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Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
Newsletter
December
29, 2004
Re: ADDITIONAL
“SAFER COMMUNITIES MEASURE” MEETINGS PLANNED.
As was mentioned
in the December 23 newsletter, the City Council and Mayor have asked
our department to help survey Neighborhood Councils regarding the
proposal to place a measure on the May 2005 city ballot that would
generate additional money each year for additional police officers
and other public safety improvements.
Given the very
short legal deadline (the City Council must act by January 26),
we are helping Neighborhood Council leaders organize meetings in
six different parts of the city in early January. Representatives
of the Police Department and Fire Department will attend, as will
the city’s fiscal experts. Everyone who has something to learn
or something to say is invited. You don’t even need to know
what a Neighborhood Council is.
The city’s
goal is to provide attendees with information sheets and the questionnaire
a couple of days before the first meeting. This newsletter and all
subsequent ones regarding these meetings will be on our home page
at www.lacityneighborhoods.com.
The input will
be gathered and analyzed by city staff, and provided to the City
Council. Dates when the City Council and its committees will discuss
this issue have not yet been set. One place to go for up-to-date
information is Bill Murray’s community policing website at
www.lacp.org.
Here’s
the schedule as of Wednesday, December 29:
January 5, 6:30
p.m.
North
and South Valley Areas
Kaiser
Regional Lab
11668
Sherman Way
January 6, 5:30
p.m.
Harbor
Area
Location
to be announced
January 10,
6:30 p.m.
Ramona
Hall
4580 N.
Figueroa St.
January 11,
6 p.m.
South
Area
Mark Ridley-Thomas
Constituent Service Center
8475 South
Vermont Avenue
January 12
Central
Area
National
Council of Jewish Women
543 Fairfax
Ave.
January 13
West Area
Location
to be announced
It would help
if you could supply us with your questions in advance so that we
can have the answers ready.
Please understand
that involving the Neighborhood Councils and the public at this
early stage in the process is a new one. Normally, the public wouldn’t
be involved until the first committee meeting.
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Greg Nelson
gnelson@mailbox.lacity.org
866 / LA HELPS
213 / 485-1360
213 / 485-4608 fax
done@mailbox.lacity.org
email
www.lacityneighborhoods.com
website
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