat

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Nick Antonicello: my kids team now. So Kershaw.

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Nick Antonicello: There you go. Okay. Deborah. It's baseball right?

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Nick Antonicello: You want to pass on that one.

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Nick Antonicello: I have to pick a team i'm from La, if i'm not a dodger fan. I'm like in trouble.

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Nick Antonicello: My grandson Charlie, would make me say Kershaw, cause

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Nick Antonicello: alright, that's pretty much the end of the questioning. At this point. We'll have a closing statement 1 min

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Nick Antonicello: and we'll start with that.

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Ben Ballentine: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm excited about this opportunity. I've decided to to to bring some some energy into the the B and C. That that hopefully is level, headed and

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Ben Ballentine: and and

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Ben Ballentine: common sense. I I don't come in with any specific agenda other than

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Ben Ballentine: making sure that that Venice is is

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Ben Ballentine: wonderful and as incredible as it is. It's always been great to me. Now it's time to get back and and kind of protect the future

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Ben Ballentine: for for my kids. Essentially after Jason.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you, Erica.

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Erica Moore: Okay, I'm. Erica Moore. I I just want to say that there is an article coming out, you know. Benn about me. Please check it out so you can learn more about who I am. I care about things like this election, and how it was so difficult for our stakeholders to participate in it. That's something i'm committed to working on

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Erica Moore: if I'm. On the Council also Rules and Selections Committee, i'm there. That's been defunct for months. I want to get that back going, so we can get some of those bylaws updated.

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Erica Moore: I am the person who will stand for you. I am old school with an innovative twist. I have tons of energy. Just so, you all know

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Erica Moore: I had to go to work after meeting last night at 10'clock, and I didn't get until 5 in the morning, and I was back at work at 8 30. So there you go, and I got full of energy, as you can see.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you

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Erica Moore: ready to serve

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Nick Antonicello: Ali.

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Alley Bean: Yeah. I mean the one thing we haven't talked about tonight is land use, and I I just want to say that. you know, but I think my my my greatest passion, other than

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Alley Bean: homelessness as an issue, would be just the way to maintain the history and diversity of Venice. It. I lamented. My husband was here for 56 years, me 31, and, you know, affordable housing is being ripped down at a terrifying rate.

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Alley Bean: R. So housing is just I i'm just. There's one apartment building about to be turned into me. Expensive condos that's a real passion of mine is to try to find a way as they need this increase of density, not to get rid of our history, to hang, to find a way, to make it all

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Alley Bean: keep keep the the beauty, and the and the that the character of Venice. And again, the the second, I think the very most important thing to me is is

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Alley Bean: kindness.

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Alley Bean: civility, real neighbor. It's. This is a neighborhood. We we love our neighbors, and we gotta be that way on the council. We just gotta be neighbor lovers and a stakeholder, lovers and friends with each other on the Council, and that's what i'll fight with with every ounce in my body.

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Yeah.

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Nick Antonicello: Deborah.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: Hmm.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: I decided that to to run for best neighborhood

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: seat because I really care about this community, and in the last couple of years I've gotten very involved, and I I've gotten to know a lot more people than I ever did before, and I love living here. I love living here 30 years ago, when I moved here, and

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: and I I love it even more now, because they say that if you care about something and you really work hard to take care of it. You will care more about it. And I think that that's absolutely true. And I agree. 100% with ally

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: to you know. Make sure that the culture of Venice is still here, and that's such a broad term, because we have so many different kinds of culture here in Venice, and it means something different to Jason the Ali, and that it means to me. And that's what's so wonderful about Venice, and that maybe why our meetings are so chaotic because we're not like any other community, we're so unique

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: that that that shouldn't pull us apart. It should really bring us together, and we're all here for this reason. Right? You don't give up your time away from your family and everything else, because you don't care.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: Okay. So remember that the people that you're yelling at, or the people that you disagree with are on the team.

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Deborah Keaton debkeaton@mac.com: We're all doing this because we love this place, and I love this place, so i'd be honored to serve. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Pat.

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Patrick McKinley: regardless of that outcomes, you know. I'm willing to help where we're needed. I can say, you know, having moved here and spent so much time in the military passing through communities. It's actually a a very eye-opening and beautiful thing, to you know, be welcomed in the community part of community, and and realize how there's there. There's more to it than just

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Patrick McKinley: living off work of others as they they try to make a better place, and I I was always taught. You know, 95% of leadership is just caring

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Patrick McKinley: and you know it's caring about those around you and caring about those who work for you caring about. You know the job you're trying to do, and I I would like to say thank you to the entire Venice Council, because the one thing I can see is that all of them absolutely 100% care, you know, if you're up to one, am on on a zoom. Call

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Patrick McKinley: that you care. Even the public who stayed on to one am regardless of the they care.

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Patrick McKinley: So thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. And we'll wrap up with Jason.

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Jason Sugars: as some may say, that everyone said, regardless as to what happens on Sunday, which I hope goes well for all of us. I'm. Looking forward to to raising my engagement further with the community, and with and with the local governance, and just again trying to create balance and a bridge.

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Jason Sugars: as somebody mentioned. I quote on Fifth and Broadway, sixth and sunset kind of in an area that was under represented on this council

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Jason Sugars: in the time that I came on, and and I don't think to be honest with. I've been as engaged with the portion of the community that in that invited me to participate and ask me to come up and represent. So i'm looking forward to doing more of that, this coming period as well.

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Jason Sugars: But no matter what I hope to see and work with you guys on what we're trying to do around here together. If there's actually just one, then it's with probably 8 different communities, and gosh knows how many different classes and cultures that have been here for decades or for 2 years, 8 months. I love this place. I want to see the best that we can.

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Jason Sugars: and we can only do that for each other and together there's not another way to do that.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you so much. So we have a nice group. I would call you the Magnificent 7. I wish you all good luck on election day. and stay involved and stay engaged and thank you for participating tonight.

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Erica Moore: Thank you, Nick, for doing this

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Candidate Forum: our current, so you could remove yourself from the meeting and then log back in, and hopefully you lend up the attendees.

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Alley Bean: How do we remove ourselves? If you want, I can remove you.

