Does your neighborhood have a Neighborhood Emergency Plan? Last year, the Emergency Management Department worked with the Tarzana Neighborhood Council to create their Neighborhood Emergency Plan and “rehearse” it with a full scale exercise. Tarzana was out in full force to experience the Great California ShakeOut, coming together as a community to prepare for a [...]
Neighborhood Council Board Members, both elected and appointed, are required to do three things in order to vote on issues that come before the council: take Ethics Training, take Funding Training, and sign a Code-of-Conduct Certificate. EmpowerLA tracks the compliance on these three items and posts the results of the Ethics and Funding Training on [...]
The Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department works to create viable urban communities by advocating for safe and livable neighborhoods through the promotion, development and preservation of decent, safe, affordable housing and by expanding economic opportunities and public services, principally for low- and moderate income persons. A merger is always difficult, but restructuring is [...]
In Los Angeles, disaster preparedness is a primary focus for all city departments. Partnership with the community, volunteer groups, non-profits, stakeholders, and city leaders will make Los Angeles resilient to disasters and ready for recovery. The Los Angeles Fire Department wants to prepare you for 13 federally identified threats to Los Angeles, which include the [...]
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power invites the public to attend a presentation of their Draft Stormwater Capture Master Plan on Thursday, January 22. Throughout the past year, LADWP held public meetings and solicited input and ideas for improving stormwater capture throughout the city, identifying numerous ways to capture every precious drop of [...]
The City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Department (EMD) has been awarded a grant to further its mission of developing emergency community readiness in Los Angeles, Using a “whole community approach,” EMD will select one Neighborhood Council to create a customized Neighborhood Emergency Plan. This community plan is for an area of 25-40 households within [...]
