DWP SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED BY PERSICO- 1ST MEETING MONDAY SEPT 19

“WHAT’S UP IN SEAL BEACH” RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING LETTER THURSDAY EVENING.

Dear Community Members,
You are receiving this email because you’ve expressed an interest in the Department of Water and Power Specific Plan Amendment project. Attached is a schedule outlining the review process for the DWP project.

The first meeting of the DWP Advisory Committee is on Monday, September 19 at 6:30PM in the City Council Chambers.  There will be numerous opportunities for the you to review and comment on the project. Please review the schedule to see what topics will be discussed at the various meetings.

Thank you for your interest in this project.
Regards,
Mark H. Persico, AICP, Director of Development Services
City of Seal Beach – 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
(562) 431-2527 Ext. 1313

What follows is the information contained in the attachments to the email sent by Mr. Persico:

Attachment #1

CITY OF SEAL BEACH DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER SPECIFIC PLAN   ADVISORY COMMITTEE AGENDA Revised Start Time – Sept 19, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.

ROLL CALL AGENDA APPROVAL
By Motion of the Advisory Committee, this is the time to notify the public of any changes to the Agenda or re-arrange the order of the Agenda.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
At this time, members of the public may address the Advisory Committee regarding any items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Advisory Committee, provided that the Advisory Committee may undertake no action or discussion unless otherwise authorized by law.
AGENDA ITEMS
1.    Approval of minutes of the February 17, 2010 Committee Meeting
2.    Discussion of Hotel Studies

a.Peer Review Study (Kosmont Companies September 2011)

b. PKF Study 2009
3.    Receive and File:

a.City Council staffr eport and project timeline, September12,2011

b. Draft Environmental Impact Report Project Description

Attachment #2

Also attached was the following Schedule for future meetings on the feasibility studies for  the  project:

NOTE IF NO TIME IS SHOWN…NO MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR THAT DAY.

-Sept 19 Hotel Study/Draft EIR            6:30 p.m.

-Nov 8, Draft EIR released for Public Review

-Nov 15 EQCB  on Draft EIR            6 p.m.

-Nov 16 Archaeology Section of Draft EIR 6 p.m.

-Nov 17 Draft EIR & Land Use Change  6:30 p.m.

-Dec 23  COMMENTS DUE ON Draft EIR

-Feb 1, 2012 “FINAL” EIR released for Public Review

-Feb 6, 2012 Technical Review of Subdivision Map – 6 p.m.

-Feb 8, 2012  Street Tree Removal and Tree selection – 3 p.m.

-Feb 8, 2012 Final Project Recommendation  6:30 p.m.

-Feb 15, 2012 Planning Commission (1^st Hearing)  Final EIR & Project Review  7:30

-Feb 22, 2012 Open Space and Parks Issues  6 p.m.

-Feb 29, 2012 (2^nd Hearing) Final EIR & Project Review            7:30

-March 12, 2012 (City Council – 1^st Hearing)  Final EIR and Final Project  7 p.m.

-March 26, 2012 (City Council – 2nd Hearing)  Final EIR and Final Project  7 p.m.

All Meetings will be in the City Council Chambers * = Dates & Times are subject to change please check City website for most recent information

“WHAT’S UP IN SEAL BEACH” APOLOGIZES IT CANNOT GO INTO MORE DETAIL ON THE MEETINGS…but we urge the citizens to stay active during the next 7 months.  The outcome of this project is of singular significance to the future of Seal Beach.

PLEASE CONTACT Mark Persico (562) 431-2527 IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION.

Seal Beach 96th Anniversary Honors Local Legend

On Sunday, October 2, The Los Al H.S. marching band, the Los Al “Jazz Band 1” and the Seal Beach Jazz Trio will be playing a concert to honor our 96^th Anniversary.

This concert will also honor local educator Chuck Wackerman who has enriched all our lives and our children’s lives for over 55 years.

Chuck Wackerman

Chuck began teaching in the Seal Beach school district in 1956 and we…and our children… have been the lucky recipients of his legendary skills teaching our kids ever since.

The concert will begin at 4 p.m. and continue until 6 p.m.

Richie Sebastian will be directing the Marching Band and John Rush is the director of Jazz Band 1. The Seal Beach Jazz Trio are an outstanding added attraction.