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Alley Bean: Oh, leave she No. But then.

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Candidate Forum: okay, there we go, and if for some reason you end up back in here we'll just darken you and change your name anyways. Next up is going to be the Presidents.

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Candidate Forum: and I'm going to bring both of the candidates up. Do not raise your hand. No, Brian.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, no it Nobody raise your hand. Otherwise you're going to move around.

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Candidate Forum: No, do not raise your hand, Yolanda. No one raise their hand, please.

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Candidate Forum: It's gonna mess me up. Okay. Now let me

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-: looks like I'm still coming in. So

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Candidate Forum: okay, let me make sure. I got Brian in. Okay, good. And then

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Candidate Forum: I need daffodil.

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Candidate Forum: And do we get you? We got you. Yay. okay? So we got both Brian and Daffodil

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Candidate Forum: welcome. And

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Daffodil Tyminski: I guess

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Nick Antonicello: did you need a fresh up on the instructions, or you got the gist.

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Nick Antonicello: there'll be 4 questions. You'll have 1 min to answer the question. We'll have a kind of a fun light lightning round at the end to keep it white.

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Nick Antonicello: and you'll have an opening statement for 1 min and a closing statement for 1 min. So what we'll do is we'll have an opening statement from Brian.

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Nick Antonicello: and then we'll have Daffodil. Make her opening statement as well.

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Nick Antonicello: Brian, whenever you're ready.

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Brian Averill: Sure and thanks again, Nick, for doing this. This is great, hey, everyone! My name is Brian Averl. I've lived in Venice for about 21 years. I live on a North Venice Walk Street Bridge. Housing is about 2 blocks that way.

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Brian Averill: so i'm super familiar with the complexities over there.

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Brian Averill: I am a professional photographer and director.

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Brian Averill: I've served on the Vnc board in the past. I currently serve on the motion front, lock and outreach committees outside the Vnc. I'm. A founding board member of our Venice Surfing Association.

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Brian Averill: We've been around for almost a year, and we have about 450 members here in Venice so far, so super excited about that.

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Brian Averill: and then on a community level. I'm. Also aing board member of the Venice Boardwalk Action Committee.

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We wrote and helped implement

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Brian Averill: the proposal that was used by the city of L. A. To move the encampments off the boardwalk and into available housing in 2021

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Brian Averill: and I will turn it over to deaf.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. And before before death goes up real quickly. If for some reason a candidate comes all right, a previous board member comes back in. I'll just make him a dash. So both of you who came back in. You're both dashes, and you're good. Just stay like you are. Okay, Go ahead.

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Daffodil Tyminski: Hi, there! My name is Daffodil Taminski. I'm running for President, and thanks Guys for doing this. I know it was a last minute to scramble.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I like Brian. I I've lived in Venice for almost 20 years. I also live in a North Venice Walk Street. I also live a few blocks from bridge housing, and so I think we've had some shared experiences there

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Daffodil Tyminski: by trade. I'm. An attorney.

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I've been a lawyer for almost 25 years, and

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Daffodil Tyminski: during that time I've worked largely

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Daffodil Tyminski: as a litigator and as a corporate attorney, also as a Federal prosecutor and local prosecutor.

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So I've spent a lot of my career volunteering and working in and with law enforcement.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I first became involved with the Vnc. In about 2,008. When we first started to see Rvs pop up on the street.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I ended up running for the Vnc. I became the chair of the Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Committee. So I stayed on

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Daffodil Tyminski: pardon 10 s, so I then ran for loopak.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I ran for Vice President 2,001. And now I'm. Hoping to serve as President.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: The first question is this: homelessness and crime continue to be issues of universal concern.

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Nick Antonicello: How can the V and C. Play a positive role in self and solving this crisis? And i'll start with Brian?

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Brian Averill: Everyone needs to remember that this is an Advisory Council. So we're not legislating. We're not passing any legislation.

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Brian Averill: So the way I see us

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Brian Averill: is is we're crafting advice basically to pass up to Tracy or the Mayor's office.

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Brian Averill: or to Lapd, or to housing.

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Brian Averill: So we're listening to the people here in Venice we're trying to come up with something that's reasonable, and that's a doable. And pass that up to Tracy we're sort of doing the the homework on the street for her and asking for something. I feel like far too often.

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Brian Averill: We're asking for a pie in the sky as far as homelessness and crime. We want to ban it across Venice or stop everything when, in fact. we need to be sort of more micro. I need to look at areas in their schools and their parks that sort of be reasonable.

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Brian Averill: and set her up for success.

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Brian Averill: Understand what her limitations are, and operate within them.

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Nick Antonicello: Death.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I think the number one thing the V and C. Can do is community organize. Homelessness and crime are inextricably intertwined, and we've had a situation for the last 2 years where actually last probably several years, where our community was very divided by our Council person.

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Daffodil Tyminski: so I think, by community organizing and organizing behind our Council person and behind lapd. We can make great strides in our community, where we actually are

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cresting a wave with her

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Daffodil Tyminski: and supporting her Visa v. The rest of the council of which she has an uphill battle fighting to be able to improve the community.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: next question is, I I wasn't on the Tracy Park call today. So there's new information. I may not be aware of it, but

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Nick Antonicello: I just want your general opinion on the the Median project. as well as the status of the bridge housing on Main Street.

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Brian Averill: the Medium Project I'll. I'll be honest when I first got on the Vnc. Back in 2,01819.

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Brian Averill: All I knew was that they were going to build some housing for 140 people, and I actually voted for that. Initially. Then, over the years I would talk to people over there. They explained the project to me. They explain that we're spending a 100 milliondollars

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Brian Averill: for a 104 units. They explain the mass, scale and character of what these people are proposing. And obviously it sounds crazy at this point.

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Brian Averill: So the medium project and this community.

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Brian Averill: We need to do everything we can to stop that project. That project is not right. It's the biggest thing that's ever been built in Venice. If it happens

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Brian Averill: again. 100 milliondollars is ridiculous for that amount of units, and I think we all know at the end of the day it's it's a. It's a drop in the bucket. It's not going to change the situation on our streets at all.

