The painstakingly slow deliberations at LA City Hall show how complex it is to enact governance reform.
For months, Angelenos have heard local elected officials say they’re working to reform City Hall, following scandalous revelations that three City Council members and a labor leader met secretly to discuss how they or their allies could personally benefit by drawing new council district maps.
The 265,000 figure is so big that researchers publish papers about L.A.’s singular situation, where an individual councilmember speaks for more than a quarter million people. Now, as the one-year anniversary approaches of the scandal that forced then-City Council President Nury Martinez to resign, the council’s governance reform committee is inching closer to sending recommendations to the full council to decide what to include in any 2024 ballot question asking voters to approve reform measures.
In the coming weeks, the governance reform committee must decide how many City Council districts to recommend, or whether voters should be given options on the ballot. “This is not easy stuff or else it would have been done before. We’re taking on something that nobody in 100 years has ever chosen to do in this city,” Krekorian said about trying to increase the number of city council districts.How would commissioners be selected to assure an independent redistricting commission?
City officials say they want to restrict backroom dealings by prohibiting so-called “ex parte communications,” meaning that the future redistricting commissioners would be banned from having private conversations with councilmembers — or anyone else — outside of a public meeting.
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