January 13, 2007 Meeting

Agenda Items:

Preparation

E-mail note was sent to each member who has provided a contact e-mail address.
Half sheet flyers were hand-delivered to all the streets in the neighborhood..

Attendees

12 members, 3 guest attendees, 2 council candidates

Meeting

Agenda Items:

ice rink update
park pedestrian path temporary closure
holes in park
member outreach and office election
Council Candidates visits
anything else attendees wish to discuss

The meeting began at 12:15 am

ice rink update
- City Council meeting on 12/18/06
  - council approved everything staff asked
  - opening projected now for June 2009
  - Council member Streator advocated using “adjacent public streets” (ie. Avocado/Alameda) in the event an agreement with PCC was not readily reached
- Community meeting on 1/3/07 at Victory Park
  - In addition to the notice mailing by public works, we distributed flyers for this meeting to all the interior streets of our neighborhood
  - learned revised seating is closer to the ice surface and between locker rooms
  - heard about moving upper east wall in, creating an outside walkway/viewing through the windows area
  - visual green screening. Growing vines on west side of building and on vertical elements on east side
- Design Commission on 1/8/07
  - three commissioners and three of us neighbors, but no staff people, showed up for the “site visit”
  - Received packet of drawings at the design commission meeting. Passed them around at our meeting to be looked at.
  - learned indoor seating is fold down seats
  - statements made that could add extra temp seats for special events in walkway around rinks (but max total allowed by code would still be about 500)
  - statements made about having parties on the newly created walkway.
  - city staff presentation seemed poorly prepared both in exhibits and knowledge, and not very responsive to questions raised
  - commission focused a lot of attention in areas it is not normally supposed to deal with – site location, transportation, access agreements. Was not provided sufficient detail for areas it is supposed to deal with such as landscaping and building exterior.
  - exasperated commissioners voted to recommend city council reject design
park pedestrian path temporary closure
- Path was closed for several weeks ending January 8.
- It was the city’s project on Edison land putting grounded chain link fences around the 4 legged towers and a fence to the south of the pathway across the PCC lot.
- Chain link fencing around the towers is probably a temporary measure to prevent climbing the towers. Preference would be the “discouragers” used on the towers in the park, but they are reportedly very expensive and have a very long lead time to get.
- Why chain link instead of the plastic fencing used on south east of park? Reportedly not necessary around towers, just under the wires for the “safety zone”.
holes in park
- On Thursday they drilled holes in the park. They should be filled in by now. It is part of an effort to eliminate water puddles.
membership outreach & our officers election
- Our yearly election of officers will be at our March 10 meeting
- Will try to put together a newsletter by Feb 10 meeting.
- Will take nominations/volunteers for officers at Feb 10 meeting, and until Feb 28?
Council Candidates visit
- Eugene Masuda from 11:30 to about 12:05, at which time he left.
- Steve Haderlein starting about 12:05
- Will not attempt to summarize here.
anything else attendees wish to discuss
- There was a mayor, council, and school board candidates forum on January 10th at the Senior Center. Replays of the “ACT Candidate Forum” are running each day on Charter cable’s channel 55 KPAS (channel 1 if you don’t use a cable box). Those replays can also be watched via streaming video on the internet at:
  http://pasadena.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=9
  The replay schedule can also be found there.

Next meeting is February 10, same time, same place.

Adjourned about 12:50 pm