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“Rudy Cole -- Election thoughts” [Issue
#683]
Your Nov. 1 “Election thoughts” column is
not only timely, it is informative - especiallyfor those who consider ourselves locals after
10 years or so in town. Your political history
of city government in the Weekly is enlighten-
ing indeed.
What really resonated was your observation
about low voter turnout. Looking at the elec-
tion figures from past years, I’m disappointed
that more of us don’t make it to the polls. But
I’m even more distressed that our residents
don’t participate as much as they could in day-
to-day governance. Every two weeks I review
the Council’s synopsis of city commission
meetings, and most of those meetings pass
with no public comment at all.
As you may recall, I’m supporting safer
streets, intersections, and outreach programs
to encourage more people who live, visit or
shop Beverly Hills to make trips by bicycle.
It comports with our environmental sustain-
ability objectives (i.e., as a ‘green city’). But a
dispiriting aspect of my advocacy effort is that
City Hall simply doesn’t encourage public
participation in governance. Elected officials
generally don’t make an effort to communi-
cate key policy issues to stakeholders; and
our website aged not so gracefully for toolong and collected broken links that impeded
stakeholder civic discovery. And isn’t that
what we want more of?
I was recently reminded to drop you a
note after watching Inside Beverly Hills - the
half-hour with Mr. Kolin, Ms. Briskman and
Dr. Gold. You see, I’m not only a motivated
stakeholder; I’m truly interested in local gov-
ernance. Especially local government that is
transparent, that invites involvement and is
accountable - the three points that Mr. Kolin
made.
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Issue683 • November1 - November8,2012
rudy cole •Electionthoughts Page 6
briefs • Fitness equipment may be
installedinLa Cienega Park by spring Page 3
cover stories • page 8
briefs • Beverly Hills realtordiscovers
extensive mapcollectiondonatedto LAPL Page 5
And they’reoff…
The race for City Councilhas begun... but who will
file?
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4 p.m. about BHEF; Nov. 9 about active adults; Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. and Nov. 14 at 3:30
p.m. about design review; Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m. about the Maple Center and Nov. 14 at
9:30 p.m. about BHFD paramedics.
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Yet my experience with City Hall has
different. For years I’ve complained to
about the city not noticing meetings onl
a timely fashion. I’ve reminded our co
nications officials (and IT people) abou
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work plans, agendas, synopses and/or
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Corrections for Issue #683
The cover story, “And they’re off…” incorrectly stated the filing period for City Council
candidates ended Dec. 6. The official filing period for nomination papers is from Nov. 13
through Dec. 7. The filing period will be extended through Dec. 12 for non-incumbents if
an incumbent City Councilmember does not to file by the Dec. 7 deadline.