{"id":1149,"date":"2019-05-23T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2019-05-23T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T00:04:15","slug":"bca-steering-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"BCA Steering Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BCA Steering Committee Meeting, May 22, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attendance: Judy Ann Alberti, Gene Bernardi, Mary Ann Brewin, Julia Cato, Fred Dodsworth, Linda\nFranklin, Negeene\nMosaed, Phoebe Anne Sorgen, Margot Smith, Charlene Woodcock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next meeting: June 19, 6:30 pm, Call 510-982-6528 for location. (Nigel requests Linda make sure BCA calendar items matches actual date and time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Agenda\ndevelopment (see below)<\/li><li>Green Electricity Forum debrief (Linda): Decent attendance, but few low income residents,\nmany energy advocates. Not enough outreach\/publicity. For future events, make sure to include\nmany partners like BPA, and get press materials to Margot 3 weeks before the\nevent. Day of the event was well organized by Kate\u2019s and Ben\u2019s staff. Linda\u2019s\ntake home message: we\nshould be building\nnew local sources of electricity. ACTION: Linda will draft letter reminding council\nthat future renovations to city buildings should be green and have solar. <\/li><li>Collaborations w\/ BPA (Margot &amp; Charlene): BPA steering committee meeting to be held soon, will\ndiscuss their future.\nExpect update at June\nBCA steering meeting.<\/li><li>Moratorium on\nsidewalk ordinance against homeless (Gene): May 28 council agenda Davila item # 45, direct city mgr. to place moratorium on enforcement of ordinance of\n7632, misc. use of streets and\nsidewalks until a homeless response system is implemented. Discussion: Negeene will be there, she strongly encourages BCA and BPA members to show up, and\nsupport. So far no co-sponsors.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BCA steering draft letter: \u201cWe support\nCheryl Davila\u2019s item # 45,\ndirecting the city manager to place moratorium on enforcement of ordinance\nof 7632, misc. use of streets and sidewalks until a homeless response system is\nimplemented. We additionally request that important\nitems like this are\nmoved to the front of the agenda. Please vote\nyes for item 45 and be humane to all Berkeley residents.\u201d ACTION: Sent to the group for proofreading\/corrections\n5\/22. Send out Friday to council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>RV Ban (Gene): There will be a moratorium on enforcement of the RV ban until the permitting\nprocess is in place, which will take approx 6 months. This\npolicy is being developed by the Life Enrichment, Equity and Community\ncouncil committee,\nwhose members are Kesarwani, Bartlett and Hahn. The next meeting of this group is Monday June 10, 10 am. ACTION: Phoebe and Nigel will\nattend. Gene has drafted a\nletter and would like BCA to send it. ACTION: Nigel and Negeene will work\nwith her to finalize\nthis letter.<\/li><li>Space for RVs (Negeene): at recent rent\nboard meeting, Jesse stated he would request emergency permission from state. Send letter from BCA to Jesse: Draft: \u201cThe BCA steering committee held their monthly\nmeeting tonight and it was shared that at a recent Rent Board meeting, you\nattended and stated you would submit an emergency request to the state to allow\nRVs to park at the Marina. The members of the BCA steering committee completely support you on this\nposition. We voted last night to urge you to overturn what you yourself\ncorrectly called* the &#8220;hastily done and poorly written&#8221; RV ordinance\nASAP.&nbsp; We helped elect you to make\nBerkeley more humane.&nbsp; Please let the RV&#8217;s return to the\nMarina.\u201d<\/li><li>Marina study to develop\nferry terminal. (Negeene) Council approved awarding a contract to Hargreaves to develop a plan. Discussion: Fred says similar attempt\nabout 2005 failed. Charlene reminds voters rejected\nattempt to commercialize marina to compete w\/ Hilltop decades ago. Charlene has written to address environmental issues, heard\nback there will be a\nEIR. Julia queried Kate about Hargreaves, says Kate responded that Hargreaves is reputable. Can remind that UC planning can be contracted\nwith for much lower cost. BCA steering to write a letter to register our outrage that no bid\ncontract was issued, and our concerns about parking, environmental issues,\nprotection of public assets. ACTION: Charlene will help write letter from BCA steering.<\/li><li>Meeting with Council\nmembers (Linda\/Margot): Revisited from\nApril meeting. Need to spread the workload\nhere: Discussion: Judy Ann says be more\nforceful, reminds us that decades ago, BCA steering members used to meet\nevery month with the 4 progressive council-members. Gene considers it a waste of time. Margot reinforces importance of\nmeeting one on one: gives us an opportunity to meet face to face and remind\nthem that we are the ones who worked to elect them, state where we are on issues and what support is\nneeded. Decision: move forward, with Davila as first\nmeeting. ACTION: Negeene contacted Cheryl\u2019s\noffice through Duane? to get a date\/will f\/u.<\/li><li>Ask all grocery\nstores to switch to compostable\nplastic bags for produce. (Gene) ACTION: Negeene will ask Kate to look into sponsoring this.<\/li><li>NB BART update (Linda): no time. ACTION: Linda sent final draft letter that circulated in email last week; will sent to\ncouncil Friday.<\/li><li>Goldman project on Hearst and DEIR (Nigel) Send a letter supporting Shirley Deans\u2019s letter and asking city to file suit. ACTION: Nigel will draft letter.<\/li><li>Berkeley Tenants Union General Membership Meeting (Julia): June 17, 6 PM Sports Basement. ACTION: Linda\nwill send to membership in an email. Agendize update on BTU and EBHO at our future steering\ncommittee meetings.<\/li><li>Possible future forums<ul><li>5 G forum: (Phoebe) Jesse, Susan on board, 20 other cities have passed, draft ordinance written, hoping to be on July 9<sup>th<\/sup> city council agenda, have speakers\nID\u2019d. They need catchy title and outreach.&nbsp; Potential date\n\/ location: BFUU Fellowship Hall, Weds June 26, evening. ACTION: Phoebe to confirm\nlocation\/date. See old BCA cards. Draft newsletter, flyer, press release by end of May. Newsletter in mail by June 12. If press release is written\nand submitted 3 weeks prior to event, Margot will forward to her media list. At June meeting, confirm attendees for chores at the event.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Police\nprofiling update: July forum?\nWork with NAACP. ACTION: Fred will contact Willie to initiate.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Other topics: progressive agenda, climate change, housing (how to fund\ncoops, implementation of Measures O and P, who\u2019s getting housed; Recycling update from Ecology center<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>FYI on BCA letters to council: We always send council letters to individual council members and city clerk so that letter gets in the packet. Will add sending to our whole membership so they know where we stand and as a press release via Margot. Use action\/forceful verbiage, avoid passive phrasing. Letters should be drafted and circulated by email to steering committee before being sent out to council.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCA Steering Committee Meeting, May 22, 2019 Attendance: Judy Ann Alberti, Gene Bernardi, Mary Ann Brewin, Julia Cato, Fred Dodsworth, Linda Franklin, Negeene Mosaed, Phoebe Anne Sorgen, Margot Smith, Charlene Woodcock Next meeting: June 19, 6:30 pm, Call 510-982-6528 for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=1149\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BCA Steering Minutes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}