BRIEFLY CITY ACCEPTS AVILA FOR POLICE PANEL.The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Tuesday approved the appointment of
Rebecca Avila, the former executive director of the city Ethics
Commission In the United States, an Ethics Commission is a commission established by State law to discourage dishonest practices by their public employees and elected officials. Almost all American states have such a commission. , to the Police Commission.
Avila, who now works on a project on public financing of elections at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , will fill out the term of former commission President Gerald Chaleff. Chaleff was removed from the post by Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. , who said he wanted a fresh perspective on the panel. Her appointment is expected to last only through July 1 when a new mayor will take office. - Daily News Commissioners put plan on hold A disputed plan to sell development rights on 320,000 acres in the Owens Valley This article has multiple issues: * It needs to be expanded. * It may need copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. for $25 million was deferred on Tuesday by the city Board of Water and Power Commissioners. - Daily News Officials take oath in San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. SAN FERNANDO - Incumbent Jose Hernandez Jose Hernandez can refer to
Hernandez, a college professor and founder of the Chicano studies department at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , has served on the council since 1990. De La Torre, an independent mortgage lender and president of the city's Planning Commission, is also the sister of Councilwoman Cindy Montanez. Voted out of office was Mayor Silverio Robledo, who served for one term. Council members, elected to four-year terms, do not receive a salary and are not subject to term limits. - Daily News Simi Valley ending little-used shuttle SIMI VALLEY - The City Council has voted 5-0 to end its West End Shuttle service, saying the pilot program failed to attract enough riders and was not cost-effective. The shuttle, which will end April 30, takes riders around the northwestern industrial area, bordered by the Employment Development Department on the north, Royal Avenue on the south, First Street on the east and Madera Road on the west. In addition to transporting employees to and from work, the shuttles also provide transportation for shoppers to such commercial centers as Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Kmart and Costco. The $329,500 project was funded with federal money. - Daily News Davis orders look at animal disease Gov. Gray Davis ordered two state agencies to look for weaknesses in the state's efforts to block the spread of two animal diseases that have hurt the agriculture industry in Europe. Davis told Food and Agriculture Secretary William Lyons Jr. and Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' Director Dallas Jones to make recommendations within 30 days on better ways to prevent the spread of mad cow disease mad cow disease: see prion. mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g. and foot- and-mouth disease. - Associated Press Racism reported in beating attack VENTURA - Police were looking Tuesday for those responsible for a suspected hate crime. Four or five men in a car stopped in the 1200 block of East Main Street, told a 22-year-old Oxnard man they were skinheads Noun 1. skinheads - a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks and made racial slurs, police said. The victim offered his wallet but the suspects refused it and began beating him, authorities said. They fled when a resident in the neighborhood came out of his house, police said. - Daily News Ferraro, Pacheco fined on funding More than $11,000 in fines were levied by the city Ethics Commission on Tuesday against two City Council members who violated the city's campaign contribution laws. Council President John Ferraro - who is undergoing treatment for cancer and has not attended a council meeting in months - was fined $4,000 for accepting $2,000 worth of contributions in excess of the city limit during his 1999 re-election campaign, the commission reported. Councilman Nick Pacheco was fined $7,300 for accepting $1,500 in excess contributions, improper receipt of $1,154 in matching funds, and failing to disclose information about contributors who gave $43,000 to his 1999 campaign. - City News Service |
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