Valley VOTE Meeting Notice
Our featured speakers are:

Gail Goldberg
Director of Planning

Lisa Sarno
Interim Manager of DONE

Mark Dierking
Director of the Children's Museum of L.A.
and
Dana Katz- Development Director

Date: Monday, September 18, 2006
Time: 6:45 PM - 8:40PM
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

6:45PM- 7:10PM Valley VOTE
Introductions
Reports by Valley VOTE Committees
LAWA Denny Schneider
Membership Richard Leyner
Neighborhood Councils Polly Ward

7:10PM - 7:40PM Gail Goldberg
The mission statement of the Planning Department is to provide sound professional Land Use guidance and the highest level of technical service to achieve safe and healthy residential neighborhoods and to secure a business climate which fosters sustained economic growth. Ms. Goldberg, appointed to her position recently, will bring us to date on the changes she has instituted to meet the goals of the Planning Department.

7:40PM - 8:10PM Lisa Sarno
Ms. Sarno, recently appointed the Interim Manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE), will discuss the many challenges the DONE faces. Issues regarding staffing, instituting the new election procedures, training, funding, by laws, early notification and outreach will be discussed.

8:10PM -8:40PM Mark Dierking and Dana Katz
Mark Dierking is the Executive Director of the Children's Museum of Los Angeles (CMLA) and Dana Katz is the Director of Development for the CMLA. They will bring us to date on the status of the museum. An award winning architect and a world renown design and construction organization have been working on the 60,000 square foot facility to be built in the Hansen Dam area of the Valley, next to the new public library.

Questions from the audience will follow each speaker's remarks. The public and press are invited to the meeting.

(I would also like to thank all the speakers for accepting our invitation to speak to Valley VOTE on very short notice. Our originally scheduled presenters had unplanned conflicts and will meet with us at a future date)
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The next Valley VOTE meeting will be on Monday, October16,2006.

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 implementing programs that empower the people of the San Fernando Valley and the City of Los Angeles, including opportunities to improve local governance, education and public participation on policy matters.

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