On the evening of Monday, December 22rd, Craig Powell, one of the leaders of LPCA Renaissance and a current LPCA director, filed with LPCA President Elyse Metune petition letters signed by 42 LPCA members calling upon her to convene a special meeting of the LPCA members to consider LPCA Renaissance's three reform proposals: (1) to increase the size of the Board of Directors; (2) to adopt terms limits for directors; (3) and to open up and democratize the LPCA's director nomination process.
The petitioning members, representing approximately 10% of the total LPCA membership, asked that the reform proposals be added by the LPCA President to the agenda of an already scheduled membership meeting set for January 21st. If the LPCA President fails to grant petitioners' request, then petitioners will have the right to call and convene another membership meeting in the coming months at a time and place of their choosing to address the reform proposals. The number of member petitions filed By LPCA Renaissance more than exceeded the 5 percent threshold required under the law to call a membership meeting.
The petitions were all distributed, signed, gathered and submitted in just two day's time, during the busy weekend before Christmas. LPCA Renaissance volunteers gave up much of their weekend to phone, e-mail and canvass door-to-door gathering petition signatures. Good work, volunteers! Volunteers rushed to gather petitions so they could be filed with the LPCA President before the LPCA's Winter newsletter went to press. The newsletter, which is distibuted to 6,000 homes in Land Park, will include the formal notice for the already scheduled January 21st membership meeting. The three reform proposals must be listed in the meeting notice in order for the members to act upon them at the January 21st meeting. Otherwise, a separate membership meeting must be held to consider the proposals.
In a cover lettter that accompanied the petitions, as well as in a detailed follow-up memo to the Board, Craig Powell emphasized the need for President Metune to make a timely decision on including the reform proposals in the LPCA Winter newsletter. While no final word has been received, LPCA Renaissance is not greatly encouraged by the only communicaiton we have received from President Metune since the petitions were filed, which consisted of a brief e-mail sent out to the Board on December 23rd: "We will address the petition letters after the Holiday." President Metune is apparently in no hurry to see the LPCA membership act on the reform proposals.
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Launching the LPCA Renaissance
"Renaissance" - To be born anew.
Websters New World Dictionary, 4th Edition
Land Park is considered one of Sacramento's finest neighborhoods, long known for its quiet leafy streets, lovely homes and friendly easy-going ambiance. It is home to young families, savvy urbanites, busy middle-aged homeowners and a goodly number of senior residents, many of whom have raised their families here.
Since it was formed almost 20 years ago, the Land Park Community Association has been the principal neighborhood organization for Land Park. Since then, the LPCA has performed some functions well, such its annual "Taste of Land Park" wine-tasting fundraiser. The LPCA, however, has not realized its full potential to be an effective community organization. Instead, it has become a largely insular group with a narrow view of its mission and little ambition to energetically serve Land Park. It is an organization sorely in need of new energetic leadership.
During this past year, the LPCA has struggled. The new contingent of directors elected in a board shake-up last Spring has been championing new initiatives and seeking to implement organizational reforms, such as a Transparency Proposal to open up the LPCA to broader participation by its members . These proposals have been frequently stymied by deadlocked tie votes.
Land Park is facing new challenges: growing concern over crime, increased traffic congestion and a controversial proposal to move the Zoo out of Land Park. We are also facing the specter of economically challenged commercial corridors, such as Freeport Boulevard and Broadway. There is also a desire among many residents for more opportunities for social interaction- for our children, our families, our seniors, for everyone.
With the LPCA often preoccupied with internal discord, opportunities are being missed and challenges are not being adequetly met. We seek to bring fundamental change and reforms to the LPCA, to make it stronger, more cohesive and more effective in serving our neighborhood. What we propose is a new beginning for the LPCA: an LPCA Renaissance.
We ask you to join us in this effort to give Land Park the community organization it richly deserves. In this blog, you can view the first round of reform proposals that we are championing. Please feel free to post your comments and join this dialogue on the future course of the LPCA and Land Park. If you would like to lend your support to these efforts or wish to discuss them, please e-mail us at ckpinsacto@aol.com
Websters New World Dictionary, 4th Edition
Land Park is considered one of Sacramento's finest neighborhoods, long known for its quiet leafy streets, lovely homes and friendly easy-going ambiance. It is home to young families, savvy urbanites, busy middle-aged homeowners and a goodly number of senior residents, many of whom have raised their families here.
Since it was formed almost 20 years ago, the Land Park Community Association has been the principal neighborhood organization for Land Park. Since then, the LPCA has performed some functions well, such its annual "Taste of Land Park" wine-tasting fundraiser. The LPCA, however, has not realized its full potential to be an effective community organization. Instead, it has become a largely insular group with a narrow view of its mission and little ambition to energetically serve Land Park. It is an organization sorely in need of new energetic leadership.
During this past year, the LPCA has struggled. The new contingent of directors elected in a board shake-up last Spring has been championing new initiatives and seeking to implement organizational reforms, such as a Transparency Proposal to open up the LPCA to broader participation by its members . These proposals have been frequently stymied by deadlocked tie votes.
Land Park is facing new challenges: growing concern over crime, increased traffic congestion and a controversial proposal to move the Zoo out of Land Park. We are also facing the specter of economically challenged commercial corridors, such as Freeport Boulevard and Broadway. There is also a desire among many residents for more opportunities for social interaction- for our children, our families, our seniors, for everyone.
With the LPCA often preoccupied with internal discord, opportunities are being missed and challenges are not being adequetly met. We seek to bring fundamental change and reforms to the LPCA, to make it stronger, more cohesive and more effective in serving our neighborhood. What we propose is a new beginning for the LPCA: an LPCA Renaissance.
We ask you to join us in this effort to give Land Park the community organization it richly deserves. In this blog, you can view the first round of reform proposals that we are championing. Please feel free to post your comments and join this dialogue on the future course of the LPCA and Land Park. If you would like to lend your support to these efforts or wish to discuss them, please e-mail us at ckpinsacto@aol.com