By Lucas Lu and Adriana Cho What are Neighborhood Councils? Neighborhood Councils are city-certified local groups made up of people who live, work, own property or have some other connection to a neighborhood. The Board members are volunteers who applied to be candidates and were elected by the people in the neighborhood. The size of [...]
BREAKING GROUND ON SECOND PHASE OF LARGEST UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR IN THE WESTERN US-- Mayor Eric Garcetti joined the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and state water quality officials to break ground on the second phase of the Headworks Underground Reservoir project. Once complete, the $230 million, 110 million-gallon storage facility will be [...]
On February 19th, Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson rallied Neighborhood Council leaders to discuss and take action on DWP Reform. The full text of the letter is available in PDF and below: February 19, 2016 City of Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils City of Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Alliances City of Los Angeles Neighborhood [...]
Civic U 2.0 successfully concluded on Tuesday night with five excellent group presentations based on Mayor Garcetti's Back to Basics Priority Outcomes, which are available for viewing: Make Los Angeles the best run big City in America Create a more livable and sustainable City Ensure our communities are the safest in the nation Promote good [...]
Click here to see a new webpage marking a partnership between EmpowerLA and the Mayor’s Innovation Team. The pages are part of a broader outreach strategy to help Neighborhood Councils and Angelenos increase youth representation on Neighborhood Councils, and the team will continue to build the website to serve as a resource for youth who [...]
Bicyclists must obey the rules of the road like drivers of any other vehicle and must be treated as equal users by all other vehicles. Watch some safe tips here.
LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department (EMD) will lead recovery efforts for the Porter Ranch community after the state confirms the leaking well at Aliso Canyon has been sealed. EMD will open a Local Assistance Center in the community to provide a centralized location where residents and [...]
CityWatch, the online news portal, has launched a Neighborhood Council page in partnership with the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment a.k.a. EmpowerLA to support the 2016 Neighborhood Council election outreach. CityWatch is published to encourage grassroots civic engagement through information, ideas and perspective. Editor and co-founder, Ken Draper, was involved in the creation of the Neighborhood [...]
Find out who's been certified as a candidate for all the Neighborhood Councils in Region 1! The City Clerk has released the final list of Certified Candidates for Region 1 which closed on February 5, 2016. Candidates have three days from the Candidate Filing deadline to submit the documents necessary for certification and the has [...]
Neighborhood Councils must have Board approval for all expenses, including election outreach expenses. This approval must be specific, not simply a general consensus that funds can be spend on outreach or elections or community events. Neighborhood Councils must act now to put a specific Election Outreach Plan, including vendor names and dollar amounts, in front [...]
