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 to work with Everyone Counts! The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners began their review of the Everyone Counts proposal yesterday at a special meeting so you will have the opportunity to weigh in either at their next special meeting, which will hopefully be later on this month, or by sending your comments to Janet.Lindo@lacity.org. Please join us to dive deep into the Everyone Counts proposal at our next 2016 Neighborhood Council Elections Townhall on Saturday, February 21st, from 10 am – 12 pm, location Glassell Park Senior and Community Center, 3750 Verdugo Road, LA CA 90065.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out our new beta website yet, please do and tell us what you think by emailing empowerla@lacity.org. We’ve already gotten a lot of great feedback. I want to give HUGE thanks to our Director of Outreach and Communications, Stephen Box, and his awesome team, Sevak Paramazian, Jose Galdamez, Arin Abedian and Diana Ionescu, for doing the massive amount of work to get the new site up. Our website has nearly 600 pages and is still growing!

City Council’s Education & Neighborhoods Committee will be meeting next Tuesday, February 17th, at 1 pm. They will be looking at some big topics: the potential Neighborhood Council subdivision proposal (Council File #12-1681) from the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners and the draft ordinance to create the Neighborhood Council Grievance Panels (Council File #15-0067).

PlanCheckNC is meeting tomorrow in North Hollywood. Please remember that our offices will be closed on Monday, February 16, 2015, in observance of President’s Day. Have a wonderful Valentine’s Day and weekend!

Best,

Grayce Liu,
General Manager
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment aka EmpowerLA