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The Education committee will be meeting on Friday, June 26 at 6pm in the DLANC Outreach office (450 S. Main). Special items on the agenda include:
- Skid Row children’s Coloring book. $2,000
- Website for education committee, discussion on appropriate content.
- Pet Summit July 19th 2008 South Lawn of City Hall. Educational summit on options downtown for pets’ needs. Pet Summit request $750 dollars for toilets
- The dog kiosks as proposed by the outreach committee, Ken Chiu.
- Information on matching funds program from the city request $3500
The announcement was a little confused (claiming Friday, May 29), but I believe the Education committee is meeting tonight, Friday, May 30, at 7pm at Weeneez. Special items on the agenda include:
- The request from OG’s in service for items to help with the Skid Row Brigade.
- Discussion on aggregating the schools within DLANC boundaries
- Introduction of environmental issues in Downtown LA in regards to educating the neighborhood on such things as household pollution.
- Father’s day event
The Education committee is having another meeting on Wednesday, March 28 at 6:30pm at Julie Rico Gallery (formerly Red Dot). There’s only one item of note on the agenda:
- Skid Row Photography Club Motion of support $1000 for outreach, equipment purchases, supplies and presentations
The Education committee will meet at its (now) usual date and time, March 12 at 6:30pm at Weeneez/Red Dot Gallery. Yes, this is the same night as the Arts committee meeting. Special items on the agenda include:
- Discussion on aggregating the schools within DLANC Boundaries
- Skid Row 3 on3 basketball league Promotional Music Video vote on $2,565.00
- Skid Row 3 on3 basketball PA system, $350.00
- Skid Row photography club project
- City Hall ceremony for the 3 on 3 skid row basketball league.
- Discussion / vote to change date of the Education Committee to the first week of the month.
The agenda was updated on March 11.
The Education committee will meet on Wednesday, February 13, at 6:30pm at Red Dot Gallery (500 S. Spring). Special items on the agenda include:
- Discussion on continuance of Education committee.
- City hall ceremony for the 3on3 skid row basketball league.
- Update on Parks in skid row
David Robinson has announced that he will be stepping down as a board member, as well as resigning as chair of the Affordable Housing and Education ad-hoc committees. His letter to the Affordable Housing committee:
I am writing to inform you that after careful and difficult consideration, I have concluded that changes in my work and personal life make it impossible for me to continue to fulfill my duties as a DLANC Board member. I will therefore be resigning my chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Education Committee and the Ad Hoc Affordable Housing Committee.
As for the monthly Board meetings: My alternate, Tobi Dragert, will be taking over the role of Bunker Hill representative to DLANC for the remainder of my term. I will be her alternate.
I am sorry that we did not manage to get the Affordable Housing Committee functioning more than sporadically over the past half year. I remain convinced that a consistent focus on affordable housing policy should be a central area of concentration for DLANC.
Perhaps this Wednesday’s PLUC meeting, focused on a variety of policy issues, will prove a step in that direction.
In any case, I appreciate your concern for affordable housing and homeless issues in Downtown LA, and look forward to crossing paths with you again.
As David writes, Tobi Dragert, his alternate, will replace him on the DLANC board. Lesley Taplin has also stepped down from the Education committee, and Don Garza has volunteered to lead that committee. Nobody has stepped up to lead the Affordable Housing committee.
Sorry, I missed this when it was first sent out. The regular monthly meeting of the Education committee is tonight at 7pm at the Red Dot Gallery (behind Weeneez at 5th and Spring). Special items on the agenda include:
- Analysis of 2007 Education Committee activities, including guest speakers and downtown educational contacts, Yahoo list postings, letter to LAUSD Communications, used book giveaways, dictionary giveaway, Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival Children’s Day, and promotional support of Skid Row 3 on 3 Streetball League. Where were we the most effective?
- Discussion of 2008 activities, committee availability. Possible action items.
A quick ad-hoc meeting of the Education committee has been called for 6:15pm on January 8, at the Los Angeles Theatre. That’s before the regularly-scheduled Board of Directors meeting. On the agenda:
- Motion to approve the purchases of “Skid Row 3 on 3″ promotional caps with the remaining funds from the DLANC board-approved $2500 for promotional items for the Skid Row 3 on 3 Streetball League. If approved, request will be brought to the DLANC board for final approval at the board meeting immediately following this meeting.
- Motion to request of the DLANC board that funding for the children’s “Bubble Project”, originally anticipated to be taken from the Skid Row 3 on 3 Streetball League promotional budget, be reallocated to DLANC’s “Project Homeless Connect Day” December 2007 budget, as well as Education Committee expenses for the rented van to move books that day and paid help with the loading of the books for the book giveaway. It is anticipated that these additional budgetary items will increase the monies spent for PHC Day to an amount beyond the originally approved $5000 (c.$300 more). Action item.
The regular Education committee meeting will be held the next night, January 9, at 7PM at the Red Dot Bistro. The agenda for that meeting has not yet been published.
The Education Committee will not be meeting this month, due to the holidays and the rescheduling of the board of directors meeting. The next meeting will be January 9, 2008. Lesley Talpin, chair of the committee, also reports:
Yesterday at Project Homeless Connect Day our booth gave away 36 boxes of books. As with last year, the turnout was fantastic, and the conversations about books uplifting in every way. The Education Committee would like to thank all who made our part of this event possible, especially the docents at the Los Angeles Central Library and the Friends of the Little Tokyo Library.
Lesley Talpin, co-chair of the Education Committee, sent out this update on the event:
Tomorrow, Thursday December 6th, will be Project Homeless Connect Day, a national event that brings those in need together with all the social service providers in their community. In Los Angeles this event will be taking place on 6th Street, between Wall and San Pedro, from 10 AM until 3 PM.
Once again, the DLANC Education Committee will be distributing free used books to those in attendance. We have assembled a wonderful collection of books, thanks to the generous donations from the Los Angeles Central Library and the Little Tokyo Library, with topics ranging from history, health, children’s literature, dictionaries, novels, crafts, and more. The DLANC booth will be at the corner of 6th and San Julian.
If you know of anyone in need of social service provider services, please let them know about this event and this unique opportunity to receive free books of their choosing.
- The DLANC Education Committee
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” — B.B. King
The DLANC Education Committee is collecting books for the Project Homeless Connect at the Midnight Mission on December 6. You can drop off your used books at the DLANC Outreach Office at 450 S. Main Street from 10am to 1:30pm, Monday and Tuesday.
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