Mayor hijacks Neighborhood Council Congress as costs skyrocket
Each year the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment is supposed to hold 2 "Congress of Neighborhoods" events bringing together most city departments and Neighborhood Council members at one place and time. The event has always been, to some degree, a chance for our local elected officials to declare how much they support Neighborhood Councils and seek their input just before going back to ignoring them again. Neighborhood Councils for the most part tolerate the bloviating as the cost of doing business but this year the Mayor and DONE are pulling out all the stops to create a massive event that will resemble more of an Oscar party than a Congress of Neighborhoods at a cost 5 times higher than any previous Congress... $162,000.00 and climbing.To put this in context, DONE just sent Neighborhood Councils a letter demanding that they spend 25% of their money on outreach and 25% on community projects. Nevermind the reality that DONE doesn't have the legal authority to order a Neighborhood Council to buy a $2.00 notepad let alone order how it spends $25,000.00 a year. Let us just take a step back and admire the hypocricy of blowing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on an event that tradidionally costs 1/5 the amount while simultaneously complaining about where $600.00 of one Neighborhood Council's money went.
But as you may have already figured, it gets better because by now you might be asking yourself how exactly does DONE plan on paying for their party at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel? They are actually considering cutting back on... Wait for it... OUTREACH FOR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ELECTIONS!
All so that our Mayor can hold a massive event, and declare his support of Neighborhood Councils in direct opposition to virtually every move they have made, and allowed to be made, since his election. (And let's not forget the fodder for the dum dums that love to attack turnout to NC elections)
Already some Neighborhood Councils have raised concerns about the expenses being incurred in their name. If they had any sense at all they would all stay home and let Mayor Smiley have his picture taken in an empty room.
Posted by Councilman John @ 2/09/2007 08:10:00 AM
35 Comments:
This is bullshit! The main topic at this Congress is "education." This is the Mayor's way of putting his own agenda and making this his party. Last year he had buses of non profits and others attending because he knew a lot of neighborhood council members weren't going because of Lisa Sarno and him. He's using the name Congress of Neighborhood Councils when in fact this is just another Villaraigosa parade so he could act like a clown. The best thing neighborhood councils could do is BOYCOTT or PROTEST outside the hotel and send a strong message.
Hey, 8:46am, great idea. Remember when the NCs got together about the DWP rate proposed 18% rate hike? When we threatened to march from DWP to City Hall, the City Council caved. I am all for organizing a demonstration at the Bonaventure. Let's carpool or take the train to downtown and make a day of it. Brady, Jim, Ken, Jeff, Rusty -- let's organize an opposition.
Badabing!
Sounds Greeeaaaaaat! Bring on da Party!
That isn't a half bad idea, except Brady would never do it. He is too busy admiring his "access" to electeds staff.
9:17 = Anarchist!
always talk talk talk, on this blog. the apathy is why this city is going down the gurgler.
and people complain cause ZD and I go harass the sh*t out of them on public comment.
we ARE expressing our disgust.
where's everyone else?
oh, wait, you guys are happy to take this bullshit lying down.
Matt has a point. Maybe Brady is afraid to stand up (I don't know) but I know Alger never shies from a fight.
This is absolutely ridiculous. If you neighborhood council people don't speak up and put a stop to this event, you're going to be tarred and feathered as being just as wasteful and out of touch as the big Clowncil.
There is absolutely no reason to spend this much money for you guys to go to a private hotel. There are any number of city, LAUSD, LACCD or LA County facilities you could use for a fraction of the cost.
I would highly suggest that you NC leaders - if you are truly are the reformers you say you are - immediately protest this, boycott it, whatever. Don't get sucked in by the free appetizers and trinkets.
Otherwise you're no different than Sarno and Villaraigosa.
Hoo boy. Looks like a twist on the Mayor's Housing Summit: carefully scripted, no real debate allowed, co-opting somebody's list for the sake of marketing the Mayor's own politics, rather than listening to the people.
Hey, 9:20 am; 9:17am here. I do not mind your using the "A" word but I see myself more as an ACTIVIST. But, whatever floats your boat!
