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Board Operations
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Board Operations supports the Board of
Supervisors in its capacity as the governing body of the
County of Los Angeles by preparing weekly agendas,
communicating actions taken by the Board, preparing minutes
of the Board's meetings, preparing statements
of proceedings, executing contracts and resolutions,
maintaining the Board's Master Agenda Calendar, providing
support functions relating to conducting the Board meetings
and maintaining the Board's records. This office is able
to effectively orchestrate all of these duties through specialized
staff and a highly sophisticated automation system. Working
in concert with Information Resource Management, Board Operations
continuously works to enhance its capacity to serve the
Board, County departments and the public through streamlined
work methods and the creative use of automation.
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Additional Board support functions performed by Board Operations
include:
- Maintaining a full and complete record of the proceedings
of each meeting held by the Board of Supervisors as well as
all other special assessment and taxing districts, agencies
and authorities for which the Board acts pursuant to State law.
- Tracking the status of Board ordered reports in regard to
timeliness of response. The report tracking system generates
reminder memos to departments indicating all pending, interim
and delinquent reports.
- Maintaining a database of mailing lists containing all of
Los Angeles County department heads and City officials, members
of the State Legislature, members of Congress and other political
entities for use by the Executive Office and individual Board
offices in preparing correspondence.
- Welcoming and escorting clergymen and veterans who give the
invocation and pledge of allegiance, respectively, at each Tuesday
Board meeting.
Board Operations provides support to the public and County departments
through the following means:
- Assisting the public and other County departments in researching
records of the Board as well as information of a historical
nature. The Board's records and minutes are available back to
1850. The public and County departments can easily access the
Board's records dating from 1985 to present via the Internet
following these instructions.
For records prior to 1985, a request may be made by calling
(213) 974-1424.
- Aiding and advising other County departments in preparing
Board letters for submission to the Board of Supervisors.
- Accepting appeals on zoning, land use permits and subdivisions,
using a custom designed tracking database to maintain and update
information relating to all zoning cases filed and for preparing
notices for advertising, posting and mailing when a case is
set for public hearing.
- Advertising all legal notices using ADTECH, an automated program
used in conjunction with the California Newspaper Service Bureau.
Such advertising includes ordinances, statements of proceedings
for each Board meeting, cash contract bid notices, requests
for proposals, ordinances, annual fee increases, zoning matters,
annexations of territory to certain districts and public hearings
for auctions, purchases or exchange of property.
- Maintaining CodeMaster, an automated compilation of the entire
Los Angeles County Code which is updated weekly to reflect not
only adopted ordinances but sections of the Code undergoing
amendment. Through the use of CodeMaster, Board Operations coordinates
the preparation and administrative approval of all County ordinances.
- Receiving, logging, and preparing for submission to County
Counsel all claims against the County of Los Angeles for personal
or property damage. The automated claims system generates post
cards to claimants notifying them of their claim number and
to whom their claim was referred for investigation. The system
is also capable of generating reports of claims filed against
particular departments.
- Maintaining a complete fact sheet and roster of all Los Angeles
County committees, commissions, boards and task forces (approximately
224), in accordance with State law.
- Maintaining a Local Appointments List, pursuant to State law,
at the Los Angeles City Library which reflects all appointive
terms which will expire during the calendar year along with
the name of the incumbent appointee, the name of the commission
or agency, the date the incumbent was last appointed and the
date the term expires.
- Ensuring the public has access to information regarding the
Board's agenda and actions taken by the Board through the internet
and a 24-hour recorded telephone message - (213) 974-7207.
- Coordinating televised broadcasts of the Board meetings.
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