**Voting Members in Attendance** : Maryam Zar, George Wolfberg, Chris Spitz, Michael Soneff, Richard Cohen, Stuart Muller, Sue Kohl, Richard Wulliger, Bruce Schwartz, Nancy Niles, Barbara Marinacci, Sarah Rena Conner, Rick Mills, Reza Akef, Janet Anderson, Quentin Fleming, Cathy Russell
**Voting Alternates:** Brian Deming, Diane Bleak
**Non-voting Advisors and Alternates:** Richard Blumenberg, Kevin Niles, Robin Meyers, Amir Ebtehadj Start of Business Meeting 1.**Certification of Quorum.** The Chair Maryam Zar called the meeting to order and certified that a quorum was present at 7:03pm. 2.**Reading of Community Council’s Mission.** George Wolfberg read the Mission Statement. 3.**Introduction of the Board and Audience.** 4.**Approval of Minutes/Upcoming Meetings.** Maryam deemed the minutes of
September 8, 2016 approved. _Upcoming meetings:_ 10/13/
16. (1) Board election of Alternate Area and At-large Reps. (2) Councilman Mike Bonin. (3) Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson on Prop HHH. 10/27/
16. (1) Farmer’s Market. Q/A. (2) LAWA Airport Plan (3) Pedestrian safety and traffic plan discussion for Pacific Palisades. 11/10/
16. (1) Citizen of the Year and Gold Sparkplug Honorees announced. 12/08/
16. Holiday Party and Awards Event. 5.**Consideration of Agenda.** 6.**Treasurer’s Report.** Treasurer Richard Cohen reported that there was $34,358.81 in the account and no significant transactions in the last month. 7.**Reports, Announcements and Concerns.**
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1. 2016 Congress of Neighborhood Councils event (<http://www.nccongressla.com>). Sat. Sept 24th, all day. Attendance by board members is encouraged.
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2. Potrero Canyon, tour report & update. George Wolfberg organized a tour for Maryam and other interested persons, given by Rob Hancock, supervising engineer on the project for decades. The first priority right now, the group was told, is to restart grading and to put in the park. There is an approved plan that’s been made public, and is the final blueprint for construction and planting. In November and December they will be hauling in the soil (presumably from the Caruso village project). The haul route is still to be approved but likely in January they will use this soil to re-start grading. Estimated two years to completion – one year for grading, one year for planting. Maryam is currently attempting to schedule Rob and his team for a PPCC presentation in November.
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3. LA RICS Tower. From CD11: The LA-RICS Joint Powers Authority intends to construct a lattice communications tower of up to 180' feet on Temescal Fire Road, which is on State Parks property at a site known as "Green Mountain." LA-RICS picked this location strategically. Councilmember Bonin has indicated that he will oppose the construction of this tower and will work with the community to object to further plans to expand the current use of this existing public safety communications site. This topic may be agendized for discussion at a later time.
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4. Citizen of the Year and Golden Sparkplug Awards 2016. The Awards Selection Committee has been appointed as follows: George Wolfberg (Chair), Cathy Russell, Doug McCormick, Sharon Kilbride (past Citizen of the Year), Bruce Schwartz, Brian Deming and Bill Bruns (past Community Service Awardee). Awards nominations from the community are now open through October 29th. _See attached notice._
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5. New Organizational Members (agenda addition). At Maryam’s request Chris Spitz read the names of the new Organizational Members for the coming term. _See list attached_.
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6. WRAC Meeting update (agenda addition).