I hope our newsletter finds you well. It was a busy Saturday last week. After coming in on the tail end of the meeting for the busy Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, who are meeting with Mayor Garcetti on Monday, we held our 2nd 2016 Neighborhood Council Election Town Hall where we discussed all things elections, [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well and enjoying our warm weather. We have the dates of Mayor Garcetti and the Pat Brown Institute’s upcoming Civic University for Neighborhood Councils! It’ll be held in the downtown area on April 2nd, April 8th and April 15th from 6 pm - 9 pm. We’re excited to partner [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. It’s been another packed week of work, including entertaining our State Department visitors from Hungary, but the big news this week is that we have selected our vendor to administer the online voting component for the 2016 Neighborhood Council elections: Everyone Counts. We’re really excited about the opportunity [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I’m very pleased to welcome the Zapata-King Neighborhood Council to our City family. The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners unanimously voted to certify the 96th Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. Councilmember Curren Price came to speak on behalf of the forming committee, and many supporters filled [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I'm excited to share that our Neighborhood Council family is continuing to evolve and grow from the needs of the community. We expect to add our 96th Neighborhood Council at next week's Board of Neighborhood Commissioners meeting on February 3rd in South Los Angeles. The Zapata King Neighborhood [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. It has been a busy week as we’ve been working to resolve our vacant positions issue so we would finish our FY 2015-2016 budget submission due today. I really want to thank Deputy Mayor Rick Cole, CAO Miguel Santana, Personnel Department Assistant General Manager Phyllis Lynes and their awesome [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. We said a very bittersweet goodbye for now this week to our Neighborhood Empowerment Advocate, Lisette Covarrubias, who is leaving us today to go work with Metro. Lisette has been with the Department for 9 years, and her great work with Neighborhood Councils was evidenced when board members [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well and that you are having a Happy Halloween! I’m thrilled to share that we received a certification application from South LA for the 96th Neighborhood Council in the City - Zapata King Neighborhood Council. I really want to thank their forming committee, and our NEAs Taneda Larios and [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. Last weekend was packed so full of Neighborhood Council events, I could only swing by a few myself. On Saturday, we had a great Congress debrief with the Congress Planning Committee on what worked and what can work even better next year. The planning for next year’s Congress [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. Thanks very much to Neighborhood Council leaders around the City giving us feedback on the new checking account and events review system. It’s been very helpful, and I really appreciate everyone’s suggestions on how to make not only your work easier, but ours as well. If you haven’t [...]
