“Coming Together as a Community”
Clockwise: Standing: Robbie Staenberg, Christine Mills O’Brien and Sarajane Schwartz Seated: Hollywoodland homeowners.
Thank you to all who attended the HHA’s annual meeting on February 18, here.2025 and thanks also to the Beachwood Café for offering us their space to host this event. We also welcomed members participating via zoom.
Thank you to all members who joined and re-joined this year. Your support makes it possible to carry out work to protect and develop our historic community. The HHA does not only need your membership dues, please HEREget involved, volunteer, contribute your ideas, share your stories and raise your concerns with us. If you have not yet joined, you can do so HERE
At our annual meeting we covered:
• The work carried out by committees and Board Members in 2024
• Safety, including details on our infrastructure’s history and back story to our relationship with the City of LA and other stakeholders
• The new HHA website
• A presentation of a Certificate from California Assembly member Rick Chavez Zbur to Hollywoodland to commemorate our centenary in 2023. Presented by Field Representative Robbie Staenberg
• Thank you to Sarajane Schwartz for her leadership as 2024 HHA President.
In summary: Our finances are healthy and depend on member contributions. We have further opportunities to grow our social engagements in the coming year, including activities for children, and a plan will be presented shortly. There is an exhibition on at 2700 Beachwood on centenary houses. We need volunteers to serve on the Design Review Board to advocate for the Hollywoodland Specific Plan in relation to new developments in our area. Traffic counters indicate a steady increase in visitor volumes this year, with August being the heaviest month and no off-season reported. We are looking into installing license plates reading cameras at points of ingress. Engagement with the City of LA to ensure our concerns about fire safety are addressed continues to be challenging, and we need to further develop responses and plans ourselves. A block captain system and neighborhood maps are being developed to address this. We can further consider contracting private security for our area, put a plan in place to ensure we support hardening our homes against fire and contact the City of LA to check the viability of our fire hydrants. We are working towards HHA becoming a 501c3 organization, and there is scope to collaborate with the City of LA on Fire Safe LA’s programs.
The 2025 Board was elected and will be formed by:
• Linda Doe, Justin Burnett and Sabine Jaccaud – currently serving
• Michael Paolini and Jeff Swofford – re-elected to a new 2-year term
• Aldo King, Kyle Fritz, Laura Davis, Tommy Wolfe, Tyler Nickson – new Directors
We will communicate the new Executive team and 2025 priority projects once we have agreed on roles and responsibilities for 2025. Please welcome our new Directors to the HHA’s Board.
We look forward to engaging with you all in 2025 and beyond!
