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. 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. I had the pleasure of attending Big Ideas for Cities last Friday, which was co-hosted by the National League of Cities and the City of Los Angeles. Mayors from around the country shared their “big ideas” that are driving innovation within their communities. Deputy Mayor of Budget and [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. It was a very busy Saturday between presenting at the Empowerment Congress Leadership Institute and running between the Neighborhood Council events. I wasn’t able to get to all of the events (only 3), but it was wonderful to see our Neighborhood Councils in action on issues of public [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. We’re starting to get the first names of the Neighborhood Council leaders attending Mayor Garcetti and the Pat Brown Institute’s first Neighborhood Council Civic University. It’s very exciting because this is going to be a wonderful class. Please make sure your selected members register asap here because they will [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. It was a busy Saturday last week. After coming in on the tail end of the meeting for the busy Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, who are meeting with Mayor Garcetti on Monday, we held our 2nd 2016 Neighborhood Council Election Town Hall where we discussed all things elections, [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well and enjoying our warm weather. We have the dates of Mayor Garcetti and the Pat Brown Institute’s upcoming Civic University for Neighborhood Councils! It’ll be held in the downtown area on April 2nd, April 8th and April 15th from 6 pm - 9 pm. We’re excited to partner [...]
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 [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. I’m having a bit of a slow start catching up on work unfortunately because I was rear-ended on the freeway my first day back to work last week and have been mostly out of the office recovering. Sadly, my little electric car is also out of commission so [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. I’m back in the office and playing a lot of catch up this week. I wanted to thank Cindy Cleghorn, Joanne Yvanek-Garb and Jay Handal for their articles updating you on their great work with the Congress of Neighborhoods, PlanCheckNC and the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates. It was [...]
