  An essential part of the paradigm describing active galactic nuclei is the
alignment between the radio jet and the associated rotation axis of the sub-pc
sized accretion disks. Because of the small linear and angular scales involved,
this alignment has not yet been checked in a sufficient number of Low
Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGNs). The project intends to examine the
validity of this paradigm by measuring the radio continuum on the same physical
scale as the accretion disks, to investigate any possible connection between
these disks and the radio continuum. We observed a sample of 18 LLAGNs in the
4.8 GHz (6 cm) radio continuum using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) with
3.3 to 6.5 milliarcseconds resolution. The sources were selected to show both
an edge-on accretion disk revealed by 22 GHz H$_{2}$O megamaser emission and
signatures of a radio jet. Furthermore, the sources were previously detected in
33GHz radio continuum observations made with the Very Large Array. Five out of
18 galaxies observed were detected at 8 sigma or higher levels (Mrk0001,
Mrk1210, Mrk1419, NGC2273 and UGC3193). While all these sources are known to
have maser disks, four of these five sources exhibit a maser disk with known
orientation. For all four sources, the radio continuum is misaligned relative
to the rotation axis of the maser disk, but with a 99.1% confidence level, the
orientations are not random and are confined to a cone within 32 degree of the
maser disk's normal. Among the four sources the misalignment of the radio
continuum with respect to the normal vector to the maser disk is smaller when
the inner radius of the maser disk is larger. Furthermore, a correlation is
observed between the 5 GHz VLBA radio continuum and the [OIII] luminosity and
also with the H$_{2}$O maser disk's inner radius.
