Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley
David W. Fleming chairs the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley, a business and industrial collective composed of all of the chambers of commerce together with other leading business groups within the greater San Fernando Valley. He also is the chair of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Fleming was the instigator of the successful charter reform movement in the city of Los Angeles. In 1997, he and then-LA Mayor Richard Riordan co-chaired a voters’ initiative to reform Los Angeles city government, culminating in the creation of an elected citizens’ Charter Reform Commission, which drafted a new charter for the city of Los Angeles that was overwhelmingly adopted by the city’s voters in 1999.
In 2003, he was appointed a trustee of the James Madison Foundation by President George W. Bush. The 12-member foundation (composed of four members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, two state governors, two federal appellate justices, the secretary of education and two private citizens) bestows scholarships on high school teachers in all 50 states to promote the teaching of the founding of our nation. He also serves as the chairman of the California Regional Leadership Foundation, a statewide organization of regional civic entrepreneurs addressing regional problems. |
