Meeting Notice
Our featured speakers are

Lisa Sarno
Interim General Manager of the
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment

David Hernandez
Community Activist
and
Bill Boyarsky
L.A. City Ethics Department Commissioner

Date: Monday, January 15,2007
Time: 6:45 PM - 8:30PM
Place:Galpin Ford - 2nd Floor meeting
Room,15555 Roscoe Blvd. [at the 405]
Parking: Free parking in the Galpin Lot on the West side of Orion
Please do not park in the customer service areas.

Agenda

6:45PM- 7: 30PM Valley VOTE
Introductions
Reports by Valley VOTE Committees
Housing Vic Viereck
LAWA Denny Schneider
Land Use Pauline Tallent
Neighborhood Councils Polly Ward
Membership Richard Leyner

7:30PM - 8:00PM
Lisa Sarno
Lisa Sarno has been the Interim General Manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) since the retirement of Greg Nelson last year. She directs the activities of 51 employees. The mission statement of DONE is; " To promote public participation in government and make government more responsive to local needs by creating, nurturing, and supporting a citywide system of grassroots, independent, and participatory neighborhood councils."
Lisa will discuss the challenges she and her department has faced in their effort to satisfy DONE's mission.

8:00PM to 8:30PM
David Hernandez
Bill Boyarsky
David Hernandez has been a community advocate for more than 20 years. He has been active in many local political issues including the Independence campaign for cityhood for the San Fernando Valley. He is currently on the Foundation Board of Mission College, the Human Services Youth Network, and Justice -Ville USA (Dome Village). He is also a Board member of the North Hollywood North East Neighborhood Council. He (along with Ted Hayes) is the lead petitioner in the current legal action challenging the constitutionality of Proposition R passed by the voters in the past November election.

Commissioner Boyarsky, an outstanding writer and journalist, including 31 years with the Los Angeles Times, was appointed to the Ethics commission by Laura Chick and is serving a five year term ending June 2008. The Ethics Commission, which has the responsibility to oversee Ethics regulations was never consulted on Proposition R. Ethics Commissioner Bill Boyarsky said that Prop. R is an "outrageous proposal" and "showed absolute contempt for the Ethics Commission"

David and Bill will bring us up to date as to what is happening with this matter.

Questions from the audience will follow each speaker's remarks. The public and press are invited to the meeting.
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The next meeting will be on Monday, February 19,2007.

Valley VOTE Mission Statement
Valley VOTE, a diverse coalition of San Fernando Valley residents, business people, educators, community activists, and organizations, is committed to exploring and implementing programs that empower the people of the San Fernando Valley and the City of Los Angeles, including opportunities to improve local governance, education and public participation on policy matters.

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