City of Los Angeles

Councilmember Paul Krekorian, chairman of the city’s Education and Neighborhoods Committee, released a comprehensive review today of local democracy following a nearly year-long study of Los Angeles’ 92 neighborhood councils. The report encompasses the wide-ranging views of community leaders throughout Los Angeles. “As Chairman of the Education and Neighborhoods Committee, …

Specific Needs Awareness Planning (S.N.A.P)- voluntary disaster registry website for Los Angeles County For millions of Los Angeles County residents who have access and functional needs including those relating to physical, medical, sensory, cognitive or age-related conditions; disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires or floods will present a real challenge. Disasters …

Northridge West NC Treasurer, Pamela Bolin, represented NWNC at Mayor Villaraigosa’s Community Budget Day on October 18, 2010. According to a recent report, the city opened up a $63.7 million budget deficit in the first quarter of this fiscal year over delays to implementing cost-cutting measures, including layoffs. Click here …

Northridge West Stakeholders, Our Council District 12 Councilmember, Greig Smith, is asking for our input on an animal services motion that could impact pet owners across the City. The motion, which is currently awaiting a decision in the Public Safety Committee, was introduced by Councilmember Bill Rosendahl (District 11). It …

It’s now even easier to report graffiti to the City so it can get cleaned up fast. In addition to calling 311, you can now report graffiti directly using the City’s online 311 function at http://anti-graffiti.lacity.org/welcome.cfm Note that graffiti can be cleaned up on private property, but permission must be …

To help residential customers save energy and money, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) will increase many of its rebates for the most energy efficient appliances and home improvement products on the market. Starting October 1, 2010, LADWP will raise rebate amounts for qualifying high efficiency central …

Would you like to help the City of Los Angeles better prepare for emergencies? Take the survey before Sept. 28, 2010 at http://www.piersystem.com/go/survey/2511/4511/. For preparedness tips, visit the City’s official readiness, response and recovery website at http://readyla.org. Follow our updates during an emergency or critical event at: http://twitter.com/readyla http://www.facebook.com/readyla http://emergency.lacity.org …

Schwarzenegger Has Until September 30 to Sign A bill allowing cities to ban mobile advertising trailers has passed the California Legislature and is headed to the governor’s desk. Once signed, the Los Angeles City Council will be able to pass a motion regulating the signs within city limits. Governor Arnold …

Taken from laist.com Up in the Northwest Valley, 1.2 miles of a city street are slated to get a bicycle lane in each direction. For cyclists and some residents, it’s welcome news, for others it’s not. But for either side of the issue, the problem was that no one knew, …

Watering Days Expanded, Schedule Based on Customer Street Address Changes to the City of Los Angeles’ Water Conservation Ordinance went into effect today (August 25, 2010) for Los Angeles City residents and businesses, allowing LADWP customers to water with sprinklers up to three days per week. Customers whose street addresses end …