Mayor Eric Garcetti released his Resilient Los Angeles Strategy today at an EngageLA Getty House event with Neighborhood Council and community members in attendance. Neighborhood Councils, along with community organizations, play a big role in the second chapter of the strategy, which focuses on strong and connected neighborhoods with four specific goals: Build social [...]
The search for LA’s next Chief of Police is on, and you can help LAPD and the Board of Police Commissioners determine what characteristics and qualifications are most important in the next Police Chief by filling out this short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LACOP-Survey. Information gathered will help identify the candidates best-suited to the job, and will also [...]
Friends, I invite you to join me on Saturday, January 20th for the second-annual Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles. I can’t wait to join you in standing up for women’s rights, and in sending a message to the President that the women of Los Angeles won’t back down. This year’s march is also a call [...]
As 2018 settles in, it is bringing important and exciting opportunities to the NCSA and its members and supporters. YOU are needed to shape the NCSA’s direction in 2018 and beyond Can you believe that next month marks three years since the NCSA held its first public forum, and embarked on vital and innovative community [...]
The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment is excited to announce IgniteLA, a program for young women that builds civic knowledge and leadership skills to bolster civic engagement. Through a grassroots network of 97 Neighborhood Councils, EmpowerLA promotes civic engagement and improves government responsiveness to local needs. Each Neighborhood Council consists of volunteer stakeholders who meet [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates Meet with City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering Deputies By Connie Acosta On Tuesday, November 21, 2017, Neighborhood Council (NC) Budget Advocates, Barbara Ringuette, from Silver Lake NC, and Brian Allen, from Granada Hills NC, met with Engineering, Ted Allen, Deputy City Engineer; Mary Nemick, Director of Communications; and Robert Kadomatsu, [...]
This month, we’re excited to share with our Neighborhood Councils, how to create a public mural through the City’s Citywide Mural Program. Visit the Department of Cultural Affairs website http://culturela.org/murals for the mural registration application and for a robust Frequently Asked Question section that can answer many of the questions for your Neighborhood Council. For [...]
The SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition is a multi-neighborhood alliance across an area of the city that historically has had fewer resources, services, and facilities for our neighbors experiencing homelessness. Our goal is to create a neighborhood-level movement to respond to homelessness in a proactive and compassionate way through advocacy, education, and engagement. WHEN TO CALL [...]
