LA City's #1 priority is pensions and retiree benefits for the union employees. They claim they reformed pensions but they only reduced pensions for new hires and they excluded Police and Fire. That is not pension reform. The lavish pensions are consuming 32% of the labor budget and it will soon consume 50% as the tsunami of baby boomers retire. Meanwhile, LA City is too broke to enforce LAMC 56.08, the parkway & sidewalk ordinance. We complain about the tall weeds and accumulating trash and all we are told is we should assemble volunteers to deliver Did You Know letters to let adjacent owners know they are responsible for cleaning parkways & sidewalks even the ones behind their houses such as along Tampa Avenue near the mall, and Devonshire, Corbin, etc. Our councilman's office says deliver DYK letters or clean it up ourselves. These parkways are disgraceful and they are wrecking our quality of life. So, every Thursday for three years a group of volunteers have been cleaning up our violating neighbors' parkways and LA City's gutters and storm drains. LA cut street sweeping from every 4 weeks to every 27 weeks and they practically never clean storm drains. Six years ago, Councilman Greig Smith got Motion 07-0699 unanimously passed by City Council to fine the parkway violators (violators of LAMC 56.08). First $50, then $100 and then $150. Bureau of Street services wrote a strong recommendation to City Council so that is why they voted unanimously Yes for Greig Smith's motion 07-0699. Strangely, this revision to LAMC 56.08 to fine the violators has still not been written by City Attorney; it has lingered in City Attorney's office for 6 years now. Here is the motion.
http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=07-0699
We need this implemented now as it is the only solution to the ugly blighted sidewalks & parkways.
Andy - 11 years ago
the problem is not just that they don't have enough money for repairs, the real problem is that they spend it badly. In my west LA neighborhood I've seen them grind up and re-surface many fairly good streets, and then ignore nearby streets that would rattle your brain. I can show you alleys that are still DIRT, right in the city. The money they have is going to the wrong streets.
LA City's #1 priority is pensions and retiree benefits for the union employees. They claim they reformed pensions but they only reduced pensions for new hires and they excluded Police and Fire. That is not pension reform. The lavish pensions are consuming 32% of the labor budget and it will soon consume 50% as the tsunami of baby boomers retire. Meanwhile, LA City is too broke to enforce LAMC 56.08, the parkway & sidewalk ordinance. We complain about the tall weeds and accumulating trash and all we are told is we should assemble volunteers to deliver Did You Know letters to let adjacent owners know they are responsible for cleaning parkways & sidewalks even the ones behind their houses such as along Tampa Avenue near the mall, and Devonshire, Corbin, etc. Our councilman's office says deliver DYK letters or clean it up ourselves. These parkways are disgraceful and they are wrecking our quality of life. So, every Thursday for three years a group of volunteers have been cleaning up our violating neighbors' parkways and LA City's gutters and storm drains. LA cut street sweeping from every 4 weeks to every 27 weeks and they practically never clean storm drains. Six years ago, Councilman Greig Smith got Motion 07-0699 unanimously passed by City Council to fine the parkway violators (violators of LAMC 56.08). First $50, then $100 and then $150. Bureau of Street services wrote a strong recommendation to City Council so that is why they voted unanimously Yes for Greig Smith's motion 07-0699. Strangely, this revision to LAMC 56.08 to fine the violators has still not been written by City Attorney; it has lingered in City Attorney's office for 6 years now. Here is the motion.
http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=07-0699
We need this implemented now as it is the only solution to the ugly blighted sidewalks & parkways.
the problem is not just that they don't have enough money for repairs, the real problem is that they spend it badly. In my west LA neighborhood I've seen them grind up and re-surface many fairly good streets, and then ignore nearby streets that would rattle your brain. I can show you alleys that are still DIRT, right in the city. The money they have is going to the wrong streets.