Northridge Community Council 3-14-02 Update |
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See 3-19-02 DONE Certification meeting | 3-20-02 NCC Meeting | Miscikowski: advocate, judge and would-be executioner | Who owns the Valley | What libraries
DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2002 TIME: 6:30 p.m. at NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL17960 CHASE STREET, NORTHRIDGE, CA 91325 Corner on LIndley
The purpose of the hearing is to discuss, receive public comments, and vote on this application. The application from OLD NORTHRIDGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL and NORTHRIDGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL ask that they be formally certified and recognized as Los Angeles City Neighborhood Councils
Click here for full notice
http://www.northridgecouncil.org/done/020319done.htm
The Northridge Community Council bylaws fully conform to the charter definitions of stakeholders and the rights of stakeholders to make decisions concerning the community.
The charter grants the City Council the right to create laws in the form of Ordinances. The City Council has created an Ordinance (the “Plan”) for Neighborhood Councils that specifically takes away the rights of stakeholders to directly vote on issues that affect their communities. Instead, the Plan forces the Stakeholders to elect a small group of Directors who are empowered to make each and every decision for the community of 20,000-plus Stakeholders. This deliberately disenfranchises the stakeholders and places all votes in the hands of a few.
The fundamental issue concerns who will run the neighborhood councils. The voters passed the new charter, which specifically gives the stakeholders the right to make decisions for neighborhood councils. The Los Angeles City Council then passed an ordinance overriding the charter and banned stakeholders from voting.
At the hearing on March 19th, it is likely that DONE will follow the City council's version and override the charter and order us to change our bylaws to prohibit the stakeholders from voting.
This is analogous to Congress overriding the First Amendment, or for that matter, the entire Bill of Rights. The City Council has no legal right or authority to override the charter. We need as many stakeholders as possible at the March 19th meeting to demand that we be given our Charter-granted rights, which allow us to make our own decisions in and for our own neighborhoods.
We will be presenting to DONE the position that the charter approved by the voters prohibits the City Council from removing your right to vote.
Here is a link
http://www.northridgecouncil.org/notices/020313done.htm
to our full response to DONE regarding their complaints about our bylaws, a few are reasonable and a few just interpretations. But the most critical issue is they want to deny you, the stakeholder, a right to vote.
our next regular meeting is March 20, 7:00 PM, Northridge Hospital, 18300 Roscoe Blvd. see map
http://www.northridgecouncil.org/images/Northhospital.gif
for our Agenda
http://www.northridgecouncil.org/notices/020320ag.htm
Please notify your organization members and all interested parties. All Northridge stakeholders are invited to submit agenda items, bylaw amendments or comments.
The final agenda will be posted here and will be sent to everyone on our E-mail list. It will also be posted at the Northridge Library, Porter Ranch Library and Northridge Park
City Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski has set herself up as the outspoken opponent, judge and would-be executioner of the San Fernando Valley's secession movement.
As the mouthpiece for City Hall's exclusive power club, she rails against secession as if it were inherently dangerous and the status quo were inherently good. She debated Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment Chairman Richard Close before an audience of Los Angeles business leaders last week.
As judge, she sits as the City Council's delegate on the county's Local Agency Formation Commission, which is charged with forging as fair a secession deal as possible to put before the city's voters as early as next fall.
And that's where she becomes the would-be executioner. As a secession foe, she faces an obvious conflict of interest. The best way she can sink secession is to make the plan as distasteful as possible -- and she knows it.
"The new city will have less control than it will now," she warned during her debate with Close. "They will be contracting for city services and have less of a say on response time and how city services are carried out than they do now."
It need not be that way, since LAFCO will write the terms for divorce. But there can be little doubt that Miscikowski will do her best to make her gloomy prophecies self-fulfilling.
For all of her roles, the one she seems unwilling to play is that of the representative to her constituents, many of whom live in the Valley -- the community she refers to not as "we," but "they" as in: "They ... will have less of a say in response time and how city services are carried out than they do now."
Los Angeles city officials are behaving exactly like abusive spouses: If you leave, you leave with nothing; everything belongs to me. The example cited: The state compensating L.A. for taking a portion of Griffith Park is not relevant. The state had no vested interest in Griffith Park. The Valley has a vested interest in the entire city of Los Angeles.
I see this as very simple. If 39 percent of the population of Los Angeles lives in the Valley, do we not own 39 percent of Los Angeles? L.A. officials seem to believe that they personally own Los Angeles and the Valley. And only out of their generosity do they allow us to live here and pay taxes to the downtown Taliban regime. If they want a court battle, I will settle for nothing less than the U.S. Supreme Court.
Thomas Kiser North Hills
City Librarian Susan Kent promises to build new libraries quickly. The library bond was approved in 1998. Is this her idea of quickly? They also close down 32 libraries at the same time. Have you ever heard of a company closing down 32 of its stores at the same time?
Sun Valley has four schools that use the library. So now the kids get one day at the Sun Valley Park. I wouldn't go to the Sun Valley Park without a bodyguard.
Irene Ellis Sun Valley
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