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Officers

Carolyn Naber, President

Robert P. Kneisel, Vice President/Treasurer

Larry Abelson, Secretary

Board of Directors

Tim Alderson

Myra Martin Booker, Ph.D.

David Delgado

Kristen Farley, Ph.D.

J. Guadalupe Flores

Mic Hansen

Richard McDonald

Ray Rivera

Elizabeth S. Trussell

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Sub-Committees

Arroyo Recreational Users

Kristen Farley, Chair

Fundraising

Liz Trussell, Chair 

Legal Team

Larry Abelson, Chair

Rich McDonald

Neighborhood Team

Bob Kneisel, Chair

David Delgado

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Larry Abelson:  Larry is an attorney with the law firm Epport, Richman & Robbins, LLP in Los Angeles, is a member of the Board of Directors of the West Pasadena Residents’ Association and lives in District 6.  Larry’s observation after reading the proposed NFL ballot initiative is that “the initiative would force the City of Pasadena to enter into a one-sided contract under which control of the Rose Bowl and the surrounding Arroyo Seco parklands are ceded to the NFL for its private, profit-making purposes.”

Tim Alderson:  Tim is a graphic designer and owner of an agricultural chemicals company.  He is a City of Pasadena Recreation & Parks Commission Member and lives in District 4.  Tim has extensive knowledge of the Rose Bowl Renovation Project Environmental Impact Report and his greatest concern with the NFL in the Rose Bowl is “the extremely negative impacts to Brookside Park, the turf areas, the open space and the recreational activities in the Arroyo Seco”.

Myra Martin Booker:  Myra is a retired Administrator from the Los Angeles Unified School District with a Ph.D. in Educational Policy, a Linda Vista Annandale Association Board Member, and a resident of District 6.  She has a particular interest in preserving Pasadena’s park and open space as “Nature’s Classroom” for our children to explore, investigate, and learn about the environment of insects, plants, and animals.  She observes that on weekends Brookside Park is teeming  with families from all over Pasadena who participate in outdoor sports and enjoy the gardens, waterways, and trails.  Myra’s greatest concern is that the NFL in the Arroyo will desecrate this beautiful parkland and its golf course by turning the area into “a NFL commercial theme park with looming concrete structures and obtrusive signage.”

Kristen Farley:  Kristen has a Ph.D. in Geology and is a member of the Board of Directors of the AAF Rose Bowl Aquatics Center.  She is an avid trail runner and triathlete.  Kristen spends lots of time with her family in the Arroyo, at the Aquatics Center and around the Rose Bowl loop.  Kristen lives in the Madison Heights area of District 7 and in her remarks before the City Council regarding the NFL in the Rose Bowl, she expressed concern over “the loss of the tremendous recreational opportunities in the Arroyo when a professional football team takes over Pasadena’s largest park.”

J. Guadalupe Flores:  Guad is an architect with the firm Flewelling & Moody in Pasadena.  He is a City of Pasadena Planning Commission Member and lives in the Bungalow Heaven Historic District of Council District 2.   He is also Vice President of the Pasadena & Foothill Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.  Guad has extensive knowledge of the Rose Bowl Renovation Project Environmental Impact Report and his primary concern with the NFL in the Rose Bowl is “the presentation of the Rose Bowl and the proposed renovation design.”

Robert P. Kneisel:  Bob is a retired economist, is past Chair of the Pasadena Neighborhood Coalition and is a board member of the Bungalow Heaven Neighborhood Association.  He lives in a 1912 Craftsman bungalow in District 2.  Bob's greatest concern with the NFL in the Rose Bowl is that “it would bring traffic congestion to neighborhoods throughout Pasadena on the routes to the Rose Bowl and deny all of us the recreational use of the Arroyo on game days.”

Richard McDonald:  Richard is an attorney with the law firm of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP in Los Angeles.  He is a City of Pasadena Planning Commission Member, a former member of the Transportation Advisory Commission and has lived in District 6 for over 24 years.   Rich has extensive knowledge of the Rose Bowl Renovation Project Environmental Impact Report and his immediate reaction upon reading the NFL ballot initiative was "that it shows poor judgment, poor leadership and ultimately will divide our community because it is nothing more than an illegitimate effort to give away one of our most prized treasures.”

Carolyn Naber:  Carolyn is a City of Pasadena Transportation Advisory Commission Member, a past president of the West Pasadena Residents’ Association and a current Linda Vista Annandale Association Board Member.  She has lived in Pasadena for over 24 years and currently lives in District 6.  She has extensive knowledge of the transportation and traffic sections of the Environmental Impact Report for the Rose Bowl Renovation Project.  She says “the EIR found that the NFL would generate 38,000 new car trips through Pasadena on each and every game day and would send 18,000 cars into the Arroyo.  Because the NFL stands to profit from parking in the Arroyo, they have no incentive to reduce car trips or move the cars elsewhere.  Seventy-two percent of the cars will be parked on the golf course or our children’s soccer fields and play areas, and I don’t want to imagine the damage these cars will cause.”

Ray Rivera:  Ray is a technician with NBC and NBC Sports and covered the NFL on NBC for 16 years as a videotape operator.  He has traveled to just about every NFL stadium in the country and many stadiums in Europe.  He lives in District 7 and has been a Pasadena resident for about 20 years.  Ray has seen first-hand the condition of the areas surrounding the stadiums after the professional football games and has called it a “war zone.”  When he spoke before the City Council regarding the NFL he said that the areas surrounding the stadiums are “havens for trash and broken bottles and are regularly used as urinals. Visit Pittsburgh or the Oakland Coliseum, just to name two and see the messes that are created.” He went on to say that “as a citizen of Pasadena, this isn’t what I want for our community.”

Elizabeth S. Trussell:  Liz Trussell is an attorney with Citibank (West) in Glendale and is a former member and immediate past Chair of the City of Pasadena Planning Commission.  Liz lives in District 4 and is extensively familiar with the Environmental Impact Report for the Rose Bowl Renovation Project for the NFL.  Liz specializes in contract law and she has serious objections to the NFL ballot initiative with respect to “it is poor government to set forth the complicated deal points that will forever govern the contractual relationship between the City and the NFL in a complicated Initiative.”