PICFAIR VILLAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
MINUTES FROM 9 MARCH 2013 GENERAL MEETING
INTRODUCTIONS OF MEMBERS
INTRODUCTION OF SENIOR LEAD OFFICER (SLO) GREEN AND Q & A SESSION WITH MEMBERS
– SLO Green is assigned to basic car 7A53 and his patrol boundaries are La Cienega Blvd. to the West, Redondo Blvd. to the East, Venice Blvd. until Spaulding & 18th Street until La Cienega to the South, and Olympic Blvd. & San Vicente Blvd. to the North.
Items of Note:
– Regarding the mobile homes and RV’s in front of Vons, SLO Green notes that living and sleeping inside a vehicle on a city street is a misdemeanor, and has cited any offenders that he sees. However, he notes that it’s up to the City Attorney’s Office to prosecute the cases.
– Noted Distraction burglary; 1200 block of Curson – guy posed as city or DWP employee; Came up to the victim with clipboard and hat on with jumpsuit on and tells her he needs to get to back of property to read the meter. While back there, he distracts her, his partner goes inside her home, ransacks her home and takes her property.
o SLO Green cautioned everyone to be careful, and to ask for IDs if you feel uncomfortable letting an individual claiming to be a city or utility company employee onto your property.
SHORT DICUSSION OF C-PAB
– C-PAB stands for Community Police Advisory Board. Next meeting is March 21 at 7:00 PM. C-PAB is looking for new members, all the SLO’s do attend, SLO Green is always there
– Formed to cultivate. an open communication between the public and police officers. Express your concerns that any areas you feel you need work on, that’s where you take it.
CLAUDIA BAYARD GAVE A BRIEF COMMUNITY UPDATE
– 1800 block of Fairfax – 1810 S. Fairfax Stocker hill drill – gas is leaking and sinking in the backyard
– Pico Neighborhood Council: oversees all associations. We have 14 associations in the community. Our meeting is at Saturn Street Elementary this Wednesday at 7PM
o Address all issues from Fairfax to LaBrea to Venice to SanVicente.
o Address all the issues in the community; Saturn Street school is at Burnside and Saturn
– Discussion of potential development on the lot that’s been vacant for years used to be the broadcast towers
– Noted new restaurant at LaBrea & Pico; used to be the Vesad, now called Bistro Brown
– And another new restaurant on Curson & Pico– will be a soul food restaurant.
DISCUSSION OF AD-HOC COMMITTEE MEETING ON BY-LAWS:
– PVCA needs a board to amend the bylaws
– Current requirements of bylaws may make it difficult to elect a full board
o For example, under the current bylaws, to be president you should have been a board member for 7 of the preceding 24 months
NOMINATING COMMITTEE ELECTIONS
– Roz Valentine, Sylvester Robertson, Marina Simone, Maisa Faucette, Linda Robertson
ELECTION OF INTERIM BOARD
– Candidates briefly met with Nominating Committee
– Nominating Committee Presented the Candidates to the General Membership for Voting
o President: Debbie Gaughan
o Vice-President: Victor Hernandez, Xavier Leonard
o Treasurer: James Richard, Richard Goldberg
o Secretary: Ezeoma Obioha
o Asst. Secretary: Mary Kaufman
– The following candidates were elected to the Interim Board:
o President: Debbie Gaughan
o Vice-President: Victor Hernandez
o Treasurer: James Richard
o Secretary: Ezeoma Obioha
o Asst. Secretary: Mary Kaufman
– Victor Hernandez elected as Interim Vice President
– DEBBIE GAUGHAN AS INTERIM PRESIDENT
MOTION PASSED TO APPROVE BYLAWS COMMITTEE AS AN OFFICAL COMMITTEE
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM INTERIM PRESIDENT DEBBIE GAUGHAN
– Special Meeting to Vote on Proposed Amendments to the Bylaws- April 13 at 10AM at SGI
– After adjournment of the Special Meeting, the Annual Meeting will be convened at 11AM, at which time the elections will take place
PUBLIC COMMENT
– Shelli Koretz would like PVCA to be renamed as the PicFair Village Neighborhood Association because Wilshire talks about protecting the scale of the neighborhood not the community.
MEETING ADJOURNED
In Attendance:Roz Valentine, Kevin Browne, Rick Pararan, Maxin Robinson, Mary Kaufman, Derek Kaufman, Amina Wilson, Rasheea Hall, Ezeoma Obioha, Richard Goldberg, Victor Goldberg, Maisa Faucette, Patrick Faucette, Julia Persaud, Linda Robinson, Mr. & Mrs. Cox, Sara Trujillo, Sylvester Robertson, Bradford Kelley, Shelli Koretz, Barbara Williams, John Donovan, Debbie Gaughan, Khristian Martin, Beverly Turner, Lori Turner, Arthur Terry, Mildred Parker, James Richard, Heidi Richard, Jana Meyer, Olivia Vegh, Lise Johnson, Paul Grande, Robin Roberts, S. Lewis, Xavier Leonard