Sammie, Sammie, you old dead mayor. Don't go getting your knickers all twisted over this.
You really need to stop thinking that the half dozen loudmouth NC people that feed you "appetizers" on what's going on out there represent anyone other than -- a half dozen loudmouth NC people.
And Councilman "John" loads the cannon backwards, again, and starts the misinformation flow bigtime, here. I don't have time to outline all the guge glaring errors he passes off as "news", but read the charter and they'll pop out at you, starting with sentence #1.
"DONE is 'supposed to hold' . . ."
NOPE, doesn't say that (and the facts shred faster and harder with every new sentence of misguided propaganda posted).
You open with a premise that is so wrong, it hurts. The vast, vast majority of NC leaders are not in the boat with the unmandated screamers that post here, and they're not ready -- never will be ready -- to storm the bastille or call a general strike, or recall anybody or anything.
Most aren't even that riled up about the interim general manager (if they even know there was a change in that position, or that another one is coming soon).
They joined up to work "within" the system, not to be adversarial. They spend most of their time dealing with minor, but important local issues, with and through their councilmembers and city departments.
Stop falling for the over-hyped tripe that the 1500 or so are a mass of unhappy little soldiers just one more Lisa Sarno memo away from a military coup.
Your contacts are - yes - and maybe a dozen others are. But that's about it.
The ones who shout and scream, and mounted a very silly, embarrassing campaign against Prop R, are in constant "revolt" mode, and always looking for a fight. They think the "won one" once, and can't operate in peacetime to save themselves.
The DWP rate hike fell (was postponed), because it was wrong, and ill-timed, and City Council knew that. They would have done the same backdown if the protest had come from a 5 or 6 uncertified community groups. There's nothing magic about the NC system, yet. And the more people get the image of it being made up of people like the half dozen screamers, the less chance it ever will produce anything of value.
The average NC volunteer gives 100s of hours of their free time to their community, to improve it, make it better, safer and more alert to its real threats (guess what, the "enemy" isn't City Council). If the city needs to spend a few hundred dollars per attendee (and in the end that will probably be cut in half) to make these NC people more effective and more tuned in to how the city works, then it might be the best investment in the process, yet.
Plus they haven't been held as often as they could/should have, so there's leftover financing from that.
(Past congresses have cost less, but have been declining in attendance. So isn't that "waste" as well?)
And guess what, whatever the costs of the next gathering "congress" is, the attendance won't be affected at all by anything the screamers say and do.
The dozen or so little-boy boycotters can meet at that Chinese restaurant near the DONE offices and lick their Prop R wounds all over again.
Oh, and trade pre-historic war stories "remember when we turned back the powerful DWP."
11:18 am
YOU ARE A PIG!!!!!!!!!!! Do not think that you are going to get away with belittling my contributions to this City and the NC system. Hundreds of hours is a gross underestimation of the time i have spent attending meetings with and without City Council, with and without City departments, and with my neighbors. The NCs delaying the proposed 18% rate increase IS A BIG DAMN DEAL. You are a little little PIG ! (Take that personally and I have taken your slams.)
Wow, what an interesting rant. You cant say CJ's premise of "DONE is supposed to" (hold a congress)is wrong and then say they haven't held it as often as they should. Atnleast be consistant.
The congress is held, according to the charter, if asked for by the NC's. Noone asked for a nearly $200,000 gala.
These events have been less attended because NC participation has been an afterthought. They always say "what workshops do you want?" Well, what if we don't want a workshop in the first place?
These are supposed to be educational and networking events not a self endulging money pit.
As for the DWP - saying they "postponed" the rate hike is bullshit. The hike proposed in 2001 was 18%. Here we are in 2007 and even with the next proposed increase we are still short of that number. That is tens of MILLIONS of dollars over 6 years that the LA ratepayers would have been stuck with.
You spinmeisters in City Hall just can't give the NC's a lick of credit for anything beyond fixing a pothole because that threatens your entire existence.
