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FAILURE TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC IS ILLEGAL!

October 7, 2013

 

Dear Neighbors and Resident of Rolling Hills Estates,

 

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Since March 2013, there have been constant discoveries of  criminal activity perpetrated by RHE Executives  on behalf of the City to push for a development by Oxbow Partners.   The extent of the illegal activity has become more apparent every time I meet with those involved.   There has been No public disclosures, as required by law.   On February 13, 2013, RHE staff illegally lobbied its own Equestrian Committee and Parks & Activities Commissioners, requesting them to lobby other equestrians to gather support for the Oxbow development.  Then Staff instructed all present at this private meeting, NOT to discuss the meeting or Seahorse  may not be relocated.   Those present at this meeting:   City Manager-Doug Pritchard, Community Services Director - Andy Clark,  Planning Director - David Wahba, and  Principal Planner- Nikki Wetzel. Scott Hill (son of Frank Hill), Dale Allen – Parks & Activities Commission Chair, Pam Schachter- Parks & Activities Commissioner, Equestrian Committee Members: Vicki Shinn, Carol Dean Porter (and husband), three owners of Oxbow Partners- (Developers), Devon Gibson- Owner/operator of Seahorse Riding Club, plus several other unidentified attendees.  This was meant to be a closed meeting and not open to the public.

 

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Many received my first outline dated September 9, 2013 explaining the definition of Senate Bill  (SB2) and how that bill pertained to the City staff’s proposed Ordinances  689, 690, 691.  You know  I predicted the reason staff  would suggest 40 units per acre vs. the minimum required by State law.  To support a project they already intended to get approved.    Mr. Frank Hill, owner of the Seahorse property located at 26411 Crenshaw Blvd, has been in escrow with Oxbow Partners (developers) since early February 2013.   Oxbow has made it clear they were planning to develop a Senior Assisted Care Housing facility (SRO).     It is now very clear to me the reason staff would propose such an outrageous number of units per acre.  They could use those numbers in support of Oxbow plans for their development(s).   Rumors persist that Oxbow has plans to build more than one Senior Assisted Care Facility in R. H. E.    Additional units per acre would make this type of project(s) extremely profitable. 

 

FIRST TIME I ADDRESSED CITY HALL

I heard rumors about the City negotiating with these Developers in March of this year.    My property, and my HOA neighborhood, would be directly impacted by this type of development.   I addressed City Council for an explanation on March 2, 2013.   

 

On March 2, 2013,  at the “Special” City Council meeting held on a Saturday morning, I asked the Council and the City Attorney, if ANYONE from City Hall, had authority to negotiate with a potential developer for the Seahorse site.    I told them a RHE Commissioner had told several residents that the City WAS, in fact, negotiating with  Mr. Hill and Oxbow Partners.    I stated it was ILLEGAL for anyone within the City government to be negotiating with a developer without Public Notice to all residents.   The City Attorney agreed that it WOULD BE illegal.    During the same discussion, three council members admitted, in open session, that they had discussed the potential project with the owner of the property, Frank Hill, former Mayor and current City Councilmen of Rolling Hills. At the conclusion of this issue on March 2nd, Mayor Zerunyan, Councilmen Zuckerman & Addelman  stated that a project of this nature would not be suitable for RHE at the Seahorse site.    In addition, City Attorney Don Davis, stated “ Any negotiations or discussing anything more than city requirements for a project would absolutely violate the State Laws pertaining to public disclosures”!!

 

However, over time, I continued to hear that the City, Oxbow Development and Frank Hill (Former Mayor of Rolling Hills) were continuing their negotiations to build on this site.   Despite Council Member’s saying on March 2, 2013 that they would oppose the project,  the City continued to negotiate.  I also got a call that Oxbow had met with Supervisor Don Knabe’s staff to discuss the project.

 

Devon Gibson, owner of Seahorse Riding Club,  was still afraid to speak with me directly.  I did not know why until this week.  She had been warned by the city at the February 13th meeting: DO NOT to tell anyone what has taken place at this meeting if you still want a business.  Make sure you get equestrian support for this project.       

