hi everyone Craig Radow is my name I am Public Safety chair for
the Studio City Neighborhood Council and I am a board member so the the the
main purpose of the Neighborhood Council on the Studio City Neighborhood Council
is we serve as a bridge between the community and higher elected officials
we make recommendations and advise our councilmen the mayor the City Council on
a wide variety of concerning issues the okay this Public Safety Committee we
focus mostly on the areas of crime local law enforcement disaster preparedness
and general public safety issues that affect Studio City plus we work with the
Transportation Committee on traffic related public safety issues I'm
appointed by the President and we just have a new president of the studio city
neighbor council board Patrick Lewis he will begin his term at this coming at
the June meeting and to sit on the Public Safety Committee you don't
necessarily have to be a studio city neighborhood council board member so
yeah I encourage you to get involved and join us at at this committee meetings or
others and the Public Safety Committee is also lucky to have another layer of
advisors and support from cpap which is the community police advisory board who
join us at many meetings ron drescher heads that and he's here this evening
well we'll get it to cpabing a little bit and do address everyone and also
patty kirby sits on CPAP as well so let me read the motion as it stands now and
then we'll open up to the comments in regards to City Council motion let me
back up for one second I'm sorry what's going to happen with this with this
process right now so this motion starts in committee I we will vote on it
tonight if it passes it will move on to the full Studio City
Neighborhood Council board in June's meeting if that passes then it will be
submitted as a community impact statement that will be sent to of course
councilman Kerkorian the full City Council's and we send it to the mayor
and and that's where we provide our advisement
this this motion right here it could be tweaked you could make suggestions
tonight if we want to change the words but ultimately will will decide on the
the final motion as we want to present it okay so in regards to City Council
motion number 1803 57 presented by Councilman Paul Paul Kirk
Lorien the Studio City neighborhood council is strongly opposed to any
review assessment and/or development of the properties located at 1 1 to 2 0
Ventura Boulevard and 1 to 2 to 5 and Tura Boulevard in regards to providing
temporary or permanent homeless shelter storage facility and/or parking we are
facing a homeless epidemic in Los Angeles and we strongly recommend
finding appropriate shelter and mental health locations and less residential e
populated and local business driven neighborhoods will open it up to
comments and we'll start with Joshua's field
hi my name is Joshua Steele I've lived in Studio City for most of my life and
I'm speaking regarding agenda item 6 because I believe that homelessness is a
crisis across the LA area and the only way to address this crisis is to provide
services shelter and housing for the homeless in every neighborhood claiming
that the two sites in question on Ventura Boulevard are too close to homes
and businesses is not an excuse we're a densely populated city and we
have a moral obligation to support the homeless and furthermore I believe that
upper middle class and wealthy neighborhoods like Studio City don't get
to opt out of providing housing and services to the homeless thank you thank
you Mary Kenny
should I stay on sit please sit Thanks hi my name is Mary Keany I am a studio
city resident a full-time self-employed resident in my free time I run a small
nonprofit that encourages Angelenos to volunteer so I have personally worked
with la family housing and Downtown Women's Center and seeing the amazing
work that they're doing here in the valley I strongly support providing
housing services to people experiencing homelessness they are people
experiencing homelessness not just homeless people so they're our neighbors
thank you very much
Katherine
hello Catherine canto I've been living in Studio City for 34 years I examined
on the map where the proposed locations are and thus the handouts there there
there are some that are much larger some are just a little strip of land that I
don't think should be used for storage facility without oversight
I think the everything should be contained on one site having a storages
or shower facilities or safe parking without service providers just it will
increase our problem they they need to be
people need to be housed and they need to be they need to get their documents
in order they need to get everything sorted out before they can go on to the
next step which is their permanent supportive housing or housing of some
sort so that's what I see that we shouldn't have separate storage
facilities here a navigation Center there safe parking over here that it has
to be contained in one area thank you okay Thank You Irena Lefkowitz Lefkowitz
hi my name is Alina leftovers and I lived in Studio City since 1990 and I
never felt less safe that I feel now I used to walk my dog at night and I'm no
longer there because I feel that I can be attacked I'm sure other people feel
the same way I cannot go in the evening to Walgreens to fulfill my prescription
because that would be a homeless person standing there and that could be
attacked I don't feel safe in Studio City at all as per report of LAPD
officer Shannon Smith he encourages us to help him and let him know if there is
something suspicious going on and in general --he declares that the crime in
Studio City is declining and in my opinion this is not true I feel that the
crime in Studio City isn't a total rise and we have only one person protecting
us this is ridiculous I feel that the homeless people have more rights than us
I feel that they don't do their due diligence as we do as taxpayers to be on
a street first of all who can be on a street live on a street shower they do
their toiletries and expect us to pay the taxes for that that's ridiculous and