If it were up to you, you'ld have NC's planting flowers, painting curbs and erecting speeedbumps because as long as they are busy they can't have enough time to pay attention to the big issues... like you fools kissing the asses of your donors and screwing the people you should be representing.
When Councilman Greg Nelson (John) needs to stop being a baby and always crying about being fired.
Yeah yeah -- sure you were let go or you left voluntarily -- you were fired because you were the worst GM in LA.
Even if Jim Alger is the only person who hates Lisa Sarno and everything is sweetness and nice at the councils, this extravagant meeting is still a bad move.
And if the NCs move forward with not saying anything, then they are no different than the Clowncil.
I suspect that the appropriate moment Jack Weiss would accuse the NCs of having an extravagant party at taxpayer expense.
The mayor sings like zuma dogg from the public comment podium.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBsww_tk7tk
Anyone who thinks the congress event, at any cost, is a "party" has never been to one and should probably resist the temptation to run for an NC office.
It's work. Well planned or not. Well attended or not. Taking the better part of a Saturday away from family, community, and real life to go and learn more about city processes and how to be more effective in a role you don't get paid for (let alone often have to pay to run for and maintain, in many ways already), isn't "fun" no matter how nice a building it's held in.
Feed me a mediocre meal, it's still work. Give out goody bags of city trinkets, it's still work. Make me listen to an anti-NC mayor's rah rah speech, well, that's torture.
You NC "COs" and naysayers can bombast about this as "wasteful" - but what's really wasteful is having NCs be handed $50,000 a year, and sit on it, while they're own communities beg councilmembers for crumbs. Or worse, waste it on their own self-serving projects and comforts.
(One NC alone, reported their local paper, with less than 20 board members spent $30,000 on FOOD for itsself in the last two years . . . huh?)
Each year 500-600 of the NC board members turn over, and many of these people have no clue whatsoever how to work with the city. But getting even these people to come to a 6-hour event is tough. Dress it up a bit, any maybe more people will take part, and then the return begins.
The veterans who never do outreach, and so never lose their spots after 4-5 years cry that they need to have a real "congress" so they can put on their powdered wigs and tuck their pants inside their knee socks, and pretend they should be the "real" city council, have no clue what's really needed for the bulk of the NC boards. Give them control of the process, and it will be a bigger sham, and a greater waste of time, money, and talent.
Hey, how did I get dragged into this?
1:01 by the way... that was the same argument King George used against the Colonists.
also, anyone who dares to suggest that Zuma and Matt Dowd scared people from public comment? turn on Ch. 35 now fools.
theres a line up of public speakers all the way down the aisle.
if anything, we empower people, cause they see that us little guys are starting to make an impact.
as evidenced by the haters.
11:41
You wrote:
"Wow, what an interesting rant. You cant say CJ's premise of 'DONE is supposed to' (hold a congress)is wrong and then say they haven't held it as often as they should. Atnleast be consistant."
1) If you're going to demand consistency, then don't misquote -- that's cheating.
The original statement said they haven't been held as often as "could/should" (NOT just should - you left the most important part out), a bad debate tactic Alger uses regularly - to intentionally misquote the opposition, because his rebuttal is so weak, he has to make the original argument appear bad in order to have some comeback.
That said, you apparently agree that "CJ's" BJ of an post is wrong from the get-go. There is no "supposed to" so DONE hasn't failed to provide that service that's never been requested by any substantive number of NCs. But if there has always been an assumption that these will be held twice a year, and they haven't been, then -- as the point was made -- there's more money available to this next one.
NCs haven't "asked" for any of these events. Not at $200,000 and not at $200. Where's the failure, again?
2) Speaking of consistency (and I will quote you exactly), tell me how consistent your two back-to-back statements are "a" and "b"?
a) "Well, what if we don't want a workshop in the first place?"
b) "These are supposed to be educational and networking events . . ."
Unless you mean that workshops aren't educational , or (?) "what if we don't want what the event is supposed to be" (???)
