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July 6, 2004 Meeting Report 

Crime Report: Armen Sevdalian 

Crime Alert: Burglary spike in the Eastwood neighborhood has residents on the alert for a male gypsy. His operating fashion is to approach old people at their homes saying that he has lost his dog. He then ventures into their yard, in the door, and leaves with their property. He’s rather scruffy looking. 

Home Burglaries are up. It’s summer and people behave differently by keeping their doors and windows open and unlocked to let the cool air in. 

The aggravated assaults and robberies in the area are because of the gang presence. The Police Captain is working with the City Attorney to get an injunction against White Fence. Then we will see a drop in crime. 

The first Tuesday in August is National Night Out Against Crime. Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council will be providing the food. 

There is a Community Police Academy for Adults coming up. This eleven-week academy will take place starting in September and take place on Thursdays with a graduation in November. This Academy teaches people the inner workings of the police department. One must fill out an application in order to attend. Only 15 reps will be allowed from each precinct. The application can be found on our website (www.FranklinHollywoodHills.org). 

The Police department is giving away Child Safety gun locks. All you have to do is sign a waver for the police. 

CRA – Developer’s proposals: John McCoy 

John outlined the simple, transparent process that will be attempted as we go forward to the selection of an appropriate developer for this project. He will be calling together individual reps from the various community organizations, the CRA, City Council, etc. in order to present questions to each individual developer. We will gather to discuss what we have heard and what we need in order to go forward. Ideally, we will be reaching a consensus as a representative panel and that will help the CRA make their final decision. This is the most open this process has ever been. 

A forming neighborhood council rep suggested that all the groups meet together and create a spreadsheet outside the process that the CRA has outlined. This idea was not adopted. The Eastwood Coalition formed its own internal committee in order to send out a comprehensive list of questions to the CRA to be forwarded to each developer. Chris Dye, Cindy Duhaime, KC Schmidt, Josh Bearman, Nancy Brown, Pierre Kuntz and Fran Reichenbach will meet together as the Eastwood Coalition Committee to discuss the RFP. 

Russell Brown from HUNC made an effort to get the group to agree to create a committee with reps from each of the neighborhood councils. This idea was not adopted as the Eastwood Coalition has its own committee with its own voice. It was suggested that the process that John McCoy outlined be adhered to and that we all allow the transparent process that the CRA was directing to proceed. The Eastwood Coalition Committee is formed to gather local neighborhood consensus and send that on to the CRA as requested by John McCoy. 

Fire Station 82 

Fran said that the EIR was still in process but that it looks like the Fire Station is definitely going to be built on the West side of the 101 Freeway. 

Whole Foods 

The Design Review Committee will meet next week with Ira, Whole Foods, Bond, and Renee Weitzer at St. Francis. 

Dave Monks says that Panda Express and US Bank have signed a lease to go into the Metro station. He suggests that we all take a look at the property at Delongpre and Sunset as it would make a better location for Whole Foods. 

Cindy volunteered to circulate flyers for our next meeting. She also wants to slow traffic down on Garfield and is interested in getting speed humps placed. 

KC suggested we consider having a different Mayoral candidate come to each of our monthly meetings as we get closer to the elections. 

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, August 3, 2004