Neighborhood Council fear impact

he decision by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday to merge the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment into another city agency has raised concern over the future of the city's decade-old experiment with grass-roots democracy. Daily News.

To Villaraigosa and many city and neighborhood council leaders, the proposal - which will eliminate some two dozen positions and save an estimated $2 million - will help chip away the bureaucracy at City Hall.