Be at the Annual Meeting and Find Out What You Can Do to Help Our Neighborhood

The HPHOA, est. 1948 Annual Meeting will be Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 7PM at Marlborough School in the Collins Room.  The meeting will have presentations by our Councilman, David Ryu, the LAPD, the Security Services, and updates from Association Committee chairs on important topics like filming, concrete streets, HPOZ, Security and Trees.  Put the date on your calendar and plan to be there.   Our community is stronger when we all participate.

The Annual Meeting is also where half the Association’s Board of Directors are elected.  If you are a member in good standing, you should have received a ballot and instrutions for either mailing it in or bringing it into the annual meeting.  The nominess are:

            Tim Allyn                                                         William Newby                        

            Martin Beck                                                     Cami Taylor

            Greg Glasser                                                   Jon Vein

            Susan Grossman                                            James Wolf

Don’t forget:  WATER YOUR PARKWAY TREES!  It’s hot and they need our care to continue to do their necessary work of turning CO2 into Oxygen, cleaning the air and cooling the environment.  If you’re planning to make any changes to the street visible portion of your house, including hardscaping, and windows, check with our HPOZ Planner Suki Gershenhorn (suki.gershenhorn@lacity.org), before starting The HPOZ Preservation Plan, which regulates our HPOZ can be found at http://www.preservation.lacity.org/hpoz/la/hancock-park   There is also an online form you can fill out to help speed up the process (http://preservation.lacity.org/hpoz/initial.screening.checklist).  Report graffiti sightings by calling 311 or at the City’s Anti-Graffiti Request System - http://anti-graffiti.lacity.org/welcome.cfm?CFID=1007&CFTOKEN=411CDB4F-0FC3-4EE1-89DE58DCCB435538 and by calling Hollywood Beautification, 323-463-5180.