I feel that would be in proposed as a temporary shelter or the shelter on the
Tula Boulevard for storage or for some other I think this whole thing is a show
and I feel that you guys know it as well I do that the plan is preordained I feel
that it will happen and all this is just a talk and I don't mean to sound
sarcastic but I feel like as being in this movie studio is also sure I feel
that all of us neighbors should get together
and actively pursue a lawsuit against city of Los Angeles depriving us of our
right to live peacefully and enjoy our homes and don't feel afraid if God
forbid we did not turn on our nightly alarm and my disappointment was elicited
mayor City Council is beyond words and English is not even my second first
language its second but I think I share a motion of a lot of people who live
around me who live in Studio City who can no longer take their kids on a bike
rides because they will be needles around and God knows what and they just
homeless take over and what rights do they have to do that I know they need
help I am sure that these shelters that are proposed I'm going to be opened will
not need those drug people to the shelter I think these people cannot be
moved because they prefer to be where they are we can can easily get access to
their drug suppliers and this is going to be again pained by us and my
frustration is that I feel that this is already pre decided that's my point
Susan Caldwell please
thank you for letting me ask some questions do I need to send a special
sighs we cannot answer question um it's your time to make it public oh okay well
I came here predominantly for questions so then this will be my statement of
things we need to do I am certainly not against homeless shelters being provided
to the community clearly there's a need my issue that I do think believe is
wholly being ignored by Councilman Krekorian because he's not being
transparent with the community right now is in providing a plan
he needs to be providing to the community at this stage what the plan is
in the resources because that's really issue that I look to it to the Studio
City locations is are they able to house and resource the health and the safety
risks that are associated for it not only for the community but as well as
for the homeless and the indigent that are that are needed services for example
primary care they'll need primary care is that in any
way associated with these Studio City locations that hasn't been answered the
answer clearly will probably be not because they need to relocate them to
USC County for free care Martin Luther King all those are downtown LA who's
going to be their substance abuse intervener
which is required for anyone that understands what is required in
providing homeless care I'm very familiar with what's required you need a
primary care facility you need case managers to check to see how you're
doing we need behavioral health checking in
seeing how you're doing we need to see the drug intervenors to see whether or
not you're doing well or you need some more help those resources have to be
localized to where these emergency shelters which are high capacity and are
waiving the traditional rules obviously for this Ventura BOE of our location
those need to be answered and of course they haven't been and frankly if you
look at the schematic of this those two locations that's nowhere to be found so
I came here to answer ask questions and maybe it's premature but I'd like to say
that the councilman the city need to be providing those answers and they also
need to be providing which I really wanted tonight maybe it's again prema
sure is to know the feasibility study schedule who it's been assigned to and
what the protocol is for community input on that because obviously it implicates
health for the people health in the sidewalks
and if those reasons aren't there then obviously the homeless are going to move
beyond the shelter as they Panhandle they look for food elsewhere they look
for resources from the community you can't blame them but then we've been
foolhardy we haven't helped them and we've made
the community worse so if anything I can ask today or to put on what the same
agency shared with we'll make sure the councilman's office sees the video
tonight so if you have a question that you want to raise and point out and
that's every window then then those are the questions is who's the primary care
who's gonna be the case managers for this because they're set up and
established in Skid Row communities but they're not here where it's gonna be the
transportation line for that where is going to be in who which agencies
literally which agencies are going to be assigned the behavioral health for these
locations and when they say it's just a parking lot where people are living they
need behavioral health they need primary care they need case managers they need
substance abuse intervention yes so all of those facilities and resources that
allow the community to have input on a feasibility study are completely absent
they are not currently in this location the council men and the city quite right
now has been silent on those which makes a feasibilities study a bit of a sham
until those questions are answered and lastly but most importantly is what is
the protocol for the feasibility study to permit community input before that
study is finalized it is not a valid feasibility study for anyone that's
dealt with this and land-use issues it is not a valid feasibility study if
there is not a round table where people have an ability to respond and report
before that report is finalized either agreeing or disagreeing with the
responses of the community but right now that silent and those dates and
deadlines and opportunities need to be circulated to this community thank you
for letting me squeeze it
Thanks there's a lot of issues that I'd like to address here but in the interest
of time I think ahead two things in general in general I find some of the
previous commentators I'd like to speak to because I believe that they have a
