Letters to the Editor: Expand the L.A. City Council or the L.A. County Board of Supervisors?

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Letters to the Editor: Expand the L.A. City Council or the L.A. County Board of Supervisors? (via latimesopinion )

There’s nothing positive that would come from a larger Los Angeles City Council. In my opinion, expanding it would only lead to longer delays in city business being done and even more corruption.

However, what’s really needed is a larger L.A. County Board of Supervisors, expanded to at least seven members, maybe even nine. For only five people to have control over the most populous county in this country is absolutely absurd.

Five years on the board of my local council has convinced me that a significant overhaul is in order. While decisions made by the neighborhood councils are advisory, L.A. City Council members should be mandated to proactively deal with them so the neighborhood councils can blunt the sway of deep-pocket special interests and well-organized groups advocating minority positions.Los Angeles is overburdened with complexity in so many ways that until there are incentives for simplification, the dysfunctional bureaucracy will only get worse.

 

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