Chief of Cityhood Agency Declines to File as Lobbyist
The government official in charge of shaping how Los Angeles would be split apart under proposals for a municipal breakup declined Friday to register as a City Hall lobbyist.
Larry J. Calemine has received tens of thousands of dollars in fees from developers and other clients for advice on winning city approval of projects in the San Fernando Valley, records and interviews show.
But his lawyer, Ronald B. Turovsky, told the city Ethics Commission on Friday that in Calemine’s consulting he “did not communicate directly with any city official for the purpose of influencing any decision.”
Calemine gets $100,000 a year as full-time executive officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission, which is weighing Valley, Hollywood and harbor area cityhood bids.
The ethics panel asked him last week to register retroactively as a lobbyist or explain why he was not required to.
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