Elected Members David Winston, Chair Damien Goodmon, Co-Chair Yvonne Ellett , Rec. Secretary Rev.

Mark Gory, Area 1 Rep. Mary Jones-Darks, Area 1 Rep. Denise Stansell , Area 2 Rep. Carl Morgan, Area 2 Rep. Lark Galloway-Gilliam, Area 3 Rep. Jackie Ryan, Area 3 Rep. Appointed Members Lanz Alexander, Interim Treasurer Vacant, Corr. Secretary Ronda Brown, At-Large Rep. Johnnie Raines III, At-Large Rep. Karen Ceasar, At-Large Rep. Jason Lombard, At-Large Rep .

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Community Town Hall Meetings 1st Saturday of the Month Crenshaw United Methodist 3740 Don Felipe Drive 9:30 11:30 am Board Meetings 3rd Monday of the Month DWP Crenshaw Community Room 4030 Crenshaw Blvd 6:30 8:30 pm Contact Information 3761 Stocker Street Suite 108 Los Angeles, California 90008 Telephone/Fax: (323) 295-5766 Email: office@ecwandc.org Website: www.ecwandc.org

A Certified City of Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Serving the communities of: Arlington Park, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Village, Baldwin Vista, Cameo Woods, Crenshaw Manor, Leimert Park & Village Green All Meetings are Open to the Public

COMMUNITY TOWN HALL MEETING AGENDA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012 9:30 am

Crenshaw United Methodist 3740 Don Felipe Drive
1. 2. 3. 4. Welcome, Call to Order & Roll Call LAPD Senior Lead Officers Public Comment & Concerns for items not on the agenda (10 mins) Review & Approval of Meeting Minutes (6) DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. West Adams Community Plan (15 min) SLAANC $150.00 (5 min) Election Outreach Funding David (10min) Shred-it Day ($2500.00) David (10min) Reconstitution of Dorsey and Crenshaw High (Ronda) Homeless encampment in Leimert Park and West Adams

5. Committee Reports a. Planning, Land Use & Beautification Committee-Carl (5 mins) b. Treasurers Report-Lanz (5 min) c. Review of Purchase Card Expenditures d. Finance Committee-Lark (5 min) e. Outreach Committee-Damien/Mark (5 min) f. Safety Committee-Donna (5) g. Ad-Hoc Election Committee-Karen (5 min) h. Slaanc Committee (5 min) 6. Board Business Taste of Soul 2012

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7. Old Business a. Office Lease b. Funding request 8. Next Meeting Agenda & Board Members Responsible for Set-Up: ____ & ____ (2 mins) Adjournment
Official Public Notice for ECWANDC Standing Committees:
Committee Planning, Land Use & Beautification Finance Outreach Safety
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Meeting Date & Location st 1 Thursday of the Month at 11:00 am ECWANDC Office: 3761 Stocker St Ste 108 3 Monday of the Month at 5:30 6:30 pm AS NEEDED DWP Crenshaw Community Room: 4030 Crenshaw Blvd 1 Saturday of the Month at 12:00 pm AS NEEDED ECWANDC Office: 3761 Stocker St Ste 108 1 Saturday of the Month at 12:00 pm AS NEEDED ECWANDC Office: 3761 Stocker St Ste 108
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Chair Carl Morgan Lark Galloway-Gilliam lark@ecwandc.org Damien Goodmon dg@ecwandc.org Donna Tate safety@ecwandc.org

Community members are encouraged to participate in the committees. Please consider joining one.

Community Town Hall & Board Meeting Agendas are Posted 72 Hours in Advance at www.ECWANDC.org
Members of the public are requested to fill out a Speaker Card to address the Board on any item prior to the Board taking action. Comments are limited to 3 minutes per speaker, unless modified by the presiding officer of the Board. As covered under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpretation, assistive listening services and other auxiliary aids and/or services may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least 72 hours prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting the Dept. of Neighborhood Empowerment at 3-1-1.

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Dear Region 10 Neighborhood Councils-I am attaching the official list of your polling locations and hours for Sat. October 27. It was prepared by the Elections Divison with your input late yesterday afternoon. Please make sure all of the information is correct. Because Park Mesa Heights and Empowerment West Area only have two contested seats, they are having two-hour elections. Because Empowerment North did not achieve any contested seats, they are not having an election but will go through a formal Board Affirmation process at their Thurs. November 4 Board meeting, which the Dept. of Neighborhood Empowerment will oversee. They still need to find additional candidates for a number of their Board seats, both those that would have been elected and those that are normally appointed. If you are aware of any potential candidates within their boundary area (live, work, own property, participate in non-profits, attend church, etc.) please let me know. Congratulations and thank you for all of your hard work so far. Now we are focusing on getting lots of our stakeholders to those elections and also finding volunteers (non-candidates) to help out at the polls on election day. I have started a list of volunteers: Empowerment Central has two (Carrie Scoville from Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council and Barbara Jones-Chikosi), Empowerment West has one (Jo Eure), Mid City has two (Robert Portillo and Jo Schaefer), Park Mesa Heights has one (Marie Bryant), UNNC has none that I am aware of yet, and West Adams has three (Hattie Babb, Edina Higgins, and Geraldine Wilson). For a two-hour election, it would be good to have 4 volunteers, for a four-hour 6 volunteers, and for a six-hour election, 8-10, so that the volunteer does not have to be at the polling place for more than three hours. Volunteers can be 16 years of age and older. Please arrange to have sandwiches or other food for your volunteers and the Poll Manager and Assistant Poll Manager which the Dept. will provide, as a courtesy to them. Volunteers will mostly be used as greeters and to help other poll staff figure out who lives or works within the Area or Region boundaries. They will have Poll Worker training on Wed. October 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Constituent Service Center, 8475 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90044. Any Board member or candidate is welcome to attend, as well, to learn more about the polling process. You may also want additional volunteers and Board members who are not up for election to help out at a Neighborhood Council information table near the polling place exit. That is where you can give out a survey to those who vote, to find out stakeholder needs and ways the NC can improve, flyers for your upcoming meetings and events, brochures from local churches, merchants, Council District office services telephone directory, discount coupons from local stores, etc. Park Mesa Heights prepared a good stakeholder survey for their Unity Fest on August 25 and I will try to get a copy of that as a sample. Sincerely,

Rosalie Preston
Independent Election Administrator

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