I hope our newsletter finds you well. I already knew that we have some pretty awesome folks serving in our Neighborhood Councils, and it’s nice to hear when they are recognized by others in the community. Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council President Anastasia Mann will be honored as one of the Heroes of Hollywood by [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We are riding the Neighborhood Council election roller coaster now with the start of Region 1 elections last Saturday and Region 3 elections yesterday in the Valley. With Sunland Tujunga Neighborhood Council coming out of the gate with over 1200 voters showing up at the polls as well [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I was delighted today to join the Board of Public Works and Commissioner Josh LaFarga from our Board of Neighborhood Commissioner to honor our Clean Street Heroes Cheron McAleece from East Hollywood Neighborhood Council and Tom Johnson from Northridge West Neighborhood Council. You can read more about their [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well and recovering from any residual Thanksgiving food and shopping comas. The new Neighborhood Council Emergency Preparedness Alliance was launched beautifully by Board of Neighborhood Commissioner President Leonard Shaffer last month in collaboration with Councilmembers David Ryu and Paul Koretz who were both in attendance. Deputy Mayor of Homeland [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I am very sad to share with you that long time Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council board member, Frank Wada, passed away on Tuesday. I first met Frank nearly 8 years ago when I started working with the City at EmpowerLA. One of my first assignments was to create a [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We had a great meeting last Friday with the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates about our proposed budget for next fiscal year. The Budget Advocates have divided themselves into different committees to review the various City department budgets. Our Budget Advocate committee, led by Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council member, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
