MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES
                          04/21/2009

 

 

1. CALL TO ORDER
     Pledge of Allegiance
   
 Roll Call
Members Present: 
(Census Tract)
 4601:Gino Sund; 4602: Okorie Ezieme, Sarah Fuller; 4603.01: Alice Wessen, Keith Gibbs; 4603.02
Sandra Thomas, Ken Roberts;  4610: Tecumseh Shackelford;
4611; Allan Wasserman; 4612: N/A; 4613: Susan Goldman;

Excused Absences: Tim Kelly, Ken Balder, Michele Zack, Ruth Neilan, Lori Judson, Gene Campbell

2. OFFICER’S REPORTS                                            
Recording Secretary
MSP: Approval of March 2009 Minutes

Correspondence: Read by Chair Gino. 
 New rep on Santa Monica Conservancy - Paul Ranieaux, letter from school board

Chair Report: Vice Chair April 14, Reviewed Agenda, reviewed bylaw changes and voted to recommend approval of election rules.
Joint meeting of PUSD and ATC. Well attended
Treasurer’s Report: Given

  3. GOVERNMENTAL REPORTS
Adam Schiff office:
The Tenth Annual Women in Business Legislative Update & Awards
Luncheon will take place at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel on October 2, 2009. This is a joint effort between the offices of Senator Carol Liu, Assembly Members Paul Krekorian and Anthony Portantino.  Nominations must be received by May 29 and nominees must live or work in 21st Senate District, 43rd Assembly District or 44th Assembly District. Download a nomination form here:
http://dist21.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={586031CD-17FF-4315-A22C-13ED753B9096}&DE={D5725B24-20E2-48C3-9056-4282A022F70E}

LA County Sanitation Dept:  Basil Hewit:  E Waste and Hazardous waste Sat May 16  9-3PM
2502 W Altadena Ave. Needles and bio waste, cell phones
Fleet maintenance yard for Los Angeles County works.  Can bring up to 125 lbs of waste. No business waste.

4.   PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTS

LA Co Sheriff: Dan Bartlett
Bartlett, Gift card program for guns, April  25th in Rite Aid parking lot.
Community members expressed continued frustration on Party House on Calaveras. Member Wasserman to work with neighborhood and sheriff’s department to try to resolve.

We did have two shooting incidents
Mar 24th at Lincoln south of Woodbury, verbal incident that resulted in gunfire.
Mar 31st on El Sereno,  north of Woodbury, shooting resulting in hospital trip

Chair Gino invited public to come comment on recent rash of burglaries. Public comment included descriptions of home invasion on Fair Oaks. Taos and McNally. Also had two small robberies from unlocked cars in the area.
http://crimereports.com/map?search=91001&searchButton.x=34&searchButton.y=14&searchButton=SEARCH

 

Highway Patrol: Ofc. Primeaux
 33 collisions; 28 ppty damage and 4 were injuries; with one fatality
Seeing increase in drinking and driving incidents.
Google map of all collisions on Highway Patrol web site.
http://cad.chp.ca.gov/

 

5. Election Committee
Ad hoc committee of residents and town council members who reviewed procedures and made suggestions, some suggestions require change in bylaws.
There are 4 votes before the Town Council.
3 bylaw changes
1 Election rule change
The changes required support of ¾ of those present

 

1. Recommendation:  ATC consider eliminating the U. S. citizenship requirement to vote and to hold office.
M/S Thomas/Wessen
Motion to eliminate citizenship requirement fails with 11 opposed.
2.  Recommendation:  ATC consider moving the election to September or October.
Motion Failed for lack of motion
3. Recommendation:  ATC should consider eliminating alternate members to Town Council. Discussion – Town Councils such as Pasadena, La Crescenta and others do not have alternates. Professional boards have processes in place for the running of business when there are absences.
M/S/P:Gibbs, Roberts  Unanimous to eliminate alternates.

