Help to make festivals, special events, marathon races, and your neighborhood safe and enjoyable for everyone. Please observe ‘No Parking’ signs during posted street cleaning hours. LADOT helps keep our city streets clean for people who walk, roll, bike, ride transit, and drive. Thank you.
By Tony Wilkinson "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made" wrote American poet and satirist John Godfrey Saxe in 1869. Drafting legislation is just as messy a process today. Thanks to the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council system, everyday Angelinos can be part of that sausage-making process. [...]
LA Sanitation is hosting its first annual citywide Earth Day LA event to be held on Saturday, April 23rd from 9am to 2pm, at Hansen Dam Park, just outside Discovery Cube Los Angeles. The theme is Zero Waste - One Water. We would be honored to have you join us. A few event details: 2000 [...]
Please join us for a panel discussion entitled LAPD & Community: Overcoming Mistrust. Moderated by Sandy Banks, former LA Times Columnist and featuring panelists Holly Mitchell, California State Senator, District 30; Kim McGill, Organizer, Youth Justice Coalition; Kathleen Kim, Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners and Arif Alikhan, Director, LAPD OFfice of Constitutional Policing and [...]
By Tony Wilkinson "We’re not interested in what your problem is. We just want you to turn around and stop taking our money and going up on the rates" said Earis Vails, an African-American bus driver who lives in South L.A. She was talking to reporter Gene Maddaus of "LA Weekly". Earlier Vails had asked [...]
Check out the Wall Street Journal's great profile of The City Controller's new LAX interactive dashboard. Users can explore a real-time noise map, what LAX buys, and data on traffic, passenger experience, and more. "You can see how the money is spent, check salaries of airport employees, chart car rentals by month and see maps [...]
The Elevate Project is a mentorship program for female tech entrepreneurs, in partnership with the LA Mayor's Office. Please join us for our free workshop next week, Wednesday April 6th from 10am-12pm at the La Kretz Building, 525 S. Hewitt Street, Los Angeles 90013. The topics will be on recruiting and hiring--How to Build Your [...]
Greetings Neighborhood Councils! LA Sanitation is hosting our very first citywide Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 23rd at Hansen Dam Recreation Park, right next to Discovery Cube Los Angeles! It will be a fun family-friendly event focused on sustainable living. We'll have lots of exhibits, games, and giveaways as well as a stage with [...]
Dear Metro Partners, Yesterday, the Metro Board of Directors approved the release of Metro’s Draft Expenditure Plan (The Plan) for public input. The Plan outlines how Metro will plan, build, operate, and fund our growing transportation system over the next 40 years to accommodate the additional 2.4 million people and 1.4 million new jobs that [...]
The Board of Public Works welcomed two additional Neighborhood Council Cleans Streets Heroes today to learn about their work in the community as well as recognize them for the partnership to help meet the city’s goals to clean our streets, sidewalks, and alleys. Wilmington Neighborhood Council Board Member Diana Medel and Pico Union Neighborhood Council [...]
