A "Most Significant Victory" That is how the New York Times described yesterday's LA City Council vote to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles. I kicked off this effort last year on Labor Day so that no Angeleno working full-time lives in poverty. Yesterday, the City Council voted to accomplish just that. Will you [...]
Mayor Garcetti Celebrates Opening of Women Veteran Housing Program Mayor Eric Garcetti, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald, Councilmember Joe Buscaino, Rep. Ted Liu, and Rep. Janice Hahn today celebrated the grand opening of Blue Butterfly Village in San Pedro, a historic new facility dedicated specifically to housing women veterans with children. The Blue [...]
Mayor Garcetti Statement on Governor Brown's Carbon Reduction Targets for California "Addressing climate change is critical for our environment and economy, so I want to applaud Governor Jerry Brown for extending our state's global leadership as we are setting new targets here in Los Angeles. Thanks to Governor Brown, Senator Kevin de León and other [...]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday announced what he called an “unprecedented outreach campaign” in the city’s continuing effort to get residents to use less water amid California’s drought. The campaign — titled “Save the Drop” — will coordinate existing outreach programs from across the city, according to a statement from Garcetti's office. To [...]
Mayor Garcetti Announces New Public Safety App Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced the LAFD's deployment of PulsePoint, a free mobile app that registers people trained in CPR who get alerted when someone nearby needs help, potentially dramatically reducing the time when CPR begins and saving lives when seconds count. "This app connects trained lifesavers who [...]
Mayor Garcetti Asia Trip Update Editors: Photos are available at lamayor.org/photos BEIJING, CHINA -- Mayor Garcetti was in Beijing, China, the fourth stop in his Asia trade mission. In Beijing, Mayor Garcetti met with the U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus. He also led a discussion on urbanization and sustainability at Peking University, in partnership [...]
Mayor Eric Garcetti today highlighted the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s energy efficiency goal of 15% by year 2020—the highest and most ambitious energy efficiency goal by a major municipal utility in the United States. The new goal, adopted by Garcetti’s appointees to the Board of Water and Power in August 2014, exceeds [...]
LOS ANGELES and BISHOP, CA – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, LA City Attorney Mike Feuer, DWP Commission President Mel Levine and Owens Valley air pollution control representatives Ron Hames, Linda Arcularius and Matt Kingsley announced today that the City of Los Angeles and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District (Great Basin) have [...]
Will you join me in fighting the drought? The history of Los Angeles is a history of water. From our city's founding on the banks of the LA River to the engineering miracle of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, our relationship with water has been inseparable from our growth and success as a city. With our [...]
Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced the nomination of Wendy Macy as the next General Manager of City of Los Angeles Personnel Department. Macy currently serves as Director of Human Resources for the County of Sonoma, a position she has held since 2011, and was previously Chief Operating Officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District. [...]
