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Education Committee Meeting Teleconference
2022-10-04 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
This Meeting Has Been Cancelled to the oberservaence of Yom Kipur

Planning, Land Use, and Mobility (PLUM) Committee Meeting
2022-10-06 18:30 - 22:00
The Planning, Land Use, and Mobility (PLUM) Committee will be meeting on October 6, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. The primary item for discussion is below the full agenda can be access be clicking here: Agenda.

Presentation on updated plan for the redevelopment of the Boething Treeland Nursery property.
The committee will hear a presentation and provide initial feedback on an updated plan for the redevelopment of the Boething Treeland Nursery Property located at 23475 Long Valley Rd, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The proposed redevelopment encompasses the entire property on both sides of Valley Circle Blvd. at Ventura Blvd. No action will be taken as a result of this presentation.

To access the Zoom, click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/85687171590

Full WHWCNC Board Monthly Meeting
2022-10-12 18:30 - 22:00
Link to agenda
AGENDA
Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council
FULL BOARD MEETING
Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 6:30 pm
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/96493712127 )
Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 964 9371 2127 and Press #

VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet based service option.

Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 964 9371 2127 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.

AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time
public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide
public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed
or adjourned.

Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by
the presiding officer of the board.

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AGENDA

Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Roll Call

Public Announcements:
Office of Councilmember Bob Blumenfield (3 minutes)
Office of Local and State Officials – if available (3 minutes each)
Other Local Agencies – if available (2 minutes each)

General Public Comment, by the Public, on Non-Agenda Items:
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total.

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Organization, Operation, Policies, & Procedures:

All comment is limited to 1 minute per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the Board.
Time limits set for each agenda item may be adjusted by the presiding officer of the Board. Time limits may vary so the public is encouraged to join the meeting several minutes PRIOR to a specific agenda item being discussed.

Approval of Minutes: Board Meeting – September 14, 2022 (5 minutes)

See posted support document. Roll Call Vote

Officer Reports (5 minutes)

President – Dena Weiss
Vice President – Vacant
Treasurer – Paul Lawler
Parliamentarian – Mihran Kalaydjian

Items for Discussion and Possible Action:

Item No (1) President, Dena Weiss
(22-092) Stakeholder Request for Area 2 Alternate Board Seat

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Philip Swain to the Area 2 Alternate board seat.
Roll Call Vote

Item No (2) President, Dena Weiss
(22-093) Stakeholder Request for Area 3 Residential Board Seat

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Annmarie Donkin to the Area 3 Residential board seat.
Roll Call Vote

Item No (3) President, Dena Weiss
(22-094) Request for Area 5 Residential Board Seat

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Gretchen Gesell to the Area 5 Residential board seat.
Roll Call Vote

Item No (4) Community Services Committee, Chair Dena Weiss
(22-095) Participation in Annual Halloween Carnival

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Motion for WHWCNC to have a booth at the Woodland Hills Recreation Center / Shadow Ranch Park Annual Halloween Carnival on Saturday, October 29, 2022 from 1:00-5:00pm. Motion for the Board to approve $50 expenditure for candy for the children.

Three to four hundred children and parents are expected to participate in a fun and safe environment. There will be game booths, costume contests, candy, prizes, music, crafts at no cost to the community. There will offer food items at a low cost to the patrons. There will also be a Silent Auction with the support of donations from community members. All donors will receive recognition during the Halloween Carnival which will help offset the incurred expenses for their event and go to help develop even more recreational activities for our patrons. Table and chairs will be provided.
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (5) President, Dena Weiss
(22-096) Yellow Bike Memorial

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Motion for the board to approve a letter of support to the Department of Public Works for a Yellow Bike
memorial in Woodland Hills. See background described at http://yellowbikeproject.com

Proposed letter of support would read:

The Department of Public Works Office of Community Beautification
Attn: Gerry Valido
200 N. Spring St., Room 361
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Re: Support for Adopt-a-Median Application re Yellow Bike Project
Dear Mr. Valido:
This letter is to express the support of the WHWCNC for the Adopt-A-Median project proposed at 5520 De Soto Avenue in Woodland Hills.
On April 1, 2018, 15-year-old Sebastian Montero, a resident of Tarzana was killed when he was hit by a motorist while riding his bicycle at De Soto Avenue and Burbank Boulevard. The community and the Montero family would like to memorialize this tragic loss by erecting a marker at the site of the accident. This memorial consists of a 16′ pole topped with a sculpture of a bicycle and a placard with Sebastian’s name, the date of the collision, the reminder “Streets Are For Everyone” (S.A.F.E) and the hashtag #SafetyMatters.
The design of the sculpture has been approved by LADOT as visually safe for passing motorists and the structure of the sculpture has been engineered to safety standards. The installation will be performed by the artist, Scott Froschauer, and maintenance of the sculpture will be overseen by S.A.F.E., a bicycle safety advocacy nonprofit in conjunction with the artist. The location where the memorial is proposed is within the jurisdiction of Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council and we support this project.
See attached photo Roll Call Vote

Item No. (6) President, Dena Weiss
(22-097) Funding for WHWCNC Website – Webmaster Management
Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)
MOTION for the Board to approve $1,000.00 in funding from the board approved WHWCNC 2022-2023 Budget (Line Item, Webmaster) for webmaster Wendy Moore (Moore Business Solutions) to be available to make any necessary improvements or repairs to the WHWCNC website and assistance with technology as needed. Wendy Moore has been providing maintenance and updates to the website for the past (4) years.
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (7) President, Dena Weiss
(22-098) ) Financial Officers Letter of Acknowledgement and Agreement
Discussion and possible action: 5 minutes)
Per requirement by EmpowerLA, a motion for the board to approve the “Financial Officers Letter of Acknowledgement and Agreement” which makes President Geraldine / Dena Weiss the second signer on funding documents and second bank card holder of the WHWCNC.
See posted support document Roll Call Vote

Area Reports – (10 minutes)

Area 1 – Aaron Quantz, Karen DiBiase, Mark Schwartz, Reina Cerros-McCaughey
Area 2 – Arturo Velasquez, Paul Lawler, Sean McCarthy
Area 3 – John Sandy Campbell
Area 4 – Don Patterson, Martin Lipkin, Dena Weiss
Area 5 – None
Area 6 – Leslie Simon, Mihran Kalaydjian, Heath Kline
Area 7 – Houtan Hormozian
At-Large –None
Youth Member – Talia Isaacs

Committee Reports – (10 minutes)

Budget Committee – Paul Lawler – Chairs
Community Services Committee / Safety – Dena Weiss, Chair
Education Committee –Mihran Kalaydjian – Chair
Environmental & Beautification Committee – Karen DiBiase, Chair
Governance Committee – Dena Weiss, Chair
Public Health and Homelessness Committee –Aaron Quantz, Chair
PLUM Committee – Don Patterson, Chair
WHIP Committee – Heath Kline, Chair
Ad-hoc Committee – Flight Path and Noise Advisory Committee – Martin Lipkin, Chair

Announcements:
The next Regular Board meeting will be held on November 9, 2022, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2021 -2022 year: Full Board meeting are held the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.

Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference.
HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

Adjournment of Meeting:

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like
a copy of any record, if available, related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org.

*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:
• www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date
and/or time.
• You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System
at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related
to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss al d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.

Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org 2026

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Jun 10, 2026

Jun 10, 2026 (Supplemental)

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Jun 10, 2026 (Supplemental)

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May 13, 2026

May 13, 2026 (Supplemental)

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Apr 28, 2026 (Special Meeting)

Apr 8, 2026

Apr 8, 2026 (Supplemental)

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Mar 18, 2026 (Special Meeting)

Mar 18, 2026 (Supplemental)

Mar 11, 2026

Mar 11, 2026 (Supplemental)

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Feb 17, 2026 (Supplemental)

Feb 17, 2026 (Canceled)

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Feb 11, 2026 (Supplemental)

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Jan 31, 2026

Jan 14, 2026

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Dec 10, 2025

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Aug 13, 2025

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May 14, 2025

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Feb 12, 2025

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Jan 8, 2025

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Dec 11, 2024

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Nov 13, 2024

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Oct 9, 2024

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Aug 14, 2024

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May 22, 2024

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Apr 10, 2024

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Mar 13, 2024

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Feb 15, 2024

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Jan 10, 2024

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Dec 13, 2023

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Nov 8, 2023

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Aug 9, 2023

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Jan 12, 2023

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Dec 12, 2022

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Feb 9, 2022

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Mar 10, 2021

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Jan 13, 2021

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Dec 9, 2020

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Sep 16, 2016

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Jul 13, 2016

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Jun 8, 2016

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May 16, 2016

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Apr 13, 2016

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Mar 9, 2016

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Feb 10, 2016

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WHWCNC COMMUNITY SERVICES PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING
2022-10-17 18:30 - 19:30
Link to Agenda
Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council
AGENDA– COMMUNITY SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY Committee Meeting
October 17, 2022 at time 6:30 p.m.
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 913 8232 9763
Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 913 8232 9763 and Press #

VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must dial +1 669 900 6833 and enter Zoom ID No. 913 8232 9763 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. The public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.

AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time
public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide
public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to 2) minute per speaker.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.

AGENDA

Call to Order:
Roll Call: Geraldine Weiss (chair), Mark Schwartz, Arturo Valasquez, Houtan Hormozian, Rachel Tabak

Public Comment by the Public on Items NOT on the Agenda. (2 minutes each)

Approval of Committee Service Meeting Minutes of August 15, September 19, 2022.

_______________________________________________________________________________
Items for Discussion and Possible Action:
All comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the committee.

RENEWED: MOTION TO APPROVE LETTER TO REQUEST AN INCREASE IN RESOURCES AND ALLOCATION OF POLICE TO THE TOPANGA DIVISION

To Chief Michael Moore and Valley Bureau Chief Alan Hamilton:

The Topanga Division needs a deployment of additional officers and resources.

The citizens of Woodland Hills Warner Center are deeply concerned over the dramatic spiral of violent crime and murders of innocent stakeholders in our neighborhood. Our area ranks first in crime increase, in the Los Angeles area in most categories. Woodland Hills is a peaceful area of the San Fernando Valley where families come and settle and to safely work and raise their children. It is concerning that there has been 10 homicides so far this year in our area. This is twice as many as in 2020 (100% increase) and 4 more than in 2021 (67% increase). Overall total violent crimes are up 16% since 2020 and 26% since 2021. Property crimes also have risen.

For such a dramatic increase in overall crime, there must be a dramatic reaction and solution.

Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Counsel requests request that the City and its officials responsible maximize allocation of officers and resources to the Topanga division. Additional officer deployment and allocation is crucial in an area of Los Angeles where crime is skyrocketing and the residents are fearful. The consequence of inaction will be preventable loss of life and property.

Very truly yours,
Concerned Citizens of Woodland Hills Warner Center through its Neighborhood Council.

See attachment of Topanga Area Crime Profile from 9-11-22 through 10-8-22.

Roll call vote

Possible Presentation by someone from the Topanga Division on current crime statistics.

END OF YEAR HOLIDAY IDEAS.

Discussion for possible action. Ideas: partner with the Chamber? We need to come up with ideas and budget in order to get something approved for our next full November Board meeting otherwise it will be too late. Bring ideas for motions to this meeting please for holiday action.

Possible motion on whatever is suggested.

FUTURE BUSINESS: Discussion about future agenda topics and new business for next meeting.

Adjournment of Meeting:
The next Committee Meeting will be held on November 21, 2022, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2022 -2023 year: the third Monday of every month at 6:30pm, with the first if necessary for overspill of business. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.
Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference. HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.
*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Joyce Fletcher, at (818-340-6554 or email d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss at (818) 269-1302 or email d.weiss@whcouncil.org
*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:
• www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date
and/or time.
• You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System
at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions
A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.
*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related
to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org
SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss de la Mesa Directiva, al d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.
Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org

WHWCNC GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
2022-10-18 18:30 - 19:30
Link to agenda
AGENDA – GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 6:30pm VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86850992271) Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 868 5099 2271 and Press #
VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021, Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 868 5099 2271 and then press # to join the meeting.
Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood
Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the board.

AGENDA

Call to Order
Roll Call: Members: Acting Chair – Dena Weiss, Paul Lawler, Karen DiBiase, Mihran Kalaydjian.

Public Announcements by city officials and representatives: (3) minutes per speaker
Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items NOT on the agenda): (1) minutes per speaker
Approval of Committee Minutes: September 19, 2022.

Items for discussion and possible action:
Stakeholder Public Comment will be taken on each agenda item: (2) minutes per speaker

Review of qualifications for board member Reina Cerros McCaughey to apply for the At Large position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
Review of qualifications for August O. Steurer to apply for the At Large position. Application form and supporting documents submitted. August Steurer is also eligible for the Alternative Representative in Area 6.
Review of qualifications for Bobbie Wasserman to apply for the At Large position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
Review of qualifications for Mark Ball to apply for the Area 3 Residential position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
Review of qualifications for Lynn Martines to apply for the Area 3 Residential position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
Review of qualifications for Christopher Waddy to apply for the Area 5 Residential position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
Review of qualifications for Christopher P. Curl to apply for the Area 7 Residential position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
Review of qualifications for Christine K. Robinson to apply for the Area 7 Residential position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
Review of qualifications for Aaron Williams to apply for the Area 7 Residential position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
New business to be placed on the next committee meeting agenda

Adjournment of meeting:
The next Committee Meeting will be held on November 22, 2022, by teleconference. If additional applications are submitted in time for review before the next full Board Meeting, a Special Meeting will be heard in or to review qualification. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time of meeting dates for the 2022 year: the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules. Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference. HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss by email at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:

whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date and/or time.
You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to A. City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

· A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss de la Mesa Directiva, al d,weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.

Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978- 1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org

Regular Meeting of the Planning Land Use and Mobility (PLUM) Committee
2022-10-20 18:30 - 21:00
The PLUM Committee will hold its regular meeting on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Major items are listed below. The full agenda can be found here: October 20, 2022 PLUM Agenda

Presentation on updated plan for the redevelopment of 20401 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91364 (Self Storage Facility)
The committee will hear a presentation and provide initial feedback on an updated plan for the redevelopment of 20401 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91364. The proposed redevelopment is a self-storage facility. No action will be taken as a result of this presentation.

10/25/2022 Public Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting
2022-10-25 18:30 - 21:00
Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council Agenda – Public Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting
25 October, 2022 at 6:30p.m.
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone https://us02web.zoom.us/j/93899241002 Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting

Then Enter This Webinar ID: 938 9924 1002 and Press # 9

VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 938 9924 1002 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to 2) minute per speaker.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
Public Comment is limited to (2) minute per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the committee. The presiding chair may impose time limits per each agenda item as needed.

AGENDA

Call to Order

Roll Call: Chair Aaron M Quantz, Mark Schwartz, Reina Cerros McCaughey, Mihran Kalaydijian,

Public Announcements by city officials and representatives: (3) minutes per speaker

Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items NOT on the agenda): (2) minutes per speaker

Approval of Committee Minutes from August 23rd Committee Meeting

Items for Discussion and Possible Action:

All comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the committee.

Discussion and possible action to support Council File No. 18-0131 for Zero Emissions Maintenance Equipment Pilot / City Parks and Golf Courses. We recommend preparing a CIS to the mentioned Council File. The suggested CIS draft is below. The City of Los Angeles has long been an environmental leader, setting ambitious goals for the reduction of pollution and greenhouse gases (GHGs), and implementing departmental improvements that help achieve these reductions.

The WHWCNC board is in support of the council motion directing the Department of
Recreation and Parks to report on a strategy and timeline for a pilot program to evaluate the use of
zero-emission maintenance equipment at parks and golf courses.
The WHWCNC recommends that American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA), be the organization that helps the
City of Los Angeles with their zero-emissions maintenance equipment pilot project, in order to avoid common
problems that may arise in transitioning untrained staff.
AGZA is the certification organization that helped the City of South Pasadena achieves their groundbreaking zero emission operations for all city properties, and is the most qualified and experienced consultancy to ensure the City’s program success.
Roll Call Vote

Discussion and possible action on composing a letter regarding West Valley Neighborhood Alliance (“WVNAH”) the WHWCNC recommends stopping immediately its engagement and any future participation with WVNAH. (Aaron Quantz & Mihran Kalaydjian).

To send a “cease and desist” letter suspending WVNAH from claiming “NC Member Affiliation” with the Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council (The single dissenting vote, preferred to cancel all affiliation immediately, with suspension.), until WVNAH addresses our concerns, as follows:
1) Political Advocacy. It appears that WVNAH and some Board members have taken political positions, even endorsing candidates during meetings, in violation of its nonpartisan mission to address homelessness.
2) Voting Irregularities. The way WAVNA conducts its meetings and collects votes does not allow our NC to discuss and take an official position, prior to asking our representation to vote, in violation of our By Laws. There is also some concern about the balance of votes between NCs and other individuals and entities who vote for WVNAH positions.
Therefore, we ask WVNAH to cease and desist using NWNC as a “Member Neighborhood Council” or for any affiliation purposes, and as WNAH to address these concerns.
Roll Call Vote
8. Discussion and possible action, ideas for possible “recruitment” of Stakeholders to join our Committee. Ideal additions must be able to attend all Committee meetings. The Chair (Aaron M Quantz) feels it is a top priority to not only work FOR our Stakeholders but WITH them as well. Working with the residents of our town is paramount as we are budgeted taxpayer funds, otherwise we are just playing government with ourselves.
Roll Call Vote

Discussion and possible action: As we know, the Valley has a direct connection to the aeronautical industry and big Defense contractors, many of whom left large areas of contamination in Woodland Hills and around the San Fernando Valley. We will discuss the plethora of these areas and the companies that left them contaminated
https://www.dailynews.com/2020/01/09/neighbors-demand-full-cleanup-of-former-rocketdyne-site-in-warner-center/
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/rwqcb4/water_issues/programs/remediation/chromium/chromium_s1.html
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/la-times-today/2021/06/12/santa-susana-nuclear-meltdown-1959-impact
Benzine from Natural gas: https://sdvoice.info/gas-stoves-cancer-california-benzene/

Roll Call Vote
10. Discussion and possible action: Chair requests ability to submit receipt for Black ink needed to print physical copies to post at the West Valley Chamber of Commerce
Items to be placed on the agenda for the next meeting
Adjournment of Meeting:
The next Committee Meeting will be held on 28 November 2022, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2021 -2022 year: Full Board meeting are held the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings.
Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.
Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference. HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.
*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Joyce Fletcher, at (818-340-6554 or email j.fletcher@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non- exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Joyce Fletcher at (818) 340-6554 or email j.fletcher@whcouncil.org
*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:

www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date and/or time.
You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street.

Parking is free.
*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org
SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Joyce fletcher de la Mesa Directiva, al j.fletcher@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.
Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org

Special Full Board Meeting to Appoint Board Members
2022-10-26 19:00 - 21:00
Link to Agenda Oct 26, 2022

AGENDA
Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council
FULL BOARD MEETING- SPECIALLY SET FOR APPOINTMENTS ONLY
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84437055704) Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting and then Enter This Webinar ID: 844 3705 5704 and Press #
VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021, Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 844 3705 5704 and then press # to join the meeting.
Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood
Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the board.

AGENDA

Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Roll Call

Public Announcements:
Office of Councilmember Bob Blumenfield (3 minutes)
Office of Local and State Officials – if available (3 minutes each)
Other Local Agencies – if available (2 minutes each)

General Public Comment, by the Public, on Non-Agenda Items:
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total.

Items for Discussion and Voting- Election of Board Members. This item has been specially set due to timing issues. At the last full Board meeting, none of the agenda items were discussed nor voted on due to loss of quorum. At the next full Board meeting there will be many more items to discuss and be voted on. Due to the amount of applications for Board positions, this will result in a meeting that may continue past midnight which will be an undue burden on the public and Board and impede ability to timely discuss and vote on Stakeholder concerns. This Special meeting will allow discussion and voting on previously vetted and approved Board member applicants, while preserving time at the November 9, 2022 Board meeting for Stakeholder concerns and additional discussion and voting agenda items.

Item No (1) Governance Committee, Chair Dena Weiss
(22-092) Stakeholder Request for Area 2 Alternate Board Seat

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Philip Swain to the Area 2 Alternate board seat.
Roll Call Vote

Item No (2) Governance Committee, Chair Dena Weiss
(22-093) Stakeholders Request for Area 3 Residential Board Seat and Alternate Seat

Discussion and possible action: (20 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Annmarie Donkin or Mark Ball or Lynn Martines to the Area 3 Residential board seat. The first runner up will be appointed to the Alternate seat.

