{"id":519844,"date":"2010-04-07T20:53:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T00:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.1029"},"modified":"2010-04-07T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T01:26:11","slug":"patsaouras-stands-up-to-force-dwp-to-deliver-the-promised-73-million-to-general-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519844","title":{"rendered":"Patsaouras Stands Up to Force DWP to Deliver the Promised $73 Million to General Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Former DWP Board President Nick Patsaouras sued the DWP Wednesday to force it to hand over $73.5 million it had promised to the City of Los Angeles.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ronkayela.com\/nick-thumb-223x295.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for nick.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ronkayela.com\/assets_c\/2008\/10\/nick-thumb-223x295-thumb-183x242.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;\" height=\"242\" width=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>Patsaouras, an influential City Hall and Department of Water and Power critic who co-chairs the Saving LA Project&#8217;s Rate Payer Advocate Committee with Jack Humphreville, resigned from the DWP Board 18 months in protest with the direction the mayor was moving on utility policy.<\/p>\n<p>The DWP backed out of the agreement when the City Council rejected the department&#8217;s proposed rate hikes. The lawsuit names the DWP, four members of the Commissioner board and DWP Interim General Manager David S. Freeman. <\/p>\n<p>Westside lawyer and activist, Noel Weiss, handled the filing.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full lawsuit by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/ourla.org\/\">OurLa.org<\/a> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><!--Session data--><input onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DWP Board President Nick Patsaouras sued the DWP Wednesday to force it to hand over $73.5 million it had promised to the City of Los Angeles.Patsaouras, an influential City Hall and Department of Water and Power critic who co-chairs the Saving LA Project&#8217;s Rate Payer Advocate Committee with Jack Humphreville, resigned from the DWP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}