On Thursday, June 22, 2017, the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Planning Association held their annual awards gala and announced the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC) the winner in the Neighborhood Planning category for DLANC's incredible Vision Downtown. Here is an except from the speech of City Planner Bryan Eck, [...]
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 [...]
On September 16, 2015, the City Council approved the report from Rules, Elections, Intergovernmental Relations, and Neighborhoods Committee for Council File Nos. 15-0389 and 15-0524. In this report are recommendations for updates to the Council File Management system. The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment worked with the Office of the City Clerk to make it easier [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. HUGE thanks to our awesome Neighborhood Council leaders who came to our town hall last Saturday. We learned a lot and received great ideas on how to improve the Neighborhood Council system and our services. I’m so appreciative of the time folks took to work with us on [...]
Online registration for the 8th Annual Valley Disaster Preparedness Fair (the largest in Los Angeles) opened on July 1, 2015. Please don’t be misled by the Valley in our name—everyone is invited to attend. Mother Nature pays no attention to our boundaries. By registering online, Fairgoers who bring their printed voucher to the Express Check-In [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. It has been a busy week as we’ve been working to resolve our vacant positions issue so we would finish our FY 2015-2016 budget submission due today. I really want to thank Deputy Mayor Rick Cole, CAO Miguel Santana, Personnel Department Assistant General Manager Phyllis Lynes and their awesome [...]
