Programs

December 5, 2001 Symposium, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce


ENVIRONMENTAL LIVABILITY & SMART SCHOOLS
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

December 5, 2001
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
350 S. Bixel Street, Downtown Los Angeles

7:30 a.m. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Boardroom
7:55 a.m. WELCOME & OVERVIEW: THE NEED, THE OPPORTUNITIES, THE CHALLENGE

Welcome

  • David Abel, Chair, New Schools-Better Neighborhoods
  • Rusty Hammer, LA Area Chamber of Commerce, President & CEO*

The Vision, The Need, The Challenges

  • Honorable Dede Alpert, State Senator, Education Committee Chair
  • Robert Garcia, Chair, Prop. BB Citizens' Oversight Commission
  • James Brown, Superintendent, Glendale Unified School District

Boardroom
8:45 a.m. ART OF THE POSSIBLE: THREE FACILITIES CASE STUDIES
Moderator: David Abel, Chair, New Schools - Better Neighborhoods

City Heights Project - Lou Smith, COO, San Diego Unified School District & Jack McGrory, CEO Price Entities

Elizabeth Street Project - Neal Halfon, M.D., M.P.H., Prof. of Pediatrics and Public Health, UCLA, and Director, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities & Mary View Schneider, Director of Program for Integrated School and Community Solutions (PISCS)

Newport Beach High Performance School Project - Tony Pierce, Southern California Edison

Responders: Hector Villagra, Reg. Counsel MALDEF; Rev. Phillip Lance, Founder, President and Executive Dir., Pueblo Nuevo Development; James McConnell, Jr. LAUSD Facilities; Gaylaird Christopher AIA, Perkins Will

Boardroom

10:00 a.m BREAKOUT PANELS: SESSION I

A. High Performance Built Environment - Practical Challenges
Moderator: Felicia Marcus, Trust for Public Land COO and former Administrator EPA Region 9

Panelists: Kathi Littmann, Deputy GM of Facilities, LAUSD; Lou Smith, COO, San Diego Unified School District; Dr. Mary Spangler, President, Los Angeles Community College District; Lowell Shields, Chair, State Architect Advisory Board; Responders: Dennis Bottum AIA, Fields & Deveraux; Herta Gaus AIA,WLC Architects

B. Joint-Use: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Boardroom
Moderator: Jane Blumenfeld, Senior City Planner, City of L.A. Planning Department

Panelists: Steve Soboroff, President, Playa Vista; Steve Ross, Chair, New Urban School Development Committee, ULI-Los Angeles; Tony Coroalles, Assistant GM, City of L.A. Recreation and Parks Department; Mott Smith, Director of Housing and Relocation Department, LAUSD; Doug Otto, Long Beach Strategic Plan; Responders: L.A. Councilman Eric Garcetti* and Enrique Aranda, Inquilinos Unidos.

Bank of America Room A
11:00 a.m

BREAKOUT PANELS: SESSION II

A. High Performance Built Environment - Opportunities and Solutions
Moderator: John Zinner, Sustainability Consultant and former Chair Santa Monica Planning Commission

Panelists: Angelo Bellomo, Director, Office of Environmental Health and Safety, LAUSD; Simon Turner, Director Healthy Buildings International; Malcolm Lewis, P.E., President/CEO Constructive Technologies Group; Randal Higa, SoCal Gas Company & Collaborative for High Performance Schools; Responder: Mark Christian AIA

B. Collaboration With Neighborhoods and Other Governmental Agencies Boardroom
Moderator: Katherine Perez, Executive Director, Southern California Transportation and Land Use Coalition

Panelists: Rick Cole, City Manager, City of Azusa; James Brown, Superintendent, Glendale Unified School District; Steven Bingler, President, Concordia Inc.; Tony Vazquez. California Futures Network; Cecilia Estolano, L.A. City Attorney's Office; Don Attore, CTA; Responders: Anita Landecker, ExEd*; Eileen Ma, LAUSD facilities

Bank of America Room A
Noon LUNCHEON: TURNING IDEAS INTO PRACTICE

Moderator: Nick Bollman, Chair, Speaker's Commission on Regionalism & President of CCRL

Panelists: Asm. Marco Firebaugh; Rick Simpson, Sp. Assistant to. Speaker Hertzberg; Jose Huizar, Boardmember LAUSD; Marianne O'Malley, Principal Analyst, State Legislative Analysts' Office; Day Higuchi, UTLA President.

Bank of America Room A
2:00 p.m.

CLOSING - David Abel