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Brian Averill: Bridge housing quickly. Tracy deserves whatever she needs. I think she's proven

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Brian Averill: that she's making big steps in a short period of time. So Bridge helping is helping her do what she's doing. We need to extend it.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah.

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Daffodil Tyminski: So as to the Venice Median, we need to kill the project. I've never supported it. Venice is particularly west of Lincoln is less than 2% of CD. 11, and we have almost every single affordable housing project in CD. 11 over. I think it's 15 units.

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We have been forced to become a containment zone by the previous administration.

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Daffodil Tyminski: and we need to stop it.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I think, with respect to bridge housing, it should be developed as a a mixed use project.

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Daffodil Tyminski: you know. Obviously there we need affordable housing everywhere in Dennis, but we need to develop it smartly, and in combination with actual workforce and market rate housing, so that we create the kind of mixed communities that we like to live in.

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Nick Antonicello: Next question is about leadership. Name an example in your personal or professional life.

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Nick Antonicello: where you displayed true leadership that could be transferred to your public service.

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Nick Antonicello: and we'll start with fine.

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Brian Averill: I'm. A photographer and director. I direct commercial suits on a on a regular basis, with crews of 12 to 15 people of directed feature films, with crews of 100 to 150 people.

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Brian Averill: and that goes from sort of technical personalities, technicians, cinematographers to more sort of the emotional actors. So the whole sort of spectrum of humanity.

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Brian Averill: So I I feel like I know how to balance different personalities, and I feel like they'll come in handy on the Vnc.

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Brian Averill: And secondly, when we did the sort of boardwalk the encampment to home Project.

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Brian Averill: We saw that all the city departments didn't really know how to work together, so I think we sort of stepped up and took leadership there and said, hey, county, hey, city, hey? Lapd, you guys need to work together, and we'd sort of explain how

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Brian Averill: to the city departments. When you sort of lift the veil of what's going on in the city, you realize that they need help.

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Brian Averill: They need you to help them do their homework. So I feel that we we accomplish that on that level.

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Nick Antonicello: Death.

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Daffodil Tyminski: Yeah, I think with leadership. Sometimes it's knowing when to give up a little bit, and knowing when to insert yourself a little bit for the greater good for me that really came to focus in a murder case that I tried where we prosecuted cartel members for murdering a Coast Guard officer.

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Daffodil Tyminski: You know it's the choice thing to do as a prosecutor to do the closing statement, but I gave it up for my colleague, who was probably going to be able to do a better closing. But he was insisting on questioning one of our victims, and I just said, No, I have to do it. I can do it better. And you know we.

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Daffodil Tyminski: you know he listened to me. We did that push and pull? We ran the prosecution, and the guys are now doing life

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Daffodil Tyminski: It just you have to sort of look at the people around you assess what they do. Well assess where your limitations are, and act accordingly. And I think when you work together as a team.

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Daffodil Tyminski: and you really orchestrate that you can demonstrate true leadership in seconds.

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Candidate Forum: That's it, I mean. I think we see it on the we. You know we have examples in Venice, too, but in my professional life that's always set out to me. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: The next question is kind of

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Nick Antonicello: transitions. To what that they said is.

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Nick Antonicello: how do you intend to build board consensus and unity. and is that possible?

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Nick Antonicello: And coming out of Covid, Will the in-person meetings

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Nick Antonicello: help with more unity, and consensus to the

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Nick Antonicello: and i'll start with

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Brian Averill: in person will definitely help bring consensus. You know it's it's harder to

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Brian Averill: it's harder to yell at somebody when you're looking at them in the eye

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Brian Averill: in a room together.

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Brian Averill: and as far as building consensus, you know. If if i'm elected, i'm going out to lunch with every single board number the first month.

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Brian Averill: I'm. Going to get on the same page with everyone. I'm going to figure out where they're coming from, what their sort of strengths and or weaknesses are what their goals are

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Brian Averill: within their term, what they want to get accomplished

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Brian Averill: and just sort of figure out the personalities and do just do a lot more listening than talking, and then once we we we start the board. I can sort of hit the ground running, and just put everyone in a position to succeed.

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Brian Averill: I think it just comes down to us at the end of the day. Empathy and listening. Just know who you're working with know their strengths and weaknesses and just set them up for success.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah.

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Daffodil Tyminski: in person meetings are definitely better. Everything is better in person. We all move to Venice because we love the community of living on a walk, street or bungalow cord, or a canal, or whatever. And we do that because we socialize. So

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Daffodil Tyminski: I think that will be great in terms of building that consensus prior to the next term. You know we've had a lot of flack in the community about our elections being so early, but it really is giving us a great advantage in terms of the next board, because we will have 3 months to all get to know each other.

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Daffodil Tyminski: and to build consensus without violating the brown act, which is something that has really inhibited the previous Board in being able to ever do. We've never been able to do a retreat. We've never been able to do anything but in person meeting. I mean anything but the Zoom Meetings.

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Daffodil Tyminski: So there's a group of us running together under the Moniker Venice together.la, and we've been doing this already. We've had a number of socials where we've invited ourselves and friends and family and things like that.

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Daffodil Tyminski: and I think we continue that and bring in whoever else is with us. Going into this next term and become friends before we have a chance to be those on the board.

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Nick Antonicello: Councilwoman Park has indicated that she wants to create a vision for ocean front walk. She's made some public comments that

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Nick Antonicello: in its current condition it's it's not what it should be. It's another valued asset.

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Nick Antonicello: We have the fifa cup coming here in 26, the Olympics and 28

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What! What's your vision? For? Ocean front walk, and you can include

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Nick Antonicello: the here as Well. and What are your, what? What's the general thought you would bring to her to try to rehabilitate and bring tourism commerce back to the beach.

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Nick Antonicello: and I'll start with the can we go with?

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Daffodil Tyminski: Sure, I mean Yes, ocean front walk is is very mismanaged, and and it's sad. Actually, that it's just been let to go fallow. We have businesses that cannot open. We have restaurants that have been waiting years to get liquor licenses.

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Daffodil Tyminski: We have mild, mixed. Use modest buildings that can't get built.

