I hope our newsletter finds you well. We had a great Election Town Hall last Saturday where we did a final review of our draft 2016 Election Manual with Neighborhood Council leaders. We’ll be finalizing the manual by November 6th so if you have any other suggestions, please email them to elections@empowerla.org. Many thanks to our [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I was happy to stop by the Neighborhood Council Budget Day event in the Valley last Saturday where folks gathered to talk the City budget. Many thanks to the Budget Advocates who were working citywide to do regional Budget Days for their community. Budget Advocate Glenn Bailey led [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Although I’ve been out sick most of this week, I’m happy to say that our EmpowerLA team was hard at work handling all things Neighborhood Councils from elections to funding to meeting operations to outreach. Many thanks to my managers, Leyla Campos, Armando Ruiz, Stephen Box and Mike [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. It was a busy Saturday with the LANCC taking on issues of homelessness funding and advocating for Neighborhood Councils to have priority along with other City agencies for unused City properties. I was happy to catch up with busy LANCC Chair Terrence Gomes to present him with his [...]
We had an outstanding Congress of Neighborhoods on Saturday with nearly 700 Neighborhood Council leaders at our beautiful City Hall. Council President Herb Wesson kicked off the Congress at the opening session to a standing room only crowd in City Council chambers. Seven hours and 40 workshops later, Mayor Eric Garcetti closed the Congress with [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We are so very excited about the Congress of Neighborhoods tomorrow! If you heart all things Neighborhood Councils like we do, then the Congress is the place to be tomorrow. With Council President Herb Wesson opening the Congress and Mayor Eric Garcetti closing the day, you’ll have 40 workshops to [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We are very happy to welcome our new Harbor area Commissioner, Josh LaFarga, to the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners! Commissioner LaFarga was confirmed by City Council and will be attending his first special Commission meeting today when the Commissioners will be selecting the EmpowerLA Award winners. The awards [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. This has been very full and wonderful week. We started our new staff and have been busy training them to get them up to speed. There were many great candidates to choose from, and I want to thank the Personnel Department, in particular Binh Le, and my managers, [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners elected new officers at their meeting on Monday. Commission Vice President Leonard Shaffer was elected President, and Commissioner Joy Atkinson was elected Vice President. HUGE thanks to outgoing President Karen Mack for her great leadership! Karen has always been a big advocate for [...]
It was a nice full weekend of Neighborhood Council activities. Thanks to our Council for Council mentors, Jay Handal and Terrence Gomes, Deputy City Attorney Carmen Hawkins, and our staffer, Tom Soong, we had a great board orientation and ethics training last Saturday in South LA. I was happy to welcome both new and experienced [...]
