agenda-report Request of Councilmembers Oscar de la Torre, Christine Parra and Phil Brock to allocate $10,000 in City Council discretionary funds for the City Attorney to provide a legal review of the deed of March 3, 1888 by Arcadia Bandini granting beachfront property specifically and permanently for the healing and enjoyment of disabled veterans of the United States "the residents of the home". Acknowledge and confirm that the same language is written into the separate deed for the 300 acres, inland, that was executed on the same day, by the same attorney, of the same benefactors, for the same beneficiaries: Disabled Veterans. Confirm that this two-deed, March 3, 1888, vision of Arcadia Bandini and Senator Jones mirrored the, March 4,1865, sentiment in President Abraham Lincoln's Inauguration speech, "to care for him that shall have borne the battle, his widow and his orphans". Provide background on the history of the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers before Brentwood, Westwood, and UCLA were thought of. Confirm that in 2018 the Office of the Inspector General of the DVA, upheld a challenge by advocates for veterans citing that UCLA, Brentwood School and Maverick Energy (oil drilling) were "void", therefore illegal, Leases.
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- agenda-report Request of Councilmembers Oscar de la Torre, Christine Parra and Phil Brock to allocate $10,000 in City Council discretionary funds for the City Attorney to provide a legal review of the deed of March 3, 1888 by Arcadia Bandini granting beachfront property specifically and permanently for the healing and enjoyment of disabled veterans of the United States "the residents of the home". Acknowledge and confirm that the same language is written into the separate deed for the 300 acres, inland, that was executed on the same day, by the same attorney, of the same benefactors, for the same beneficiaries: Disabled Veterans. Confirm that this two-deed, March 3, 1888, vision of Arcadia Bandini and Senator Jones mirrored the, March 4,1865, sentiment in President Abraham Lincoln's Inauguration speech, "to care for him that shall have borne the battle, his widow and his orphans". Provide background on the history of the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers before Brentwood, Westwood, and UCLA were thought of. Confirm that in 2018 the Office of the Inspector General of the DVA, upheld a challenge by advocates for veterans citing that UCLA, Brentwood School and Maverick Energy (oil drilling) were "void", therefore illegal, Leases.
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City Council Meeting: June 28, 2022
Agenda Item: 16.C
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk, Records and Election Services Department
Subject: Request of Councilmembers Oscar de la Torre, Christine Parra and Phil Brock to allocate $10,000 in City Council discretionary funds for the City Attorney to provide a legal review of the deed of March 3, 1888 by Arcadia Bandini granting beachfront property specifically and permanently for the healing and enjoyment of disabled veterans of the United States "the residents of the home". Acknowledge and confirm that the same language is written into the separate deed for the 300 acres, inland, that was executed on the same day, by the same attorney, of the same benefactors, for the same beneficiaries: Disabled Veterans. Confirm that this two-deed, March 3, 1888, vision of Arcadia Bandini and Senator Jones mirrored the, March 4,1865, sentiment in President Abraham Lincoln's Inauguration speech, "to care for him that shall have borne the battle, his widow and his orphans". Provide background on the history of the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers before Brentwood, Westwood, and UCLA were thought of. Confirm that in 2018 the Office of the Inspector General of the DVA, upheld a challenge by advocates for veterans citing that UCLA, Brentwood School and Maverick Energy (oil drilling) were "void", therefore illegal, Leases.
· Assess if the Camp Lejeune Act supports this challenge? · Ensure that land and funds promised to support veterans actually reach the intended recipients.
· Assess the need to issue an RFP to create a green, sustainable, complex for Veterans on the designated site or assess how funds generated from these properties might support much needed services for our unhoused disabled veterans.
A municipality that was, against the language of the Deed, allowed to control this beachfront property by the State of California, that also violates the Deed, must do the legal, moral, and ethical thing and, like the City of Manhattan Beach, acknowledge the deed exists and inform the State of California that this is land with the specific purpose 2 of 2
to have a "pavilion" and a beach-house" for the "residents" of the "home" (WLA).
America's moral obligation to genuinely care for her defenders belongs here, permanently, and the beachfront property is an integral part of the vision to keep that obligation alive.
Prepared By: Esterlina Lugo, Deputy City Clerk
Approved Forwarded to Council
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A. Written Comments