• Businesses along Venice Blvd. have been supportive of the weekly cleanup project being carried out by the Chrysalis organization, Palms President Pauline Stout has reported.
The cleanup involves:
1. Weekly sweeping of sidewalks and gutters,
2. Weekly emptying and lining of trash cans.
The cost, $500 a week, is being borne by the Palms Neighborhood Council. Business owners will be asked to contribute in order to keep the project going, Stout said. Chrysalis provides employment services to nearly 2,300 people annually through centers based in downtown Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Pacoima.
• The Council has allocated $5,000 to help fund a pilot soccer and literacy project at Palms Middle School by the L.A. Scores organization. It will be a continuation of the successful projects at Palms and Charnock elementary schools, said Alejandro Soschin of L.A. Scores.
• Adjustment of the Palms Council's northeast boundary with the Westside Neighborhood Council is at a standstill after Westside President Terri Tippitt appointed a committee headed by Melissa Kenaday to confer with Palms NC people about the proposed adjustment. The Palms NC has decided to ask the city to move the boundary northward from National Blvd. east of Overland up to the I-10 Freeway. Click here for earlier stories.
• Festive banners to mark Palms's three Historic Business Areas will soon be installed on our local streets. They can be up until another organization requests the space. Outreach Committee Chair Marion Bruhwiler has written that
The banners are completed, but still need the City Council approval on the one-year permit fee waiver and permit. During the interim, we have the opportunity to pick up banners and take pictures to celebrate this auspicious moment in the outreach history of the Palms Neighborhood Council. Local politics are interesting when you can touch the results of efforts and support by the council to connect with stakeholders. Far from being a blockbuster event, though it is a very exciting fruit of effort on the part of a community of supporters.
• The Representative Assembly, which is the governing body of the Palms NC, has voted to support a Keep America Beautiful cleanup event in downtown L.A. on March 3 "to show our pride in being part of Los Angeles and our wish to beautify it." Palms annexed itself to Los Angeles in 1915.
The city Board of Library Commissioners met in the Palms-Rancho Park Library on Feb. 22 and decided to name the upstairs community room and balcony on behalf of author Ray Bradbury, who lives in Cheviot Hills.
