(Unofficial) DLANC News

After considering a run for the board, I’ve decided not to run. At the end of the day, I don’t have a lot of faith that there will be the necessary changes to the board membership and especially leadership to make DLANC something I want to commit spending my time on. I believe there are other ways I can be more effective in contributing to the downtown community.

I’ll keep this site going, and would be glad to continue helping out with the DLANC website (and I won’t charge $12,000), but my involvement will only be as a stakeholder and maybe as a bit of a watchdog, not a board member.

The Board of Directors meeting was rescheduled for Wednesday, May 14, but no agenda has been published yet. I’ll update when it appears. You can make your own complaints about the Brown Act issues.

This month’s Board of Directors meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 14 at 6:30pm, in order to avoid conflicting with tonight’s ArtSeen events. The meeting will be at the Los Angeles Theater. Special items on the agenda include:

• Introduction to candidates in June 12, 2008 election.

Read the full agenda….

As of the most recent published version of the list of qualified candidates, the following seats currently have no candidates:

• Resident: Fashion District, Area-wide Resident Artist, Area-wide Homeless
• Business: Alameda East, City West, Fashion District, Historic Downtown, South Park (so much for all those mixers)
• Social Services Provider: there are only two candidates for three seats
• Arts, Cultural, and Educational Interests: there are no candidates for the three seats

Once the candidate registrations have closed, I’ll run the candidate statements here, as well as any statements from candidates who didn’t submit one using the official (but optional) form.

The City Clerk’s Candidate Packet for Region 1 (which includes DLANC) is a not-very-helpful PDF file with links that doesn’t work without Adobe Reader. (So if you’re using Preview or Safari’s PDF support on Mac OS X, no links for you!)

Here’s the DLANC-relevant links:

• List of Qualified Candidates (you need to page down to the DLANC information)
• Election Procedures
• Election Mailer
• Candidate filing packet

Remember, the election is on June 12, 2008. The candidate filing deadline is May 13.

The regular monthly meeting of the Planning & Land Use committee has been moved up to Tuesday, May 20. It will be at Villa Flores (1020 S. Flower) at the usual time. Agenda is still to come.

As mentioned earlier, the Party Planning Economic Development committee will be having its meeting on Tuesday, April 29, at 6:30pm in the 3rd floor media room at 1100 Wilshire. Special items on the agenda include:

• Review last mixer and plan next mixers.
• Plan a technology/entertainment, technology/education mixer or conference.
• Discussion and possible action on recommending a cultural education and cultural tourism component for the Grand Avenue Park.
• Discussion and possible action on recommending residential, live/work and mixed uses along the Downtown side of the Los Angeles river as opposed to industrial uses.

Read the full agenda….

The voter and candidate information packet for the upcoming DLANC elections is now available. The packet includes the form to register for vote-by-mail, and to request the candidate packet. Some important dates to keep in mind:

• Candidate Filing deadline: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 5:00pm
• Vote-by-Mail Application deadline: Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 5:00pm
• Write-in Candidate Filing Deadline: Monday, June 9, 2008 at 5:00pm
• Deadline for returning Vote-by-Mail ballots: Monday, June 8, 2008 at 5:00pm

In-person voting will take place at the Los Angeles Theatre (615 S. Broadway) from 2:00pm to 8:00pm on Thursday, June 12, 2008.

Download the DLANC Voter/Candidate Information Packet….

The monthly meeting of the Party Planning Economic Development committee has been rescheduled for April 29, instead of its usual date and time. We’ll post the agenda once it is published.

The Parks, Recreation, and Open Space committee is having a special meeting on Monday, May 5 at 6pm in Pershing Square, near the stage.

View the flyer….

This month’s meeting of the Planning & Land Use committee will be at Villa Flores on Thursday, April 23 at 6:30pm. Special items on the agenda include:

• Presentation by Mee Lee regarding CUB application for Maria’s Italian Kitchen restaurant at 811 W. Wilshire Boulevard.
• Presentation by West Edge Architects regarding proposed 7-story office building with ground-floor retail uses at 1130 W. Wilshire Boulevard.
• Presentation by King Woods regarding zone variance application for proposed hostess dance hall at 440 S. Broadway.

Read the full agenda….