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NORTHWEST SAN PEDRO NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL

MEETING MINUTES

July 14, 2003 at 6:30 PM, Peck Park

Board Members in Attendance 

James Smith                            Margaret Moilov 

Shari Hill                                  William Upchurch                                  

Ray Patricio                             Shannon Day                                      

David L. Rivera                        John Greenwood

Craig Byrnes                           Guillermo Villagran

Michael Nizetich                      Diana Nave

Julia Parker                              Joyce Fischer

Laura Hansen-Lara                  Steve Druskovich

Board Members Absent

Emily Rochte

ITEMS OF DISCUSSION AND RESULTING ACTION

1. Meeting called to order and roll call taken.

2. Minutes of June 9, 2003 meeting approved.

3. Election of Officers for fiscal year 02/03:
John Greenwood, President
Shari Hill, Vice-President
Treasurer, Bill Upchurch
Marisa Trutanich, Secretary

4. Web Maintenance:  Motion approved unanimously to approve payment and renewal of the below listed items. (Motion made by Shari Hill; seconded by Shannon Day)

1. Web hosting ($99)

2. Name of web site: NWSANPEDRO.ORG and NWSANPEDRO.COM ($18)

3. Web Site Maintenance contract with Lee Uran ($1,000)

5. Issues Committee:

Y and S Auto’s proposed permit for a paved parking lot - The board discussed a resolution in support of Y & S Auto’s proposed permit from the Harbor Department for a paved and landscaped parking lot across from 1441 N. Gaffey.  Stakeholder Chuck Hart stated that he was concerned that Y & S will park junk cars in the parking lot.  A representative from Y & S had addressed the Issues Committee prior to this meeting and stated that their employees will use the parking lot. Board Member Jim Smith raised the issue of vehicular and pedestrian safety, as there is no pedestrian crosswalk by the proposed parking. Several other board members shared the same concern.  Stakeholder Jody Van Meter stated this was an opportunity for the NWSPNC to support a local business and that it would take years before DOT would be able to provide a cross walk.  Motion by Diane Nave, second by Mike Nizetich for the Harbor Department to grant Y & S a permit to pave the parking lot.  Vote was 7 ayes to 7 noes.  Motion failed.  Stakeholder Pat Nave offered to write a revised version of the motion.  He presented this to the board later on in the evening.  The motion included asking the Port to consider the impact the parking lot will have on traffic safety, with employees crossing in the middle of the street. The board took another vote and the motion passed.   Diana Nave will attend the next meeting of the Harbor Commission to state the results of the motion.

Resolution to oppose any reduction in share of taxes returned to the City by the Sate of California – Binti Harvey, governmental affairs manager of the Office of the Mayor, talked about the loss of revenue from the State to the City.  The current State proposal could permanently reduce revenues to the City by $30-$40 million per year.  With the State operating without a budget, there is great concern for public safety.  Motion passed to adopt the resolution (attached to the last page of the Issues Committee Report), stating that the NWSPNC opposes any proposals by the Governor, Senate, or Assembly that would impose multi-year disproportionate reductions in City revenue. (Motion made by Diana Nave; seconded by Guillermo Villagran)

Transfer of responsibility for planning element for the West Channel from the Harbor Department to the Planning Department – Presentations were made by Grieg Asher, Planning and Transportation Director of the Office of Councilwoman Hahn) and Dave Mathewson, Director of the Port Planning and Research Division.  Mr. Asher stated that Councilwoman Hahn made the motion to the City Council to transfer the responsibility for planning of the West Channel from the Harbor Department to the Planning Department because she feels the Port has not addressed the concerns of the community in developing the waterfront area.  Mr. Mathewson stated that transferring the responsibility for this property will only result in substantial delays of any progress as changes in both the City Charter and Tidelands Act would have to be made before the transfer could be effective, and the Coastal Commission  would also have to be involved. Stakeholder Mike Wheeler, who is the NWSPNC PCAC alternate representative, stated that he attended a community meeting recently on the China Shipping EIR and it was the majority opinion of the 200 attendees that the Port is not addressing community concerns as they are not adequately listening to the Port Community Advisory Committee, which represents the community.  Stakeholder Dan Knott, a Port employee, feels the Councilwoman’s motion is a filibuster.  Motion passed by board to support keeping the responsibility of the area under the Port’s jurisdiction (9 ayes, 2 noes, 2 abstains).  Motion made by Shannon Day; seconded by Shari Hill.

Resolution to approve proposal for use of China Shipping settlement community aesthetic mitigation funds – Motion made by Diana Nave and seconded by Craig Byrnes to approve NWSPNC’s recommendation to use China Shipping funds for beautification of two areas:  (1) John Gibson Boulevard, North Pacific Avenue, Front Street, Harbor Boulevard and (2) North Gaffey Street.  Motion passed.

Planning Department to expedite rezoning of former Logicon property from Industrial to Industrial/residential – The President of the Board deferred this matter to the next Board meeting due to time constraints.

6. Treasurer’s Report –
Total funds available are $8,637.  Someone broke into Bill Upchurch’s car and stole all his NWSPNC documents.  As a result, he had to obtain a new Stored Value Card and a new checking account for the Council’s petty cash.  Two fraudulent withdrawals were made using the Stored Value card.  Bank of America is reversing those two entries.

7. Outreach Communications –
The results of the newsletter survey were passed out to the board.  The frequency of the distribution of the newsletter will be voted on at a latter date. David Rivera, co-chair of the Outreach Committee, made the motion to purchase name tags and name plates and golf shirts with NWSPNC embroidered for the board members for a total cost of approximately $600.  Motion seconded by Guillermo Villagran.  Jim Smith made a friendly amendment to exclude the shirts from the motion.  Motion passed. 

8. Elections Committee –
Shannon Day passed out the application for the vacant board seat for census tract 2963.  Election will be on September 8th.

9. Committees –
Sign up sheets for committees were distributed to board members. Both Stakeholders and board members may join committees. Shari Hill made the motion that all board members must join at least two committees or one committee and be a NWSPNC rep to another community committee. David Rivera seconded the motion. Motion failed. 

10. The Mayor is having a series of budget meetings and is asking that three representatives of each neighborhood council attend. Bill Upchurch, Marissa Trutanich and Craig Byrnes volunteered to be the NWPSNC reps.

11. Follow up meeting –
A number of items were not addressed at this meeting due to lack of time, therefore, a follow-up meeting was scheduled for July 21, at 6:30 p.m., Peck Park.

MINUTES PREPARED BY:                  MINUTES APPROVED BY:

Shari Hill, Vice President                 John Greenwood, President