GGPNC --CITY SERVICES COMMITTEE

NEXT MEETING

TBA

2173 Cedarhurst Drive, LA CA 90027,
corner of Avocado
AGENDA formeeting held 9/10/08

1. Call to order and introductions.

2. NEW MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. To approve members, Justine Tyler, Leslie Weinstein, Mark Mauceri and Kimberly Chandler. Action to approve.

PRESENT PROJECTS

3. Ongoing Project A Street Trees - To fill in ALL missing trees on street parkways in the entire GGPNC area. Progress report by Tomas O Grady & Kimberly Chandler. Discussion and possible action.

4. Ongoing Project B SIDEWALK HANDICAPPED ACCESS - To identify and then cut ALL missing sidewalk curb cuts, in the GGPNC area. Progress report by Marc Mauceri. Discussion and possible action.

5. Ongoing Project C remove GAS POWERED BLOWERS- Progress report by Tomas O Grady Discussion and possible action.

6. Ongoing Project D STREET RESURFACING- Progress report by Leslie Weinstein. Discussion and possible action.
NEW ITEMS

7. Garbage Cans- when can they be put out? When do they have to be taken in? Complaint by constituent. What do we do? Presentation by Justine Tyler. Discussion and possible action.

8. Water usage. Complaint by constituent. What do we do? New laws? Presentation by Tomas O Grady. Discussion and possible action.

9. Committee and public comment on non-agenda items.

Click for official notices regarding agenda posting, public comment, disabled services and process for reconsideration.
=====================

If you are interested in participating on this committee, or any GGPNC committee,

You may contact us at:

GGPNC@GGPNC.org

For Information on Committee Activities click on the links below.

Agenda

Meeting Minutes

Committee Mission Statement

In partnership with the city and the stakeholders of GGPNC, the City Services Committee monitors the delivery of short term and long term services and removes barriers to access of those services. We will identify ways to advocate for the delivery of city services to constituents.
Our goals are to:

Determine the needs and priorities of our community
Promote the use of 3-1-1
Work with other GGPNC Committees, existing neighborhood organizations, city departments and city elected officials to bring city services to our neighborhood and adjacent neighborhoods.
Advise and educate our neighbors regarding available services.

Minutes for the meeting held July 8, 2003:

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

MINUTES

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’

a. We had a long discussion regarding the scope of the issues identified in the emails from Kaplan, Rodriguez and Hunnewell. We decided that in the areas where the city services committee has a direct responsibility we would look into solutions and solving the problem – such as the sewer issue.

b. But, that in many cases, the ideas put forth were slightly outside the scope of a specific action item by this committee. Hunnewell brought up the idea of a clear “advocacy” program. The committee agreed that this an important issue that was larger than just this committee and agreed to the following resolution

i. We recommend that the Board consider implementing an advocacy vehicle for the delivery of services to our continuants – we believe that because these services were likely to include things like traffic, parks, police, and other services monitored by other committees, that they spirit and format of the advocacy vehicle be considered by the full board, rather than just this committee.

c. In order to clarify the idea that the Neighborhood Council Committees, specifically this committee, are advocates for stakeholders, we decided to add, “We will identify ways to advocate for the delivery of city services to constituents.” as a second sentence in the mission statement.

d. We decided to modify the fourth bullet of the CS committee goals to add the word, “Advise and” before “Educate” so it now reads, “Advise and educate our neighbors regarding available services” We believes this also helps capture the idea that we will help our constituents get the things done in the neighborhood that they want to get done.

e. We believe that the advocacy vehicle combined with the survey will surface issues and priorities of the committee that will help us answer the question, “What’s in it for me?” We also believe that follow up by the committees and this advocacy program will be an important component to the success of our answer to the question.

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

b. An idea mentioned was a town hall meeting to set the priorities for things like street repair. We are not going to move forward with this at this time

c. We believe we can help support our constituents getting their fair share of city services, and those services that are most important to them by getting involved early in the budget process for the 2004-2005 budget. We will be dedicating a good chunk of time to the 2003-2004 budget and the development of a plan for impacting the 2004-2005 budget in the September and October meetings.

4. Survey Follow Up – Including a review of the few surveys completed at the street fair - discussion and action as appropriate

a. We had a good follow up discussion on the survey – the sample survey that Mark prepared for the Street Fair was well received and a good foundation. I did some phase one research on 3 venders and sent out a test survey to the Board and Committee. I received some good initial responses from Board members regarding the survey.

b. We agreed that we would like to have the first survey ask questions relating to the areas of expertise for other committees and would like to have questions submitted from those other committees.

c. We identified a few more issues that will need to be resolved before a vender is selected:

i. Need to ask a Stakeholder Question – How are you a stakeholder?
ii. Need a method to put stakeholders in the right district
iii. Need to be able to input results from paper surveys
iv. Would like to limit input to one per email address
v. Need a date stamp or a way to know when the surveys were completed
vi. For Zoomerang zpro product – is the limit 10,000 respondents for the year or for each survey?

d. I will bring a vender comparison to the next meeting and we will have the questions of the other committees to add to the survey.

5. Web Page Follow Up

a. Reviewed a Web Page mockup and added 2 links – Key Contacts and FAQs. Agreed that 311 should be more prominent. I will work on this with Bruce and bring a final draft to the next meeting.

6. Reports & Comments from committee members...including presentation on available materials from the City - discussion and action as appropriate.

a. We discussed plans for the future meetings – we were excited about having Jeanne from Councilmember LaBonge’s office and Lindsay Watson from the Mayor’s Teamwork LA office at the same meeting. I will follow up.

b. We are also looking forward to the Budget presentations and discussions in September.

Click for official notices regarding agenda posting, public comment, disabled services and process for reconsideration.

Minutes for the meeting held June 3, 2003
MEETING TIME/DATE/LOCATION:    7pm, June 3rd 2003, Citibank Building
FULL COUNCIL ACTION REQUIRED:    None

MINUTES:

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.

Click for official notices regarding agenda posting, public comment, disabled services and process for reconsideration.

BACK TO:
GGPNC CALENDAR MAIN COMMITTEE PAGE

TOP OF THIS PAGE GGPNC HOME PAGE EVENTS