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Daffodil Tyminski: It's just been a very, very poorly managed resource. We should be looking at a greater vision, and it should include entertainment sports, activities, mixed use housing, affordable housing restaurants, all the things that frankly, we go to Santa Monica to enjoy or go other places because our ocean front walk is is not great.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I've actually been involved with some of the football clubs in Venice, and I'm. Bringing Manchester united

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Daffodil Tyminski: to Venice to help get the fervor for fifa going. I was a so I think all of that should be done here, including the Olympics and other things. So

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Daffodil Tyminski: I think her vision spot on, though.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Brian.

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Brian Averill: I agree with that. It's incredibly underutilized. I don't I don't know that we need 15 t shirt shops on the boardwalk anymore, and 6 bomb shops.

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Brian Averill: so

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Brian Averill: I I also agree. Mixed to you is great. Let's go ground floor business, and let's put affordable housing up top.

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Brian Averill: I think North Venice with the sort of vibe we have with Big Tree, the waterfront, the ale house. These are great local businesses, and I would love to see that sort of. I just spread down the entire board walk all with the pier.

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Brian Averill: What I would be worried about is the sort of Starbucks of the world i'm. I'm not crazy that there's a a Starbucks which ironically replaced the Venice freak show

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Brian Averill: So if we could do more stuff like Jake's waterfronts, the the ale house and fig tree, just great local businesses up and down the boardwalk with some housing above.

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Brian Averill: I'm all for it. I think that would be excellent, and I will help in any way possible to accomplish that.

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Nick Antonicello: How are we doing with time? We ask you a question. You give me an answer to yes or no or so. For example, the first question is.

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Nick Antonicello: World War Ii passed over here. which is your choice.

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Nick Antonicello: and i'll start with

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Nick Antonicello: You could probably guess it's a it's the here Venetian or Angelina Venetian. Ryan.

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Brian Averill: Venetian for life.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: Who do you most admire?

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Nick Antonicello: They have.

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Daffodil Tyminski: Well, it sees.

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Daffodil Tyminski: But my father who's been gone for a long time. But

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Daffodil Tyminski: what an incredible life!

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Nick Antonicello: Right?

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Brian Averill: I agree, my dad.

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Nick Antonicello: that so for swim.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah. I mean, i'd like to say surf, but I don't think I can compete there. So we're going to say, Swim right.

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Brian Averill: Believe it or not. It's

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Nick Antonicello: okay.

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Nick Antonicello: Well, for the whole food.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah, also whole foods.

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Nick Antonicello: All right. Talk or listen.

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Nick Antonicello: The

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Daffodil Tyminski: Listen.

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Nick Antonicello: Brian.

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Brian Averill: always listen.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: And the last one is Pick one

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Nick Antonicello: Instagram tik, Tok or Facebook.

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Nick Antonicello: None for me. none for you and Brian

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Brian Averill: Instagram.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay? And then the last one will be early riser or at night out

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Nick Antonicello: early riser right

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Brian Averill: early riser.

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Nick Antonicello: Alright. Well, that's that was pretty famous. I think Venice has 2 excellent candidates.

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Nick Antonicello: and no matter what happens, I hope he's both staying engaged and involved. The community definitely needs you both.

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Nick Antonicello: and I wish your best to walk on sat on Sunday. and at this point we'll. I have a final statement, final

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Nick Antonicello: final word, and, Brian, you can go first.

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Brian Averill: making me go first all the time.

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Brian Averill: I'm done.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Brian Averill: I think I've sort of covered everything. I I just think I think it's time for a new, a new era, a new approach. I think this this board has sort of run its course. I'm definitely not pointing fingers at anybody.

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Brian Averill: It's nobody's fault, but I I think it's just time for a breath of fresh air.

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Brian Averill: I think we're coming out of the pandemic. I think if you wander by our local businesses, their packs. They're hopping. They're bustling 200 and

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Brian Averill: that's great to see. Obviously we have Tracy. We have a new Council member. So to me this is very clearly the beginning of a completely new era.

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Brian Averill: so I think I think the Vnc. Should sort of follow suit.

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Brian Averill: Give a new batch of Council members a shot. Let's let's just start a new and move forward in a positive productive.

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Brian Averill: cooperative manner for Venice.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I I agree with Brian, I mean we, we, me, Vicki, a few others. We recruited a lot of new people to run with us. They're all first time, candidates. There's a whole bunch of them, and I think, having new people involved is really really important. I think we should balance that with folks with experience as well.

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Daffodil Tyminski: But we need to come together as a Board. We need to support a Council person, so we get what we need for Venice. We need to support lapd and keep our neighborhood safe.

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Daffodil Tyminski: We need reasonable solutions to homelessness. We need fiscal accountability.

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Daffodil Tyminski: We need to engage with smart, responsible development that actually moves a reasonable pace.

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Daffodil Tyminski: and we need to make Venice the place that we all wanted to live in when we moved here.

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Daffodil Tyminski: and that it's sadly, you know not no longer.

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Daffodil Tyminski: I would encourage everyone to come out and vote. I really thank you, guys, for your time.

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and I would encourage you to check out some of the candidates running with us. Our website is Venice together.la! And we have a terrific group of people who are professionals

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Daffodil Tyminski: and really interesting people from all walks of life, some of whom are multi-generational Venetians, really believe in making Venice better

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Nick Antonicello: Guys thanks for taking the time on short notice.

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Daffodil Tyminski: Thank you, guys

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Candidate Forum: all right and same thing. If for some reason, when you log out when you remove yourself and come back in, and for some reason you end up here as a panelist just dark in your screen, and i'll change your name, and we'll be done with it. So don't don't. You don't have to worry about going in and out.

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Candidate Forum: but let me try to remove yourself

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Candidate Forum: position. We have 2 candidates there, and I see Sima.

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Candidate Forum: so i'm gonna bring seam in real quick. and then, once I do that hang on what's going on Here

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Candidate Forum: we hang on excellently. It's Shea

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Candidate Forum: hopefully. She does not come in. Did I excellent at you or day.

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Candidate Forum: No, I think we're good. Okay, now, I

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Candidate Forum: don't see Brian by name Brian thinner in, Are you here?

