Join us under the Broadway Bridge for picnics, play and the 40th anniversary of the LA cult classic Chinatown. As always, you can expect good food, good people and good fun. Before the film screening, we will have Tom Explores Los Angeles talk about his adventures in the Owens Valley that speak to the issues [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. I’m back in the office and playing a lot of catch up this week. I wanted to thank Cindy Cleghorn, Joanne Yvanek-Garb and Jay Handal for their articles updating you on their great work with the Congress of Neighborhoods, PlanCheckNC and the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates. It was [...]
Controller's Office FAST FACTS Disburse close to 290,000 payments to vendors annually, totaling nearly $5 billion including Special Funds Process payroll totaling $131 million bi-weekly for over 42,000 employees Manage a multi-lingual Fraud Waste & Abuse toll free hotline (1-866-428-1514) available in 175 languages; and respond to over 300 allegations annually Conduct independent financial, performance, [...]
A Superior Court judge is ordering two Los Angeles Department of Water and Power nonprofits to recognize trustees allied with Mayor Eric Garcetti, the latest twist in an enduring saga over the details of their spending. The mayor's office heralded the decision as a victory. "With today's ruling, DWP trustees can take their seat at [...]
A free hour-long guided tour through TreePeople’s beautiful Coldwater Canyon Park highlighting the importance of trees during LA’s drought emergency, along with easy sustainable solutions to conserve water. When: Every Saturday, 11:00am-12:15pm Where: Coldwater Canyon Park, 12601 Mulholland Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210 LOS ANGELES (July 17, 2014) -- Every Saturday at 11 AM TreePeople [...]
CicLAvia's latest cycling-centric event will close streets from Echo Park to East Los Angeles to traffic this fall, opening up new stretches of asphalt to the walking and biking public. The Oct. 5 event (see the full map here) will also run along Broadway from Ninth Street to Chinatown. The event is the first by [...]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti picked a San Francisco official known for her focus on innovation, bicycle use and traffic safety to run the city's Department of Transportation on Friday. Assigned to the "Livable Streets" office of San Francisco's transportation agency, Seleta Reynolds played a major role in carrying out that city's Vision Zero project, [...]
County officials and community leaders celebrated the official opening of a five-acre greenway at the headwaters of the Los Angeles River on Saturday. The $11.5 million LA River Headwaters Project – the river’s biggest greenway project so far – provides cyclists, walkers and runners access to 2.5 miles of trails (1 ¼ miles on each [...]
Greetings, Neighborhood Council Treasurers, Board Members, and stakeholders. Please see below for some important information. Best, Armando Ruiz Neighborhood Council Funding Program Director IMPORTANT DATES / DEADLINES · 10 days after your July NC Board Meeting – June Monthly Expenditure Reports due NC Checking Account Core User’s Guide As part of our commitment to making [...]
My Choice to Lead the Los Angeles Fire Department Reforming the fire department is vital to the safety of our families and to my back to basics agenda. When it comes to this part of city government, lives are on the line. After an exhaustive, nationwide search, I have decided that there is no better [...]
