Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
Newsletter

May 27, 2005

Re: NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL INITIATIVES REPORT RELEASED. CONGRESS PHOTOS AVAILABLE.

NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL INITIATIVES REPORT RELEASED

Later today our home page will include a report that I wrote to the Education and Neighborhoods Committee, at its request, regarding the possible City Council approval of a new procedure that would allow Neighborhood Councils to pass a motion calling for City Council discussion of a new citywide or regional matter, and thereby cause an official City Council file to be created and referred to committee without requiring a motion from City Council members.

You can expect that this matter will be considered again by the Education and Neighborhoods Committee on June 21, but you should subscribe through the city’s Early Notification System to receive the agendas for that committee just to make sure.

The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners will have an opportunity to discuss and provide comments on this matter at its meeting on June 7 in Room 1010 of City Hall at 6:30 p.m. A “cover letter report” to the commission will be posted on our website on Tuesday.

CONGRESS PHOTOS AVAILABLE

We’re a little late on posting the photographs from last October’s Congress of Neighborhoods. We switched to a different system that allows anyone in the office (not just the systems people) to post the photographs. It will all be much quicker now.

When you find the photo you want to save, right click it and choose Save Picture As, and find a place on your computer to save it. After a while we’ll cull out the somewhat duplicate photos and just leave the “award-winners.”

Click here to view the photos, or go to Reference Library>Photo Gallery. Here you will also find photos from the separate Budget Day that was held at the same time.

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Greg Nelson
gnelson@mailbox.lacity.org

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