Hooray!  After twice delaying the vote, the City Council voted today to move the nonprofit lease subsidy issue to committee.  I'm so relieved.  Aside from this proposed policy having serious fiscal ramifications for McGroarty, it was just a bad policy.  It wasn't well crafted, stakeholders weren't consulted, there were too many unanswered questions.  The full Council made the same assessment and acted accordingly.

A big thank you to the City Council for acting in such a thoughtful way.  In fact, I thanked them through the Arts for LA website this afternoon.  Did you?  Our policy makers hear our complaints all the time, but rarely are they thanked when they make the right votes.  Tell them you noticed their good work today with a thank you email.

There is no question that the thousands of letters and phone calls generated by our supporters and others caused the vote to swing our direction.  There was a lot of advocacy work that went into this, and we couldn't have done it without your help.  Certainly there are many issues that do need to be addressed when it comes to nonprofit partnerships, but this broad sweeping policy wasn't the way to do it.  I'm confident that the Arts, Park, Health, and Aging Committee will give this issue the due diligence it deserves.