The Nunez Law is being crafter to prevent your tax dollars from going to wine and cheese parties and expensive personal Robin Leach caviar wishes and champaign dreams. (No wonder Nucklehead said he is getting out of politics.) SEE STORY BELOW...but first:
LAUSD, charters to share space
Just call LAUSD and Charter Schools "The New Brady Bunch" with Monica Garcia and Steve Barr playing Mr. and Mrs. Brady. And two school systems instead of just six kids. And me, I'm Zuma Dogg...just call me Alice!
Better hire more security. When you combine LAUSD and Charters, you may see fights break out on campus as the two cultures clash. Among the teachers, that is.)
Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to share space on its campuses with charter schools, settling a lawsuit by charter groups that said the district was violating state law.
Charter school organizations sued the district last year, claiming that it was refusing to follow Proposition 39, which requires school districts to provide appropriate space on their campuses for recognized charters.
But the teachers union said it is unhappy with the agreement, claiming it violates labor laws and that sharing space will cause tensions and disruptions on campuses.
The teacher's union views the agreement as a change in working conditions for teachers, meaning it should be subject to negotiation in the collective-bargaining agreement. Without that process, he believes it could violate state labor law.
Mayor evades council roadblock on Pico-Olympic plan
Antonio Villaraigosa orders lane and parking changes to ease Westside gridlock, despite opposition from two councilmen.
Despite fierce opposition from residents and concerns by two City Council members, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has ordered Los Angeles transportation officials to implement a plan to make Pico Boulevard mostly one-way eastbound, and Olympic Boulevard mostly one-way westbound.
Under the mayor's plan, which had stalled earlier this week in a City Council committee, parking would be forbidden on all but a few stretches of Pico and Olympic during rush hour beginning March 8.
[Business Alert: Close up shop and move out now if you are located along this corridor. No parking = No business.]
CALL IT THE NUNEZ LAW
New campaign-spending disclosure rules imposed on California politicians
SACRAMENTO -- The state ethics watchdog Thursday made it tougher for politicians to use campaign funds to enhance their lifestyles.
New rules imposed by the Fair Political Practices Commission will force politicians to publicly explain how meals, gifts and out-of-state travel paid for with campaign money are connected to political or governmental business.
Just as predicted, DWP rates back on table after Prop S tax passes
Article Last Updated: 02/11/2008 10:49:57 PM PST
Back in December when the Los Angeles City Council asked the DWP to put its quest for a water and electric rate hike on hold, it was clear to anyone who knows City Hall's devious ways that this was just a ploy to help the city pass Measure S.
Surely voters wouldn't be as open to accepting a broader communications tax if the city were simultaneously planning to levy higher water and electric rates. There are limits to voter generosity, especially because the bimonthly DWP bills have taken a noticeable jump in recent months thanks to the trash-fee hike and other rate increases.
City Hall didn't want its vast portfolio of tax hikes and rate increases to so upset the public that the phony phone tax would be in jeopardy. So the council put off the vote on more than $1billion in DWP rate hikes for 60 days to "study" how the system would be upgraded. Now that Measure S has passed, the rate hikes are back on the table.
It was as fictitious a delay as there ever was. Just three days after Measure S passed, the Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners endorsed the hikes: electric rates up by 9percent over three years and water rates by 6percent over two years.
Right on schedule.
LAUSD Pay-to-play fees will hit L.A. groups hard
Hundreds of nonprofit youth groups have begun bracing for the bills to use LAUSD facilities and athletic fields as the district launches a controversial "pay-to-play" program next month.
While the district has not yet sent out invoices to all the groups, the nonprofit Valley Youth Conference said that under the established fee structure its annual bill could be as high as $80,000.
"How many times am I, as a taxpayer, going to pay for the use of the fields?" said Bill Speer, a longtime volunteer with the conference, which provides year-round sports programs for nearly 10,000 students.
LA City Update.com
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