2022 Westside Village Homeowners Association
Annual Meeting

Wednesday, April 27, 2022
7pm - 9pm

Once again, this year’s annual meeting was held via Zoom. The recording can be found below:

Program:

  • 7:00pm   WVHA Business Meeting: Reports by President / Treasurer, Last Annual meeting minutes and Election of Board Members

  • 7:15pm   LA City Council-member Paul Koretz

  • 7:30pm   Tyler Laferriere-Holloway, WVHA liaison to the Mar Vista Community Council, will introduce the candidates running for Assembly District 55 :

    Keith Cascio and incumbent Assembly member Isaac Bryan – see below for redistricting information and their bios

  • 7:50pm   Candidate Forum and Town Hall with the candidates for the City of Los Angeles Council District 5, moderated by Tyler Laferriere-Holloway – see below for website links

    Jimmy Biblarz, Scott Epstein, Katy Young Yaroslavsky, Sam Yebri

  • 8:45pm  Closing remarks, Announce June 4th shredding event at St. John’s Presbyterian Church 10am-2pm in the parking lot – click here to see flyer.

WVHA Board Election Slate:

Ken Alpern, Parvin Kassaie, Scott McCausland, Kathe Mazur and Todd Helmerson

All others will continue for the remainder of their 2-year of term.

 

Program:

Assembly District 55

Redistricting: California Assembly district lines are redrawn every ten years. Under the recent redistricting, Westside Village now is in Assembly District 55, covering Westwood to Fox Hills and Mar Vista through the Mid- City Area. Currently (until the next election) we are in Assembly District 54, which is represented by Isaac Bryan. 

On June 7th there will be a Primary with the General election on November 8, 2022

Keith Cascio, a Mar Vista resident, is running for California’s 55th Assembly district as a moderate Republican in 2022 [https://keithfor55.org/map/]. He's chair of the 54th AD GOP Central Committee [http://54thradcc.org/] and a member of LAGOP [lagop.org/districtcommittees]. He was elected to the board in the March 3, 2020 Republican primary [https://results.lavote.gov/text-results/4085], with 2,636 votes, and began serving January 1, 2021. His Assembly Campaign is endorsed by LAGOP and he is the only Republican running against a single political challenger, who is the Democrat incumbent Isaac Bryan.

He is originally from Brooklyn, New York. He's lived in Los Angeles, mostly West LA, for 21 years. He's a software developer, worked in the UCLA Computer Science department for eight years, and since 2010 he works for Google in Silicon Beach, on digital advertising products.

Keith Cascio:   http://keithfor55.org

 

Isaac Bryan was elected in May 2021 to represent California's 54th Assembly District, which consists of Baldwin Hills, Cheviot Hills, the Crenshaw district, Century City, Culver City, Ladera Heights, Mar Vista, Palms, Rancho Park, Westwood and parts of South Los Angeles and Inglewood. 

Prior to his election to the Assembly, Isaac served as the founding Director of the UCLA Black Policy Project – a think tank dedicated to advancing racial equity through rigorous policy analysis – served as the first Director of Public Policy at the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center, as well as Director of Organizing for the nationally recognized Million Dollar Hoods project, a community-based participatory research project.

Isaac also co-chaired the successful Measure J campaign in Los Angeles County, a ballot measure that allocated hundreds of millions of dollars a year to address racial injustice and strengthen communities. Measure J sets aside money for investment in youth development, small business support, job training,  alternatives to incarceration, affordable housing, community mental health and substance abuse treatment, and other systems of care. 

Isaac is a community organizer, highly regarded policy expert, and a published academic. He authored the first holistic report for the City of Los Angeles on the needs of the formerly incarcerated Angelenos, and exposed a gap in youth justice policy – research that was ultimately used by then Senator Holly J. Mitchell to advance SB439. For years, his academic and organizing work has been at the intersection of environmental, economic, education and housing justice.

For Isaac, these issues aren’t just academic or policy questions – they are deeply personal. He grew up in a family of fifteen, as one of nine adopted children. Several members of his family have struggled with houselessness, faced incarceration, and have struggled with substance abuse and mental health challenges. Born to a teenage mother who could not keep him, he was put up for adoption as an infant. The Bryan family, who adopted him, served as foster parents for over 26 years and influenced the lives of nearly 200 children. As a child, he had a powerful and intimate view of what happens when our civic institutions fail. After a difficult start to his schooling Isaac took courses at two separate Southern California community colleges before earning dual degrees in Political Science and Sociology. He completed his education at UCLA where he earned a Masters in Public Policy, and remains a proud Bruin. 

Website:  https://isaacbryanforca.com

 

Candidate Forum and Town Hall

Jimmy Biblarz                       https://jimmybiblarz.com/

Scott Epstein                        https://scottforla.com/

Katy Young Yaroslavsky     https://katyforla.com/

Sam Yebri                             https://samforla.com/