Chick worries strudies gathering dust

With less than two years left in office, Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick said Friday that she's concerned that many of her office's recommendations from previous audits of city agencies have not yet been enacted. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

And after eight years on the City Council and six years as controller, Chick said she's tired of city leaders wringing their hands over the same problems - gangs, affordable housing, traffic - without coming up with long-term solutions.

"The clock has always been ticking and now it's a time bomb," Chick said. "I do not want to leave City Hall as a frustrated person. I want to feel I was successful in the things that matter the most to me. I'm not going out defeated."