THE city has also created a higher-level body where neighborhood representatives can meet with senior police and city officials.

"Proposals for change usually come from the developers, and the basic worry is that since they have so much clout, neighborhood representatives will be outgunned," he said.

In polling in October 1989, six parents, two teachers and two neighborhood representatives were chosen by their peers to sit on each local school council.

He agreed to meet in a nearby park with a neighborhood representative, an electrical supply shop owner named Hirokazu Matsukawa.

Probably be a neighborhood representative within a couple of years-oh.

Friend, I'm your neighborhood representative of a new species: Homo philoprogenitus, which means "lover of many children."

"In my neighborhood, it won't change anything," said Robert Adams, a neighborhood representative.

As a result the 5,400 parents, neighborhood representatives and teachers elected to these councils have been left to chart their courses with no road map.

In the days following the shooting, meetings were hastily convened among local leaders and police, neighborhood representatives, state and Federal officials to discuss the tragedy.

The number of neighborhood representatives on the district council is based upon the community's population.