March 23rd, BHNC General Board Meeting; The Later Version

The meeting started a little later the the listed, time.  I believe around 6:09pm.  Audio is up at my site. www.thirteenfalls.net/BHT in the subsection Audio/Video, under the 2016 march section.  And links are there to download the agenda, audio, and to the youTube videos of the event.  The audio/video were divided in to three sections due to the face that i was recording video and took the audio from there.  Video on my tab is limited to 47minutes and 12seconds per vid.  

That being said.  let's start:

Part 1: 
     In general the "General Public Comment" portion (started at 3m50s in) is for the public primarily.  However, quick two minute presentations, or "short" presentations (not on the agenda) can be made.  I am grateful that Vivian from Metro, regarding Mariachi Plaza (@ 04:00), but it ran for a good 7 minutes.  At this point it becomes a presentation that should have been put on the agenda, or had her cut off [at the 2 minute mark].

Oscar Morales from LAC Sanitation District (@ 12:00) gave a quick update, regarding the emergency generator installation.  And at 13:50 Lois Castillo of the US Bureau regarding testing of new online tech.  

At ~1630 BHCBH (Building Healthier Communities Boyle Heights), requested that the BHNC move it's monthly scheduled meeting on April 27th to another date/time to accommodate their needs.    They wish to hold a forum at the BH City Hall with the Los Angeles Superintendent on that day.  As that is the only time the superintendent is available.

~27:10: Government Report:
            Franklin Ochoa - Earth Day Clean-Up, April 23rd.  Multiple Clean-ups through out the neighborhood.

~31:10: Committee Reports:
Outreach:
     Quick recap of election forums
     ~35:10: Renewal of Community Beacon Full Page Ad (this continues in to Part 2).  Wish to reduce ad from a full page to 1/4 page.

Part 2: (cont. Outreach Report)
     0~11:00: Generally the comments are that people like the newspaper, but that it is not Boyle Heights oriented.  As to how these ads/expense have benefited the BH community.  People voiced that they would like to "expand" in to other news papers/advertisers, such as the NGP (free ads), and Boyle Heights Beat.
     @~7:30: The motion was made to continue the ad at 1/4 page for 6 issues @ 150$/issue or 900$.
                     Motion passed 15-1, with 1 non-eligible.

~11:18: request motion to move rules and election report to prior to PLUC reports.  (Passed)
~12:35:_attempt to move bnf after rules and elections and prior to PLUC reports (7-9 Failed)

~14:55: Rules and Elections Committee Report:   Regarding upcoming elections
~16:10: Embarrassing the candidates in the audience and on the board.

~20:24: PLUC Report
      Re:Code LA  (for a detailed explanation regarding recode, check out the audio from the last PLUC meeting).  Also there will be a community meeting @bh city hall, sat april16 9am-1pm. community plan and rezone are different
      ~24:35: CoPALM    Informational proposal  _alcohol reduced restriction license ordinance
Community forum April 21st at Resurrection church at 3324 Opal st, Los Angeles, Ca 90023 5:45pm_ 8:00pm


Now here is where it pisses me off.  Right after this group, who was advocating alcohol restrictions, we had someone promoting alcohol.  . SO i am just going to exclude this NON-Agenda item from this overview.  FUCK 'EM.  It was an impromptu commercial that killed our ability to finish AGENDA ITEMS!!

~37:30: Neighborhood Committee: DAPA and DACA overview,  Maria Ocampo

Part 3 (Cont. Neighborhood Committee)

~0:50: Vote taken.  Unanimously passed. 

~1:30: Motion to have BHNC join the neighborhood council sustainability alliance. Presenter, Lisa
Hart, NCSA (Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance) ncsa.nationbuilder.com
15_1 vote, passed.  Balemero and Nicole volunteered as reps.

~10:10: Budget and Finance Committee Report:  Review.
Re-vote on wolf pack.  (Non-agenda item) Questions arose as if this was acceptable as this was not on the agenda.  Versus since it needed to be corrected from the last meeting, even though.  Vera stated that it could, and if this is wrong, it will need to be voted again.  Voted 11-6-1 passed

Item d.ii. Hunger Action for LA NPG in support of  Proyecto Jardin regarding Earth Day, tabled.

Closed with a moment of silence for Don T. Nakanishi

I did like that we did get through most items in a somewhat timely manor.  However, the meeting was a bit sloppy.  Disorganized.  I get that people speak out of turn, but i felt that there was a general disrespect from some members of the community and presenters to the community.  As well as that last NPG item that just got cut off.  Had we known that we were on a time limit.  Maybe we could have excluded those non-agenda items.

Maybe next time it can be POSTED to the community  that we only have the hall from 6pm until .... what time?  What time did we have the Hall for....?  I didn't see it listed on the bhnc website, facebook, twitter, the community beacon ad, or even on the agenda.