Roll Call Vote

Item No (3) Governance Committee, Chair Dena Weiss
(22-094) Stakeholder Request for Area 5 Residential Board Seat and Alternate Seat

Discussion and possible action: (15 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Gretchen Gesell or Christopher Waddy to the Area 5 Residential board seat. The first runner up will be appointed to the Alternate seat.

Item No (4) Governance Committee, Chair Dena Weiss
(22-095) Stakeholder Request for Area 7 Residential Board Seat and Alternate Seat

Discussion and possible action: (20 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Christopher P. Curl or Christine K. Robinson or Aaron Williams to the Area 7 Residential board seat. The first runner up will be appointed to the Alternate seat.
Roll Call Vote

Item No (5) Governance Committee, Chair Dena Weiss
(22-096) Stakeholder Request for At Large Board Seat and Alternate Seat

Discussion and possible action: (20 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Reina Cerros McCaughey or August O. Steurer or Bobbie Wasserman to the At Large board seat. The first runner up will be appointed to the Alternate seat.
Roll Call Vote

Announcements:
The next Regular Board meeting will be held on November 9, 2022, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2021 -2022 year: Full Board meeting are held the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.

Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference.
HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

Adjournment of Meeting:

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record, if available, related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org.

*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:
• www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date and/or time.
• You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss al d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.

Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org.

WH Issues and Policies Virtual Cmte Mtg for 10-27-2022
2022-10-27 19:15
Agenda pdf
Meeting Agenda
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89077871030
Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 890 7787 1030 and Press “#”
VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021, Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills Issues and Policies Committee meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must dial 1 669 900 6833 to access by phone or internet via browser or the “Zoom” App, enter Webinar ID # 890 7787 1030, and then press # to join the meeting. The Chair will give listeners instructions for providing public comments at the start of the meeting. To telephonically call in to comment, the public must dial *9 (raising your hand)when prompted by the Chair or Moderator to address the Committee on any agenda item before the Committee takes action on each item. Zoom users should use the app’s “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Submission of Public comment cannot be required in advance of the meeting. Only real-time public comment is required. If broadcasting interruptions prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If the people cannot provide public comment or cannot be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Messaging and virtual backgrounds are in the control of the individual Committee member in their personal capacity. They do not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.

PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Committee on any agenda item before the Committee takes action on an item. The Committee will accept comments from the public on agenda items only when the Committee considers the individual item.
PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – During the General Public Comment period, the Committee listens to comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Committee’s jurisdiction. Please note that the Brown Act prevents the Committee from acting on an issue that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a public member may become the subject of a future Committee meeting.

Public Comments are limited to two (2) minutes per speaker unless adjusted by the presiding member of the Committee. The presiding member may impose time limits per each agenda item as needed.
_______________________________________________________________________________
AGENDA

Call to Order
Establish Quorum: Roll Call — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer
Comments by the Public regarding Issues NOT on the Agenda.

(2 minutes each)

Approval of Available Committee Minutes: Roll Call Vote

Draft minutes posted when available on whcouncil.com event page for this meeting.
Committee Items for Discussion and Possible Action:
All comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker unless adjusted by the presiding member of the Committee.
Draft motions posted when available on whcouncil.com event page for this meeting.

CF 22-1146 Motion to instruct DONE to update CIS Portal to function correctly.

Consideration and possible action regarding filing CIS on the Council Motion in CF 22-1146 excerpted here:
In the City Council motion, the City Council instructs the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to report back in 45 days on the status of the Community Impact Statement Portal, including the issues that led to numerous Community Impact Statements not being transmitted, the length of time the errors were present in the system, the list of the City Commissions that were impacted by not having the correct email configurations on the portal, the number of Community Impact Statements that were not transmitted as intended by the Neighborhood Councils, and the steps that have been taken to remedy the issue and prevent this from happening again in the future.
Also in the motion, the City Council instructs the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, with the assistance of the Information Technology Agency, to report back in 45 days on the necessary technological upgrades needed to the Community Impact Statement Portal to ensure that the submission of Community Impact Statements is as seamless and streamlined as possible and that technical issues of this sort will not arise in the future.

CF 22-1232 Ballot Measure for Charter Reform regarding the Ethics Commission.

Discussion with possible action regarding WHWCNC Board’s position whether to file a CIS regarding the recommendations of the Ethics Commissions Ad Hoc Charter Reform SubCommittee

Council File 22-1189, 22-1195, 22-1199 : Censure of City Council Members Martinez, De Leon, and Cedillo; Removal of Chairmanships for Council Member De Leon.

Discussion with possible action regarding WHWCNC filing a CIS regarding Censure of City Council Members and removal as chairs of committees.

COUNCIL FILES 21-1472, 22-1196, 22-1197 : Efforts to put up Ballot Measure in 2023 and 2024 for Charter Reform regagarding a new Independent Council Redistricting process and establishing the number of City Council Seat based on Population.

Discussion with possible action regarding WHWCNC supporting placement of a City Charter Amendment to create more-independent Redistricting Commissions to increase the number of council members based on population.

Committee consideration of Possible issues for future Committee meeting agendas.

Issue suggestions posted when available on the whcouncil.com event page for this meeting.

Adjournment of Meeting

Meeting dates for the 2021-2022 year: Committee holds meetings on the second and fourth Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete committee and board meetings list. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.
The next Regular Committee Meeting will be held on November 10, 2022, via teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and confirm the date and time. Any needed Special Meetings before the date will be posted there also.
Due to COVID 19, virtual teleconferencing replaces ALL in-person Committee meetings. However, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

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To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) before the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss by email d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Joyce fletcher de la Mesa Directiva, al j.fletcher@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.
PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, the Committee provides non-exempt writings distributed to a majority of all of the Committee Members in advance of a meeting on the WHWCNC website: www.whcouncil.org or via the scheduled meeting video presentation. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss at via email d.weiss@whcouncil.org
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A copy of this agenda is also physically posted outside of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber window located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber offices are at the Promenade Mall outside the mall’s east entrance and south of Ruth Chris Restaurant. Access the offices from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

Planning, Land Use, and Mobility (PLUM) Committee
2022-11-03 18:30 - 22:30
The PLUM Committee will hold its regular meeting on Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 6:30pm. Significant items on the agenda are listed below. The full agenda is here: Nov 3, 2022 PLUM Agenda

ZA-2022-4017 (CUW) 21850 Oxnard St., Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Proposed new rooftop wireless facility with 6 antennas and 12 RRUS.
ADM- 2022-4764 6366-6410 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Request for administrative clearance to change and remodel an existing office building into a hotel and restaurant within the existing footprint with a slight increase in height.
ENV-2022-6081-EAF 22736 W. Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Demolition of existing self-service car wash and construction of a new drive-thru self-service car wash.

WHWCNC FULL BOARD MEETING
2022-11-09 18:30 - 22:30
Link to Agenda
AGENDA
Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council
FULL BOARD MEETING
Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 6:30 pm
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/96493712127 )
Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 964 9371 2127 and Press #
Click for September 14th Minutes
Yellow Bike Project
Board Members Eligible for VP Position
NC Funding Program Letter
PLUM 6400 Canoga Hotel Case Report
Topanga Area Profile
PLUM Case Report Dish Location

VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet based service option.

Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 964 9371 2127 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.

AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time
public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide
public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.

Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by
the presiding officer of the board.

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AGENDA

Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Roll Call

Public Announcements:
Office of Councilmember Bob Blumenfield (2 minutes)
Office of Local and State Officials – if available (2 minutes each)
Other Local Agencies – if available (2 minutes each)

General Public Comment, by the Public, on Non-Agenda Items:
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total.
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Organization, Operation, Policies, & Procedures:

All comment is limited to 1 minute per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the Board.
Time limits set for each agenda item may be adjusted by the presiding officer of the Board. Time limits may vary so the public is encouraged to join the meeting several minutes PRIOR to a specific agenda item being discussed.

A.Approval of Minutes: Board Meeting – September 14, 2022 (5 minutes)
Board Meeting – October 12, 2022 (adjourned before Organization, Operations, Policies and Procedures occurred due to lack of quorum)

See posted support document Roll Call Vote

Officer Reports (5 minutes)

President – Dena Weiss
Vice President – Vacant
Treasurer – Paul Lawler
Parliamentarian – Mihran Kalaydjian

Items for Discussion and Possible Action:

Item No. (1) Paul Lawyer, Treasurer, and Dena Weiss, President,
(22-092) ) Financial Officers Letter of Acknowledgement and Agreement
Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)
Per requirement by EmpowerLA, a motion for the board to approve the “Financial Officers Letter of Acknowledgement and Agreement” which makes President Geraldine / Dena Weiss the second signer on funding documents and second bank card holder of the WHWCNC.
See posted support document Roll Call Vote

Item No (2) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-093) Stakeholder Appointment to Area 2 Alternate Board Seat

Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Philip Swain to the Area 2 Alternate board seat.

Roll Call Vote

Item No (3) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-094) Stakeholders Appointment to Area 3 Residential Board Seat and Alternate Seat

Discussion and possible action: (20 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Annmarie Donkin or Mark Ball or Lynn Martines to the Area 3 Residential board seat. The first runner up will be appointed to the Alternate seat.

Roll Call Vote

Item No (4) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-095) Stakeholder Appointment to Area 5 Residential Board Seat and Alternate Seat

Discussion and possible action: (15 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Gretchen Gesell or Christopher Waddy to the Area 5 Residential board seat. The first runner up will be appointed to the Alternate seat.

Roll Call Vote

Item No (5) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-096) Stakeholder Appointment to Area 7 Residential Board Seat and Alternate Seat

Discussion and possible action: (20 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Christopher P. Curl or Christine K. Robinson or Aaron Williams to the Area 7 Residential board seat. The first runner up will be appointed to the Alternate seat.

Roll Call Vote

Item No (6) Governance Committee, Chair Dena Weiss
(22-097) Board Member or Stakeholder Appointment to At Large Board Seat and Alternate Seat

Discussion and possible action: (20 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Reina Cerros McCaughey or August O. Steurer or Bobbie Wasserman to the At Large board seat. The first runner up will be appointed to the Alternate seat

Roll Call Vote
Item No. (7) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-098) Election Of Vice President

Discussion and possible action: (15 minutes)

Nominations will be accepted for the position of Vice President.

The new Vice President will serve until the 2023 WHWCNC Election has been certified by the City
Clerk and then a WHWCNC Officers Election will be held at the next regular Board Meeting. The 2023 WHWCNC election will be held on June 18. 2023.

Description Per the Bylaws:
Section 2: Duties and Powers
Vice-President. The Vice-President shall act as a presiding officer in the absence of the President. In case of vacancy in the office of President, or in the case of the President’s unavailability due to sickness, disability, death or resignation, the Vice-President shall perform the duties of the President and when so acting shall have all the powers and perform such other duties the Bylaws and Standing Rules and EmpowerLA may prescribe. The Vice-President shall be responsible for the oversight and compliance of the Standing Committees of the WHWCNC.

Election of Vice President:

The Officers must be elected members of the Board … or

an appointed member of the board can be elected as an Officer, should no elected member agree to be
nominated for a specific Officer position or no elected member is elected by a majority vote of the board for a specific Officer position.

The Youth Member and Alternate Representatives cannot serve as an Officer of the Board.

The Youth Member can vote in the election.

Alternate Representatives cannot vote in the election unless one of their area reps is absent.

If there are more than two (2) candidates for an office and none receives a majority vote on the first election, a run-off election shall be held immediately between the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes.

See posted list of elected board members and appointed board members eligible for nomination for Parliamentarian.
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (8) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-099) Funding for WHWCNC Website – Webmaster Management
Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)
MOTION for the Board to approve $2,000.00 in funding from the board approved WHWCNC 2022-2023 Budget (Line Item, Webmaster) for webmaster Wendy Moore (Moore Business Solutions) to be available to make any necessary improvements or repairs to the WHWCNC website and assistance
with technology as needed. Wendy Moore has been providing maintenance and updates to the website for the past (4) years.

Roll Call Vote

Item No. (9) Community Services / Public Safety, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-100) Motion to Approve Letter to Request and Increase in Resources and Allocation of Police to the Topanga Division

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

To Chief Michael Moore and Valley Bureau Chief Alan Hamilton (with ccs to Bob Blumenfeld, Seth Samuels and John Popoch:

The Topanga Division needs a deployment of additional officers and resources.

The citizens of Woodland Hills-Warner Center are deeply concerned over the dramatic spiral of violent crime and murders of innocent stakeholders in our neighborhood. Our area ranks first in crime increase, in the Los Angeles area in most categories. Woodland Hills is a peaceful area of the San Fernando Valley where families come and settle and to safely work and raise their children. It is concerning that there has been 10 homicides so far this year in our area. This is twice as many as in 2020 (100% increase) and 4 more than in 2021 (67% increase). Overall total violent crimes are up 16% since 2020 and 26% since 2021. Property crimes also have risen.

For such a dramatic increase in overall crime, there must be a dramatic reaction and solution.

Woodland Hills Warner-Center Neighborhood Counsel requests request that the City and its officials responsible maximize allocation of officers and resources to the Topanga division. Additional officer deployment and allocation is crucial in an area of Los Angeles where crime is skyrocketing, and the residents are fearful. The consequence of inaction will be preventable loss of life and property.

Very truly yours,
Concerned Citizens of Woodland Hills Warner Center through its Neighborhood Council.

See attachment of Topanga Area Crime Profile from 9-11-22 through 10-8-22.

Roll call vote
Item No. (10) Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee [PLUM] – Don Patterson, Chair
(22-101) Conditional Use Permit – Wireless, Case No. ZA-2022-4017, ENV-2022-4018, Conditional Use – Wireless LALAX04022B, 11/03/2022.

Discussion and possible action: (15 minutes)
Application for a Conditional Use Permit for an array of wireless antennas and a wireless telecommunications facility to be located at 21859 W. Oxnard Street, Woodland Hills, on top of the Marriott Hotel.
RESOLUTION:

The Planning Land Use and Mobility committee of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council (WHWCNC), having held one remote meeting via ZOOM on the DISH Wireless WTF request and has made the following finds and recommends the support of the Board of the WHWCNC as follows:

WHEREAS: DISH Wireless proposes installing a wireless facility consisting of 3 new FRP Screen Box for 3-panel antennas divided into three sectors, twelve 12 remote radio units (RRUs) – four located at each sector installed on the existing rooftop. The antennae’s associated equipment will be on an equipment platform on the rooftop, and

WHEREAS: Existing service is insufficient to meet existing demand by customers in the West Valley due to overloaded existing facilities resulting in interrupted service, dropped calls, or complete denial of service during peak usage hours, and

WHEREAS: The LAMC authorizes the Zoning Administrator to grant Conditional Uses, allows conditional use of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities, and

WHEREAS: Dish satisfies LAMC Sec: SEC. 12.21.20 that sets Wireless Telecommunication Facilities (WTF) Standards, qualifying for a conditional use that allows for antennas located on an existing transmission tower on a parcel zoned C4 and meet by-right criteria, and

WHEREAS: The location meets the minimum distances to habitable structures required by the FCC. The antennas will be painted matte in a non-reflective color to match the existing transmission tower where they will be installed. The proposed antennas meet setback requirements from all abutting streets, residential uses, and all zones, and

WHEREAS: DISH RF emissions are regulated by the FCC to ensure public safety standards based on peer-reviewed scientific studies, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Drug Administration (FDA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and

WHEREAS: DISH Wireless analyzed several alternate locations as candidates for a DISH WTF, and the subject location is the only location that has the requisite space, power, and telco utility availability on site, as well as land-lord interest in leasing space to DISH Wireless for a new WTF, and

WHEREAS: The site is of adequate size, shape, topography, location, and access to utilities to accommodate the proposed wireless facility in that all setbacks are met, and it has access to power and telephone connections, and

WHEREAS: The use and development will be compatible with the intended character of the area and are similar to other rooftop approvals elsewhere in the City, and

WHEREAS: DISH Wireless will operate this facility in full compliance with the regulations and licensing requirements of the FCC, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the CPUC, governed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and other applicable laws.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED; That the Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee, for the findings and conditions stated herein, finds that the submitted application and plans by DISH Wireless for the proposed Conditional Use Permit at the Warner Center Marriott located at 21850 W. Oxnard Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, receive the support of the Board of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council for the requested actions. Further Neighborhood Council advises the City of Los Angeles Planning Department and Council District 3 Councilmember Bob Blumenfield of its findings and its subsequent supporting recommendation to approve this application as presented on November 9th, 2022.
Roll call vote
Item No. (11) Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee [PLUM] – Don Patterson, Chair
(22-102) Case No. ADM-2022-4764 (Administrative Review) / ENV-2008-3471-EIR 6400 Canoga Hotel, 6400 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, 91367 (Downtown District-Warner Center)
Discussion and possible action: (15 minutes)

Project Description
The requested application is an Administrative Review and Clearance (No conditions and Planning Director makes determination) to turn the existing three-story Atrium office complex on Canoga Blvd. into a hotel, ballroom and restaurant complex on virtually the same footprint as the existing office complex. (Allowed under the 2035 Warner Center Specific Plan –Section 5.3.2.1). Also asking for Administrative Clearance to permit a vertical and horizontal additions (Primarily two new Porte Cocheres/entry awnings and a 4th story pool/cabana area and guest rooms above the western portion of the building) to an existing structure as allowed in Section 5.3.2.7 of the WC 2035 Plan.

PLUM Motion
As pertaining to Cases ADM-2022-4764 and ENV-2008-3471-EIR at 6400 Canoga Avenue, Woodland Hills, 91367, having held one public meeting for the application filed by 6400 Canoga Owner, LLC for the change of use and vertical and horizontal additions to an existing 3-story, 45-foot tall, 141,303 sf Atrium office building, and remodeling it for a conversion to a hotel and restaurant that will rise to 4-stories in one portion of the building, increase square footage to 152,619 sf, and have 240 guest rooms, a ballroom, and a restaurant activating Canoga Avenue, the WHWCNC Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee (PLUM) hereby finds that:

WHEREAS, the proposed project designs and plans adhere to all of the requirements of the Downtown District of the 2035 Warner Center Specific Plan without requesting variances or exemptions; and

WHEREAS, the commercial requirement(s) of the Downtown District will continue to be met by turning existing commercial office space into commercial hotel and restaurant space; and

WHEREAS, the proposed site plan will maintain the same building footprint and parking facilities currently being used to accommodate 340 cars in the existing 3-story elevated parking structure and on the existing surface parking lot.; and

WHEREAS, a total of 79 new bike spaces will be provided; and

WHEREAS, a new 5,575 sf (indoor) restaurant that includes outdoor dining space on the north and west facing sides will be constructed activating that area of Canoga Avenue; and

WHEREAS, the applicant has agreed to the “request” to constructively work with all future adjacent redevelopment projects to facilitate the mandate Specific Plan requirement for connectivity and mobility between projects through the block; and

WHEREAS, the Applicant has agreed to provide a landscaping plan and planting palette to the WHWCNC PLUM Committee and WHWCNC Board, and to the CD-3 and City Planning before final City approval is rendered; and

WHEREAS the Applicant has agreed to attempt to fulfill the “requests” that the WHWCNC Board is making in lieu of formal Conditions because this is an Administrative Review application.

Therefore, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Planning Land Use and Mobility Committee of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council, for the findings stated herein, finds that the submitted application and plans from Sandstone Properties receive the support of the Board of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council (WHWCNC), with their agreement to try to fulfill the following “requests”:

Requests

Because Administrative Clearance approvals do not allow any Conditions of Approval, The WHWCNC is listing the following items as “requests” because questions or issues sometimes arise within City Planning or with the public, and these “requests” can help resolve those questions. Additionally, the Applicant has suggested that they would return to PLUM or the WHWCNC Board as a courtesy with landscape plans and any changes to the design once the permitting process has commenced.

All plans presented November 9, 2022 at the Board of the WHWCNC shall be dated as such and, upon revision of the revised plan package reflecting the Revised Site Plan included herein, shall be re-submitted to Planning as an (updated) project plan application submittal.
The applicant will not submit any significant, further updated plans without first presenting them to the WHWCNC for support.
The Applicant will place a project sign on the project under construction which is clearly visible to the street showing a rendering of the proposed/approved project building(s), plus specifics as to the size (number of units), ownership and contact information.
Additionally, all “requests” herein shall be printed on one of the Project Summary pages.
Appropriate liquor licenses shall be obtained for the restaurant, bar areas and all other areas where liquor will be served. If liquor is to be served on the restaurant patio(s), the necessary railing/fencing must be installed.