 

On August 19, 2013, I addressed the Planning Commission when the State Compliance Housing Element Ordinances were brought to the Planning Commission for approval.  I questioned why RHE staff was exceeding State minimum requirements in the number of units per acre. As City Wide Zoning Laws, these ordinances would take effect if these modifications were approved by RHE and submitted to the State, only requiring a CUP (conditional use permit) versus a General Plan Amendment, a zoning change, plus a CUP before a development could take place.   In other words, the modifications staff proposed would eliminate the normal wait time of several years before a development as proposed by Oxbow could be built, to only several months.  The whole Planning Commission admitted they did not understand what the ordinances, as written, meant.  They  needed staff clarifications.  So much so, they requested to continue the issue until the next Planning Commission meeting.  However, staff told them it was an URGENCY issue and they could not continue the item.  They needed a vote THAT NIGHT!!

 

When I addressed the Planning Commission and explained the Ordinances as I understood them, based upon my 30 years of Government experience,  Commissioners Scott and Conway, then began to recommended changes to the various ordinances.  The City Attorney agreed that all I stated was legally correct.  Commissioner Scott did ask why staff recommended 40 units per acre plus a density bonus of more units.   Staff stated they were using a development that Council had already approved for 40 units per acre, as  the new City Wide standard.?!

 

Commissioners stated they thought 40 units per acre was excessive.  A recommendation was approved to lower the units per acre to 30, plus a density bonus.   In addition, there were 20 plus more amendments to these ordinances made by the Commission, ALL OF WHICH WERE APPROVED by the full board.

 

Britt Huff did NOT say one word.  Not one word, either out of ignorance about the Ordinances, as all other commissioners claimed, or out of unquestioned support for staff and Council. ?  However, I knew exactly what those Ordinances meant. and the negative impacts they would cause to our City.   If the proposed ordinances were approved, any Developer could force the City to allow them to build at the bloated numbers that staff was so eager to have approved.   This would have included Transitional Living Facilities (transients, homeless, or inmates transitioning from prison to mainstream society).  In addition, the adult Senior Care SRO’s (Single Room Occupancy) would have had the same unit numbers per acre, making any of these facilities financially viable in Rolling Hills Estates.  This would destroy our beautiful City.

 

However, little did I know then, that this was all a “Dog and Pony” show for my sake. The City had heard I was going to attend the Planning Commission meeting that night, so they prepared accordingly.   It was only last Friday 10-4-13, when I had a private meeting with the principal partner of Oxbow developers, that I found out the truth.   They needed at least a 30 units per acre  for the project to be Financially viable.  Oxbow never needed 40 units per acre., but it could have increased their profits a great deal.   My complete meeting with Oxbow will be described in detail further into this document.     

 

ONE OF THE MOST BLATANTLY ILLEGAL ACTIONS TOOK PLACE ON THE SEPTEMBER 10TH CITY COUNCIL AGENDA.

In the September 10 Staff’s recommendation to Council – Only two of the commissions’ amendments were submitted to the Council.   Staff stated,  “they decided” to ONLY recommend what seemed appropriate in their opinion for Council to review, instead of providing all 20 plus amendments voted upon by the Planning Commission on August 19th.  Staff illegally modified an official Commission vote on all three ordinances.  They illegally exceeded their government authority.

 

It appears that RHE staff can modify the wording of a Planning Commission vote, without anyone on the Council raising the issue of illegalities.   In fact, the City attorney (who can be hired or fired by Council at will), assisted Staff in deciding what “ they felt was most appropriate” from the Planning Commissions amendments and selected only those changes they deemed appropriate for Council to approve.

 

NO STAFF MEMBER IN ANY CITY IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO CHANGE THE WORDING OF A VOTE BY A PLANNING COMMISSION. 

 

If the Ordinances had been approved as written by staff, the State minimums would have been exceeded by RHE.   It would have become MANDATORY LAW FOR THE ENTIRE CITY OF ROLLING HILLS ESTATES -  MEANING:  A future City Council could NOT turn down a project. The new Housing Element ordinances would become a state mandated automatic approval.

 

Which brings us to the next very serious point:

 

Further, the ordinances, as written, designates the Commercial/Retail Mixed Use areas in the Commercial District as being appropriate for these ordinances.  HOWEVER, AT THE COUNCIL DISCRETION: They can designate ANY other property they choose to be included within these ordinances. Councilman Zuckerman sent me a recent email confirming this fact.    

