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Weiss to propose new Village BID

Westwood merchants and property owners are upset at Councilman Jack Weiss’ possible preparation of another Business Improvement District, less than four months after the Village’s original BID was ended amid controversy.
The agenda for Friday’s L.A. City Council meeting includes an item proposed by Weiss that would allocate $25,000 in city money to the BID consulting services of Keyser Marston Associates to help develop plans for a new BID.
Weiss, whose fifth district includes Westwood, had a meeting with community members on Jan. 9 and failed to give any indication then of his plans to create a new BID.
The last BID was cited by the Los Angeles district attorney’s office for violating the Ralph M. Brown Act, a state law prohibiting secret legislation by public bodies. The perceived secrecy surrounding current plans, while in no way illegal, has many up in arms.
“I’m pretty positive that he knew about this motion long before our meeting,” said Philip Gabriel, owner of Scrubs Unlimited.
Weiss’ projection of a new BID will be a property-based organization, like the previous one – where property owners, not business managers or merchants wield decision-making power, even though merchants sometimes end up bearing the financial burden.
Weiss acknowledged the failure of the property-based BID during the last meeting, saying he wanted the next one to be merchant-based.
“This whole thing is underhanded and wrong,” said Jay Handal, president of the West L.A. Chamber of Commerce.
“It is a real lapse in credibility,” said Jeff Abell, owner of Sarah Leonard’s Fine Jewelers.
Though Weiss hasn’t officially appointed anyone to run the new BID, Doug Brown has been one of the prime movers behind the new BID, according to Handal and others. Brown was the treasurer of the old BID for two years, during which $750,000 of its capital improvement fund went unaccounted for.
As treasurer, Brown had the fiduciary duty to ensure the BID was being audited annually, but the BID was never audited during his time.
There are currently two separate auditors trying to account for the large sum of missing money. A meeting has been set for Jan. 30 for a resolution to this matter.
Several phone calls to Weiss went unanswered. According to his press aide Lisa Hansen, Friday’s agenda item is “the first step in a lengthy process in assisting the Westwood businesses to create their own BID.”

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As Director of Academic Technology and eLearning at Marist College, Mr. Baron is responsible for supporting instructional technology initiatives, including distance learning, faculty training, and student support. He plays a leadership role on-campus in the area of strategic planning and is currently serving on the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Aerospace Engineering and holds MS in Educational Technology Leadership from George

As Director of Academic Technology and eLearning at Marist College, Mr. Baron is responsible for supporting a wide range of instructional technology initiatives, including distance learning, faculty professional development, and learner support. He also plays a leadership role in strategic planning for the College in areas of academic and information technology. Mr. Baron was elected to the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors in 2008 and is also a member of the EducationDynamics Advisory Board. Before coming to Marist, Mr. Baron was the associate director of instructional technology at Stevens Institute of Technology. In this capacity, he helped lead a $10 million U.S. Department of Education technology initiative working both at the K-12 and college level. He was also a member for the Stevens WebCampus initiative and developed one of the first Stevens online graduate courses. Mr. Baron has presented at numerous higher education and K-12 conference including EDUCAUSE, NECC, Sloan-C, League of Innovation CIT, and the international Sakai conferences. He has taught students from the Kindergarten to graduate level in face-to-face, blended and fully online formats. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and holds a Master of Arts degree (online) in Educational Technology Leadership form George Washington University.

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I oversee the use and functionality of Sakai on our campus and help faculty accomplish their teaching and learning goals with the aid of technology.

Trained as a sociologist, I am now Director of the Center for a Sustainable Future and developing our new minor in Sustainability Studies. A graduate certificate in sustainability shodul be in place within teh next 12-18 months. I have taught a variety of courses including Introduction to Sociological Theory, Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Science, Environment and Society, Postmodernism, Introduction to Graduate Liberal Studies, and, most recently, Foundations of Sustainability.

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Dr. Bret Eynon is co-director of the Visible Knowledge Project and Director of LaGuardia's Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Eynon came to LaGuardia from CUNY's American Social History where he helped faculty nationwide transform their classrooms.

Dr. Bret Eynon is co-director of the Visible Knowledge Project and Director of LaGuardia's Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Eynon came to LaGuardia from CUNY's American Social History where he helped faculty nationwide transform their classrooms.