6.) The owner/developer shall work through the CD-3 to establish agreements and rules with adjacent property owners to insure that perpetual connectability to and through their properties is maintained as required in the WC 2035 Specific Plan.

The Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills– Warner Center Neighborhood Council advise the city of Los Angeles Planning Department and Council District 3 Councilmember Bob Blumenfield of its findings and subsequent recommendation to APPROVE this application presented on November 3, 2022.

See posted support document

Roll Call Vote

Item No. (12) Community Services Public Safety Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-103) Yellow Bike Memorial

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Motion for the board to approve a letter of support to the Department of Public Works for a Yellow Bike
memorial in Woodland Hills. See background description: http://yellowbikeproject.com

Proposed letter of support would read:

The Department of Public Works Office of Community Beautification
Attn: Gerry Valido
200 N. Spring St., Room 361
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Re: Support for Adopt-a-Median Application re Yellow Bike Project
Dear Mr. Valido:
This letter is to express the support of the WHWCNC for the Adopt-A-Median project proposed at 5520 De Soto Avenue in Woodland Hills.
On April 1, 2018, 15-year-old Sebastian Montero, a resident of Tarzana was killed when he was hit by a motorist while riding his bicycle at De Soto Avenue and Burbank Boulevard. The community and the Montero family would like to memorialize this tragic loss by erecting a marker at the site of the accident. This memorial consists of a 16′ pole topped with a sculpture of a bicycle and a placard with Sebastian’s name, the date of the collision, the reminder “Streets Are For Everyone” (S.A.F.E) and the hashtag #SafetyMatters.
The design of the sculpture has been approved by LADOT as visually safe for passing motorists and the structure of the sculpture has been engineered to safety standards. The installation will be performed by the artist, Scott Froschauer, and maintenance of the sculpture will be overseen by S.A.F.E., a bicycle safety advocacy nonprofit in conjunction with the artist. The location where the memorial is proposed is within the jurisdiction of Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council and we support this project.
See attached photo
Roll Call Vote
Item No. (13) Woodland Hills Issues & Policy Committee [WHIP] – Heath Kline, Chair
(22-104) Community Impact Statement RE: Community Impact Statement Portal / Neighborhood Council Transmissions / City Commissions / Technological Upgrades CIS CF 22-1146

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)
Summary CF 22-1146:
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council thanks Councilmembers Nithya Raman and Paul Koretz for putting forth this much-needed motion. Circumstances require attention due to the revelation that CISs submitted via the DONE CIS portal to specific city departments, commissions, and committees have not arrived at their destination. The proper functioning of this Portal for submitting Community Impact Statements is essential to the function of the Neighborhood Council System.
We heartily support the actions requested in CF22-1146, which requires: “that the City Council instruct the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to report back in 45 days on the status of the Community Impact Statement Portal, including the issues that led to numerous Community Impact Statements not being transmitted, the length of time the errors were present in the system, the list of the City Commissions that were impacted by not having the correct email configurations on the portal, the number of Community Impact Statements that were not transmitted as intended by the Neighborhood Councils, and the steps taken to remedy the issue and prevent this from happening again in the future.” We caution the City Council that the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment previously engaged in deceptive and diversionary practices with Neighborhood Councils when replying to requests like the City Council’s questions. Please see attached complete CIS.
Motion:
The Woodland Hills Issues and Policies [WHIP] Committee unanimously recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council adopt the following Community Impact Statement:
Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council Community Impact Statement (CIS) Regarding CF 22-1146: Community Impact Statement Portal / Neighborhood Council Transmissions / City Commissions / Technological Upgrades
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council thanks Councilmembers Nithya Raman and Paul Koretz for making this much-needed motion. Circumstances require immediate attention due to the revelation that CISs submitted via the DONE CIS portal to specific city departments, commissions, and committees have not arrived at their destination. The proper functioning of this Portal for submitting Community Impact Statements is essential to the function of the Neighborhood Council System.
We heartily support the actions requested in CF 22-1146, which requires: “that the City Council instruct the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to report back in 45 days on the status of the Community Impact Statement Portal, including the issues that led to numerous Community Impact Statements not being transmitted, the length of time the errors were present in the system, the list of the City Commissions that were impacted by not having the correct email configurations on the portal, the number of Community Impact Statements that were not transmitted as intended by the Neighborhood Councils, and the steps taken to remedy the issue and prevent this from happening again in the future.” We caution the City Council that the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment previously engaged in deceptive and diversionary practices with Neighborhood Councils when replying to requests like the City Council’s questions.
We also support the additional actions requested, which require the following:
The City Council instructs the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, with the assistance of the Information Technology Agency, to report back in 45 days on the necessary technological upgrades needed to the Community Impact Statement Portal to ensure that the Community Impact Statement submissions are as seamless and streamlined as possible; furthermore, ensure that technical issues of this sort will not arise in the future.
Currently, the CIS Portal appears inconsistent and “glitchy,” preventing submissions. At the same time, this causes frustration and doubt with the designated NC submitters, who cannot tell if their actions are the problem or if the CIS Portal Page is the problem. The primary problem experienced relates to the submittal of PDFs. If there is proper maintenance and upgrades, this should not happen. A newly designed CIS portal page should use current industry best practices for layout and back-end processing; for example work without the use of pop-up windows and should work seamlessly with current Chrome, Edge, Fire Fox and Safari browsers. The submission site should allow for drag and drop or navigating to and selecting attachment files.
While we applaud this measure, we request the reassurance that needed technological upgrades, if any, be integrated into the new citywide technology plan. Optionally, we also request consideration of the transference of the DONE CIS maintenance responsibilities to the City Clerk’s office.
As an additional safeguard, we propose that all Neighborhood Councils receive an automated alert when an email from the current NC CIS system bounces back to the server until the review above is completed and reviewed by the City Council.”
Submitted by:
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council
Roll Call Vote
Item No. (14) Woodland Hills Issues & Policy Committee [WHIP] – Heath Kline, Chair
(22-105) Community Impact Statement RE: Charter Reform / Ethics Commission / Powers and Responsibilities / Ballot Measure

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)
Supplemental Reference Material: Ethics Commission File (Charter Sec 700 Ethics Reforms)
Council File Number CF 22-1232:
Summary:
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council supports the recommended changes to the charter from the Ethics Commission only if amended. Therefore, we ask for the following amending actions.

Genuine Independent Appointments
More Restrictive Eligibility Requirements
Raise the vote threshold for removal of a commissioner
Increased maximum penalty
Increase the minimum commission budget
Independent outside counsel for the Commission

These reforms would ensure the Commission is sufficiently independent enough to be entrusted with the expanded power offered.
Motion
The Woodland Hills Issues and Policies [WHIP] Committee unanimously recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council adopt the following Community Impact Statement:
Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council Community Impact Statement (CIS) Regarding CF 22-1232 : Charter Reform / Ethics Commission / Powers and Responsibilities / Ballot Measure
WHWCNC Position: Support If Amended
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council supports the recommended changes to the charter from the Ethics Commission only if amended. Therefore, we give the following amending actions required below.
The City of Los Angeles’ Ethics Commission was once a model for the nation over three decades ago. Given recent events of the last decade, an update is long overdue. The city must immediately start the work necessary to put a Charter Reform proposal on a near-future ballot.
However, you must not rush this work and waive it out of committee as a convenient answer to the ever-continuing scandals at City Hall. It deserves a full and fair hearing in committee with robust public involvement and discussion, including Neighborhood Councils.
The Ethics Commission’s recommendations broadly reflect input it received regarding the empowerment of the body to enforce the law, meaningfully change policy, and change the power dynamics at City Hall.
However, we believe they fail to enhance the Commission’s independence sufficiently. We still see the opportunity for elected officials to strong-arm commissioners and meddle with the enforcement actions and policy proposals of the Ethics Commission in the same way elected officials manipulated the Redistricting Commission when those officials were not getting what they wanted.
We recommend the following specific amendments:

Independent Appointment: The City of LA cannot have a genuinely independent Ethics Commission until there is no involvement of elected officials in the member appointment process. The incumbent commissioners should be responsible for accepting and vetting applications through a public process.
Eligibility Requirements: The Commission proposes adding restrictions excluding any bidder, contractor, developer, or someone with a direct financial interest in the city’s work from serving on the Commission. These restrictions are warranted but incomplete. We also recommend excluding anyone affiliated with the management of an employee union, a recent candidate for the City of LA, former elected officials in the City of LA, and anyone who has donated or raised above a certain threshold for local candidates.
Raise the vote threshold for removal of a commissioner: The Commission recommends increasing the number of elected officials who may initiate removal and reducing the threshold to a majority vote. Due to the presence of “tribal” factions in the City Council, removal should require action by a supermajority of the City Council, so we recommend requiring a 2/3rds vote for all proceedings removing Ethics Commissioners.
Increased maximum penalty: The Commission recommends increasing the administrative penalty to $10k per violation. We recommend adopting Chicago’s maximum fine of $20k indexed to inflation per violation.
Raise minimum budget: The Commission recommends their budget be set at $4.5 million and tied to CPI. While this would protect against retaliation or defunding during a financial crunch, this essentially freezes the status quo into the charter. If the City Council expands, ethics will require more money. The budgeted minimum must be indexed for growth in the number of elected officials and separately indexed for the number of employees. $4.5 million is only a few hundred thousand above the Commission’s current budget.
Independent outside counsel: Realistically the City Attorney cannot serve multiple masters in these matters. The Commission’s recommendations include new expenditures, like having independent outside counsel, which is essential for good governance. These new additions will require even more money. A minimum budget of $7-10 million to be indexed for inflation would start the Commission with the resources needed to fulfill its broad mandate.

These reforms would ensure the Commission is sufficiently independent enough to be entrusted with the expanded power offered.
We appreciate your immediate attention to this topic,
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council
Roll Call Vote
Item No. (15) Woodland Hills Issues & Policy Committee [WHIP] – Heath Kline, Chair
(22-106) Community Impact Statement RE: Elected Officials / Offensive Misconducts / Immediate Resignation Demand / Censure / Racially Insensitive and Divisive Statements / Professional Conduct Failure

Discussion and Possible Action: (10 minutes)

Council File Numbers CF 22-1189 & CF 22-1195:
Summary:
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council heartily supports the actions taken by the City Council on October 26, 2022, to censure Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Kevin de León, and Gil Cedillo. Their behavior would never be tolerated at the Neighborhood Council level. Neighborhood Council members must adhere to a Code of Conduct and take Anti-Bias training as part of our service. Unfortunately, it appears that a double standard exists for members of the City Council. This Neighborhood Council demands the immediate resignations of Councilmembers de León and Cedillo so the City can begin trusting and respecting City leaders.

Motion
The Woodland Hills Issues and Policies [WHIP] Committee unanimously recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council adopt the following Community Impact Statement:
Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council Community Impact Statement (CIS) Regarding CF 22-1189 & CF 22-1195: Elected Officials / Offensive Misconducts / Immediate Resignation Demand / Censure / Racially Insensitive and Divisive Statements / Professional Conduct Failure
WHWCNC Position: Support
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council heartily supports the actions taken by the City Council on October 26, 2022, to censure Councilmembers Martinez, de Leon, and Cedillo.
The behavior evidenced by Nury Martinez, Kevin de León, and Gil Cedillo would never be tolerated at the Neighborhood Council level. Neighborhood Council members must adhere to a Code of Conduct and take Anti-Bias training as part of our service. We believe the City Councilmembers should lead with their behavior rather than become a national mockery. The rules around our decorum and training are clear. Equally clear is the double standard that exists for members of the City Council. Were Neighborhood Council members to behave similarly, we would face censure, removal, and dismissal by our board, the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, and the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners. Indeed, they removed elected NC board members from Neighborhood Councils for far less egregious violations than what we are sickened to have heard from these disgraced city and union leaders.
Our City of LA is a rich amalgamation of residents of global origins. In 2022, we don’t expect to hear explicit recordings of literal bigotry, recordings of the leaders of City Hall participating in offensive rhetoric against numerous cultures, races, ethnicities, religions, and sexual identities while discussing gerrymandering based on race and socioeconomic status, and backroom deals to keep themselves in power.
This Neighborhood Council demands the immediate resignations of Councilmembers de León and Cedillo so the City can begin trusting and respecting City leaders.
Submitted by:
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council
Roll Call Vote

Area Reports – (10 minutes)

Area 1 – Aaron Quantz, Karen DiBiase, Mark Schwartz, Reina Cerros-McCaughey
Area 2 – Arturo Velasquez, Paul Lawler, Sean McCarthy
Area 3 – John Sandy Campbell
Area 4 – Don Patterson, Martin Lipkin, Dena Weiss
Area 5 – None
Area 6 – Leslie Simon, Mihran Kalaydjian, Heath Kline
Area 7 – Houtan Hormozian
At-Large –None
Youth Member – Talia Isaacs

Committee Reports – (10 minutes)

Budget Committee – Paul Lawler – Chairs
Community Services Committee / Safety – Dena Weiss, Chair
Education Committee –Mihran Kalaydjian – Chair
Environmental & Beautification Committee – Karen DiBiase, Chair
Governance Committee – Dena Weiss, Chair
Public Health and Homelessness Committee –Aaron Quantz, Chair
PLUM Committee – Don Patterson, Chair
WHIP Committee – Heath Kline, Chair
Ad-hoc Committee – Flight Path and Noise Advisory Committee – Martin Lipkin, Chair

Announcements:
The next Regular Board meeting will be held on December 14, 2022, by teleconference. President Dena Weiss will prepare the Agenda but be unable to attend due to family commitment overseas. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2022 -2023 year: Full Board meeting are held the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.

Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference.
HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

Adjournment of Meeting:

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like
a copy of any record, if available, related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org.

*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:
• www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date
and/or time.
• You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System
at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related
to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss al d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.

Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org

WH Issues and Policies Virtual Cmte Mtg - 11-10-2022
2022-11-10 19:30
Click for Agenda PDF
Committee Meeting Will be held:
November 10, 2022 At 7:30 pm
By Virtual Meeting Teleconference and Phone Number For Public Participation
Online Internet Access via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81477494746 or
Join the Meeting by Telephone: Dial (1 669 900 6833) & Then Enter This Webinar ID: 814 7749 4746 and Press “#”
Committee Members are Chairperson Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, and August Steurer
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills Issues and Policies Committee meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
The Chair will give listeners instructions for providing public comments at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the Chair or Moderator, to address the Committee on any agenda item before the Committee acts on each item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Submission of Public comment cannot be required in advance of the meeting; only real-time public comment is required. If broadcasting interruptions prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If the public cannot provide public comment or cannot be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Messaging and virtual backgrounds are in the control of the individual Committee member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
Contact Person: Heath Kline, 818-312-5610, h.kline@whcouncil.org
Woodland Hills Issues and Policies Committee Meeting Agenda

Public Input on Agenda Items – The public may address the Committee on any agenda item before the Committee acts on an item. The Committee will accept comments from the public on agenda items only when the Committee considers the individual item.
Public Input on Matters not appearing on the Agenda – During the General Public Comment period, the Committee listens to comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda within the Committee’s jurisdiction. * Please note that the Brown Act prevents the Committee from acting on an issue you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a public member may become the subject of a future Committee meeting.
Notice to Paid Representatives – If you receive compensation to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org
Public Comments are limited to two (2) minutes per speaker unless adjusted by the presiding member of the Committee. As needed, the presiding member may impose different time limits per each agenda item.

Call to Order

Establish Quorum:

Roll Call — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer

Comments by the Public regarding Issues NOT on the Agenda.

(2 minutes each)
Agenda Items for Discussion and Possible Action by the Committee:

Approval of Available Committee Minutes

Roll Call Vote — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer
All public comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker unless adjusted by the presiding member of the Committee. If available, the event page for this meeting has draft minutes posted on whcouncil.com.

Council Files 21-1472, 22-1196, 22-1197, 23-0002-S1:

Efforts to put up one or more Charter Reform Ballot Measures in 2023 and 2024 regarding 1) a new Independent Council Redistricting process and 2) the Establishment of more Council based on population.

The Committee conducts their discussion of the issues with the possibility of acting regarding WHWCNC filing a CIS regarding the proposals for placement of a City Charter Amendment to create more-independent Redistricting Commissions and recommendations to increase the number of council members, possibly based on population.
Roll Call Vote — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer

Committee consideration of Possible issues

Discussion on future Committee meeting agendas acting to set a date for the next meeting.

Issue suggestions are posted when available on the whcouncil.com event page for this meeting.

Adjournment of Meeting

Meeting dates for the 2021-2022 year: Committee holds meetings on the second and fourth Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete committee and board meetings list. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.
Due to the holiday, the meeting on November 24, 2022, is cancelled. The next Regular Committee Meeting will be held on December 8, 2022, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and confirm the date and time.
Due to COVID-19, virtual teleconferencing replaces ALL in-person Committee meetings. However, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate based on disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices, and other auxiliary aids or services may be provided upon request.
To ensure the availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) before the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss by email at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Joyce fletcher de la Mesa Directiva, at d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.
PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, the Committee provides non-exempt writings distributed to a majority of all of the Committee Members in advance of a meeting on the WHWCNC website: www.whcouncil.org or via the scheduled meeting video presentation. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss by emailing d.weiss@whcouncil.org
PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS –

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted outside of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber window located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber offices are at the Promenade Mall outside the mall’s east entrance and south of Ruth Chris Restaurant. Access the offices from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.
Agendas posted for public review: At www.whcouncil.org, go to the Calendar page and click on the date.
You can also receive Committee agendas via email by subscribing to LA City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

WHWCNC Governance Meeting
2022-11-15 19:00 - 20:00
Link AgendaNov 15, 2022

AGENDA– GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 7:00pm VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86850992271) Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 868 5099 2271 and Press #
VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021, Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 868 5099 2271 and then press # to join the meeting.
Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood
Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the board.

AGENDA

Call to Order
Roll Call: Members/ Executive Committee: Chair – Dena Weiss, Mihran Kalaydjian,

Paul Lawler, Karen DiBiase.

Public Announcements by city officials and representatives: (3) minutes per speaker
Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items NOT on the agenda): (1) minutes per speaker
Approval of Committee Minutes: October 18, 2022.

Items for discussion and possible action:
Stakeholder Public Comment will be taken on each agenda item: (2) minutes per speaker

Review of qualifications for Julie Waltrip to apply for the Area 5 Business Representative position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.

Review of qualifications for Robert Goodman to apply for the Area 7 Business Representative position. Application form submitted. Supporting documents pending.

Review of Standing Rules. Revisions previously commenced and provided in supporting document.

New business to be placed on the next committee meeting agenda

Adjournment of meeting:
The next Committee Meeting will be held on a date to be determined by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time of meeting dates for the 2022 year: the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules. Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference. HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss by email at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:

whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date and/or time.
You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to A. City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

· A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss de la Mesa Directiva, al d,weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.

Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978- 1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org

Planning, Land Use, and Mobility (PLUM) Committee Meeting
2022-11-17 18:30 - 22:00
The PLUM Committee will hold its regular meeting on Thursday, November 17. Significant items for discussion are highlighted below. The full official agenda is here: 11/17/22 PLUM Committee Agenda

ZA-2022-5065-CWW 23388 Mulholland Dr., Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Addition of a new wireless facility on existing building.

ZA-2022-2788-CU-SPP-SPR-WDI 22822 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Construction of a new 3,342 square foot fast food drive-thru restaurant (In-N-Out) and demolition of existing former bank building.

ENV-2022-6081-EAF 22736 W. Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Demolition of existing self-service car wash and construction of a new drive-thru self-service car wash.

Community Service Public Safety Committee Meeting
2022-11-21 18:30 - 19:30
Link Agenda Nov 21, 2022

Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council
AGENDA COMMUNITY SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY Committee Meeting
November 21, 2022 at time 6:30 p.m.
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 913 8232 9763
Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 913 8232 9763 and Press #

VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must dial +1 669 900 6833 and enter Zoom ID No. 913 8232 9763 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. The public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.

AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time
public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide
public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.

AGENDA

Call to Order:

Roll Call: Geraldine Weiss, Mark Schwartz, Arturo Valasquez, Houtan Hormozian, Rachel Tabak .

