Glassell Park's Bagasao Doesn't Get Brown Act
Neighborhood Councils want to spend money intended for outreach and community empowerment on cameras to watch dangerous criminals and others; but they apparently don't want to be the subjects of cameras themselves.
In this previously unreleased classic from the comedy series that is know as The Goofy Glassell Park Neighborhood Clowncil starring Bradley, we see Council leader Paula Bagasao display a complete and utter lack of understanding of the Brown Act. Sadly, Bagasao seems to think she is immune from anyone who plans to "fight" her or the Council.
In this previously unreleased classic from the comedy series that is know as The Goofy Glassell Park Neighborhood Clowncil starring Bradley, we see Council leader Paula Bagasao display a complete and utter lack of understanding of the Brown Act. Sadly, Bagasao seems to think she is immune from anyone who plans to "fight" her or the Council.
Labels: bradley, Brown Act, glassell park, neighborhood councils, paula bagasao, Q-Star
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 2/15/2008 12:57:00 AM
14 Comments:
Watch out Mayor Sam I don't think Paula gives permission to put her name on your blog!
Yeah Mayor Sam, watch it. You are not allowed to post names of Neighborhood Council members without having them sign a release form. Of course I'm a stupid crybaby moron who has no idea what I am talking about.
PAULA BAGASO!!!
PAULA BAGASO!!!
PAULA BAGASO!!!
Well, this is almost a year old now and hopefully by now DONE has informed them that all NC meetings are open meetings and anyone can record, take photos, film, etc.
I found it interesting that the chair allowed a Q&A with the person filming. That was not on the agenda so technically to have a dialog wasn't a good idea. The Q&A sounded accusatory toward someone.
On another note, I don't know why any NC board members would be concerned about filming or recording. So what, you don't have anything to be afraid of or hide. That's the beauty of open and transparent meetings.
As an elected official (which is what any NC board member is), the public has a right to film, videotape or tape record a public meeting.
Typical Paula Bag-a-sh*t.
She loves throwing her PhD in god knows what around. So that's Dr. Bag-a-sh*t to you.
" an elected official (which is what any NC board member is), the public has a right to film, videotape or tape record a public meeting."
And the elected official has the right to sue. "To intiminate and silence critics" is a Stragic Lawsuit Against Public Participation ("SLAPP")
This form of litigation is frequently filed by organizations or individuals to intimidate and silence critics or opponents by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense so that they abandon their criticism or opposition.
You can fight the NC but you have
to have a lot of money
Come on, give this one a rest, people. This NC has very appropriately been slapped down and humiliated as a result of the antics and idiocy of one of its more annoying officers. But, honestly, the board they unseated to claim the "prize" of running this ineffective council was only less quirky. They were just as clueless and cloistered. Neither has ever had a clue what their community is actually about or what it needs.
NFN Bradley is now in the background (probably pulling strings, but sidelined anyway), and the rest of his board will just bumble and fumble along until the next election, when the equally bumbling and fumbling "other side" unseats them. And then the circus comes to town again. Bring the kiddies, but don't expect to win any "prizes" for the community.
The two groups have become the Northeast's comedic hillside version of the Hatfields and McCoys, spending nearly all their time attacking and repelling each other.
Neither group ever had a mandate to speak of from this area's 30,000 stakeholders (most board members were elected by about 100 votes), and it took them four years to figure out how to spend the first year's $50,000. They're still running 2-3 years behind after five years, and they'll probably lose most of that reserve back to the city.
It was good for a laugh and a front page story in one of the unnewsworthy local rags, but it's about as fresh and interesting now as "you might be a redneck" jokes.
BEEN HERE, DONE NOTHING, ELECT ME AGAIN!
Unfortunately the residents of Glassell Park will have to deal with this board that slowly seems to be imploding with every agenda they post every month. The residents of Glassell Park have no say to vote in new board members until 2010. How do you call that democracy? How do these residents "empower" themselves when they have to deal with the "Diversty Coalition" agendas?
No, we will not give it a rest, I hope this continues to show that the NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS AND DONE ARE ANOTHER LEVEL OF INEFFECTIVE LEVEL OF BUREAUCRACY IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES.
TAKE AWAY THE $50.000.00 OF OUR TAXPAYERS MONEY. LET'S SEE THEM CRUMBLE?
PROP S PASSED, OUR DWP RATES ARE BEING INCREASED, CM HAHN WANTS TO INCREASE OUR PROPERTY TAXES TO COMBAT GANGS...
