I hope our newsletter finds you well. A HUGE congratulations and welcome to our 97th Neighborhood Council - Hermon Neighborhood Council! The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners approved the Hermon Neighborhood Council bylaws last night after hearing hours of public comment on their proposed boundaries. The Hermon Neighborhood Council Forming Committee made a delightful presentation on the long [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I am really excited about our Neighborhood Council EmpowerLA Awards and Volunteer Appreciation Dinner next Thursday. Many thanks to our awesome staff, led by Betty Wong Oyama, who have been planning a great event with delicious food for our Neighborhood Councils. HUGE thanks to City Council President Herb Wesson [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. The Neighborhood Council EmpowerLA Awards and Volunteer Appreciation Dinner is less than 2 weeks away! If you haven’t RSVP’d yet for the March 30, 2017 EmpowerLA Awards, please take the time to do so now because space is limited. We have 40 EmpowerLA Award nominations of our Neighborhood Councils’ [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I’m really pleased to introduce our new Director of Neighborhood Council Operations, Semee Park. Semee comes to EmpowerLA from her previous position as Legislative Deputy for Councilmember Mitch Englander. Under Councilmember Englander’s excellent leadership these past 8 years, Semee has much experience in community matters and in effective [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Hola from the 2016 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy in San Sebastian, Spain, the European Culture Capital! It has been an incredible week so far learning about the Basque system of government. On Wednesday night, we started the forum at the beautiful San Sebastian City Hall with a [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. HUGE shout out to Glassell Park Neighborhood Council for their commitment to reviewing Council Files relevant to their community and filing Community Impact Statements (CISs). They are at 15 filed CISs since July. I spoke to Vice President Marie D’Antonio about their secret for cranking out CISs, and [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We spread some more Neighborhood Council love internationally with a State Department delegation from South Asia on Monday. Many thanks to Neighborhood Empowerment Advocate, Melvin Canas, for taking the lead in welcoming them! As usual, our guests were impressed with the breadth of the Neighborhood Council system and [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We had some super events this week with Neighborhood Councils. On Monday, our EmpowerLA Leadership Academy workshop, “Beyond Neighborhood Councils - How to Run for Higher Office, Get Appointed to a City Commission or Find a Job with the City” was live streamed from the Valley. The amazing [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I’m so excited that Mayor Eric Garcetti, First Lady Amy Elaine Wakeland and the Getty House Foundation Board of Directors are focusing on “Women Who Lead Our Neighborhood Councils” for their Women’s Leadership Series program next week. We have over 40% of the board seats in the Neighborhood [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I had an excellent time last Friday sharing about our Neighborhood Council system in Sacramento at Center for California Studies’ Our Voices: Advancing Civic Engagement in California Conference. It was especially good given the fact that many players in the civic engagement world in California did not know [...]
