{"id":7207,"date":"2019-12-18T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/?page_id=7207"},"modified":"2020-01-10T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:47:08","slug":"ppcc-minutes-2019-12-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/index.php\/ppcc-minutes-2019-12-12\/","title":{"rendered":"PPCC Minutes – 2019 \/ 12 \/ 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Return to Index of 2019 Minutes<\/a><\/p>\n

MINUTES FOR DECEMBER 12th 2019<\/h5>\n

Voting Members in Attendance: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>George Wolfberg, David Card, Richard Cohen, Chris Spitz, Sue Kohl, David Kaplan, Steve Boyers, Haldis Toppel, Steve Cron, Rick Mills, Reza Akef, Dick Wulliger, Sarah Knauer, John Padden, Cathi Ruddy<\/p>\n

Voting Alternates:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mary Mueller, Kelly Comras<\/p>\n

Non-voting Advisors and Alternates:<\/strong>\u00a0 Kevin Niles, Richard Blumenberg, Bruce Schwartz, Howard Robinson, Marilyn Wexler, Andrew Wolfberg, Bob Benton, Rob Weber<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Certification of Quorum. \u00a0<\/strong>Vice-Chair David Card, acting as Presiding Officer, called the meeting to order at 6:50 pm and certified that a quorum was present.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Reading of Community Council\u2019s Mission. <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The Presiding Officer read the Mission Statement.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction of the Board and Audience<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Presiding Officer acknowledged and thanked the past Citizens of the Year, Community Service Awardees, Golden Sparkplug Awardees and Pride of the Palisades Honorees in attendance; the past PPCC Chairs in attendance; and current Board members in attendance.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Approval of Minutes & Upcoming Meetings.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a01) Approval of Minutes \u2013 approval of the minutes of 11\/14\/19 was deferred. \u00a02) Upcoming Meetings\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 January 9, 2020: (1) awards recap; (2) PPCC operations: starting a Board discussion.\u00a0 January 23, 2020: (1) Guest speaker City Controller Ron Galperin (postponed from 11\/14\/19); (2) Briefing on proposed Gladstones Redevelopment project.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Consideration of Agenda.\u00a0 <\/strong>The Presiding Officer announced that most items will be deferred.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 \u00a0 Treasurer\u2019s Report\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Deferred. <\/em><\/p>\n

7. \u00a0 \u00a0General Public Comment <\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong>Deferred.<\/em><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Reports, Announcements and Concerns\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Deferred.<\/em><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 \u00a0 Reports from Committees\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Deferred.<\/em><\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 \u00a0 Old Business<\/strong>\u2013 None.<\/em><\/p>\n

11.\u00a0 \u00a0 New Business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

11.1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a02019 PPCC Awards Presentation<\/u>. \u00a0Welcome and presentation of Awards: Citizen of the Year \u2013 Kevin Niles. Golden Sparkplugs \u2013 Don Camacho, Lisa Glantz & Mike Lanning. Pride of the Palisades \u2013 George Wolfberg. Special recognition and thanks to First Responders.<\/p>\n

The Presiding Officer welcomed the Honorees and event attendees and summarized the criteria for each of the Awards.\u00a0 He also thanked numerous individuals for contributing to the success of the event, including Awards Selection Committee Chair David Kaplan, Awards Event Committee Chair Mary Mueller, all members of\u00a0 the two Committees, the Pali High Ambassadors who assisted during the evening, Treasurer Richard Cohen & IT Advisor Heather Cohen, Secretary Chris Spitz for overall organization, Sue Kohl for providing the lovely flowers and table decorations, Haldis Toppel for providing the wonderful pianist Marie Captain, our bartenders during the evening John Padden & Bruce Schwartz, Manfred Hofer for designing the beautiful event program, Kayndaves for the delicious buffet and the PPWC for providing the event venue.<\/p>\n

The Presiding Officer then introduced the government officials in attendance, who gave remarks praising the Honorees and provided certificates acknowledging their service:\u00a0 Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer; Assemblymember Richard Bloom; Ami Fields-Meyer (West LA Representative, Mayor Eric Garcetti); Lisa Cahill (Palisades Deputy, Councilmember Mike Bonin); Zachary Gaidzik (West\/Metro LA Field Deputy, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl); Liliana Pond (Field Representative, Sen. Ben Allen); Janet Turner (District Representative, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu).<\/p>\n

PPCC officers & Board members then presented the Awards and spoke about the Honorees\u2019 achievements, as follows:<\/p>\n

Pride of the Palisades George Wolfberg<\/u>: by Awards Committee Chair & Area 6 Representative David Kaplan, Secretary Chris Spitz and Vice-Chair David Card.\u00a0 Additional presentations by Brentwood Community Council (BCC) Chair Michelle Bisnoff (special BCC award expressing appreciation for George\u2019s service to the wider community) and Janet Turner (announcement of remarks about George by Congressman Ted Lieu, entered into the U.S. Congressional Record on December 5, 2019; see pages from the Congressional Record: \u00a0https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/116th-First-Session-CR-Wolfberg-PDF.pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Golden Sparkplug Don Camacho<\/u>:\u00a0by Chamber of Commerce Alternate Representative & PPBA League Commissioner Bob Benton.<\/p>\n

Golden Sparkplug Lisa Glantz<\/u>:\u00a0by Awards Committee Chair & Area 6 Representative David Kaplan.<\/p>\n

Golden Sparkplug Mike Lanning<\/u>: by Awards Committee Chair & Area 6 Representative David Kaplan.<\/p>\n

Citizen of the Year Kevin Niles<\/u>:\u00a0by Vice-Chair David Card.<\/p>\n

The Honorees all expressed thanks to PPCC and appreciation for the community\u2019s recognition of their service.<\/p>\n

Following the Awards presentations, the Presiding Officer thanked our First Responders for their tremendous work in protecting the community during the recent fires and every day.\u00a0 He recognized LAPD Battalion Chief Percy Jones, who spoke about the firefighters\u2019 work and also expressed appreciation for the recognition. Additional First Responders in attendance:\u00a0 the Station 69 Captains and firefighters; LAPD SLO Michael Moore, West Traffic Division Officer Ryan Basaker and Beach Patrol Officers John \u201cRusty\u201d Redican and Jimmy Soliman.<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Adjournment.\u00a0 <\/strong>The Presiding Officer adjourned the meeting at 8:55pm.<\/p>\n

Return to Index of 2019 Minutes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Return to Index of 2019 Minutes MINUTES FOR DECEMBER 12th 2019 Voting Members in Attendance: \u00a0\u00a0George Wolfberg, David Card, Richard Cohen, Chris Spitz, Sue Kohl, David Kaplan, Steve Boyers, Haldis Toppel, Steve Cron, Rick Mills, Reza Akef, Dick Wulliger, Sarah Knauer, John Padden, Cathi Ruddy Voting Alternates:\u00a0 Mary Mueller, Kelly Comras Non-voting Advisors and Alternates:\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page-template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacpalicc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}