Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council · Held

Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council meeting, August 4, 2026

August 4, 2026, 7 p.m. · Updated October 2, 2026

On the agenda: The agenda for the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council's regular board meeting on Aug. 4, 2026, at 7 p.m. listed 14 new-business items. They included two Neighborhood Purpose Grant requests of up to $5,000 each, from Reach Our Community Kids and One Institute, a Community Impact Statement endorsing the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council's statement on the Lineage Fire, and a letter supporting renewal of Vidiots' beer and wine permit. A separate special board meeting was set for 8:30 p.m. the same night. No minutes of the meeting were linked from the council's agendas and minutes page as of Oct. 2, 2026.

Agenda only. As of October 2, 2026, minutes for the August 4, 2026 meeting of the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council had not been posted. This summary is based on the agenda and does not report what was decided.

The special board meeting set for 8:30 p.m. the same night had its own agenda, with one action item, a letter of support for Read Books.

VII.A. Grant request from Reach Our Community Kids

• What it asks: Discussion and action on a Neighborhood Purpose Grant application from Reach Our Community Kids, a charity the agenda says is known as Rock Coffee House, for “Event Workshop and Supplies, and student lounge supplies” (agenda).
• Money: Up to $5,000 (agenda).
• What’s next: The board’s Sept. 1 agenda listed the same grant request again.

VII.B. Grant request from One Institute

• What it asks: Discussion and action on a Neighborhood Purpose Grant application from One Institute to support an art exhibition at Oxy Arts titled Circa: Queer Histories Festival. The agenda says the event is free to the public and the money would pay for materials for participating artists (agenda).
• Money: Up to $5,000 (agenda).

VII.H. Letter of support for Vidiots’ beer and wine permit

• What it asks: A vote on a letter of support for Vidiots’ application to renew its Conditional Use Permit “for the continued sale of beer and wine at their movie theatre.” The agenda says no changes to the permit’s conditions are being requested (agenda).

VII.I. Community Impact Statement on the Lineage Fire

• What it asks: A vote to submit a Community Impact Statement that endorses the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council’s statement on the Lineage Fire. The agenda does not give a council file number (agenda).
• What the Boyle Heights statement says: According to the agenda, it “expresses concern around the environmental, public health, and quality-of-life impacts from the fire” and asks for expanded air quality monitoring, independent environmental testing, safe cleanup and remediation, better emergency and community notifications, and long-term environmental justice planning (agenda).

Board seats

• Sub District 2 (item VII.C): The agenda says the council had one open position, Sub District 2 Director, that community member Shawn Sweeny had applied, and that the board would meet the applicant “with a possible motion to appoint” (agenda). The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment’s roster listed Shawn Sweeney as a Sub-District 2 Director as of Oct. 2, 2026.
• Arts Director (item VII.D): The agenda says Jessica DeLima-Moran resigned from the Arts Director seat and that the council was looking for a community member to fill it (agenda). The roster listed the seat as vacant as of Oct. 2, 2026.

Other spending

The agenda listed four event and outreach budgets for discussion and action: up to $150 for food and coffee for volunteers at a Repair Fair at Eagle Rock City Hall on Sept. 13; up to $1,900 for plants and printed materials for the native plant event “Plan-ting for the Future” at City Hall on Nov. 8; up to $500 for snacks at a Back to School Meet and Greet in September; and up to $2,000 for the Outreach Committee’s fall 2026 expenses, covering face paint supplies, T-shirts, pens and snacks. Our sum of the four is $4,550 (agenda).

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