Date: Monday, June16, 2008
Time: 6:45pm - 8:15pm
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
Redistricting Ballot Measure- Richard Bort
Neighborhood Councils- George Truesdell
SB1818 City Ordinance - Barbara Burke
LAWA- 161 study update Denny Schneider
Membership Richard Leyner
7:30pm- 7:45pm Gautam Dutta
Gautam Dutta of the New America Foundation will discuss Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). He will explain how this system works and the anticipated benefits.
7:45pm - 8:15pm LeeAnn M. Pelham
Executive Director L.A. City Ethics Commission
LeeAnn Pelham was appointed Executive Director of the City Ethics Commission in January 2001 by the agency's five-member board. She heads a staff of 27 and is responsible for a $2.5 million annual budget and an $11 million Public Matching Funds Trust Fund. She directs the agency's operations, including a partial public financing program for city candidates, lobbyist registration and disclosure, and governmental ethics advice and training for city employees and officials. In 2007, the Ethics Commission received the national American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Public Integrity Award for having made "outstanding contributions to responsible conduct in public service."
Before joining the Commission as a policy analyst in 1991, Pelham worked for the State Auditor in Sacramento and Common Cause in Washington, D.C. A native of San Leandro, California, Pelham holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Michigan and an A.B. in Government from Georgetown University.
Ms. Pelham will discuss current issues facing the Commission and provide an update on plans for a full public financing system for L.A. City elections.
Adjourn: 8:15pm
Questions from the audience, as time permits, will follow each speaker's remarks. The public and press are invited to the meeting.
The next Valley VOTE meeting will be on Monday, July 21, 2008.
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 fostering the implementation of programs that empower the people of the San Fernando Valley and the City of Los Angeles, to improve local governance, education and public participation on policy matters.
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