20230117 Late Correspondence
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
FROM: CITY CLERK
DATE: JANUARY 17, 2023
SUBJECT: ADDITIONS/REVISIONS AND AMENDMENTS TO AGENDA
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Attached are revisions/additions and/or amendments to the agenda material presented
for tonight’s meeting.
Item No. Description of Material
2 Email from Adrienne Mohan
Respectfully submitted,
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Teresa Takaoka
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Subject:FW: Handouts for City Council meeting tonight
Attachments:Glass.pdf; Lays.pdf
From: Adrienne Mohan <amohan@pvplc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 4:29 PM
To: CityClerk <CityClerk@rpvca.gov>
Cc: Susan Wilcox <swilcox@pvplc.org>
Subject: Handouts for City Council meeting tonight
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Good evening, City Clerk,
We would like to submit for City Council distribution at the deus, the attached documents which provide information
related to Regular Business item #2 ‐‐ descriptions of the individuals for whom the Reserve naming is in honor of.
Please advise if the handouts can be distributed? We are also willing to arrive before the meeting and deliver the print‐
outs if that is preferred.
Thank you,
Adrienne
Adrienne Mohan
Executive Director
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
310-541-7613 x203 | 310-930-4332
amohan@pvplc.org
www.pvplc.org
916 Silver Spur Road, #207,
RHE, CA 90274
3Jackie Glass
Preserve and Restore
A perfect day for Jacky Glass, Guardian of the Land
Legacy Circle member, is being surrounded by her
five children, five grandchildren and seven great-
grandchildren in her home on the Peninsula that began
as an empty lot with three captivating pine trees.
Certainly, the property has grown from her days as a
young, married woman in the 1970s, but her heart
remains with the original landscape and to preserving
and restoring Palos Verdes open spaces and indigenous
plants and animals so that more generations can enjoy
the beauty of the Peninsula’s unique coastal areas.
Petite and energetic, Glass said having her big family
around her keeps her young, lively and productive.
Strolling through her acre of coastal land keeps her fit,
outdoors and ready to meet life head on.
“I have a mother fox and two babies living in my yard
right now,” said Glass. “We sit in the kitchen and see
them running around the corner.”
Though Jacky contributes to many local and national
charities, the Glass family has a long-standing relationship
with the Conservancy. Jacky is respected as a visionary
philanthropist with the kindest heart and a very open
mind, a wonderful combination of unique traits.
Two local great-granddaughters each attended the
Conservancy’s Third Grade Naturalist program while
their mother Tara volunteered and helped with the
Conservancy class session on local ecology and habitat.
Daughter Jeralyn creates beautiful music with her unique
crystal bowls and has performed for Conservancy events
at the White Point Nature Preserve.
Though Glass has been widowed for about 20 years, she
enthuses about her late husband Jerry, a hardworking,
smart, ambitious force behind all her charitable works.
They started their philanthropic interests together after
first moving to the Peninsula in the 1960s and the current
home in 1973. His success as a CPA allowed them to
impact their chosen organizations.
One of the Conservancy endeavors Glass is particularly
interested in is the dedicated efforts to preserve the
butterflies on the Peninsula, notably the Palos Verdes
blue butterfly. She said she has a gardener that not only
takes good care of her beloved pine trees, but he knows
the right plants to attract butterflies.
“Everything grows well here and butterflies really like it
too.”
Today Glass is fond to share with her friends that she is
“saving the Peninsula and sometimes that happens one
butterfly and plant at a time.”
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“Everything grows well here and butterflies really like it too.”
Grew over 51,729 plants
in our native plant nursery to
support restoration efforts
and continued to support the
captive-rearing program by
growing 2,000 host plants for
the Palos Verdes blue butterfly
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Planted over 11,000 plants
at Abalone Cove, Alta Vicente,
Chandler as well as the Navy’s
Defense Fuel Support Point
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Restored over 15 acres at the
newest restoration site located
at Abalone Cove Reserve
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Maintained over 60 acres
of habitat restoration
throughout Alta Vicente,
Portuguese Bend, White
Point, Chandler, Agua Amarga,
Vicente Bluffs and Abalone
Cove as well as the Navy’s
Defense Fuel Support Point
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Removed over 41 acres of
non-native vegetation for fuel
load reduction throughout the
Palos Verdes Peninsula
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Launched a new website with
online, non-contact sales of13 different species of native
plants grown in our nursery
located in San Pedro
Stewardship
highlightsJacqueline Glass
Allen and Dottie Lay understand the world
outside their own walls. They know there are
families desperate to put a meal on the table or
educate their children.
In reality, the Rolling Hills city councilman
and his violinist wife, who performs with the
Peninsula Symphony, could take a pass and not
worry. Their two children are grown. Instead,
they choose to help. They support Top Sail, a
non-profit that takes students (often from the
inner city) sailing to teach them how to work as
a team. They also support the Global Safety &
Security Academy at Banning High School in
Wilmington for its work with helping students
graduate.
There’s something more that makes their
heart sing. It happens when they spot students
hiking and learning when they are out on the
open space preserved by the Land Conservancy.
It’s why they made a substantial donation to
help the Conservancy purchase the Hahn prop-
erty, once targeted for a golf course.
“The Land Conservancy gives us a public
vehicle to reach inner city kids, so they can learn
about the land and understand preservation,”
says Dottie. “There are so many kids who live
10 miles away and have never seen the ocean.”
For Allen, living in Palos Verdes, it was
clear that the potential loss of open space was
real. That inspired them to support the Con-
servancy’s mission to acquire land and maintain
and preserve trails across the Peninsula.
“If you live in Los
Angeles for a long time, you
see there is very little open
space,”
Allen said. “People had been using the
(Hahn) property for recreational uses for years.
It was an opportunity to restore it to its native
state and preserve it as open space forever
For their donation, the Conservancy of-
fered the Lays the opportunity to rename a
popular hiking path informally known as the
Rim Trail.
They decided quickly: Call it the Rim Trail.PreserveRolling Hills Family Engages In Land Preservation
Our nursery grew 32,451 plants from locally-collected seed for restoration projects and native garden demonstrations
Two nature centers hosted11,261 visitors
Installed 20 trail markers in preserved Filiorum Reserve