COUNCIL PANEL TAKES AGENCY HEAD TO TASK OVER MURALS.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer Upset that $100,000 the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. budgeted for mural muralPainting applied to and made integral with the surface of a wall or ceiling. Its roots can be found in the universal desire that led prehistoric peoples to create cave paintings—the desire to decorate their surroundings and express their ideas and beliefs. maintenance was being diverted to finance a new mural to celebrate the millennium, a council panel demanded Tuesday that the Cultural Affairs Department restore the money for repairs. Councilwoman Ruth Galanter Ruth Galanter was a city councilwoman from Los Angeles. She served as President Pro-Tempore and President of the city council. said the council specifically dedicated the $100,000 to a budget for restoring existing city murals that had been cut by the mayor. ``Since then, however, the will of the council has apparently been subverted,'' Galanter said in calling for an investigation into how and why the Cultural Affairs Department diverted the money. The council's Budget and Finance Committee called Cultural Affairs manager Adolfo Nodal Having to do with nodes. See node. NODAL - Interpreted language implemented on Norsk Data's NORD-10 computers. Used by CERN and DESY high energy physics labs to control their accelerator hardware, PADAC and SEDAC. Included trackball input, graphics. on the carpet Tuesday, demanding answers and directing him to put the $100,000 back in the mural repair fund. ``What is the point of trying to develop new murals when we can't even deal with what we have?'' asked Councilman Richard Alatorre Richard Alatorre is a politician, and a member of the Democratic Party. Alatorre has served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He was the first Latino to serve on the council in 23 years. , the committee's chairman. Much of the criticism focused on whether Nodal went overboard o·ver·board adv. Over or as if over the side of a boat or ship. Idiom: go overboard To go to extremes, especially as a result of enthusiasm. in planning for several festivals in celebration of the millennium. Alatorre said the City Council was clear when it budgeted the $100,000 to maintain and restore murals in each of the City Council districts. ``I want to know why it wasn't implemented,'' Alatorre told Nodal. ``Those (old murals) are going into disrepair and we're spending all our money on a new one.'' Nodal said his impression of the council action was that the $100,000 was being provided for mural maintenance and production. ``It's a matter of semantics semantics [Gr.,=significant] in general, the study of the relationship between words and meanings. The empirical study of word meanings and sentence meanings in existing languages is a branch of linguistics; the abstract study of meaning in relation to language or ,'' Nodal said. ``Everything we do in 1999 and 2000 will be called millennium (related).'' He said he had intended to seek new bids on a repair contract in January. Nodal agreed to the committee's demands, and Alatorre pledged to work with him to find other funds for a new mural. |
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