 

This could still include Seahorse Riding Club which is currently zoned Commercial/ Recreational.   And could be interpreted as Commercial/Mixed Use, still allowing the development of a Senior Care SRO facility on the property currently occupied by Seahorse Riding Club.   Council states it would not be covered but Zuckerman’s email proves otherwise.   

 

On September 10th, I again addressed City Council and raised my questions directly to the City Attorney, who had a hand in blatantly eliminating the majority of the amendments made by the Planning Commission.  The Mayor tried his best to portray himself as a patient man who was allowing a resident to “get your concerns off your chest”.   Staff and Council, once again, stated that they had NEVER been in negotiations with the Oxbow developers.    They, as well as the City Attorney, refused to answer my direct question regarding the manipulation of the Planning Commissions amendments that were eliminated by staff.  No one would answer my question.  Not the City Attorney, City Manager, or any City Council members.   Finally, the Mayor asked if I was finished speaking as NO ONE would answer.  I refused to speak while waiting for an answer.    

 

The City Council  agreed to postpone the item to the next City Council meeting on Oct. 8, 2013.  They requested that a Mr. Douglas (I am assuming a government housing specialist) should attend and address Council on all comments I had presented to the Planning Commission and Council.  I do not know who he is, or what his qualifications are.   However, I have spent three decades working with Government and find it extremely difficult to believe, that a City that has complied with the Housing Element four times in the past 20 years does not know what the State Laws are.   I certainly do.

This is all Planning Staff does every week of their life.  How is it possible that they have been working on these ordinances for five years, and at the last minute needs some specialist to advise them on the laws.   This is nothing but a staged show for the City residents to believe they are doing their due diligence.  They have had years to do  their due diligence!!!!!

 

I taped this meeting and all of the topics I brought up that night.   Comparing the tape to the RHE minutes of the hearing is like night and day.  The minutes do not reflect all the issues brought up that evening.   In fact, there is only one small paragragh of my comments, yet I spoke for at least 10 to 15 minutes.   One additional tactic staff uses to confuse and mislead the public.   They eliminate comments in their minutes and hope that residents did not tape the actual meeting.    With current technology, every single council, commission, and committee meeting should be recorded by the City and made available to the public via the internet.   Our City does not want its residents to have this access.  

 

From that day forward, I have gained more and more information.  People have been calling me on a daily basis.   Doug Pritchard called me, and asked me to retract my statements made in a City website blog, Next Door, as it made the City look bad.   I refused to do so.  I agreed to suspend my campaign, if these ordinances were revised to not exceed the State Mandates for a City of our size and land values.  There are different classifications and numbers of units per acre required for State Compliance depending upon the nature of the individual cities.  Obviously, we don’t have the same requirements as the City of Long Beach, Torrance, or Los Angeles.  All variables such as: Land Value, Open Space, Recreational uses, appropriate Land Mass Areas, Population (10,000 residents or less is the least restrictive in the State.  We only have 8,900 residents) Why were we trying to submit 40 units per acre when the State Mandate for Los Angeles is a minimum of 30 units per acre?  THIS MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER, unless someone is trying to make Developers rich.     I  requested that Doug Pritchard call his Planning Commissioners and tell them I had advised them and the Council correctly.   He agreed to do so, but never followed through.   I told him I would protect my neighbors/residents rights,  and educate everyone on the issues, that the City was trying so hard to keep from them.

 

The next day, Tim Scott, from  the Planning Commission came out against me on the Next Door Website.   Little did I know at the time, that he was  Britt Huff’s campaign treasurer.   I addressed his post, which stopped him from addressing anything further, for fear I would convince others reading, that I was more knowledgeable about Government procedures than the current Planning Commission or City Council, including Britt Huff.   Tim Scott, was one of the people I talked to about running for City Council between March and August of this year.   I had known him as a HOA president for many years, while working on issues together at City Hall, before he became a Planning Commissioner.   It appears Council, Planning Commission, and staff are doing their best to make me appear to be a gadfly of sorts.  My answer is this.  The LAWS are on my side, and clearly there is a cover up from these individuals to conceal the truth.    

