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. 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 [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. It’s been a busy week in City Hall meeting with City Council staff about our budget request. Your Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates have been at every Budget & Finance Committee meeting weighing in on the various department budget requests. The Budget Advocates are also agendized to speak at the [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I started my Neighborhood Council filled week on Sunday at the Chatsworth Neighborhood Council’s 12th Annual Day of the Horse. It was a fun filled equestrian event co-hosted by Councilmember Mitch Englander. I even walked away from with a great outreach pen in the shape of a horse [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. On Saturday, I was happy to see City Council President Herb Wesson at the LANCC. He spent nearly 2 hours speaking about his plans for the Education & Neighborhoods Committee and taking questions and suggestions from the Neighborhood Council leaders. Some of his proposals were to increase Neighborhood [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I’m very pleased to welcome the Zapata-King Neighborhood Council to our City family. The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners unanimously voted to certify the 96th Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. Councilmember Curren Price came to speak on behalf of the forming committee, and many supporters filled [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. It has been a busy week as we’ve been working to resolve our vacant positions issue so we would finish our FY 2015-2016 budget submission due today. I really want to thank Deputy Mayor Rick Cole, CAO Miguel Santana, Personnel Department Assistant General Manager Phyllis Lynes and their awesome [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well and that you are having a Happy Halloween! I’m thrilled to share that we received a certification application from South LA for the 96th Neighborhood Council in the City - Zapata King Neighborhood Council. I really want to thank their forming committee, and our NEAs Taneda Larios and [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. Last weekend was packed so full of Neighborhood Council events, I could only swing by a few myself. On Saturday, we had a great Congress debrief with the Congress Planning Committee on what worked and what can work even better next year. The planning for next year’s Congress [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. Thanks very much to Neighborhood Council leaders around the City giving us feedback on the new checking account and events review system. It’s been very helpful, and I really appreciate everyone’s suggestions on how to make not only your work easier, but ours as well. If you haven’t [...]
