RESOLUTION POLICE OFFICER IIMARLISE ERVIN WHEREAS, Police Officer Ervin started with the Los Angeles Police Department on October 9, 1990 and will be retiring, effective April 11, 2020, after her outstanding tenure; and WHEREAS, during her distinguished career, Officer Ervin served with honor in the following assignments: Wilshire Area Patrol, Van Nuys Area Patrol, Juvenile Division in the School Buy Program, Hollywood Area Patrol, Uniformed Service Division, Tactical Planning Section, Special Events Planning Unit, Harbor Area Patrol/Jeopardy, D.A.R.E. Division, as an Elementary and Middle School Instructor, LAX Field Services Division and Detective Support and Vice Division, Detective Services Section, Court-On-Call Unit, adding to her knowledge, experience and expertise; and distinguishing herself as a “Subject Matter Expert” in the management of subpoenas, training Subpoena Control Officers Departmentwide, court overtime and working with the City Attorney and District Attorney Offices; and WHEREAS, Officer Ervin’s outstanding work product is best demonstrated by the commendations she has received from supervisors, commanding officers, and private citizens; and WHEREAS, after 29 and a half years of dedicated service, Officer Ervin will be putting her boots and Sam-Brown away to travel and work alongside her family as a business owner in the transportation and design industries: NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT by the adoption of this resolution, the Los Angeles City Council does hereby commend POLICE OFFICER II MARLISE ERVIN for her outstanding record, commitment to excellence and affirmation of the Los Angeles Police Department’s motto “To Protect and to Serve.” Congratulations and best wishes for her continued success in the future. PRESENTED BY: JOE BUSCAINO Councilmember, 15th District seconde: ALL MEMBERS FEB 2 V 2020 ' CITY OF LOS ANGELES 1 RESOLUTION Susan Stamberg WHEREAS, nationally renowned broadcast journalist Susan Stamberg is a special correspondent for NPR. Stamberg is the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program and has won every major award in broadcasting. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the Radio Hall of Fame. An NPR "founding mother," Stamberg has been on staff since the network began in 1971; and WHEREAS, prior to joining NPR, she served as producer, program director, and general manager of NPR Member Station WAMU-FM/Washington, DC. Starting in 1972, Stamberg served as co-host of NPR's award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered for 14 years. She then hosted Weekend Edition Sunday, and now reports on cultural issues for Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Saturday. One of the most popular broadcasters in public radio, Stamberg is well known for her conversational style, intelligence, and knack for finding an interesting story. Her interviewing has been called "fresh," "friendly, down-to-earth," and (by novelist E.L. Doctorow) "the closest thing to an enlightened humanist on the radio." Her thousands of interviews include conversations with Laura Bush, Billy Crystal, Rosa Parks, Dave Brubeck, and Luciano Pavarotti; and WHEREAS, Stamberg is also the author of two books, and co-editor of a third. Talk: NPR's Susan Stamberg Considers All Things, chronicles her first two decades with NPR. Her first book, Every Night at Five: Susan Stamberg's All Things Considered Book, was published in 1982 by Pantheon. Stamberg also co-edited The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road, published in 1992 by W. W. Norton. That collection grew out of a series of stories Stamberg commissioned for Weekend Edition Sunday, and WHEREAS, in addition to her Hall of Fame inductions, other recognitions include the Armstrong and duPont Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Ohio State University's Golden Anniversary Director's Award, and the Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the American Women in Radio and Television; and WHEREAS, a native of New York City, Stamberg earned a bachelor's degree from Barnard College, and has been awarded numerous honorary degrees including a Doctor of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College. She is a Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University, and has served on the boards of the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award Foundation and the National Arts Journalism Program based at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and WHEREAS, Stamberg has hosted several series on PBS, moderated three Fred Rogers television specials for adults, served as commentator, guest or co-host on various commercial TV programs, and appeared as a narrator in performance with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and in Wendy Wasserstein’s Broadway production, An American Daughter, and WHEREAS, Susan is well known among younger women and journalists of color as an extraordinary mentor. She has been instrumental in organizing NPR workers. Her advocacy for women and minorities has been a core part of her career; and