moral responsibility to provide me with the automobile because I want one
similar to what they're advocating for this I'll be the first person to say
that councilman Corcoran has done good things for Studio City I've supported
him with many things this cement here you I'm so I'm sorry can you hear me
just louder if you if you want to sit more to the side and or stand over there
you could address both of us at the same time thank you they're saying councilman
Corcoran has done some good things for a studio city of this one strikes me as
very much a politically motivated proposal I believe that the councilman
has political aspirations just like our previous two mayor's have political
aspirations I think this will get him on the national stage I think this these
proposals do nothing positive for Studio City I believe that as much as homeless
people need help I believe what's going to end up happening if these these
facilities have put in place that we will continue to have several thousand
people living down by the river under bridges and stuff plus in addition to
that 50 100 200 in this housing this temporary housing as the previous
speaker spoke there doesn't seem to be any cogent plan to integrate these
people back into society this seems to be a permanent a permanent supportive to
support this kind of I'll say frankly antisocial lifestyle I believe there are
plenty of programs in place to help people who are I'll use the politically
correct term experiencing homeless who are the people who can be helped the
people who have lost their job have gone back what people who have been faced
with huge medical bills and become insolvent learning who are the victims
of abusive relationships that are running away from that those people can
be helped those people can be brought back into society I believe there are
programs in place to do that what I'm addressing is the hardcore homeless the
drug addicts the terminally mentally ill people which is what we have in Studio
City in droves and nowhere in this discussion do I see a distinction
between those that kind of spectrum of people I went to the councilman's of
Town Hall on the homeless in January and just heard reams of obviously specious
information statistics were brought forth I feel that statistics and studies
made by homeless advocates have about the same amount of credibility as
medical studies done by multinational pharmaceutical companies you know
statements have been made including very recently here tonight I read next-door
every day much to my detriment statements have been made these people
are your neighbors well you know if you want to bring out Webster's dictionary
and talk I suppose the guy who breaks into your
house and home invasion robbery is a member of your family or at least your
your roommate because they're in your house there
I'm sure if you work very very hard you could find somebody who's down by the
river there maybe you could find somebody who is an ex to do city
homeowner maybe it's often said that the homeless crisis is is a side product of
the housing expense in Studio City I've run into these people I'd walk by the
river I walk on the streets every day I sincerely doubt that the people I run
into are going well you know I could have bought that house in the silver
triangle for $900 but it went for 1.1 and it was just out of my face man we
usually like to keep it 2 minutes obviously we're going a little island
night so as we have a lot to go through if you okay so I will wrap it up I'm
strongly opposed to these show these up this proposal I agree with the previous
speaker that that this quote public process it's been said nothing's going
to be done with that public input I believe this is on the fast track to
happening and I think that the Studio City Neighborhood Council should as
strongly as possible protest this and we as a community need to look into
possibly further measures beyond that thank you very much
so I'm I wrote something up I'm going to read it and I'm quoting things I'm not
gonna read the sources although I have them if anyone wants them but I was
researching this is general quotes and information relating to the to-to-to
proposition and ordinance number one eight five four nine two which is the
permanent supportive housing ordinance the purpose according to Jose Huizar was
to quote provide homeless housing more equally throughout the city end quote
quote we've all got to do more to tackle homelessness including building
additional permanent supportive housing in our area of the city
end quote Paul Krekorian the to-to-to proposition and ordinance quote allow
permanent supportive housing projects to avoid reviews processes that can drag
out a year or more and expose the projects to public battles with
opponents and quote these laws allow homeless projects to quote avoid
environmental review and public hearings as long as the projects meet certain
requirements and quote according to the abundant housing la or the group
committed to advocating for more housing quote our politicized planning system
allows a few opponents to delay or veto badly needed homes this is why the
permanent supportive housing ordinance is a good law psh projects can proceed
without needing to go through an environmental review process require
approval from the City Planning Commission and City Council or face
legal challenges and delays under CEQ a and quote instead of a politicized
process where people who already have homes can go to meetings and try to stop
new dwellings for the homeless the psh ordinance requires common-sense
standards for design and construction and quote I would like to contrast this
with a statement by Paul Krekorian on next-door where he says quote rest
assured no decision will be made without an opportunity for the public to be
heard and quote just to be clear this motion only asked for a feasibility
study on city-owned properties and nothing more and quote I urge you to
withhold judgment at this early stage at best that's misinformation and it worse
it's completely deceptive I also want to note that they're talking
