City Controller Laura Chick has scuttled the City Council’s attempt to hold an illegal closed door meeting to cut a back room deal to end the political fight between her and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo.
Wannabe City Attorney Jack Weiss, backed by council leaders Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel, introduced a motion last month in absentia making council intervention in the dispute an emergency issue and setting the closed door meeting for tomorrow’s council agenda.
At issue is Chick’s insistence on being able to audit programs run by other elected officials, in this case the city’s troubled worker compensation cases handled by the City Attorney. Delgadillo refused and filed a Superior Court complaint claiming the City Charter does not give the controller authority to subpoena his records or an audit his performance.
The council then jumped into the fray even though if Delgadillo is right it would not have the authority to intervene in a political and legal fight between two elected officials whose positions are created by the charter.
Since the council cannot affect the dispute, its justification for freezing out the public is specious as well — nothing but a naked deceit to operate in secret on an issue that should be debated in public.
With Chick’s refusal to bow to the council, the issue of her authority apparently isn’t so urgent.now and will not be taken up for several weeks by the Rules Committee.
“This must be a public and open discussion that will begin in the
Council Rules Committee soon and ultimately decided by the voters in
March,” said Chick.
I had intended to go to City Hall Wednesday to object to the closed door meeting on legal and moral grounds. The issue remains the same: The public must be vigilant and object to every illegal action by the council or other city officials
City Hall must start obeying the law. If you know of illegal actions by city offiicals, let me know at ron@ronkayela.com
Tell Laura Chick “You go, girl” for me! I don’t
get these kinds of actions by the Council. Even they cannot be that devious, Stupid?
Now I wonder, Could they be? Hmmm What do you think?
Sometimes when a bunch of devious pols conspire to save face, all they do is show their asses.
Laura drops supbeonas on Rocky. He sues Laura. Eric, Wendy and Jack put their collective feet down and demand they come to a secret council session to settle the dispute – which makes everybody in City Hall look like idiots.
Ron Kaye is outraged and threatens to skip golf this morning and go downtown, which he hates, to protest the meeting.
Holy shit! says Eric, Wendy and Jack (if he was around) that will be embarrassing. Cancel the stupid meeting. “Somebody find Jack and tell him.”
Laura, attempting to maintain her reputation as some sort vicious lion or tiger, tries to take credit for backing down Eric, Wendy and Jack while seeking their support for her carpet-bagging council race.
Ron gets to play golf. Maybe we should let him run the city
Dear 8 am: Thanks for bringing a smile to my face on this Wednesday morning. I was planning to go to Council this morning also — now I don’t have to take time off of work to walk over there and sit through the muddle. Pitiful Zuma Dogg is unpalatable enough on the tv — but in person . . . well, nuff said.
YAY, Ron! S.L.A.P. those fools. (Wouldn’t it be a totally humiliating experience to be represented by Jack not-so-wise?)
You think just maybe the embarrassment of having to sit through their Council grownups telling them to talk it out before they use their fists, might have made Chick and Rocky back down?
Illegal actions by those at City Hall???
Just every time they cash their paychecks!
Perpetrating a fraud upon the taxpayer.
have you read the latest OIG report on the Housing authority city of la. This is better than the 2500 dollar toilets
27.1 million all mis used by Mr Rudy Montiel
ceo/director of the Housing Authority of City of Los Angeles