**Voting Members in Attendance:** Maryam Zar [acting Chair], Jennifer Malaret, Richard Cohen, Barbara Kohn (until departure from meeting), Janet Anderson, Reza Akef, Nancy Niles, Bruce Schwartz, Richard Wulliger, George Wolfberg, Peter Culhane, Rick Mills, Barbara Marinacci, Sue Kohl, Dick Wulliger and Cathy Russell.
**Voting Alternates:** Howard Robinson, David Kaplan, Doug McCormick, Susan Payne and Dustin Hall.
**Non-voting Advisors and Alternates:** Eric Dugdale, Kevin Niles, Ted Mackie and Diane Bleak. Start of Business Meeting 1.**Reading of Community Council’s Mission.** Richard Cohen read the Mission Statement. 2.**Call to Order and Introduction of the Board and Audience.** Maryam Zar (PPCC Vice President/acting Chair in the Chair's absence) called the meeting to order at 7:01pm. Introduction of the Board and audience. Jennifer Malaret read the meeting ground rules. 3.**Certification of Quorum.** The acting Chair certified that a quorum was present at 7:08 pm. 4.**Adoption of Minutes/Upcoming Meetings.** The acting Chair deemed the
February 25, 2016 minutes approved as corrected. _Upcoming meetings:_ 3/24/
16. No meeting. 4/14/
16. (Tentative) WRAC-recommended motions regarding (1) CUB/alcohol conditions; (2) VA Master Plan and related legislation, S. 2013 (Feinstein), H.R. 3484 (Lieu); (3) Zoning Code enforcement. 5.**Consideration of Agenda.** The acting Chair considered the agenda. 6.**Treasurer’s Report.** Richard Cohen reported the financial status as of
February 11, 2016. The total account balances equal $37,755.
00. The general corporate liability insurance premium was paid.**** 7.**Reports, Announcements and Concerns.**
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1. March 24 Board meeting CANCELLED. The acting Chair announced the next PPCC Board meeting will be
April 14, 2016.
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2. LADWP Pole-Top Distributing Stations (PTDS). The acting Chair announced that LADWP will be holding a Community Meeting on
March 14, 2016, 7:30pm, at Marquez Elementary Charter School.
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3. Short Term Rentals (STRs). The acting Chair announced that there were no updates as of agenda distribution.
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4. Village Starbucks CUB. The acting Chair announced there were no updates as of agenda distribution.
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2. _Announcements from Governmental Representatives_ ___Representatives_ (Note: Contact information at: <http://www.pp90272.org/Governmental%20Reps.pdf>).
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1. Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) – SLO Officer Moore -- Not in attendance.
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2. Los Angeles City Council, District 11; Councilmember Mike Bonin’s Office. Tricia Keane in attendance. Tricia reported that (1) the City is undertaking a comprehensive update of its zoning code. Phase 1 of the update is subject to community forums. The Westside meeting is on April 6th at the Iman Cultural Center at 3376 Motor Avenue from 6-9 PM. The ReCode.la website has all of the information. On April 2nd from 9 AM to noon there is a meeting in Van Nuys with convenient parking as well.
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3. Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Daniel Tamm, Westside Area Representative, Mayor’s Interfaith Liaison -- Not in attendance.
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4. California State Assembly, Office of Assemblymember Richard Bloom. Stephanie Cohen, Field Representative -- Not in attendance.
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5. California State Senate, Office of State Senator Ben Allen. Lila Kalaf, District Representative -- Not in attendance.
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6. United States Congress, Office of Congressman Ted Lieu. Janet Turner, District Representative -- Not in attendance.
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Officers/Area Representatives. (1) Sylmar Ground Return revised EIR has been released.
April 25th is the deadline for comments.
George Wolfberg (At Large) summarized the route of the ground wire from Oregon down through the Sylmar Repeater Station near Interstate 5 in the North San Fernando Valley.
Power is direct current and must be grounded else it can go into underground and gas lines.
The line goes underground at Kenter School and continues basically along Sunset Blvd. to a vault near Gladstone’s where it goes out to sea.
The line is deteriorating and must be replaced.
