California Planning Roundtable
March 9, 2007 Business Meeting
San Pedro, CA
DRAFT MINUTES
Attendees (* Emeritus)
Steve Preston
Brad Kilger
Wayne Goldberg
Mike Moore
Woodie Tescher
Stan Hoffman
Alex Amoroso
Al Bell*
Tony Lashbrook
Sharon Hightower
Carol Whiteside
Cathy Creswell
Roberta Mundie*
Linda Tatum
Tom Jacobson
Matt Taecker
James Rojas
Larry Mintier
Sandra Massa-Lavitt*
Jeff Carpenter
Joan Sollenberger
Marvin Roos
Al Herson
Stan Grady
Bill Claire*
Gail Goldberg
Guests: Melanie Smith, Melendrez Design Partners
1. Call to Order. Al Herson called the business meeting to order at 1:00 P.M. and it was
confirmed that a quorum was in attendance.
2. Consent Agenda. The minutes from the Sacramento meeting and the Financial
report were on the consent agenda and both were approved as presented.
3. Executive Committee Reports.
Strategic Plan Update: Al Herson. There were no specific updates to the
Strategic Plan. There was general discussion and positive feedback on Victor
Rubin’s piece which was previously distributed to CPR members.
Programs. In Elaine’s absence, a representative from each of the topic group
presented the status of their paper or group’s efforts as follows:
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Jobs Housing Balance-Stan Hoffman. The paper is still under review; issues
raised by CPR members will be addressed; R. Mundie will review the paper
upon its completion.
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Tribal Gaming -Tom Jacobson. The paper will be finalized by June 11 and will
be circulated for CPR comments by June 25. The paper has been peer
reviewed and comments from the four independent reviews are being
reconciled, along with the addition of case studies to illustrate the major
points of the paper. These edits will make the paper more interesting. Tom
will coordinate with staff from PDR to determine the ultimate distribution of
this paper upon completion.
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Stan Hoffman – New Models. Cathy Cresswell is now co-chairing this group
which also includes, D. Booher, B. Kilger, A. Amoroso, J. Sollenberger, W.
Tescher, J. Ruggiero, and Elaine Costello. This group will present a program
on the New Models topic at the July CPR meeting rather than having an
outside speaker. This group will continue to use the issues raised in the
Futures topic as a theme to track a series of ongoing deliverables on this
topic, i.e. articles in Cal Planner.
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State Bond Allocation was noted as a “Watch” item, CPR to monitor and
determine role on an ad hoc basis.

General Plans/Advanced Planning – Tescher noted that the process to
update OPR’s General Plan Guidelines is ongoing; continue to “Watch” this
topic.

Climate Action Team – Joan Sollenberger. This item tracks with the ongoing
global warming discussion and will continue to be a topic of interest.

Eminent domain/regulatory takings. “Watch” item.
Webmaster. Al announced that Tony Lashbrook has volunteered to become CPR’s
new webmaster. Tony reported several initiatives he has undertaken since accepting
this role including:
 Increasing the size of email attachments that can be sent via email to 1MB
 Increased the memory of the site to allow larger document files to be posted
 Prepared an RFP for the CPR website to be redesigned
 Development of an interactive calendar
 Change to format of the website for posting documents to “wikki” to allow
interactive changes to documents
 Post Topics of Interest so they are more publicly accessible, i.e. the Futures
Document prepared for the 2006 CPR fall retreat.
 Prepare an article in Ca Planner to advise that topics of interest will be posted
on the CPR website; and whenever CPR releases a completed paper.
Stan Hoffman’s motion for CPR to prepare a proclamation for Paul Crawford’s work
as CPR’s previous webmaster was unanimously approved.
Programs. Steve Preston provided an update on the upcoming May/June Portland
meeting and requested that those attending advise E. Costello and M. Taecker of
their plans to attend the Portland meeting.
Membership.
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Woodie Tescher announced that he was delivering a care package on behalf
of CPR to Gay Forbes and requested that donations for the package be
delivered to him by the end of the following week.
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Draft CPR Minutes
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
Cathy Cresswell asked that the group confirm that the attendance
requirement is attendance at four of the six annual CPR meetings. This
confirmation was approved by the membership on a motion by Steve Preston
and a second by Marvin Roos, with Sharon Hightower voting no. This item will
be an amendment to the bylaws and will require approval formal approval of
the CPR membership.

Woodie Tescher provided a membership report and asked for direction on the
selection of new members. The committee will send out resumes of potential
new members so comments can be provided to the membership committee.
There was some discussion as to the criteria used for selection of members
and Steve Preston volunteered to send the criteria to CPR members.
a. There was also a request for clarification as to whether a member
who “checked out” would go to the top of the list when they
“checked back in”. It was agreed that the Membership Committee
would provide clarification on this issue at the next meeting.
b. It was also agreed that Linda Dalton would update the
membership manual so that new members could received an
updated copy upon approval.
c. There was discussion of having new members sign a
“commitment letter”. It was agreed that the commitment letter
would be included in the new member packet, but that it would be
worded as an acknowledgement of their commitment, rather than
a signed commitment. Steve Preston agreed to work on the
wording of this letter of acknowledgment of the responsibility of
being a CPR member.
d. After discussion of potential new members, the Membership
Committee will report on its recommendations during the Portland
meeting.
4. Other Business. Announcements

Al Herson asked that members send their comments on the CA 2020 Report
to Paul Sedway at psedway@aol.com

Linda Tatum announced that planning for the 2007 CPR Retreat in San Diego
County is underway. In reviewing the pricing for a meeting location the
Retreat committee was advised to stick to the dates of November 16-18 in
whatever location was chosen for the retreat.
5. Meeting adjourned at 3:00 P.M.
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