Reforming Los Angeles: Radical Surgery on the Neighborhood Council System
GELFAND’S WORLD—(This is another article in a continuing campaign to inform, educate and energize Angelenos on the reformation of city government … explaining the how, the why and the possibilities.) We've been arguing about what's wrong with the neighborhood council system for sixteen years. The problems we had at the beginning are, by and large, still with us. They were locked into the city's Charter language by the municipal election of 1999, which approved Article IX: Department of Neighborhood Empowerment. We've been forced to deal with that section's inadequacies ever since.