Board: Dan Pressburg, Darlene Broom, Keith Oddie, Ryan Blazer, Joni Ricks-Oddie, Corazon Lomeli
Guest: Amardeep – Don’t waste Long Beach
- April 23 – Dine-Out 90805
- Joni – We are all set
- Clean-up
- Harding:
- Darlene will talk to Elena about using her address on Janice for bin drop off
- Dan will bring Coffee and donuts
- He will coordinate trash bin to be dropped off 7am
- Time of clean-up– 8a-12p
- Ryan will post on website at end of week after confirmation from Elena
- Ryan – Re-cycling E-waste truck available
- Ryan will draft letter with 501c3 to send to company
- Ryan will pick up the truck and drop it back off with e-waste items
- Items not allowed:
- No appliances
- No batteries
- Adopt a drain – In mayor’s office currently
- Dan is in contact with Mayor Garcia, there is interest in doing this city-wide
- Special meeting update – problems with Zumba/Workout studio on South and Elm
- Keith gave update of what was discussed at meeting
- DPNA will help coordinate meetings
- Cleaning tree wells
- Part of South Street Beautification
- Dan wants to pitch to Rex
- Dan will take pictures of tree wells
- Overgrown yards issues
- Ryan wanted to know what the process would be for getting owner or renters to address this issue
- If over 12 inches can call code enforcement
- 570-code or Go Long Beach
- Paid advertising on website
- Dan – we are allowed as non-profit to offer a services even if the service includes raising money for us
- One service can be allowing businesses to advertise on the website
- We can ask business to advertisement on website or newsletter and they can get a write-off
- We can consider issuing either a 1099 or just a donation slip
- Darlene will
- speak with Tasha about opportunities for business adverting from Uptown BID related business
- Contact businesses we have had previous Dine-Out 90805 events at
- $10/ month or $100 per year
- Ryan will put up page on website
- Charitable Contribution Acknowledgement Form – Put together by Keith
- A draft is on the google drive in the “DeForest Park Legal Docs”
- Ryan and Dan will look it over
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for website
- Ryan discussed that it will take a while for web crawlers to find our website
- Ryan – will generate site map to all search engines to speed up SEO
- Letter to Home Depot – Corazon
- Corazon will give out “First Team” give-a-ways if she has not be able to get donations from Home depot in time
- Corazon will visit some other home supply companies:
- HD Supply
- True Value
- South Coast
- OSH
- Walmart
- Corazon will also ask if they would like to advertise on our website
- Main speaker
- Harry Saltzgaver Water Commissioner
- April 2nd – 10am Brunch at Dan’s house
- Mayor Garcia for May is pending
- Joni will follow-up with Marina and Mayor Garcia’s office at end of the week
- June – Dan will be inviting Pat West as speaker
- Neighborhood Leadership Program
- Want to speak at our neighborhood association
- HUD action plan spending
- Keith/Darlene – Will invite them to our April meeting
- Clean Vehicle Incentive Programs
- Joni will invite Valerie to our next board meeting
- Public Comment
- Amardeep: Don’t Waste Long Beach
- Mission: Make sure all LB residents (single-family homes and businesses) have access to recycling and eventually compost
- Already passed legislation in LA and now moving to LB
- Part of LANE
- Improve environment, community and worker’s health & safety
- Start by having businesses recycle since items are a commodity
- Permitted system with multiple haulers, introduce policies and standards for companies
- She will follow-up about with us speaking at our neighborhood association