Public Comment by the Public on Items NOT on the Agenda.

Approval of Committee Service Meeting Minutes of October 24, 2022.

_______________________________________________________________________________
Items for Discussion and Possible Action:
All comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the committee.

MOTION TO APPROVE $500 FOR A BOOTH AT THE WEST VALLEY DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FAIR

Budget request for $500 for booth space and sponsorship for the West Valley Disaster Preparedness Fair on February 25, 2023. This amount would include access to rental equipment such as tables and chairs, janitorial, volunteer sustenance, banners and signs.

STAKEHOLDER REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE

WHWCNC received a request for assistance from stakeholder Jonathan Kaminski, for help with a restriction of parking between 5368 and 5358 Calatrana Drive. He observed that neighbors have previously been able to obtain this during construction for restricted parking at 5362 Baza Ave along that street and 21701 Costanso St. He wants our assistance in doing the same. This is his initial email:
I live at 5358 Calatrana dr. The parking situation at the beginning of
> the street is a mess. Recently, while the water main was being
> replaced, Tendilla Ave residence were able to implement restricted
> parking as the street was shut down and many people from my street
> started parking there. I’m requesting that the same happen here. I
> have too many people storing their cars there; workers from Ventura
> Blvd shops/restaurants use it as a parking spot while they go to work.
> This isn’t right; people that live at my home and guest always have
> difficulty finding parking because people store their cars there and
> workers use it so they can provide parking to their patrons. Please
> help me make this equitable!!!

Discussion about organizing a future BID along Ventura Boulevard.

Split of Community Services and Public Safety committees, with proposed new Chairs for future meetings.

Adjournment of Meeting:
The next Committee Meeting will be held in December on a date to be determined after a decision is made about splitting the committee back into two separate committees, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2022 -2023 year are currently : the third Monday of every month at 6:30pm, with the first Monday if necessary for overspill of business. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules. Due to COVID 19 ALL in-person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference. HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss, at (818-340-6554 or email d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like
a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss at (818) 340-6554
or email d.weiss@whcouncil.org.

*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:
• www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date
and/or time.
• You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System
at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related
to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss de la Mesa Directiva, al d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.

Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org.

11/29/2022 Public Health & Homelessness Committee SPECIAL Meeting
2022-11-29 18:30 - 22:00
Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council Agenda – Public Health & Homelessness Committee SPECIAL Meeting
29 November 2022 at 6:30p.m.
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone https://us02web.zoom.us/j/93899241002 Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting

Then Enter This Webinar ID: 938 9924 1002 and Press # 9

VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 938 9924 1002 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to 2) minute per speaker.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
Public Comment is limited to (2) minute per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the committee. The presiding chair may impose time limits per each agenda item as needed.

AGENDA

Call to Order

Roll Call: Chair Aaron M Quantz, Mark Schwartz, Reina Cerros McCaughey, Mihran Kalaydijian,

Public Announcements by city officials and representatives: (3) minutes per speaker

Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items NOT on the agenda): (2) minutes per speaker

Approval of Committee Minutes from August 23rd & October 25th Committee Meeting
See supporting documents:

https://whcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/minutes-agendas-newsletters/HomelessnessMinutes_2022-08-23.pdf
https://whcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/minutes-agendas-newsletters/HomelessnessMinutes_2022-10-25.pdf

Items for Discussion and Possible Action:

All comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the committee.

Discussion and possible action. Council File 21-1230-S2 relative to establishing the Livable Communities Initiative along suitable transit-rich corridors and related mattters.

(This matter is referred to Los Angeles City Council Budget and Finance and Economic Development and Jobs Committees. The Housing and Transportation Committees have approved the item and their reports are within the Council File https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=21-1230-S2 )
MOTION: State law requires the City of Los Angeles to update its Housing Element every eight years and demonstrate sufficient zoned capacity for housing-especially affordable housing. For the 2021-2022 planning cycle, the City was given a housing target of 456,643 new units, which we must accommodate for by 2029. According to Los Angeles City Planning, while some of this capacity is achievable by maintaining the status quo, there remains a shortfall of 255,432 units. This shortfall necessitates innovative planning tools and programs to meet our housing targets. For this reason, the City Council recently adopted Los Angeles’ most ambitious Housing Element to date. The City’s 2021-2029 Housing Element outlines strategies that speak to the City’s diverse housing needs and goals around ending homelessness, producing more housing, expanding housing opportunities, and creating mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods across Los Angeles near jobs and transit. Some of these strategies will be included automatically in community plan updates, but many of the policy programs detailed in Chapter 6 of the Housing Element require City Council action to effectuate.
One key program is the Livable Communities Initiative (LCI), identified as Program 131 of the adopted Housing Element. As detailed in the Housing Element, “LCI is an opportunity to advance a holistic vision for livable, healthy, and sustainable communities along the City’s transit-rich corridors utilizing mixed-use, mixed-income housing combined with opportunities to transform the street and public realm by adding or improving wide sidewalks, tree canopy, outdoor dining, bicycle infrastructure, transit shelters, fast and frequent transit, and public seating and plazas.” LCI helps to implement critical “complete street” strategies in the City’s adopted Mobility Plan 2035; moreover, it encourages reinvestment and street activation across neighborhoods so that Angelenos have access to safe and enjoyable public spaces to walk, roll, and thrive.
The City’s current development regulations are confusing and restrictive, and often make it challenging to build much-needed housing. In the midst of a housing shortage and low vacancy rates in Los Angeles, where almost 60% of renters are cost-burdened, the LCI alongside other strategies identified in the Housing Element are an opportunity to holistically plan for green, affordable, and connected communities.
I THEREFORE MOVE that City Council direct Los Angeles City Planning, with assistance from the Department of Building and Safety, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, and other relevant departments, to report back within 180 days with strategies to establish the Livable Communities Initiative along suitable transit-rich corridors, or analogous Citywide regulations, that facilitates mid-scale development, promotes the creation of housing units where ‘ they do not currently exist, and creates or enhances existing commercial, ll Wixed-use .character. As pap of its report, City Planning should consider by-right or administrative development and zoning standards to mid-scale development; including, but not limited to: Waivers or reductions of setback, unit floor area, and other development standards;
An inclusionary housing requirement to increase access to affordable housing;
A minimum density requirement to promote multifamily, mixed-use development;
Provisions to encourage greater lot density such as allowing for microunits, shared housing, or increasing area ratio (FAR) allowances; The elimination or reduction of parking minimums in “high quality transit areas” or “transit-rich areas”;
Exclusions and/or mitigations for lot located within a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone (VHFHSZ), an identified historic district, or are designated as open space; and result in the demolition of buildings subject to the Rent Stabilization Ordinance
I FURTHER MOVE that, as part of this report back, City Council directs Los Angeles City Planning to develop a community-driven outreach and engagement strategy that will assist in informing the necessary maps and reports required to identify suitable transit-rich corridors that would benefit from the Livable Communities Initiative and complement existing rezoning efforts through the implementation of the Housing Element (2021-2029). This strategy should demonstrate adequate engagement and involvement with marginalized, historically underserved, and/or disadvantaged communities potentially impacted by the selection of suitable corridors.
I FURTHER MOVE that City Council direct Los Angeles City Planning, in coordination with City Planning’s Urban Design Studio, to report back within 180 days on options for an administrative clearance procedure for projects eligible for the Livable Communities Initiative that outlines objective Design and Development Standards to ensure high quality, contextual design and compatibility with the vision of the Livable Communities Initiative outlined in Program 131 of the Housing Element (2021-2029).
I FURTHER MOVE that City Council direct Los Angeles City Planning, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, the Department of Public Works, and the Economic Workforce Development Department, with assistance from the City Administrative Office and other relevant departments, to report back within 180 days with options to establish a streamlined, administrative review process that ensures projects eligible for the Livable Communities Initiative invest in public right-of-way amenities and infrastructure improvements in order to encourage transit ridership, pedestrian and cyclist safety, and placemaking.

Roll Call Vote
2. Discussion and possible action: Council File: 22-0755
The City’s FY 2021-22 Budget included a $1,000,000 pilot program in partnership with the University of Southern California (USC) to deliver medical services to homeless residents. The program also places individuals into various types of housing and provides hygiene services at high-needs locations throughout the City. The program received an additional $1,000,000 in the FY 2022-23 Budget to continue these needed services.
This current service contract is ending on June 30, 2022. At this time, a new contract is required to recognize funding provided to LAHD in the FY 2022-23 Budget Resolution. It is important that a new contract be properly executed with USC through the Los Angeles Housing Department, administrator for this contract, to ensure continuity of service.
I THEREFORE MOVE that the City Council instruct and authorize the General Manager of the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) or designee to execute a contract with the University of Southern California (USC) to provide street medicine and housing services in the amount of $1,000,000 as approved in the City’s FY 22-23 Budget, and that the contract commence July 1, 2022 for a term of 12 months, with an option to extend for an additional 12 months.
I FURTHER MOVE that the Council find that the services to be perfonned by the University of Southern California are for the performance of professional, scientific, expert, technical, or other special services of a temporary and occasional character for which competitive bidding is not practicable or advantageous and that the work can be performed more economically or feasibly by independent contractors than by City employees. I FURTHER MOVE that LAHD be authorized to make any technical corrections or clarifications as necessary to the above instructions in order to effectuate the intent of this Motion.

MOTION 72A
AMEND item #72 (CF: 22-0755) to add the following directions: I FURTHER MOVE that the City Council instruct the Office of the City Administrative Officer (CAO) with the assistance of the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), Community Investment for Families Department (CIFD), the Mayor’s Office, the Unified Homelessness Response Center (UHRC), and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), to report in 60 days on the status of the City’s partnership with the USC Street Medicine Program, and funding sources and options for expanding street medicine services across the City.

Roll Call Vote
3. Discussion and possible action: Council File 22-1313
MOTION: HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY COMMITTEE
The most recent Point-in-Time Count data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)
indicate that nearly 6,500 people experiencing homelessness in the City are living in a total of about 4,000
recreational vehicles (RVs). That number, which has grown by 40% since 2018, represents 22% of the City’s total unsheltered homeless population. All too often, RVs used as dwellings on LA’s streets are in grave disrepair, meaning that people living in them face unsanitary and sometimes dangerous conditions. Many residents of RV s also lack access to adequate hygiene facilities. A number of the individuals who live in RVs actually make substantial rent payments to the vehicle’s owner, paying out hundreds of dollars each month for precarious and substandard housing. RVs have also posed challenges for the neighborhoods in which they are located related to the release of untreated effluent into streets or stormwater drains, increased risk of fires (especially from external generators), and other public safety concerns Since 2010, the City’s primary response to vehicular homelessness-particularly in RVs-has been a reactive one, not one that focuses on resolving homelessness for inhabitants of RVs. The City has used LAMC 80.69.4, a law that allows the City to prohibit the parking of oversized vehicles (those over 84 inches high and 22 feet long) between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m on specific streets. Through Council action, hundreds of streets have been added every year to the list of streets where oversized vehicle parking is prohibited. In addition to street-specific oversized vehicle bans, people who live in RVs on city streets must comply with rules that prohibit staying in one parking spot for more than 72 hours. Vehicles that violate this rule can be ticketed and towed. During the pandemic, the City paused ticketing and towing of vehicles with people living in them in accordance with CDC guidelines te-allew people experiencing homelessness to shelter in place-safely, but in April ofthis year, the City Council voted to resume parking enforcement for vehicles used as dwellings. This enforcement-based approach to addressing RVs, however, has proven to be largely ineffective. Often, RV dwellers move their vehicles to other streets in response to a ticket or an oversized vehicle prohibition, meaning that these bans simply move people experiencing homelessness from one street to another. Additionally, the City’s capacity to enforce the new rules around RV dwelling is extremely limited-and likely to remain so- because of the lack ofvendors and tow yard space to tow and impound oversized vehicles. It is clear that the City needs to come up with a more effective and holistic response to vehicular homelessness.
One option to address vehicular homelessness in RVs is to provide designated sites as “safe parking” lots. Safe parking programs typically provide nighttime security and hygiene facilities, as well as some case management on site. However, there are currently very few safe parking sites within the City that are large enough to accommodate RVs. Furthermore, none of these sites operate 24 hours a day, which poses a particular challenge for people in RVs, who do not opt to use the sites because it is onerous or impossible to move their vehicles out of the lots during daytime hours due to the size and condition of the vehicles.
Another strategy is to offer housing options to residents ofRVs. Indeed, the City Administrative Officer (CAO) recently proposed new outreach and engagement protocols to address Citywide vehicle dwelling (CF 21-0956-S 1), which instructs that prior to towing a vehicle, housing or shelter referrals should be made to vehicle dwellers “if available.” However, the City simply does not have adequate numbers of shelter beds or interim housing sites to offer housing to every resident currently in an RV. It is likely that without adequate housing options to offer residents, strict enforcement of existing RV laws would result in more individuals encamped in tents and makeshift shelters on City sidewalks. Effective housing navigation for people living in RVs will require specialized resources in order to successfully resolve homelessness for residents. Homeless service providers with experience working with residents of RV s report that incentives, such as small cash payments, can serve as useful tools to encourage residents moving into housing to relinquish their RVs when they move. Short-term storage options for RVs can also help residents overcome skepticism about moving into an interim housing site. In the proposed 2022-23 California budget, Governor Newsom has earmarked $300 million for Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) grants. Local governments can apply for ERF grants to create projects that serve people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in encampments. In 2022, Council District 4 received an ERF grant of$1,747,115 to rehouse individuals living unsheltered along a 19-mile stretch ofthe Los Angeles River. Eligible fund uses include street outreach and engagement, housing navigation, interim and permanent housing capacity building, activities to ensure sustained outcomes for people served, and funding for the restoration of encampment sites. The likely expansion of this flexible funding stream presents a promising opportunity to secure funds to support a City-wide, comprehensive approach to addressing RV homelessness effectively.I THEREFORE MOVE that the City Council direct the City Administrative Officer (CAO), with assistance from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and the Department of Transportation (LADOT), to report back within 60 days with a comprehensive City-wide rehousing strategy for people experiencing RV homelessness, in alignment with the City’s Street Engagement Strategy and LAHSA’s Best Practices for Addressing Street Encampments. The strategy should include the following components:
Identifying and securing appropriate interim shelter and housing for people living in RV s across the
City;
Creation of incentives for voluntary relinquishment of RVs used as dwellings;
Identifying and securing short-term storage lots for RVs after the owner or dweller moves into interim or
permanent housing if the owner or dweller wishes to store the RV for a short time;
Expanding Safe Parking programs, in collaboration with LAHSA, to include oversized/larger RVs in 24-hour Safe Parking programming;
Demolishing RVs, after the owner or dweller moves into interim or permanent housing, with consent of the owner;
Leveraging case management from sanitation outreach/City-funded generalist outreach teams for people
living in RVs, with a focus on strategies for working with people living in RVs; and
Necessary budgetary and staffing resources to implement the strategy.
I FURTHER MOVE that the City Council direct the City Administrative Officer (CAO) to report back within 60 days regarding the possibility of submitting an application on behalf of the City for an ERF grant to support the proposed City-wide rehousing strategy for people experiencing RV homelessness.
Roll Call Vote
4. Discussion and possible action: Council File 21-1208
Motion: In 2016 the State of Califomia adopted methane emissions targets in an effort to reduce short-lived climate pollutants under SB 1383 requiring all jurisdictions to reduce organic waste disposal by 75% by 2025. This was a necessary response to scientific discoveries that greenhouse gasses released by landfilling food and yard waste is a major contributor to pollutants and climate change.
The research uncovered that Califomia landfills are the third largest source of generated methane gas. Organics like food scraps, yard trimmings, paper, and cardboard make up half of what is dumped in our landfills. The new regulations require jurisdictions to adopt and enforce an ordinance on reducing commercial and residential food waste generation. All jurisdictions starting in 2022 will need to provide organic waste collection services and utilize recycling facilities, procure products made from recycled organic material, as well as redirect 20 percent of edible food currently thrown away to those going hungry by the year 2025.
Under the new law, each jurisdiction is accountable for compliance by its sourcegenerators, and CalRecycle, the State’s recycling and waste regulatory agency, is authorized to issue escalating penalties for non-compliance beginning in 2022.
The City of Los Angeles has been at the forefront implementing waste collection programs and recycling to address operational eficiencies and climate change. In January 2017 the City approved seven RecycLA contracts for the collection of solid waste, recycling and organics from large multifamily properties and businesses. These contracts contained specific landfill reduction targets tiat must be contractually met. Since there is always room for improvement, the City must begin work to ensure our policies are in compliance with the new State regulations beginning in 2022.
During the course of the past year and a half, City residents have been coping with the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, many residents have sought economic relief through the rent moratorium and utility bill assistance. The implementation of the new regulations associated with organics may have an impact on the City residents and businesses as they emerge from the pandemic. Given this, it is important that the City fully understand the economic impact of these regulations and provide ways to minimize their effect on struggling City residents and businesses.
The Bureau of Sanitation (BOS) should be requested to analyze the law and prepare a report with recommendations on phasing in the steps for data-collection, policy compliance, and future plans for capital improvements that comply with the new CalRecycle regulations. The City supports the goals to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants statewide and the regulations approved by CalRecycle already align with the City’s zero-waste goals.
I THEREFORE MOVE that the Bureau of Sanitation (BOS) be instructed to report to the City Council within 60 days on the steps necessary to comply with the CalRecycle regulations to reduce organic waste disposal by 75% by 2025; and the ability to develop a phased approach to compliance.
I further move that the BOS, With the assistance of the City Administrative Officer and the Chief Legislative Analyst, be instructed to report on the potential impact of the CalRecycle regulations on the ratepayers and methods and approaches to provide relief to ratepayers and minimize potential impacts.

Roll Call Vote

Items to be placed on the agenda for the next meeting
Adjournment of Meeting:
The Woodland Hills/ Warner Center Neighborhood Council Public Health and Homelessness Committee meets regularly on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm. The next Committee Meeting will be held on 24 January, 2023, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2022 -2023 year: Full Board meeting are held the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings.
Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.
Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference. HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.
*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss, at (818-340-6554 or email d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non- exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss at (818) 340-6554 or email d.weiss@whcouncil.org
*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:

www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date and/or time.
You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street.

Parking is free.
*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org
SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss de la Mesa Directiva, al d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.
Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.or9

Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee Meeting
2022-12-01 18:30 - 22:00
The PLUM Committee will hold its regular meeting on Thursday, December 1, 2022. Significant items for discussion are listed below. The full agenda is posted here: Dec 1, 2022 Agenda

ZA-2022-1090-ZV-ZAA 22450 W. Collins Street, Woodland Hills, 91367
Request to change from current 6 bed Residential Detox Program to 12 bed Residential Detox Program.

DIR-2021-7703-DI 5919 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91367 (Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse)
Request for Neighborhood Council support for a minor design change on a previously supported and approved project that is currently under construction.

ZA-2022-2788-CU-SPP-SPR-WDI 22822 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Construction of a new 3,342 square foot fast food drive-thru restaurant (In-N-Out) and demolition of existing former bank building.

WHWCNC Community Cleanup December 2022
2022-12-03 08:30 - 11:00
The December 3rd, 2022, WHWCNC Cleanup will be at the southwest corner of Variel and Victory. We will meet at 8:30 AM and work until we finish at 11 AM
All participants are asked to wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants, closed-toe shoes, a hat, protective glasses, and gloves. I will supply the bags and rakes. Sorry, NO ONE under 15 years is allowed due to safety concerns. Street parking is available. I assumed you would want to hilhipost the event officially.

