Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday
Walter Moore posted it Monday night, but here's a reminder to check out Vic Viereck's excellent dissertation on the so called "billion dollar housing" fund and how rent control, amogst other government regulation, is responsible for the housing shortage.Plans are underway to try to transform LA into New York. That's like trying to turn a milkshake into roast beef. Its just not going to happen. Still, some folks want some of the goodies being a hip, new urban city can bring - the Starbucks, the walking to the cafe for a mimosa and tapas on Sunday with the Calendar section under your arm, etc. That's great - but lets not make the government pay for it nor let their thugs chase out legitimate, tax-paying businesses.
Did Councilman Jack Weiss kill a park improvement at Robertson Recreation Center? A reader of West LA Online thinks so.
Mayor Villaraigosa took off Monday for a trip to Sacramento to save his LAUSD takeover plan. A parents group opposed to the Mayor's plan were ready to picket him at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. Problem was, he left from LAX.
Apparently Mission College in Sylmar is in trouble, and a big part of the problem allegedly stems from rancor over the establishment of a Chicano Studies department.
City of LA Meetings for Tuesday
8:30AM - COUNCIL: Housing, Community, and Economic Development Committee
9:00AM - COUNCIL: Education & Neighborhoods Committee, SPECIAL MEETING
9:30AM - ETH: Ethics Commission Meeting (06/20/2006)
9:30AM - LAPD: Board of Police Commissioners
9:30AM - LADBS: BBSC Meeting
10:00AM - ZOO: Commission Agenda - June 20, 2006
10:00AM - COUNCIL: Los Angeles City Council
10:30AM - CDD: CUP/HCD - JUNE MEETING
1:30PM - DWP: Board of Water and Power Commissioners
2:00PM - COUNCIL: Planning & Land Use Management Committee Meeting
2:00PM - COUNCIL: Information Technology and General Services Committee Meeting, CANCELED
3:00PM - LAFD: Board of Fire Commissioners
3:30PM - COUNCIL: Ad Hoc Renew LA - SPECIAL MEETING
4:30PM - PLN: South Los Angeles Area Planning Commission Meeting
4:30PM - PLN: South Los Angeles Area Planning Commission Meeting - Canceled
5:30PM - PORTOFLA: Port Community Advisory Committee Meeting
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/20/2006 12:05:00 AM
8 Comments:
Sylmar, where the hell is that?
All the tv stations showed Antonio in Sacramento very worried. Leave it to rag of newspaper LA Times to put his photo on front page. Then they publish a opinion with the dumbest comment ever,..."the essence of Villaraigosa's plan to change governance is to fix accountability."
MORONS....ANTONIO DOESN'T HAVE A PLAN AND THAT'S WHY LEGISLATURES AREN'T SUPPORTING HIM. HE HASN'T GIVEN THEM ANY IDEA HOW HE WOULD FIX THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OTHER THAN WANTING TO BE IN CHARGE.
So very revealing in the 912 Commission appointments and candidates lists sent ot the mayor, that our elected officials as well as elected neighborhood council leaders are finally in agreement on something. There are no qualified Latino community leaders, especially on the East side worthy of sitting on a commission to review the effectiveness of neighborhood councils.
And what is one of the critical failings of the NC system that this 912 Commission will be required to look at? Why, a continued and systemic lack of diversity and outreach, of course.
What better proof could you require?
It's telling on the face of it, it is even more telling that no one noticed it (apparently), including the former GM of DONE, who ostensibly was charged with promoting diversity for the past four years, and who ran the caucus elections for the area of the city with the largest concentration of Latinos (Eastern area) this past Saturday. End result: Only one Latina nominated; none made it past the first or second perfunctory round of balloting in an election that took multiple votes.
Bad that it happens; worse that no one even noticed the problem, least of all the former DONE GM.
Let's see what Alcalde Villaraigosa does about that with his own selections (should be interesting).
For now, however, the "foxes" of economic elitism and racial exclusion are guarding the "henhouse" of NC diversity, wearing the arrogant badges of "best candidate won".
(If the mayor accepts this status quo, then the "reconquista" conspiracy theorists will all be out of business tomorrow). Call that the "silver lining?"
A "Chicano Studies" department will do nothing more than promote the idea that the Southwest US should be returned to Mexico. I am sure that is useful higher education which will help students to advance their minds for a four year school as well as give them great skills to enter the workplace. If you want to teach Chicano history you have a history classes. If you want to teach culture you have sociology. The creation of these cultural studies departments have mirrored the overall decline in education.
One size fits all cultures, huh?
How progressive.
....Villaraigosa has hired a top-notch lobbying firm, KP Advocates, which had more than $5 million in billings last year.
They are one of the biggest, if not the biggest, professional lobbying shops in the capital. He'll pay for it out of the Mayor's Committee for Government Excellence and Accountability fund he started to raise private cash for the LAUSD fight.
The fee has not yet been disclosed, but the mayor said the cost will be covered by his newly formed committee that is raising funds for the campaign.
GEE GUESS THAT SMILE AND CHARISMA ISN'T DOING THE JOB FOR ANTONIO
"Chicano studies" burger flippers.
Is "KP" bigger than Jackie Goldberg?
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