The Emergency Management Department (EMD) Bulletin for this month highlights ways you can prepare your family and home before the expected El Niño rainfall and storms begin. What is El Niño? El Niño is a warming of the Pacific Ocean near the equator caused by a weakening of the trade winds that normally push sun-warmed [...]
We have heard your concerns; candidates can enroll via paper form on January 11, 2016 by visiting the EmpowerLA Elections page. Stakeholders now have two ways in which to register to become a candidate: Online: Candidate Registration Online Portal Paper: Candidate Registration via paper form: - On January 11, 2016 candidates can print out the paper “Candidate Filing Form” [...]
Online Voting Neighborhood Council Elections Chairs and Outreach Chairs will benefit from attending any one of the January 2016 Online Outreach Workshops. Bring your computers, plans, budgets and ideas! Anyone can attend, for these workshops benefit all who set the course for elections outreach, marketing, and communications. To RSVP: 1.Go to the EmpowerLA.org and hover [...]
Sharing your election information will be top priority during the Neighborhood Council election period. To keep your stakeholders up to date with key election voting, candidate registration, workshops, board meetings, candidate forums, and other important dates and deliverables, every Election Committee will be best served by creating a master calendar. Step 1: Start with a [...]
The Great Venice Toy Drive Holiday Festival was held on December 19, 2015. After collecting toys for over a month at local businesses throughout Venice, The Great Venice Toy Drive, a project of the Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC), Vera Davis McClendon Youth and Family Center (Vera Davis), and the City of Los Angeles, ended in [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Our EmpowerLA team is ending 2015 in a full sprint towards 2016 with awesome events just around the corner! As you know, the 2016 Neighborhood Council elections have started already with the launch of the online voter registration portal for our online voting pilot. We’re already approving the [...]
West Coast Mayors Announce Creation of New Alliance to Address Growing Crisis of Homelessness Mayors from five West Coast cities today announced the creation of an alliance of West Coast mayors united in addressing the growing crisis of homelessness. The alliance was developed during the first West Coast Mayors Summit, a two-day convening of mayors [...]
Mayor Eric Garcetti was joined by Los Angeles City Council members and homeless service providers today to announce the approval of $12.4 million in emergency homeless relief funding, which will be used this winter to help get Angelenos off the street and out of harm’s way. With El Niño winter storms expected to hit the [...]
LADWP welcomes the findings of the latest City Charter-mandated Industrial, Economic and Administrative Survey (IEA Survey) of the Department, performed by Navigant Consulting and overseen by the Controller’s Office, the Mayor’s Office and the City Council. We view the survey conclusions positively as they are fair in acknowledging our strengths, as well as providing informed [...]
News forecasters, meteorologists, and scientists have all predicted that El Niño is expected to peak in Southern California sometime between the months of January and March and will be one of the strongest El Niños on record. The question that we as Angelenos should ask ourselves is, are we prepared for El Niño? Last month, [...]
