Councilmember Bernard Sr Parcs.

Councilmember Bernard C. Parcs Bernard C. Parks is serving his second term as Los Angeles City Councilmember for the Eighth Council District. Une des zones les plus densément peuplées dans le sud de Los Angeles, Parks represents over 250,000 les gens. During his first year in office he was appointed Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee where he has implemented prudent fiscal policies in tough financial times that have steered the city clear of bankruptcy.

Parks has implemented many programs to enrich the South Los Angeles area including the Prevention Intervention and Education (PIE) program at Crenshaw High School. The PIE program works to bridge the gap between black and brown students through various school assemblies and noteworthy speakers. Parks has also created an annual Youth Jobs and Career Fair where at least 20 youths were interviewed for jobs during its first year.

He has been extremely successful in delivering legislation that benefits his constituents in the 8th district. Alarmed at the lower-than-average life expectancy for Eighth district residents, as well as the high rate of obesity and diabetes, Parks established an interim control ordinance regulating the establishment of new fast-food restaurants and providing tax incentives for grocery stores to devote more floor space to fresh, aliments sains.

Parcs croit en la promotion d'une dynamique, divers, et de l'environnement d'affaires prospère dans le sud de Los Angeles. Concerned by a high saturation of businesses related to automobile sales, les ateliers de réparation automobile, les dépôts de ferraille, and recycling materials and processing facilities, Parks authored a city-wide ordinance that imposed regulations on the issuance of new permits for such businesses.

Parks has been on the forefront of protecting Eight District residents from the fallout associated with the foreclosure crisis. He authored an ordinance ensuring tenants in foreclosed apartment buildings do not have utilities shut off, due to their landlord’s failure to pay their bills. Parks worked with Council President Eric Garcetti on an ordinance that requires banks to maintain houses they have repossessed through foreclosure. The ordinance allows the city to fine a bank up to $1,000 per day until the derelict property is brought up to code.

La suite des ouragans Katrina et Rita Sud dans 2006, Parks led the effort in helping evacuees find long-term housing. As the FEMA voucher deadline drew near, Parks worked with the City’s Housing Department and local landlords to construct a Rent Stabilization Ordinance. This Ordinance allowed L.A. landlords to temporarily charge reduced rent or offer other rent concessions to eligible persons displaced by the hurricanes.

Avant d'être élu au conseil municipal de Los Angeles, Parcs passées 38 years as a police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department. Beginning his career at the department at a time when patrol cars were just recently integrated, he climbed the ranks of one of the nation’s largest municipal law enforcement agencies to become Chief of Police in 1997.

En tant que chef, Parks implemented some of the most rigorous police reforms ever proposed in the history of the police department, including the institution of an Officer Accountability Policy. Parks also made it easier for the community to file complaints against problem officers by streamlining the Citizen Complaint System. Under Chief Parks the City of Los Angeles saw homicides fall by 45%, baisse viol d'assaut par près 20% et le déclin de vol de plus de 45%.

He is credited with creating the first Cold Case Unit in the nation during his history-making term as Chief. That same unit was instrumental in the arrest of the suspect in the “Grim Sleeper” Serial Killer Case. Lonnie Franklin, Jr. a été arrêté pour le crime en Juillet 2010.

Dans son plus que 45 ans en tant que fonctionnaire, Parks has remained closely tied to his community. Mis à part les patrouilles de rue de Los Angeles comme un jeune officier, Parks dedicated many volunteer years to youth activities in the district. He coached Baldwin Hills Youth Football for 10 years and mentored the likes of National Football League Hall-of-Famer Warren Moon and many other kids who grew to become successful community and business leaders. During his Hall-of-Fame induction speech, Moon described Parks as “a guy who instilled values in me at a very young age, m'a montré la discipline et m'a appris le travail acharné et le dévouement ".

Parks and his wife, Bobbie, are involved in numerous community groups, comme: the Challengers Boys & Girls Club, the Los Angeles Urban League and the Brotherhood Crusade. He is also a life-time member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Recognized as a longtime voice for minority communities, dans 2006 Parks’ footprints were added to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Géorgie.

Bernard C. Parks received his Bachelor of Science degree from Pepperdine University and his Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Southern California (USC).

The 8th Council District includes the communities of Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw, Leimert Parc, West Adams, Jefferson Park, Chesterfield Square and other areas of South Los Angeles.

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200 N. Spring Street, Rm. 460
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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