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teens during their winter break. This year, the Samson family has helped establish the Anne Samson Memorial Fund which will provide additional assistance to programs like NCSY’s Jerusalem Journey summer program, where hundreds of public school students have
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Sherry Lansing, former president of 20th Century-Fox and chairman/CEO of Paramount Pictures, who will receive the “Dave Winfield Humanitarian”
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benefit of all the resources of the City Planning Department at their disposal to help retain architectural integrity and still get the most out of a remodel. Historic designation adds value to a home, and the owner will receive a complete professional profile of the home’s historic features. The Cultural Heritage Commission, the City Planning Department and specifically,
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Nine of the justices expressed concern that the law
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evening is challenging for most any budget, so I thought a
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seemed so dated is a sought-after trend in today’s market. An old home thus becomes an his-
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real estate and local realtors. You are invited to join with your listings. They will be professionally translated into
their first Israel experience. Anne and her husband, Lee, have been associated with the Orthodox Union for more than four decades. Lee was the first fulltime NCSY regional director and helped create the West Coast regions of both NCSY and the OU. Anne Samson will be posthumously inducted into the Ben Zakkai Honor Society
and presented with the Ezra Ben Zion Lightman Memorial Award, named for a national NCSY advisor who died at a young age in 1971. “I met Anne Samson at the first West Coast NCSY Regional Convention in Oakland, California in March of 1970,” wrote Isabelle Novak of Los Angeles, Ben Zakkai chair. “She was the discreet, but vital force behind
everything Lee did in creating West Coast NCSY and the prototype summer program, Camp NCSY.” A further tribute to Mrs. Samson’s legacy will take place at the Orthodox Union’s Israel Center in Jerusalem, on Sunday evening, Feb. 9. Marc Rohatiner of Los Angeles, tribute chair with his wife, Lynn, said, “It is most appropriate that Anne
Samson's NCSY family will be celebrating her legacy of chesed and communal leadership at this year's Ben Zakkai Dinner in New York City and at the Israel Center in Jerusalem.” For more information about the dinner, contact Elaine Grossman at gross212-613mane@ou.orgor, 8350.
award. Home run great Hank Aaron receives the “Allan H. ‘Bud’ Selig Executive Leadership” award from film star Michael Keaton. Hall of Famer Joe Morgan will receive the “Lifetime Achievement”
award from Johnny Bench. San Francisco Giants skipper Bruce Bochy will be honored with the “Tommy Lasorda Managerial” award; Bobby Grich, the “Scout’s Dream” award; Atlanta Braves President John Schuerholz, the “Out-
standing Achievement in Baseball” award; and Jack McKeon and Ray Crone, Sr., the “George Genovese Lifetime Achievement in Scouting” award. The foundation will recognize six scouts with the “Leg-
ends in Scouting” award–Elmer Gray, Julian Mock, Bob Oldis, Ray Poitevint, Phil Pote, and John Young. Tickets and sponsorship packages are available at 818224-3906 or visit http://www.pbsfonline.com.
Bill Crouch, Urban Planner for the City of Beverly Hills, have been exploring ways to further sweeten the deal. Incentive programs have been established on the federal, state and local levels. They will present their findings to the City Council at their meeting on January 21. The Mills Act program has been a very successful twoyear pilot program that affords the property owners significant tax credits for the duration of the ten-year contract in ex-
change for continued preservation. The City is currently in negations with the Beverly Hills Unified School District to discover ways to mitigate an exchange for the lost revenue to schools that might include cultural and historic educational opportunities. Another Federal Tax Credit program is also available for properties that are listed on the National Register or built prior to 1936. Owners must apply for the National Register designation and the tax credits, but
it could mean 10-20 percent in savings. Other financial incentives may include fee waivers and deductions for building permit fees, in-lieu parking and Conservation Façade Easements. The easements would allow a tax deduction in exchange for donating a part of a historic property to a qualified preservation organization (considered a charitable donation) to oversee preservation. The California State Historic Building Code recognizes
that historic buildings have unique qualities and provides for flexible alternatives to preserve historic properties. Adaptive Re-use, as the Wallis has done with the Old Beverly Hills Post Office (A Mills Act Contract property), is another possible incentive. Such an ordinance could be used to modify zoning to accommodate conversions of existing buildings for new uses. These are a few of tools that are being mulled over in the Cultural Heritage toolbox.
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