INITIATIVE DRIVE WEIGHED FOR EMPOWERED COUNCILS.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer Leading supporters of creating strong 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. in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. said Friday they are considering an initiative drive in the wake of two charter reform commissions' decisions to ask voters to approve only advisory councils. A group of business, labor, political and homeowner leaders - called The Coalition - is scheduled to hold a news conference today at a citywide Constitutional Convention for the elected Charter Reform Commission. At their news conference, members of The Coalition will urge the elected charter panel to reconsider its recommendation for neighborhood councils having only advisory power over land use. That recommendation for purely advisory councils is opposed by The Coalition, which includes state Sen. Tom Hayden Thomas Emmett "Tom" Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. , D-Los Angeles, and Richard Close, chairman of Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment, the secession secession, in art secession, in art, any of several associations of progressive artists, especially those in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna, who withdrew from the established academic societies or exhibitions. study group, and president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association. The city's appointed charter commission also has recommended purely advisory councils. Hayden is examining the feasibility of launching a petition drive to qualify an initiative for the citywide ballot that would amend the new charter by requiring the establishment of decision-making neighborhood councils, said Rocky Rushing, a spokesman for the lawmaker. ``We're looking into what signatures would be needed and by when,'' Rushing said. ``Because, by God, if (the commissions) are not going to put anything meaningful on the ballot maybe we will.'' Deputy City Clerk In the United States, a City Clerk is an elected or appointed official who is responsible as the official keeper of the municipal records. In some places, the Clerk may be known as the "Village Clerk" or "Town Clerk". Joe Giles confirmed that Hayden's office had contacted him to get details on qualifying an initiative. Giles said the petitioners would have to collect 61,170 signatures of registered voters in Los Angeles and turn them in 160 days before the election in which the initiative would appear. Close, whose Valley VOTE group is just wrapping up a signature drive to trigger a study of cityhood for the 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. , said an initiative drive on neighborhood empowerment may be warranted. ``That route may be the only way to accomplish our goal,'' Close said. ``It's something to consider if the ways and means WAYS AND MEANS. In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into, and propose to the house, the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the use of the government. This body is called the committee of ways and means. are there.'' The news conference will be held outside the downtown Convention Center today, where the elected charter panel will take public testimony on its proposed charter beginning at 9 a.m. |
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