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Councilmember
Eric
Garcetti
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A Word From Eric
I've written
at length
about the importance
of a "clean money" law for Los Angeles that would
provide full public financing to qualified
candidates.
Now it's time for you
to get involved!
The California Clean Money Campaign,
California Common Cause, and the League of Women
Voters of Los Angeles invite you to join
Los Angeles City
Councilmembers
Wendy Greuel,
Eric Garcetti and Bill Rosendahl
at
a
TOWN
HALL
on
CLEAN
MONEY
What is it? How does it work? What
could it mean for Los Angeles?
WHEN:
Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Colfax
Elementary School, 11724 Addison Street, Valley
Village, CA 91607
WHY: To raise public
awareness & understanding of Clean Money Programs
and give you an opportunity to weigh in with your
thoughts and ideas.
Featuring
Bill Boyarsky, Vice
Chair, Los Angeles City Ethics
Commission
Susan
Lerner, Executive Director - CA Clean
Money Campaign
Bob
Stern, President, Center for
Governmental Studies
Cary Davidson,
Partner, Reed & Davidson, LLP
and
moderated by
Patt Morrison, Los
Angeles Times columnist and host of "Life and
Times Tonight" on KCET
Help us shape LA's political
future!
Please RSVP to Eric Tang at the California Clean
Money Campaign via
email or by calling 310-481-0814.
Clean Money refers to a voluntary
system of full public funding of election
campaigns. Already working in Arizona and Maine,
Clean Money is designed to strengthen the connection
between voters and their elected officials, ensure
that election campaigns are a fair contest of ideas
and not money, and open up the ballot to allow more
good people of modest means to run for office.
Learn more at www.CAclean.org
For those of you who have been following the growth
of our city through these pages and elsewhere, I
have another CD13-sponsored event for you:
Hollywood Smart
Growth Workshop
Saturday, May
13, 10 am to 12 noon
Will and Ariel Durant
Branch Library
7140 W. Sunset Boulevard
Los
Angeles, CA 90046
Panelists
include:
Jennifer Allen, Livable
Places
Alan Bell, Los Angeles
Department of City Planning
Mark Butala, Southern California
Association of Governments
The discussion will help us frame our efforts
on the Hollywood Community Plan Update. Refreshments
will be served and there will be time for
question-and-answer with the panelists. Please RSVP to
Alison Becker in my office via
email or by calling 213 473 7013.
IN
THE DISTRICT:
Click on the links to
see the original blog entry about each event.
Soccer stars of
two generations |
I got my hands dirty and saw a familiar mural at
the Atwater Village Clean-Up
at Ranch Market. Thanks to all who joined in the
clean-up.
In Glassell Park, I
met up with soccer stars Brandi Chastain and Landon
Donovan to dedicate the new Joga
Bonito playing field, donated by Nike. The kids of
the Anahuak Soccer League were out in full force to
cheer their favorite soccer stars and enjoy the
beautiful new field.
I joined the Armenian Genocide
Remembrance Day march through East Hollywood. Here's
the view of the march from our new field offices at
Hollywood and Western.
Bellevue
Park |
In Silver Lake, the mayor and I re-opened
Bellevue Park, long closed while $1.7 million
worth of bond-funded repairs were going on.
And in Hollywood, a new day
laborer center has made the area around Home Depot
safer and cleaner for day laborers and store
patrons.
Above, I joined the Silver
Lake Improvement Association annual meeting in
order to show my appreciation of the good work done by
SLIA president Eric Chinchilla. Below, Tom LaBonge and
I open up Project
Angel Food's new center on Vine Street in
Hollywood.
WHAT'S GOING ON IN CITY
HALL?
Out in the crowd,
May 1 (eecue) | The May
1st marches took my breath away. I had the
opportunity to wander in the crowd at the City Hall
march, and to see the enormity of the marchers down
Wilshire from the stage at the end of the day.
PBS broadcast The
New Los Angeles, a one-hour documentary that
explains how Latino immigration, union organizing,
coalition politics and smart policies like Living Wage
and accountable development have shaped our
city's recent history.
Opportunities for
youth | A new program to
reduce
gang activity and increase youth opportunity in
Boyle Heights reminded me of some of the work we've
done together in CD13 on the same vexing
issues.
To keep our city safe, Jack Weiss and I
called for legislation
that would coordinate training for security
officers in private, commercial high-rise
buildings and would reduce turnover in these jobs by
requiring a set level of healthcare benefits.
Gorbachev in
council | Mikhail
Gorbachev visited City Hall to build support for
Global Green's Energy Shift campaign. Global Green is
the same organization that I followed to the North
Pole last year; they also see the lighter side of
environmental activism, for example actress
Kate Bosworth in my electric car for our arrival
at the "Green Carpet" night before the Academy
Awards.
JUST
ONE MORE
I think this Soccer365
writer and I may have noticed the same little
soccer star at the Joga Bonito
field.
CONTACT US
Tell us what you think. ..... garcetti@council.lacity.org
Councilmember Eric Garcetti represents the
Thirteenth Council District which includes all or part
of the communities of Glassell Park, Atwater Village,
Elysian Valley, Echo Park, Historic Filipinotown,
Silver Lake, East Hollywood and
Hollywood.
Councilmember Garcetti serves
as President of the Los Angeles City Council. He
chairs the Council‘s Rules and Elections Committe, is
the Vice-Chair of the Energy and the Environment
Committee, and sits on the Housing and Community
Development Committee. He also sits on the Council‘s
Ad Hoc Committee on Homelessness and the Ad Hoc
Committee on the Los Angeles River.
Councilmember Garcetti and his staff can be
reached via e-mail at councilmember.garcetti@council.lacity.org or by mail or phone at City Hall, 200 N.
Spring Street, Room 470, Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213)
473 7013 and 5500 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90028, 323/957-4500.
www.cd13.com
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