Grievance

Department of Neighborhood Empowerment Grievance Form

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First Name

Allyson

Last Name

Vought

Please identify your role within the Neighborhood Council system:

Board Member

Phone Number

(310) 567-2345

Email Address

allysonca@gmail.com

Mailing Address

600 South Pacific Avenue Suite 100, Los Angeles, California 90731

Neighborhood Council

Central San Pedro

Neighborhood Council Bylaws

Specific Violation Alleged

Failure to indicate the nature of your alleged Grievance will result in the dismissal of your Grievance.

Neighborhood Council Bylaw

Article Number

Section

Los Angeles Administrative Code

Section

Plan for the Citywide System of Neighborhood Councils

Section

Board of Neighborhood Commissioners Policy

Please state Policy below

Department Policy

Please state Policy below

* - Any other City code, executive directive, rule or regulation applicable to Neighborhood Councils.

Date of Alleged Violation

08-08-17

A Grievance must be filed within 30 days from the date of the event giving rise to the Grievance. Any Grievance alleging a violation relating to Neighborhood Council funding must be filed within 90 calendar days of the date the expenditure is made.

Please state below

Repeated Ethics and Brown Act Violations.

Please specify the exact rule and explain the facts of the alleged violation.

Brown Act Violations for Serial Meetings

On August 8th 2017, The Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council held elections during the regularly scheduled meeting to fill vacant board seats.

It is important to note that this Council has been in exhaustive measures for several months. During this time, there have been numerous instances of continued Code of Conduct violations by the very same Board Members that this complaint is addressing.

Last night, I, as well as other Council members and the attending audience were witness to a travesty. Evidence suggests that Serial Meetings and Communications had occurred in violation of the Brown Act.
The Brown Act prohibits Neighborhood Council board members and committee members from engaging in any form of communication among one another outside of a public meeting that leads to a majority developing a concurrence on an action to be taken. The Brown Act states "any use of direct communication, personal intermediaries, or technological devices that is employed by a majority of the members of the legislative body to develop a concurrence as to action to be taken on an item by members of the legislative body is prohibited." (Gov. Code � 54952.2.)
These serial communications obviously involved a series of communiques through either verbal, written, or electronic means that were intended to establish a voting consensus of the members of this group in order to subvert the open and transparent selection of the best candidates for the open Board positions that were being filled this night.
I cite the following:

Certain Candidates were advised by the sitting treasurer, Danial Sandoval to complete their Ethics and other related Board requirements in order to allowing voting if elected � they were! She did not make any other announcement to all eligible candidates, thus showing bias and pre-planning.

A pre- prepared acceptance speech by Christian Guzman for his selection as new Board President was read. How did he divine his appointment?

Voting by: DONALD GALAZ, CHRISTIAN GUZMAN, DANIELLE SANDOVAL, MICHAEL KOTH, MICHAEL COLLINS, JOSE GUERRERO and ALEXANDER HALL that were consistent with a �party� political agenda. Candidates were selected to support �their� candidates in order to gain a voting majority of the Board. This is also supported by the fact that there were numerous qualified candidates with a wealth of experience in City ministrations as well as past service in the NC System that were ignored and individuals with no prior experience were selected. The voting also was consistent with each of these members==.

Selection of James Allen, who was previously the sworn enemy of these very same Board Members which is highly questionable. Mr. Allen has had numerous Code of Conduct violations and sexual harassment charges leveled against him by serving Board members over the past years. He should be deemed unfit to serve. At best should be disqualified as he is incapable of non-bias decisions being the Publisher of the Random Lengths Newspaper. Every meeting he distributes his newspapers in the meeting location in an obvious attempt of self-promotion.

Voting for previous Minutes approval was conducted by DANIELLE SANDOVAL, MICHAEL KOTH, and JOSE GUERRERO, MICHAEL COLLINS, and DONALD GALAZ were illegally performed as they were NOT in attendance in the meetings they were voting to approve.

In that the recent ministration being performed by the DONE seem to have had no effect on the conduct of the very same Board that had placed this Council into exhaustive measures, I request that the actions taken by the Board last night be set aside and that all appointments made to the Board vacancies be rendered null and void.

Additionally, the members that were selected should be made ineligible due to the taint of cronyism, thus rending them biased and incapable of representing the stakeholders of this district.

If remedies are not obtainable this then I recommend that the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council be decertified and that the territory be split between the Costal and the North-West Neighborhood Councils.

Remedy

There are various remedies available. Please select from the list below the remedy OR remedies you are seeking.
Please be advised that the Department has sole discretion in determining whether your remedy conforms with your Grievance.

From the list below, which remedy or remedies are you seeking?

1) Warning to the Neighborhood Council board, individual board member, or, members.

2) Required corrective action of the Neighborhood Council.

3) Mandated training for the Neighborhood Council, individual board member, or, members.

4) Required mediation for the Neighborhood Council board, individual board member, or, members.

5) Suspension of Neighborhood Council board until mandated trainings are taken by board, board member, or, members.

6) Temporary suspension of Neighborhood Council Funding.

7) Placement of the Neighborhood Council board under control and supervision of the Department.

8) Suspension of individual board member or members.

9) Initiation of de-certification process or process to declare board seats vacant.

Please state why you are seeking the above mentioned remedy or remedies.

This Board has been in Exhaustive measures and is incapable of solving the issues. Repeated violations and actions are indicative of select Board members who are unwilling to resolve the issues that caused the initiation of Exhaustive Measures.

Witness Information

ALL of your Witness information and Witness Statement needs to be included at this time. The Department will ONLY accept and review Witness information included at time of submission.
You can find the Witness Statement form here.

Witness 1 Contact Information

First Name

Leslie

Last Name

Jones

Email Address

lesliejones1sp@gmail.com

Phone Number

Witness Statement

Witness 2 Contact Information

First Name

Diana

Last Name

Nave

Email Address

diananave@gmail.com

Phone Number

(310) 831-1975

Witness Statement

Witness 3 Contact Information

First Name

Pat

Last Name

Nave

Email Address

diananave@gmail.com

Phone Number

(310) 831-1975

Witness Statement

If no witness, please check this box

Supporting Documents

Before submitting, please include ALL supporting documentation HERE. The Department will ONLY process and review materials included at time of submission. NOTE: The Department will only review up to 10 pages submitted. Any information submitted past 5 pages will not be taken into account.

Supporting Document

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.

By checking this box and typing my name below, I am electronically signing this form.

Allyson Vought

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