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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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 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

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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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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.