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ballot ruled against this suggestion and the committee
gettled on appointment by the mayor. Council confirmation
was advised but not made a direct recommendation. The view
was expressed that council confirmation would create friendlier relations between council and the boards since the legislators could feel they had a role in the selection process.
Four year overlapping terms were recommended for the
boards. The mayor would thus have at least one appointment
available the day he took office. Lest there be fear that
policy might be obstructed by the board the report pointed
out that past history revealed that no board had ever refused a mayor when he asked for a specific change of policy.
Five-member boards were fixed as the most desirable
numerically, since any lesser number might be plagued by
quorum troubles. In the interest of internal harmony the
board rather than the mayor should select the president of
the body. In keeping with the idea of public spirited service no salaries should be attached to the positions.
To handle the administrative duties of each department
there would be a general manager serving under the board.
The board would have the power to issue orders to the
manager who would handle day to day administration of the
department * Managers would be appointed to four year terms
and be subject to removal by the board. Weekly meetings of
the board would be held.
Object Description
| Title | Legal research regarding the history of the Los Angeles charter, 1830-1966 (2b of 3) |
| Description | Marvin Abrahams. Functioning of boards and commissions in the Los Angeles city government. Los Angeles, California: University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., Political science), 1967. PART OF A SERIES: A critical component of the Commission's investigation centered on the idea that governance of the LAPD was shared between the Office of the Chief of Police, an administrative body, and the Board of Police Commissioners, a citizen body. To better understand the dynamic between these two entities, the staff of Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe researched the history of the Los Angeles City Charter, focusing primarily on its provisions regarding the distribution of power and the structure and organization of the LAPD. Included in the series are reproductions of reports, dissertations, article clippings, excerpts from city documents, and charter amendments related to the charter's conception and development over time. The series also includes several summaries of expert witness interviews regarding the effectiveness of this structure. |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1830; 1835; 1844; 1850/1863; 1869; 1870/1890; 1898; 1900/1908; 1910/1934; 1937/1966 |
| Creator | Abrahams, Marvin |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date issued | 1967 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 146 p. |
| Format (aat) | doctoral dissertations |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe |
| File | Legal research regarding the history of the Los Angeles charter |
| Box and folder | box 21, folder 5, item 2 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
| Rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box21-05-02 |
Description
| Title | Functioning of boards & commissions in LA, p. 40 |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | ballot ruled against this suggestion and the committee gettled on appointment by the mayor. Council confirmation was advised but not made a direct recommendation. The view was expressed that council confirmation would create friendlier relations between council and the boards since the legislators could feel they had a role in the selection process. Four year overlapping terms were recommended for the boards. The mayor would thus have at least one appointment available the day he took office. Lest there be fear that policy might be obstructed by the board the report pointed out that past history revealed that no board had ever refused a mayor when he asked for a specific change of policy. Five-member boards were fixed as the most desirable numerically, since any lesser number might be plagued by quorum troubles. In the interest of internal harmony the board rather than the mayor should select the president of the body. In keeping with the idea of public spirited service no salaries should be attached to the positions. To handle the administrative duties of each department there would be a general manager serving under the board. The board would have the power to issue orders to the manager who would handle day to day administration of the department * Managers would be appointed to four year terms and be subject to removal by the board. Weekly meetings of the board would be held. |
| Filename | indep-box21-05-02~040.tif |
| Archival file | Volume67/indep-box21-05-02~040.tif |
