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appointment area. Thus certain groups have come to expect
almost automatic representation for their organization,
while the mayor is not always willing to continue these
private preserves.
Looking at the appointees' view of the nomination may
shed additional light on the operation of the selection
process. In some cases by their own admission volunteering
of an indirect type brought their names to the attention of
the mayor and the positions they would fill. Other examples
indicated that the mayor chose from the rather wide circles
that might be described as the business, professional, and
civic elite of the community.
Board meetings can offer an interesting view of board
functioning without however, giving the onlooker the total
picture, or even a good view of the essentials. Much that
is accomplished at the meetings comes from preparation in
the form of material submitted to members for study, or out
of informal discussion of problems with other board members
and the general manager.
However, meetings are important because it is here
that the legal basis of action is undertaken. Also meetings
when attended by an interested public may provide for direct
contact between the board and the citizenry.
Meetings do serve to provide a partial measure of the
amount of time spent by commissioners on their job. Certainly the whole meeting time is a serious effort to attend to
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. 135 |
| 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 | 297 appointment area. Thus certain groups have come to expect almost automatic representation for their organization, while the mayor is not always willing to continue these private preserves. Looking at the appointees' view of the nomination may shed additional light on the operation of the selection process. In some cases by their own admission volunteering of an indirect type brought their names to the attention of the mayor and the positions they would fill. Other examples indicated that the mayor chose from the rather wide circles that might be described as the business, professional, and civic elite of the community. Board meetings can offer an interesting view of board functioning without however, giving the onlooker the total picture, or even a good view of the essentials. Much that is accomplished at the meetings comes from preparation in the form of material submitted to members for study, or out of informal discussion of problems with other board members and the general manager. However, meetings are important because it is here that the legal basis of action is undertaken. Also meetings when attended by an interested public may provide for direct contact between the board and the citizenry. Meetings do serve to provide a partial measure of the amount of time spent by commissioners on their job. Certainly the whole meeting time is a serious effort to attend to |
| Filename | indep-box21-05-02~135.tif |
| Archival file | Volume67/indep-box21-05-02~135.tif |