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Candidate Forum: And I should say, Brian thinner, and if you're here, raise your hand.

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Candidate Forum: I do not see Brian, so Sima will be the sole candidate on this panel for this position, and Nick take it away.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. So this is easy just for for a transparency. I serve on the outreach commit. So

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Nick Antonicello: i'm on. I don't even think that there was any kind of

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Nick Antonicello: you know what my background is.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, so the way we work this is that you'll have an opening statement. I'll ask you a couple of questions. We'll have a little bit of a lightning round.

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Nick Antonicello: and then that will be it so. If you have an opening standard, it's 1 min feel free to say whatever you like.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. It's unfortunate that i'm the only one Here I was actually looking forward to meeting

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Sima Kostovetsky: Ryan and hopefully having a discussion with him. Excuse my voice or coughing fits, and not a 100%. So

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Sima Kostovetsky: I think the fact that I've been chair of outreach for 3 and a half years, along with my incredible outreach committee that Nick is a part of, as well as some other candidates that spoke tonight

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Sima Kostovetsky: speaks to what we've been able to accomplish. The job of outreach is to promote the Vmc.

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Sima Kostovetsky: It's been a very difficult job over the last couple of years, as numerous candidates have pointed out. It's very hard to do my job when we cannot meet and perfect on in person

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Sima Kostovetsky: hopefully, that'll start to change. Come April. So i'm definitely looking forward to that.

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Sima Kostovetsky: And I think that my experience in Pr. And events production, my professional experience which I bring to outreach speaks for itself.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We've built up our following to an 1,800 person, presence on Instagram. We have instituted coffee with the cops. We have found ways to engage our constituents and stakeholders.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and I personally have been available to every single committee.

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Nick Antonicello: Are you keeping me to my 1 min. And even though I'm the only one absolutely okay. We're gonna try to. Okay. So the first question is.

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Nick Antonicello: How will you conduct future outreach meetings moving forward in in a post pandemic world.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Well, I look forward to the city approving my location, which is the waterfront. It has been the waterfront during our prior meetings which we haven't been able to have in person for 3 years.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We are the backbone Vmc. Is the backbone of our communities. We represent the people

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Sima Kostovetsky: not to have that at our disposal where I can see you face to face. I could talk to you. I could find out

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Sima Kostovetsky: what are your issues. Who do you know how have you suffered? What makes Venice great that has been so difficult when all we've had at our disposal are the tools that we have built up.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I'm tired of seeing faces on the screen. I want to see you in person. Come to the waterfront. Our meetings are usually the last Wednesday of the month.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and I hope that Jake will send the courtesy to us, so please come, and we need new blood.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I am looking for new suggestions. I need people who are great at social media who are great at traditional media, but people who will work.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and people who will be there for our community.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: what branding strategies would you

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Nick Antonicello: to boost the V and C name and image moving forward?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Well.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I think that we, as candidates, are the best advertisement for who the Vmc. Is. So I think that actually it is every single person's job on the Vmc. Every single person that serves on a Vmc. Committee

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Sima Kostovetsky: to do outreach. It is your job to be able to bring people in just as much as it is mine. So, in terms of looking forward. I want to bring people in who have different ideas. I am one person.

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Sima Kostovetsky: so I want to be able to share in the knowledge that our community has. We have such an incredibly creative, eclectic group

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Sima Kostovetsky: of stakeholders. I would love to see you at my meetings. I would love to see what you bring to the table, we might not always agree

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Sima Kostovetsky: at the same. By the same token, let's agree to disagree, and at least let's start to have the discourse

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Nick Antonicello: A. As you know, the town halls or the function of our of our committee. What! What town halls are you thinking of

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Nick Antonicello: as we move forward. Thank you for asking that question. So there's actually a couple

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Sima Kostovetsky: number one. Personally.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I think that the prevalence of Fentanyl right now

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Sima Kostovetsky: on our streets, and what is happening to our communities, how it has infiltrated our unhouse populations, our encampments, our schools, the pervasiveness of drugs.

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Sima Kostovetsky: specifically fentanyl

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Sima Kostovetsky: and what it is doing to every facet of our society

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Sima Kostovetsky: that to me would be honestly I know that is not Venice specific, but it is because it is affecting everybody in the United States right now, Venice especially so. That would be my first one.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's number one number 2

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Sima Kostovetsky: for our Marina constituents. We need to do something about scooters. So Jim Rob talked about. He's the head of the ocean.

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Sima Kostovetsky: He talked about getting some, getting all his contacts. I'm coming after you. We need to do a Scooter Town Hall. I've been wanting to do it for 2 years. So hold me to the fire.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. what is the one thing you want people or stakeholders to know about you, and why?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay. I'm a doer.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and I lead by example. And I think you see that because oftentimes during the Halloween, the annual Halloween party that we launched last year.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I'm the first one to the ground i'm the first one there. I'm the first one hauling stuff.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I do not take hard work for granted. I'm a hard worker to use Joe Crosby's term, which I think is great, is tenacious. I'm tenacious, and I rally people around me.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and I think that that's really important, because at the end of the day politics is personal. So you have to want to get involved. So I lead by example. I'm. A steward of my neighborhood. I'm a steward of the beach. That's what got me involved in the first place.

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and I really really urge all of you at the end of these screens, no matter what happens with the selection.

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Sima Kostovetsky: do something

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Sima Kostovetsky: whether it's for yourself, whether it's in your community whether to be a part of us, we really only only have the best intentions. At least I do.

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Nick Antonicello: Do we have time for one more question.

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Nick Antonicello: You'll love it.

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Nick Antonicello: Pick an answer. So

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Nick Antonicello: so for swim for the safety of everyone around me definitely swim Ralph's or a whole food traded Joe's

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Nick Antonicello: Sunrise or Sunset

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Sima Kostovetsky: Sunset.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. Instagram Tiktok or Facebook

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Sima Kostovetsky: Definitely. Instagram

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Nick Antonicello: Lakers or Clippers

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clippers.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. And if we had to find you in town, but not at home. Where would we find you?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, my gosh, I'm all over the city because of my job so honestly I

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Sima Kostovetsky: my house.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Really, my.

