General Manager's Update 

 

I hope this newsletter finds you well.  I'm sad to share that PlanCheckNC's founder and Co-chair Maggi Fajnor passed away yesterday morning from a brain tumor. I first met Maggi 5 years ago while assisting her with getting planning notices to Board members. Maggi was a gracious, feisty and dedicated Neighborhood Council leader who helped build PlanCheckNC into a highly respected organization in the City. By connecting and educating Neighborhood Councils on planning and land use issues, PlanCheckNC is now considered by the Planning Department to be their main conduit to Neighborhood Councils. She will be fondly remembered and missed.

 

This week took me to West LA for the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners meeting on Tuesday to celebrate West LA and Del Rey Neighborhood Councils' 10th anniversary, and then to South LA last night where I was on hand to celebrate the retirement of United Neighborhoods Neighborhood Council founding Board member and long time Treasurer, Wesley Todd, after 11 years of Neighborhood Council service. A big thank you to Wesley for connecting his neighborhood to City Hall and for empowering his little corner of LA all these years. 

 

If you have time, please check out PlanCheckNC's monthly meeting Saturday morning.

 

Have a great weekend!

 

  

Best,

 

 

Grayce Liu,

General Manager

Department of Neighborhood Empowerment  

 

Empower Yourself.

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The Sunland Tujunga Neighborhood Council is advocating the Los Angeles City Council to designate the Tuna Canyon Detention Station site within their boundaries as a City Historic-Cultural Monument as proposed by Council Member Richard Alarcon. A Planning and Land Use Management Committee vote on this Council File 12-1625 is scheduled on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 2:30pm, followed by a full City Council vote a week later...

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Neighborhood Councils stepped up and supported their Congress of Neighborhoods and their Neighorhood Council Budget Advocates in the amounts $45,350 and $12,100 respectively!! Many thanks to Cindy Cleghorn, Chair of the Congress of Neighborhoods Planning Committee, the committee members, especially Randy Waller who made a lot of calls to Neighborhood Councils, Jay Handal, Co-Chair of the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, the Budget Advocates and our wonderful staffer, Thomas Soong, for their hard work in advocating for these funds. Of course, thank you to the following Neighborhood Councils for their generosity in supporting our work to Empower LA!...

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This past weekend, as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, Mayor-Elect Eric Garcetti joined the AT&T Developer Program and the i.am.angel Foundation in challenging residents, developers and students to use open government data to create new solutions to challenges facing Boyle Heights...

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June 14, is the deadline for using the P-Card. Because U.S. Bank systems are on Eastern time, the P-Cards will not be available for use after 12:00 noon. Please plan accordingly...

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Having an advisory role on local issues, you and your Neighborhood Council need to know what is being considered by the City Council. What better place to start than with the Referral "Hot Sheet," where you can witness the birth of a Council File! Starting next month, all Neighborhood Council board members will start regularly receiving Referral "Hot Sheets."...

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