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Mar Vista turns down request for a Westside Village border research project, but Palms will move ahead anyway
The Mar Vista Community Council board on April 10 rebuffed a bid by Palms President Pauline Stout for a joint committee that would try to find out if Westside Village residents want to join with Palms in a joint neighborhood council or stay with Mar Vista.
The decision was 3 votes in favor of a motion by Ken Alpern of Westside Village to form the committee and 6 votes against.
Nevertheless, the Palms Neighborhood Council will move ahead on its own with the public-opinion survey. Palms has asked the city attorney's office for a legal opinion on several issues involved in bringing about a boundary change.
March 5, 2007
Rob Kadota, chair
Mar Vista Community Council
P.O. Box 66871
Mar Vista, CA 90066
Dear Rob:
Since the inception of the Palms Neighborhood Council, the Council has regularly received requests by residents and business owners of Westside Village to be included within the boundaries of a joint Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Council. Petitions were also sent to BONC and to L.A. City Council members.
Because some of these Westside Village residents are also stakeholders of the Palms Neighborhood Council, the Council agreed to research this issue. The Council has assigned this responsibility to our Outreach Committee, chaired by Mario Bruhwiler. We believe that our research efforts will be most effective if they can be conducted jointly with authorized representatives of the Mar Vista Community Council.
We would respectfully ask that you agendize this request at the next meeting of the Mar Vista Community Council to authorize a committee to work with us.
We look forward to working with you and the Mar Vista Community Council to address the requests made by our mutual stakeholders.
Sincerely,
Pauline Stout, President
Palms Neighborhood Council
[March 15, 2007]
Pauline,
I got your letter. I'll place your request for participation in a Palms/MVCC sponsored outreach on our April MVCC Executive Committee for discussion and consideration of placing the item before the full board. I don't have the letter in front of me so apologize if my reference to your request is not complete.
Thank you,
Rob Kadota
Chair
Mar Vista Community Council
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