There were three options for where to run the line.
There are two cables, which will be de-energized one at a time, and the installation will take approximately six months. [www.ladwp.com/envnotices](http://www.ladwp.com/envnotices). (2) Reza Akef (Area 8) reported that the Northern Trust Golf Tournament adversely affected the neighborhood.
The organizers have violated their agreements particularly with regard to deliveries.
Representatives and CD11 have been unable to find the CUP agreement to determine compliance. (3) Howard Robinson thanked David Kaplan for his chairmanship of the VPLUC.
Howard stated he was grateful for David’s extensive time spent on the project, leadership and the due diligence spent in bringing the matter to the board.
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2. Organizational Representatives.
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3. PPCC Advisors.
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4. Board Members, Other Reports. (1) Barbara Kohn made a statement recusing herself from this meeting and regarding circumstances at the PPCC meeting on
February 25, 2016. Barbara stated that before the meeting began on February 25th she received a comment from Chris Spitz and in reply stated immediately that she was recusing herself. Barbara requested that her status in the
February 25, 2016 minutes be revised to reflect her as a non-voting member, and that she was only present. She also asked that her statement at the 3/10 meeting be reflected in the minutes. Maryam noted that there are no present or non-present categories in PPCC's minutes, board members only listed as voting or non-voting and pledged to have the statement made be reflected in the minutes. Jennifer Malaret stated that the minutes do not reflect comments that are made before or after the meeting; and noted that Barbara had sat at the table with her card out and was counted for quorum purposes as a voting member at the February 25th meeting. Jennifer stated that the bylaws do not contain procedures for recusal. Reza Akef objected to Barbara’s statement and asked that it be deleted from these minutes because giving this report was wholly inconsistent with her claims that she was recusing herself from this meeting. [Barbara Kohn left the table following this report.] 8.**Reports from Committees.**
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1. Bylaws Committee (Richard Cohen and Jennifer Malaret, Co-Chairs). Second distribution of proposed bylaws amendments relative to elected Area and At-large representatives, election procedures and minor adjustment to Area 3 and Area 4 boundaries (Bylaws Art. VIII.1.B and D; Appendix B and Attachment A); see minutes of 1/28/16 and 2/11/16 for summaries. MOTION by the Bylaws Committee that the Board approve the proposed amendments as distributed with this meeting agenda and with the
February 25, 2016 meeting agenda. _Presentation_ : Richard Cohen talked about the topical changes to the bylaws and noted the substantive change to the boundaries of Areas 3 and 4 along with Marge Gold’s attendance. Richard noted the re-definition of “resident” as it applies to the election of both area and at-large representatives. Richard talked about how the bylaws used to talk about physical post office and library postings (no longer pssible) so the amendments provide for electronic notice. Like notice the bylaws give the council the ability to conduct elections by mail, in person voting, and possibly electronic voting. The newsletter remains a possibility as does exploring electronic voting like Certified Neighborhood Councils do. The bylaws committee recommends the changes unanimously and no negative feedback has been received. _Discussion_ : None. _Action_ : the motion passed unanimously. 9.**Old Business.**
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1. VPLUC (David Kaplan, Chair). MOTION #s 1, 2 and 3 sponsored by the VPLUC and postponed from the
February 25, 2016 board meeting (PUBLIC COMMENT CLOSED). See: (1) www.pacpalicc.org, Documents tab/Minutes, and Resources tab/Reports & Summaries (PPCC minutes of 11/18/15, 1/14/16, 2/11/16 and VPLUC Preliminary and Supplemental Reports) and (2) http://www.palisadesvillageca.com (FAQs tab). Note: first City hearing to occur on
March 24, 2016. MOTIONS below: _MOTION #1 (postponed from 2/25/16)_. David Kaplan read the motion. _“Pacific Palisades Community Council (PPCC) recognizes that community opinion is generally supportive of the Palisades Village Project, as reflected by public comments at PPCC and other community meetings and input from constituents received by Council District 11 and PPCC Board members. PPCC therefore recommends that the City Planning Commission approve the following land use entitlements as requested by the applicant:_