Thanks to all who were able to donate to the efforts of the Mountains and Recreation and Conservation Authority per our prior posting.  We received an update that they were able to receive enough donations to make their payment (in particular thanks to two major donors).

Only obstacles are ensuring the City Council gets the approval through two committees (ITGA on 9/27 and Budget & Finance on 10/4) then to City Council for approval.

We’ll keep you posted!

As some of you may or may not know, the Mountains Recreation and Conversation Authority (established by Joint Authority in 1985) has been working to acquire (from the City of Los Angeles), 77 lots around the Beverly Glen area to help preserve those open lots.  The MRCA has negotiated with the City to use some of those proceeds to help the MRCA acquire the large undeveloped land by Laurel Canyon and Mulholland to preserve as open space.

The owner of the Laurel Canyon land is looking to sell the land to a developer unless we can raise $40,000 fast to extend the MRCA deadline by TODAY!

Log onto http://www.mrca.ca.gov/laurel3.html where you can find more information, for both preserving our open land around our community and to prevent development in our neighboring community (which impacts the Glen), it is critical all Beverly Glen residents take time to pay attention to this situation.

At our last RoBG Board meeting this past Monday, I am pleased to announce our two new Board members:

Treasurer – Karen Simonson
Social Chair – Elke Heitmeyer

Karen has been a long time resident and we are fortunate to have such a highly qualified person take care of one of our most important assets, your membership money.  She brings years of law and tax law experience as well as opening up her home this year for the Garden Walk.

Many of you know Elke, who recently did an amazing job chairing the 50th Annual Fair.  After a little arm twisting, she was gracious to volunteer to be Social Chair, which is fantastic for if future events are anything like the Fair, we are in for a treat. Elke will need lots of help so please volunteer to help, whether for one hour or more, it all helps.  Please email her at social@beverlyglen.org.

Thank you Karen and Elke for volunteering!  Remember everyone, we still have Vice President vacant and we need help with all the amazing things we are hoping to accomplish for you.

If interested in being Vice-President, please email me at president@bevelryglen.org.

A friendly reminder of our upcoming, regularly scheduled Board meeting on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 7:30pm.  All residents (member or non-member) are always welcome as well as all interested parties.

Of significant importance is that we have three vacancies on the Board:

• Vice President;
• Treasurer;
• Social Chair

All three are important positions, they only take up as much as time as your willing to commit.  Please attend, volunteer, even if you can give us 1 hour a month or less, we can use all the help to make this community better.

Please note that RoBG has coordinated a meeting with the owner of the land at 10342 Caribou Lane to discuss their proposed single family home development.  The applicant is requesting relief from code that prohibits development on streets less than 20 feet but no variances on the home size or other conditions.

If you are or know someone who could be impacted by this or are simply interested, the meeting is prior to the regularly schedule RoBG Board meeting:

When: Monday, September 13, 2010, 7pm

Where: Les and Dorothy River Community Center, 10409 Scenario Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90077

If you have any questions, feel free to email babcnc@beverlyglen.org.

Your Summer 2010 Glenite can be found here.

Check out the 2010 Glen Fair photo slideshow here.

Continued thanks to Chris Holabird and Marc Olevin for many years of help and of course Patricia Bacall from www.bacallcreative.com for her help.

As many of you know, the Glenite is our glue that holds us together and for many, many years, Chris and Marc have spent countless hours putting it all together.  However, they can’t do it forever, this means we need residents like you to help take on one our treasured traditions.

Patricia lends a huge helping hand and all articles are written by Board members and other residents, we just need someone to pull it all together.  If your interested, please email glenite@beverlyglen.org or president@beverlyglen.org.

Its published only 4 times a year but is a key part of our community year long.

If your ever curious of crime in our area, visit enter your address and you can search dates and radius.  Thanks to our hard working officers, thankfully crime in our area is very low but be aware, hillsides make easy targets when home and car owners get too comfortable with the safety of our hillsides.

While online, visit www.lapdonline.org.

The LAPD West LA Community Police Advisory Board (C-PAB) is honored to have the Los Angeles City Attorney, Carmen A. Trutanich as our guest speaker on Tuesday, July 27th at the West LA Community Police Station (1663 Butler Ave., LA 90025, west of the 405 and south of Santa Monica Blvd). Refreshments begin at 6:30pm, the meeting begins promptly at 7:00pm. For those you who currently aren’t members you are cordially invited to attend. Come early!!!!

C-PAB is a partnership between LAPD and the community. These meetings bring you up to date on the latest crime trends in our area and let us communicate directly with the area commanding officer and staff as well as the officers who patrol our area. Other items that are discussed are emergency preparedness, traffic and almost anything that deals with public safety. Officer Ray Barron from LAPD community relations will have applications available if you or someone you delegate want to officially join. The WLA C-PAB meets the fourth Tuesday of each month. If there is an item you would like to be placed on the agenda please contact Robert A. Ringler (wlatraffic@roadrunner.com).

We are working with LAPD’s community Speedwatch supervisor to train members of our community to use the LAPD’s laser speed gun.  Once trained, we will be able to monitor traffic in small groups.  Speeding drivers will be sent a letter by LAPD informing them that they have been seen speeding in our area.  No tickets will be issued, but other areas with a community speedwatch have reduced the number of speeding cars in their communities through their efforts.  If you would like to volunteer for this activity, please contact Evelyn Alexander at 310-470-3024, or traffic@beverlyglen.org.  You will need to complete an LAPD background check before being certified.  We need your help – please help us slow traffic down on Beverly Glen as a Speedwatch volunteer!

Just a friendly reminder, tomorrow at 7:00pm is the special meeting regarding the Mars Lane/Sandal Lane/Isadora Lane proposed project before our regularly scheduled Board meeting at the Les & Dorothy River Community Center.

The applicant has provided us some information in advance so we can all review and be able to have questions ready:

• Title Sheet 7-6-2010
• Aerial 7-6-2010
• Existing Topographic Survey 7-6-2010
• Proposed Tract Map 7-6-2010
• Proposed Zone Boundary Adjustment Map 7-6-2010

Don’t worry, the applicant will have plenty of copies but do download these to take a look so your prepared.  This will affect those who live nearby and everyone on Beverly Glen so take a minute and attend and please stick around for our regular Board meeting!