Special Governance Committee Meeting
2022-12-08 17:30 - 18:00
Link to agenda Dec 8, 2022
AGENDA– SPECIAL MEETING OF GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 5:30pm VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83660920053
Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 836 6092 0053 and Press #
VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021, Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 836 6092 0053 and then press # to join the meeting.
Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood
Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the board.
AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call: Members/ Executive Committee: Chair – Dena Weiss, Mihran Kalaydjian,
Paul Lawler, Karen DiBiase.
3. Public Announcements by city officials and representatives: (3) minutes per speaker
4. Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items NOT on the agenda): (1) minutes per speaker
5. Approval of Committee Minutes for November 15, 2022 will be deferred to January, 2023.
Items for discussion and possible action:
Stakeholder Public Comment will be taken on each agenda item: (2) minutes per speaker
6. Review of qualifications for Vipul Parmar to apply for the Area 6 Alternate Representative position. Application form and supporting documents submitted.
7. Review of qualifications for Theresa Campbell to apply for the Area 5 CBO position. Application form submitted. Supporting documents pending.
8. In conformity with WHWCNC bylaws, Article VII: Committees and Their Duties: (Section 3B states: Committee Chairperson: With the concurrence of the other Officers of the Neighborhood Council, the President shall designate a person to serve as a Chairperson for each Neighborhood Council committee, and ad hoc committee) request for Officer concurrence regarding appointment of committee chairpersons for the following committees:
Community Outreach: August Steurer and Bobby Wasserman.
Community Services: Rachel Tabak and co chair Houtan Hormozian
Public Safety: Houtan Hormozian and co chair Rachel Tabak.
9. Standing Rules Review will continue at the next scheduled Committee meeting along with officer roles.
Adjournment of meeting:
The next Committee Meeting will be held on January 17, 2023 by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time of meeting dates for the 2022 year: the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules. Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference. HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.
*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to
attend by contacting Dena Weiss by email at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:
• www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date and/or time.
• You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions
• A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.
*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org
SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss de la Mesa Directiva, al d,weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.
Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978- 1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org

WH Issues and Policies Virtual Cmte Mtg 12-8-2022
2022-12-08 19:30
Click for Agenda pdf
December 8, 2022
At 7:30 pm
By Virtual Meeting Teleconference and Phone Number For Public Participation
Online Internet Access via Zoom at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81477494746
or
To Join the Meeting by Telephone:
Dial (1 669 900 6833) & Then Enter This Webinar ID: 814 7749 4746 and Press “#”
Committee Members are
Chairperson Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer, Aaron Williams
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills Issues and Policies Committee meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
The Chair will give listeners instructions for providing public comments at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the Chair or Moderator, to address the Committee on any agenda item before the Committee acts on each item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Submission of Public comment cannot be required in advance of the meeting; only real-time public comment is required. If broadcasting interruptions prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If the public cannot provide public comment or cannot be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Messaging and virtual backgrounds are in the control of the individual Committee member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
Contact Person:, Heath Kline, 818-312-5610
h.kline@whcouncil.org

Meeting Agenda

Public Input on Agenda Items – The public may address the Committee on any agenda item before the Committee acts on an item. The Committee will accept comments from the public on agenda items only when the Committee considers the individual item.
Public Input on Matters not appearing on the Agenda – During the General Public Comment period, the Committee listens to comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda within the Committee’s jurisdiction. * Please note that the Brown Act prevents the Committee from acting on an issue you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a public member may become the subject of a future Committee meeting.
Notice to Paid Representatives – If you receive compensation to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org
Public Comments are limited to two (2) minutes per speaker unless adjusted by the presiding member of the Committee. As needed, the presiding member may impose different time limits per each agenda item.

Call to Order
Establish Quorum:
Roll Call — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer, Aaron Williams
Comments by the Public regarding Issues NOT on the Agenda.

(2 minutes each)
Agenda Items for Discussion and Possible Action by the Committee:

Approval of Available Committee Minutes

Roll Call Vote — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer, Aaron Williams
All public comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker unless adjusted by the presiding member of the Committee. If available, the event page for this meeting has draft minutes posted on whcouncil.com.

Council Files 21-1472, 22-1196, 22-1197, 23-0002-S1:
Efforts to put up one or more Charter Reform Ballot Measures in 2023 and 2024 regarding 1) a new Independent Council Redistricting process and 2) the Establishment of more Council based on population.

The Committee continues their discussion of the issues with the possibility of acting regarding WHWCNC filing a CIS regarding the proposals for placement of a City Charter Amendment to create more-independent Redistricting Commissions and recommendations to increase the number of council members, possibly based on population.
Preliminary Draft CIS
Community Impact Statement Summary:
Since the origination of LA’s city council system, there have been 15 council districts. At the time, there were 200,000 people in the City of LA, with about 13,300 persons per district. That number is multiplied twenty times to over 3.85 million people today. Each Council District in Los Angeles has more people than the Cities of Burbank and Pasadena combined. There is scant evidence that this consolidation of power in such populated Districts is good for the residents and voters of LA. The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council wholeheartedly supports bringing Charter Reform Ballot Initiatives to the voters before 2024. These would increase and tie Council district sizes to population, expand the City Council to provide more representation to our communities and remove Councilmembers and elected officials from redistricting.
Preliminary Draft CIS
WHIP recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center-Neighborhood Council [WHWCNC] resolve and send the following WHIP statement of community impact as its own. The CIS supports calling for City Charter ballot measures on the expansion of the number of Council Districts and a new impartial Redistricting process to redistrict Los Angeles in time for the 2024 election cycle:
Council File 21-1472
November 2022 Ballot / Ballot Measure / City Charter Amendment / Independent Redistricting Commission
Council File 23-0002-S1
Independent Redistricting Process / New Commission / New Redistricting Maps / City of Los Angeles / April 2023 Special Election
Council File 22-1196
Charter Reform Ballot Initiative / 2024 / Redistricting Process / Los Angeles City Council Seats / Representation Fixed to Population Growth
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council supports the creation of an independent redistricting commission. It is a necessary and overdue step for the City Council and Los Angeles Unified School Board Districts. During the 2021 redistricting process, many Neighborhood Councils had to expend significant energy and time to fight for their neighborhood in a polarized and politicized process. It is time for Los Angeles to catch up to California and Los Angeles County, which already have independent redistricting commissions.
We propose adding restrictions for applicant qualifications excluding any bidder, contractor, developer, or someone with a direct financial interest in the City’s work from serving on the Commission. We also recommend excluding anyone affiliated with the management of an employee union, any recent candidate for a City of LA elected office, former elected officials in the City of LA, and anyone who has donated or raised above a certain threshold for local candidates.
The Redistricting process must follow a set of rank-ordered criteria to create new districts:

Population Equality:Districts must comply with the S. Constitution’s requirement of “one person, one vote.”
Federal Voting Rights Act:Districts must ensure an equal opportunity for minorities to elect a candidate of their choice
Geographic Contiguity:All areas within a district must connect as an undivided whole, except for the particular case of islands
Geographic Integrity:Without violating previous criteria, Districts shall minimize the division of neighborhood councils before minimizing the division of communities of interest to the extent feasible. Communities of interest are secondary to neighborhood councils. They must be a contiguous population sharing common social and economic interests that justify inclusion within a single district for purposes of its effective and fair representation.
Geographic Compactness:To the extent practicable, and where this does not conflict with previous criteria, districts must not bypass nearby communities for more distant communities of interest. Communities of interest cannot be considered broader than 7 miles.
To the extent practicable, Districts should not cross watersheds.
Drawing Districts shall not consider any effects on Incumbents, political candidates, or political.

The City Council districts are currently too large to govern each area well. They have created an environment leading to opportunities for corruption by concentrating so much power in so few hands. A fifth of our City Council Members coming under indictment in the last decade is a strong indicator of opportunities for corruption. We also strongly believe in the expansion of the City Council’s size.
It is simply impossible for 15 Council Members to govern 4 million people appropriately. Each City Council Member is supposed to represent over a quarter million residents. For comparison, in New York City (8.4 million people, 51 council districts), each council district represents approximately 160,000-170,000 people. In Chicago (2.71 million people, 50 wards), each alderperson represents about 54,000 people. The City of Fresno has a Council Member per 112,000 persons. We favor getting to somewhere in the middle.
We support a ballot measure to establish a new City Council, having one Council Member per 110,000 residents to the nearest whole number and expanding the Council Districts as the population increases.
Serving as Commission Co-chairs, two retired Superior Court Judges put forth by the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court shall select the Commission from a pool of about 80 candidates nominated across the City. At least one judge shall live in the City of Los Angeles.
To establish the pool of candidates, each Los Angeles Neighborhood Council may nominate at least one and up to 3 candidates at the rate of one per 50,000 in population to the nearest whole number, ideally resulting in selecting about 1 out of 5 candidates to the Redistricting Commission of 17 members plus the two Co-chairs.
We support ballot measures to increase the number of Council districts and establish new redistricting procedures. They should appear on the same ballot. When voters pass one or both ballot measures as proposed, the City Council must immediately initiate the redistricting process to complete new redistricting in time for the 2024 election cycle.
Roll Call Vote — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer, Aaron Williams

Council File 14-0425-S13:
18447 West Sherman Way / Reseda Theatre Project / Reseda Theatre Senior Housing L.P. / Reseda Theatre and Public Market / Disposition and Development Agreement / Fifth Amendment.

Committee discussion with possible action regarding support for the position of the Reseda Neighborhood Council’s objection to continuing the process of modifying the development agreement until the community has been consulted.
Preliminary Draft CIS
Council File 14-0425-S13
18477 West Sherman Way | Reseda Theatre Project
Position: Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood opposes L.A. City Council File 14-0425-S13 – until the Reseda community has adequately been outreached to and their input has been satisfactorily received.
The revitalization of the Reseda Theater has been a dream of the Reseda Community for over two decades and why they supported the bundling of the theatre project with a senior housing project that promised to revitalize the theater years ago. Throughout the years the Reseda Neighborhood Council has requested updates regarding the progress of the theatre but was never informed regarding this proposed severance into two corporate entities. Respectively – the transfer of property from Reseda Theater Senior Housing, LP to Reseda Theatre and Public Market LP.
In public records, the Reseda Neighborhood Council discovered that incorporation documents setting the groundwork for using two corporate entities were filed in May 2021, which means that there have been over 18 months to inform their community of potential changes.
As Woodland Hills has similarly been party to the same style of concealment of City development activities and perceived backroom dealings originating from our shared council office on development projects impacting our community such as the expansion of the West Valley Food Pantry or the aquation with public funds of properties across from Taft High School to be operated by a non-profit to provide homeless housing and services to targeted groups without details to the community of who will actually be served or any details of the programs that will be offered on-site to help the residents despite numerous inquiries from the public, we feel it is our responsibility to join the Reseda NC in calling out development projects in Council District 3 that surreptitiously bypass Neighborhood Councils and community input. As the stakeholders of Reseda were not informed of the proposed changes and were without the opportunity to weigh in on serious concerns, it continues the tradition of perceived backroom dealing and City Council corruption that has plagued the Los Angeles City Council for the past few years. By way of examples, we refer to the ways that LA City Council handled its own redistricting and that of LAUSD recently where community input fell on deaf ears. We also see similarities in bypassing informing and taking input from the affected area stakeholders and NCs in the handling of the Northeast Valley Animal Shelter (see our CIS regarding Council File 22-0897).
The financing for this project has been supplied by the City of Los Angeles, with our tax dollars. Reseda’s understandable concern is that this request to transfer ownership from one corporate owner to two is simply a cynical ploy on the part of the developer to guarantee that, should they run into difficulties or roadblocks in the restoration of the theater, they would fail to keep their promise to restore and revitalize the Reseda Theater in a form acceptable to the community.
As such, the WHWCNC requests Council File 14-0425-S13 be continued until the stakeholders of Reseda have been given the opportunity to provide robust feedback and have their input be thoughtfully considered. This means the transfer of property from Reseda Theater Senior Housing, LP to Reseda Theatre and Public Market LP be delayed, and possibly denied, until adequate outreach has been shown and input received.
Sincerely,
Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council
Roll Call Vote — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer, Aaron Williams

Council File 22-1489:
Van Nuys Airport (VNY) / Development Projects / Community Impact / VNY Citizens Advisory Council.

The Committee initiates discussion with possible action regarding support for the motion by Councilman Blumenfield calling for a report from LA World Airports regarding a list of projects and awards, past community engagement, compliance with 2005 VNY Master Plan, environmental impacts, and proposal for future community engagement.
Roll Call Vote — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer, Aaron Williams

Council File 21-0407:
Neighborhood Council / Standardize Election Rules / Stakeholder Participation.

The Committee to discuss and possibly take action regarding the Board issuing an impact statement regarding the Empower LA report to the City Council on by-laws issues related to Neighborhood Council Elections. Another requested action in the council file is for the City Attorney to standardize election rules and limit this authority.
Preliminary Draft CIS
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council strongly encourages the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to submit a follow-up report-back to CF 21-0407 with input from experienced Neighborhood Council board members to expand on its responses to the specific City Council asks, and emphasizing that the Neighborhood Councils are independent pursuant to the City Charter and that amendments to their bylaws cannot be made by the City Council or other entity, only by each Neighborhood Council.
Roll Call Vote — Heath Kline, John Sandy Campbell, August Steurer, Aaron Williams

Committee consideration of Possible issues
Discussion on future Committee meeting agendas acting to set a date for the next meeting.

Issue suggestions are posted when available on the whcouncil.com event page for this meeting.

Adjournment of Meeting

Meeting dates for the 2021-2022 year: Committee holds meetings on the second and fourth Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete committee and board meetings list. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.
Due to the holiday, the meeting on December 22, 2022, is probably canceled. A possible Special Meeting may be scheduled for December 29, 2022. The next Regular Committee Meeting in January will be held on January 12, 2022, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and confirm the date and time.
Due to COVID-19, virtual teleconferencing replaces ALL in-person Committee meetings. However, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate based on disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices, and other auxiliary aids or services may be provided upon request.
To ensure the availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) before the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss by email at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss de la Mesa Directiva, at d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.
PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, the Committee provides non-exempt writings distributed to a majority of all of the Committee Members in advance of a meeting on the WHWCNC website: www.whcouncil.org or via the scheduled meeting video presentation. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss by emailing d.weiss@whcouncil.org
PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS –

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted outside of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber window located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber offices are at the Promenade Mall outside the mall’s east entrance and south of Ruth Chris Restaurant. Access the offices from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.
Agendas posted for public review: At www.whcouncil.org, go to the Calendar page and click on the date.
You can also receive Committee agendas via email by subscribing to LA City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

WHWCNC SPECIAL FULL BOARD MEETING
2022-12-12 18:30 - 21:30
Link to file Dec 12, 2022

AGENDA
Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council
SPECIAL – FULL BOARD MEETING
Monday, December 12, 2022, 6:30 pm
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
Link to join Webinar
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83817897333
Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 838 1789 7333 and Press #
Click for November 9th Board Minutes
Click for September MER
Cllick for October MER
Click for November MER
Click for Board Members Elgible for Parlimentarian Position
Click for Ruth’s Chris Case Report
Click for Collins Street Case Report
Click for Mulholland Wire Facility Case Report
Click for In N Out Plum Case Report

VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet based service option.

Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 838 1789 7333 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.

AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. THIS MEETING IS BEING HELD 48 HOURS PRIOR TO THE REGULAR FULL BOARD MEETING DUE TO SCHEDULING ISSUES.

Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by
the presiding officer of the board.

AGENDA

Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Roll Call

Public Announcements:
Office of Councilmember Bob Blumenfield (2 minutes)
Office of Local and State Officials – if available (2 minutes each)
Other Local Agencies – if available (2 minutes each)

General Public Comment, by the Public, on Non-Agenda Items:
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total.
___________________________________________________________________________________

Organization, Operation, Policies, & Procedures:

All comment is limited to 1 minute per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the Board.
Time limits set for each agenda item may be adjusted by the presiding officer of the Board. Time limits may vary so the public is encouraged to join the meeting several minutes PRIOR to a specific agenda item being discusseded.

Approval of Minutes: Board Meeting – November 9, 2022 (5 minutes)

See posted support document Roll Call Vote

Officer Reports (5 minutes)

President – Dena Weiss
Vice President – Mihran Kalaydjian
Treasurer – Paul Lawler
Parliamentarian – Vacant

Items for Discussion and Possible Action:

Item No. (1) Paul Lawyer, Treasurer, and Dena Weiss, President,
(22-107) Approval of MER for September 2022
Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)
Motion for the board to approve the September 2022 Monthly Expense Report (MER).
See posted support document Roll Call Vote
Item No. (2) Paul Lawyer, Treasurer, and Dena Weiss, President,
(22-108) Approval of MER for October 2022
Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)
Motion for the board to approve the October 2022 Monthly Expense Report (MER).
See posted support document Roll Call Vote

Item No. (3) Paul Lawyer, Treasurer, and Dena Weiss, President,
(22-109) Approval of MER for November 2022
Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)
Motion for the board to approve the November 2022 Monthly Expense Report (MER).
See posted support document Roll Call Vote

Item No (4) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-110) Stakeholders Appointment to Area 5 Business Rep Seat

Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Julie Waltrip to the Area 5 Business Rep board seat.

Roll Call Vote

Item No (5) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-111) Stakeholders Appointment to Area 5 CBO Seat

Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Theresa Campbell to the Area 5 Community Based Organization board seat.
Roll Call Vote

Item No (6) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-112) Stakeholder Appointment to Area 6 Alternate Board Seat

Discussion and possible action: (5 minutes)

Motion for the board to appoint Vipul Parmar to the Area 6 Alternate board seat.

Roll Call Vote
Item No. (7) Governance Committee, Dena Weiss, Chair
(22-113) Election Of Parliamentarian

Discussion and possible action: (15 minutes)

Nominations will be accepted for the position of Parliamentarian.

The new Parliamentarian will serve until the 2023 WHWCNC Election has been certified by the City
Clerk and then a WHWCNC Officers Election will be held at the next regular Board Meeting. The 2023 WHWCNC election will be held on June 18. 2023.

Description Per the Bylaws:
Section 2: Duties and Powers

Parliamentarian. The Parliamentarian shall ensure that the WHWCNC meetings are

in compliance with the Bylaws, Standing Rules, WHWCNC Code of Civility, EmpowerLA Code of Conduct and all other City, State and Federal rules and regulations. The Parliamentarian shall ensure the meetings are undertaken in an expeditious manner and shall be the timekeeper, ensuring that all speakers speak within the publicly noticed time frames. The Parliamentarian shall ensure the members abide by all rules to ensure that our NC’s business is conducted in a respectful and courteous manner and in a manner that will generate respect and credibility for our WHWCNC.

Election of Parliamentarian:

Article VI – Section 1: Officers of the Board: The Officers of the Board (“the Officers”) shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer, a Secretary and a Parliamentarian. These Officers shall be elected by the Board as provided below, and all must be elected members of the Board.

An appointed member of the board can be elected as an Officer, should no elected member agree to be
nominated for a specific Officer position or no elected member is elected by a majority vote of the board for a specific Officer position.

The Youth Member and Alternate Representatives cannot serve as an Officer of the Board.

Alternate Representatives cannot vote in the election unless one of their area reps is absent.

The youth member can vote in the election.

If there are more than two (2) candidates for an office and none receives a majority vote on the first election, a run-off election shall be held immediately between the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes.

See posted list of elected board members and appointed board members eligible for nomination for Parliamentarian.
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (8) Planning, Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee (PLUM)- Don Patterson, Chair
(22-114) Case No. ZA-2022-5065-CWW, ENV-2022—5066-CE
23388 Mulholland Drive, Woodland Hills 91364
Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)
Project Description
AT&T Mobility is proposing a roof mounted wireless telecommunications facility consisting of 16 panel antennas & 48 RRUs, arranged in four sectors of four antennas/12 RRUs each (all screened), and ancillary equipment atop the roof (also screened). The proposed design will mitigate any adverse visual impacts and blend with the design of the underlying building. (See attached simulations.)

PLUM Motion
The Planning Land Use and Mobility committee of the Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council (WHWCNC), having held one remote meeting via ZOOM on the proposed AT&T Mobility Wireless Telecommunications Facility (WTF) request and has made the following finds and recommends the support of the Board of the WHWCNC as follows:

WHEREAS: AT&T Mobility proposes installing a wireless facility consisting of 16 panel antennas, 48 RRUs, and equipment cabinets behind screening on an existing rooftop; and

WHEREAS: Existing service is insufficient to meet existing demand by customers in the West Valley due to overloaded existing facilities resulting in interrupted service, dropped calls, or complete denial of service inside nearby neighborhood retail centers; and

WHEREAS: The LAMC authorizes the Zoning Administrator to grant Conditional Uses, allows conditional use of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities; and

WHEREAS: AT&T Mobility has satisfied the conditions of LAMC Sections 12.24 and 11.5.7 that allow for the installation of wireless facilities in R3-1 Zones; and

WHEREAS: The location meets the minimum distances to habitable structures required by the FCC. The antennas will be painted matte in a non-reflective color to match the existing transmission tower where they will be installed. The proposed antennas meet setback requirements from all abutting streets, residential uses, and all zones; and

WHEREAS: AT&T Mobility emissions are regulated by the FCC to ensure public safety standards based on peer-reviewed scientific studies, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Drug Administration (FDA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; and

WHEREAS: AT&T Mobility analyzed several alternate locations as candidates for a AT&T Mobility WTF, and the subject location is the only location that has the requisite space, power, telco utility availability on site, as well as land-lord interest in leasing space to AT&T Mobility for a new WTF; and

WHEREAS: The site is of adequate size, shape, topography, location, and access to utilities to accommodate the proposed wireless facility in that all setbacks are met, and it has access to power and telephone connections; and

WHEREAS: The use and development will be compatible with the intended character of the area and are similar to other rooftop approvals elsewhere in the City; and

WHEREAS: AT&T Mobility will operate this facility in full compliance with the regulations and licensing requirements of the FCC, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the CPUC, governed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and other applicable laws.

