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THIS IS THE WESTSIDE VILLAGE PAGE
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One of only two Web pages in the entire universe that give a woof about Westside Village.
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WESTSIDE VILLAGE LINKS
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FEATURES
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SCHOOLS
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MAPS
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ORGANIZATIONS
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Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch
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This NONCOMMERCIAL site is a harmless hobby of George Garrigues, who has lived in the Westside Village district of Palms for a dozen years or so. These pages have no connection with any organization.
Send him e-mail with corrections and comments
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Westside Village Civic Assn. will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday; Rosendahl, Weiss will speak
Boundary change will be aired pro and con
Click here to read about it below
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PETITIONS
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It didn't take long for the signed petitions to come rolling in once the latest batch was distributed to stakeholders in the area north of Charnock, south of National, west of Overland and east of the 405. These are just few received during the first week of the renewed drive to leave Mar Vista and to bring Westside Village into the newly active Palms Neighborhood Council.
The petition on the right wasn't signed, but it did bear the correct postage.
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More than 260 names.
More than 180 different addresses.
In every part of Westside Village
SHORT PLEA BRINGS HEAVY RESPONSE
Petition to the City of Los Angeles in favor of forming a
PALMS-WESTSIDE VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
"We, the undersigned, ask the Mayor and City Council of Los Angeles
to take whatever steps are necessary to allow the area east of the 405 San Diego Freeway and south of National Boulevard to help form and then join a proposed Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Council."
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PETITIONS HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR
Click here to see a tongue-in-cheek report on how that was done — via Palms's commuter bus!
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WIDESPREAD SUPPORT
Red figures on the map show where the 200+ signers either live or work.
Map prepared early in 2005; some of the counts are not complete
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| The Westside Village Civic Assn. will hold its annual meeting Tuesday evening, Feb. 28, in St. John’s Presbyterian Church at National and Military.
Although the fact has not been publicized by the Civic Assn., which is the homeowners’ group for this area, The Sun has been told that five minutes each have been allotted to both proponents and opponents of a proposal to move Westside Village from the jurisdiction of the Mar Vista Community Council and to form a new Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Council.
These presentations are to be made during the business portion of the meeting, which will also feature election of officers.
The WVCA says that all Westside Village residents are welcome.
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REPRINT FROM THE BULLETIN OF THE WESTSIDE VILLAGE CIVIC ASSN.
You are invited to the
Westside Village Civic Association
2006 Annual Meeting, Dinner and Raffle
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006
St.John's Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall
Southwest corner of National and Military
All Westside Village residents are welcome. Seats will be available for latecomers who cannont attend the dinner, which is $5.00 per person. Children 10 and under are free. Care will be provided for young children during the program.
Program
5:30 registration
5:45-6:15 Mexican buffeet dinner served by Baja Bud’s
Desert, coffee and refreshments
6:15 WVCA business meeting
Reports by the president and treasurer, election of officers and directors
6:45 Comments by LAPD Senior Lead Officer Anthony Vasquez
7:00 Council Members Bill Rosendahl and Jack Weiss
7:30 Questions and answers
8:10 Closing remarks
Three raffles will be held during the night’s events.
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ANOTHER MAR VISTA MOMENT
Meetings outside the district
People with their hearts in the right place, but at times their meetings are in the wrong ones.
That's how The Sun thinks of those dedicated folk who give over their free time to working on behalf of the Mar Vista Community Council.
Maybe they just aren't thinking clearly.
Last April the installation of the Mar Vista Community Council board was held at a restaurant in Santa Monica.
 On Feb. 16 this year the board scheduled its regular meeting in Culver City. (At Mi Ranchito restaurant on Washington Blvd.)
The food is pretty good at Mi Ranchito, but why should official Los Angeles city organizations like the Mar Vista Community Council be hustling up business for restaurants outside L.A.?
And the Traffic Committee of the Mar Vista organization has routinely scheduled its monthly meetings in Santa Monica for more than a year now.
About the Feb. 16 meeting in Culver City, we asked Mar Vista Chair Tom Ponton how come?
He replied with another question: Did we know any place within the MVCC district where a dinner meeting could be hosted?
Well, yes, we do: There are several churches and a synagogue where a dinner meeting could be catered in, but what does that have to do with it?
This is not just being petty: Meeting outside the district is a violation of Section 54953.7 of the California Open Meetings Law (the Brown Act).
We don't expect the average person to know about this act, but officers of neighborhood councils are supposed to. The city even gives classes and lectures on the topic (the most recent being at the Westside Pavilion on the same night as that Feb. 16 MVCC board meeting).
Besides, since when does anybody need tacos, tamales and tequila to conduct the public's business anyway?
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Election idea rejected
A Mar Vista committee has rejected, by a 4-2 vote, a proposal that would require a vacancy on its Board to be filled by an election the next time one is scheduled.
You may remember that Bobby Holiday, the elected Westside Village "zone" director, resigned in June 2004 and her place was taken by Robert Mednick, an appointee of Mar Vista President Tom Ponton.
Under the proposal, we could have had a "zone" election to fill the vacancy during last year's MVCC "at-large" voting, but instead we have to wait until this spring to do so.
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We'll be listing more of these "Mar Vista moments" as they crop up.
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