MAYOR GARCETTI AND SUPERVISOR KUEHL ANNOUNCE $6 MILLION INVESTMENT IN L.A. RIVER VALLEY GREENWAY Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl announced a joint investment of $6 million in the Los Angeles River Valley Greenway. The funding will make the project shovel-ready by enabling completion of design on 12 miles of gaps in its [...]
Building on feedback generated at a Neighborhood Council (NC) stakeholder engagement workshop held in May, a team of NCSA and NC volunteers from across the city have joined forces with USC’s “Code the Change” program -- which selects one “social good” or nonprofit software development project per semester -- to develop an online water conservation [...]
Please join the NCSA, Climate Resolve, and many other local organizations and stakeholders for Path to Positive: Los Angeles Climate Day, to be held on Friday, November 6, 2015 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. This galvanizing event will bring together community leaders from all over the region [...]
At the next Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition (LANCC) meeting on November 7, representatives from the Board of Public Works will be ready to meet with all of the Neighborhood Council‘s Public Works Liaisons to share details about opportunities to engage in the Clean Streets campaign to clean up our neighborhoods’ streets and alleys. If [...]
This week, the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment staff had the pleasure of getting briefed by Captain Ruby Malachi and Lieutenant Al Labrada from the LAPD Chief of Police’s Community Relationship Division (CRD). CRD is a growing division whose mission is “to build relationships and trust between the Department and the diverse communities in Los Angeles [...]
To the Neighborhood Councils of Los Angeles: for the next few weeks, UCLA undergraduate students under the direction of Kathy O’Byrne from the Center for Community Learning at UCLA, as well as Stephen Box, director of the EmpowerLA initiative, will be working with the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to create a project that will capture [...]
LADOT’s award winning People St program will open its second application cycle and begin accepting proposals for Plazas, Parklets, and Bicycle Corrals from potential partners starting November 1st. Community Partners will have 45 calendar days or until December 15th to submit their applications for all People St projects. People St is a program of the [...]
Please Join the Communities of Eagle Rock, Glassell Park and Highland Park as we come together and cleanup the areas along Eagle Rock Blvd and York Blvd. Meet us on Saturday, October 24, 2015, 8:30am as we kick off this event at the CVS Pharmacy Parking lot located at 4414 York Boulevard in the Community [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Although I’ve been out sick most of this week, I’m happy to say that our EmpowerLA team was hard at work handling all things Neighborhood Councils from elections to funding to meeting operations to outreach. Many thanks to my managers, Leyla Campos, Armando Ruiz, Stephen Box and Mike [...]
Mayor Garcetti Announces Solar Pilot Project To Reduce Energy Use, Provide Power To First-Responders In Emergencies Mayor Eric Garcetti announced an innovative pilot project at a Los Angeles Fire Department station to reduce energy use, enhance energy security, and maintain crucial emergency services in the event of earthquakes or climate-related disruptions. The Resilient Solar Pilot [...]
