Date: Monday, April 20, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:15PM
Place:Galpin Ford - 2nd Floor meeting
Room,15555 Roscoe Blvd. (at the 405)
Parking: Free parking in the Galpin Lot on the West side of Orion
Please do not park in the customer service areas.
Agenda
6:30PM- 7:45PM
Networking
Introductions
Reports by Valley VOTE Committees
(~5 minutes maximum for each including Q&A )
Housing Vic Viereck
Land Use Pauline Tallent
Neighborhood Councils George Truesdell
LAWA Denny Schneider
"Part 161" Study update Don Schultz
Membership Richard Leyner
DWP up date Jack Humphreville
Transportation Bart Reed
C D 2 Election David Hernandez
7:45PM- 8:15PM Tom Erb
Thomas Erb is the Director of Water Resources for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. His responsibilities include water supply planning for Los Angeles, managing expansion of recycled water, and developing projects for capturing storm water. Other activities include pursuing opportunities for additional groundwater storage, investigating water transfer opportunities, and seeking federal and state grants.
Conservation of water use by Los Angeles residents and businesses since 1990 has remarkably resulted in the SAME annual quantity of water, approximately 650,000 acre feet, being consumed in 2008. This despite an increase in population of about 1 million people, from 3 to 4 million, over the last 18 years!
The reduced water supply outlook for 2009 will present additional challenges for the DWP and the citizens of L.A. Tom Erb will describe proposed DWP strategies to deal with these serious issues.
Questions from the audience, as time permits, will follow each speaker's remarks. The public and press are invited to the meeting.
The next Valley VOTE meeting will be on Monday, May 18, 2009.
Valley VOTE Mission Statement
Valley VOTE, a diverse coalition of San Fernando Valley residents, business people, educators, community activists, and organizations, is committed to exploring and fostering the implementation of programs that empower the people of the San Fernando Valley and the City of Los Angeles, to improve local governance, education and public participation on policy matters.
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