Minutes of the Linda Vista Planning Committee
April 28, 2008 at Linda Vista Library
(Corrected, Approved)

Meeting called to order by Chair Rick Bussell

Color Guard from Kearny ROTC presented the colors

Roll call was taken: absent were Martin Ammerman and Kathleen Morgen, New members seated were Jorge Riquelme and Betty Rodriguez .

Pari Sanati from Donna Frye ’s office distributed Frye Lights and reported that Kearny Pool will be closed from September 20 till January of 2009.  She also passed out schedule for budget hearings at council chambers.

Melanie Cohn from Lori Saldana’s office handed out The Saldana Sun

Katherine Fortner handed out the Davis Dispatch.

Libby Day reported on the LV Housing Rehab Program now called (HELP) Housing Enhancement Loan Program.

An additional $17,000 from low mod housing funds has been deposited to the Help account for a total of balance of $167,000.

New guidelines will go into effect after June.  The loan maximum then will be $20,000 and owner occupied house built before 1980 will be eligible

To Date 25 projects have been completed 1 is under construction and 8 are undergoing assessment.

Estella Klink reported on Housing Counselor activity. She thanked USD Law school students for their support with various cases and announced the formation of a financial literacy program

Ivan Kornbleau and Eric Picou are now the code compliance officers is Linda Vista.

Information item:  Sudbury Properties requested a workshop on the Quarry Falls project for next meeting, May 19.  It will be scheduled at agenda meeting.

San Diego Charter Cooperative Charter School is requesting that a portion of Levant Street be changed to a one way street to improve traffic flow and safety during student drop-off and pickup times.  Request was handed to Traffic and Safety Committee to review and report back to the group.

Request to add an action item to next meeting agenda: Request is to donate $100 to Kearny ROTC to defray cost of transporting students to the meetings for Flag Ceremony.

Action item:  Martin Ammerman has been absent from to many meetings.  Rick Bussell appointed Gale Cole to complete his term.

Announcements:

LV Recreation Council will meet on May 13^th at Recreation Center at 5 pm.  Need more community participation on the Council.

Election committee will meet Friday, May 2 to develop a slate of officers for 2008-09.

Donna Erickson requested that all members fill out a form expressing their interest in being an officer.

Current officers reviewed their duties and responsibilities.  There is a request to have a real secretary who will attend agenda meeting as well as take minutes of monthly meeting.  Maybe have different members take on different tasks.

Motion to approve minutes of March meeting was made by Doug Beckham and seconded by Jeff Perwin.  Motion passed with 4 abstentions because they were not present at the meeting.

Action Item:

The ad hoc by-laws committee submitted the following for discussion and approval:

LVPG Ad Hoc Bylaws Committee Report
April 28, 2008

Deputy City Attorney Marianne Greene submitted eleven deviations from the City’s bylaws shell for the committee to discuss.  Input was gathered from seven members at a special meeting on April 22^nd. On April 25^th, four members met with Greene and Senior Planners Bernie Turgen and Brian Schoenfisch.  A consensus was reached on nine of the deviations and two will be presented to City Council for approval

The two are:

+ 21 Board members instead of the maximum of 20 [Article III, Section 1]
+ Attendance at 3 of the last 6 LVPG meetings instead of 1 of the last 12 for a candidate to be eligible to run for the Board [Article V, Section1] 

Of the nine, we agreed to:

+ Omit sentence that starts with “Of course, timely manner is contingent…”  [Article II, Section 5]
+ Restore “offices of the Mayor and”  [Article II, Section 7]
+ Delete reference to City Clerk  [Article III, Section 2]
+ Keep Article III, Section 3 as is
+ Delete “knowingly before “participates in a meeting…” [Article 3, Section 6 and Article IX, Section 2]
+ Reinsert “and to vote for…”   after “to run”  [Article V, Section 1]
+ Remove last sentence of Article V, Section 2 that placed  a cap of only two additional years for termed out members.  We felt the necessary two thirds of the vote would take care of the situation.
+ Keep “secret ballot” as “written” was implied and not necessary  [Article V, Section 3]
+ Clarify that the LVCMAD committee is voted in by the  “LVPG Board”   [Article VI, Section 2(b)] 

In Exhibit C we might want to add at the end of the LVCMAD  paragraph, “See Article VI, Section 2(b) for more details.”

Motion was made by Donna Erickson , seconded by Betty Rodriquez to accept the report with the exception of the following:

+ Delete “knowingly before “participates in a meeting…” [Article 3, Section 6 and Article IX, Section 2]

+ Reinsert “and to vote for…”   after “to run” 

All present voted to accept the motion.