Conservancy Funding
* Re “Grant Saves Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy,” May 15.
Contrary to the assertions of its chief that it has only six employees, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy controls dozens of employees, including those formally employed by its wholly owned subsidiary, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority. In fact, this year alone (1999), the conservancy has been represented by more than six attorneys.
Despite “sitting on” thousands of acres of land scattered throughout Los Angeles County and with three separate headquarters complexes (the Sooky Goldman headquarters in Coldwater Canyon, the Barbra Streisand headquarters in Ramirez Canyon and the newly acquired Los Angeles River complex), the conservancy has failed and refused to produce even the most elementary financial statements, namely a balance sheet and a statement of assets and liabilities.
The conservancy remains totally unaccountable to the public and remains, in effect, a law only to itself.
JEAN E. ROSENFELD
Pacific Palisades
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