Education Committee / Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council

next meeting, this Wed, 7/8 6pm

2009-07-06T15:10:00.000-07:00

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Committee Board Chair Danielle Duran danielle.duran.dlanc@gmail.com

When: Wed, March 11, 2009, 6pm

Where: 418 W 6^th St, Los Angeles 90014 (Arda's Café, 6^th Street/Olive)

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA

1. Call to order and roll call.
2. Welcome messages
3. PROJECTS- Action planning: collection of ideas and updates, assigning leaders to projects, planning
4. Possible additional input for other projects.
5. Comments by committee members on non-agenda items and comments by non-committee members on non-agenda items
6. Deciding on next meeting agenda items and confirmation of next meeting date
7. Adjournment.

Parents of School-aged Children Meet and Greet

2009-06-12T11:13:00.001-07:00

On Sunday, July 19, from 12-3pm at The Exchange we invite downtown parents of school-aged children to meet each other. Bring your kids to enjoy some face-painting and meet other parents whose children are getting ready to go to school or who are in school now. Questions, please contact danielle.duran.dlanc@gmail.com

FY 09-10 Budget approved by Exec Committee

2009-05-08T05:57:00.000-07:00

Quick Education Committee budget update : the $5500 proposed budget has been cut to $3500 for the FY 09-10 which will have bearing on the projects that we will be able to support. This may change after next week's City of LA- Budget and Finance meeting where it is possible that the Neighborhood Council budget is cut from $45,000/year to $11,500/year. Please attend next week's 5/13 6pm meeting to help decide where this money will go if you would like it spent somewhere in particular. The meeting's location has not been finalized but will likely be at Arda's cafe on 6th/Olive.

IMPORTANT: The city is considering slashing our budget to $11,500 because not all Neighborhood Councils are using their budget effectively-- but we are! Please TAKE ACTION to help prevent the city from cutting our budget by 80% by spending 10-20 minutes doing the following:
1- Use the contact info list below to email your city council member
2- Send your thoughts on this topic to the mayor mayor@lacity.org
3- Send your thoughts on this topic to the budget and finance committee
Budget & Finance City Council reps
"Councilman Bernard Parks" <parks@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Greig Smith" <smith@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Bill Rosendahl" <councilman.rosendahl@lacity.org>,
"Councilman Jose Huizar" <Jose.huizar@lacity.org
"Councilwoman Wendy Greuel" <wendy.greuel@council.lacity.org>,
For more info on this please see http://www.citywatchla.com/content/view/2260/.

* * Contact information for your action-steps:

Chair of B & F committee who made this proposal: Bernard Parks

The Honorable Councilman Bernard Parks Los Angeles City Councilman, Eight District Councilmember.Parks@lacity.org
Bernard.Parks.Jr@lacity.org

Mike Hernandez Chief of Staff Mike.Hernandez@lacity.org

200 N. Spring Street Room 460 Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 473-7008 Fax: (213) 485-7683
Web site http://www.lacity.org/council/cd8/

Budget & Finance City Council reps
"Councilman Bernard Parks" <parks@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Greig Smith" <smith@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Bill Rosendahl" <councilman.rosendahl@lacity.org>,
"Councilman Jose Huizar" <Jose.huizar@lacity.org
"Councilwoman Wendy Greuel" <wendy.greuel@council.lacity.org>,

Downtown City Council Reps
"Councilman Ed Reyes" councilmember.reyes@lacity.org

,
"Councilwoman Jan Perry" <jperry@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Ed Reyes" councilmember.reyes@lacity.org,

The Honorable Councilwoman Jan Perry Los Angeles City Councilwoman, Ninth District Jan.Perry@lacity.org

Kathy Godfrey Chief of Staff Kathy.Godfrey@lacity.org

200 N. Spring Street Room 420 Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 473-7009 Fax: (213) 473-5946
Web site http://www.lacity.org/council/cd9/

The Honorable Councilman Jose Huizar Los Angeles City Councilwoman, Fourteenth District
Councilmember.Huizar@lacity.org

Ana Cubas Chief of Staff Ana.Cubas@lacity.org
Eric Sanjurjo Legislative Deputy Erik.Sanjurjo@lacity.org

200 N. Spring Street, Room 465 Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 473-7014 Fax: (213) 847-0680
Web site http://www.lacity.org/council/cd14/

The Honorable Councilman Ed Reyes Los Angeles City Councilwoman, First District Ed.Reyes@lacity.org
Jose Gardea Chief of Staff
jose.gardea@lacity.org

