Good morning, it’s Tuesday, June 16 and you can expect minor clouds then major sunshine.
1. What to know before Wednesday’s City Charter fight.
How do you make the city of Los Angeles a little less broken? Or, dare we say it, well-functioning?
We’re still knee-deep in election season, which means there are plenty of sound-bite ready diagnoses and sparkly proposed solutions on offer. But one pathway that’s gotten relatively little attention — save for among a small cadre of local government die-hards — is the long-running effort to reform the Los Angeles City Charter.
The City Charter is akin to L.A.’s constitution: an extremely detailed governing document that dictates how the city functions. It’s deeply unsexy, eyewateringly dry and astonishingly consequential. And it can only be changed with a public vote, which — spoiler alert — is why you’ll be hearing a whole lot more about it as we head toward the first Tuesday in November.
But the groundwork for what comes next will be determined Wednesday, when the City Council decides what possible charter changes to put on the November ballot.
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