Park La Brea residents meet in person once again

By John Welborne

Park La Brea Residents Association (PLBRA) President Bob Shore oversaw the group’s first in-person annual meeting in several years on Jan. 8. Approximately 45 people attended the Sunday meeting, held in the Activity Center Theater of the sprawling apartment complex — the largest west of the Mississippi. The meeting included a presentation by, and a question-and-answer session with, newly elected Los Angeles City Councilmember for the Fifth District, Katy Young Yaroslavsky. It was just three weeks since she had taken office.

The election for PLBRA directors for the coming year commenced at the meeting and was expected to conclude near the end of January, after the Chronicle went to press. Officers will be elected from among the new directors at the board meeting scheduled for Feb. 7.

In her remarks at the meeting, Councilmember Yaroslavsky emphasized service to her Fifth District constituents: “For me, it’s very important, if you call, that someone calls you back; you e-mail, someone calls you back; the problem gets solved, and if we can’t solve it, we are at least communicating on a regular basis about what’s happening and why, so you don’t feel like it’s a black hole. It’s really important.”

Later in the meeting, after the Q&A session with the Councilmember, the vice president for operations for the Park La Brea residential complex, Aryn Thomez, also fielded questions from the tenants.