We Don't have to show you no stinking Outreach ...

"Outreach, to god-damned hell with outreach! We have no outreach. In fact, we don't need outreach. I don't have to show you any stinking outreach, you god-damned cabrón and chinga tu madre!"

Substitute the word 'badges' for 'outreach', and you have one of the most memorable quotes from the terrific 1927 novel by the enigmatic B. Traven, which was later made into the wonderful 1948 movie, both named The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Well, the subdivision committee also says "No" to the stakeholder community of the HCNC — except for Chinatown, that is.  And the point is, 'nothing' is exactly what the HCNC subdivision committee has done in terms of outreach.

Outreach is required as a part of the process

The "Plan For A Citywide System Of Neighborhood Councils" (known as 'The Plan'), which governs the formation of neighborhood councils, was approved 30 May 2001 and amended nine times, most recently 18 December 2013.  Section III, Outreach reads:

The outreach process used to identify stakeholders within the proposed Neighborhood Council boundary must be described in detail. In order to demonstrate a good faith effort towards achieving a diversity of stakeholder representation, an applicant(s) shall collect no less than 200 and no more than 500 signatures from stakeholders that have an interest within the proposed Neighborhood Council boundaries. Signatures shall, to the maximum extent feasible, reflect the broadest array of Community Stakeholders who will actively participate in the proposed Neighborhood Council.

There are three distinct parts of the outreach requirement, none of which has been met by the subdivision committee.  The essential elements of outreach are:

• The outreach process used to identify stakeholders within the proposed Neighborhood Council boundary must be described in detail [emphasis added].  The problem:  no plan for outreach that satisfies the requirements of the Plan has been forthcoming.
  
• In order to demonstrate a good faith effort towards achieving a diversity of stakeholder representation, an applicant(s) shall collect no less than 200 and no more than 500 signatures from stakeholders that have an interest within the proposed Neighborhood Council boundaries.  The problem:  the extent of diversity by the subdivision committee has been limited to organizations, businesses, and some residents of Chinatown — but virtually nowhere else.
  
• Signatures shall, to the maximum extent feasible, reflect the broadest array of Community Stakeholders who will actively participate in the proposed Neighborhood Council [emphasis added].  The problem:  the array of 'Community Stakeholders' is nowhere broad; rather, it has been limited to organizations, businesses, and residents of Chinatown who are already pre-disposed positively to favor the subdivision.
  

Make no mistake:  Outreach has been virtually nonexistent

The only stakeholders in which the Subdivision committee is interested are the businesses and organizations who are primarily related to Chinatown; residents, especially in Victor Heights and Solano Canyon, were simply not approached at all, and were largely ignored during the process.

How many outreach town hall meetings were held?  Two.

The subdivision committee held exactly two town hall meetings to explain their ill-conceived and fraudulent subdivision application.

The first meeting was held on 03 May 2018 at Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Church in the Arts district, one of the neighborhood caucuses that is slated to be cut apart from the HCNC if the subdivision passes.  A person who was at the meeting said that there were exactly three persons who attended the meeting, including Angelica Lopez Moyes, the primary author of the fraudulent subdivision application.  The second meeting was held at Castelar Elementary School in Chinatown, which is friendly territory for the subdivision application.  A person who attended that meeting said that, at most, there were perhaps twelve people attending, also including Angelica Lopez Moyes.  [A third-party description of Ms. Moyes' bizarre and erratic behavior may be found here.]  At no time was there any attempt to have a town hall meeting in Victor Heights or Solano Canyon, and no resident of historic Solano Canyon reports that personal, door-to-door contact was made by anyone from the subdivision committee.  In other words, the subdivision committee lied about outreach.

Given the numerous flaws in the system, and abetted by DONE, the ill-conceived and fraudulent subdivision application has been pushed through to an election through collusion with DONE.