Finally . . . as to this: "If it were up to you, you'ld have NC's planting flowers, painting curbs and erecting speeedbumps"
Not what I said, but I guarantee you, if that's what they spent most of their time and money on, you'd have been elected by more than 100 people out of a population of tens of thousands, and 10 times as many people would know your NC exists.
Concentrate on the "big issues" by yourself, elected by a few friends and neighbors (i.e., elitist and unmandated -- and justifiably ignored by the city's elected officials), or improve the community with the backing of thousands. Hmmm, which is more "neighborly" Mr. Neighborhood Council?
1101 - fair enough, I don't think I said it was a party but that Sarno is trying to turn it into one.
You can have very productive work sessions meeting at the convention center, City Hall, Valley College, wherever. It need not be at an expensive hotel.
GEEZ, quick response Alger, for someone who wasn't already monitoring this thread (and posting anonymously, and got caught by the same bad tactics you've used here before).
Next time you want to be inconspiuous, at least wait more than a half dozen minutes to cry foul.
It' a dead giveaway, like your intentional misquotes.
King George was greatly underrated as a leader, and much more sane than some of the screaming mimi NC loudmouths.
Someone who runs a board elected by 79 votes out of 20+ thousand people shouldn't be throwing stones at monarchies.
KG III had more of a popular mandate that your NC leadership does.
I'll spend 600-700 hours of my personal time this year dealing with, attending, talking to stakeholders, and preparing for NC business, and I'm not even an officer of the board - and that figure will only hold up if I don't get yanked into one more sub-committee before mid-year.
You think the city spending $200, maybe $300 even, on me once or twice a year is a waste and a "party".
Hell, that's less money than Dennis Zine's one-day per diem on some damn junket to San Francisco to look at sewer maintenance techniques. And he's already making $170K.
Last year I spent the better part of an hour parking, walking back and forth the main hall, and going from one damn side of the convention center to another for a couple of 45 minute sessions. Cheaper isn't always better (and the CC is BOOKED solid on Saturdays for the next two years).
Get some perspective, people. I've earned my 35 cents a hour, and chicken salad sandwich in a box.
Is that what this outrage is over. A couple hundred dollars per participant.
My council spent at least twice that much per person to send people to Kansas city, or some such place for that NUSA conference that DONE has been promoting attendance at every year for the last several (Airfare, hotels, everthing).
Talk about hypocrisy. This congress event is here, open to all, and specific to L.A. communties and council issues. That other thing was a broad brushstoke pumped hard by Greg Nelson during his term at DONE.
If Nelson is behind all this ranting against the people who booted him out, he should be ashamed. NUSA was a bust. Has been for several years. And cost a lot more.
HOW MANY times do I have to tell you nitwits that when I post I do so under my own name?
Geesh.
As for this "big issue vs small issue" nonsense Neighborhood Councils are completely capable of doing both. In fact, they pretty much have to do both because the "big issues" trickle down to the small ones and directly effect the policies that govern each of us.
I understand it is in the DNA of a very few yet loud individuals to drag my name into every Neighborhood Council conversation just so you can criticize, mock or ridicule me as if virtually any of what you say is true, has merit or even remotely approaches rational discussion. I look upon you with pity for how low must you be in your life to feel the need to go on a rant about me... the meaningless gadfly with no support who represents noone. What I don't get is this: If I am so irrelevant, then why do you care so much? Or might we be attempting in vain to accommodate for certain ummm... inadequacies someplace else?
Like my grandma used to say, blowing out someone else’s candle doesn't make yours shine any brighter.
Ooh we have the anti-NC people who are usually clowncil staffers posting today. Guess we got them riled up. BOYCOTT AND PROTEST is the best thing NC's can do. Can you imagine the publicity you will get? I remember you threatened to boycott one Congress until they folded. Lisa Sarno and Antonio are playing you guys big time so don't sit and take it. The Alliance and LANCC have tons of NC's that don't support this DONE mgmt. I believe there are over 40 NC's. Say what you will but people listen to these guys. They do have power and I think its time they put it to use in front of the cameras. NC's were not asked for any input into this Congress until everything was already secured. Stop whinining and complaining and go into action like you have before.
