Minutes of the October 20, 2003 Board meeting

Dickie Simmons of Supervisor Knabe's office reported that the County has received a petition from property owners affected by the parking of cars for sale along the frontage road adjacent to Colima Road between Dawnhaven and Country Canyon. The petition requests that the County investigate limiting parking in this area to a maximum of two hours. The Department of Public Works will investigate this request.

The HHIA Board approved a motion to send a letter objecting to the content of the billboards along the Pomona Freeway, which advertise the adult clubs in the City of Industry.

Mike Hughes distributed a recent article from the San Gabriel Valley Tribune indicating that the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (COG) plans to invite local town councils, including HHIA, to participate in their meetings in order to have better representation of unincorporated areas in regional matters. The HHIA Board approved a motion to formally request participation in COG. It should be noted that the concerns of HHIA were ignored about three years ago when COG supported a Southern Califontify the candidates. There are three incumbent members that are up for re-election and three openings for new candidates.

rnia Association of Governments (SCAG) proposal to double-deck the Pomona Freeway in order to provide additional truck lanes. This new COG proposal will at least give voice to local concerns regarding these types of issues

Jim Snyder, chair of the 2004 Nominating Committee, reported that the committee has met and discussed potential candidates to fill the available openings on the board. The committee has until the next board meeting in November to ide

Mary Varela, Jeff Yann, Nancy Abbott and Mike continue to meet with Dr. Vargas, Superintendent of the Hacienda La Puente School District regarding the acquisition of the vacant land west of Orange Grove School as a park site using Native Habitat funds.