Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
Newsletter

January 24, 2005

Re: BONC MEETING REPORTS AVAILABLE ONLINE. E&N COMMITTEE REPORT ONLINE. MAYORAL DEBATES GETTING CLOSER.

BONC MEETING REPORTS AVAILABLE ONLINE

We still may be the only commission to do it, but the staff reports for the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners meeting on January 25, 2005 are available on our home page. The new goal is to allow you to click on the agenda item and be taken to the report. If that doesn’t work, you can get there by clicking on Commission at the top of the page, and then on Staff Reports.

E&N COMMITTEE REPORT ONLINE

Also on our home page later tonight will be our staff report to the Education and Neighborhoods Committee that proposes support for Councilman Dennis Zine’s motion to allow Neighborhood Councils to use its city money to make grants to individuals or nonprofit organizations. This is called the Neighborhood Purposes Grant report.

MAYORAL DEBATE GETTING CLOSER

For those of you who yearn for an evening of discussion about Neighborhood Councils by the mayoral candidates, don’t forget that the first of two debates is set for February 7 at 8:00 p.m. on KCAL Channel 9. The second one will be on February 28 at 6:30 p.m. on KCBS Channel 2. Each will be 90 minutes long (or short) depending on your perspective.

They will be also be broadcast live on KFWB (980 AM) radio, and streamed over the Internet on the KCBS and KCAL websites. They will also be broadcast via tape delay on Channel 36.

The debates are sponsored by and produced by the Citywide Alliance of Neighborhood Councils, CityWatch (both nonprofits) and the two television stations.

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Greg Nelson
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