about that this is a citywide issue that must be geographical equity in where
services and shelters are placed according to the study by la I can cite
the study Studio City has 2.1 percent of the
homeless why does this call for geographical equity according to
councilmember harris-dawson insuring quote geographic equity would ease
pressure on council members quote I think all of us would get a lot of
relief if our constituents could pick up the paper and say oh this is happening
everywhere as opposed to quote why here compare this statement to Krekorian
quote we will be providing the people who are already living in the area was
secured and monitored shelter not inviting others in and quote there's no
language to that effect in the origin ordinance passed by the City Council I
also want to note as of the last meeting that I attended only two council members
had offered up any such sites the first was the Koreatown herb lesson and
Krekorian so when he says there will quote be similar temporary shelters
built in all 15 city council districts across the city he gives no evidence for
this and again they aren't temporary they're permanent so my questions to him
which I was hoping he would show up or his assistant Jessica would show up at
you know meeting like this are so are these sites different than the two to
two pledge and will they have relaxed limitations on height and density
reduced or no parking requirements will these be regulated under the California
Environmental Quality Act or any sort of environmental review and I have a
question as to why are the existing laws prohibiting the following behavior not
enforced at all camping on the street defecating and urinating in public
drinking alcohol and doing drugs in public littering and panhandling
Charlotte copy after hearing all this it's very hard to listen to I've been a
resident of Studio City for 28 years and I'd say in the past three I have seen
homeless people in Studio City more and more and more this was a lovely little
burg of a town people would call it the gem of the valley and when I heard what
was going on and I got into this late but I saw it on next door Thank You
social media I don't understand why this has not been publicized really
publicized and I don't understand where all where's all the paperwork for us to
read why are we voting on this I don't understand I want to fight this to the
end I want to be a part of that I appreciate that you may vote it down and
we'll see what happens but where's it gonna go from there
I also concur with those that went before me that said this is a done deal
in these times of politics this is a political decision being made very very
quickly as evidenced in the proposal that was just read that the normal real
estate regulations that any new shelter or building should be gone through are
going to be put aside so we can rush into this well no Studio City does not
want to rush into this Studio City might take our turned way down the line but
we're not starting here we're not gonna be the guinea pigs for
this and I mean I hope I speak for some others in the room if we have to take
this legally we will we shouldn't have to do this is still a democracy
Ron Drescher thanks Greg I'm talking as a members to residents to do City I'm I
am on the board a Police Commission and also co-chair of CPAP but I'm not
talking as a police official the homeless problem is ubiquitous some
quick statistics California has 12% approximately 12% of the population and
25% of the homeless LA City not county LA City has 10% of the population we
have about four million and there's 40 million in the state so we have about 10
percent of the population and 30 percent of the homeless this is not my quote but
this is quote from the councilmembers that about two-thirds of the homeless
are mentally ill many of them on drugs or alcohol issues I thought I've spoken
to many people from the Department of Mental Health they estimate 80% of the
homeless have mental issues the problem not now just from a crime standpoint
around any homeless encampment there's a huge increase in part one crime part one
crime is both property crime breaking in your homes breaking in your cars and
also violent crimes crimes against people and there's and I could I could
quote statistics but I know it were we have some time pressures but there's a
huge increase around homeless encampments the problem isn't the police
cannot police them away out of homeless there's really no enforcement you they
they collect they see somebody breaking in your car and they'll be out in one
day why because jails are overcrowded it was
mandated by the Supreme Court to reduce the amount of population in the
prisons we had 175,000 people in the prisons and we're down about 135 and we
can't just bring them back up so it's they feel impotent they can't enforce
the laws and we have a bee a bee I think it's 109 Proposition 47 57 which
reduces many of the crimes from felonies to misdemeanors drug possession and if
you still under nine hundred and fifty dollars it's a misdemeanor and they'll
be out within a day so I was on a ride-along last week four of the five
calls that we were were homeless related and unfortunately two of the cops always
go in twos black and whites are always in pairs they determine that these
people were either harmful to themselves or to the public so they had to drive
them to all of crest all of you and that took two cops well actually two separate
cops for hours out of commission there's only six cops typically six seven police
patrolling the area of all North Holly which was 25 square miles and you took
two of them out because of this solution yes it is a problem they need to be
housed but not in residential areas my suggestion is we house them in
industrial areas where there's no at nighttime you don't have the problems of
break-ins and and violent crimes committed so and then when you house
them that's only it's like a stool one of the problems is housing the second
problem is needing mental mental professionals there because there's so
many of them are you know and the third is you got to get them a job rehab and