Matt Dcause they see that us little guys owd said:
Yeah, we've heard just how "little" your manhood is Matt. You said you were getting a job. Why are you still wasting time at clowncil moron? You have nothing educated to say.
From the Files of the Fly....
The new head of DONE will be someone who has in the past made public comments against the structure of neighborhood councils/ groups in the City he comes from....
New GM of DONE will be a male...
New GM of DONE will be brought in to once and for all bring REAL structure to the system and centralize all things, every rule and all procedures.
Essentially the weeds that Greg Nelson let grow in his "1,000 flowers bloom (idiotic) strategy" will be plucked, killed and stomped on.
The Fly
Last evening the north hollywood north east neighborhood was given a proposal for their next board meeting. Given the demand that more funding go to out reach, this project will fit the bill.
The NHNE will begin a survey of its stakeholders in determining the top five issues which are of most importance to the community.
The stake holders will then be polled on the effectiveness of our elected officals in addressing those concerns. Begining with the Mayor, City Attorney, City Council, Controller, etc. All neighborhood councils will be invited to join and link up to a central web site where the results can be viewed.
The counci will vote on March 8 to go forward and allocate funds to complete the project.
HELLO HELLO, IT IS FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND IS UPON US. I AM SENDING OUT THIS MESSAGE TO INITIATE A FAIR PROCESS THAT WILL HAVE AN IMPACT TO THE RESIDENTS OF THIS CITY. MY NAME IS ANTHONY MANZANO AND I RESIDE IN THE COMMUNITY OF ROSE HILLS HERE IN LOS ANGELES. I EXPRESS THE WORD (FAIR) BECAUSE WHAT OCCURRED JUST TWO DAYS AGO ON WEDNESDAY AT THE LOCAL ......... LA-32 NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL MEETING WAS REMARKABLY OUT OF ORDER AND BLATANTLY DISENFRANCHISED THE STAKEHOLDERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS MR. KVASNICKA FOR HIS ASSISTANCE IN RUNNING THE ELECTION AS THE "I.E.A.".... ON JANUARY 20, 2007.
~ ALL THE CANDIDATES HAD TO APPLY TO RUN FOR THE POSITION.
~ A TIME LIMIT WAS SET FOR SUBMISSION OF THESE APPLICATIONS OR THE CANDIDATE WOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR THE ELECTION.
~ PROOF OF RESIDENCE WAS ALSO REQUIRED TO BE ELIGIBLE.
~ AT THE TIME OF ELECTION PROOF WAS NEEDED TO BE ALLOWED TO VOTE.
~ SIXTEEN (16) CANDIDATES APPLIED TO FILL TWENTY-ONE (21) SEATS.
~ ELECTIONS WENT ON AND A FINAL RESULT WAS CONFIRMED.
I WOULD SAY THAT LINDA McGuire, WHO ALSO ASSISTED IN OVERSEEING THE ELECTION, WAS SATISFIED WITH THE PROCESS. SHE MADE SURE THAT ALL ASPECTS OF THE TURNOUT AND PROCEDURE WHERE FOLLOWED TO ENSURE THAT THIS WAS FAIR AND INCLUSIVE TO ALL STAKEHOLDERS IN LA-32.
I WOULD SAY THAT WITH ALL THE EFFORTS OF MR. KVASNIKA AND LINDA, WHO PUT THIS TOGETHER, IT MAY SEEM TO HAVE BEEN A WASTE OF PROFESSIONALISM AS PART OF CREATING A BOARD THAT REPRESENTS THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY. I WILL EXPLAIN IN DETAIL.
AT THE MEETING ON WEDNESDAY THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT REPRESENTATIVE WAS PRESENT TO ASSIST IN FILLING THE VACANCIES. (IN THE BY-LAWS THERE IS A SPECIFIC ARTICLE THAT GIVES THE PROCEDURE TO FOLLOW--ARTICLE XIII, SECTION K) FOR SOME REASON THIS WAS OVERLOOKED AND NOT DEALT WITH IN THE ORDER DESCRIBED. I MADE AN EFFORT TO EXPLAIN THAT THERE IS A PROCESS THAT IS RECOGNIZED AND THAT IT SHOULD BE FOLLOWED AS WRITTEN TO THE EFFECT OF 'FILLING THE VACANCIES'.
