TARZANA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
BOARD MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday June 28, 2016
Tarzana Child Care Center
5700 Beckford Ave., Tarzana, CA 91356
1. Call to Order at 7:05 p.m. Welcoming Remarks by TNC President Len Shaffer.
Roll Call: Bachar, Flehinger, Garfinkle, Goldberg, Heissler, Lahav, Mausner, Polonsky, Saucier, Schwartz, Shaffer, Shmaeff, Silverman, and Wieder. Absent: Dori, Durant, Hussaini, and Reich. Quorum reached with 14 board members (5 absent). Len dedicated the board meeting to Allan Wertheim who passed away on May 27, 2016. Len stated that the City Council acknowledged Allan’s passing at their recent meeting.
2. Approval of Minutes: (Heissler/Garfinkle) moved approval of the minutes of April 26, 2016 and May 24, 2016 as corrected. The motion carried unanimously.
3. Remarks by representatives of public officials:
Rosalba Gonzalez with State Senator Fran Pavley’s field office spoke about the issues her office can help with. She also spoke about SB380, which provides protection for Porter Ranch residents from dysfunctional gas wells, and passage of the State budget.
Svetlana Previna from Councilmember Blumenfield’s office invited everyone to the July 4th festivities in Warner Center Park. She spoke about the DWP AC Tuneup Progam starting July 1st. Also, the City Council is exploring ways to fund the Mayor’s $138 MM Homeless Initiative: Two possible ideas include a bond & a possible parcel tax for the November 4th ballot.
Tyler Aguirre of Food & Water Watch, NCSA, an environmental advocacy agency, said they are working on keeping the Porter Ranch/So CA Gas facility closed down permanently. She also talked about the DWP’s 100% renewable energy campaign for L.A. by 2035.
4. Public Comments – Joel Valle talked about Nueva Vision Community School’s free music lessons to students. He spoke about their annual fundraiser in Tarzana and asked for TNC to contribute funding to purchase instruments for the school.
5. Committee and other Reports
Outreach – No meeting this month.
Land Use – Meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of the month. David gave his report which included major revisions to Village Walk.
Budget – Next meeting is July 20th. Harvey encouraged committees to bring their budgets to him a week before their meeting and spoke about reaching out to Allan Wertheim’s widow.
Transportation – Next meeting is July 20th at 6:30 p.m. Max reported burnt out lights and unreadable signs on the 101 freeway - talks are ongoing with CalTrans. He also gave Department of Transportation updates.
Public Safety – No report.
Rules – No report.
Government Action – No report.
Animal Welfare – Jeffrey updated the board on the temporary fostering program at the City Animal Shelters for the 4th of July weekend, among other issues.
DWP MOU – No report.
Budget Representative – Harvey reported that Budget Day will be held at City Hall on Saturday, July 30th.
The board voted on items 6 & 7 together:
6. (Goldberg/Flehinger) moved approval of the financial statements as of May 31, 2016 and
7. approval of the May 2016 expenditures for submission to DONE (MER).” The motions carried unanimously.
8. (Goldberg/Silverman) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the Budget Committee’s recommendation expend an amount not to exceed $500.00 for removal of graffiti from the outside wall of the TNC office and meeting room. The vendor will be Graffiti Control Systems. To be classified as Operations, Miscellaneous and come from Unallocated.” The motion carried.
9. (Goldberg/Flehinger) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the Budget Committee’s recommendation for the initial 2016 – 2017 FY budget requests based on revenues of $37,000 and expenditures of Operations, $6,935 and Outreach of $2,940 for total expenditures of $9,875 and unallocated expenditures of $27,125 for a total of $37,000.” The motion carried unanimously.
10. (Goldberg/Wieder) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the Budget Committee’s spending resolution as follows: For the fiscal year 2016-17, the TNC authorizes its Treasurer or other designee to pay previously budgeted recurring monthly or periodic expenses, in small amounts, defined as those not to exceed $75/day for one item and expense classification category. These expenses include, but are not limited to, copies and postage for committees, Board and committee meetings, officers and committee chairperson expenses and etc., and, refreshments for meetings (other than Board meetings) and etc. The recurring expenses are AppleOne, or other temporary staffing agencies for preparation of minutes or other clerical functions not to exceed ("NTE") $375/meeting, Net Atlantic or other such company for mailing list maintenance and distribution NTE $45/month and The Web Corner or other such company for web site hosting and maintenance NTE $150 for each months services and the purchase of food and refreshments for Board meetings from any vendors NTE $150 per meeting.” The motion carried unanimously.
11. (Goldberg/Schwarz) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the revised 2015- 2016 FY budget to include the above approved expenditures and/or revised expenditures.” The motion carried.
12. (Shaffer/Goldberg) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the Executive Committee’s recommendation to renew the Right of Entry Agreement between the TNC and the Recreation and Parks Dept. for office and meeting space at 5700 Beckford Ave, Tarzana 91356.” The motion carried unanimously.
13. (Shaffer/Garfinkle) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the Executive Committee’s recommendation to appoint an ad hoc committee consisting of no more than 5 Board members to formulate the TNC’s Strategic Plan, Outreach Survey for the 2016- 2017 FY and Self Assessment for FY 2015 – 16. (Due September 1, 2016). Volunteers: Esther, Terry, Iris, and Len would serve on the Ad Hoc Committee. The motion carried.
14. (Shaffer/Saucier) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the Executive Committee’s recommendation that the TNC participate as a member of the NC Sustainability Alliance.” The motion carried: 12 – 2 (Heissler/Shmaeff).
15. (Shaffer/Heissler) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the appointment of Terry Saucier as the TNC representative to the NC Sustainability Alliance.” The motion carried.
16. (Shaffer/Goldberg) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the Executive Committee’s recommendation to appoint a City Council District 3 liaison.” The motion carried.
Bob Shmaeff was appointed the liaison.
17. (Shaffer/Garfinkle) moved, “Resolved: The TNC Board approves the Executive committee’s recommendation to submit a revised letter and /or CIS regarding regulation of short term rentals (CPC-2016-12435-CA) to reflect disapproval of any change to the 90 day provision in proposed ordinance dated April 15, 2016.” The motion carried with one abstention (Polonsky).
18. President’s Remarks
o Ethics and funding – all board members must have completed their ethics and funding training.
o Code of Conduct – All board members need to sign this document.
o Public works representative – Len asked for volunteers to work as TNC’s rep.
o Retreat – Len suggested dates of August 1, 10 or 16 for a board retreat. Average time is 3 hours.
· Additional time for NC members with CIS’s at City meetings: At the discretion of who is running a city meeting, Len said NC members who file a community impact statement can get of up to 5 minutes for comments instead of the usual :30 or 2 minutes.
· Providence/Tarzana Hospital: Several TNC members met with the hospital reps to discuss their rebuild project.
· Next elections: Planning starts in April 2017 for the next election.
· Consent Items – Len explained the process for putting consent items on the board meeting agenda.
19. Board Member Comment: Discussion the the board retreat and using a consent item format.
20. Adjournment: 9:00 p.m.
- Minutes by Pat Kramer, Apple One -
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