you can put you can put like recycle nation plant or something so that's some
of them to start get back on their feet thank you
Carrie Johnson hi I'm Barry Johnson Studio City residents Association vice
president and I'm also a board member of Studio City beautification and we are
that we are an offshoot of the residence Association and we beautified the 1 1 2
2 O address with plants and a walkway some years ago that property was
condemned after the 94 earthquake nothing can be built there and even the
portion that we beautified is only like within 15 20 feet of Ventura the rest of
its like a 45 degree angle up I've been told already that there's no way the
city is going to put anybody there the reason it is on this list is because all
the council members had to come up with addresses that were owned by the city in
Los it in their council districts and the two that are in the flatlands of
Studio City or that and the parking garage I can tell you right now they are
never going to put homeless there because they will be looking out for the
homeless and saying oh my god if the dirt comes down and our earthquake
they'll be killed so don't worry they're not going to put them there it's just on
the list because we have to show our properties in Studio City regarding the
parking structure I've been told that it's only use would be parking of cars
not campers because of height restrictions between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
which is the ordinance that we are in right now for two years that will be
ending June 30th if you go online you can see all over Los Angeles where these
campers are allowed to park overnight between
and six they have to move after that they are generally in industrial areas
my last recollection of the math and studio city was we had virtually no
where they could park in Studio City although over the course of the two
years I don't think it's been well enforced I mean it's only been enforced
if people call it in but I think the only thing we are facing is put the
possibility of cars being allowed to park in that parking structure between
9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. and then being asked to leave at 6:00 a.m. now who
police's that is another question I don't know there is a parking lot
attendant that comes in in the morning you know so but on the other hand you
know Studio City maybe has to do its 2-percent part and maybe that's our part
with that parking structure I don't know that's yet to be determined but anyway
as far as again the Oasis that's been beautified nothing's gonna happen there
it's it's like earth waiting to fall down so thank you very much thank you
let's Roman
hi is that spot on camera or only that's fun
I'm Lux Roman I'm I've been a studio city homeowner for 10 years and as
someone else mentioned I've also seen homelessness increase in this area
according to Lhasa in the last homeless count we have a thousand homeless people
in cd2 which includes us obviously in North Hollywood and I think Danites as
well a thousand people is a lot of people thirty percent of those people
are fleeing domestic violence ten percent are veterans I mean it's it's a
large population and it's our population also according to Lhasa the majority of
our homeless population in LA have lived in LA for over ten years which means
that they're not being bussed in from out of town that they lived here at one
point I don't think it's an option to not help this crisis I don't think it's
an option to push these services and housing to other neighborhoods that's
not working I go to several neighborhood council
meetings month the sentiment is the same at those meetings don't put it here put
it in another neighborhood if every neighborhood says that we cannot put it
anywhere we as voters 80% of LA approved measure HHH which is to build permanent
supportive housing permanent supportive housing is housing that includes
supportive services on-site so they have a live-in property manager that's our
24/7 they have mental health they have rehab I have veterans services they have
job training on-site for the residents those are operated by nonprofits and
they're getting our taxpayer dollars to do that we can't build that housing that
we all voted to set aside money for if we we don't allow them to build in our
neighborhoods I want to mention one thing on the parking there's an
organization called safe parking la they managed parking lots for people who
sleep in parking lots over night they have a security guard there the whole
time people in order to be the safe parking lot you have to have current
registration a current license you have to have a case
la family housing in this area and you have to be on a path to housing and you
have to renew the lease to be in that parking lot every month so it's not an
easy process and it's not like an open free-for-all there's actually a safe
parking lot in North Hollywood and it's not even at capacity I think there's a
couple people there it can it can have 15 people sleeping there overnight and
they can't even get that many people in there because of all the restrictions
same thing with supportive housing people in supportive housing and even in
temporary housing have responsibilities and it's not easy to get spots in
temporary housing I just want to say I'm fully in support of thank you Alex is
Vicky
I'm speaking as a resident just want to get clear um you know this is just
really strange I'm a real estate agent and obviously we have a crisis here
and I just don't understand why our city can't just do things naturally and
normally we have an area of the valley which is say Penn around the city which
has tons of vacant properties that have been dilapidated and and and not
occupied for I'd say Montgomery Ward about 35 years and I just don't
understand these are places that are perfectly suited to help the homeless
not because they're in cheap rent or high rent it's because well yeah it's
depressed there and the cost there to rent a space is a lot cheaper than say
here or Malibu or somewhere else it just doesn't make any sense