IT IS PRETTY SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND, THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THE PROCESS, FILLED OUT APPLICATIONS, QUALIFIED, AND MET THE TIME RESTRICTION WOULD BE CONSIDERED...............~~~~>
"ARTICLE XIII, SECTION K" FILLING VACANCIES: IF A DIRECTOR RESIGNS OR IS EXPELLED FROM HIS/HER POSITION, OR IF THERE WERE NOT ENOUGH CANDIDATES TO FILL A SPECIFIC CATEGORY DURING THE ELECTION, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CAN NOMINATE INDIVIDUALS TO FILL THOSE VACANT POSITIONS. THE ORDER OF SELECTION IS AS FOLLOWS:"
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE WORD OF THE BY-LAWS STATE, (I DIDN'T MAKE THESE BY-LAWS) AND THEY SHOULD BE BINDING TO ALL WHO REPRESENT LA-32 NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. THE ORDER GOES THRU FOUR (4) OPTIONS TO FILL THE VACANCIES.
WHEN I SPOKE ON THIS SUBJECT AND ASKED THE CONFIRMATION FROM THE AGENTS OF 'D.O.N.E.' TO VERIFY WHAT I WAS SPEAKING OF, IT WAS CLEAR THEY HAD NOT BEEN FAMILIAR WITH THE BY-LAWS AND THE ORDER OUTLINED TO FOLLOW AS PROCEDURE. WHAT TRANSPIRED AFTER THIS WAS AN EVEN GREATER EFFORT OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE STAKEHOLDERS AS THE INTERIM PRESIDENT REFUSED TO ABIDE BY THE BY-LAWS AND BEGAN A SEPARATE SELECTION PROCESS. WHEN IT IS EXPRESSED BY THE BOARD (PRESIDENT) THAT THEY ACT IN A HIGHER CAPACITY THAN THE DEPARTMENT THAT OVERSEES IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY, IS UNACCEPTABLE. (EVEN WHEN HE ENCOURAGES THEIR ACTIONS TO BE HANDLED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY) PEOPLE FROM THE AUDIENCE WERE ASKED IF THEY WANTED TO BE ON THE BOARD AND IF SO TO STAND UP FOR CONSIDERATION. _______ JERRY, LISTEN TO THIS.
~ NO VERIFICATION OF RESIDENCY REQUIRED.
~ NO APPLICATION SUBMITTED.
~ NO PROOF FROM WHAT REGION THEY REPRESENTED WAS NOTED.
~ AT LEAST TWO 'POTENTIAL' CANDIDATES ARE STILL IN JR. HIGH OR HIGH SCHOOL AND NEVER HEARD OF THIS BODY, NO PROOF OF STAKEHOLDER-SHIP.
~ NO QUALIFICATIONS PROVIDED TO ENSURE THEY ARE CAPABLE TO REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH A CAPACITY OF BECOMING A DIRECTOR.
LETS MOVE ALONG, I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO SEEN WHAT WAS HAPPENING, BUT I MAY BE THE ONLY PERSON TO SPEAK UP. I WOULD LIKE ALL OF YOU READING THIS TO BE AWARE OF WHAT THE BY-LAWS STATE AND FIND A WAY TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE IN A TRUE AND ACCURATE MANNER. I DON'T NEED TO MAKE A CHALLENGE, OR FILE A GRIEVANCE SINCE THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED IN THE FASHION THAT IT WAS. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A JUST PRACTICE TO FOLLOW THAN THAT IS WHAT DEMOCRACY STATES SHOULD OCCUR. PERHAPS MORE THAN JUST A FEW OF THE DIRECTORS SEATED DO NOT HAVE ANY CLUE TO WHAT 'BY-LAWS' ARE, NIETHER WHERE THEY INFORMED OF THE RESPONSIBLITIES THEY HAVE ACCEPTED. NO INTRODUCTION WAS MADE TO ASSIST THESE NEW MEMBERS SERVING THE COMMUNTITY TO BE AWARE OF WHAT IS PROPER AND WHAT IS ILLEGAL.
