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Thomas Small — Michael Hackman — Odis Jones contemporaneous 2026 overlap

2026 Spring-September 2026 Documented; September 14 report-out states City will not pursue acquisition of 9300 Culver Boulevard; outcomes for the four Ince/Lindblade addresses are not separately established by the report reviewed
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The 2026 property-negotiation record sits against a longer documented Small-Hackman institutional history. IRS filings show Thomas Small and Michael Hackman serving together in Culver City Forward governance in 2020 and 2021; Small was the nonprofit's compensated CEO/President in 2020 while Hackman was Chairman, and both were directors in 2021. Culver City Forward's 2020 filing also states that Hackman had a business interest in The Culver Studios, identified as a contributor to the nonprofit. In 2026 a March corporate-record-derived listing still ties both men to Culver City Forward, while Culver City agendas identify Odis Jones and Adam Troy as City negotiators in closed-session real-property negotiations involving Hackman/Hackman Capital Partners properties. The September 14 public report-out subsequently states that the City would not pursue acquisition of 9300 Culver Boulevard / Culver Steps.

Contemporaneous institutional / developer overlap with documented historical governance relationship Direct recurring Small-Hackman nonprofit governance; direct Jones-Hackman property-negotiation overlap; no documented Small role in the 2026 negotiations
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$300,865 Small compensation from Culver City Forward, 2019–2021 · $10,000 Small loan to Culver City Forward, 2021 · $500 Kelly Kent contribution to Thomas Aujero Small for Culver City Council 2026 on 2026-09-14
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The Small-Hackman edge remains a direct recurring governance relationship documented by IRS records, and the Jones-Hackman edge is a direct 2026 property-negotiation relationship documented by City agendas. A September 29 cross-check of the CCE repository's current NetFile-derived Small donor overlay found one exact-name intersection with the people already carried in this composite CCR record: Kelly Kent, who is separately documented as a recurring Culver City Forward officer and who contributed $500 to Small's 2026 campaign on September 14. That does not create a direct Kent-Jones relationship: Kent enters this composite network through Culver City Forward/Small/Hackman, while Jones enters through the separate Hackman property-negotiation edge. No exact donor-name match was found for the documented Cobblestone staff/network names checked, and no Small-donor employer matched the known Cobblestone project firms checked. The historical CCE person overlay also carries six verified named 2016 Small contributors; none matches the documented Odis/Cobblestone people checked. CCE's reconciled 2015-2016 committee totals are broader than its normalized historical-person overlay, so the historical name cross-check is not described as exhaustive until all itemized filing rows are normalized.

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