Please use Chat to direct questions to Julien. Thanks...

CORRECTION: Please direct your questions on Julien's presentation to David Uebersax as host so he can ask them

The link to the Zoom recording of this presentation -- and the entire meeting -- will be posted on the LANCC website later today: www.LANCC.org

Please send questions for Raquel Beltran to co-host David Uebersax… Thanks

CF 21-0407 (Rodriguez/Cecillo)

CF 20-0990 mandatory trainings

Council File 21-0407To Arts, Parks, Health, Education, and Neighborhoods CommitteeMotion (Rodriguez - Cedillo) relative to instructing the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to report with a survey of Neighborhood Council election rules; and request the City Attorney to report on the City Council's authority to standardize election rules.

Next hand is Keren, then Lydia...a couple chat questions, then Bob and Kay...

Here is the direct link to the actual motion wording regarding NC Elections, etc. Council File 21-0407: https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2021/21-0407_misc_4-14-21.pdf

Message from BONC Commissioner Shaffer: Please put in the chat that the grievance ordinance is Los Angeles Administrative Code Sec 22.818. The ordinance can be reviewed and suggestions for revision can be submitted to DONE

https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/los_angeles/latest/laac/0-0-0-82314#JD_22.818.

Sec. 22.818. Neighborhood Council Grievances.

Have a great rest of the day!

So glad all of you are here this month & hope to see you all again next month too.

CONGRESS INFO: Link to 2021 Congress Planning Survey: www.tinyurl.com/CoN21inputTo view agenda for today’s 1:30pm Planning Committee Meeting: https://tinyurl.com/CoN21-050121To be added to the mailing list, submit names for the in memoriam, email lacongressnc@gmail.comTo access Congress NC Sponsorship Form to submit after Board Action: https://tinyurl.com/CoNsponsor

So glad to see everyone here, thank you, as we appreciate and always respect all our colleagues. Please join us at 1:30pm for our Congress Planning Committee

OVERTHROW EVERYONE IN THE CITY!!!!

Northridge East NC just voted for a $2,000 contribution to the Congress of Neighborhoods....

we encourage everyone to participate

Re-Imagining the Congress, and the program facilitation.

Thank you, Tony

Woohoo! Thanks Northridge East!

Please folks, fill out the survey and let us know your thoughts!

Can you post that link for people who have completed the Congress survey but may not have had ideas at the time for workshops

Glenn has his hand up

Lydia: Was your nc election run by the Clerk?

Isn’t it her job to be familiar with the charter before trying to legislate?

Two different systems, two different sets of rules!

Different voters qualify in the NC system. BUT you CAN call and do a work-around by calling the City Clerk's office. I did.

It's not the precincts - the City Clerk can deal with that. It's the work/school aspect and the under 18s who cannot be tracked out of the State system.

Likely the city clerk portal system was not as user friendly. Just like dealing w your bank, etc

How do you differentiate between stakeholder groups if you use the city voting roles. Many NCs have different stakeholders qualifying for different ballots

The City Clerk can tell people how to manage the system while protecting themselves from identity theft or ICE.

The portal was very user friendly and easy to use. Problem was stakeholders are afraid to share copies of their credentials.

We need to go back to voting in person the same as we did before COVID,always have. The only reason by the Mail vote was because of Covic! They can show their eligibility at the voting poll. no copies by mail required

Agreed. I submitted my DL with the date hidden and gave a wrong DOB.

No. Some said the attachment of documentation they tried 10 times and thought it worked but it didn’t

Further to Asaad's point. There is too much id theft and stakeholders are concerned about it.

Voter Documentation submitted to City Clerk is viewed and then deleted -- it is not retained.

Using the City & County Registered Voter System would Disenfrachise : The Undocumented; Felons: Rapists, Child Molesters, Children and ALL Other inclusiveness Mandated by the Los Angeles City Charter, BONC, DONE and the Plan. Change the system and gain voters and assimilate with our federal, state, county and city system representing our American System of Democracy !

Yes. It’s political. Monica’s choices didn’t work hard enough to get candidates, registrations and vote.

Sid — it’s not so much central government as monarchy over us.

There should be one, 2 days max, when we have all NC elections on the same day.

It’s not right to blame the people for not voting, but the city for doing its best to keep quiet about the existence of the neighborhood councils.

I registered (Documentation) in five minutes and received my Ballot two days later

Yes. 14 registrations didn’t count due to the fax machine glitch.

Agreed all on the same day. And in regards to showing documentation, agreed, but EVVERYONE needs to know that NO COPIES are to be made. EVERY time I voted, they wanted to take copies. ILLEGAL.

