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A task force created to oversee sweeping changes to Los Angeles County’s governance structure will hold its inaugural meeting Friday.

The county Governance Reform Task Force was created with voters’ passage in November of Measure G, which called for a series of changes in the way county government operates. Most notably, the measure called for an expansion of the five-member Board of Supervisors to nine members starting in 2032.

Measure G will also make the county CEO an elected position by 2028, and adds the positions of county Legislative Analyst and a director of Budget and Management.

The measure also formalized the establishment of an Ethics Commission — which the county already began to create prior to the November election — and the hiring of a compliance officer by 2026, along with the creation of a Charter Review Commission to meet every 10 years and consider additional potential governmental changes.

The entire process will be overseen by the Governance Reform Task Force, which includes 13 members.

Each of the five county supervisors appointed one member to the task force, and those appointed members in turn selected an additional five members from a pool of applicants, with those at-large selections representing the business sector, municipal government, community organizations and a person with experience in public sector ethics.

The remaining three members of the task force were nominated by labor groups — one by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, one by the Service Employees International Union Local 721 and one by the Coalition of County Unions.

The appointees by the Board of Supervisors are:

— former West Covina Mayor Brian Calderón Tabatabai, by Supervisor Hilda Solis;

— Derek Steele, executive director of the Inglewood-based nonprofit Social Justice Learning Institute, by Supervisor Holly Mitchell;

— political science professor Sara Sadhwani, who served on the California Citizens Redistricting Commission in 2021, by Supervisor Lindsey Horvath;

— Marcel Rodarte, executive director of the California Contract Cities Association, by Supervisor Janice Hahn; and

— former Duarte Mayor John Fasana by Board Chair Kathryn Barger.

The labor union representatives are SEIU 721 President and Executive Director David Green; Derek Hsieh, chair of the Coalition of County Unions and executive board vice president of the Los Angeles Federation of Labor’s Budget and Finance Committee; and Long Beach Harbor Commissioner Steve Neal, a former Long Beach City Council member.

The five community members selected at-large are Gabriela Gironas, Julia Mockeridge, David Phelps, Rosa Soto and Nancy Yap.

The agenda for the inaugural meeting scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday includes an overview of Measure G by the task force Interim Director Shadi Kardan.

The meeting, expected to be attended by several members of the county Board of Supervisors, will also include an opportunity for general public comment.

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  1. What are you reforming how to spend more money that your budget is now 14 billion dollars?

    THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
    HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
    You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
    Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
    GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
    These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION,  FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE !  IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT  FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
    My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
    It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
    That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
    Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING  A  FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE  ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.

    Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?

    Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.

    In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.

    There’s  $75 million in a offshore bank account
    There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday

    5754 Lindero Canyon Rd, Westlake Village, CA 91362

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