Michael Feuer

Now that the Chase Knolls apartment complex in Sherman Oaks has been designated an historic cultural monument, the hard work begins. Your editorial ("Good-Faith Review Needed," July 16) got it right--the city, the developer, residents and neighbors should find a solution that's acceptable to everyone. I believe it's possible. But all parties need to reestablish communication, be willing to explore alternatives and work together. I look forward to starting soon. MICHAEL FEUER Councilman, District 5

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Feuer and four contributors to his campaign have agreed to pay fines to the Ethics Commission for campaign finance law violations, according to settlements disclosed Friday. Feuer agreed to pay $1,650 for inadvertently accepting four checks to his 2001 city attorney campaign that exceeded contribution limits by that amount. The four contributors also agreed to pay fines to cover those violations.

Michael Feuer, director of research and issues for Mayor Tom Bradley's gubernatorial campaign, has been named executive director of Bet Tzedek, a nonprofit legal service organization. Feuer, 28, replaces Terry Friedman, who resigned to seek public office. A Harvard Law School graduate, Feuer will begin overseeing the $1.6-million agency after the November elections.

Taking a pause in his political career, former Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Feuer said Tuesday that he has accepted a job as a lawyer at Morrison & Foerster. Feuer, who lost to Rocky Delgadillo in the city attorney's race this year, said he is hoping to build a strong law practice while continuing to work on public policy issues. "I see a great opportunity here," said Feuer, who declined to disclose his salary.

With the June 6 election rapidly approaching, the political fund-raising pace in two hotly contested Los Angeles City Council races is not letting up, according to campaign statements. Candidate Michael Feuer, former head of a legal services clinic, has raised $180,900, while his opponent, Barbara Yaroslavsky, a longtime activist and the wife of county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, has collected $176,400, the reports show.

Los Angeles City Councilman Michael Feuer is inviting 5th District residents and business people to a Valley Town Hall meeting at his Sherman Oaks district office Sunday. Feuer and his staff members will discuss a number of community issues, including proposed changes to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, parking shortages in Studio City, the establishment of police substations, earthquake recovery, the Woodman-Ventura project and emergency preparedness.

Councilman Michael Feuer will give his annual "State of Sherman Oaks" report at tonight's meeting of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assn. Feuer will speak about crime trends, the rebuilding of the Sherman Oaks Galleria, the revitalization of Ventura Boulevard and other issues that have affected local residents in the past year. In addition, Feuer will discuss City Council programs and what they have accomplished in Sherman Oaks, said Richard Close, president of the association.

In a decision unlikely either to satisfy or aggravate the concerns of homeowner activists, Los Angeles City Councilman Michael Feuer gave a partial endorsement Monday to a $30-million proposal to revive the ailing Sherman Oaks Galleria.

Your article, "L.A. Plans to Beef Up Coffers With Land Sales" (July 15), raises important public policy issues regarding the sale of surplus city property. Los Angeles owns thousands of useless parcels of land that could generate revenue instead of laying fallow and unproductive in the city's land portfolio. But the Santa Monica Mountains are not useless portfolio place-holders. They are part of a precious city resource that once lost cannot be replenished. When lots in the Santa Monicas are sold, they are graded, denuded and built upon.

Councilmen Joel Wachs and Michael Feuer recently wrote letters urging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reevaluate its plans for construction on the Chandler Boulevard median. The median, which runs through a residential neighborhood, has been the center of controversy since the MTA announced it would use the site to help complete work on the North Hollywood Red Line subway.

After his election defeat, Los Angeles Councilman Mike Feuer called Wednesday on the city to change its laws to discourage people from making independent expenditures like the ones that helped his opponent win the city attorney's race. In a motion presented to the council, Feuer asked the city to make a variety of election law revisions, including giving matching funds to candidates in races with opponents who have benefited from large sums in so-called independent expenditures.

Coming from behind, Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo defeated Councilman Mike Feuer in their battle for the Los Angeles city attorney's post Tuesday. Feuer, who had been ahead in the polls, took an initial lead, but Delgadillo pulled even, then slightly ahead, and remained in front with most of the ballots counted. The councilman called Delgadillo to concede the race shortly before 1 a.m. today. "He's got an important job to do, and it's a responsibility he will shoulder well," Feuer said.

In their first, and probably only, broadcast debate of the runoff campaign for Los Angeles city attorney, Councilman Mike Feuer and Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo on Thursday sparred over delayed police reforms and the Rampart Division police corruption scandal. During their debate on KCRW radio's "Which Way, L.A.?"

Councilman Mike Feuer on Wednesday joined a demonstration outside a North Hollywood gun store that has urged its customers to support Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo, Feuer's opponent in next week's runoff election for Los Angeles city attorney. Flanked by sign-waving supporters, Feuer denounced B & B Sales for displaying, for a time, a "Delgadillo for City Attorney" sign on its marquee and distributing fliers urging a vote for the deputy mayor.

Toward the end of their sharp-edged debate before a downtown business group Wednesday, the two candidates for Los Angeles city attorney were asked to name their most significant endorsement--a tricky task for any campaigner leery of offending supporters who go unmentioned. City Councilman Mike Feuer named U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and state Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer and segued into a long list of other Democratic elected officials before settling on the City Attorneys Assn.

If Los Angeles Councilman Mike Feuer wins the race for city attorney next month, he plans to establish a "firearms unit" within the office to further his longtime efforts to combat gun violence. If Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo is victorious, the city attorney's office probably will take on a new role outside the office's purview: forming initiatives to improve education in the independently run Los Angeles Unified School District.

Saying the astute hiring of Los Angeles City Council aides is extremely significant to local residents, a Sherman Oaks community leader is calling on Councilman-elect Michael Feuer to check candidates' San Fernando Valley credentials. Richard Close, president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assn., said that Feuer's selection of assistants is critical to southeastern Valley homeowners because 90% of the public's contacts with a City Council office are with an aide.

City Councilman Michael Feuer is working with the Los Angeles Fire Department to find a site for a new, expanded fire station that would replace one on Coldwater Canyon Avenue that was wrecked by the Northridge earthquake. The old fire station, located on Coldwater Canyon Avenue just north of Ventura Boulevard, was demolished in August of last year.

Councilman Mike Feuer on Wednesday accused his opponent for city attorney, Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo, of avoiding televised debates in their June 5 runoff contest. "Rocky Delgadillo is trying to hide his inexperience and lack of vision from the public by ducking virtually every debate to which we have been invited," Feuer said in a statement. There have been at least two invitations to appear together on local cable and public television programs, Feuer said.

Elevating ideology above personal history, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has endorsed City Councilman Mike Feuer in his tough runoff race for city attorney. A year after Yaroslavky, an influential Westside liberal, won election to the board of supervisors in 1994, Feuer succeeded him on the City Council--by beating Yaroslavsky's wife, Barbara, after a long, contentious campaign. Since then, Yaroslavsky has stayed neutral in Feuer's races.