Last week, I happened to be riding in the same Expo Line car as Culver City Councilman Jim Clarke.

Clarke says he tries to take the train a couple of times a week as he commutes to his job in Los Angeles City Hall. He serves as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Grants for the City of Los Angeles, helping to secure federal, state, non-profit, and foundation grant funding. He also serves as the point person in the Mayor’s Office oversight of $611 million in federal stimulus funds. He has been a homeowner at Raintree since 1977.