Automatic ‘yes’ votes allow time for back-room dealing at City Hall (0)
3/08/10 •
Thanks to voting software, City Council members can hold meetings, give interviews, even grab a smoke while deciding the day’s issues.
LA Times, by David Zahniser and Maeve Reston
Los Angeles City Council members have figured out how to be in two places at once.
It’s no magic trick. But some say the public is being fooled [...]
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Parks Can’t Say No to the Unions (0)
3/08/10 •
Village to Village by Paul Hatfield, March 8, 2010
Councilman Bernard Parks, chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, spoke at a meeting of the Los Angeles Coalition of Neighborhood Councils this past Saturday, March 6th.
As the person in City Hall with the most power to deal with the almost $700 million deficit we face over [...]
Property owners may pay for L.A. sidewalk repairs (0)
3/07/10 •
BUDGET: L.A. council continues its search for new sources of revenue.
LA Daily News, by Rick Orlov, Staff Writer
City Council members debated Thursday whether the city could save money by reducing contract costs and making property owners pay to repair sidewalks as they worked to close a $684 million deficit looming over Los Angeles.
The council did [...]
L.A. mayor finalizes first list of city job cuts (0)
3/07/10 •
LA Times Blogs, by Maeve Reston at Los Angeles City Hall, March 3, 2010
Pink slips will soon be on their way to Los Angeles city workers now that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his general managers have finalized the first list of 542 positions slated for elimination.
In a memo to 13 general managers Wednesday, Villaraigosa’s [...]
Council Gives $12 Million In Special Funds to the Emergency Reserve (0)
2/28/10 •
OurLA.org, by by Chelsea Cody, Feb. 25, 2010
The City Council has agreed to let go of $12 million in special, district-specific funds in order to restore the city’s emergency reserve fund.
Since the city’s credit rating was downgraded this week, city officials are looking into using some reserve fund dollars to fight the growing $212 million [...]
What Budget Mess? Mayor V. To Host Pre-Oscar Party (0)
2/27/10 •
Blogs LA Weekly, by Dennis Romero, Feb. 26 2010
Just today we were ribbing Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for being seemingly everywhere BUT City Hall — Washington, D.C. (begging Congress for money), Beverly Hills (meeting with alternative-energy investors) and Exposition Park (for a pow-wow with Princeton professor Cornell West). All this, of course, as the [...]
DONE: An Appendix for the Community Development Department (0)
2/26/10 •
OurLA.org, by Michael Cohen, 25 February 2010
Deputy Mayor Larry Frank presented at a Board of Neighborhood Commissioners meeting Tuesday, the organizational structure for the Mayor’s proposed plan to merging the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment into the Community Development Department.
The merger eliminates DONE as a separate and distinct department and replace it with an Office of [...]
Dept. of Neighborhood Empowerment eliminated (0)
2/24/10 •
ABC Local by John North, Feb, 22, 2010
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced new layoffs Monday as part of an effort to keep the city afloat. Monday’s move is in addition to already-ordered cuts.
As part of what is expected to be a major trimming of city departments, the mayor eliminated the /*Department of Neighborhood Empowerment*/, [...]
Neighborhood councils fear impact of consolidation (0)
2/22/10 •
Daily News, by Rick Orlov and Kevin Modesti
The decision by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday to merge the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment into another city agency has raised concern over the future of the city’s decade-old experiment with grass-roots democracy.
To Villaraigosa and many city and neighborhood council leaders, the proposal – which will eliminate some [...]
Mayor consolidates Community Development and Neighborhood Empowerment Departments (0)
2/22/10 •
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 22, 2010
Contact: David Beltran 213-978-0741
MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA
CONTINUES COMMITMENT TO BALANCING BUDGET
WITH CONSOLIDATION OF TWO CITY DEPARTMENTS
The consolidation of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment and the Community Development Department will eliminate 27 positions and approximately save $2 million annually
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today continued his commitment to balancing the City’s budget and [...]
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3/08/10 •
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Take Two Aspirins and Call Me in the Morning2/18/10 •
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Neighborhood Councils Step Up to the Plate – Will the City?2/15/10 •
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NC Leaders Finding Their Voice at the Solutions Table; Meet Sat on Restructure & Funding2/12/10 •
Engineered “Budget Crisis” is part of a Planned Engineered Design [PED]2/10/10 •
City of Los Angeles: The Unsustainable Business Model2/10/10 •
Did You See the Memo About This?2/08/10 •
Villaraigosa Street Scam Plot Thickens Courtesy Of L.A. Times2/08/10 •
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Message From General Manager BongHwan Kim2/04/10 •
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Debunking the bankruptcy myth2/01/10 •
Call to Action – City Hall – Monday at 12:30pm2/01/10 •
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My Interview with Trutanich – Part 3: The Performance Audit Feud1/27/10 •
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B&F Comm members snub BudgetLA, SF Valley1/27/10 •
My Interview with Trutanich – Part 2 of 3: The Hidden Deficit1/26/10 •
City Hall Rock Stars and NCs have Priorities Screwed Up1/26/10 •
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My Interview with Trutanich (Part 1 of 3)- Pensions1/26/10 •
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Bankrupting LA – Who’s Fault Is It? – by Ron Kaye1/22/10 •
Krekorian Expresses Practical View of Bankruptcy Option1/21/10 •
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