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED; That the Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee, for the findings and conditions stated herein, finds that the submitted application and plans by AT&T Mobility for the proposed Conditional Use Permit at the Motion Picture & Television Fund, Woodland Hills, CA 91364, receive the support of the Board of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council for the requested actions. Further Neighborhood Council advises the City of Los Angeles Planning Department and Council District 3 Councilmember Bob Blumenfield of its findings and its subsequent supporting recommendation to approve this application as presented to the Board of the WHWCNC on December 12, 2022
See posted support document
Roll call vote
Item No. (9) Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee (PLUM) – Don Patterson, Chair
(22-115) Case No. ZA-2022-1090-ZV-ZAA 22450 W. Collins Street, Woodland Hills, 91367

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Project Description
Application to expand an operating 6-bed/patient Detox facility in a single family residence treating substance abuse patients (by-right under State Law) into a 12-bed/12 person Detox facility at the same location using primarily the same staff and facilities. Expansion over the State allowed 6 patients is not by-right under State Law, and approval is solely at the discretion of the City of Los Angeles. At three (3) WHWCNC PLUM Committee presentations, neighbors spoke about numerous problems currently emanating from this facility and causing issues in the neighborhood, and aired concerns that doubling the number of patients in the current facility without expanding staff or protections put the community at risk. The Applicant was asked—and agreed—to hold in-persons meetings with the neighbors and discuss the issues and any possible remedies. No meeting(s) occurred in the 3 months after the request was made and agreed-to by the Applicant.

PLUM Motion
As pertaining to Cases ZA-2022-1090-ZV-ZAA and ENV-2022-2091-CE, having held three (3) public virtual teleconference PLUM meetings for the application filed by Aaron Barsalou, the applicant/owner of Psyclarity Health, the Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee hereby finds that:

WHEREAS, the applicant has been operating a by-right 6-bed Residential Detox Program at the 22450 Collins Street location under State License No.191055AP since August 2020, treating substance abuse patients: and,

WHEREAS, the applicant is now requesting a Zone Variance to permit increasing the by-right, 6 bed licensed Residential Detox Program on the RE11-1 zoned parcel at 22450 Collins Street, to a 12-bed Program, that is not covered by the State statute, by doubling up in the existing rooms; and,

WHEREAS, the applicant has stated does not plan to increase staff levels, add oversight personnel or make any modifications to the existing structure to accommodate the requested increased client count; and,

WHEREAS, the LAPD has reported that during the period of September 2021 to September 2022 there were a total of 9 police/emergency calls (an average of 1 every 40 days) for service at the facility; and,

WHEREAS, the surrounding neighbors have expressed concerns that the increased volume of occupants will result in an increase in the level of residents roaming the neighborhood streets at night, and increase emergency and police activity resulting in further deterioration of the safety and quiet, semi-rural nature of the residential community; and,

WHEREAS, the Applicant agreed to hold meetings with neighbors to see if issues could be worked out, but failed to hold even one such meeting over a three month period; and,

WHEREAS, the PLUM Committee members question whether the existing staff level will be sufficient to prevent occupants from leaving the facility alone and roaming on the local streets; and,

WHEREAS, the applicant plans to increase on-site parking capacity from 4 to 8 spaces by adding 4 new parking spaces and 10 bicycle spaces in the open back yard space of the property to comply with the required minimum of 9 parking spaces, thus negating the need for a Zone Variance; and,

WHEREAS, a Zoning Administrator Determination is being requested to address an existing reduced side yard setback of 5’6” to 8’ in lieu of the minimum required setback of 10’ for institutions and centers like this; and,

WHEREAS, a temporarily closed school facility–Hughes Adult Learning Center, (formerly Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School) is directly across Capistrano Avenue to the west and is currently being used by the West Valley Girls Softball League for athletic activities and could put these children in a dangerous situation; and,

WHEREAS, another Detox facility in the community is already located approximately 0.38 of a mile away on Dolorosa Street;

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee, for the findings stated herein, finds that the submitted application and plans to expand the Substance Abuse facility at 22450 Collins Street from the current 6 patients to the requested 12 patients, not receive the support of the Board of the Woodland Hills -Warner Center Neighborhood Council for the requested action(s);

The Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council advise the city of Los Angeles Planning Department and Council District 3 Councilmember Bob Blumenfield of its findings and recommendation to not approve the application presented on Dec. 12, 2022.
See posted support document
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (10) Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee (PLUM) – Don Patterson, Chair
(22-116) Case No. DIR-2021-7703-DI 5919 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91367
(Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse)

Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)

Project Description:
The Applicant is requesting s supplemental permit for minor modifications to the façade, internal floor layout and revise location of RTUs.

PLUM Motion
As pertaining to Case DIR-2021-7703-DI for relocation and renovations for Ruth’s Chris Steak House at 5919 Canoga Avenue, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, after having held one (1) virtual public meeting related to a modification to the previously supported project filed by Ruth’s Hospitality Group, Inc. to enlarge, upgrade and refurbish an existing restaurant structure in Allison Plaza in the Downtown District of the Warner Center 2035 Plan, and to gain Administrative Clearance and a Director’s Interpretation for WC 2035 SP Section 5.3.2.7.2 for horizontal additions, and for relief from Section 6.1.2.3.5(a), the WHWCNC Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee hereby finds that:

WHEREAS, the proposed modifications result in no change to the overall design and functions of the approved plans; and

WHEREAS, the requested changes will retain a long-time, high-end Warner Center dining establishment in the Downtown District and help to attract additional commercial activity and enterprises to the commercial center of Warner Center.

Therefore, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Planning Land Use and Mobility Committee and the full Board of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council, for the findings and conditions stated herein, finds that application and plans submitted by Ruth’s Hospitality Group Inc. and its affiliated architects and representatives receive the support of the Board of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council (WHWCNC) for their requested actions contingent upon the following conditions:
Conditions

All plans presented either in person or electronically on December 1, 2022 to the WHWCNC PLUM Committee and Board of the WHWCNC on December 12, 2022 shall be dated as such.

The applicant will not submit any significant, further updated plans or changes without first presenting them to the WHWCNC for support. Any modifications to the elevation(s)/ architecture that are no longer in substantial conformance with the initial presented plans will be presented first to the WHWCNC for support before submitting them to City Additionally, all conditions herein shall be printed on one of the Project Summary pages as a commitment to–and acceptance of–these conditions.

The Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council advise the City of Los Angeles Planning Department and Council District 3 Councilmember Bob Blumenfield of its findings and subsequent recommendations to support this motion presented on December 12, 2022.
See posted support document
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (11) Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee (PLUM) – Don Patterson, Chair
(22-117) Case No. ZA-2022-2788-CU-SPP-SPR-WDI 22822 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91364 (In-N-Out)
Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)
Project Description
Application to demolish vacant 1-story former bank building on the corner of Rigoletto Street and Ventura Blvd., and replace it with a new 3,342 SF restaurant with 24 car drive-thru service lane, dining patio, parking lot, and trash enclosure in the Cahuenga Blvd./Ventura Blvd. Specific Plan. The property structure is zoned C4-1 VLD. The site also includes a large parking lot zoned P-1 VLD. The entire property totals 39,876 SF, and has two access entry/exits—on Ventura Blvd, and on Rigoletto. Application includes four (4) Code relief requests.

PLUM Motion
As pertains to Application ZA-2022-2788-CU-SPP-SPR-WDI, concerning the demolition of existing 6,739SF bank building with parking lot (total 39,876 SF lot), and construction of a new 3,342 SF restaurant with drive-thru service, dining patio, parking lot and trash enclosure in the Cahuenga Blvd./Ventura Blvd. Specific Plan section of Woodland Hills, the Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee hereby finds that:

WHEREAS, the Applicant has submitted a demolition and construction plans that substantially conform to the requirements of the Cahuenga Blvd. /Ventura Blvd. Specific Plan; and

WHEREAS, the request for relief from Code Section 12.24.W.17 for a CUP for a drive-through restaurant in the C4 Zone appears to be warranted; and

WHEREAS, the request from Code Section 12.24.W.27 for a CUP for a commercial corner development that operates between 11 PM and 7 AM and does not comply with requirements in Section 12.22.A.23(a)(3) also appears to be warranted; and

WHEREAS, the request to waive the 5-foot dedication along Rigoletto (and add to the dedication along Del Valle) should be considered; and

WHEREAS, the submitted landscape plan not only satisfied the Specific Plan requirements, but also will help shield the adjacent apartment complex from the project; and

WHEREAS, the project Applicant has acknowledged and accepted the conditions of the Neighborhood Council and agreed to include them on a project summary page in revised project plan submittal;
THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Planning, Land Use and Mobility Committee, for the findings and conditions stated herein, finds that the submitted application and plans for the proposed project at 22822 Ventura Blvd, Woodland Hills, CA 91364, and recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council adopt this motion of the committee as its own in SUPPORT of the requested actions as stated contingent upon adoption by the Applicant of the following conditions:
Condition(s)

All plans presented on December 12, 2020 at the virtual Meeting of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council (WHWCNC) shall be dated as such and re-submitted to Planning as an (updated) project application submittal.
The applicant will not submit any significant, further updated plans without first presenting them to the WHWCNC for support.
Additionally, all conditions herein shall be printed on one of the Project Summary pages as a commitment to and acceptance of these conditions.
Applicant shall work with the City’s Department of Transportation to address the “Right Hand Turn Only” necessity for the drive-through exit.

The Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills- Warner Center- Neighborhood Council advise the City of Los Angeles Planning Department and Council District 3 Councilmember Bob Blumenfield of PLUM’s findings and its subsequent supporting recommendation to approve this application as presented on December 12, 2022.

See supporting documents
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (12) WHIP Chair, Heath Kline
(22-118) CIS regarding City Council File 22-1489
Van Nuys Airport (VNY) / Development Projects / Community Impact / VNY Citizens Advisory Council
Discussion and Possible Action: Motion to adopt the following CIS from the WHIP Committee:
(10 minutes)
CIS Summary:
The Woodland Hills – Warner Neighborhood Council Board SUPPORTS the Los Angeles City Council enacting the actions in Motion #22-1489 with swift and immediate enforcement.
Van Nuys Airport (VNY) has grown to rank as one of the world’s busiest general aviation airports. Even though the airport’s growth has brought financial gain to the airport and the City of Los Angeles and additional jobs for Angelenos, it comes at a real cost to San Fernando Valley residents. Increased noise, pollution, and air traffic complicate our regional efforts to address environmental justice concerns and our climate crisis.
Woodland Hills – Warner Neighborhood Council Statement of Impact on Community
Van Nuys Airport (VNY) has grown to rank as one of the world’s busiest general aviation airports. It is one of two airports owned by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA)–including Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Its location in the center of the San Fernando Valley had been a significant departure and arrival point for legions of small private and corporate prop aircraft for decades. But year after year, it has seen many small single-engine aircraft users replaced by newer, bigger, and noisier corporate jet aircraft. And, during Covid, VNY traffic increased, and operations expanded, providing private air traffic an alternative to LAX. That has substantially increased the volume of air traffic over densely populated Valley communities.
Even though the airport’s growth has brought financial gain to VNY and the City of Los Angeles and more jobs for Angelenos, it comes at a real cost to San Fernando Valley residents. Increased noise, pollution, and air traffic complicate regional efforts to address environmental justice concerns and our climate crisis.
The airport system operates under the direction of a policy-making Board of Airport Commissioners [BOAC] appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles. In 1985, the Los Angeles City Council established the Van Nuys Airport Citizens Advisory Council [CAC] for community examination and input around all aspects of general aviation operations, facilities development, and land utilization at and around the airport. But during the recent Covid crisis, the perceived urgency facilitated an easy way for VNY to bypass the Van Nuys CAC and other advisory bodies, to ignore their input and process, and just submit project proposals directly to the BOAC.
Due to the circumvention of the Van Nuys CAC, year-over-year after-hours operations at VNY have increased by 40.24%–directly impacting nearby residents with additional noise, pollution, and traffic. Overall, FAA traffic control and after-hours operations have risen 40.06% since 2017.
This moment is critical for the City of Los Angeles when transparency and credibility are needed to restore public trust. As such, LA City Council Members from Valley District 3, District 2, and District 4 created Motion #22-1489 that mandates input from the Van Nuys Airport CAC and sets clear standards of community outreach from the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) regarding updates made to the Van Nuys Airport. Additionally, the Councilmember for the LAX area supports the motion.
As such, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center-Neighborhood Council must endorse this City Council action and encourage our City Councilman, Bob Blumenfield, to continue his vigilance over increasing noise, pollution, and air traffic impacts on the residents and businesses of Council District 3.
Therefore:
WHEREAS, the residents, businesses, and property owners of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center area, as do all other VNY impacted communities deserve a meaningful opportunity for input about any proposed changes and projects under consideration by VNY and evaluation by the BOAC; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Los Angeles has chartered the Van Nuys Airport CAC with providing stakeholder input and outreach that VNY and the BOAC must in good faith adhere to; and
WHEREAS, the WHWCNC desires to completely support the actions of City Council Motion #22-1489 and urge the Council President that it be brought out of Committee to the Council floor for a complete vote of the LA City Council as swiftly as possible;
THEREFORE, the Woodland Hills Impacts and Policies (WHIP) Committee recommends the Woodland Hills – Warner Neighborhood Council Board accept this Impact Statement as its own and request the Los Angeles City Council to enact the actions in Motion #22-1489 with swift and immediate enforcement.
FURTHERMORE, the Woodland Hills Impacts and Policies Committee recommends that WHWCNC Board President Dena Weiss send a letter with this statement to all the active members of the City Council for immediate action, as well as the BOAC and Mayor Bass.
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (13) WHIP Chair, Heath Kline
(22-119) Board CIS regarding City Council Files 21-0407. Neighborhood Council / Standardize Election Rules / Stakeholder Participation
Discussion and Possible Action: Motion to adopt the following CIS from the WHIP Committee.
(10 minutes)
Community Impact Statement:
The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council [WHWCNC] strongly encourages the City Council to require the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to submit a supplemental report-back responding to City Council requests in City Council File 21-0407. Further input from experienced Neighborhood Council Board Members, which improves upon the report’s initial conclusions, should better serve as the basis for City Council decisions.
The WHWCNC Board bases this advice on the knowledge that fellow Neighborhood Councils [NCs] report the report-back from EmpowerLA, submitted to City Council on 10/14/2022, contains factual errors when compared to raw elections data available on EmpowerLA.org. The Department’s limited attention to detail and awareness of statistics concerns the WHWCNC Board. Consequently, our NC expects that the City Council will not rely on the 10/14/2022 report for making changes to the regulation of NC Elections. However, further study is essential, especially regarding self-affirmation.
The WHWCNC Board is highly concerned that self-affirmation by potential voters will become mandated by the City. The founders of this NC crafted the structure of WHWCNC to minimize the possibility of an organization’s takeover of the Board to follow its self-serving agenda. Our NC structure depends on recognizing, preserving, and promoting our seven distinct sub-communities of interest areas within our NC boundaries and having representatives of three types to encourage diversity of viewpoints and interests. Unfortunately, the feared takeover-attempt situation has occurred more than once. Yet, those attempts failed more than once, primarily due to the Board’s structure. Self-affirmation allows voters to jump to other areas to tilt election outcomes fraudulently. Implementing voter self-affirmation removes the safeguards upon which honest elections and the Board structure depend. Self-affirmation is only appropriate when there is no distinction in standing for Board seats.
In recent years, voter fraud has become an intense topic in America. Voter validation improves confidence in elections. The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council notes that Neighborhood Councils that required voter validation, like WHWCNC, had higher voter turnout and more vote-by mail ballots returned and counted despite them being a smaller percentage of the councils having an election in 2021. WHWCNC believes voter validation minimizes the risk of fraudulent board takeovers.
While Empower LA may make recommendations, our Board emphasizes that Neighborhood Councils are independent under the City Charter. Therefore, any amendments to their bylaws regarding voter qualifications cannot be made by the City Council or other entity, only by each Neighborhood Council.
Distribution: The WHIP Committee unanimously recommends adoption of the above CI Statement by the WHWCNC and posting the CIS to the Council CIS Portal to the relevant Council Files and all City Council Members.
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (14) WHIP Chair, Heath Kline
(22-120) Board CIS regarding City Council Files 21-1472, 22-1196, 22-1197 and 23-0002-S1 pertaining to creating new Council Redistricting Commission Rules and Increasing the Number of Council Districts.
Discussion and Possible Action: Motion to adopt the following CIS from the WHIP Committee.
(10 minutes)
Community Impact Statement Summary:
Since the origination of LA’s city council system, there have been 15 council districts. At the time, there were 200,000 people in the City of LA, with about 13,300 persons per district. That number is multiplied twenty times to over 3.85 million people today. Each Council District in Los Angeles has more people than the Cities of Burbank and Pasadena combined. There is scant evidence that this consolidation of power in such populated Districts is good for the residents and voters of LA. The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council wholeheartedly supports bringing Charter Reform Ballot Initiatives to the voters before 2024. These would increase and tie Council district sizes to population, expand the City Council to provide more representation to our communities and remove Councilmembers and elected officials from redistricting.
WHIP Drafted CIS For Board Consideration
The WHIP Committee unanimously recommends that the Board of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center-Neighborhood Council [WHWCNC] resolve and send the following WHIP statement of community impact as its own. The CIS supports calling for City Charter ballot measures on the expansion of the number of Council Districts and a new impartial Redistricting process to redistrict Los Angeles in time for the 2024 election cycle:
Council File 21-1472
November 2022 Ballot / Ballot Measure / City Charter Amendment / Independent Redistricting Commission
Council File 23-0002-S1
Independent Redistricting Process / New Commission / New Redistricting Maps / City of Los Angeles / April 2023 Special Election
Council File 22-1196
Charter Reform Ballot Initiative / 2024 / Redistricting Process / Los Angeles City Council Seats / Representation Fixed to Population Growth

The Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council supports the creation of an independent redistricting commission. It is a necessary and overdue step for the City Council and Los Angeles Unified School Board Districts. During the 2021 redistricting process, many Neighborhood Councils had to expend significant energy and time to fight for their neighborhood in a polarized and politicized process. It is time for Los Angeles to catch up to California and Los Angeles County, which already have independent redistricting commissions.
We propose adding restrictions for applicant qualifications excluding any bidder, contractor, developer, or someone with a direct financial interest in the City’s work from serving on the Commission. We also recommend excluding anyone affiliated with the management of an employee union, any recent candidate for a City of LA elected office, former elected officials in the City of LA, and anyone who has donated or raised above a certain threshold for local candidates.
The Redistricting process must follow a set of rank-ordered criteria to create new districts:

Population Equality: Districts must comply with the U.S. Constitution’s requirement of “one person, one vote.”
Federal Voting Rights Act: Districts must ensure an equal opportunity for minorities to elect a candidate of their choice
Geographic Contiguity: All areas within a district must connect as an undivided whole, except for the particular case of islands
Geographic Integrity: Without violating previous criteria, Districts shall minimize the division of Neighborhood Councils before minimizing the division of communities of interest to the extent feasible. Communities of interest are secondary to neighborhood councils. They must be a contiguous population sharing common social and economic interests that justify inclusion within a single district for purposes of its effective and fair representation.
Geographic Compactness: To the extent practicable, and where this does not conflict with previous criteria, districts must not bypass nearby communities for more distant communities of interest. Communities of interest cannot be considered broader than 7 miles.
To the extent practicable, Districts should not cross watersheds.
Drawing Districts shall not consider any effects on incumbents, office candidates, or political parties.