200 N. Spring Street Room 410 Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 473-7001 Fax: (213) 485-8907
Web site http://www.lacity.org/council/cd1/

CONTACT YOUR COUNCILMEMBER AND THE MAYOR

"Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa" mayor@lacity.org,
"Councilwoman Janice Hahn" <hahn@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Tony Cardenas" <cardenas@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Tom LaBonge" <tlabonge@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Jose Huizar" <Jose.huizar@lacity.org>,
"Councilman Richard Alarcon" <councilmember.alarcon@lacity.org>,
"Councilwoman Jan Perry" <jperry@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Ed Reyes" councilmember.reyes@lacity.org ,
"Councilman Bernard Parks" <parks@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Eric Garcetti" <garcetti@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Greig Smith" <smith@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Herb Wessen" <councilmember.wesson@lacity.org>
"Councilman Jack Weiss" <weiss@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Dennis Zine" <zine@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilwoman Wendy Greuel" <wendy.greuel@council.lacity.org>,
"Councilman Bill Rosendahl" <councilman.rosendahl@lacity.org>,

2009-04-29T08:05:00.000-07:00

Below you will find the key parts of last night's discussion around the budget

DLANC EDUCATION COMMITTEE BUDGET DISCUSSION 04.28.09

PROJECTS IN THE WORKS:

1. Gather information on schools and related programs

2. Partnered small projects with Central City Outreach Center

3. Developing work with 9^th Street Elementary to bolster their own efforts

The mission of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Education Committee is to empower and uplift community members of all ages by facilitating opportunities to both teach and learn from each other.

- Collective and Personal Responsibility—We share responsibility for each other, just as we are responsible for our selves. We respect one another unconditionally. The strength of our community depends on the tenacity and cohesiveness of its people. We know it is up to us to make it happen and we know we need to do what it takes.

- Excellence and Value—We strive for achieving excellence in all we do and aim to add identifiable value to the lives of those around us.

- Possibility—We are optimistic in our approach of known and unknown challenges.

- Voice—We embrace the opinions of one another and take ownership over ensuring that the wide variety of voices of our community are heard and if not they are sought out.

PROJECTS MAIN FOCUS: EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOWNTOWN RESIDENTS

- Opportunities for (k-12) students living on skid row

- Opportunities for (k-8) students living in/near downtown

RATIONALE: Per the discussion at our outreach meeting we have found that the needs of the (k-12, but particularly the k-8) children living in/near downtown are not being met. Given our previously tackled projects have had an adult education and empowerment focus, we are looking to engage a new pocket of our community. At the same time we know that if we impact younger members of our community at an earlier time, they are more likely to be increasingly empowered later. We will of course maintain our legacy projects, but are excited to expand on our impact overall.

INITIAL PROPOSAL FOR 09-10 FISCAL YEAR

BUDGET FROM FY 08-09

*Education Committee*		Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total

	Peace in the Hood Coloring Book	$1,500				$1,500
	3 on 3 Basketball outreach/ T shirts		$1,000			$1,000

	Skid Row Photography Club	$500	$500			$1,000
	PHC Van & Misc Used Book give away		$200			$200

	LAPD Boosters Field trip			$300		$300

							$4,000

FOCUS QUESTIONS:

- WHAT WORKED AND WE SHOULD CONTINUE? WHAT DIDN’T WORK AND WE SHOULD CUT

- WHAT WOULD WE LIKE TO SEE DIFFERENT BASED ON THE LAST 6 MONTHS?

- CITY BUDGET CUTS OF 10%-- HOW SHOULD WE KEEP THIS IN MIND?

COMMENTS ON PROPOSED FUNDING INVOLVEMENT FOR 09-10

REPEAT--OG: Peace in the Hood Coloring Book (2^nd print)	Project went well last year, may be a need for a 2^nd print
REPEAT--OG/Vito: 3 on 3 Basketball outreach/ T shirts	Successful program, should continue support
REPEAT--DBullock/MBlaze: Skid Row Photography Club	Successful program, should continue support
REPEAT--Owner?: PHC Van & Misc Used Book give away	Successful program, should continue support
NEW--Cmte Chair: Field trip for 9^th St Elem or CCCOC	Want to start/strengthen k-12 involvement in community
NEW--RCrockett: Dictionaries/Books for Huntington Reading Club	Successful program, should support further
NEW--Cmte Chair: Project with 9^th Street Elementary School	Want to start/strengthen k-12 involvement in community
NEW--Cmte Chair: Volunteer dinner or working day project- CCCOC	Want to start/strengthen k-12 involvement in community
NEW--Cmte Chair: Educational Resources project- admin/outreach	Want to start/strengthen k-12 involvement in community
NEW--Cmte Chair: partner committee project	Want to facilitate collaboration with other committees

PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FY 09-10 à to be submitted to Executive Committee for approval on 05/05

*Education Committee*		Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
		Jul-Sep	Oct- Dec	Jan- Mar	Apr-Jun
	OG: Peace in the Hood Coloring Book (2^nd print)	$500
	OG/Vito: 3 on 3 Basketball outreach/ T shirts		$1,000
	DBullock/MBlaze: Skid Row Photography Club	$500	$500
	Owner?: PHC Van & Misc Used Book give away		$200
	Cmte Chair: Field trip for 9^th St Elem or CCCOC		$200	$300
	RCrockett: Dictionaries/Books for Huntington Fun Zone Reading Club	$500
	Cmte Chair: Project with 9^th Street Elementary School		$500	$300
	Cmte Chair: Volunteer dinner or working day project- CCCOC			$500
	Cmte Chair: Educational Resources project- admin/outreach	$200
	Cmte Chair: partner committee project			$300
	TOTAL	1700	2400	1400	0	55550000

TOTAL

Notes from February 11 meeting

2009-02-19T09:51:00.000-08:00

Greetings and thank you to all the participants of our last meeting! In addition to our familiar faces we had representatives from the following groups: parents and families, non-profit educational groups, graduate students, former educators.

Throughout our meeting we discussed primarily what the interests and needs of parents and children that live throughout our community may be. This conversation focused on the following points- (1) schools (prek-12) available to downtown residents, (2) the quality of schools here and what we can/should do to improve them, (3) what we can possibly do to provide additional and even interim solutions to this challenge, (4) needs of homeless children in our community related to schools and education programs for them and their parents, (5) how we can support community outreach organizations that are working to provide resources to our children already.

At this point we have a lot of questions we are working on answering to gather missing information that might help us decide how to best move forward. I feel like we will soon be at a point when we can decide on some projects to take on, but we will NEED help-- we NEED active players that will want to participate and even possibly take the lead on some projects. One thing you can possibly easily help with is just letting us know who you are-- we need to know how many families (and how many children of what ages) we have in downtown, and where they are.

If you have ideas and comments/questions you would like to share-- please do post here or contact me by emailing danielle.duran.dlanc@gmail.com and please do join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, March 11, 6:30pm at Arda's Cafe (418 W 6th Street- 6th/Olive across from Pershing Square)

February 11 Town Hall Forum Outreach Meeting

2009-02-07T12:43:00.000-08:00

Hello all,

Below please find the agenda for our next meeting. Please note the location of our meeting-- thank you to Russ Brown for providing space for our meeting

Next meeting: Wednesday 02/11/2009 7:00pm, The Exchange 114 W. 5th Street

This month's focus- The community-- What does our community want? This meeting will proved the space for outreach in order to find out directly what the education committee should be doing to serve our community. Please help us spread the word and ensure a diverse set of voices is heard.

Please email with questions or attend the meeting.
Danielle Duran, Committee Chair

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Committee Board Chair Danielle Duran danielle.duran.dlanc@gmail.com

When: February 11, 2009, 7:00pm

Where: 114 W 5th Street, Los Angeles 90013 (The Exchange- 5th Street between Spring and Main)

MEETING AGENDA

1. Call to order and roll call.
2. Welcome messages
3. OUTREACH/TOWNHALL FORUM: discussion and brainstorm
4. Possible brainstorm on potential related future projects and events
5. Comments by committee members on non-agenda items and comments by non-committee members on non-agenda items
6. Deciding on next meeting agenda items and confirmation of next meeting date
7. Adjournment.

January 14, 2009-- Outreach/Townhall meeting

2008-12-18T13:04:00.000-08:00

Our January meeting will be held as an outreach meeting, all public are welcome and encouraged to attend to share views on what the Education Committee should be doing for and with you. Please return to this site for more and upcoming information on location and presentations.

