I was happy to attend a few receptions this week to say hi/bye to some of the City/County leadership. CAO Miguel Santana and his office held a reception to bid Assistant CAO Robin Engel good-bye on Monday morning as he heads off to become Vice President of Arnie Berghoff & Associates. Mayor Eric Garcetti welcomed [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. HUGE thanks to our awesome Neighborhood Council leaders who came to our town hall last Saturday. We learned a lot and received great ideas on how to improve the Neighborhood Council system and our services. I’m so appreciative of the time folks took to work with us on [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We’ve been busy wrapping up Neighborhood Council funding and bylaw issues this week. I am happy to say though that we’ve started interviews to fill our vacancies so we’ll be introducing some new faces to the EmpowerLA team soon. Don’t forget to stop by our Neighborhood Council Town [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Happy New Fiscal Year! Thanks to the Mayor’s Office, the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates and our great staff, we ended last fiscal year with a great Budget Day. I was sorry to have missed it as I was out of the country that day (many thanks to Acting [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. As we are winding down this fiscal year, I’m happy to say that for all the challenges we’ve had implementing the checking accounts this past year, it’s been a fairly calm year end close in comparison to years past. Many thanks to our Funding Team, led by Armando [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. While I’ve been working my way from under a stack of Neighborhood Council contracts, leases, bylaws and City Council reports this week, I’ve had some great moments of inspiration as well from our City family. I met with Amanda Dalos, the new Director of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Innovation [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Congratulations to Neighborhood Councils as they hit 241 Community Impact Statements (CIS) filed this fiscal year! We’ve now passed not only this year’s goal of 200 filed, but have actually achieved next fiscal year’s goal of 240 already. Thank you so much for taking the time to weigh [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. It has been a busy week as our staff has worked extra hard to close out the fiscal year. The Funding Team, led by Armando Ruiz, was busy ensuring that the transfers of the remaining funding allocations to Neighborhood Councils went through. The Field Team, led by Leyla [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Congratulations to Neighborhood Councils for hitting their goal of filing 200 Community Impact Statements (CIS) this fiscal year! Neighborhood Councils are at 207 this week, and there’s still a month to go yet. So if your Neighborhood Councils haven’t filed a CIS yet, there’s still time. Check out [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We were pleased to welcome more international visitors this week from Brazil and also from our sister city, Auckland, New Zealand. It’s such a pleasure to share the wonderful work of our Neighborhood Councils with other countries. They are always amazed by the integration of such a civic [...]