 

Devon Gibson, owner of Seahorse Riding Club, finally contacted me after the last City Council meeting.  She had been to afraid to contact me before.   She was about to lose the only business she had been involved with all her life, unless she did what the City told her to do.    She was afraid of retribution from the City and Mr. Hill.   However, she had found out from my outline dated September 6th, and my council testimony,  that the developers and the City were lying to her.   They knew they did not have to follow through with any of the promises made to her.    She is recovering from a severe riding accident, had neck surgery and is slowly recovering.   This stress, along with the added pressures placed upon her by the City, were taking a toll.     I explained the TRUTH to her.   She had been worried that the County had not been involved in the negotiations to relocate Seahorse to the landfill, next to the City owned Peter Weber Equestrian Facility.    

 

At the February 13, 2013 meeting, she had been told to get Equestrian support for the Oxbow project.  If she got Equestrian support for the City to support the Oxbow Senior Care facility, the City would help her get relocated to the County’s landfill property.  However, that property is not owned by the City and therefore the City cannot legally promise land they do not own.  Everything they promised her  has turned out to be untrue and not legally binding upon Oxbow Partners, RHE, or Mr. Hill. 

 

The principal partner of Oxbow Partners, Mr. Tom Grabiel called and asked to meet with me.  I met with Mr. Grabiel, on Friday, October 4, 2013 at my home.   He told me the following:

 

-       He met RHE City staff,  Doug Pritchard, David Wahba and Andy Clark, in February 12, 2013. 

 

-       They informed him he could have a meeting with Devon Gibson, as a meet and on February 13, 2013.

 

-       Three Oxbow partners arrived at the meeting on February 13, 2013. They were surprised to see all the people who were in attendance.  They had not been told that any Commissioners, Equestrian Committee members, or any other City Officials  would be in attendance.

 

-       The Oxbow representatives were introduced as the “New Owners of the Seahorse property”, by Doug Pritchard and Andy Clark.   Oxbow was uneasy when staff referred to them as the “New Owners  of the property”.  Oxbow Partners were merely in Escrow.   There were Conditions  and Stipulations contained in the Escrow that they would not become the owners until they received all necessary building approvals, as required in EVERY escrow they had ever been involved with

 

-       They were further surprised when the RHE staff members told  all those present at the meeting, that they would need to get RHE Equestrian support for the Oxbow Senior Care Living Facility SRO, so that Devon would get the necessary support from RHE,  to relocate her facility onto County Landfill property.  Oxbow had not asked the City to do this, and found it questionable as to why a Government Agency would tell their own City committee members how to perform  community outreach on behalf of Oxbow.  That responsiblity  was normally a function that Oxbow had to do themselves.  Oxbow just went along with RHE staff. They did not want to cause any problems. 

 

-       Oxbow, also agreed with Doug Pritchard’s idea of issuing a letter to Devon Gibson.  The letter was to contain specific guarantees to her that Seahorse Riding Club would be relocated if she obtained Equestrian support for the Oxbow project.   Mr. Grabiel wrote a letter to Devon Gibson, guaranteeing the terms, but he knew at the time that the letter was not legally binding.

 

-       As far as Oxbow was concerned, the letter they gave to Devon Gibson is something they would like to follow through on.  They expected to keep negotiating with RHE and the County of Los Angeles to perform as the letter indicated.   However, Mr. Grabiel did agree that if Ms. Gibson followed through with gaining Equestrian support for the City, she still had no guarantee whatsoever, that Oxbow or RHE would assist her in relocating to the County land.

 

-       Tom Grabiel admitted to me last Friday, that he knew from the very beginning that the Letter was not legally binding,.  They did not have the County and City  approval requirements as conditions that must be met before they could guarantee relocation of Seahorse facility.  He further agreed that a Supreme Court decision I had referred to at the Planning Commission and City Council hearing made it illegal for a City to mandate relocation fees for development permits, unless the money was spent on the actual property that the permits were approved for.  ANY OFFSITE PROPERTY, SUCH AS THE COUNTY LANDFILL SITE IN THIS CASE, WOULD FALL UNDER THE SUPREME COURT DECISION AND BE UNINFORCABLE WITHOUT THE SIGNED AGREEMENT FROM OXBOW THAT THEY DESIRED TO OFFER THIS RELOCATION, AND CO-SIGNED BY RHE AND THE COUNTY. 

 

-       Oxbow partners were very concerned that they were TOLD NOT to submit their plans to the City, until the Housing Element, currently being finalized by the RHE Staff, was approved by Council. 

