Your Voice is Urgently Needed!
Council to Consider NC Recommendations Today at 10 am
The City Council is set to consider, among other issues, five sweeping motions approved this week by the committee that oversees Neighborhood Council (NC) policy. On Tuesday, the Councilman Paul Krekorian-led Education and Neighborhoods Committee sent five recommendations to the City Council which set in motion a series of regulations to increase NC efficiency and transparency. Those recommendations – tomorrow’s motions – can be seen here (.pdf) and a detailed account is here.
You can watch the meeting on Channel 35, online or by calling one of the phone numbers below to listen to the meeting in progress:
- Downtown (213) 621-CITY (2489)
- San Pedro (310) 547-CITY (2489)
- West Los Angeles (310) 471-CITY (2489)
- Van Nuys (818) 904-9450
THIS IS IT. This week, the L.A. City Council WILL VOTE on drastically cutting Neighborhood Councils annual funding and may take ALL NC rollover funds back. DONE staff will probably be cut at least in HALF, from around 38 to 19.
RIGHT NOW, we need to E-MAIL AND CALL the City's Education and Neighborhoods Committee Members, because of the Monday holiday and because they're meeting FIRST THING Tuesday morning. Their staffs are working NOW, this weekend, on NC issues.
E-mail Chair Paul Krekorian, Vice-Chair Dennis Zine, and Janice Hahn at Paul.Krekorian@lacity.org, Councilmember.Zine@lacity.org, Janice.Hahn@lacity.org. They can be called at (Paul Krekorian) 213-473-7002; (Dennis Zine) 213-473-7003; and (Janice Hahn) 213-473-7015.
If you took the time to write an email to these three Council Members (or if you're planning on it), why not send it to all of the City Council Members, their chiefs of staff, and Mayor Villaraigosa? GHNNC has made it easy for you to do: just send your email to the list we have created at lacitycouncil@ghnnc.org, and your letter will be automatically forwarded to all of them!
BudgetLA, a group of many NC Board Members and other NC Stakeholders from around the City, has a plan to SAVE MONEY for the City, SAVE THE NC SYSTEM, and RE-ORGANIZE DONE to better serve NCs. See the www.BudgetLA.org website for the latest information and wording to use in your City Councilmember contacts, so we all present a unified message.
Also see www.LANCCoalition.org and www.CityWatchLA.com.The FULL City Council meets this THURSDAY MORNING THE 18TH at 10:00 a.m. downtown at the same location, L.A. City Hall, Room 340, 200 N. Spring St., Los Angeles. The Neighborhood Council Agenda Items will be heard some time after that.
If you can get away for some hours THURSDAY the 18th, drive, carpool, train, bus, bike, do what you can to get to City Hall – with as many others as you can – to help save the NC System.