Glenn, we had many clerk problems in Echo Park. Some of our Members on the Elections Committee got the Wrong ballots. Many stakeholders didn't receive them at all

LANCC will likely be holding a post-election wrap up session once all NC Elections have concluded. It may be during our July meeting or a separate session...

These post-election wrap up sessions attempt to recommend improvements in the NC Elections going forward...

True Heather. Unfortunately, not all stakeholders are proficient in cyber security and endanger of being hacked.

WHAT IS THE MOTION???

correction on my statement re : planning 101 training. it is not available now

"in danger"

EPNC Elections Committee plans on gathering experiences and submitting a strongly worded letter to the Clerk, BONC, DONE and City Council

Question to the moderators: How can we offer a motion or even a second if you keep us all muted?

yes, Keren, agree. But, also the fax for the city did not work and ALL those folks submitting via fax were not counted

Bob, there was a hand raised I saw...

Motion: Lance opposes the City Council File Number xxxx as an attack on the neighborhood council system

I second

council file 21-0470

I would second!

thank you to Danielle

your welcome!

*you're

Was City Clerk immediately notified in writing that there was a problem with the fax number on ballot request?

Look at how much $$ it will cost DONE, CA and City Clerk to handle this motion ?

I will second

second

Kay, please send you text to EVERYONE

That is RACHAEL's personal position. That is NOT how we wpork at LANCC.

*21-0407*

Vote President Armstrong!

All members here SELF-muzzle if they choose. Otherwise, LANCC vote is our vote as INDIVIDUAL members of an NC.

Rachel and others — We had this debate at great length at the founding of Lancc close to a dozen years ago. Your vote is not binding on your neighborhood council but represents the views of those present on this day. I don’t wish to relitigate this questiojn

You can bring this back to the RVNC at next meeting. There is no conflict.

Any city council member can make a motion. It then goes to the appropriate committee.

The original motion is probably a better sound bite.

I understand that completely Tony. Just an observation.

NO. Want to act today. Am leaning against the amendment.

Sid — yes, we could add a whereas, but a simple statement of opposition speaks for itself and is acceptable under Parliamentary procedure.

Len has another reason for NOT adding the amendment.

Withdraw the amended motion and call for the vote one the original motion

NO SECOND TRY IN JUNE. Whatever we do needs to be done NOW.

I am with my fellow board member Sid. In support of the original opposition and ask the file be deferred to the Arts, etc committee.

I am muted. I accept Len's amendment to my amendment.

ACCEPT amendment

I would guess that the motion gets sent to the city council subcommittee that oversees NC’s (Arts etc) where we will state our opposition and then explain

Did we accept the amendment????

There are 36 people here 9+2+Bob -1 GHN = 11

HCNNC abstains

PRNC abstain because we are still discussing this

HCNNC abstains

Absatin

Can you print out the motion as passed in chat

LANCC opposes City Council File Number 21-0407 as an attack on the independence of Neighborhood Councils and their ability to self-govern as defined in the Plan.

Rachael seems to have scared 2/3 of the participants from voting

Tuesday's 6pm BONC meeting agenda is linked here: https://ens.lacity.org/done/agendas/doneagendas197150156_05042021.pdf

One thing you will always get from me is the truth!

Rachael...after I vote in CD7, I'll vote for you!

What Len is saying is that Roberts Rules holds as to speaking on topic. It is something everybody should already know.

Agree with Sid that the code of conduct is a waste.

I’m exhausted from always having to be nice to a stakeholder that just comes to meetings to berate us. The language isn’t offensive, but I’m not built to kill with kindness.

Thank you for your support David U! :~)

A board member should be able to respond to an abusive stakeholder to the extent that you are not violating the Brown Act (ie: by starting a discussion on a forbidden topic)

www.BudgetAdvocates.org is the website

The Mayor's proposals insert the city into HEALTH which is a COUNTY responsibility. Not sustainable because of lack of a tax base.

I have a brief announcement in the announcement section, please.

and then I need to jump over to Congress

Ditto the Universal Basic Income for only 1,000 families, funded with a one-time gift from the federal government.

It isn’t even a ubi though

The city likes to have the county pay for big hospitals, but the city isn’t prohibited from doing a little something for health. Some of this includes educating the public.

Liz, just because it works doesn't mean we can afford it.

I am advocating for creating a main mental health / substance abuse facility un by the city with a number of smaller satellite “clinics.”

oops run by

Congrats Rachael, wishing you best of luck

bye everyone, I have our Congress

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Nice to see you all, have to go to other meeting now

Thanks everyone