Notes and Next-steps from 12/10 meeting

2008-12-18T13:00:00.000-08:00

Next steps:
*January meeting (01/14) will be a townhall/outreach meeting in order to hear from our constituents what their needs are and the ideas they have for how we can work together to meet their needs and bring their ideas to fruition.
--> Kathleen and Danielle will be making flyer postings
--> Danielle will be reaching out to external partners for presentations and confirming attendance
PUBLIC: if you can help, please contact danielle (danielle.duran@dlanc.com) to help us to bring residents and workers that care about education to our meeting.
Notes from 12/10 meeting
1. Call to order and roll call.
2. Approval of November minutes.
3. PROJECT UPDATES and closeouts
4. OUTREACH MEETING PLANNING: January meeting will be an outreach/townhall meeting-- we will be planning on how to make that successful; new projects will be on-hold until after January meeting
5. Comments by committee members on non-agenda items and comments by non-committee members on non-agenda items
6. Deciding on next meeting agenda items and confirmation of next meeting date
7. Adjournment.

December 10 Meeting Agenda

2008-12-07T16:20:00.000-08:00

OUR DECEMBER MEETING WILL FOCUS ON PLANNING FOR AN OUTREACH MEETING IN JANUARY

1. Call to order and roll call.
2. Approval of November minutes.
3. PROJECT UPDATES and closeouts
4. OUTREACH MEETING PLANNING: January meeting will be an outreach/townhall meeting-- we will be planning on how to make that successful; new projects will be on-hold until after January meeting
5. Comments by committee members on non-agenda items and comments by non-committee members on non-agenda items
6. Deciding on next meeting agenda items and confirmation of next meeting date
7. Adjournment.

Our Mission Statement and Core Values

2008-11-13T11:14:00.000-08:00

At last night's meeting we approved our mission statement and our core values:

The mission of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Education Committee is

To empower and uplift community members of all ages by facilitating opportunities to both teach and learn from each other.

Core Values

Collective and Personal Responsibility—We share responsibility for each other, just as we are responsible for our selves. We respect one another unconditionally. The strength of our community depends on the tenacity and cohesiveness of its people. We know it is up to us to make it happen and we know we need to do what it takes.

Excellence and Value—We strive for achieving excellence in all we do and aim to add identifiable value to the lives of those around us.

Possibility—We are optimistic in our approach of known and unknown challenges.

Voice—We embrace the opinions of one another and take ownership over ensuring that the wide variety of voices of our community are heard and if not they are sought out.

November Meeting

2008-11-12T11:09:00.000-08:00

Tonight's meeting we will approve a finalized vision statement and decide on new projects to take on. I will be presenting a grant possibility for a project aimed at youth in our community. To view the agenda please go to http://dlanc.com/committees/education.php?agenda=1

Upcoming Events and Projects

2008-11-12T11:00:00.000-08:00

December 4, 2008 is Project Homeless Connect Day where our committee will be hosting a booth for our annual book give-away-- we are currently looking for additional book donations and for people to spend time with us at the booth.

BOOK DONATIONS FOR PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT DAY

This year's Project Homeless Connect Day will be held on Thursday, December 4^th, from 10am – 3pm on 6^th Street between Wall Street and San Pedro. The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC) Education Committee will be hosting a used book and dictionary giveaway at a booth at this year's event. From the inception of Downtown's Project Homeless Connect Day our book and dictionary giveaway has drawn a large number of serious readers who carefully peruse the exceptional books donated by Little Tokyo and Central libraries as well as members of our community.

With this year's book giveaway a few short weeks away we are looking to increase the number of books that we have been able to offer in the past. We turn to you, our community, in hopes of inspiring more donations so that the engaged readers visiting our booth to will have their thirst for literature satiated.

If you have any books that you would like to donate to this event, you may drop them off on the third floor of 606 S. Olive Street, between 9am-5pm, Monday through Friday, until December 2^nd. In the lobby of the third floor you will find a box to leave your books which will be picked up by our committee chair. All books will undoubtedly find a home with the serious readers in the homeless and Skid Row communities, but of particular interest are books about religion, history, those that are self-help themed, children's books, novels, and Spanish language books. Please keep in mind the large influx of children of all ages to the homeless community downtown.

We are also interested in having community members help us on the day of the event at the booth-- if you are interested in joining us on the day of the event please contact Danielle at education@dlanc.com

Sustained projects

2008-11-12T10:59:00.001-08:00

Updates on 3-on-3 Basketball and Skid Row Photo Club SKID ROW PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB SHOW: "The Beauty of the Street" Premier Night will be November 13, 2008 during the Downtown Artwalk at Stella Dottir located at 430 S Main St For info, visit http://www.skidrowphotoclub.com/home.html 3-on-3 STREETBALL LEAGUE

Welcome to the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Education Committee Blog

2008-11-12T09:53:00.000-08:00

This blog will serve to inform our community, our committee members, and board members of our activities.