WHAT DID ANY OF THESE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS DO FOR THEIR STAKEHOLDERS? WHAT DID ANY OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS DO FOR THEIR CONSTITUENTS? WHAT HAS LOS ANGELES DONE FOR IT'S RESIDENTS?
No, I won't give it a rest and I hope those "sour grapes" people in Glassell Park NEVER give it a rest. Apathy has a sour taste that some people can't shallow.
If the "people" of Glassell Park gave a rat's ass in the first place, they would have turned out at any of the past elections and done away with both boards - past and present.
They don't and they didn't.
Truth be told neither board ever wanted the people of that community to care and take part.
The only really outcry about the current board has been from the past board members who lost their catbird seats where they also pretended they mattered to the community's welfare.
They don't and they didn't.
But many neighborhood councils do, including just about every other one in the areas surrounding GP.
(And as for the $50K. The Mayor spends that mcuh every damn day on photo ops. Anyone in GP screaming at him? Better spent locally than on some Councilmember's junket to Tahiti to study "urban infrastructure").
Also, if you'd have read better, you'd know it's the really BAD neighborhood councils like this that can't figure out HOW to even spend it in the first place.
Thsy just TALK, and TALK, and TALK.
The previous boards of the GPNC did not tell stakeholders to get out of the meetings that had cameras and or video recorders. The former boards posted all information available for public viewing, they did not hide it away like the current lot. I don't think the money $50k is that important to the current board. They have been hoarding it and now have about $100k in the bank. I have watched the YOUTUBE videos and they point out some very disturbing actions. If those videos did not exist do you think anyone would believe that people were tossed out of meetings and or stalked at meetings? DONE only protects their own lousy jobs so they do not want to rock the boat with kicking a ROGUE NC out of the system, they would rather just come to meetings and play nice after NFN Bradley violated a STAKEHOLDER'S rights and did not even have the grace to appologize, he just shrugged it of to ignorance, even thougth he has been playing the NC system since it's inception and clearly must have known that the public has the right to record such meetings. People should be outraged, but what other posters have posted is true, people just don't care anymore, at least some do and I think that it is important that those who do keep the GPNC honest.
A previous blogger posted "Come on, give this one a rest, people. This NC has very appropriately been slapped down and humiliated as a result of the antics and idiocy of one of its more annoying officers. But, honestly, the board they unseated to claim the "prize" of running this ineffective council was only less quirky. They were just as clueless and cloistered. Neither has ever had a clue what their community is actually about or what it needs."
So, the people of Glassell Park should just sit back and let this GPNC board humiliate stakeholders and violate bylaws etc etc etc?
No way......the previous boards of course were not perfect and never claimed to be, but they did at least do some good for the community with funding books for the libraries and items such as that.
Remember NFN Bradley is a developer who makes money off the actions of building too much house on small lots in the hillsides of the northeast. He stands to possibly make money off the LAND-USE decisions that might be made by the GPNC board, is that right? Should that be allowed?
Yes the GPNC is a conentious lot, but to let them run amock in the NE and in Glassell Park in particular would be a diservice to the entire Northeast.
Better to shine a light on their possibly dirty dealings than to allow them to work in dark smoke filled rooms in private.
The truth is out there.
It seems that Ms. Bagasao doesn't get "Robert's Rules of Order" either. Based on reliable sources, Board Members, Ms. Bagasao and Mrs Maggie Darret-Quiroz exchanged profanities at each other at the GPNC Grants and Funding meeting last Wednesday held on February 13th. These sources claimed that that Tony Butka(Chair) made no attempts to restore order to the meeting. "It was a "cat" fight".
Great job bring the stakeholders together in Glassell Park!
The two latent posters on 2/16 were so obviously ousted former GPNC board members that it's`silly to tray and remain anonymous.
Not perfect? How about terminally asleep at the damn switch. How pitiful is it to lose to a few dozen church members that you pissed over the issue of sign?
How miserable that with $100,000 sitting unspent for three years none of the deposed rocket scientist former board members could figure out that what they really needed to do was communicate with the 99 percent of the community that didn't even know what they were trying to do; especially when there was another "force" out there that wanted the old board gone.
If the first board belonged in those seats in the first place, then there were reinforcements out there for the inviting, and they just NEVER caught on that they had no mandate. They fiddled away 3-4 years playing demigods, and got ousted by a handful of one-issue wonders.
There's no cure for that kind of negligence and stupidity.
And frankly, that's more criminal that anything the new board is doing.
How sad that anyone could support a stakeholder being interogated at a public meeting. How sinister and dangerous is that?
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