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Neighborhoods chief named - LA Times
Reaching into academia to try to increase citizen involvement in local government, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday appointed Carol Baker Tharp as the new chief of the city agency that oversees the city's neighborhood council system.

Tharp is deputy director of the Civic Engagement Initiative at USC...

...Tharp would become the fourth general manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment in the past seven years. The agency...has overseen the neighborhood council system since it was created...partially in response to threats of secession in the San Fernando Valley...