and I can only see this is just a a play for a councilman to to again grandstand
and campaign because basically if I were in charge I would say well let's look at
the map where can we put them let's put them here and stop with all of this
politicizing and trying to just garner a favor for the next political position we
want so what I would just ask our council office and I just asked all the
councilmen and women to get down to business take care of this get these
people housed get them off the streets and protect it but stop playing politics
this is about finding a place that will suit be suitable for them and at the
lowest cost because guess what we pay for all of this and as taxpayers just
because it's not their money doesn't mean that they don't have to take care
of it thank you
Fred Newman well I've lived in Los Angeles Santa Monica and Studio City and
I've seen over the past years the prolific proliferation of homelessness
it's overwhelming everybody's talking about it tonight but the detail I want
to talk about is this issue with mobile homes RV's over the past year or so all
over the city you see more and more than parked on
curbs in parking lots in neighborhoods I saw one ironically on Laurel Canyon
the other day was it was an oxymoron it was a mobile home someone who had been
living in for a long time parked and this is on the other side of Mulholland
on the west side of town with the Denver boot on it now it's not going to be
hauled away for months so that person could just continue to live in there the
Denver boot means nothing so my point is this and it goes over to what you said
neighborhoods people who live in homes condos rent apartments or whatever don't
want to live next to an RV camp that's not what they bought their homes for
moved in an apartment for those should those parking structures by the way RVs
don't fit in parking structures they're talking about cars for that but parking
lots for mobile homes should be in industrial areas and that's what you
were talking about earlier industrial areas they're usually empty at night
they're not around housing you don't have to worry about transient people and
the other thing is this to be careful of because people who live in mobile homes
whether they're five years old or 50 years old as long as they are plated
registered can say I'm not homeless I'm living in a mobile home so they can
separate themselves from this whole thing and then it becomes a whole legal
Arang dealing with a whole other category but the bottom line is don't
let the city put give parking areas in Studio City for RVs and mobile homes
that's insane put them in industrial areas
and the politicians need to know that
Jeff regard ya if there's any if some people came in a little later right now
he's the final speaker card I have so if there's additional speaker cards I think
the last two were given out or just raise your hand so we'll finish these
and then we'll go around quickly so I'm Jeffery Goddard and I've been a resident
of Studio City since 2001 homeowner very close to Ventura Boulevard in fact right
behind the Starbucks and Pier one Imports that big parking lot just right
over the hill so we get our full of that people are throwing trash over the wall
Thank You mitt you know for not realizing there's a house right over the
wall and right on the sidewalk whenever we my any of my wife myself or any of
our six kids go for walks to go buy some ice cream or something usually we see
two or three homeless and some of them screaming profanities at us today my
wife and I visited a couple of dozen shops and restaurants between Whitsett
and Laurel Canyon we talked to the managers and without exaggeration
everyone we talked to when they heard about the and it's amazing they didn't
seem to know much about these proposed shelters it was a shock to them so we
passed out we created letters of explaining our personal views have
observed the deterioration for the last 20 years in just recent years especially
how bad it's gotten when we walked a book star that little passageway between
the parking lot and good scar urination and death
occasion and some of the managers have right in the store there they're pooping
and urinating in the store and one look store owner said she has to spend 48
thousand dollars a year for security guard which can make or break a small
mom-and-pop that have invested their life savings you know what kind of
turnover we have but you see store after store going out of business and that
alone is enough to put them over the edge so speaking on behalf of these two
dozen store owners that we talked to in restaurants and some horror stories that
you know that store where they sell vintage posters and movie you know old
altered photographs that are framed that lady's been in there for 24 years
she said recently she was knifed by a homeless person knife and had and had to
call the police and it took them 45 minutes to arrive so and you heard about
that horrible thing that happened in Ventura County a man in the restaurant
right in front of his daughter and wife got killed by a homeless so you know I
recognized that that there needs to be advocates for the homeless but I as I
did some research Utah continues to be put out there as a as a one of the
states that has the lowest population in the last 10 years they I've seen some
numbers that say 91 percent they've decreased their homeless population
through certain measures and I won't take the time to go into them but Google
Utah homeless and you'll see the article after article about how they address
their homeless situation and so I would really hope that we could be mindful of
the store owners and homeowners that are right close to the boulevard there
especially and this is very alarming father of six kids and all of my kids
are either continued going to carpenter right now or Campbell Hall or Walter
Reed and and I we worked hard to afford a place that's safe for our children our
families over here the last point to make and the last point is remembering
the good old days vagrancy and hom intoxication public
