Meetings: as needed

Purpose:  The group’s mission statement is to increase accessibility in all city venues: buildings, recreational areas, public right-of-way; all public places for all persons, regardless of their physical challenges or disability; to engage with local government to ensure that the municipal code has the necessary provisions for compliance to accessibility as it pertains to new construction; to perform community outreach in order to increase awareness of accessibility; and to engage those in the private sector to increase accessibility through outreach and education.

Staff Liaison:

• Joe SanClemente, Public Works Director

Group Members:

• Al Benson
• Barbara Ellman
• Andrea Giancoli
• Kerianne Lawson
• Isabel Rodriguez
• Beth Rohrer
• Rob Saemann

Purpose:  The Cannabis Advisory Group will examine whether the City should change its current ban on cannabis sales and, if so, whether cannabis retail storefront operations or delivery sales from locations within the City, or both, should be permitted in Hermosa Beach.

For more information, including frequently asked questions, committee members and meeting dates, visit hermosabeach.gov/cannabis.

Mission Statement: 

Provides community members with an opportunity to advise and inform the HBPD on quality of life issues and public safety concerns of the community and to take important information from the HBPD back to the community at large.  The CPAB is a problem-solving group predicated on transparency and on the philosophy of informed and engaged community government.  Members of the CPAB represent the diversity of the community, including residents, businesses, and government, civic and religious organizations.

Staff Liaison: Chief Paul LeBaron, Hermosa Beach Police Department (Co-Chair) 

Group Members:

• Sheryl Main (Co-Chair)
• Claudia Berman
• Ian Ferguson
• Stephen McCall
• Rachel Nyback
• George Schmeltzer
• Janice Webb
• Kathy Welch

Meetings: Concluded with publication of Economic Development Strategy

Economic Development Committee

• City Council: Mary Campbell and Michael Detoy
• Planning Commission: Peter Hoffman and David Pedersen

Economic Development Stakeholders Advisory Group

• Jessica Accamando
• Frank Buckley
• Colin Cooley
• Tony Cordi
• Jon David
• Dave Davis
• Brian M. Dunne
• Lori Ford
• Bob Jones
• Bob Lombardo
• Anthony Morrison
• Ron Newman
• Peter Nolan
• Laura Pena
• Josh Royal
• Bill Sigler
• Stacy Straus
• Jonathan M. Wicks

Meetings:  as needed

Purpose: 

•  Work with City to take whole community approach to community emergency preparedness.
• Promote community readiness (e.g. shelter-in-place/evacuation procedures, preparation of emergency preparedness kits/go-bags, networking for households with elderly or disabled individuals and/or pets, and training/involvement opportunities - first aid/CPR, Hermosa Beach Community Emergency Response Team, etc.).

Staff Liaison:  Emergency Management Coordinator

Group Members

• Alan Benson, Community Member
• Dave Buckland, Hermosa Beach Volunteer in Policing  & HbCERT
• Bill Hallet, Community Member
• Jeff Raedy, Renters Association
• Nick Shattuck, City of Hermosa Beach Parks & Recreation
• Nadine Skye-Davis, South Bay Animal Response Team
• Megan Vixie, Beach Cities Health District

Meetings: as needed

Purpose: The City and School District entered into a Memorandum of Understanding in early 2019 to improve pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular traffic around North School through the development of a Neighborhood Transportation Management Plan. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding, the City and District agreed to form a stakeholder group that would be created to share information and gather public input on relevant topics including: peak traffic conditions, speed, safety, sight distance, anticipated and proposed student loading, and parent or resident concerns that might deter walking and biking to school or use of certain routes to/from the project.

Staff Liaison: Doug Krauss, Environmental Programs Manager

Learn more about the North School Neighborhood Transportation Management Plan Project.