LA Weekly On LA's Neighborhood Councils
The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, created to run LA's new neighborhood councils, is under fire.
The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) came is part of the city-charter reform approved by LA voters in June 1999. The fledgling agency faces mounting criticism from grassroots groups who call DONE exclusionary and top-down, and from some City Council members who find Mayor Richard Riordans support of the neighborhood-empowerment measure suspect. The LA Weekly reports on DONE's progress to date.
Thanks to Chris Steins
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Published on Tuesday, August 1, 2000 in
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