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Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
DONE Newsletters 2006
November 8,
2006
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To:
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Neighborhood
Council Leaders |
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From:
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Lisa Sarno, Interim General Manager, DONE |
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E-mail:
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done@lacity.org |
Re:
City of Los Angeles E-Democracy L.A. – 2006
The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment would like to share the following online services provided by our partners in the City's Information Technology Agency (ITA).
The initial focus of the City of L.A. 's E-government Strategy was establishing online services allowing citizens and businesses to conduct transactions with the City without having to come downtown. This now includes over 30 online services ranging from e-bids, e-permits, e-payments, e-registration, and e-requests.
Over the past 24 months the City of Los Angeles has made a considerable progress in moving forward on the second major phase of its E-Government Strategy focusing on implementation of E-Democracy L.A. .
The City has launched several E-Democracy web applications that get at the heart of engaging citizen participation to increase involvement in the public decision making process.
The City has launched:
1) “Online Council Votes” – citizens can access their Council representative voting records for all items that went before Council. The system allows searching by date range, Council member, vote result and subject.
http://citycouncil.lacity.org/cvvs/search/search.cfm
2) Enhanced “Online Council File Index ” – citizens can access an enhanced system that allows searching on all current and past legislative summary actions that now are integrated with new online Council documents that are part of each council file.. This system also integrates with the Council Votes system so citizens can access a complete history of any votes taken on the selected legislative matter.
http://cityclerk.lacity.org/CFI/
3) “Online Council Docs” – Citizens can access through the Council Calendar enhanced Meeting Agendas that hyperlink to the online Council Docs. This feature increases citizen access to government documents and reports without having to come downtown for hard copies.
http://www.lacity.org/clk/ens_clk_councilagendas.htm
4) “Community Impact Statement “- Neighborhood Council representatives can provide input electronically regarding issues or agenda items before Committees, Commissions, Boards and City Council. Authorized representatives e-submit feedback or positions to the City Clerk which then incorporates their feedback on the Brown Act Agenda denoting Neighborhood Council positions. Neighborhood Councils can contact their DONE Advocates for more information.
http://appla1.lacity.org/cis/
5) “Council Web Casts” (existing) – Citizens can view full Council meetings video casting and listen to Council Committee meetings via audio web casting. The City is now working on enhancing the system to allow ad hoc access to web casts segments for specific agenda items rather than watching an entire Council meeting web cast . A search feature will also be implemented for accessing video segments by Council File number etc.
http://www.lacity.org/cdvideo.htm
6) “Early Notification System” (existing) – Citizens can subscribe to receive E-mail agendas from the City Council, Council and Ad Hoc Committees, Boards and Commissions. The City's now working on enhancing the system to allow citizens to filter subscription and viewing of information by geography and subject matter lessoning the burden of information overload. The City will test feasibility of keyword based subscriptions early 2007.
http://www.lacity.org/lacity161.htm
7) L.A. Cityview35 – Government Access Channel Emmy awarding winning LA Cityview Channel35 is the City's government access channel whose mission is providing accurate/current information about the policies, services and activities of City Government. In addition to live coverage of Council Meetings and taped Commission Meetings. Channel 35 also produces original programming on a variety of topics such as crime prevention, women's issues, the arts and other City services. LA Cityview Channel35 by cable subscribers in over 500,000 homes in within the City.
http://www.lacity.org/ita/itacv1.htm
Key Stats:
The City of Los Angeles was recognized in 2005 by the Center for Digital Government for the best of “ Government-to-citizen” category for our e-Democracy L.A. systems.
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Lisa Sarno, Interim General Manager
done@lacity.org
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
334-B E. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
866 / LA HELPS
213 / 485-1360
213 / 485-4608 fax
done@mailbox.lacity.org
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www.lacityneighborhoods.com
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