The City Council districts are currently too large to govern each area well. They have created an environment leading to opportunities for corruption by concentrating so much power in so few hands. A fifth of our City Council Members coming under indictment in the last decade is a strong indicator of opportunities for corruption. We also strongly believe in the expansion of the City Council’s size.
It is simply impossible for 15 Council Members to govern 4 million people appropriately. Each City Council Member is supposed to represent over a quarter million residents. For comparison, in New York City (8.4 million people, 51 council districts), each council district represents approximately 160,000-170,000 people. In Chicago (2.71 million people, 50 wards), each alderperson represents about 54,000 people. The City of Fresno has a Council Member per 112,000 persons. We favor getting to somewhere in the middle.
We support a ballot measure to establish a new City Council, having one Council Member per 110,000 residents to the nearest whole number of Council Districts and expanding the number of Council Districts as the population increases.
Serving as Commission Co-chairs, two retired Superior Court Judges put forth by the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court shall select the Commission from a pool of about 80 candidates nominated across the City. At least one judge shall live in the City of Los Angeles.
To establish the pool of candidates, each Los Angeles Neighborhood Council may nominate at least one and up to 3 candidates at the rate of one per 50,000 in population to the nearest whole number, ideally resulting in selecting about 1 out of 5 candidates to the Redistricting Commission of 17 members plus the two Co-chairs.
We support ballot measures to increase the number of Council Districts and establish new redistricting procedures. They should appear on the same ballot. When voters pass one or both ballot measures as proposed, the City Council must immediately initiate the redistricting process to complete new redistricting in time for the 2024 election cycle.
Distribution: The WHIP Committee recommends Posting the CIS to the Council CIS Portal to the relevant Council Files and all Council Members.
Roll Call Vote

Item No. (15) WHIP Chair, Heath Kline
(22-121) CIS regarding City Council File 14-0425-S13- 18477 West Sherman Way |
Reseda Theatre Restoration Project
Discussion and Possible Action: A Motion to adopt the following CIS from the WHIP Committee passed unanimously.
(10 minutes)
Position: Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council [WHWCNC] opposes City Council adoption of actions in Council File 14-0425-S13 unless amended and not before adequately reaching out to the Reseda community and satisfactorily receiving and addressing their comments and concerns.
The revitalization of the Reseda Theater has been a dream of the Reseda Community for over two decades. The community supported bundling the theater project with a senior housing project, which promised to revitalize the theater years ago.
Throughout the years, the Reseda Neighborhood Council [RNC] requested updates regarding the progress of the theater. RNC asserts that City entities never promptly informed the community regarding the proposed transfer and severance of Reseda Theater Senior Housing LP into two corporate entities, Reseda Theater and Public Market LP.
In public records, RNC discovered that the developer filed incorporation documents in May 2021 that set the groundwork for using two corporate entities. In addition, these records show that over 18 months, the developer and the City failed to inform the Reseda community of potential changes.
The WHWCNC and local community have likewise experienced similar lapses in communicating promptly with the impacted stakeholders and us. This results in the perception of concealment of City development activities and creates the perception of backroom dealings in our shared Council District on development projects impacting our local communities. We remember the handling of the expansion of the West Valley Food Pantry. There was also the acquisition of properties across from Taft High School with public funds to be operated by a non-profit to provide homeless housing and services to targeted groups. Unfortunately, details on these projects, and more, only come post-approval of projects by the City or until it is too late for the community to adequately weigh in with input before the City determines its decisions. This lack of communication continually happens despite numerous requests from the public for timely transparency on projects in CD3 that will have an enormous impact on our community and our stakeholders. Thus, WHWCNC feels it is our responsibility to join the RNC in calling out the inadequate and delinquent sharing of necessary information regarding development projects in Council District 3 that results when bypassing Neighborhood Councils and not informing or gathering community input.
Community input matters. Because Reseda stakeholders were not informed of the proposed changes and denied the opportunity to weigh in on serious concerns while the project was still in the planning stages, the perception of backroom deals continues. Inadequate timely transparency has plagued the Los Angeles City Council and City operating departments for years. By way of examples, we refer to the ways that LA City Council handled its own redistricting and that of LAUSD last cycle, where community and NC input fell on deaf ears. We also see similarities in the handling of the Northeast Valley Animal Shelter and the Van Nuys Airport [VNY], in which City departments bypassed steps for informing the public and getting necessary responses from affected stakeholders and Neighborhood Councils (see our CISs regarding Council Files 22-0897 and 22-1489).
The City of Los Angeles provides financing for this project with tax dollars. RNC’s understandable concern is that this request for ownership transfer from one corporate owner to two is a possible ploy on the developer’s part to keep the successfully operating housing project and escape their contractual obligations to restore and revitalize the Reseda Theater as promised to the community.
Therefore, the WHWCNC requests the City Council defer acting on Council File 14-0425-S13 until after the City informs the stakeholders of Reseda on the reasons for and the possible implications of the changes proposed. The City and developers must objectively show the community that the proposed changes in ownership structure and any other pending changes will in no way jeopardize the restoration of the theater as promised. After educating the community and RNC on the impact of the pending changes, they should have the opportunity to provide robust feedback. Then the City and developer should consider the community’s thoughtful input. Waiting for community education and assessing their responses means the property transfer from Reseda Theater Senior Housing, LP, to Reseda Theater and Public Market LP must be delayed and possibly denied unless the community is assured of project completion with the proposed changes.
Sincerely,
Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council
Distribution: The WHIP Committee recommends Posting the CIS to the Council CIS Portal to the relevant Council Files and all Council Members.
Roll Call Vote

Area Reports – (10 minutes)

Area 1 – Aaron Quantz, Karen DiBiase, Mark Schwartz, Reina Cerros-McCaughey
Area 2 – Arturo Velasquez, Paul Lawler, Sean McCarthy, Philip Swain
Area 3 –Mark Ball, John Sandy Campbell, Annmarie Donkin
Area 4 – Don Patterson, Martin Lipkin, Dena Weiss, Rachel Tabak
Area 5 – Christopher Waddy, Gretchen Gesell
Area 6 – Leslie Simon, Mihran Kalaydjian, Heath Kline
Area 7 – Aaron Williams, Houtan Hormozian, Christine Robinson
At-Large –August Steurer, Bobby Wasserman
Youth Member – Talia Isaacs

Committee Reports – (10 minutes)

Budget Committee – Paul Lawler, Chair
Community Services Committee – Rachel Tabak and Houtan Hormozian, co-chairs
Community Outreach and Social Media Committee – August Steurer and Bobbie Wasserman, co-chairs
Education Committee –Mihran Kalaydjian, Chair
Environmental & Beautification Committee – Karen DiBiase, Chair
Governance Committee – Dena Weiss, Chair
Public Health and Homelessness Committee –Aaron Quantz, Chair
PLUM Committee – Don Patterson, Chair
Safety Committee – Houtan Hormozian and Rachel Tabak, co-chairs
WHIP Committee – Heath Kline, Chair
Ad-hoc Committee – Flight Path and Noise Advisory Committee – Martin Lipkin, Chair

Announcements:
The next Regular Board meeting will be held on January 11, 2023, by teleconference. President Dena Weiss will prepare the Agenda but be unable to attend due to family commitment overseas. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2022 -2023 year: Full Board meeting are held the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.

Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference.
HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

Adjournment of Meeting:

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

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A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related
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California State Assembly Gabriel's Toy Drive at the West Valley Food Pantry
2022-12-13 15:30 - 18:30
During the holidays and throughout the year, the local District Office of the California State Assembly is committed to delivering the highest level of constituent services and helping those in need. The District Office can help resolve issues with state government and assist with state benefits, physical and mental health resources, and support for individuals and small businesses.
With the spirit of the holidays in mind, the District Office is hosting a Toy Drive benefiting the West Valley Food Pantry. Please join in spreading holiday cheer to families in need by donating an unwrapped toy at the event.
Donations only. Toys will be distributed at a later date to families in need.
Drive-Thru Holiday Toy Drive – Tue, Dec 13 2022, 3:30 – 6:30pm
Event Address
West Valley Food Pantryhol
Prince of Peace Church
5700 Rudnick Avenue
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
RSVP.idi https://a45.asmdc.org/drive-thru-holiday-toy-drive

Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee
2022-12-15 18:30 - 19:00
The regular meeting of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee scheduled for December 15, 2022 is cancelled.

December 27, 2022 - Woodland Hills/ Warner Center Neighborhood Council – Public Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting
2022-12-27 18:30 - 20:00
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In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet based service option. Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 938 9924 1002 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.

AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered.
Public comment is limited to 2) minute per speaker.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
Public Comment is limited to (2) minute per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the
committee. The presiding chair may impose time limits per each agenda item as needed.
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·AGENDA

Call to Order

Roll Call: Chair Aaron M Quantz, Mark Schwartz, Reina Cerros McCaughey, Annmarie Donkin,

Public Announcements by city officials and representatives: (3) minutes per speaker

Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items NOT on the agenda): (2) minutes per speaker

Approval of Committee Minutes from August 23rd & October 25th Committee Meeting

See supporting documents:

https://whcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/minutes-agendas-newsletters/HomelessnessMinutes_2022-08-23.pdf
https://whcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/minutes-agendas-newsletters/HomelessnessMinutes_2022-10-25.pdf

Items for Discussion and Possible Action:
All comment is limited to 2 minutes per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding chair of the committee.
1. Discussion and possible action: (CF 21-1230-S2)

Relative to establishing the Livable Communities
Initiative along suitable transit-rich corridors and related mattters. The Housing and Transportation Committees have approved the item and their reports are within the Council File

MOTION: State law requires the City of Los Angeles to update its Housing Element every eight years and demonstrate sufficient zoned capacity for housing-especially affordable housing. For the 2021-2022 planning cycle, the City was given a housing target of 456,643 new units, which we must accommodate for by 2029.
According to Los Angeles City Planning, while some of this capacity is achievable by maintaining the status quo, there remains a shortfall of 255,432 units. This shortfall necessitates innovative planning tools and programs to meet our housing targets. For this reason, the City Council recently adopted Los Angeles’ most ambitious Housing Element to date. The City’s 2021-2029 Housing Element outlines strategies that speak to the City’s diverse housing needs and goals around ending homelessness, producing more housing, expanding housing opportunities, and creating mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods across Los Angeles near jobs and transit.

Some of these strategies will be included automatically in community plan updates, but many of the policy programs detailed in Chapter 6 of the Housing Element require City Council action to effectuate.
One key program is the Livable Communities Initiative (LCI), identified as Program 131 of the adopted
Housing Element. As detailed in the Housing Element, “LCI is an opportunity to advance a holistic vision for livable, healthy, and sustainable communities along the City’s transit-rich corridors utilizing mixed-use, mixed-income housing combined with opportunities to transform the street and public realm by adding or improving wide sidewalks, tree canopy, outdoor dining, bicycle infrastructure, transit shelters, fast and frequent transit, and public seating and plazas.” LCI helps to implement critical “complete street” strategies in the City’s adopted Mobility Plan 2035; moreover, it encourages reinvestment and street activation across neighborhoods so that Angelenos have access to safe and enjoyable public spaces to walk, roll, and thrive.

The City’s current development regulations are confusing and restrictive, and often make it challenging to build much-needed housing. In the midst of a housing shortage and low vacancy rates in Los Angeles, where almost 60% of renters are cost-burdened, the LCI alongside other strategies identified in the Housing Element are an opportunity to holistically plan for green, affordable, and connected communities.

I THEREFORE MOVE that City Council direct Los Angeles City Planning, with assistance from the
Department of Building and Safety, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, and other relevant
departments, to report back within 180 days with strategies to establish the Livable Communities Initiative along suitable transit-rich corridors, or analogous Citywide regulations, that facilitates mid-scale development, promotes the creation of housing units where ‘ they do not currently exist, and creates or enhances existing commercial, Mixed-use character. As part of its report, City Planning should consider by-right or administrative development and zoning standards to mid-scale development; including, but not limited to: Waivers or reductions of setback, unit floor area, and other development standards; An inclusionary housing requirement to increase access to affordable housing; A minimum density requirement to promote multifamily, mixed-use development; Provisions to encourage greater lot density such as allowing for microunits, shared housing, or increasing area ratio (FAR) allowances; The elimination or reduction of parking minimums in “high quality transit areas” or “transit-rich areas”;
Exclusions and/or mitigations for lot located within a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone (VHFHSZ), an identified historic district, or are designated as open space; and result in the demolition of buildings subject to the Rent Stabilization Ordinance

I FURTHER MOVE that, as part of this report back, City Council directs Los Angeles City Planning to
develop a community-driven outreach and engagement strategy that will assist in informing the necessary maps and reports required to identify suitable transit-rich corridors that would benefit from the Livable Communities Initiative and complement existing rezoning efforts through the implementation of the Housing Element (2021-2029). This strategy should demonstrate adequate engagement and involvement with marginalized, historically underserved, and/or disadvantaged communities potentially impacted by the selection of suitable corridors.

I FURTHER MOVE that City Council direct Los Angeles City Planning, in coordination with City Planning’s Urban Design Studio, to report back within 180 days on options for an administrative clearance procedure for projects eligible for the Livable Communities Initiative that outlines objective Design and Development Standards to ensure high quality, contextual design and compatibility with the vision of the Livable Communities Initiative outlined in Program 131 of the Housing Element (2021-2029).
I FURTHER MOVE that City Council direct Los Angeles City Planning, Los Angeles Department of
Transportation, the Department of Public Works, and the Economic Workforce Development Department, with assistance from the City Administrative Office and other relevant departments, to report back within 180 days with options to establish a streamlined, administrative review process that ensures projects eligible for the Livable Communities Initiative invest in public right-of-way amenities and infrastructure improvements in order to encourage transit ridership, pedestrian and cyclist safety, and placemaking.

Roll Call Vote

Discussion and possible action: (CF 22-0755)

The City’s FY 2021-22 Budget included a $1,000,000 pilot program in partnership with the University of
Southern California (USC) to deliver medical services to homeless residents. The program also places
individuals into various types of housing and provides hygiene services at high-needs locations throughout the City. The program received an additional $1,000,000 in the FY 2022-23 Budget to continue these needed services. This current service contract is ending on June 30, 2022. At this time, a new contract is required to recognize funding provided to LAHD in the FY 2022-23 Budget Resolution. It is important that a new contract be properly executed with USC through the Los Angeles Housing Department, administrator for this contract, to ensure continuity of service.

I THEREFORE MOVE that the City Council instruct and authorize the General Manager of the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) or designee to execute a contract with the University of Southern California (USC) to provide street medicine and housing services in the amount of $1,000,000 as approved in the City’s FY 22-23 Budget, and that the contract commence July 1, 2022 for a term of 12 months, with an option to extend for an additional 12 months.
I FURTHER MOVE that the Council find that the services to be performed by the University of Southern California are for the performance of professional, scientific, expert, technical, or other special services of a temporary and occasional character for which competitive bidding is not practicable or advantageous and that the work can be performed more economically or feasibly by independent contractors than by City employees.
I FURTHER MOVE that LAHD be authorized to make any technical corrections or clarifications as
necessary to the above instructions in order to effectuate the intent of this Motion.

MOTION 72A: AMEND item #72 (CF: 22-0755) to add the following directions: I FURTHER MOVE that the City Council instruct the Office of the City Administrative Officer (CAO) with the assistance of the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), Community Investment for Families Department (CIFD), the Mayor’s Office, the Unified Homelessness Response Center (UHRC), and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), to report in 60 days on the status of the City’s partnership with the USC Street Medicine Program, and funding sources and options for expanding street medicine services across the City.

Roll Call Vote

Discussion and possible action: (CF 22-1313)

MOTION: (Los Angeles City Council – HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY COMMITTEE)
The most recent Point-in-Time Count data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) indicate that nearly 6,500 people experiencing homelessness in the City are living in a total of about 4,000 recreational vehicles (RVs). That number, which has grown by 40% since 2018, represents 22% of the City’s total unsheltered homeless population. All too often, RVs used as dwellings on LA’s streets are in grave disrepair, meaning that people living in them face unsanitary and sometimes dangerous conditions. Many residents of RV s also lack access to adequate hygiene facilities. A number of the individuals who live in RVs actually make substantial rent payments to the vehicle’s owner, paying out hundreds of dollars each month for precarious and substandard housing. RVs have also posed challenges for the neighborhoods in which they are located related to the release of untreated effluent into streets or stormwater drains, increased risk of fires (especially from external generators), and other public safety concerns Since 2010, the City’s primary response to vehicular homelessness-particularly in RVs-has been a reactive one, not one that focuses on resolving homelessness for inhabitants of RVs. The City has used LAMC 80.69.4, a law that allows the City to prohibit the parking of oversized vehicles (those over 84 inches high and 22 feet long) between 2a.m. and 6 a.m on specific streets. Through Council action, hundreds of streets have been added every year to the list of streets where oversized vehicle parking is prohibited. In addition to street-specific oversized vehicle bans, people who live in RVs on city streets must comply with rules that prohibit staying in one parking spot for more than 72 hours. Vehicles that violate this rule can be ticketed and towed. During the pandemic, the City paused ticketing and towing of vehicles with people living in them in accordance with CDC guidelines to allow people experiencing homelessness to shelter in place-safely, but in April of this year, the City Council voted to resume parking enforcement for vehicles used as dwellings. This enforcement- based approach to addressing RVs, however, has proven to be largely ineffective. Often, RV dwellers move their vehicles to other streets in response to a ticket or an oversized vehicle prohibition, meaning that these bans simply move people experiencing homelessness from one street to another.
Additionally, the City’s capacity to enforce the new rules around RV dwelling is extremely limited-and likely to remain so- because of the lack ofvendors and tow yard space to tow and impound oversized vehicles. It is clear that the City needs to come up with a more effective and holistic response to vehicular homelessness. One option to address vehicular homelessness in RVs is to provide designated sites as “safe parking” lots. Safe parking programs typically provide nighttime security and hygiene facilities, as well as some case management on site. However, there are currently very few safe parking sites within the City that are large enough to accommodate RVs. Furthermore, none of these sites operate 24 hours a day, which poses a particular challenge for people in RVs, who do not opt to use the sites because it is onerous or impossible to move their vehicles out of the lots during daytime hours due to the size and condition of the vehicles.
Another strategy is to offer housing options to residents of RVs. Indeed, the City Administrative Officer (CAO) recently proposed new outreach and engagement protocols to address Citywide vehicle dwelling (CF 21-0956-S1), which instructs that prior to towing a vehicle, housing or shelter referrals should be made to vehicle dwellers “if available.” However, the City simply does not have adequate numbers of shelter beds or interim housing sites to offer housing to every resident currently in an RV. It is likely that without adequate housing options to offer residents, strict enforcement of existing RV laws would result in more individuals encamped in tents and makeshift shelters on City sidewalks. Effective housing navigation for people living in RVs will require specialized resources in order to successfully resolve homelessness for residents. Homeless service providers with experience working with residents of RV s report that incentives, such as small cash payments, can serve as useful tools to encourage residents moving into housing to relinquish their RVs when they move. Short-term storage options for RVs can also help residents overcome skepticism about moving into an interim housing site.
In the proposed 2022-23 California budget, Governor Newsom has earmarked $300 million for Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) grants. Local governments can apply for ERF grants to create projects that serve people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in encampments. In 2022, Council District 4 received an ERF grant of$1,747,115 to rehouse individuals living unsheltered along a 19-mile stretch ofthe Los Angeles River. Eligible fund uses include street outreach and engagement, housing navigation, interim and permanent housing capacity building, activities to ensure sustained outcomes for people served, and funding for the restoration of encampment sites. The likely expansion of this flexible funding stream presents a promising opportunity to secure funds to support a City-wide, comprehensive approach to addressing RV homelessness effectively.

THEREFORE MOVE that the City Council direct the City Administrative Officer (CAO), with assistance from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and the Department of Transportation (LADOT), to report back within 60 days with a comprehensive City-wide rehousing strategy for people experiencing RV homelessness, in alignment with the City’s Street Engagement Strategy and LAHSA’s Best Practices for Addressing Street Encampments. The strategy should include the following components: Identifying and securing appropriate interim shelter and housing for people living in RV s across the City; Creation of incentives for voluntary relinquishment of RVs used as dwellings; Identifying and securing short-term storage lots for RVs after the owner or dweller moves into interim or permanent housing if the owner or dweller wishes to store the RV for a short time;
Expanding Safe Parking programs, in collaboration with LAHSA, to include oversized/larger RVs in 24-
hour Safe Parking programming; Demolishing RVs, after the owner or dweller moves into interim or permanent housing, with consent of the owner; leveraging case management from sanitation outreach/City-funded generalist outreach teams for people living in RVs, with a focus on strategies for working with people living in RVs; and Necessary budgetary and staffing resources to implement the strategy.
I FURTHER MOVE that the City Council direct the City Administrative Officer (CAO) to report back
within 60 days regarding the possibility of submitting an application on behalf of the City for an ERF grant to support the proposed City-wide rehousing strategy for people experiencing RV homelessness.

