Which Way, L.A.?
Charter Reform
Can you describe a "city that works?" L.A.'s city charter fills 700 pages but by most accounts fails to address what's really important to governing Los Angeles. Competing charter reform commissions are trying to work together. Can the wide range of views on reform be accommodated in a new city charter?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readJeff Brain : Co-chair, Valley Vote. Mark Ridley-Thomas: City Council member, represents the 8th district, home of the Empowerment Congress, a program of local councils. Sister Alice Callaghan : Director, Las Familias del Pueblos, a family community center on Skid Row. Marshall Diaz: Chair, Los Angeles County Latino Redistricting Coalition. Julie Butcher : General Manager, SEIU Local 347, the union that represents most city workers. Erwin Chemerinsky: Professor of Constitutional Law, USC. Chair of Los Angeles' Elected Charter Reform Commission. George Kieffer: Attorney with Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips; chair of the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission appointed by the city council. Erin Aubrey: Staff Writer, LA Weekly Ambassador David Scheffer: US ambassador-at-large and Head of the US Delegation to the International Criminal Court Preparatory Committee.
topic: Workfare March
