Inglewood District 2 Council Member Judy Dunlap

What do Pincay Way, Kareem Court, Davis Drive, Justice Thurgood Marshall Plaza,Gladys Waddingham Lecture Hall, Rogers Park, Darby Park, Siminski Park and Vincent Park all have in common?

They are all public-owned streets/facilities that have been renamed by a vote of the Inglewood City Council.

What else do these renamed public-owned streets/ facilities have in common? NONE of them were renamed by following the process outlined in Inglewood Municipal Code (IMC) Section 2-293 – Procedure: Renaming of Public Streets/Facilities.

For those of you who watch Inglewood City Council meetings on Time/Warner Cable Channel 35 on Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7:00 p.m. or view them on the city’s website (cityofinglewood.org) via YouTube, you know that the council majority is doing everything possible to thwart the public interest when it comes to elected officials having the freedom to speak on items of concern/interest
to their community without having these issues first reviewed and ultimately controlled by city staff and/or the mayor.

The councilman from District 1 recently submitted an exciting proposal to rename Crenshaw Drive to Endeavour Lane to commemorate our city’s historic participation in the retirement of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, a once in a lifetime historic moment that will live forever in the hearts and minds of our community. Its spectacular two-day passage through our city along Manchester Boulevard, Crenshaw Drive and Crenshaw Boulevard on October 12 and 13th was not only broadcast nationally but internationally!

When will Inglewood residents be able to attend the ribbon cutting? If the mayor and the two council members who voted to censure and re- strict what the residents of Inglewood are allowed to know and act upon continue to have their way... NEVER! Or, maybe it would be more accurate to say, in 2016?

It seems that the street/facilities renaming procedure outlined in the municipal code, by which past mayors and city councils have apparently never abided in the past, has now become sacrosanct. Blocking a legislator’s ability to represent his constituency and the city-at-large because of petty politics is just plain wrong.

Inglewood residents deserve better.