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Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
Newsletter
January
15, 2005
Re: UPDATES
ON CITYWIDE ELECTION PROCEDURES/SAFER COMMUNITIES MEASURE
CITYWIDE
ELECTION PROCEDURES
The Citywide
Election Procedures Working Group has finished its work. It considered
the recommended changes of the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners
and finalized their report to the City Council.
The final document
(31 pages) and a cover letter from City Clerk Frank Martinez can
be found on our home page.
It will be discussed
on Tuesday, January 18 at 2 p.m. in City Hall by the Education and
Neighborhoods Committee.
SAFER COMMUNITIES
MEASURE
The 6th and
final community meeting was on Thursday in Westchester. It was a
record breaker with 71 attendees. Once again, the CAO received comments
and opinions that covered the full range of options. The CAO will
be working the weekend to finalize their report. They are reading
each every survey, including all of the hand-written comments.
This report
will be considered by a joint meeting of the Public Safety Committee
and Budget and Finance Committee on Tuesday, January 18 at 3 p.m.
in the Council Chamber. A date for it to be heard by the full City
Council has not been set. The soonest date would be Friday.
As soon as the
report is made available to me on Tuesday, I will post it on our
home page, and send an e-mail notice to everyone.
To answer some
process questions that have come up:
Councilman Smith’s
chief of staff appeared at the Central Area meeting, made a presentation,
and answered questions. The CAO made a best effort to explain this
and other options at the other meetings.
The survey was
designed to give people an opportunity to express their opposition
to any tax, to say that don’t want the police to get any money,
and present the widest range of alternatives, which even included
a proposal that the City take over the Gas Company. From what I
could tell, nobody left any of the meetings feeling that they hadn’t
had an opportunity to be heard, except for one lady who came late,
and didn’t get called upon before leaving early.
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Greg Nelson
gnelson@mailbox.lacity.org
866 / LA HELPS
213 / 485-1360
213 / 485-4608 fax
done@mailbox.lacity.org
email
www.lacityneighborhoods.com
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