City Clerk to handle neighborhood elections
In one of the first steps toward cutting bureaucracy for neighborhood councils, the city clerk will begin overseeing local elections as soon as June, according to a proposal adopted Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council.Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.
The decision to move oversight of elections from the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to the city clerk was one of several key recommendations put forward by the Neighborhood Council Review Commission.
Having the clerk's office handle elections is designed to free neighborhood council members and DONE from the responsibility of organizing, overseeing and promoting elections, which was time consuming and sometimes controversial.