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Nick Antonicello: I definitely, miss going to James Beach. I love Brizo down in the Peninsula, in the Marina Brizo all the way

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Sima Kostovetsky: and biking and walking my dog on the beach.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay? Well, thank you for your service. Thank you for your prior service. Thank you for participating tonight.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Good luck on Sunday, and i'll see you soon.

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Sima Kostovetsky: No, I just really wanted to to say thank you for pulling this together at the last minute and thank you to our community.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I hope that in the next board. I call us kind of like the Lame Duck Board a little bit because of the lack of support that we've had in city council that until obviously Councilwoman Tracy Park.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So I really hope that we, as the voc who is the conduit to city services and to our city government, can make some change for better and safe for Venice, and I urge you to look at

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Sima Kostovetsky: Venice together.la, and support the experience, support some of our new candidates and support our commitment to Venice, because

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Sima Kostovetsky: that's who we are. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: We appreciate you

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Candidate Forum: and thanks for participating. Thank you for having me. Okay, and Sima just like I told everyone else. If for some reason, when you remove yourself, if you come back in you end up as a panelist for some reason. Just leave your screen Black and I'll change your name.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Candidate Forum: Thank you.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. So next up we're going to have land, use and planning. But before we go to them I just want to see something.

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Candidate Forum: Either Nico or Teamo are either one of you Here, Raise your hand.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. Neither one of them are here. I just want to make sure. Okay, With that I'm going to bring up our land. Use people.

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Candidate Forum: and that would be to you. Don't. Do not raise your hand because I need you to stay right where you are.

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Candidate Forum: Gabriel.

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Candidate Forum: And

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Candidate Forum: okay.

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Candidate Forum: wait. Hang on Don't, don't move. Don't move. Don't move.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, i'll cross fingers that Michael is who I clicked on.

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Candidate Forum: Yes, score.

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Candidate Forum: Okay. They are in.

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Michael Jensen: Good evening.

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Candidate Forum: Okay, yeah. And capable of. If you want to unmute and put on your screen. That'd be great.

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Candidate Forum: So people can see. Yeah.

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Gabriel Smith: there you go. Sorry about that.

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Nick Antonicello: Alright, Well welcome. These are 2 candidates for share of the land use and Planning committee, or otherwise notoriously known as Lupec.

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Nick Antonicello: It's probably the most challenging.

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Nick Antonicello: most important committee that stakeholders vote upon and our 2 candidates tonight are Michael Mikhail, Jensen and Gage Smith.

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Nick Antonicello: and

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Nick Antonicello: what we'll have is a opening statement, and then i'll ask a series of questions.

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Nick Antonicello: It'll be the same question. and then we'll have a little lightning round, and you'll have a closing statement. So with that said. We'll start with the day, and the major opening today.

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Gabriel Smith: Hi, there, everybody! My name is Gabriel Smith. I'm. Running for the L. Upc. Chair. Position of the Venice Neighborhood Council.

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Gabriel Smith: I am a 4 year old, and I am a fifth generation Venetian.

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Gabriel Smith: I've lived here quite a long time. I have deep and rich history here within this community. I love that, and speech.

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Gabriel Smith: I really have run for this position because I'm. Concerned with over densification, overcrowding

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Gabriel Smith: lack of parking.

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Gabriel Smith: lack of mobility, and just a deteriorating quality of life. It seems to be a general trend. I'm hoping that I can

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Gabriel Smith: be here to help and make a difference.

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Gabriel Smith: That's all.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. The you.

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Michael Jensen: Hello, thanks, thanks, Nick and Michael for doing this on short such short notice. My name is Michelle Jensen or Michael Jensen. If you're looking at me on paper.

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Michael Jensen: I have been on the land use and planning committee since 2,016 back. Then I started as a volunteer. I knew nothing about land use wasn't. An architect had no background in it, but since then I've sort of come to enjoy it as a as

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Michael Jensen: as a volunteer gig, and About a year ago I took over after the former chair resigned.

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Michael Jensen: and the board appointed me to run it, and since then we have increased, I think transparency streamed line, streamlined process like made the meetings less contentious, and I look forward to doing more of that as we tackle some really complicated issues coming up in the next term.

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Michael Jensen: and i'm excited to work with the Council office to do that.

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Michael Jensen: Thanks.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. The first question is land use is the most challenging and technical positions on the Znc.

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Nick Antonicello: What in your skill, set or background makes you the best choice

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Nick Antonicello: for that service. and i'll start with the

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Michael Jensen: Yes. So land use has any number of governing documents that dictates development standards, for you know, single family homes up through large mixed, use.

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Michael Jensen: You know, multi-family projects

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Michael Jensen: My background is I'm. An attorney. I've been in this journey for the last 8 years. I work with small and mid-sized businesses dealing with regulatory compliance. Corporate governance.

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Michael Jensen: I also do a bit of entitlement work which is tangentially related to what land use the line just committee does. So I think my background and it is paired nicely with the

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Michael Jensen: with

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Michael Jensen: my my career in terms of increasing that knowledge base

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Candidate Forum: that I bring to them the committee, and now leading it.

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Nick Antonicello: i'll save you the 10 s. I'll put it in the bank.

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Nick Antonicello: Good

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Nick Antonicello: same question.

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Nick Antonicello: Yes, sir.

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Nick Antonicello: Would you like me to repeat the question. Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: land is is the most challenging and technical positions on the V. And C. What in your skill set of background makes you the best choice to this service?

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Gabriel Smith: Absolutely. Well, it's been some time, but I was formerly a license real estate agent, and I do have the experience in the real estate industry. But most importantly, I think more than proficiency or experience in this position is that you represent the will of Venice.

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Gabriel Smith: I don't think that Venice really wants to see 5,000 new condominiums installed in rapid succession. Here I don't think that Venice really wants to see 8 story condominiums in the lifting of height restrictions in order to build skyscrapers all up and down Lincoln Boulevard, where 5 story condominiums

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Gabriel Smith: on Rose.

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Gabriel Smith: We don't really want that, and I think they're expecting an lepc chair that's going to push back against these agendas. I find myself now studying like a college student trying to get caught up with a lot of this legislature, and i'm doing a pretty fast job of it.

