Recycling Your Christmas Tree... Make it a green holiday this year and recycle your tree! In addition to wrapping paper, boxes and gift packaging, the City of Los Angeles offers residents the opportunity to recycle their Christmas trees. Dead, dry trees can be a fire hazard, and when they go to landfills they release greenhouse [...]
“Ending the housing affordability crisis is essential to securing Los Angeles as a place where every Angeleno — no matter their income — has an opportunity to build a life in our community. Everyone in L.A. deserves a place to come home to, and the Affordable Housing Linkage Fee is a critical investment in making [...]
LOS ANGELES—Mayor Eric Garcetti hosted an employment fair today to connect hundreds of job seekers with opportunities to join the effort to end homelessness. The Mayor was joined by Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Councilmember Curren Price, as well as more than 30 homeless services providers and partners looking to fill more than [...]
Griffith Park is the newest location where you can pick up a short-term bike rental in the city of Los Angeles, if you don't mind riding on hills. The bicycles are rented from a dockless bike-share system, meaning riders can pick up and drop off the bikes anywhere in the park's service area. The system [...]
NOVEMBER 30, 2017 Mayor Eric Garcetti, who chairs the Metro Board, led a preliminary discussion during today’s meeting about a new initiative he has championed, Twenty-Eight by ‘28. The purpose of the initiative is to leverage dollars from Measure M — the largest local infrastructure measure in U.S. history — to complete and accelerate 28 [...]
MAYOR GARCETTI JOINS MAYORS AROUND THE WORLD TO SET BOLD NEW SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS OCTOBER 23, 2017 The Mayor signed C40’s Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets Declaration, and an MOU on Olympic Cooperation with Paris. PARIS — Mayor Eric Garcetti today joined mayors from around the world in committing to a new set of sustainability goals that will make [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Thanks to Mayor Eric Garcetti's Office of Economic Development and the Mayor's Fund, Los Angeles now has a new brand: LA Original. Launched this week, LA Original is a pilot program developed to celebrate LA as the creative capital of the world. It focuses on showcasing promoting local [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. City Council has continued the Health, Education and Neighborhood Councils Committee recommendations on Council File 15-1022-S2 to Tuesday, October 3, 2017. Don't forget that our Assistant Director of Policy and Government Relations, Lorenzo Briceno, puts out a great Legislative Report below that provides a summary of the new Council Files introduced each [...]
LOS ANGELES — To help guide neighborhood-based efforts to end homelessness and build on his Days of Compassion movement, Mayor Eric Garcetti today convened more than 300 neighborhood council members, homelessness liaisons, business leaders, and City commissioners to connect them with service providers on the frontlines of the crisis. As part of the Engage L.A. event hosted at [...]
STATEMENT: MAYOR GARCETTI ON THE STATE ASSEMBLY’S PASSAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING PACKAGE “The affordability crisis in California threatens our great state's legacy of providing economic opportunity for all. The housing package approved by the Assembly will deliver critical funding and help streamline the development process — so that we can break ground more quickly on homes [...]