intoxication vagrancy it was against the law and and and they would put them
either in work houses or on the roads so it made it so unpleasant that they they
dried out and they I know it sounds very old-fashioned you know that they dried
up and they it became so intolerable that they realized they've hit rock
bottom and they motive they're motivated to clean up their act because they don't
have cushy you know how and up said you know it was there was more expected of
them and self-esteem comes from you know there's two cities that are paying
homeless to clean up the streets so there's some self-esteem from work and
that gets their act together they don't just become dependent on handouts sorry
to go sorry for being late and thank you for allowing me to speak I don't want to
rehash a point that maybe was made before but I was told it hadn't been
sort of pointed out very much I just like to say for me and as a mom of three
here in Studio City I've done a lot of research because I want to be sending
the right message to my kids about the homeless I want to model the proper
values it's very important to me but I also have certain opinions especially my
husband and I both come from families with a lot of drug and alcohol abuse so
you know we we have a house full of recovery that we don't we're not in
favor of pot shops on every corner and stuff like that that's stuff that's
really impacted our families so perhaps we bring with it a certain opinion or
bias beforehand but I guess what I wanted to say is having done all this
research what I I've talked to the the path team for in downtown LA with the
police I've talked to our senior lead officer Sean Smith several times I
myself gone to LA family housing I looked into what opportunities my kids
could do this um and I come up with you know
interesting statistics that don't seem to be jiving with what I'm understanding
from councilman Krekorian Sophos most of these family most people who for
instance he talked so much in that sheet of paper about mothers and and kids
coming to this homeless shelter that I was seeing that's not the population
that we have mainly in Studio City and I've checked that with LA family housing
who said if they if there is a family and they're willing to abide by the
rules and come on in they can usually get them a bed within one day and then
within the past year my family and I were able to not really help or do
anything but at least assist and make sure that a homeless mom with two kids
that was up the venture and vineland Ralph's got into la family housing and I
actually she had said you know please check on me and I called and I checked
on her they said she's here she's doing great and that took two days so what I
wanted to say is I just feel that sometimes there is a trigger reaction of
not understanding the issues that surround homelessness it's very
complicated it's really as simple it's it's a mom and this shelter will just be
moms and kids that's not what my research has shown me and then the
really the point be that I would like to say is that until because of their my
research I've also had talks numerous talks at the LAPD who all are very
displeased with the lack of policing resources that we have in Studio City in
North Hollywood they have personally told me that they
are based on population metrics I know you guys all know this that reflect the
valley closer to the 1960s so that's the policing we have my senior lead officer
has said if anything short of anything really really really serious happens on
your black I will not be able to come I will not be able to help you with
somebody doing drugs on the sidewalk right by your house that I can't help
you like that there was a really bad dispute and your neighbor was kind of
like almost scary he was giving me examples I can't probably help you I'm
so sorry he said I'd like to be able to help you so that led me to call a
counselor and Krekorian Sophos previously who said well we haven't been
able to get those resources from the city and it's like what is this going
hey and I don't hear a commitment on Krekorian office or Kerkorian sparked to
get us the proper policing until we have the proper policing this is not a
conversation that we should be having and frankly I'm really angry though that
this is not a this is not already understood then you have people saying
well you must be someone that doesn't want to help people
no this is absolute logic until we have proper policing resources here there is
no business adding transitional or homeless shelters or anything else and
what is it going to take I called so I've called Krekorian office I've called
downtown Oh what I've gotten is yeah that's not gonna happen that's not gonna
happen this whose City is this so I would
really very much like to know in this kind of cycle of not being able to do
anything what what's gonna happen or I mean the people of the city the
taxpayers we have I guess no say I was also told very specifically oh thank you
I was also very specifically that kerkorian may not be very open to input
from us because this is a top agenda item so again this leads to the question
of who city is this is this Kerkorian city is a star city city or is this our
city and and this is where one has really gotten me you know what I mean as
the mom of three living in the city so thank you very much additional brief
comments Peter topic you're talking about but it's related so speaking to
your comments about mental illness and drug addiction for
homeless there was a representative from the mayor's office at the last student
City Board meeting that said seventy to seventy-five percent of the homeless are
I think it was a quote just like you and me and it was not it was about
everything I can give everybody the link watch the videos that's what I do so
it's I noticed that LAPD and the mayor's office are diametrically opposed in
their messaging as to what the issue is I contacted Meg Berkeley who is the HHH
homeless coordinator and this is she's overseeing that 1.2 billion dollar
measure how the money is spent and my personal passion is transparency and I