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Gabriel Smith: However, there's gonna be a lot to learn. I recognize that. And so I can just say i'm a very capable man and a fast learner, and i'll be sure to become an expert in time. Should I become elected?

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Nick Antonicello: Okay? The next question is, what is your take on the Venice specific plan?

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Nick Antonicello: How will that plan guide you as Lupec Chair

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Nick Antonicello: and I'll start with the the

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Michael Jensen: so the then a specific plan is our.

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Michael Jensen: you know, our our constitution locally for development. and it was, you know it's over 20 years old at this point.

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Michael Jensen: It's currently in the process of being updated by city planning. That's a process that's going to involve both

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Michael Jensen: the city working through, making its changes and then bringing that

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Michael Jensen: forward with an implementation plan to be approved by the Coastal Commission.

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Michael Jensen: that

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Michael Jensen: those things together being the local coastal program that right now we Don't actually have approved by the Coastal Commission, which is why development in Venice is sort of this very

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Michael Jensen: Byzantine process of going through first the city and then the Coastal Commission.

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Michael Jensen: So

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Michael Jensen: my thoughts on it is are that you know it's 20 years old. There's obviously places for it to be improved upon. I've already met with Robert to sort of who's the chair of the Park and Transportation Committee to outline what some of those changes we Wanna bring forward and committees look like.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, gave the same question.

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Gabriel Smith: Yes, the very specific plan. I'm becoming increasingly

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Gabriel Smith: more proficient in this. I've been reading it since I've declared my candidacy, and I've become. you know, more and more aware of all of the stipulations expressed within.

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Gabriel Smith: All I can say is that it's a it's a governing document that defines how we are going to implement implement new developments. I'm going to have to adhere to it to the best of my ability, and i'm going to

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Gabriel Smith: work with housing officials to see if there are situations where

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Gabriel Smith: the interest of Venice isn't very represented, and we come into a conflict with development programs that are quotas for us to have conversations, and possibly find creative means to meet those quotas

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Gabriel Smith: in a way that is going to allow Venice

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Gabriel Smith: to prosper and thrive.

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Nick Antonicello: That's all.

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Nick Antonicello: Thanks. The next question is

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Nick Antonicello: the the process of being on loop? You have to be approved by the by, the full board. So what kind of members will you see to serve on

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Nick Antonicello: is prior membership or background and land? Use a prerequisite, or are you looking for a healthy mix of

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Nick Antonicello: lay people who just interested in the position.

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Nick Antonicello: What? What? What what kind of parameters are you looking for in terms of the next 4?

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Nick Antonicello: I know it's all the

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Michael Jensen: sorry with me.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah, yeah.

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Michael Jensen: So speaking of this purse, I mean, I I was one of those, you know, a new of these in 2,016,

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Michael Jensen: and I've been

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Michael Jensen: appointed by 3 different boards, and I think you know, when I started I was inexperienced, but I was hungry to learn. I was early in my legal career, and this was sort of an interesting intellectual

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Michael Jensen: endeavor, since now, you know, leading a committee which I I also was not pardon putting together, that was voted on prior to me, joining. I think it's important to have a mix of people who are from a variety of backgrounds, but either have a a background in

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Michael Jensen: not necessarily architecture or law, but have a formal background of following rules and applying them to

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Michael Jensen: various projects that could be developed in the buildings, or you know pieces of paper, but in doing it, you know, i'd like to build an eclectic group next time, and hopefully have a diversity of opinions.

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Nick Antonicello: Dave.

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Gabriel Smith: Well, i'm hoping that the committee would share some of the same concerns that I have. It would make it a lot easier to work with everybody if we're all in the on the same page as opposed to a split and divided group. That's constantly, if you know 50 50 on on any given issue.

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Gabriel Smith: I would hope that we have a committee that, like I said, is concerned with parking and increasing parking within the city that's concerned with the flow of traffic and freedom and mobility for our residents, and that we Aren't, going to over densify and over crowd

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Gabriel Smith: by adding an unnecessary, a number of houses for?

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Nick Antonicello: Okay?

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Nick Antonicello: The next question is, how do you define up zoning? And how does it apply that?

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Nick Antonicello: And i'll start with the cap

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Michael Jensen: starting with me on every single one.

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Candidate Forum: It doesn't matter the idea! I'm looking at you. I'm looking to left the right. You want to go first.

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Gabriel Smith: sure. Sure. So up zoning. It sounds like what a lot of people are considering triple net lease, where you have a ground for a commercial development, and above that sky rises with residential

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Gabriel Smith: above. I'm not married for it, as you've just heard me say, I don't want to raise height restrictions. I'm very comfortable, and I think that the community is with

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Gabriel Smith: where height restrictions currently stand. I know that my opponent has already voted to lift height restrictions on sites, and intends to continue to do so. I hope to stop this, and that's what I feel about up zoning.

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Nick Antonicello: Michelle.

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Michael Jensen: Sure. Well, at first I would encourage Gabriel to

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Michael Jensen: read the current height standards on on Lincoln Boulevard. But

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Michael Jensen: you know Venice has a storied history of

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Michael Jensen: you know, 100 years ago. If you looked at the you know. I don't know that there were any height restrictions, and if you look around a lot of the buildings that are on the ford, walk in these large apartment buildings. They were built in a time where there were no higher restrictions.

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Michael Jensen: Then we started to implement, You know, stricter development standards through. You know, the 19 hundreds.

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Michael Jensen: and culminating in the late eighties early nineties.

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Michael Jensen: Venice really got down zone into predominantly single family.

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Michael Jensen: a single family like neighborhood. And

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Michael Jensen: so, when we talk about up zoning. I think we have to sort of look at. Look at it actually, and say.

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Michael Jensen: you know, do we want to restore those old standards? Or are we trying to create a suburbia?

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Candidate Forum: Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: Last question is, is Venice too dense?

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Nick Antonicello: Yes. So why why not?