Roll Call Vote

Discussion and possible action: (CF 21-1208)
Motion: In 2016 the State of Califomia adopted methane emissions targets in an effort to reduce short-
lived climate pollutants under SB 1383 requiring all jurisdictions to reduce organic waste disposal by 75% by 2025. This was a necessary response to scientific discoveries that greenhouse gasses released by “landfilling” food and yard waste is a major contributor to pollutants and climate change.
The research uncovered that Califomia landfills are the third largest source of generated methane gas.
Organics like food scraps, yard trimmings, paper, and cardboard make up half of what is dumped in our
landfills. The new regulations require jurisdictions to adopt and enforce an ordinance on reducing
commercial and residential food waste generation. All jurisdictions starting in 2022 will need to provide
organic waste collection services and utilize recycling facilities, procure products made from recycled
organic material, as well as redirect 20 percent of edible food currently thrown away to those going hungry by the year 2025. Under the new law, each jurisdiction is accountable for compliance by its sourcegenerators, and CalRecycle, the State’s recycling and waste regulatory agency, is authorized to issue escalating penalties for non-compliance beginning in 2022.
The City of Los Angeles has been at the forefront implementing waste collection programs and recycling to address operational eficiencies and climate change. In January 2017 the City approved seven RecycLA contracts for the collection of solid waste, recycling and organics from large multifamily properties and businesses. These contracts contained specific landfill reduction targets tiat must be contractually met. Since there is always room for improvement, the City must begin work to ensure our policies are in compliance with the new State regulations beginning in 2022.
During the course of the past year and a half, City residents have been coping with the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, many residents have sought economic relief through the rent
moratorium and utility bill assistance. The implementation of the new regulations associated with organics may have an impact on the City residents and businesses as they emerge from the pandemic. Given this, it is important that the City fully understand the economic impact of these regulations and provide ways to minimize their effect on struggling City residents and businesses. The Bureau of Sanitation (BOS) should be requested to analyze the law and prepare a report with recommendations on phasing in the steps for data-collection, policy compliance, and future plans for capital improvements that comply with the new CalRecycle regulations. The City supports the goals to reduce
emissions of short-lived climate pollutants statewide and the regulations approved by CalRecycle already align with the City’s zero-waste goals.
I THEREFORE MOVE that the Bureau of Sanitation (BOS) be instructed to report to the City Council within 60 days on the steps necessary to comply with the CalRecycle regulations to reduce organic waste disposal by 75% by 2025; and the ability to develop a phased approach to compliance.
I further move that the BOS, With the assistance of the City Administrative Officer and the Chief Legislative Analyst, be instructed to report on the potential impact of the CalRecycle regulations on the ratepayers and methods and approaches to provide relief to ratepayers and minimize potential impacts.

Roll Call Vote

Discussion and possible action:

Motion: The Holidays are upon us and it’s time to send some money to one of the non-profits who are and will be feeding those experiencing homelessness and to approve $1500 to be allocated to New Friends Homeless Center for the weekly Friday dinners for the Homeless at the Woodland Hills United Methodist Church on Shoup Ave, in Woodland Hills

Roll Call Vote

Items to be placed on the agenda for the next meeting Adjournment of Meeting:
Adjournment of Meeting

The Woodland Hills/ Warner Center Neighborhood Council Public Health and Homelessness
Committee meets regularly on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm. The next Committee
Meeting will be held on 24 January, 2023, by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at
whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for 2022 -2023 year: Full Board meeting are held the second Wednesday of every
month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a
complete list of committee and board meetings.
Meeting dates and times are subject to change.
Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.
Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference.
HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org
website calendar page for any changes that may occur.
*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its
programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other
auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services,
please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to
attend by contacting Dena Weiss, at (818-340-6554 or email d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-
exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be
viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would
like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact
Dena Weiss at (818) 340-6554 or email d.weiss@whcouncil.org

*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:
lwww.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings
are held on the second Wednesday of each month.
Check the calendar for any change of meeting date and/or time.
You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification
System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions
·A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West
Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland
Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of
the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from
Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC
process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural
matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at
our website at www.whcouncil.org

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Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee Meeting - January 5, 2023
2023-01-05 18:30 - 22:30
The Planning, Land Use and Mobility (PLUM) Committee will hold its regular meeting on Thursday, January 5, 2023. Significant items for discussion are summarized below. The full agenda can be found here: January 5, 2023 PLUM Agenda

ENV-2008-3471; ADM-2022-7181 Request for change of use from retail to live-work. 6109 & 6149 DeSoto Ave. and 21010 & 21003 Erwin St., Woodland Hills, 91367
Request for change in use from retail to live-work for project currently under construction (Q DeSoto).

Update on construction of a new median in the 20500 Block of Ventura Blvd. adjacent to Porsche Woodland Hills development.

Courtesy Presentation for redevelopment of property on the northeast corner of DeSoto Ave. and Ventura Blvd. 20833-20861 W. Ventura Boulevard, 5330 N. De Soto Avenue, Woodland Hills, CA 91364. Courtesy presentation for initial feedback only, no action will be taken.

Review of the potential redevelopment of the approximately 2.5-acre property located at the northeast corner of Ventura Boulevard and De Soto Avenue involving the construction of a new auto dealership, associated parking, and landscaping in the (Q)C4-1 Zone and within the Neighborhood & General Commercial Plan Designation area of the Ventura/Cahuenga Boulevard Corridor Specific Plan.

Discussion of PLUM Committee webpages.
Review and discussion of PLUM Committee webpages on www.whcouncil.org and potential improvements.

Discussion of PLUM Committee meetings and criteria to consider special joint meetings with the Board on certain projects.

WHWCNC Full Board Meeting
2023-01-11 18:30 - 21:30
Add agendaJan 11, 2023

AGENDA
Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council
FULL BOARD MEETING
Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 6:30 pm
VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone
(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/96493712127 )
Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 964 9371 2127 and Press #

VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021 Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet based service option.

Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 964 9371 2127 and then press # to join the meeting. Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.

AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time
public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide
public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.

Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.

*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by
the presiding officer of the board.

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AGENDA

Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Roll Call

Public Announcements:
Office of Councilmember Bob Blumenfield (2 minutes)
Office of Local and State Officials – if available (2 minutes each)
Jack Trent Dorfman, Field Representative for Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel presentation
Election
Other Local Agencies – if available (2 minutes each)
Empower LA update about 2023 election

General Public Comment, by the Public, on Non-Agenda Items:
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total.

Suggestions for Agenda Items to be considered at committees and / or next board meeting.
(2 minutes each)
___________________________________________________________________________________

Organization, Operation, Policies, & Procedures:

All comment is limited to 1 minute per speaker, unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the Board.
Time limits set for each agenda item may be adjusted by the presiding officer of the Board. Time limits may vary so the public is encouraged to join the meeting several minutes PRIOR to a specific agenda item being discussed.

Approval of Minutes: Board Meeting – December 12, 2022 (5 minutes)

See posted support document Roll Call Vote

Officer Reports (5 minutes)

President – Dena Weiss
Vice President – Mihran Kalaydjian
Treasurer – Paul Lawler
Parliamentarian – Leslie Simon
Secretary -Karen DiBiase

Items for Discussion and Possible Action:

Item No. 1 Dena Weiss, President
(23-001) )
At its November 1, 2022, meeting, the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners approved a recommendation to invite 21 Neighborhood Councils to participate in an Empowered Virtual Governance pilot program. The WHWCNC board has been one of the 21 neighborhood council boards invited to participate in the Empowered Virtual Governance Hybrid pilot program. Posted on the Empower LA website are many details regarding this pilot program. The Board needs to investigate further and ascertain whether it wants to move forward with participation or not. The Board needs to choose an appropriate meeting place.
Item No. 2 Planning, Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee (PLUM)- Don Patterson, Chair
(23-002) ENV-2008-3471; ADM-2022-7181, 6109, 6149 DeSoto. 21010, 21003 Erwin
Request Administrative Clearance for a Change of Use at the “Q Erwin.”
Discussion and possible action: (10 minutes)
BOARD MOTION:
Affirm the PLUM Committee’s negative vote on the following PLUM Motion, not supporting the requested support for Administrative Clearance for a change in use. (A “Yes” vote does not support the proposed change in use; a “no” vote supports the change in use.)

PLUM MOTION:
The Planning Land Use and Mobility meeting held a virtual meeting on the Administrative Clearance for a Change of Use for the “Q” Erwin on January 5th, having found no reason to deny the requested action for an Administrative Clearance.
THEREFORE: Be it resolved that the Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee recommend that the Board of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council advise the Los Angeles Department of City Planning and Council District 3 Councilmember Bob Blumenfield of its findings and supporting recommendation for the Administrative Clearance requested as presented to the WHWCNC Board on January 11th, 2023.

See posted support document
Roll call vote

Area Reports – (10 minutes)

Area 1 – Aaron Quantz, Karen DiBiase, Mark Schwartz, Reina Cerros-McCaughey
Area 2 – Arturo Velasquez, Paul Lawler, Sean McCarthy, Philp Swain
Area 3 – Mark Ball, John Sandy Campbell, Annemarie Donkin
Area 4 – Don Patterson, Martin Lipkin, Dena Weiss, Rachel Tabak
Area 5 – Christopher Waddy, Julie Waltrip, Theresa Campbell, Gretchen Gesell
Area 6 – Leslie Simon, Mihran Kalaydjian, Heath Kline
Area 7 – Aaron Williams, Houtan Hormozian, Christine Robinson
At-Large –August Steurer, Bobbie Wasserman
Youth Member – Talia Isaacs

Committee Reports – (10 minutes)

Budget Committee – Paul Lawler – Chair
Community Services Committee – Rachel Tabak – Chair, Houtan Hormozian – Co Chair
Education Committee –Mihran Kalaydjian – Chair
Environmental & Beautification Committee – Karen DiBiase, Chair
Governance Committee – Dena Weiss- Chair
Public Health and Homelessness Committee –Aaron Quantz- Chair
Public Safety and Transportation – Houtan Hormozian Chair, Rachel Tabak Co Chair
PLUM Committee – Don Patterson – Chair
WHIP Committee – Heath Kline- Chair
Ad-hoc Committee – Flight Path and Noise Advisory Committee – Martin Lipkin, Chair

Announcements:
The next Regular Board meeting will be held on February 8, 2023, by teleconference. President Dena Weiss will prepare the Agenda but be unable to attend due to family commitment overseas. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time.
Meeting dates for the 2023 year: Full Board meeting are held the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules.

Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference.
HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur.

Adjournment of Meeting:

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like
a copy of any record, if available, related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss, at email address d.weiss@whcouncil.org.

*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:
• www.whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date
and/or time.
• You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to L.A. City’s Early Notification System
at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related
to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss al d.weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.

Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org

WH Issues and Policies Virtual Cmte Mtg CANCELED for 01-12/2023
2023-01-12 19:30
The Woodland Hills Issues and Policies Committee meeting for January 12, 2023 has been canceled. The next meeting is scheduled for January 26, 2023.

Public Safety & Transportation Committee Meeting Teleconference (CANCELLED)
2023-01-16 18:30

WHWCNC Governance Committee Meeting
2023-01-17 18:30 - 20:30
Link agenda Jan 17, 2023
AGENDA– MONTHLY MEETING OF GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 6:30 pm VIRTUAL MEETING BY TELECONFERENCE
Zoom Meeting Online or By Telephone (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86850992271) Dial (1 669 900 6833) to Join the Meeting
Then Enter This Webinar ID: 868 5099 2271 and Press #
VIRTUAL MEETING TELECONFERENCING and PHONE NUMBER FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In conformity with the September 16, 2021, Enactment of California Assembly Bill 361 (Rivas) and due to concerns over COVID-19, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically with a call-in option or internet-based service option.
Every person wishing to address the Neighborhood Council must either dial 1 669 900 6833 or go online via Zoom and enter Webinar ID # 868 5099 2271 and then press # to join the meeting.
Instructions on how to sign up for public comment will be given to listeners at the start of the meeting. When calling-in telephonically, the public is requested to dial *9, when prompted by the presiding officer, to address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Zoom users should use the “raise hand” feature.
AB 361 Updates: Public comment cannot be required to be submitted in advance of the meeting, only real-time public comment is required. If there are any broadcasting interruptions that prevent the public from observing or hearing the meeting, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned. If members of the public are unable to provide public comment or be heard due to issues within the Neighborhood
Council’s control, the meeting must be recessed or adjourned.
Any messaging or virtual background is in the control of the individual board member in their personal capacity and does not reflect any formal position of the Neighborhood Council or the City of Los Angeles.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON AGENDA ITEMS – The public may address the Board on any agenda item before the Board takes an action on an item. Comments from the public on agenda items will be heard only when the respective item is being considered. Public comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker.
*PUBLIC INPUT ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA – Comments from the public on other matters not appearing on the agenda that are within the Board’s jurisdiction will be heard during the General Public Comment period. Please note that under the Brown Act, the Board is prevented from acting on a matter that you bring to its attention during the General Public Comment period; however, the issue raised by a member of the public may become the subject of a future Board meeting.
General Public Comment is limited to (1) minute per speaker and 20 minutes total unless adjusted by the presiding officer of the board.
AGENDA

Call to Order
Roll Call: Members/ Executive Committee and Officers: Chair – Dena Weiss, Mihran Kalaydjian, Paul Lawler, Karen DiBiase, Leslie Simons.

Public Announcements by city officials and representatives: (2) minutes per speaker
Stakeholder Public Comment Period (on items NOT on the agenda): (1) minutes per speaker
Approval of Committee Minutes: December 8, 2022.

Items for discussion and possible action:
Stakeholder Public Comment will be taken on each agenda item: (2) minutes per speaker

Motion to make Reina Cerros McCaughey co-chair of the Public Health and Homelessness Committee. The current chair, Aaron Quantz, has approved this appointment.

Discussion regarding suggestions and options for in person meetings at ADA compliant locations, for both committee and full Board meetings. In person meetings are starting on March 1, 2023.

Review of roles of Officer duties in support of President Weiss going forward with a view of division of labor. Article VI Section 2 of our Bylaws state the following:

Section 2: Duties and Powers

President. The President shall be the principal officer of the Neighborhood Council and shall

exercise and perform such other duties as the Neighborhood Council may assign from time to time as prescribed in the Bylaws, Standing Rules and designated by EmpowerLA.

(SR – 20) Additional Duties of the President – The President shall be the primary spokesperson
of the Neighborhood Council and shall sign all correspondence from the officers as prescribed by the bylaws. (Article VI §2A).

Vice-President. The Vice-President shall act as a presiding officer in the absence of the In case of vacancy in the office of President, or in the case of the President’s unavailability due to sickness, disability, death or resignation, the Vice- President shall perform the duties of the President and when so acting shall have all the powers and perform such other duties the Bylaws and Standing Rules and EmpowerLA may prescribe. The Vice-President shall be responsible for the oversight and compliance of the Standing Committees of the WHWCNC.

The Treasurer shall maintain the financial records, or cause to be kept and maintained, adequate and correct financial records of the Neighborhood Council’s financial transactions. The financial records shall be open to inspection by any stakeholder and Representative of the Neighborhood Council at all reasonable times. All financial records shall be kept in accordance with Article IX of these Bylaws. In the absence of both the President and Vice-President, the presiding officer for board meetings and executive committee meetings shall be the Treasurer.

The Secretary shall record, write and post the minutes of the Neighborhood Council; board meetings, special board meetings and Executive Committee Meetings. The Secretary shall be the custodian of the Neighborhood Council’s non-financial records; and perform all other duties prescribed in the Bylaws, Standing Rules and EmpowerLA. The Secretary shall keep an official list of Representatives, Alternates, and Committee Members terms, meeting attendance and keep a register of the physical addresses, electrical addresses and telephone numbers of each Representative and Alternate. The Secretary shall be present when the meeting is called to order and remain present until the meeting is adjourned.

The Board shall appoint by a majority vote of board members present and voting a board member Assistant Secretary who shall assist the Secretary, at the request of the Secretary, with all duties and act in his or her absence at board meetings, special board meetings and at Executive Committee meetings. When the Assistant Secretary is acting as the Secretary the Assistant Secretary shall be present when the meeting is called to order, remain present until the meeting is adjourned and record and write the minutes of that meeting.

The Parliamentarian shall ensure that the WHWCNC meetings are in compliance with the Bylaws, Standing Rules, WHWCNC Code of Civility, EmpowerLA Code of Conduct and all other City, State and Federal rules and regulations. The Parliamentarian shall ensure the meetings are undertaken in an expeditious manner and shall be the timekeeper, ensuring that all speakers speak within the publicly noticed time frames. The Parliamentarian shall ensure the members abide by all rules to ensure that our NC’s business is conducted in a courteous manner and in a manner that will generate respect and credibility for our WHWCNC.

Discussion and possible motion for Ad Hoc committee to undertake organization of the Virtual meeting pilot and suggestions of chairs.

Discussion and motion to make the Education Committee into the Education and Youth Committee.

After receipt of stakeholder complaints, an announcement is made to the public, that all committee chairs will be reminded to always take public comment on motion items.

Review of Standing Rules. Revisions previously commenced. This will be provided in a supporting document.

New business to be placed on the next committee meeting

Adjournment of meeting:
The next Committee Meeting will be held on February 14, 2023 by teleconference. Please visit the calendar page at whcouncil.org for the complete details and to confirm the date and time of meeting dates for the 2023 year: the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm. Check the NC website calendar for a complete list of committee and board meetings. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Check the NC calendar for updated meeting schedules. Due to COVID 19 ALL in person meetings have been moved to virtual teleconference. HOWEVER, please check the www.whcouncil.org website calendar page for any changes that may occur included the projected in person meetings set to commence after March 1, 2023.

*THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT – As a covered entity 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 accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. Sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices and other auxiliary aids and/or services, may be provided upon request. To ensure availability of services, please make your request at least (3) business days (72 hours) prior to the meeting you wish to attend by contacting Dena Weiss by email at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org

*PUBLIC ACCESS OF RECORDS – In compliance with Government Code section 54957.5, non-exempt writings that are distributed to a majority or all of the board in advance of a meeting may be viewed at our website: www.whcouncil.org or at the scheduled meeting. In addition, if you would like a copy of any record related to an item on the agenda, please contact Dena Weiss at d.weiss@whcouncil.org or the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment at (213) 978-1551 EmpowerLa@LACity.org
*PUBLIC POSTING OF AGENDAS – agendas are posted for public review as follows:

whcouncil.org and go to the website Calendar page and click on the date – Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the calendar for any change of meeting date and/or time.
You can also receive our agendas via email by subscribing to A. City’s Early Notification System at https://www.lacity.org/subscriptions

· A copy of this agenda is also physically posted on the outside of the window of the West Valley Warner Center Chamber located at 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Ste 2330, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. The Chamber is located at the Promenade Mall outside the east entrance of the mall and to the left of Ruth Chris Restaurant. The Chamber office is accessed from Owensmouth Street. Parking is free.

*RECONSIDERATION AND GRIEVANCE PROCESS – For information on the WHWCNC process for board action reconsideration, stakeholder grievance policy, or any other procedural matters related to this Council, please consult the WHWCNC Bylaws. The Bylaws are available at our website at www.whcouncil.org

SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN – Si requiere servicios de traducción, favor de avisar al Concejo Vecinal 3 días de trabajo (72 horas) antes del evento. Por favor contacte a Dena Weiss de la Mesa Directiva, al d,weiss@whcouncil.org o por correo electrónico avisar al Concejo Vecinal.

Notice to Paid Representatives – If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at {213) 978- 1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org

Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee (Cancelled)
2023-01-19 18:30 - 19:00
The regular meeting of the Woodland Hills – Warner Center Neighborhood Council Planning, Land Use, and Mobility Committee scheduled for January 19, 2023 is cancelled.