 

-       In August 2013, when the Housing Element ordinances were being submitted to the Planning Commission, Oxbow thought they would be submitting their development plans shortly thereafter. 

 

-       In mid September 2013, Oxbow received a letter from Doug Pritchard stating how dare they continue to talk with Residents, the County Supervisor’s office, and all other interested parties, when Oxbow did not have City staff recommendations to approve their project.   This was the opposite of what they had been told by staff since they entered Escrow with Mr. Hill in February 2013. 

 

-       Oxbow was confused after receiving the letter, and contacted Doug Pritchard for an explanation.  Pritchard said there was someone causing problems at City Hall, pertaining to the ordinances, and Oxbow would have to put off submitting their plans until AFTER the RHE City Council election. 

 

-       Oxbow decided to ask Devon Gibson what was going on.  She told them that Clark Davis had been questioning the legalities of the Housing Element ordinances ,and also that he continued to hear private negotiations were still ongoing with Oxbow Partners since February 2013, without ANY PUBLIC DISCLOSURE to the City residents.    This information disturbed Oxbow greatly and they asked Devon Gibson how to contact Clark Davis. 

 

-       When Mr. Grabiel called me on Thursday 10-3-13, we agreed to meet privately at my home last Friday.  This way he could explain his plans and the entire process he had already gone through.   Mr. Grabiel showed me his plans for the Senior Care Assisted Living SRO facility.   He also had the relocation plan he had developed from the designs that Devon Gibson had provided to him.   He was led to believe by City staff, that all stakeholders within RHE and the County were in support of their pending project.

 

-       He was anxious to show me his plans as he believed them to be an asset to the City.   He had factored in enough money to cover the relocation of the entire Seahorse Riding Club, including several upgrades to the current location.  

 

-       He was eager for me to see his joint venture partner’s most recent development in Beverly Hills, so that I could see for myself, the quality of his most recent Senior Care Assisted Living SRO project.  

 

-       He said the plans for the Seahorse property had an absolute minimum requirement of 88 SRO units with double occupancy per room.   This would make the project financially feasible. 

 

-       He had been told the base number of units per acre currently before the City Council, plus the additional density bonuses, would equate to 87.78 units on the three-acre site.  Equaling the 88 he needed.

 

-       City Staff told Oxbow  that  22 units per acre plus  density bonuses at 33% multiplied by three acres would be 88 units he needed. Therefore, he believed their project was moving forward successfully,  until he received the negative letter from Doug Pritchard in mid September.

 

-       The project Mr. Grabiel showed me actually looked feasible if done as presented.  The new  Seahorse facility plan looked great as well.   I asked him, again, if the money was absolutely in the financial figures to relocate Seahorse. He guaranteed me that it was.   However, he said he could not understand why his project was not moving forward as he could not give a legal and binding guarantee to Devon Gibson,  without having contingencies placed in the letter of guarantee.   He had to obtain formal approvals from the City and County as part of any binding letter of guarantee.  Oxbow Partners certainly was NOT going to close escrow until all of the approvals are obtained.   This is mandatory for they have no project until all approvals are obtained. 

 

-       So, despite  being in escrow for close to nine months, they still have not presented their formal plan to the City, and it’s residents.  He does not know if the plan is dead before they even submit it.   He was told,  I was the person  holding up the project.  And, IF I was elected as a City Councilman, I would oppose his project.   He learned that this was not true during our conversation.  Unless the public sees what is proposed, how can anyone make a decision? 

 

-       It became very clear to Mr. Grabiel, that my main issue was that the public had NOT been included in ANY of the negotiations. That is why I had been aggressively pursuing an explanation from City Staff, Commission and Council. I was also concerned for Devon Gibson, a friend for many years.  Nothing she had been led to believe was proper or legal.   She was doing outreach to the equestrian community to support the City’s decision with no binding guarantee of any benefit to her whatsoever.   These procedures, by any city government, were extremely questionable legally. 

 

-       Mr. Grabiel agreed with me 100% that he would never have approached this project in such a secretive manner.  He was doing as directed by RHE staff.  He was very upset and confused about how this whole project had been handled from the beginning. 

