An ad hoc by any other name ...
By Andre Coleman 06/12/2008
The 14-member Youth Development and Violence Prevention Ad Hoc Committee (YDVPC) formally disbanded Monday night and was replaced with the three-member Youth, Families and Neighborhoods Committee of the City Council.
However, the group is still looking for a third member.
Council members Jacque Robinson and Steve Madison will serve on the new committee, which will be chaired by Robinson. Councilman Victor Gordo, who served on the previous ad hoc board, expressed no interest in serving on the new council committee.
The original committee was unanimously approved in August, a few weeks after 17-year-old Ebony Huel was shot and killed outside an unlicensed teens-only nightclub in Northwest Pasadena.
Despite having members from the Board of Education, the PCC Board of Trustees, the Pasadena City Council and the Altadena Town Council, plus two Christian preachers, the ad hoc committee seemed to lack direction and ideas and was slowed by minutiae.
In May it was learned that despite the presence of Board of Education President Esteban Lizardo and Board member Renatta Cooper, expulsion statistics containing data about weapon possession and violence in the district were not shared with other committee members.
Mayor Bill Bogaard said the new council committee will continue to work with representatives of the other agencies formerly on the ad hoc board on collecting information.
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