The monthly meeting of PlanCheckNC will be held this Saturday starting at 10 a.m. Phyllis Nathanson from the Code Studies Unit at the LA City Planning Department will present the latest update on the Master Plan Development Ordinance. In addition PlanCheckNC will have community updates regarding Mansionization, SB1818, Small Lot Subdivisions and more. Meeting starts [...]
Neighborhood Councils can pick up their Election Documents from the City Clerk by emailing Clerk.Election@LACity.org or calling 213-978-0444 and giving the City Clerk a week’s notice so that the documents can be retrieved from the archive and prepared for pickup. The Documents include the Stakeholder Registration forms, the Candidate Registration forms, the Vote-by-Mail applications, and [...]
Neighborhood Councils have an opportunity to file Community Impact Statements on the City of LA’s Election Reform Commission recommendations which include ideas on how to engage voters and increase the turnout. The Election Reform Commission’s final report is with the City Council’s Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee and LA’s 95 Neighborhood Council need to [...]
Free Workshops: July 2014 The public is invited to attend this workshop to learn about the Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO).You will learn about the RSO including how to calculate the annual allowable rent increase, legal reasons for evictions, security deposit interest and requirements for relocation assistance for no-fault evictions, as well as recent updates to the [...]
Board of Neighborhood Commissioners to honor Neighborhood Councils that best achieve their mission The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners (Commission) is accepting nominations for the Third Annual EmpowerLA awards. The awards are given to Neighborhood Councils that best fulfill their city charter mandate of promoting more citizen participation in government and making government more responsive to local [...]
Winning logo submitted by local artist Damian Valentine Mayek We are finally realizing the fruits of a labor that’s been about 14 months in the making. To recap, since May of 2013, the branding initiative has: Made three presentations to the Sunland Tujunga Neighborhood Council, and received the vote of support in October [...]
In order to start effectively measuring the impact of the Neighborhood Council system, the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (Department) collaborated with Neighborhood Councils last year to submit strategic plans and budgets for Fiscal Year 2013-2014. These plans and budgets were posted online on your Neighborhood Council’s webpage on www.EmpowerLA.org. The Neighborhood Council Budget Package for [...]
Take Off Your Rose Colored Glasses: Things Are Not Always What They Seem To Be LOS ANGELES – City Attorney Mike Feuer has launched a public awareness campaign designed to empower and protect seniors from scams perpetrated in cyber space. “We’re launching a multi-pronged effort to give seniors the tools to thwart scam artists, surf [...]
Mayor Eric Garcetti has nominated Seleta Reynolds of the San Francisco Department of Transportation as the next General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). "Los Angeles is changing the way it looks at transportation," said Mayor Garcetti. "Seleta is the ideal field marshal in our war against traffic who will bring to bear [...]
BY MIKE BOEHM from the LA Times Danielle Brazell, whose job over the past eight years has included regularly prodding City Hall to spend more money and pay more attention to L.A.’s nonprofit arts scene, has been nominated by Mayor Eric Garcetti to take charge of the Department of Cultural Affairs, the agency that receives the [...]
