The Department's election report went before City Council on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, where Council approved the recommendations of the Education and Neighborhood Committee, instructing the Department to merge their efforts towards conducting the spring 2014 Neighborhood Council elections.  They also instructed the City Attorney to prepare and present a draft ordinance that would grant authority

2012 Elections ­ Exit Survey  7,776 Voters (40.87% of those who voted) in the 2012 Neighborhood Council Board Elections filled out an exit survey, leaving their opinions on local priorities, outreach strategies, election features, and suggestions for improvement. 28.1% of those surveyed commented on the high quality of the candidates! Voters ranked the different types of outreach based on their

The Department is now accepting Bylaw Amendment Applications until June 1, 2013. If the 2012 elections made your Neighborhood Council realize that your bylaws aren't all that they can be, please take the time now to work on them. Remember, if you are going to change your boundaries or Board structure, these changes take additional time because they must go to the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners

Nine years and one month ago, I took my young son to watch our Neighborhood Council in action. Actually, our little civic affairs field trip was more for my benefit than his, because he was intensely focused on his portable gaming device. So we sat near the back of the nearly empty assembly room of the LAPD’s emergency dispatch center in West Hills, watching 25 folks sitting behind two rows of tables

Neighborhood Council elections are LA’s best opportunity to speak up. Candidates get to talk about their vision and how it motivates them to speak up for their community. Voters get to talk about the issues and what prompts them to stand up for their neighborhood. Neighborhood Councils get to tell their story and communicate their commitment to engaging stakeholders and making government more responsive.

The Pacoima Neighborhood Council opened their polls at 10 in the morning and 102 days later, the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council closed their polls at 8:30 in the evening. Somewhere in the middle a dozen Independent Election Administrators put an average of 1500 miles on their vehicles as they encouraged more than 1600 Candidates to embrace grassroots democracy - Neighborhood Council style!

Actually, it’s been here for some time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been using the very popular form of preferential voting to select the Oscar winners, a process that requires voters to rank the candidates in order of preference. But now, the City of Los Angeles will embrace Instant Runoff Voting on the Westside as the Palms Neighborhood Council engages in Board elections

Our elections team has been cranking away with wonderful volunteers around the City: We administered 15 Neighborhood Councils elections in the last 5 days - 7 on Sunday and 8 on Thursday where Councilmember Paul Krekorian showed his support by voting at Studio City Neighborhood Council. A big thanks to our IEAs for those regions, Kevin Taylor and Christine Jerian, who leaves us to continue her support

South LA Leaders Aim to Mobilize Community Members On Tuesday, September 11, our Interim General Manager, Grayce Liu, visited the board meetings of the Empowerment Congress Southeast, Harbor Gateway North, and Voices of 90037 Neighborhood Councils in South Los Angeles. Those councils will have their elections on October 20th and candidate filing closes a month earlier, on September 20th, but so far,

There are 26 Candidates running for the 12 open seats on the North Hills West Neighborhood Council and the community has spoken, in emails, in phone calls, and in person, asking for a Candidates Forum where they can hear the Candidates address the community on the issues, their positions, and the reasons why they should be elected to the Neighborhood Council Board. The message was sent and the message