 

-       His company and his Joint-Venture Partners are very proud of their projects and he was eager to show the community what they could offer RHE.  And he still wants to do so.  But he asked me, quite bluntly, what had gone wrong and if his project was dead and if he should walk away.  He does not want to waste any more time or money pursuing this project and remaining in Escrow, if it’s totally dead.  My response to him was, “ I guess we will find out at the next City Council meeting on October 8th”. 

 

-       I asked him specific questions about procedures that RHE staff had followed from the beginning of this process.  He stated that he heard Devon Gibson being told that she and others in attendance( at the Feb. 13th meeting) would have to get Equestrian support before the project would go forward.     He thought it was rather strange that Government officials were instructing residents about how to obtain community support for his project.

 

-       He appeared to be an honest professional businessman, with  professional business plans.   I could give him no answers as to why the City did not want him to submit his plan to the public, other than the fact that this was an election year, and RHE officials must not have wanted this issue to become a political topic.  

 

In conclusion: My decision to run for City Council was made two days before  the submission due date.   ONLY, after I was lied to by City Staff , again, that no one was negotiation with Oxbow, did I decide to run for City Council myself.   I made the decision that the only way to find out what was truly going on inside our City Hall, was to run for a council seat.  Far to much information was purposely withheld from the public, and I wanted find out what else was going on in the City. 

 

Out of all the candidates running for RHE City Council, I am the only candidate who actually understands and  has had experience working with SB 2 and how the Cities ordinances had to comply with State laws.  My efforts to halt the excessive building standards City staff were proposing have significantly reduced the major impacts our City would have faced, if I had not done so.  I believe in total disclosure to all residents, giving them an opportunity to give their input on any  and all measures that would drastically impact their city, such as these ordinances would have done.   

 

I have contacted Mayor Zerunian on two different occasions, about my concerns related to the appearance of corruption within RHE City Hall.   The letters, emails, discussions with commissioners and committee members, with Devon Gibson, Tom Grabiel of Oxbow, and all other people in the City, has provided me with a preponderance of evidence proving the appearance of illegal activities by City of RHE staff.   I have no evidence of involvement by members of the City Council or Planning Commission, other than the fact that City Staff works for all of them.  The Fact still remains that Mayor Zerunian insulted me by calling all of my allegations a “political stunt maneuver” done by an outraged political Council Candidate.   He refused to investigate any of the blatant illegal acts I have outlined in this document.   For the record, I have not been afforded the time to work on my campaign at all, as all of my free time has been spent investigating all of the activities that I believed to be illegal on this one issue.    Failure to disclose to the public in violation of State Laws and any request by a City official to do outreach on behalf of a private development is not legal in California . 

 

Mayor Zerunian along with Planning Commissioners, and staff have been spreading to the community that I am lying about all of these allegations.   The truth is:  I have been working with the State Housing and Community Development department since Tom Bradley appointed me to a Housing Task Force in the 1980’s.    I was also a consultant for the County of Los Angeles for 6 ½ years working on  Government  projects.  I have also represented at least 50 of the top 500 Companies in the world within the City and County of Los Angeles during the past 32 years.  Including Developers such as: K & B Homes, Watt Industries, Newhall Land & Farming, the County of Los Angeles to build Disney Hall, and other facilities, and did two SRO facilities for non profit agencies in downtown Los Angeles, PRO BONO, for the homeless or recently disenfranchised individuals, to include abused women and others.   I am extremely knowledgeable about all of these legalities, as much as the City’s so called “special housing consultant”, Mr. Douglas, on any of these issues.  

 

And to all residents, if you take the time to look on the internet, you can research the State HCD department yourself and read all the requirements and compare those standards with what the RHE City staff is trying to sell you.  

 

RHE has already successfully complied with the State mandates four times during the past 20 years.   Why is this some kind of a mystery to everyone at the City now?   Even some council people, Susan Seamans and Judy Mitchell, started to ask reasonable questions during the last hearing because they had not been properly briefed by staff and were becoming concerned themselves.   They both have been council members for 20 and 16 years respectively.  So IF they have questions, how is any resident supposed to understand any of these complex issues without absolute FULL PUBLIC DISCLOSURES and discussion in public sessions.   Only someone with extensive experience in government could possibly understand this.   That is why Tom Bradley established a Task Force in Los Angeles to educate the public and government policy makers about the various laws that kept being enacted by the State legislature. 

