Valley VOTE Meeting
Galpin Ford – 2nd Floor Meeting Room
15555 Roscoe Blvd.
North Hills, CA 91343
Free parking in the Galpin Lot on the West side of Orion.
Please do not park in the customer parking areas.
6: 30pm Network
7: 10pm Introductions – Flag Salute
7: 10pm Valley VOTE Committees – limited questions
Vic Viereck
Ralph Kroy Sunshine Canyon
Ernie Hilger Veterans Update
Denny Schneider LAX
7:50pm Joel Fox
Joel Fox operates Joel Fox Consulting, a public affairs/political consulting firm. Fox also currently serves as president of the Small Business Action Committee, founded in 2003 to battle for small business on important political issues. Prior to starting his own firm in January 1999, Fox worked for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association for 19 years, serving as the association’s president from 1986 to 1998.
Fox has authored hundreds of opinion articles which have been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union, Sacramento Bee, Indianapolis Star, National Review Online, and Manchester (NH) Union-Leader, as well as other newspapers. He also wrote a piece for National Public Radio and had an essay published in a Time Warner-Baseball Hall of Fame sponsored book, What Baseball Means to Me. Fox’s book, The Legend of Proposition 13, was published in May 2003
Fox served as a Commissioner on the California Performance Review Commission (2004) appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; and the Assembly Speaker’s Commission on the California Initiative Process (2000-2001) appointed by Speaker Bob Hertzberg. Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa appointed Fox a commissioner on the California Assembly Speaker’s Commission on State and Local Finance (1999-2000). Governor Pete Wilson appointed Fox to both the California Citizens’ Commission on Ballot Initiatives (1993), and the California Constitution Revision Commission (1996). Fox also served on the California Commission on Transportation Investment (1995); was Vice Chairman of the Los Angeles County Blue Ribbon Budget Task Force (1996) appointed by Supervisor Mike Antonovich; and in the early 1990s was a trustee of LEARN, the Los Angeles school reform project.
Fox served as a Senior Research Associate at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College; was on the Advisory Council of the Public Policy Institute of California; and is a member of the Board of Advisors at the Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California.
He is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University.
Adjourn 8:20 pm
Valley VOTE is a 501c4 non profit with NO PAID STAFF. We need the ANNUAL dues payments from our members to continue to meet our goals.
Member 25$; Board Member – 50$. Thanks!!! Mail your check to Valley VOTE – 14622 Ventura Blvd. #424 Sherman Oaks CA. 91403
If you have already paid your dues for 2016 we thank you for your support.
Valley VOTE Mission Statement
Valley VOTE is a diverse coalition of San Fernando Valley residents, business people, educators, community activists, and organizations, committed to exploring and fostering the implementation of programs that empower the people of the San Fernando Valley and the City of Los Angeles, to improve local governance, education and public participation on policy matters. We meet monthly to address key policy issues and hear reports from our standing committee chairs.
For additional information about Valley VOTE, for an upcoming meeting agenda, or for previous meeting reports and press releases, we encourage you to go to our web site – Valleyvote.org.
The press and public are invited to attend our meetings. Our next meeting will be Monday evening, Oct 17, 2016