Letters to the Editor

Thank you, Greg Smith, for your First Person essay of Oct. 21 (Fulwood Should Go Now — City Can’t Afford to Wait Until Next Spring.Keywords Greg Smith/Fulwood).

Every time I see a sidewalk that’s left busted for decades, every time the city jacks up fees and taxes, every time I find City Hall closed for their three-day weekends, every time I read about how Culver City picks our pockets faster than any other municipality, I think of City Manager Jerry Fulwood and how he used this town as his own, personal ATM.

I am not sure about any other residents of Culver City, but I am getting a little suspect of all the political mailers I have received of late paid for by “Major Funding by Service Employees International Union.”

A quick Google search of “SEIU Corruption” garnered me pages of results.

On Nov. 4, Culver City voters have the opportunity to play a significant role in electing our new representative to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Culver City’s leaders, including all five members of the City Council, strongly support state Sen. Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Culver City).

[Editor’s Note: A co-leader of the citizens group the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance, attorney Ken Kutcher sent this letter to the County’s legal counsel on Friday with an eye to a vote by the County Board of Supervisors looming Tuesday morning on a regulatory document known as a Community Standards District. The document, expected to easily pass unanimously, will be one of the governing rulebooks for soon-to-expand drilling in the Inglewood oilfield.]

County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke did it again.

Just as with the closing of King Drew Hospital, we the people got played.

How so?

First she allowed the hospital to deteriorate.

Then, after hearing the people’s testimonies and protests, as you may recall, Supervisor Burke, instead of finding competent administrators, shut down a hospital desperately needed in that community.

The issue of local animal control is multifaceted and problematic both in the way Culver City must approach it and the way it is ultimately implemented.

In my opinion, the making of the recent Animal Control Officer decision as a two-year pilot program was based on emotion and on campaign promises, not on fiscal responsibility.

[Editor’s Note: In the spirit of the south-of-Downtown residents’ protest of a proposed project at 4043 Irving Pl., attorney Karl Manheim addressed the following letter to City Hall.]

Oct. 20, 2008

Mayor and City Council 9770 Culver Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

Re: Appeal of Planning Commission Approval 4043 Irving Place

Date: Nov. 10, 2008

Re ‘A Laundry List of 28 Requirements Before a Culver City Animal Control Officer Is in Place,’ and ‘ ‘Backers of Animal Services Officer Have Not Made Any Progress,’ Weissman Says,’ both from Oct. 16. Keywords: Animal Control Officer

[Editor’s Note: On the eve of Tuesday’s 9:30 a.m. showdown meeting over Inglewood oilfield regulations at the County Board of Supervisors, 500 W. Temple St., downtwn Los Angeles, Ken Kutcher of the citizens group the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance, sent this letter to the voters.]

[Editor’s Note: After watching City Council members debate a disputed amount of progress in the hiring of an animal services officer during Monday’s meeting, Mr. Netzel sent the following letter to the five Council members.]