Election Rules reviewed by Election Comm, Ad Hoc and Election.
M/S: Roberts, Thomas
Vote: Unanimous to accept the Election Rules as reviewed by Election Committee

Election Chair: Bob Meyer 15 year resident, previously involved from ‘Slow Down’ Altadena

 

6. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

 L.A. County Parks Dept---------------Lorraine Martinez    (No report)
Loma Alta Park:   626-398-5451 or 52

 Altadena Library-----------------------Cassandra Sterns, Children’s Librarian
April 29th, Cloris Leachman will discuss her new autobiography Wed Apri 29th at 7pm
April 30th Alt. Library Dist Los Ninos celebration, special story-time nationwide celebration of reading.
www.altadenalibrary.org
May 8th, making bouquets or Mom out of Hershey’s kisses with tweens.
May 11th at 7PM friends of Altadena Library district with Ellen Snortland

 

Sheriff’s Support Group--------------Bill Westphal 
Sheriff Support group announces the Summer Concert series at Altadenasherrifs.org

WAPAC Report---------- Michelle Zack (absent), read by chair Gino Sund. Next WAPAC meeting is April 21st, read report dated March 23. Dorn Platz was in default.  New Market at the old Apple Market on Fair Oaks. Click Here To Read Full Report.

Bright Future Scholars: Member Sandra Thomas
Commended Tecumseh Shackelford and Gene Cambell for their work at "Mentoring & Partnership For Youth Development: Building Real Men." http://www.mpyd.org/home.html
Also one of our outstanding citizens Carolyn Seitz was honored.

 

4602: Member Ezieme - Robberies appear random in our community.  Also Member Ezieme read a letter regarding lack of public transportation from a resident.  Resident is disabled and Vietnam veteran. Please consider that there is no bus service up Lake Ave.
4602:  Member Fuller discussed that there are increased robberies in neighborhood
4611: Member Wasserman Wasserman discussed starting up a Neighborhood Watch, we are having second meeting of neighborhood watch of our census tract.  Member Wasserman mentioned that a neighbor is making a PSA about leaving catfood outside.  Don’t feed the wild animals. If you do get bit it is a 6 shot regiment.
4603.01: Member Wessen noted that there is increased tagging up in the Millard Campground. On
Sat May 2, there is a neighborhood brush clearance at the Wilson Triangle up Chaney at the entrance to the forest area with Altadena Conservancy and neighbors. Also Sat and Sun May 2-3 is the JPL Open House.
4603.02: Member Roberts announced that King Market at Fair Oaks and Ventura opened.  Also there are plans for a Fresh and Easy at old Wamu location on Lake Ave.

4610:  Member Shackelford:  BofA will Open second week of May. Versatel will open second week in May in the courtyard of the 24 Hour Fitness.  Proud of accomplishments of Lincoln Project. Also Member Shackleford shared that Gene Campbell has an open house at John Muir HS to meet parents and teachers

 

New Business
Chair Sund:
Clairborne Foundation:
Request by chair Sund for a letter from ATC to support this grant.
M/S/P  Wessen, Okorie  that ATC compose a letter in support of grant

The Viking Foundation in San Gabriel Valley has a team home gym 5th and 6th grade girls and will be in the finals for national championship. 7 out of 11 are Altadena girls.
ATC will invite them to the May meeting and give them a letter of congratulations

Pasadena Unified School District's Measure TT Citizens Oversight Committee:  The 15-member panel will monitor spending from the $350-million bond measure voters passed in November. It is designed to repair aging infrastructure and bring campuses up to building and safety codes using local labor content.
Chair Sund requested a motion that local labor should include Altadena as well as Pasadena.
MSP  Wessen/Gibbs that Altadena be included in the language

11. PUBLIC COMMENT
Ben McGinty runs the Underground Art group. We really don’t have enough people shopping in our community.   We would like to encourage folks to stop by. We are putting on an Open House
May 15th 4-9PM and are getting as many businesses on Lake Ave to open up.  Member A. Wessen offered to send to all Altadena blogs around with this info.

12. ADJOURNMENT
Motion to adjourn  9:30 Gibbs/Roberts
MSP