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DE PA R T M E N T S Publisher’s Note .......................................page 2 Community Calendar .......................................page 3 Church Calendar..........page 3 Letters to the Editor .......................................page 3 Council Member Dunlap VIEW FROM DISTRICT 2 .......................................page 6 Council Member Stevens GREETINGS from MIKE .......................................page 6 SNACKTIME with ADIA Restaurant Reviews......page 6 Book Reviews................page 9
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Did Butts Violate Brown Act? Was Fire District 1 Town Hall Meeting Visited by Mayor, L.A. Co. F.D. By Randall Fleming An October 29 town hall meeting for Morningside Park residents, hosted by District 1 council member Mike Stevens, ended abruptly after three uninvited city council members entered. Mayor James T. Butts, Jr, and district council members—Eloy Morales and Ralph Franklin, of Districts 3 and 4, respectively—arrived, one after another, shortly after the meeting’s start. Had three or more city council members conferred on any matter that could be inferred as being “business of a specified nature that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the local agency,” the meeting would have triggered a violation of the Brown Act. The nature of the Act extends to any such discussion within a reasonable amount of time after a meeting as well, an example being a majority of city council members huddling in an unlit parking lot within 15
Dept. Call Staged?
District 4 Council Member Franklin’s Behavior Observed
At Monday’s hearing, District 4 councilman Franklin reacts to the shutdown of the town hall meeting by L.A. County F.D. Capt. Dorsey. To Franklin’s right is a LACFD firemen, who is not laughing. Mayor Butts appears happy to hear at least one citizen’s concerns. Nearly 100 others were told to leave only moments before.
minutes of a town hall meeting’s sudden shutdown, and being overheard mentioning the topic of the town meeting in an apparently divisive fashion. What appeared to be the reason for the abrupt end of the meeting was the arrival of L.A. County Fire Department Captain Dorsey, who, within moments of entering the building, declared the meet-
ing “overcrowded.” Captain Dorsey departed minutes later. After the fire truck drove away, the building remained filled with people. District 2 council member Judy Dunlap, who was invited by Stevens and who noticed the unannounced arrival of the mayor and two other city council members, was concerned that a possiplease see Brown Act, page 10
The devil is in the details, especially in the immediate aftermath of a figurative act of arson meant to deprive citizens of their “oxygen.” In the minutes preceding please see Fake Fire, page 9 www.MPChronicle.net
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By Mira Tweti The intersection of Manchester and La Cienega was abuzz with activity. Everywhere one looked, crowds of police, volunteers, technicians and scores of onlookers pressed forward to get a glimpse of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The NASA space vessel, which had survived 25 successful missions and traveled 122,883,151 miles since it was built in the California Mojave desert in 1992, was on its final voyage, Mission 26. Upon completion, it would come to rest at the California Science Center near downtown Los Angeles. The sightseers, some of whom had been waiting since the early in the morning, were kept at a distance of 200 feet from the shuttle’s path. Endeavour’s last mission began with a dramatic se-
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The Space Shuttle Endeavour stops for a snack in Inglewood at Randy’s Donuts; (inset) A nose-cone close-up.