LA Public Funding Education & Feedback Project
Presentation on April 22nd

This was the representative invited by Jerry Schneider who spoke briefly during public comment at the last board meeting, and who has asked to make a more detailed presentation in April.

Joe Riser
josephr@mindspring.com

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From: Crissi Avila crissiann@gmail.com
Sent: Mar 27, 2008 5:55 PM

Subject: LA Public Funding Education & Feedback Project

Joseph,

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH THE BOARD.

Thanks for the opportunity to present a second time at the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council meeting on April 22nd.

The LA City Council is considering full public funding of their elections instead of partial funding and has requested feedback from LA Neighborhood Councils. This project is called the LA Full Public Funding Education & Feedback Project and is an effort to support the City Council in their efforts to develop a system of full public funding of campaigns in Los Angeles. I, Crissi Avila or another representative will speak for 10 minutes about what you can do to participate in this effort and provide valuable feedback to the City Council and request a vote on sponsoring a workshop.

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Background:

The California Clean Money Campaign (CCMC) is a nonprofit nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2001 to build statewide support for the full public funding of election campaigns. We are the leading voice in California' s efforts to bring about meaningful campaign reform through publicly funded elections.

For the last two years CCMC has been working to educate Angelinos about campaign financing initiatives. Last spring the City Ethics Commission issued a preliminary proposal for public funding of City Council races, which was forwarded to the City Council with the suggestion that it would benefit from extensive pubic input.

The City Council Rules Committee has asked LA's Neighborhood Councils to review the Ethics Commission proposal, together with several alternative funding models developed by the City Legislative Analyst and CCMC. CCMC has developed a civic outreach and education program that we're coordinating to bring this project to NCs across the city.

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At this point we are working to get on NC agenda's across Los Angeles to give a brief 10 minute presentation to explain our project and how your neighbors can get directly involved.

This is a unique opportunity for the neighborhood councils to have a direct voice in creating city policy, and on an issue that could profoundly shift the way candidates are elected and who elected officials feel accountable to.

Please call me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Crissi Avila
626 / 975-1433 (cell phone)
crissiann@gmail.com