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| Info | Cindy Miscikowski was elected to the Los Angeles City Council on June 3, 1997 and re-elected in April 2001. Councilwoman Miscikowski has been elected by her colleagues as President Pro Tem of the City Council. Reappointed to chair the City Councils Public Safety Committee, she continues to work toward solutions for issues such as police reform, racial profiling, improving police and paramedic recruitment and retention, community policing and appropriate controls on guns and ammunition. She is vice chair of the Budget and Finance Committee and serves on the Commerce, Energy and Natural Resources Committee and is President of the Board of Referred Powers Committee. Additionally, she represents the City of Los Angeles on the Los Angeles Formation Commission (LAFC0).
Cindy Miscikowski is a knowledgeable City Hall veteran. She served as a deputy to Councilman Marvin Braude for 22 years. For 18 of those years she was his chief deputy, managing and coordinating the activities of the council staff, handling all planning-related matters, serving as Mr. Braudes principal legislative consultant and being his eyes and ears in the 11th District.
During that time, Councilwoman Miscikowski was the author of two pioneering initiatives approved by the voters; Proposition U (1986), which cut in half the permitted density of most of the commercial zones in Los Angeles, and Proposition O (1988), which banned oil exploration or drilling on the citys beaches. These two initiatives represented the most fundamental change in land-use policy ever submitted to Los Angeles voters.
In mid-1994 she left City employment to accept a position as Executive Director of the new Skirball Museum and Cultural Center in Brentwood. Her duties included overseeing the final phases of construction of the $100 million facility and readying it for the public. She left Skirball in 1996 to run for the City Council.
Councilwoman Miscikowski is widely recognized for her expertise in land-use planning, particularly for her role in developing many planning strategies now in widespread use in Los Angeles, including slope-density requirements to preserve hillside open space and requirements for amenities, like parks and green belts, in neighborhood commercial areas to accommodate pedestrians and improve livability. She is also widely recognized for her crucial role in arranging for the preservation of thousands of acres of open space in the Santa Monica Mountains for park use by future generations.
Today, as the Councilwoman of the 11th District, she is continuing her efforts to expand the Citys recreational opportunities by actively participating in the Citys allocation of local park funds. She has fought hard for citizen participation in the allocation of these funds. Cindy has also been a leader at developing funding partners for several recreational projects in the 11th District, including the Sepulveda Basin (Army Corps of Engineers and the County of Los Angeles), Santa Monica Mountains (Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, County of Los Angeles and National Park Service) and the Will Rogers State Beach (California Department of Parks and Recreation, County Beaches and Harbors, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority-bike path and Caltrans).
As a staunch advocate of womens issues, Councilwoman Miscikowski strongly encourages womens advancement in professional careers and in politics. She is a member of the Womens Political Committee and of the National Organization for Womens Legal Defense and Education Funds. She also holds membership in the National Womens Political Committee and the Association for Women in Architecture. She is a recipient of the Status of Women Award of the American Association of University Women.
Cindy Miscikowski holds a bachelors degree in political science from UCLA and has been a member of the UCLA Alumni Association since 1970. She served on the board of directors of the Southern California Planning Congress from 1990 to 1994 and has been a professionally credentialed member of the American Institute of Certified Planners since 1991. She also won the American Institute of Architects San Fernando Valley Section Award of Excellence for Outstanding Service in 1986. In 2001 she received the American Planning Associations Distinguished Leadership Award for an Elected Official. She has lived in the West Los Angeles area for 30 years. Her husband, Doug Ring, is an attorney at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp. He also heads up the Ring Group, a development company focused on providing housing in the greater Los Angeles region. Councilwoman Miscikowski is an active supporter of numerous community organizations, including the Los Angeles Conservancy, AIDS Project Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Radio Station KCRW.
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