Rampart Area Business Alliance for a Safe, Clean, Peaceful and Thriving Neighborhood where Business Can Flourish and Prosper by Peggy Hilgers President Hubbard College of Administration

February, 2004

EDITOR'S NOTE: Here's a wonderful example of how a community effort can make a significant difference in a neighborhood ... and a neighborhood at a time is how we'll change LA.

In this case, Hubbard College of Administration is opening its doors and offering its resources to the business community in the Vermont area (Rampart Division).

This is an announcement of a first of a series of meetings designed to getting business leaders in the private sector and resources from government to come together for our mutual benefit.

LA Community Policing is delighted to be playing a role. We believe such partnerships can foster cooperative efforts throughout the City and can go a long way towards making LA the safest big city in America.

Dear Friend of the Rampart Community:

Hubbard College of Administration at 320 North Vermont, Los Angeles, is offering up its resources to help organize a community business group. We are offering student and alumni volunteers, a facility for meetings and events, a resource center for information, a free consulting center for our neighborhood businesses, and other resources as needed.

We all see things that need to be improved in our neighborhood. We all feel the effects of crime, of graffiti, of transients, of drugs, gangs and other problems that make it difficult for our neighborhood businesses to flourish and prosper. We see the budget cuts in our city and state governments. But we can do something about it if we work together.

The first thing we can do is personally decide to do something about it. The second thing we can do is to come together as a group and explore ways to participate and engage on making our neighborhood safe, clean, and prosperous. We can work together to apply successful principles of management and organization to our larger community as well as to our own organizations. What we see around us in our neighborhood is the result of our own action or lack of it.

We're all busy. We all have our jobs and family commitments. And this is exactly why we need to form up a dedicated group of business people in our neighborhood. Each person can contribute his own expertise and whatever time is available whether is it one hour a week, two hours a month.

With the combined power of all of us in a shoulder-to-shoulder effort we can effectively accomplish the goal of a safe, clean, peaceful and thriving area in which our neighbor businesses can flourish and prosper.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 10th at 6:00 p.m. at the Hubbard College of Administration at 320 North Vermont Avenue. Please tell your neighbors to join us. We will also have representatives from the LAPD, from the Mayor's Office and from Council Member Eric Garcetti's Office. They are backing us up in this effort and really want to work with us to accomplish our goals.

There is a large parking lot behind our building that can be entered from Juanita Street. We have sent out a letter and a survey to over 600 of our neighbors in three languages, English, Spanish and Korean. If you would like a copy of the letter and survey, please contact the President's Office at 323 / 660-8685 and we will be happy to send you a copy.

(Please see sample survey below)

Peggy Hilgers
President
Hubbard College of Administration

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To confirm attendance or ask for survey contact:

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Please visit the Hubbard College website:

http://www.hubbardcollege.org/

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