IF THERE IS NO RESOLUTION TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION, I WOULD ASK THAT ALL FUNDS PROPOSED TO THE LA-32 NC BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL BE UNDER REVIEW BY THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE DE-CERTIFICATION.
AFTER ALMOST THREE (3) YEARS OF ATTENDING THE NC MEETINGS...... HOW CONVENIENT, ON THE DAY IT MATTERS MOST, NO AUDIO WAS TAKEN OF THE MEETING FOR MINUTES. PERHAPS, SO NO EVIDENCE OF THE SHENANIGANS GOING ON CAN BE PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC. OH, WHAT ABOUT THE BROWN ACT THAT STATES THAT THE AGENDA WAS TO BE POSTED IN THE FIVE LOCATIONS WITH 72 HOUR NOTICE. I KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON, ALL OF A SUDDEN NO AGENDA CAN BE FOUND, EITHER OF THE EXECUTIVE MEETING OR THE GENERAL MEETING PRIOR TO THE MEETING. THIS IS UNCALLED FOR. THEY WOULD EVEN BE SENT OUT BY E-MAIL UP UNTIL JUST LAST MONTH.
THIS IS THE COMMUNITY I REPRESENT, MORE SO THAN THE DIRECTORS CURRENTLY ON THE BOARD, I KNOW WHERE TO LOOK FOR POSTINGS, DARN I HELP PUT THEM UP. ALL OF A SUDDEN THINGS ARE RAN IN SECRET.
I HAVE INCLUDED A FULL COPY OF THE BY-LAWS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT SHOULD BE MORE ASSERTIVE IN IT'S CONTACTS WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL.
AS PART OF THIS MESSAGE I AM NOT HERE TO START CONFLICT, I PRODUCE TOO MUCH FOR MY COMMUNITY, I AM DOING MY PART TO CONTINUE MAKING IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE LOCAL RESIDENTS.
THE CONGRESS OF NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL NEEDS TO SIT DOWN AND REALLY CLEAN-UP A MESS THAT HAS BEEN A PLAGUE FOR THE NC ENVIORNMENT...... HOW ABOUT APRIL (28/29), BIG 'WEEKEND' SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLACE TO START. LETS HAVE A PARTY.
ANTHONY MANZANO
ROSE HILLS COMMUNITY & HOMEOWNERS ALLIANCE
ROSE HILLS REVIEW
interesting 4.13
now I know I've hit the mark, when you gotta go below the belt.
I've had women say 'wow' when my manhood appeared, so I'm happy with that.
meanwhile I got the opening Pick 4 yesterday at Santa Anita, paid $333.
today I hit a pick 3, and the late double, it paid $102 for my $2 ticket.
thats 50-1 fool, so while you were wasting your employer's money driveling on this blog, I WAS at WORK, and I can prove it.
the wagers are online, and duly recorded. I don't recommend it to anyone else, but I happen to have the intellect and memory retention and it shows, thank you.
now get back to your job, and thanks for adoring me, you queer. get your mind off my dick.
I'm proudly hetero, you just make yourself look bad with cheap personal attacks.
The Mayor no doubt sees the Council Congress as a way to rally support for his LAUSD takeover. He is trying to drum up endorsements. But regardless, I think there will be a bigger turnout than usual because of the fancy location and probably better food.
Poor poor Matt Dowd with his insecurity about his manhood.
"now I know I've hit the mark, when you gotta go below the belt.
I've had women say 'wow' when my manhood appeared, so I'm happy with that."
Women I doubt it but men maybe saying your little manhood is ok. No one believes you're heterosexual Matt. But that's ok. Your rantings are ridiculous. Must have hit a nerve for you to reply. You know they have implants on the internet you can buy with all your winnings at the race track.
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