Mayor Eric Garcetti is strengthening cybersecurity for L.A. businesses and residents with the launch of America’s first city-based Cyber Lab. The lab is a public-private partnership that will disseminate information and intelligence based on analysis of more than one billion security-related events and over four million attempted intrusions into City networks per day. The Los [...]
MAYOR GARCETTI ON HOUSE VOTE TO REPEAL THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT “Americans have been clear: If this is Trumpcare, we want to opt out. Health care is a fundamental right for all, not a privilege for the wealthy few — and the bill pushed through today by House Republicans would put lifesaving care out of [...]
Mayor Garcetti spoke to Jeff Morales, the Executive Director of the CA High-Speed Rail Authority, regarding its potential impacts to communities in the City of Los Angeles -- both through construction activities and permanent physical structures required for safe and efficient operation of the project. The Mayor thanks Mr. Morales for his commitment to minimize impacts and optimize [...]
MAYOR GARCETTI LAUNCHES ‘COLLEGE CORNERS’ TO HELP EASE L.A. STUDENTS’ PATH TO HIGHER EDUCATION Housed within each of the City’s 16 FamilySource Centers, “College Corners” will provide much-needed access to admissions and financial aid information for students and families across Los Angeles LOS ANGELES — College application season is upon us, and students and families [...]
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has replaced more than 32 miles of deteriorating water main across the city over the last year, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced. The figure tops LADWP’s goal for the 2015-16 fiscal year by more than 20,000 feet, marking the first step in an aggressive effort to replace [...]
LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) General Manager Marcie Edwards will step down after more than two decades of service to the utility, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced. She retires as the first woman ever to lead LADWP in its 114-year history. Concurrently, Mayor Garcetti named the Department’s current Chief Operating Officer, David [...]
Written by Peter Jamison for the L.A. Times L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti introduces himself to nation at DNC: 'I'm just your average Mexican American Jewish Italian' Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held up his city as a model of progressive policy-making at the Democratic National Convention Thursday in a speech that was as much a [...]
LOS ANGELES—The City of Los Angeles has selected a team to design the final 12 miles of the Valley portion of the Los Angeles River Greenway. Once completed, the greenway will make it possible for Angelenos to walk and bike from Canoga Park to Elysian Valley. Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Bureau of Engineering announced [...]
MAYOR GARCETTI LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT ANGELENOS LIVING IN RENT STABILIZED HOUSING LOS ANGELES—Mayor Eric Garcetti joined the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department (HCID) to launch a new outreach campaign that will help protect renters from displacement by arming them with information about their rights under the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO). Currently, [...]
ABOUT The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), locally referred to as the Summer Meals Program, is a federally funded, state administered program that provides meals to low-income children throughout the summer so that students are able to eat nutritious meals when school is out of session. The goal of this program is to ensure that [...]