WHEREAS, on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, Susan Stamberg will be immortalized by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce with the 2,690 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that by the adoption of this resolution, the Los Angeles City Council does hereby commend and congratulate SUSAN STAMBERG on the occasion of being presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Best wishes on many years of continued growth and success on all future endeavors. Presented by: 22 MITCH O’FARRELL Councilmember, 13th District FEB 2 8 2020 Seconded by: , Alt Members RESOLUTION 101st Anniversary of the Korean Independence Movement WHEREAS, on March 1st 1919, Korean students and citizens assembled in Pagoda Park to announce a series of nonviolent protests to begin all across the country and to publicly read the Korean Declaration of Independence which initiated the storied Sam-il Movement, declaring independence from Japan’s imperial rule; and WHEREAS, Japan deployed overwhelming military force to subdue over 1,500 peaceful protests which led to the arrest, injury, and death of tens-of-thousands of Korean people; and WHEREAS, in an effort to shut down the resistance movement, Japan drafted Korean prisoners of war to fight for the Japanese Army and to work in factories under excruciating conditions; and WHEREAS, in 1941, the Korean provisional government, established in southwestern China, declared war against Japan, and four years later in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, the Korean Restoration Army, in coordination with Allied forces, defeated Imperial Japan; and WHEREAS, on August 15th , Korea celebrates Gwangbokjul, “the day light was restored”, by displaying the Taegukki, South Korea’s national flag, and all Korean citizens honor and give thanks to the courageous students and citizens who sacrificed their lives for the independence of Korea. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that by the adoption of this Resolution, the Los Angeles City Council does hereby recognize March 1st, 2020 as the 101st Anniversary of the Korean Independence Day movement, and extends its respect and gratitude to the thousands of Koreans who so bravely fought for the ideas and ideals of sovereignty, civil rights, the rule of law, and independence during Japanese occupation. PRESENTED BY: LSL »10 David E. Ryu 1 f© Councilmember, 4th Distri SECONDED BY: RESOLUTION LIEUTENANT II ANITA McKEOWN WHEREAS, Lieutenant Anita McKeown was bom on July 5, 1961, in Van Nuys, California, and attended Chatsworth High School where she graduated in 1979; and WHEREAS, Lt. McKeown went on to California State University at Northridge where she played basketball for the Lady Matadors on an academic and athletic scholarship where her team won a State Championship in 1981. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1983 and in 1992 earned her Master of Arts in Public Administration; and WHEREAS, Lt. McKeown joined the Santa Monica Police Department in 1984 where she served as a Police Officer for five years. While she was an officer there, she earned the nickname “Calamity Jane” for multiple shooting, traffic accidents, fights, stitches, broken bones, bruises during several tactical events during her first year on the job and appeared in PEOPLE Magazine and on the Johnny Carson Show and the Merv Griffin Show. She also received a Medal of Courage when she disarmed a gun wielding suspect on the Santa Monica Pier; and WHEREAS, Lt. McKeown joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1990 where she was known as either McClown or Twin Peaks. She graduated from the Academy and was assigned to Rampart Area where she worked patrol and CRASH; and WHEREAS, Lt. McKeown worked as a Police Officer II at Van Nuys Patrol and Bike Detail and Planning and Research Division as a staff writer. She was promoted to a Field Training Officer in 1993 and was assigned to West Los Angeles Area; and WHEREAS, Lt. McKeown earned the number one position on the Sergeant List and promoted to Sergeant in 1994 where she was assigned to Southwest Area where she worked as a patrol sergeant, CRASH sergeant and captain adjutant, then later assigned to Internal Affairs and Devonshire Vice. Lt. McKeown promoted to Lieutenant in 1998 and was assigned to Van Nuys Patrol, Office of the Chief of Police’s Public Affairs Section, Emergency Command Control and Communications Division, Emergency Services Division - Operation Archangel, and finished her career after nine years at Major Crimes Division; and WHEREAS, Lt. McKeown participated in twenty-three Police and Fire Olympic Games on both basketball and softball teams, winning eighteen gold medals and seven silver medals. She participated in twenty two Baker to Vegas Teams and “Mugged” twelve times; and WHEREAS, Lt. McKeown received the LAPD’s Police Star in 1993 for her ability to negotiate the release of a hostage from a distraught suspect holding his wife at gun point and the Unit Citation Medal in 2000 for her deployment of the new Computer Aided Dispatch System at the Y2K transition; and WHEREAS, Lt.