PUBLIC FORUM.Councils not a failure Re ``Key city reform failing'' (Dec. 16): In 62 months, 88 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. were certified. I do not call this a failure. DONE assisted councils with their bylaws The rules and regulations enacted by an association or a corporation to provide a framework for its operation and management. Bylaws may specify the qualifications, rights, and liabilities of membership, and the powers, duties, and grounds for the dissolution of an , elections, training, congress, etc., and was preparing to take them to the next level when the general manager resigned. The interim manager has given no direction or assistance to lead the councils. Neighborhood councils cannot force people to come to meetings or run for the boards. Stakeholders that have large families or work at more than one job just don't have time and few renters are interested. Perhaps the biggest lesson for councils is to make their meetings more exciting and more like town-hall public forums. If there were town-hall meetings, attendance would multiply. Then the board could get their business done quickly and efficiently at a board meeting held a week later. -- Jacque Lamishaw Past President Winnetka Neighborhood Council Lose-lose LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) I'm afraid Superintendent David Brewer This article is about the businessman and Lord Mayor of London; for the American jurist, see David Josiah Brewer Sir David Brewer CMG (born 1940) was Lord Mayor of London between 2005 and 2006. III will have a shock when he finds that the power in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. is not in his office, but in the office of the president of the teachers union, with their contributions funding the campaigns for the board member. Brewer will lose any fights he has with the union. He cannot reform the district without fighting with the union. It seems to me he is in a lose-lose situation. Make nice with the union and let the schools deteriorate or fight the union and get fired. -- Virgil Weatherford Woodland Hills Put a lid on it Re ``Delay upon delay'' (Our Opinions, Dec. 18): I've worked at the Rocketdyne Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:
supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. is contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. and poison is raining down from the hilltop is grossly exaggerated. Our tap water is not from groundwater. If that was all true, we at Rocketdyne should've all been dead long ago. I'm relieved that Boeing's in charge of the cleanup, not the government. Huge amounts of money and effort are being spent on the cleanup. It's not just talk, it's happening. For the love of peace, Daily News, put a lid on it. -- Greg Smith Greg Smith may refer to:
Simi Valley Arnold's agenda I read Arnold Schwarzenegger's Daily News Op-Ed piece, ``Time for a change on health coverage,'' in total astonishment. Earlier this year, Arnold vetoed a health coverage bill for all Californians which was several years in the planning and was studied and passed by a majority of the California state Legislature The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California. It is a bicameral body consisting of the lower house California State Assembly, with 80 members, and the upper house California State Senate, with 40 members. . It's total hypocrisy for him to now outline all of the issues that the Health Insurance Reliability Act, SB 840 (which he vetoed), would have solved and say that ``it's time for a change.'' The hidden agenda is that he's not working for the people of California on this issue; he's working to preserve the obscene profits of the private health care insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry. -- Melvin H. Kirschner, M.D. Van Nuys Orange Line fixes Re ``Orange Line monorail'' (Your Opinions, Dec. 18): It would be nice to have an Orange Line monorail monorail, railway system that uses cars that run on a single rail. Typically the rail is run overhead and the cars are either suspended from it or run above it. , or, better yet, a subway. Unfortunately, we have some inappropriate state legislation, authored by (former state Sen.) Alan Robbins, D-Van Nuys, that prevents us from building either of those systems at any reasonable price. That has to be repealed to make any real progress here. Robert Rosebrock's proposal seems to cater pretty heavily to automobile drivers. The idea is to reduce the use of automobiles by providing convenient alternatives. Although the Orange Line is a great start, it doesn't have good connecting lines on the north/south streets. All north/south buses should run at least once every 20 minutes. Perhaps we should run smaller buses so we can run them more frequently. -- William O. West Reseda |
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