LOS ANGELES—Mayor Eric Garcetti joined hundreds of global business leaders Thursday to showcase Los Angeles’ booming economy and push for new investment in city assets. The Regional Investors Conference, held this year in Playa Vista, provides an opportunity for leaders from across Southern California to promote private investment in municipal bonds. This year’s third annual [...]
Written by Tony Wilkinson (Panorama City NC and North Hills East NC) on DWP Reform and Neighborhood Councils. One perspective from the NC-DWP MOU Oversight Committee: This a decisive moment. For the first time in my memory, both the Mayor and the President of the City Council have reached out to include ALL Neighborhood Councils [...]
Los Angeles is nation’s largest city with a formal body to advise City leaders on issues facing the trans community. LOS ANGELES — The City of Los Angeles became the nation’s largest city to establish a permanent council of transgender community leaders to advise the City on how to best serve the needs of transgender [...]
Written by Krystee Clark, Neighborhood Council Budget Advocate A powerful group of Neighborhood Council leaders met with Mayor Eric Garcetti, Controller Ron Galperin and City Council President Herb Wesson to discuss the motion to overhaul the DWP (Council File 16-0093). How will it be run and how will it operate? What do the Neighborhood Councils [...]
Civic U 2.0 successfully concluded on Tuesday night with five excellent group presentations based on Mayor Garcetti's Back to Basics Priority Outcomes, which are available for viewing: Make Los Angeles the best run big City in America Create a more livable and sustainable City Ensure our communities are the safest in the nation Promote good [...]
Mayor Eric Garcetti joined Xerox for the launch of Go LA, a transportation app that provides detailed information on every available mode of getting around the Los Angeles region. Watch the Go LA App video, which highlights a significant step in improving safety for people who walk, roll, bicycle, use transit and drive on our [...]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti kicks off the 2016 Neighborhood Council elections, calling on Angelenos to sign up as candidates and register as voters. Sign up as a candidate, register as a voter, and learn more about the Neighborhood Council system.
Mayor Eric Garcetti was joined by Los Angeles City Council members and homeless service providers today to announce the approval of $12.4 million in emergency homeless relief funding, which will be used this winter to help get Angelenos off the street and out of harm’s way. With El Niño winter storms expected to hit the [...]
Mayor Garcetti unveiled the nation's first installation of Philips SmartPole streetlights, equipped with energy-efficient LED lighting and 4G LTE wireless technology. 100 of these innovative streetlights will be installed across Los Angeles in the first year; 500 additional poles will be added over the next four years. The SmartPoles will deliver enhanced, reliable wireless broadband [...]
Mayor Garcetti Announces Federal Designation, $700,000 Grant To Assist Disconnected Youth Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced that the Obama Administration has selected Los Angeles as a Performance Partnership Pilot for Disconnected Youth (P3), a designation that allows local and state governments to pilot improved ways of assisting disconnected youth with federal dollars. Performance Partnership Pilot [...]
