NoHoWest NC Beautification Committee Meeting

AGENDA

All Items on agenda are subject to Discussion and Possible Action.

1. Call to order and roll call.
2. General public comment on items not listed on today’s agenda (3 minutes per speaker).
3. Review and approve Minutes from December 6, 2011 meeting.
4. Discuss, modify, and possible motion on proposed committee Mission Statement: To enhance and restore the beauty of the NoHoWest community and to promote and implement improvements to and for the common good of the NoHoWest community through community improvements and beautification projects, including but not limited to median plantings, monument signs, and public parks as well as facilitate grants to help support these goals and improve the community’s public landscape. The Committee will further endeavor to educate and engage stakeholders in beautification projects and clean-up activities to benefit the community and work together in “Bringing back the PRIDE” to NoHoWEST, making us “SHINE …one street at a time.”
5. Discuss and possible motion on changing name of “Beautification Committee” to “Beautification and Community Improvement”.
6. Review and discuss Hollywood/Los Angeles Beautification Team’s Permission to Plant or Care for a Street Tree and the requirements (adopt a tree).
7. Review and discuss a sample “SPRUCE UP YOUR BUSINESS” entry form.
8. Review and discuss a sample NOMINATE YOUR NEIGHBOR FOR YARD OF THE MONTH” and any “prize” or certificate to be presented.
9. Discuss getting the west side of Saticoy at Bellaire designated as NO PARKING from 10PM to 5AM like the east side due to the overnight camper parking. (The rest of Saticoy to Woodman is already designated as NO OVERNIGHT PARKING.
10. Discuss requesting approval by the Board to contact the Movie Car Rental place on Saticoy dead end to report graffiti more often, as it is on their property that it is happening.
11. Discuss having an application process (sample to be reviewed which needs to be amended to fit our purpose) that stakeholders have to fill out to get approval from the Board for funding for beautification projects, etc.
12. Discuss locating and contacting the proper City entity to see about an ordinance to limit the size and type of SIGNS posted for businesses along Sherman Way within in our boundary to present to the Board as a possible project ..to either grandfather in or make it applicable to new business as they start up.
13. Discuss types of outreach to our local businesses along the Sherman Way corridor to let them know about us and to request their assistance with making Sherman Way more pleasing to the eye, signage, shrubbery, clean up.
14. Discuss the LAPD Christmas Toy Drive success
15. Discuss future projects.
16. Discuss the email from Sulma Hernandez, rep for Cardenas,  re the abandoned shopping cart problems and developing ordinance. (This seems to only involve new stores and stores undergoing major renovations – not existing stores)
17. Discuss asking the board for approval to contact existing local markets for their assistance in cart retrieval systems or locking carts suggestions.
18. Committee member comments on non-agenda items.

Adjournment.