Present: Leslie Weinstein, Kimberly Chandler & Mark Mauceri and Justine Tyler and Tomas O Grady and Ricardo Gomez.

COOPERATION – Tomas reported that a new green committee had been formed and asked for ideas on how we could cooperate.

Ongoing Project A Street Trees – Tomas reported that $1,200 had been approved for outreach. Applause ensued. Kimberly reported that we had 40 applications in at this point and then applause.

Ongoing Project C remove GAS POWERED BLOWERS- – Tomas reported that $800 had been approved for outreach. Mark was asked to design a flyer and asked if some of $800 could be used to pay a design artist, say $100. The committee agreed that they were reluctant but also agreed that if necessary then Mark should do what he needs to do to get the job done.

New member: Ricardo Gomez was in attendance and invited to join and there was no objection.
He offered that his particular interest was in improving the area around King Middle School and thought that seeing that all of this crowd were helping at King then he would like to try to complement that.

King Middle School Oak Gardens. Joint project with the education committee.  Tomas O Grady talked about this, the funding recently approved for this and the public works application and asked that anyone who wanted to help, well is welcome. He talked about the first clean up day there and thanked all present for helping.

Present: Leslie Weinstein, Kimberly Chandler & Mark Mauceri and Justine Tyler and Tomas O Grady.
NEW MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. To approve members, Justine Tyler, Leslie Weinstein, Mark Mauceri and Kimberly Chandler were approved as per the bylaws.

Ongoing Project A Street Trees – Tomas and Kimberly reported that they had talked to HBT and the committee agreed that Tomas should go the main board and ask for $1,200 to get the word out. Justine Leslie and Kimberly agree to carve up the GGPNC area and take responsibility for each section.

Ongoing Project B SIDEWALK HANDICAPPED ACCESS – Mark reported that it is still a work in progress and he was looking for young volunteers and he had talked to the French school about this.

Ongoing Project C remove GAS POWERED BLOWERS- the committee agreed that Tomas should go the main board and ask for $800 to get the word out.

Ongoing Project D STREET RESURFACING Leslie gave a brief report as to how the city decides as to what gets resurfaced first.

Garbage Cans Justine said that a stakeholder had complained that the cans are either being put out too soon and/or left out to long. The committee agreed that she should write a friendly note to that offending address reminding them of the law.
Water usage. Complaint by constituent that water rules are being ignored. Tomas agreed to work on it.
There was no public comment on agenda or non-agenda items.

Present : Leslie Weinstein, Kimberly Chandler & Mark Mauceri and Justine Tyler and Tomas O Grady.
Call to order and introductions. New Chairman, Tomas was introduced. A discussion ensued as to what City Services should try to do. Tomas said that we could continue to use 2173 Cedarhurst as a Permanent place to hold meetings in the future as their is handicapped access in the rear.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE were introduced, Leslie Weinstein, Kimberly Chandler & Mark Mauceri and Justine Tyler.

Street Trees. A plan was discussed to fill in ALL missing trees on street parkways in the entire GGPNC area. The plan is to use the million trees program and Hollywood beautification team and to use Farm Feliz to get the word out. Tomas, Kimberly and Leslie agreed to move forward.

Mark Mauceri said he would formulate a plan for SIDEWALK HANDICAPPED ACCESS. The Proposal is for a MAJOR Plan of action to identify and then cut ALL missing sidewalk curb cuts, in the GGPNC area. Mark said he would begin and report back.

The Hoover Street Mural was discussed and Tomas wondered if there was any way that City Services could help out. Mark and Tomas said they had already weeded there.

GAS POWERED BLOWERS- Tomas proposed that we formulate a plan to get the word out about the law and what if anything to do about enforcement. He will report back.

STREET RESURFACING- Leslie said she would investigate as to why some streets were missed in the recent local re-surfacing.

FULL COUNCIL ACTION Required/Requested:   

• Consideration of the formation of an advocacy vehicle for our constituents – possibly an agenda item for the next board meeting.
•  Support for the Survey Program (budget already provide)
•  Submission of questions by committee chairs for the first survey by the Aug. 5th City Services committee meeting.
•  We request that the Outreach committee support the distribution and promotion of the survey

1. Call to Order  - Yvette Bryant, Richard Spicer, Jacqueline Kerr, Kerry Hunnewell, and Rosemary De Monte were in attendance.  Rosemary arrived during the discussion of item 4 on the agenda.  Chair and Secretary – Yvette Bryant

2. “My action ideas” and the Stakeholder Question, "What's in it for me?" Can the city services committee help with the issues brought up in the emails sent by Kaplan, Rodriguez, and Hunnewell? – discussion and action as appropriate’
3. How can we help with service distribution and prioritization?  i.e. Which streets get paved first? How can we help with service distribution?– discussion and action as appropriate
a. We believe that the most valuable way for use to help with prioritization will be through a survey program with good outreach to promote the survey
4. Survey Follow Up – Including a review of the few surveys completed at the street fair - discussion and action as appropriate
5. Web Page Follow Up
6. Reports & Comments from committee members...including presentation on available materials from the City - discussion and action as appropriate.

1) The meeting started on time with Yvette Bryant, Mark Siegel, Cameron Flanagan, Richard Spicer, and Andrew Westall in attendance. 

2)  We discussed and defined our Mission and Goals  [outlined above]. 

3) Neighborhood Services
    a. Survey - We agreed that a survey would be an appropriate way to gather information regarding the needs and concerns of our neighbors.  Mark and Cameron agreed to work on the first draft of the survey, to be discussed at our next meeting, and Yvette and Andrew agreed to look into the web vendors and volunteer options for getting a survey posted on the web and a database of the survey responses.  We agreed to vet out a draft of the survey at the Los Feliz street fair.
    b. Web page - We agreed that a City Services web page on GGPNC web site would be a appropriate and that Yvette would get that started. 
    c. 3-1-1  - We agreed that the only material other than the draft survey that we wanted to promote was the 3-1-1 brochure, in order to provide a simple and uniform message during the early stages of our committee.
    d. Education – We agreed that the committee meetings are a good place to provide education regarding the available services and that we would invite appropriate guest speakers to provide information regarding Services and City Projects in our neighborhood.  Jeanne Chang, the Field Deputy for our neighborhood in Tom’s office, and Lindsay Watson, Area Director, Central Aria for TeamWork LA were discussed as possible speakers.

4. Public Works Presentation - discussion - Mark Siegel walked us through the presentation given at the neighborhood congress.  There was a lot of interesting information regarding the amount of work that has been done to date, the amount of work that needs to be done, and the enormous budget shortfall between the amount of funds required simply for those projects required by law and the funds allocated for these projects in the city budget over the next 10 years.

5. City Budget as relating to City and Neighborhood Services – it was decided that the City Services committee will work to provide information and a forum for discussion on city and state budget issues that affect GGPNC stakeholders.  We realize that we will not have an impact on the 2003 – 2004 budget.  So, though we hope to provide information on the budget impact we hope to focus on impacting future budgets by communicating the priorities of our stakeholders.  We discussed the idea of doing a budget impact study.

6. Reports & Comments from committee members – we agreed to have a budget presentation at a future meeting, possibly August’s meeting.