FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –
March 2, 2026
**PRESSRELEASE**
COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD APPOINTS KERRY MORRISON TO FINAL SEAT ON LA’S CHARTER REFORM COMMISSION
Morrison will bring more than four decades of advocacy and leadership to this Commission in their final month of work
WEST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CA – On Friday, Councilmember Bob Blumenfield submitted his appointment of Kerry Morrison to serve on LA’s Charter Reform Commission.
Morrison will fill the final open seat on the commission, which was established by Mayor Karen Bass in 2024, to review the City’s Charter in anticipation of a future amendment package to be considered by the City’s voters. The seat had been filled by the prior Council President Pro Tempore, but the commissioner recently resigned which created this vacancy.
“With only weeks left for this commission to evaluate proposals and put Charter changes forward, I want to appoint an individual who can help build on their work thus far and bring a fresh voice with a wide breadth of history helping Angelenos. I’m grateful to Ms. Morrison for taking on this challenge,” said Councilmember Blumenfield.
“It’s a privilege to be appointed to the Charter Commission as it enters this final stretch of preparing recommendations for consideration by the City Council, and ultimately the voters,” said Ms. Morrison. “Charter review is an essential exercise to improve upon the structure which guides the way we govern and decisions made this year will impact our city for years to come. I am honored to be asked to serve and take this role seriously.”
Ms. Morrison is a graduate of Santa Clara University and USC. She has spent decades in local advocacy beginning with the Harbor Regional Center for Developmentally Disabled Citizens and then with Building Industry Association of SoCAL as well as the California Association of REALTORS. She served as the Executive Director of the Hollywood Property Owners Alliance, working with public and private partners for over two decades to support economic revitalization. She has served on the HHH Citizen’s Oversight Committee since 2017 and was a LAHSA Commissioner from 2011-2016. In 2019, she founded Heart Forward LA, an organization focused on improving mental health through community. Her efforts have been recognized by many elected officials and organizations including Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur.
The Commission will consider changes on a variety of issues from increasing the size of the City Council, to updating contracting practices, with potentially far reaching impacts on how City government operates to best serve its communities. Tasked with evaluating and updating the Charter, which is essentially LA's constitution, the commissioners will recommend changes to the City Council, which then will review their recommendations to finalize what, if any, amendments to put before the voters.
Blumenfield concluded, “One of my concerns regarding this commission is that they have focused on too many issues within too tight a timeline. There must be a focus on the problems that can only be solved in this Charter process, rather than through ordinances. They also must have proposals that reflect what a majority of our city wants and will be willing to vote for.”
Morrison’s nomination must be voted on by the City Council before she will officially join the Commission.
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