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ELLEN
STERN HARRIS
Ellen Stern
Harris is a third generation resident of Beverly Hills and a graduate
of Beverly Hills High School. For seven years she wrote the Los Angeles
Times Consumer Advocate column.
She was
also a co-author of Proposition 20, an initiative passed by the voters,
in 1972, which created the California Coastal Act.
Mrs. Harris
served as vice-chair of the State Coastal Commission for its first four
years. Previously, she served on the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality
Control Board whose jurisdiction includes Ventura County.
There she
was credited with helping to clean up the heavily polluted Los Angeles
and Long Beach Harbors and working to get the State's water quality
laws strengthened for the first time in 22 years.
Mrs. Harris
was also the lead amicus in the federal suit to clean up Santa Monica
Bay, she represented the City of Beverly Hills on the board of directors
of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the world's
largest water agency. There she worked to achieve rate equity, so that
residential ratepayers would not have to subsidize agricultural water
users.
Having
served on the City of Beverly Hills' first Recreation & Parks Commission
where she chaired the horticultural committee, she previously served
as chair of the Mayor of Beverly Hills' Cable TV Advisory Committee.
Currently she serves on the City's Technology Committee.
Mrs. Harris
has been an appointee to The California Public Utilities Commission
panel on EMFs and that of the California Dept. of Health Services. She
has taught public policy at UCLA and been named a Los Angeles Times
Woman of the Year.
Among her
other awards are those from the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society and
the United Nations Association.
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