EDITORIAL RIGHTEOUS FLIP-FLOP VILLARAIGOSA REACHES OUT TO NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS.Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. deserves credit for reversing his office's stance and deciding that the city's neighborhood councils Neighborhood councils are governmental or non-governmental bodies composed of local people who handle neighborhood problems. They can be found in many cities throughout the world. do need to be involved in deciding who oversees the community empowerment em·pow·er tr.v. em·pow·ered, em·pow·er·ing, em·pow·ers 1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority. See Synonyms at authorize. 2. movement. The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment is the main link between the city government and Los Angeles' 87 certified See certification. neighborhood councils. With the first and only head of the department, Greg Nelson, retiring, the mayor's aides asserted several times that Villaraigosa wanted the NCs to stay out of the search for a new head. The pronouncement enraged en·rage tr.v. en·raged, en·rag·ing, en·rag·es To put into a rage; infuriate. [Middle English *enragen, from Old French enrager : en-, causative pref. the city's community advocates. The neighborhood councils had been asked to weigh in on the choices for a new planning director, which they had done happily. What was up with this? But now the mayor is promising the NCs will ``have a role'' in the formal hiring process for a new general manager for DONE. This is the right choice. It's too bad that Villaraigosa's staff didn't see that from the start. It might have saved a lot of bad feelings. |
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