Talk about bureaucratic babble!
On Independence Day weekend no less, when home grown governance is celebrated, and constructs such as the Point Dume Community Services District, however languishing, nonetheless are recognized by residents as vestiges of local control.
If the executive officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission (LA LAFCO), did anything recently attempting to explain why the Point Dume district be dissolved, to the contrary, he instead revealed why his county sinecure should be questioned.
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Just why are these desk jockey, paper-pushers sitting at their computers behind closed doors always telling concerned communities why they can't do something, rather that why they can, and perhaps even help.
Not appreciated either was his bureaucratic bashing of the ever-community spirited Pamela Conley Ulich. The Malibu City Council also should be ashamed of itself, with exception of Pierson, not supporting the district.
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Yes, the district has been inactive for too long, in part because of the lack of support by a sluggish City Hall. If only its bloated bureaucracy would dare venture out from our uncivic center, and walk the streets of the Point and actually talk to its residents.
But there is the hope as expressed by Conley that the district can be revived, be it for at least a community garden, as I have recommended, or a needed community alert and disaster assistance organization. There is a county hearing July 14th.
If it is killed, then there will be no chance of hope, and I fear our Malibu will further sink into a governmental morass.