got involved a few years ago there was a project in my neighborhood lack of
transparency and I take my skills and audio-video I try to make sure that the
rest of the community can see videos hot-button topics that are important all
of us so I asked where can I see specifically I was looking for the prop
HHH Ministry of oversight committee meetings and the citizen Oversight
Committee meeting Steve recordings for this and there are new videos and other
14 that I was given two of them were recorded so you can actually hear them
the rest of them were on an iPhone off in the corner 1.2 billion dollar bond
measure oversight committees happening in the dark so if you want to see an LA
City Council meeting you can go on their website Brenna kiss you can watch the
video even Stu a keyword searching cue the video there I don't understand why
something that costs so much is in the dark last thing I believe it is Ron
Calgary when I heard never mentioned a few times that the
housing that they want to build costs between 400 and 600 thousand dollars we
want to about it yeah you ma'am yet at the comments yeah go ahead quickly I I
see that we all work very diligently and hard to have our goals and live in a
clean and safe place and residents and because this the city is very well goal
orientated it's not cheap to live here and for to allow people who obviously
have a need to for a wellness maybe they need shower and food and and a purpose
and an education to develop skills to maintain a sustain of it's important for
their needs but I think in our city it's it doesn't mix well with what we've
created here in Studio City to look alike it's very important to give them a
place to stay have a place to sleep where they could be safe with maybe so a
security thing a lock cabinet for their valuables that gives them a place to
have a shower and food and the medical attention they need away from this
community would be best maybe where all of them are sent to and
where if they get financial aid the financial aid is forfeited to the
facility and if they want their freedom that we've all worked so hard for they
get to earn it and have pride in earning it so they would be given allowed to
attend a course that allows to facilitate them back into the community
for those maybe twenty percent who are eligible for that and for the other
people they will stay and maintain and get their health care until they are
able to facilitate but by if I don't know if they get financial aid I'm not
familiar with it but if they do get money and stuff they just buy drugs and
alcohol and it just it they're not rehab --all so they need the ability to rehab
where they able to get sleep nutrition so they can function better but it's not
fair for them because they're there they're ill they need medical attention
they they wander they're passed out on streets I saw one back to burn himself
up and all the resources for city police officers are being used to please these
people instead of keeping our safes clear is that what we do our city
dollars are all around the homeless and it's not fair to them because they need
attention but they're going to neglect it because we played taxes and deserve
our protection as well so thank you your name please
and your name ma'am once again this is your common time they are covering a
similar story in Korea
okay so we're gonna move on to vote now first the committee members have a
moment to make the comments address anything that was said and a community
member you know just an I'm in total agreement
I I live with it every day myself I've lived on my wife so Marsha well I would
say that that our committee is working on a proposal explaining the dire need
to expand the police presence in our community and that is part and parcel of
dealing with problem that we have the only with the transient community and I
think that's step one that we have to be very aggressive and I think we have to
have a protest at City Hall as a community and we left oh maybe we should
have one of our public safety committee meetings there because they could see
this is a huge turn up for for this for the small burg someone called it a bogus
of village this is a this is a catastrophe and I think we should
consider that thank you much
I just want to remind you that this motion is specifically for these two
properties so we're not addressing all of the comments which we will be
addressing and we feel behind and understand all of the opinions so that's
what we're going to be voting on now is just the this small port part of these
two addresses do you think we should
no no yet we're repositioning that motion as we speak based on some input
tonight and again it's just it's just the first step that we're making tonight
there will be many more discussions and hopefully the same number of people will
attend or more yeah so well right now the sentences Studio City neighborhood
councils strongly opposed to any review assessment and our development of the
properties located at one one two two zero Ventura Boulevard twelve two two
five into our Boulevard and any additional location in Studio City make
it a little broader language I have the
in the original motion in the original council motion its 11220 Ventura
Boulevard and twelve two to five and turbo of art from the quarry oh okay
alright so we're gonna vote vote on it with that friendly amendment
so oh yes so three votes to pass and then we'll
move on to the Studio City neighborhood council full board will go down Marsha a
yes says you're strongly opposed a no is the opposite yes
Patrice Berlin's daddy Kurt yes and myself yes okay there you have it 4-0
and we'll move on to the full board
yeah so the the next studio City Council full board meeting I'm gonna pull it off
so I give you the exact date like I said it's the third Wednesday of every month
so it will be on June 20th and this will be on that agenda to weigh in and thank
you for coming out tonight there are other agenda items including
fireworks but I do understand if you have to get going
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