Sharing your election information will be top priority during the Neighborhood Council election period. To keep your stakeholders up to date with key election voting, candidate registration, workshops, board meetings, candidate forums, and other important dates and deliverables, every Election Committee will be best served by creating a master calendar. Step 1: Start with a [...]
Each of the 35 Online Voting Neighborhood Councils can set up a "SIGN UP TO VOTE" station at your meetings and events and call in your IEA to help facilitate. Your IEA can bring a portable Hotspot box so that Wi-Fi access is available for all to use. If your Neighborhood Council wants to have [...]
Online Voting is about ease and convenience. The 35 Neighborhood Councils who are participating in Online Voting will provide their stakeholders added benefits with this new form of voting. Ease Stakeholders who qualify to vote in the 35 Online Voting Neighborhood Councils, will only need to do two things: 1. Register to vote during the [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. Our EmpowerLA team is ending 2015 in a full sprint towards 2016 with awesome events just around the corner! As you know, the 2016 Neighborhood Council elections have started already with the launch of the online voter registration portal for our online voting pilot. We’re already approving the [...]
Community Members in the 35 Neighborhood Councils that are participating in the Online Voting pilot project can register online to vote. Online Voter Registration opened on December 1, 2015 and voters can visit the online voter registration page to find their council. Every Neighborhood Council has their own elections page with a link to the [...]
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 [...]
On Saturday, October 24, at 10 a.m, EmpowerLA's General Manager is hosting an Elections Town Hall at Glassell Park Community and Senior Center to review the 2016 Neighborhood Council Elections Manual and to discuss the upcoming 2016 elections, including the implementation of citywide online voting. The Election Town Hall is an opportunity for Outreach Chairs, [...]
Since its inception in 1999, the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (Empower LA) has grown into the nation’s largest and most innovative initiative in civic engagement and citizen-based government. More than 1,700 Neighborhood Council Board Members are elected or selected by their community to serve on their local boards and work to improve the City’s delivery [...]
The Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition met on March 7 to discuss the citywide issues of online voting for Neighborhood Council elections, mansionization in Los Angeles, and the recent DWP billing issues. Despite a motion requested by LANCC to postpone the online voting decision for a month, the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners voted to approve [...]
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 [...]