 

 

 

TO VALIDATE MY KNOWLEDGE OF GOVERNMENT, I AM PRESENTING A PARTIAL LIST OF BOARDS, AND CLIENTS I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH OVER THE PAST 3 DECADES:

Over my extensive career in government, I was appointed to several boards by various political figures within Los Angeles County and City.  Only a few are listed below.    My experiences has allowed me to participate on both sides of the political process from working directly with Government as well as representing National and international companies in pursuit of government contracts. 

BOARDS/COMMITTEES                                                         APPOINTED BY

CENTRAL CITY ASSOCIATION                                   Elected by members to their Government affairs committee (what candidates and laws to support or oppose)

GREATER L.A. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Greater      

Elected member of their Government affairs Committee.

THE VALLEY INDUSTRY COUNCIL (VICA) and its elected government affairs committee.

PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION                                       by Supervisor Peter Schabarum

PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION  (reappointed)        by Supervisor Gloria Molina

PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION                    by Supervisor Deane Dana

L. A. CITY TASK FORCE                                                       by City Atty James Hahn

Established legal criteria for Minority/Disabled/ Women Disadvantaged Businesses

CITY HOUSING TASK FORCE                                                     by Mayor Tom Bradley

BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (BIA)                by L. A. County Supervisors

Involved with a 6 month study on streamlining  building permit processing- to recommend changes to streamline the regional Planning dept/bulding permit process

CITY REHABILITATION TASK FORCE                           by Mayor Richard  Riordan

A city rehabilitation task force to problem solve issues after the 1993 earthquake.

L. A TECH FOUNDATION - Board of Directors –          School Board Trustees-

L. A.  CONSULAR -Board of Director                                by L. A. County Supervisor s

VARIOUS FUNDRAISING BOARDS                                   

DOWNTOWN YWCA                                                              by CEO, Faye Washington

NORTH VALLEY YMCA -                                                       by Hal Bernson   

Board of Directors                   

L.A. CITY VISITORS & CONVENTION CENTER              by Convention Center Authority

advisory committee

LA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT –                                       by Jose Huizar

School Construction Advisory Board

HOLLYWOOD/ WILSHIRE YMCA                                       by John Ferraro

OUTREACH DIRECTOR FOR MINORITY AFFAIRS –   by Mayor James Hahn

on behalf of the African American, the Mexican American, Asian, and Indian communities.

 

NON PROFITS: partial list

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB                                                            SAN PEDRO, CA

Eli Broad and I co-funded the Computer Center.

FUNDRAISING BOARD FOR HOLLYWOOD/WILSHIRE YMCA

NORTH VALLY YMCA

HOLLENBECK YOUTH CENTER – EAST LOS ANGELES

PEPPER TREE FOUNDATION                                               RHE, CA

Sponsored Tracy Austin Tennis Tournament

 

PARTIAL LIST OF CLIENTS OVER MY CAREER:

EXXON MOBIL

SHELL OIL

SHELL OIL PIPELINE

ULTRAMAR OIL CORPORATION

LOCKHEED

TRW

HOWARD HUGHES CORPORATION and all its subsidiaries

WASTE MANAGEMENT CORPORATION

PHILLIP MORRIS CORP

GENERAL FOODS

KRAFT FOODS

MILLER BEER

HUDSON NEWS CORPORATION

W. H. SMITH CORPORATION

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

ERICKSON COMMUNICATIONS

AT & T CORPORTION

L. A. DEPT OF WATER AND POWER

SEMPRA ENERGY

URS CORPORATION

TURNER CONSTRUCTION

CONTINENTAL DEVELOPMENT CORP

TRAMMEL CROW COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

PACIFIC BELL CORPORATION

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY

LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE

HELMSMAN CLAIMS MANAGEMENT

COUNTY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION

DANIEL FREEMAN HOSPITAL

AXIOS CORP

PARSONS CORPORATION

PARSONS-BRINKERHOFF CORPORATION

SANTA FE RAILROAD

CH2M HILL CORPORATION

BECHTEL CORPORATION

FLUOR-DANIELS CORP

JACOBS ENGINEERING

GENSLER CORPORATION

HOK CORPORATION

SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL

A.C. MARTIN CORP

Maguire-Thomas Partners

A.I.G.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLARK S. DAVIS

 

CELL  310-967-9677

 

EMAIL:   CSDAVISCO@GMAIL.COM


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