The Pacific Palisades Community Council plans to briefly address this update at its next board meeting
The Pacific Palisades Community Council has received a detailed response from FireAid organizers addressing its earlier concerns about the distribution of funds raised by the January 30 benefit concert, which collected an estimated $100 million—potentially as high as $800 million—to aid victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires.
In May, PPCC sent letters to the Annenberg Foundation, which initially managed the funds, seeking transparency after nearly four months of limited clarity on how the money reached fire victims. The letters, signed by PPCC President Sue Kohl, At-large Representative Christina Spitz, and Area 5 Representative Kimberly Bloom—all of whom lost homes in the January wil