LaBonge to speak at next Valley VOTE meeting

L.A. Councilman Tom LaBonge will be a guest speaker at the next Valley VOTE meeting, to be held from 6:45-8:30 p.m. in the second-floor meeting room at Galpin Ford, 15505 Roscoe Blvd., North Hills.

LaBonge, former chief of field operations for Mayor Richard Riordon, was elected to his first four-year term on the L.A. City Council in 2003 and his second four-year term in 2007.

Jacque McMillan, a principal government and regional affairs representative for the Metropolitan Water District, will also speak at the Valley VOTE meeting.

For more information, visit www.valleyvote.org.

Valley VOTE (Voters Organized Toward Empowerment) is the organization that led a petition drive to place a measure before voters in 2002 seeking to secede the San Fernando Valley from the city of Los Angeles. The measure did not pass.

Today, Valley VOTE's mission is to explore and foster the implementation of programs that empower the people of the Valley and city of Los Angeles in order to improve local governance, education and public participation on policy matters.