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GEPENC Meeting Wednesday in Echo Park

Looks like GEPENC is back!

Last Tuesday (May 25), GEPENC board members were sworn in during a last minute meeting. The next Board of Governors meeting will be tomorrow, Wednesday, June 2 at 6:30 pm at its new community center on Echo Park Avenue (behind the Bank of America).

Here’s the agenda for the meeting:

  1. Administrative Items:
    1. Call to Order
    2. Roll Call – GEPENC Board of Governors
    3. Flag Salute
    4. Adoption of Minutes
  2. Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items
    1. Comments from the public on non-agenda items within the Board’s jurisdiction.  Two minutes per speaker.
  3. Motions & Resolutions (Discussion/Possible Action Items):
    1. Regular Calendar Items:
      1. [2010-06-01] Discussion and/or Possible Action on request from the Board President for the GEPENC Board of Governors to approve recommendations of the Chairs and Vice Chairs for the 2010 – 2102 Standing and Ad Hoc Committees.
      2. [2010-06-02] Presentation and Discussion on the Proposed Fiscal Year 2010 – 2011 Neighborhood Council Budget.
  4. Announcements
  5. Adjournment
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Echo Park Improvement Association Agenda

The Echo Park Improvement Association town hall meeting is on Thursday, May 6 at 7:00 pm, Barlow Hospital in Williams Hall

The agenda is as follows:

  1. Welcome and Introductions
  2. Council District 1 & 13 reports
  3. Northeast & Rampart Police Reports
  4. Sustainable gardening practices (drought tolerant and edible gardens – 4 speaker panel)
  5. Elections – committee update
  6. Treasurer report (Barbra Neal)
  7. Neighborhood Issues committee report (NIC)   (Andrew Garsten)
  8. Approval of Minutes from April meeting

REPORTS / ANNOUNCEMENTS:
To make an announcement, sign a card when you come in, giving your name and topic.  Cards are collected and given to the moderator.

  1. Next meeting on June 3rd – featured topic –Out of school – summer programs – confirm location.

Call 323-882-4835 or email EPIA for more information.

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Monday: Echo Park Advisory Board Meeting

Echo Park Advisory Board Meeting Agenda
Monday, April 19, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Echo Park Recreation Center, 1632 Bellevue Avenue

Meeting called to order

  • Roll Call
  • Approval of Minutes – January/February/March 2010
  • Mitch O’Farrell (Sr. Advisory, Special Projects, Office of Council President, Eric Garcetti): Echo Park Updates and Discussion
  • Public comment of non-agenda items (10 minutes)
  • Echo Park Recreation Staff Reports (5 minutes)

Old business

  • Pending Business
    • Lake Rehab – Construction projected for January 2011
    • Boys & Girls Club – RAP Commissioners meeting projected for September 2010
    • Sunday Flee Market Issue
  • Follow-through on fundraising efforts for Spring/Summer 2010
  • Follow-through on new PAB Member Recruitment
  • Changing of the regularly scheduled meeting day and time
    • 4th Monday of the month, motion to vote

New Business

  • Secretary Duties – board member to temporarily facilitate
  • Board member reports/remarks

Motion to Adjourn

  • Next meet May 17 at 7pm (pending vote above)
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Wednesday: Meeting on SR2 Freeway Terminus Project

From: Echo Park Community Action Committee

Date:  November 17, 2009

Subject:  SR2 Freeway Terminus Project

Meeting, Metro’s Planning and Programming Committee

Wed., Nov. 18, 2009, 1:00 p.m., 3rd Floor Boardroom

One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, Ca 90012

On Wednesday, November 18, the members of Metro’s Planning and Programming Committee will consider an agenda item (Number #10) to:

A. To receive and file the Draft Initial Study/Environmental Assessment Report (DIS/EA)

B. To Adopt the Hybrid as the Local Preferred Alternative

C. To authorize additional funds to prepare an environmental analysis  and preliminary engineering of the hybrid

D. To authorize Metro’s CEO to recommend the LPA to Caltrans.

The Echo Park Community Action Committee has notified the P&P Committee of our objections to items A, B and D.  For item C, we do support provide additional funds to complete the environmental analysis and for preliminary studies of the hybrid, which we think should rightfully be called Alternative F.

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Tonight: Echo Park Improvement Association Meeting agenda

Tonight (Wednesday, October 21) at 7:00 pm, the Echo Park Improvement Association will meet at Williams Hall at Barlow Hospital (2000 Stadium Way).

The agenda includes some topics that many Echo Park residents have been debating lately, including the Lake restoration project, the Flea Market at the lake, and Dodger Stadium traffic (always a contentious issue).

1. Introductions and sign in
2. Local Schools:
    a. Van De Kamps/LACC-LACCD Update (Garsten)
3. Land Use:
    a. Barlow Hospital-Proposed Entitlements and Development Update (Garsten)
    b. Taco Trucks Downtown Echo Park (Schenot)
    c. New Business
        i. Angeles Group to discuss Durbin project and Morton Village complex
        ii. Farmer’s Market Expansion (Schenot)
        iii. Proposed fee increases for LADBS appeals (Garsten)
4. Parks Issues:
    a. Echo Park Lake
        i. Restoration Project (Raskin)
        ii. Illegal Flea Market (Hubert)
    b. Elysian Park
    c. New business
5. Public Works Issues:
    a. EPIA/Echo Park Transportation Study (Javier Aguilar)
    b. Route 2 Terminus Improvement Project Updates (Lassen, Raskin).
    c. Mural Projects-EPIA Committee Progress? (Lassen, Meksin)
    d. Walkable Streets-Streetscape and pedestrian amenities (Meksin)
    e. Southbound 101 Alvarado Exit Left Turn Lane (Hubert to present Draft Letter)
    f. Dodgers traffic issues (Hubert)
    g. New Business
6. EPIA Policies & Procedures
    a. Bylaws Amendments (Hubert, Garsten)
7. Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items
8. Future Agendas
9. Adjourn

For info email: andrew.garsten@sbcglobal.net

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