Mayor Garcetti today announced that the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda, an organization he co-founded in September of 2014, has called on President Obama to fight for the strongest possible climate agreement at the upcoming 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris. The Mayors are [...]
On Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 Glassell Park will join over 37. 8 million neighbors across 16, 124 communities in celebration of National Night Out, America’s Night Out Against Crime. In partnership with the Office of Councilmember Gilbert Cedillo, Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell and Councilmember José Huizar, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, LA Sanitation [...]
Update: Change of location for the meeting of June 25, 2015 The Los Angeles City Council, Economic Development Committee has requested the Office of the Chief Legislative Analyst to solicit community input with regards to sidewalk vending. As indicated below, the Chief Legislative Analyst was instructed to hold four community meetings throughout the City to [...]
Please join us for a brief presentation about keeping your human and pet family members safe. There will be an opportunity for community members to speak and share your ideas, concerns and suggestions. Your comments will be recorded and used to determine if there are steps that need to be taken to insure that we [...]
Today LADOT Bike Program installed a new bicycle corral at the Peddlers Creamery, 458 S Main St in Downtown Los Angeles. This is also one of the newest Bicycle Friendly Business Districts. BTW, the creamery makes ice-cream in small batches by peddling a stationary bicycle hooked up to a churning machine. This is a marriage [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Congratulations to Neighborhood Councils as they hit 241 Community Impact Statements (CIS) filed this fiscal year! We’ve now passed not only this year’s goal of 200 filed, but have actually achieved next fiscal year’s goal of 240 already. Thank you so much for taking the time to weigh [...]
Greetings! We hope our weekly newsletter finds you well. Bylaws… The Department’s Field Division worked with the Board of Neighborhood Commissioner at their 5/18/15 and subsequently their 6/4/15 meeting and pushed forward 11 Bylaw Adjustment Applications with Board Structure Changes. Staff hope to finalize presenting the rest of the board structure changes at the upcoming [...]
An earthquake that lasts only a few seconds or minutes may cause financial damage that takes years to repair. In collaboration with Councilmen Tom LaBonge and Mitchell Englander, the Emergency Management Department (EMD) Bulletin for this month explores insurance and financial preparedness information that can aid in recovery following a disaster. Make a Financial “Go” [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. It has been a busy week as our staff has worked extra hard to close out the fiscal year. The Funding Team, led by Armando Ruiz, was busy ensuring that the transfers of the remaining funding allocations to Neighborhood Councils went through. The Field Team, led by Leyla [...]
Port of Los Angeles Embraces Technology to Increase Supply Chain Efficiency SAN PEDRO -- Mayor Garcetti today announced that Cargomatic, a Los Angeles-based, privately-owned technology company that matches trucking capacity with shipments, is testing its mobile app to speed up the flow of containerized cargo at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA), the number #1 [...]
