With residents in the San Fernando Valley favoring secession from the city, David Fleming suggests that Los Angeles should adopt a system of Boroughs to ease local governance tensions in the city.
With the City of L.A.'s negative response to the idea of Valley secession now public, all parties involved may have forgotten what the driving force behind the secession movement is--the belief that City Hall lacks public and neighborhood accountability. Valley leader David Fleming suggests that civic leaders consider again a Borough system for Los Angeles--not unlike what New York and London have. In this excerpt from his recent remarks to the National Academy of Public Administration, David urges Boroughs, which Mayor Riordan rejected, as the logical and most desirable solution to Los Angeles' governance conundrum.
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FULL STORY: Boroughs May Be An Alternative To Valley Secession

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