Causes of Secession Bid to Be Explored
The root causes of the movement to break up Los Angeles and alternatives to keep the city together will be explored at a daylong symposium scheduled Feb. 5 at the Sheraton Universal, organizers said Friday.
Serving as event host will be the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley, Reason Foundation and the CIVIC Foundation.
The symposium will include experts from other cities throughout the country and overseas, including a representative from the London School of Economics, according to alliance Chairman David Fleming, president of the Los Angeles Fire Commission.
Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg (D-Sherman Oaks) is also scheduled to attend.
“The purpose of this is to take a new, fresh look at the causes of the secession and how the city of Los Angeles can satisfy those causes and remain one city,” said Fleming, who has financially supported the secession study group Valley VOTE, but also was coauthor of a ballot measure that launched charter reform as an alternative to breaking up the city.
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