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Friday, May 11, 2007

Chick to Audit Children's Musem

Calling the financial shortfall in the construction of the Los Angeles Children*s Museum, "deeply disturbing" City Controller Laura Chick has announced that she will conduct a financial audit of the organization.

"The City of Los Angeles not having a Children's Museum has created a tremendous void in our educational and cultural portfolio. Millions of precious public dollars have been poured into this project, and it is deeply disturbing that construction may be halted. My audit team has begun taking steps to conduct the audit and will complete a report as soon as possible." said Chick.

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10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I sure hope she can fix this. The Childrens Museum in Lake View Terrace
needs to be completed and opened!

May 11, 2007 12:03 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Does that mean that someone is going to jail?
Oh Oh

May 11, 2007 12:44 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Yeah Laura Chick N Shit is going after the mueseum but still refuses to audit the gang programs that wasting $82 million. What's her lame ass excuse? Could it be there's so much corruption within those programs with campaign donations? I wish a reporter would file a public records act to find out the truth.

May 11, 2007 8:39 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I think that picture of Chick was taken in 1985.

May 11, 2007 10:21 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

AUDIT DWP
AUDIT GANG PROGRAMS

May 11, 2007 10:22 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Where was Chick when this was approved?

Zen and the art of management
By Jessica Garrison and Ted Rohrlich
Times Staff Writers

May 11, 2007

The Los Angeles Housing Department has paid thousands of dollars to a Zen Buddhist priest from Hawaii for management training that includes teaching breathing with sphincter control, learning "how to stand" and playing with wooden sticks.

Norma Wong, a former Hawaii state legislator and leadership consultant, has been paid $18,819 since 2005 to conduct at least four training sessions for executives and other staff. The most recent one was last week.

Mercedes Marquez, the general manager of the department, said the training was designed to help "center" Housing Department managers and teach them to react nimbly to problems such as the city's housing shortage. Up to 30 people attended each session.

May 11, 2007 11:07 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Why would Laura Chick audit a wasteful gang program when she and the Mayor are endorsing a school board candidate/neighborhood prosecutor who sat back and watched a 43% rise in serious crimes committed by gang members in the Valley...?

May 11, 2007 2:01 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Joe Mailander is on a CH 35 interview right now.

May 11, 2007 2:12 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Once again the stupidity of city council. Laura Chick N Shit is going to audit for abuse of money and these morons still give them money.

City to lend money to children's museum
From Times Staff Reports
May 12, 2007

The City Council approved a deal Friday to help keep construction going on the financially troubled Children's Museum at the Hansen Dam Recreation Area near Lakeview Terrace.

May 12, 2007 6:58 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The mismanagement of this organization would be a joke if you think that wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a vanity project envisioned by imbeciles is funny.

August 31, 2007 10:47 AM  

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