In August of 2008, Councilman Smith introduced Council Motion 08-2070, a motion to address the issue of abandoned shopping carts in the community. A pilot program was carried out and the City Council decided create a shopping cart ordinance. You can find the full history of this motion at: http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=08-2070 …

You are all invited this Saturday 1/8/11 (7AM to 10AM) to join in the trend setting efforts of the Northridge West Neighborhood Councils sponsored Operation Clean Sweep along the North and South side of Tunney Avenue between the Tampa and Devonshire Streets. This weekend’s mission will be to trim and clean up many of the overhanging trees/bushes/debris as we prepare the west side of Tampa Avenue, the north side of Devonshire Street (including the section east of the flood control area) along with the north & south sides of Tunney Avenue for the January 15th Pre-Super Bowl Operation Clean Sweep in which Northridge West Neighborhood Council, Councilman Greig Smith and Hope Worldwide will team up to restore these areas to their natural beauty (See attached flyer) So please tell your friends, neighbors or anyone you think that would be interested in helping improve our community to come and join us as we build our team of dedicated volunteers committed to having fun, meeting new people and making Northridge a cleaner, greener and safer place to live, learn and work. Parking will be on Tunney Avenue along the west side of Tampa Avenue. We will be starting around 7AM and meeting on the south-west corner of Tunney & Tampa Avenue to review the playing field over coffee, donuts, and bagels. Please contact me if you have any questions or need directions.

To All Northridge Stakeholders: We took responsibility for the Reseda median just south of Lassen Street turning it from a weed infested jungle into a nicely manicured Northridge Oasis (See attached pictures). These accomplishments were the results of numerous volunteers that sacrificed many of their Thursday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s to …

Northridge West Neighborhood Council, Thank you for your generous donations this past year. We are thrilled to announce that in 2010, because of your generosity, we distributed almost 2 million pounds of food to needy families and individuals. Happy New Year! Thank you again for your contributions! William Hernandez Director, …

After the holidays, please recycle all Christmas trees. You may cut them up and put them in the green bin for pickup, or take the tree to a city recycling location: BALBOA SPORTS CENTER 17015 Burbank Boulevard Encino, CA 91316 FIRE STATION #28 11641 Corbin Ave. Northridge, CA 91326 (818) …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: Happy Holiday and a Merry Christmas to you and your families. See more photos from this day’s events HERE. I want to thank all of you that have come out during these last twenty five weeks to help make Northridge a nicer place to live, work, play and …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: You are all invited this Saturday 12/18/10 (7AM to 10AM) to join in the trend-setting efforts of the Northridge West Neighborhood Council-sponsored Operation Clean Sweep along the West side of Tampa Avenue between the Tunney and Devonshire Street. This weekend’s mission will be to trim and …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: Happy Holidays! I want to thank all the elves that came out Saturday in support of the Operation Khris Kringle Clean Sweep along Wilbur Avenue. The mission accomplished the first phase of a partial clearing of debris that has accumulated along Wilbur Avenue for the scheduled …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: You are all invited this Saturday 12/11/10 (7AM to 10AM) to join in the trend setting efforts of the Northridge West Neighborhood Councils sponsored Operation Clean Sweep along the East side of Wilbur Avenue between the 118 Freeway and Kenya Street. This weekend’s mission will clean up the north section of Wilbur Avenue and allow …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: I want to thank all the volunteers that came out this past weekend in support of the Khris Kringle Clean Sweep Operations along Wilbur Avenue. With your help and that of the elves we were able to clean sweep the east side of Wilbur Avenue from the 118 …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: I am happy to report that Tampa Avenue between the 118 Freeway to Plummer Street along the East and West sides has been swept clean. This milestone could not have been accomplished without the hard work and commitment of the gracious individual volunteers that came out …

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, …

The Northridge West Neighborhood Council wishes peace, prosperity and happiness for you and your families. Please come join our meeting on December 14th, 2010 - 7pm at Beckford Street Elementary School and have a bite to eat with the volunteers that are working to make Northridge West a cleaner, safer and better place to live, work and play.

I want to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving holiday! Also, I ask that you keep our men and women in the military as well as our veterans in your thoughts as well. If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t have nearly all the opportunities that are afforded us today’s Happy Thanksgiving. …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: Short story! Around 7AM, fearing that volunteers may not have received the email this morning canceling today’s scheduled Operation Clean Sweep, I drove to Chatsworth and Tampa Avenue planning to inform those that arrived that the event was canceled due to the rain. Well sure enough the first volunteer (Dick …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: Please note that Operation Clean Sweep scheduled for today (11/20/10) is being canceled due to the heavy rains. Operation Clean Sweep will resume next Saturday 11/27/10. Northridge West Neighborhood Council would like to wish you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving! Tom Johnson President Northridge West …

The following is a news release from Councilman Greig Smith’s Office: The Wilbur Ave. working group met for the first time this week and held a highly constructive discussion and review of Department of Transportation’s (DOT) tentative proposals to address traffic and safety questions related to the re-configuration of the …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: You are all invited this Saturday 11/20/10 (7AM to 11AM) to join in the trend setting efforts of the Northridge West Neighborhood Councils sponsored Operation Clean Sweep along the West side of Tampa Avenue between Chatsworth and the 118 Freeway. Saturday’s operations will complete our original …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: A great big thank you to all the volunteers (Especially those young bucks that showed up in force with all their energy) that came out this past weekend in support of Operation Clean Sweep. With your help we were able to clean sweep the entire east …