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NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS ACTION SUMMIT
Less Talk - More Action!
Saturday, October 3, 2009

A growing number of neighborhood council board members and stakeholders want to find a new way for the voices of neighborhood councils to be heard.

The first Action Summit was being designed to provide neighborhood councils and their stakeholders with opportunities they haven't had at City Hall's Congress of Neighborhoods, which has now been combined with the initial meeting of the Mayor's Community Budget Day process.

If you weren't able to attend the Summit, you can still learn about issues that were discussed and voted on, and join the action teams that are forming to produce meaningful results. The topics can be found in the window at the left.

You can leave comments, suggest topics for future meetings, ask questions, and even add to or edit the information that has been posted.

Action Summits:

* Allow participants to have a stronger voice about several important citywide issues through votes.

* Prove that community meetings can be organized for a fraction of the cost of the Congress of Neighborhoods.

* Are designed totally by neighborhood council members without interference from City Hall.

* Provide free food and hospitality to those who invest their time in the process.

* Are open to everyone and don't require pre-registration.

* Ensure that participants leave with action plans through which they can actively pursue their favorite issues.

* Result in discussion notes and results being posted on the Internet. (Coming soon)

* Provide those who are unable to attend with an online voting opportunity. (Coming soon)

The Program

Welcoming:
David Bell, President, East Hollywood Neighborhood Council
Robert Greene, Editorial Writer, Los Angeles Times
Tezozomoc, South Central Farmers Cooperative

Issue #1: "Should neighborhood councils promote and support efforts to qualify for the 2010 ballot, using the initiative process, a City Charter amendment that would cut in half the salaries of the mayor, city attorney, city controller, and members of the city council?”

Facilitator: Betty Pleasant
Pro: Doug Epperhart
Con: Bill Christopher

Issue #2: "Should neighborhood councils promote and support an effort to create an independent Ratepayers' Advocate who would have the ability to audit, investigate, review, and analyze the operations, finances, and management of the Department of Water and Power and continuously make public his/her findings?"

Facilitator: Noel Weiss
Pro: Nick Patsaouras, Jack Humphreville
Con: S. David Freeman (cancelled)

Issue #3: "Should neighborhood councils support the Cyclists' Bill of Rights?"

Facilitator: Stephen Box
Pro: Dr. Alex Thompson

Issue #4: "How do neighborhood councils feel about the possible solutions to lessen the backlog of sidewalk repair projects?"

Facilitator: Bill Christopher
Special Guest: Bill Robertson

Presentation by Get Connected's Stephen & Enci Box
regarding creative use of "social" media by neighborhood councils.

Issue #5: “Should neighborhood councils promote and support an effort that would require the mayor to propose and the City Council to adopt a balanced budget for the forthcoming year AND, at the same time, balanced budgets for the following five years?"

Pro: Paul Hatfield

Issue #6: "Should marijuana cooperatives and/or collectives be allowed in Los Angeles? If yes, where and under which circumstances?"

Facilitator: Len Shaffer
Special Guest: Jane Usher







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clairvoyant1 Sidewalk repairs and cyclists bill of rights 1 Feb 3 2011, 10:13 AM EST by Anonymous
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There should be a real dialogue on sidewalk repair, instead of handing out big pensions. Yes we should have a cyclist bill of rights as long as they obey the traffic laws, wear a helmet and have lights for night riding.
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Anonymous We need honest government with integrity. 0 Feb 3 2011, 10:09 AM EST by Anonymous
 
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We need honest government with integrity.
“Good leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion”

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Action speaks louder than words.



Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.


Action speaks louder than words.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics, a person with principles.

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Anonymous Sounds like a coup! 5 Oct 12 2009, 5:39 PM EDT by Kim-SubMeterMaid
 
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This so-called "summit" sounds like a half-hearted attempt to gain notoriety for a select few and to lose political allies in city govenrnment. The agenda posted is misleading and attempts to distort the truth about many items. I for one will not be attending.

Mark Legassie
Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council, Treasurer
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
City of Los Angeles
email: treasurer@asnc.us
Ph: 323-823-3046
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