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The
Directors of Animal Welfare |
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The next DAW meeting - TBA. Meetings are currently held on an "as needed" basis. DAW Meetings that occur during the week are typically held at the Marvin Braude Constituent Services Center, 6262 Van Nuys, Blvd., Room 1-B (downstairs corner room) Van Nuys, CA 91401. Weekend DAW meetings are typically held at Shalom Printing, 15133 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. If you have an item that you would like to have added to the agenda, please contact me at (818) 346-5280 or drlaws@roadrunner.com Everyone is welcome at the meetings. you don't have to be a DAW to attend. |
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VIEW THE DAW COMMITTEE MEETING INFORMATION PAGE - TIMES, DATES, LOCATIONS, AGENDAS AND MINUTES |
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The Directors of Animal Welfare (DAWs) are dedicated individuals who have been appointed (usually by a Neighborhood Council) to be the eyes and ears for the animals in their areas. They will work with the local Neighborhood Council or City Council to tackle animal issues, to pass proposals and resolutions and to hold events, such as those related to adoptions and spay/neuter. They will work on whatever issues they and their Councils deem important. Councils can support each other's proposals and hold joint events. Making Los Angeles a no-kill city is one of the most important issues for DAWs. 30,000 - 50,000 dogs, cats, rabbits, etc. are killed routinely in Los Angeles animal shelters each year at a taxpayer cost of $14 million dollars per year. The killing is unnecessary. Cities and counties around the country are drastically ahead of Los Angeles. San Francisco has ended euthanasia of most shelter animals as has Tompkins County (New York) and Berkeley; New York City and the state of Utah are in the process of becoming "no kill." Let's help make this happen in L.A. and reduce taxpayer costs at the same time.
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What
You and Your Neighborhood Council Can Do If you want to be a Director of Animal Welfare (DAW), you will need to contact the Council in your area and ask them to appoint you to the position. When you become a DAW or DAW Assistant for your area, you will evaluate the animal situation in your community and take measures to rectify the situation. Every area has different needs, so the idea is to solve problems at a grassroots level for your particular community. As a DAW or DAW
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Outreach. Identify animal-related issues/needs. Communicate with the people of
the area and see what the animal-related needs are. b)
Make presentations at your monthly Council meetings about progress and/or
projects. c)
Convey information via the Council newsletter and newspaper articles. d) Come together with the DAWs from other Councils to create joint projects. e) Put on "Animal Care Fairs," one day events in which there
are dog training, humane education, free or low cost spay/neuter services, and
adoption referrals. f)
Place referral information on the Council website. (i.e. contact information for
vets, animal hospitals, low cost spay/neuter clinics, animal services, rescue
groups, etc.) g)
Come to monthly DAW meetings and Valley-wide or city-wide projects. h)
Come up with creative solutions. Tell other DAWs, the city and the state. DAWs
will want to communicate with politicians throughout the state about issues that
are important to them and their Councils. |
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Photo Above: The June 2006 DAW Meeting. Left to right: California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, DAW President Dr. Charlotte Laws and Westwood DAW Adele Langdon. Photo to the Right: Outside a DAW meeting. Left to right: Former CA Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, Former General Manager of Animal Services Ed Boks and Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council DAW Marlene Goodman. |
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| The Greater Valley Glen Council passed a "No Kill" Animal Shelter Proposal for the City of Los Angeles. To see the proposal, please Click Here. |
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DAW INFORMATION & CONTACT DATA FOR COUNCILS |
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Greater Valley
Glen Council DAW - Dr. Charlotte
Laws. (DAW President) |
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Acton DAW -
Sky Valencia |
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Anaheim Area
DAW - Diana London (Orange County) |
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Arroyo Seco
Neighborhood Council DAW - Lezle Stein |
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Atwater
Village Neighborhood Council DAWs -
JeanMarie Wisiewski |
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Bel Air /
Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council DAW -
Adele Langdon and G.G. Verone |
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Burbank DAW -
George Shea (DAW Secretary) gvbshea@aol.com
Seeking DAW Assistants (818) 980-6769 |
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Calabasas
Director of Animal Welfare - Kayla Laws |
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Central
Hollywood Neighborhood Council DAW - Rachel S.
Paap Rachel@RPworx.org
323-462-9679 |
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Culver City
DAW - Position Open as of Sept 2010 |
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Cypress DAW -
Sheila Choi (Orange County) |
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Del Rey Neighborhood Council DAWs -
Andy Pearlman |
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El Segundo DAW
- Barbara Burke (310) 266-2725 |
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Encino
Neighborhood Council DAW - Sharon Brewer |
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Glassell Park
Neighborhood Council DAW - Diana Lannes |
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Glendale DAW -
Tina Clark |
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Greater
Griffith Park Neighborhood Council - Seeking new DAW. |
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Grass Roots
Venice Neighborhood Council
DAW - Sara Mannes. Seeking DAW Assistants. |
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Hollywood
Hills West Neighborhood Council - Seeking DAW & DAW Assistants |
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Hollywood
Studio District Neighborhood Council - Seeking DAW |
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Lake Balboa
Neighborhood Council DAW - Lisa
Reveen |
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Laguna Niguel
DAW - Micki Nozaki (Orange County) |
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Mar Vista
Community Council DAW - Lola McKnight (310) 439-5219 lolamck@gmail.com |
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Mid City West
Community Council DAW - Rebecca West |
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North Hills
West Council DAW - Sher Murata and Linda Lee. Contact them through their
council's website. |
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North
Hollywood Mid-Town Neighborhood Council DAW - Roni von Henshen |
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North
Hollywood Northeast Council DAW - David Hernandez |
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Seeking Pacific
Palisades DAW |
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Reseda
Neighborhood Council DAW - Missy Woodward |
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South Santa Monica
Area DAW - Rebecca West |
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Sherman Oaks
Neighborhood Council DAWs - Hollie Dickinson and Marlene Goodman |
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Studio City
Neighborhood Council DAW - No DAW currently |
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Sunland-Tujunga
Neighborhood Council DAW - DAW recently resigned. Seeking a new DAW. |
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Tarzana
Neighborhood Council DAW - Seeking DAW |
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Topanga DAW -
Seeking DAW |
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Valley Village
Neighborhood Council DAW - Scott Sorrentino |
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West Hills
Neighborhood Council DAW - Kevin Boal Kevin.Boal@westhillsnc.org |
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West Hollywood
Area DAW - Chris DeRose |
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Van Nuys
Neighborhood Council DAW - . Clifford Craig Jacobs |
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Westwood DAW -
Adele Langdon |
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Winnetka
Neighborhood Council DAW - Lisa Janes |
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Media DAW -
Jeff Gross |
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THE DAW
PROGRAM IS GOING INTERNATIONAL! |
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you need to locate a Council, contact Charlotte Laws (818) 346-5280. You may even be able to be the DAW for an area adjacent
to where you live or work if the DAW position is taken in your area. If you want your DAW or Council listed, tell us to add it to the list! You can also be outside of the Los Angeles area to be added and to participate! We want this to be eventually a statewide project. |
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Click here to see a video about the DAW program. The DAW organization is not
part of the city or county of Los Angeles or affiliated with any other city /
county.
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Why should local Councils
get involved with this? 1. They can communicate
with the stakeholders better than the city can. |
