Pacific Palisades Community Council

PPCC announces the outstanding 2023 Awards Honorees:

• Citizen of the Year:  Cindy Kirven

• Golden Sparkplugs:  Laura Schneider, John Dwight, Sara Marti and Steve Cron

• Pride of the Palisades:  Palisades PRIDE

See information about their accomplishments here.

The Honorees will be celebrated at our Holiday Dinner & Awards Gala on December 6th, 2023 at The Draycott. the vent is SOLD OUT.

PPCC Holiday Dinner & Awards Gala is SOLD OUT

On December 5th, CD11 will host a community meeting to inform the public about the Potrero Canyon Bridge Project. See details here.

Next PPCC board meeting: January 11th, 2024 (no regular meeting in December/Awards Gala on December 6th).

January 11, 2024 agenda pending.

Please join us at the Awards Gala and at our upcoming meetings in 2024!

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At our last meeting, Area One Representatives showed a video to the board in order to make us aware of the perils of hillside construction in their narrow streets, as a large proposed project is winding its way through the permitting process. While our LUC has their eye on the project, we wish to share this video widely with the community sine we are in the VHFHSZ and narrow hillside streets characterize many of our Palisades areas.

See the video here

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See the video of the October 12th Special Meeting regarding the bridge project for Potrero Canyon Park, HERE.

See our letter to City and State officials, here.

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The PPCC Awards Selection Committee will announce hour 2023 Honorees at the November 9th meeting, which will be held in person at the Palisades Library Community Room.

Join Us!

Expect details about the annual PPCC Holiday Dinner & Awards Gala to follow. PPCC President will announce the Awards Event Committee (AEC), and has already begun working on venue selection, plans and preparations for the annual event celebrating our volunteers!

The Holiday Dinner & Awards Gala will be held on December 14th (per the bylaws). [Note:  the event will now be held on December 6.]

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Our 50th Anniversary Jubilee & Community Celebration was a great success!

See our EVENT PAGE

With more than 30 local organizations celebrating . . .

Public officials and elected representatives and Palisades community leaders from almost every local organizations were present for a wonderful day of community and a celebration of the volunteer spirit that helps make the Palisades wonderful.

There were booths, music, food, presentations, balloons and crafts for kids, awards, speeches, recognition and even a grant made to our host location!

Glad so many people joined us for this historic day celebrating community. . . not to have been missed!

Go to: https://pacpalicc.org/index.php/11987-2/ for more info

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Link to the PPCC board meeting (begins at 6pm):

Join Zoom Meeting

Maryam Zar
PPCC President

See all our recent meeting Agendi and Minutes, here.  All Minutes from 2001 to the present can also be found by clicking on the Documents/Minutes of Previous Meetings tab, above.

 

Please see recent meeting recaps here and at Recaps & News

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See recordings of important speakers or issues at our YouTube channel

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Past messages from the President, 2022:

On behalf of the community and the Community Council, I wish to thank the Awards Selection Committee — Co Chairs: Nancy and Kevin Niles, members: Daphne Gronich, Barbara Kohn, Andy Frew — for their deliberation and their exceptional slate of honorees who were celebrated this year at our annual Holiday Awards Gala, on December 8th!

See the Potrero Canyon Community meeting video at:  VIDEO

See the George Wolfberg Park at Potrero Canyon signs at: INTERPRETIVE SIGNS

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At our 10/27 meeting, we heard from Lindsay Horvath and Bob Hertzberg, candidates for LA County Supervisor, District 3.  See the Meet & Greet here:

We also heard from Gene Oh, the founder of Tranzito Vector, the company that has been contracted by the City of LA rebuild transit bus shelters across the city. The board was not impressed with the design of the new bus shelters but are still discovering how many will be placed in Pacific Palisades and what specs can be adjusted for our community. We have been given assurances that digital advertising will not be posted on the shelters in our community, and that any electronic component will be for information purposes only (such as route timings and bus information). Look for more information as we receive it.

We had an extended conversation with SLO Brian Espin about the state of Palisades crime, and with Commander Tom joining us next month at our November 10th meeting, we will agendas a longer conversation of strategy with LAPD, to keep the community safe.

SLO Espin shared the following CRIME UPDATE and CRIME MAP with the community.

Here is the Meeting Recap.

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At our September 22, 2022, we heard from Traci Park and Erin Darling, the two candidates for LA City Council for District 11.  See the recording  here.

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At the regularly scheduled 10/13 meeting, we approved these minutes.

And amended the bylaws in the following ways:

• Added a Parliamentarian as a non-voting advisor, who may be appointed by the Chair with the consent of the Board. The same person may serve as Parliamentarian and Legal Advisor or may be two different people. (Bylaws, Art. V.1.D. and E.)
• Split the office of Secretary into a Recording Secretary (a voting officer, on the Executive Committee) and a Corresponding Secretary (a non-voting Board Member, appointed by the Executive Committee with the consent of the Board – not an officer and not on the Executive Committee) (Article VI, Sec. 3. A., B., and C., and in other miscellaneous places). The purpose is to lighten the load of the Secretary, by having the Recording Secretary do the internal work of the organization, and the Corresponding Secretary do the outward communications work and media messaging.
• Clarified that the term of all PPCC officers is for one year (Article VII, Sec. 4.C.).
• Lifted the requirement that meetings be in-person, allowing the Board to decide between in-person and alternate remote means, and eliminating the determination of exigent circumstances in order to meet by Zoom (Art. VII, Sec. 5; Art. IX, Sec. 1).
• Made a change to the organizational line-up in Appendix A, adding Resilient Palisades to the Environment category, to be shared with Temescal Canyon Association and moving the American Legion from the Service Club category to the Civic Organization category to share a seat with The Civic League.

Our next meeting will be on October 13th, with installation of a new board, a report from PPTFH on the results of the latest Point in Time Homeless Count, and a meet and greet with State Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (AD44) and Lori Mills who is a candidate for AD42, our new Assembly District that has a runoff election coming up between Jacqui Irwin (D) and Lori Mills (R). 

Please mark your calendars and join us!

Best,
Maryam Zar
PPCC President

Public Safety
Extensive materials on public safety and disaster readiness, compiled by PPCC, can be found HERE.

Watering Restrictions
Click HERE for information from LADWP on the new watering restrictions.