SEAL BEACH’S FAMOUS JAZZ TRIO

The City of Seal Beach has planned a 96^th Founders Day Celebration and not only will this event  commemorate our 96th anniversary but acclimation of the thousands of Seal Beach and Los Alamitos students it will also honor our  legendary local instrumental music educator, Chuck Wackerman, who for over five decades has enriched the lives of thousands of Seal Beach/Los Al students and music lovers.

Everyone is invited and the concert is free. Please bring your own chairs.

Mr. Wackerman received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Science in Music Education from the University of Southern California. He taught elementary, junior high and high school band, orchestra and jazz bands in the Seal Beach and Los Alamitos school districts. For nine years Chuck directed the jazz combos for the Orange County High School for the Arts. At both the middle and high school levels and has developed award winning jazz ensembles.

This year our honoree was inducted into the California Jazz Alliance Hall of Fame and recognized by CSULB Jazz Orchestra for outstanding contributions to jazz education.  He began with the Seal Beach Unified School District in 1956 and when Seal Beach unified with Los Alamitos even more children had the marvelous opportunity to be under his tutelage. We will honor and recognize him for his work with our children. We encourage all former students to attend and they will have a chance to reunite with old friends and listen to great music.

Chuck has served as an auditioner, band manager and a director for the California School Band Orchestra Assoc. Junior High Jazz All Stars. He received the Irene Schoepfle award for his contributions to music education in Orange County. He also has been awarded the Jazz Educator of the Year from the Fullerton College Jazz Festival. Currently he is teaching jazz band at McAuliffe Middle School in Los Alamitos. Mr. Wackerman’s Jazz Groups have always been great musical examples at jazz festivals thru out CA. He was a Master teacher for nearly two dozen student teachers from Cal State Long Beach. His own children are also entrenched in Musical Careers and Chuck has certainly been a pioneer and role model for jazz education in California. Chuck is celebrating his fifty fourth year of teaching instrumental music.

So, you think you know everything about Mr. Wackerman. Well, he came from a musical family himself.  He grew up in Alhambra.  His mother was a pianist and his father was a jazz fan so he listened to a lot of jazz.  When he was ten years old he decided he wanted to play the trumpet so he went into a that small local music store and got a used trumpet for $20 which included ten free lessons. The rest is history.

This is an opportunity for all former students of Mr. Wackerman to come and celebrate the 96th anniversary of Seal Beach with him.

Chuck is not a ‘spring chicken’ but  just to be clear his is much hounger than Seal Beach. Our town  was incorporated in 1915 with a Joy Zone that covered several blocks that included a roller coaster named “The Derby” and the Jewel City Cafe where the dance floor was built with springs underneath so that dancers could sway.  This 96th celebration is a harbinger of things to come in 2015 when our 100th anniversary arrives.  Libby Applegate assures us that all the volunteers working with her on Founder’s Day Committee have big plans for that special birthday.  Until then we’ll have  smaller celebrations each October until 2015.

In the meantime Y’all come down to the pier on Sunday Oct 2. and add your name to the list of volunteers to help plan our centennial when the Joy Zone will return once again.

This is an opportunity for all former students of Mr. Wackerman to come and celebrate the 96th anniversary of Seal Beach with him.

For more information: Please go to www.sealbeachfoundersday.com,  Seal Beach Community Services Dept.  562 431-2527  Ext. 1306  or  Carla Watson  e-mail: carlawatson@verizon.net

SAVE OUR OCEAN…AND WINS OOODLES OF PRIZES SATURDAY

Join us at the last celebration of summer cleanup next Saturday September 17th – it’s going to be an awesome day.  We’re going to be part of over 80,000 volunteers cleaning the whole coast of California!

LOCATION: 15 1st Street, Seal Beach – anytime from 8 a.m. to Noon!

Our sponsors have provided awesome prizes, INCLUDING A BRAND NEW BIKE BUILT BY STATE BICYCLE!   Register for the walk or the cleanup and then when you’re done registering, go to the contest page and enter yourself in to win the bike and much more!!  The way this works is – the more people you recruit to volunteer, the higher your chance to win!!! By doing it that way, you get to do more good for our coast, AND it’s good for you too!

So come volunteer, register to win awesome prizes like a bike and a day at Burke Williams Spa or tickets for your family to go to Disneyland, the Aquarium or Pretend City – and join in all the fun!

Thanks again for your contribution to keeping our beaches beautiful ~

Kim Masoner, Founder
www.saveourbeach.org