Council to Be Asked to Give Up Veto Power on Valley Secession
The Los Angeles City Council will be asked to give up its veto power over San Fernando Valley secession efforts under a plan that will be introduced at City Hall today by Councilman Richard Alarcon.
Alarcon said at a news conference Monday that he will ask his colleagues to abdicate their veto authority if two-thirds of Valley voters approve seceding from the rest of the city.
Assemblyman Tony Cardenas (D-Sylmar) said at the same news conference that he plans to introduce state legislation that would allow secession if it wins two-thirds of the vote by residents of an affected area, removing voters elsewhere in the city from the decision.
His bill would join three other proposals in Sacramento that deal with secession.
Calling the 15 years of talk about secession “the debate that won’t die,” Alarcon said the council should move on to other issues, and that eliminating the council’s veto power could end the long dispute.
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