EDITORIAL : OUTER LIMITS; CITY OF 4 MILLION COULDN'T FIND QUALIFIED RESIDENT TO HEAD NEW DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS.THE veteran City Council staff member nominated to head the new Department of Neighborhood Empowerment is by all accounts a likable person who's good at her job. Rosalind Stewart has been handling constituent problems in the Van Nuys area for several years, first as San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. deputy to Councilman Marvin Braude Marvin Braude (August 11, 1920—December 7, 2005)served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 11th district from 1965 to 1997. At various times Mr. Braude (pronounced BROW-dee) served as chair of the Finance and Revenue Committee, the Environmental Quality and Waste , and then to his successor, Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski Cindy Miscikowski represented the 11th District on the Los Angeles City Council for two full terms from 1997 through 2005. Previously, she was an aide to Councilman Marvin Braude and the Executive Director of the Skitball Cultural Center in its beginning stages. . And she is hailed as being sensitive to community issues. It also is significant that 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. picked someone familiar with Valley issues to head the new department, created by voters when they overwhelmingly approved Charter Reform in June. That said, it is curious that the mayor couldn't have found a willing and able nominee who actually lives in the city of Los Angeles
Stewart lives in Acton. And no matter how dedicated she is to reform, no matter how much she understands the concept that people want to have a voice and participate in their communities, she still doesn't have a direct stake in the success or failure of the outcome. At the end of the day, Stewart will leave her $115,000-a-year job creating community involvement in Los Angeles and head for home, outside the city limits. Funny that the woman chosen to make everyone forget about the Valley possibly seceding from L.A. has no constraints herself. That's L.A. - always stretching the limits. |
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