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Gabriel Smith: On the answer to that it's gonna vary wildly between any individual me Personally, I would say, Yes, You're already experiencing a massive amount of traffic in positions anytime. You try to leave and go somewhere. Lincoln Boulevard's blocked, wall grows blocked. Venice is becoming increasingly blocked, and it gets worse, and summer comes around. So yeah, I think we need to

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Gabriel Smith: have serious discussions on how much we can handle. I do understand that there are housing quotas to be met, but

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Gabriel Smith: to rapidly install 5,000 new homes is just going to destroy the community. We don't have the parking to support that, and from the bills that i'm reading, it's just become easier and easier to bypass the parking ordinances and the parking bylaws that we have with it within our building codes. So I don't. Really, I i'm

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Gabriel Smith: that's my feelings on the matter. It's it is that it is too tense, and it's only going to get more dense if Mikhail is elected.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Michael Jensen: so are we to to answer, not to dance or or not. That's enough. I I guess I would respond to that by saying, Well, we're not even as dense as we, as Venice was once. So it it definitely has been more dense.

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Michael Jensen: So whether or not you know, you feel, I think, that that we are too dense or not too dense. It's more of a personal

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Michael Jensen: opinion of of the kind of neighborhood you want to live in. Do you want a suburban neighborhood? That is to the exclusion of people. Who can you people who can't afford to live there?

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And

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Michael Jensen: or do you think that we should be increasing the opportunity for people to move here, and those are personal preferences. So I can see if Gab is

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Michael Jensen: indicating clearly he's the camp of the former, which is great for people who

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Michael Jensen: inherited homes here or already lived here for 40 years, but the rest, you know, other people have to to find their place to live. So I think.

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Yeah.

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Candidate Forum: that's my view. Thank you.

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Nick Antonicello: One last question.

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Nick Antonicello: I I think we're done. That's that's that's why it's a little more wide. It's not as technical, and

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Nick Antonicello: we'll ask you some questions, and you know. just give us an answer.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay. So if you have your choice, would you go to the board walk, the bike path of the pier did.

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Gabriel Smith: and

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Gabriel Smith: boardwalk, but boardwalk and Penmar municipal golf course. That's where you'll find me skateboard.

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Nick Antonicello: michelle ford walk by passing here.

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Michael Jensen: I'm. On the bike path.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: Do you consider yourself a Venetian or an Angelina a

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Gabriel Smith: Venetian

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Nick Antonicello: retail?

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Michael Jensen: I think that's probably the obvious answer. Yeah.

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Nick Antonicello: who is your mentor? Good

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Gabriel Smith: Jesus.

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Nick Antonicello: which is the

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Michael Jensen: so? It'd probably be an attorney I worked for now, probably over a decade ago, but was the one who convinced me to go to law school.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Nick Antonicello: If you had a pick from one of the 3 Instagram tik, Tok or Facebook

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Nick Antonicello: Dave

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Gabriel Smith: next door

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Nick Antonicello: next door. Okay, Mikhail

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Nick Antonicello: red it

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Nick Antonicello: If I had to find you in Venice, but not at your home. Where would we find you?

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Nick Antonicello: Okay.

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Gabriel Smith: cutting greens of the Penmar Municipal golf Course more of Skate cork

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Nick Antonicello: you, too.

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Nick Antonicello: i'm at the Venice Beach bar every Friday.

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Nick Antonicello: All right. That's pretty much it

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Nick Antonicello: at this point. We'll have you and make a closing state, and you have 1 min. Dave. You can go first.

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Gabriel Smith: Well, I never really saw myself actually running for this election originally. If you were to ask me several months ago, if I was going to be a Vnc candidate, I would probably have said no; but when it came to the time, and nobody else was stepping up to run for this position

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Gabriel Smith: I knew I was, only I was the only last hope, so I put my name in at the very last second.

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Gabriel Smith: and that's why I'm here really is real to provide Venice with an alternative option, because there would be no discussion, and we would not really have any other options if

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Gabriel Smith: I hadn't stepped up to run.

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Gabriel Smith: I hope you guys will find out a little bit more about me. I've just had articles printed within the Venice Argonaut.

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Gabriel Smith: Please read the today's Venice Argonaut, and you'll find out about me a little bit more about my ideals as L. Upc. Chair. 10 s I did it, and also about my family history. We were one of the original founding families here since 19041 of the first families to ever purchase land in Venice before it was even Venice. I have a deep history here, and I wish to protect this place.

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Nick Antonicello: Thank you. Mikhail.

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Michael Jensen: Yeah. So thank you, guys again for taking your evening and hosting this. This election is, I think, an important moment, because we finally have a Council office who

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Michael Jensen: believes in the system and wants to work with it, and by the system I mean the Neighborhood Council system. She wants to

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Michael Jensen: take our advice and opinions, and so I think it's important that we speak to her, speak to her with a unified and coherent voice and appear professional, and I'm running with a group of people who

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Michael Jensen: can work together, even though we don't agree on everything, but can work together to achieve that goal. You can find out more about us on Venice together down. La.

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Michael Jensen: And you can also read an article, Nick, that you were kind enough to write about me an interview in Jo Venice, and so I hope everyone is at the polls on Sunday.

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10 am. To 6 Pm. At Oakwood.

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Nick Antonicello: We really appreciate it. Thank you. There you go. We really appreciate you guys taking the time to participate Tonight we urge you to go out and vote. You. Thank you for your prior service and and good luck on Sunday.

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Candidate Forum: Thank you. Thank you very much. Everybody. Thank you, Nick, for hosting tonight, and to everybody who's out there

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Candidate Forum: watching. We will have our second candidate Forum with the remaining candidates Tomorrow the format will be very similar.

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Candidate Forum: just basically with different candidates. So please tell all your friends and family, and oh, I don't know, make calls all around the country. But I do it'll be the same exact zoom link.

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Candidate Forum: And hopefully, we'll see it tomorrow night at 6 30 Pm. And then again, as our candidates have mentioned. we look forward to seeing you on Sunday, and that's all the stakeholders, all the candidates voting on Sunday at Oakwood Recreational Center from 10 am. To 6 Pm.

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Nick Antonicello: To make sure you tell you people to bring proper identification.

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Candidate Forum: Thank you. Everybody have a great evening.

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Nick Antonicello: Okay, Good night.