FOR RELEASE: October 18, 1999

CSUN Invites Public to Community Summit on
the Future of Los Angeles in the New Millennium

Among those taking part are Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl, Los Angeles City Council members Michael Feuer, Laura Chick and Alex Padilla, and Joe Hicks, executive director of the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission.

³This is a wonderful opportunity for leaders of community organizations, businesses, non-profit and governmental agencies and elected officials to discuss and plan effective ways to bring together the diverse communities of Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley, to improve our neighborhoods, schools and work places,² said CSUN President, Louanne Kennedy.

³Building Community for the New Millennium: A Community Summit² begins at 9 a.m. with registration and is expected to conclude at 4 p.m. with a reception. The event is taking place in the Grand Salon of the University Student Union near the center of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge.

The dayıs sessions will include discussions on defining Los Angelesı diverse communities, neighborhood councils, revitalizing communities and rebuilding communities.

Matt Cahn, director of CSUNıs Center for Southern California Studies which organized the summit, said he hoped the center would continue to ³serve as a catalyst for bringing together a variety of organizations‹for grassroots community groups to the business community‹and hopefully come up with solutions to some of the communityıs more pressing issues.²

Cahn said this process was begun two years ago when the center hosted a summit on the question of San Fernando Valley secession.

Itıs hosts include Hal Bernson, Tony Cardenas, Tom McClintock, Howard McKeon, Cindy Miscikowski, Joel Wachs, Henry Waxman & Cathie Wright.

The summit is co-sponsored by more than 24 community organizations.

For more information or to register for the conference, call CSUNıs Center for Southern California Studies at (818) 677-6518.