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Take the Los Angeles Budget Survey!

The Mayor’s Office, in collaboration with the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, is proud to present to you this year’s Mayor’s Community Budget Survey!!

The link to the Mayor’s 2012 Community Budget Survey is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2012LABudgetSurvey

A hardcopy of the survey can be found on the Mayor’s budget website at: http://mayor.lacity.org/Issues/BalancedBudget/index.htm

Below is the link to the background information.

Budget Survey Background Information

The Mayor’s Office hopes to get a good understanding of the budget priorities from Los Angeles stakeholders. Please be sure to indicate that you are affiliated with the VNC when you take the survey, and VNC Board members should identify themselves as such. This will be very helpful for those working to identify the budget priorities and needs of our community.

Take the survey now!

CERT Training Starts This Week on Westside

New Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) classes are starting next week, and there are two West LA classes. Classes at Fire Station 59 (Olympic Blvd and Butler Ave) begin January 11th and will be held on Wednesday nights from 7:00-9:30 pm. The other class kicks off on Jan 12th on Thursday mornings at UCLA from 9:00-11:30 am. Links to Community Emergency Response Team course details and info is below. Please share the news.

The full CERT class schedule can be found at http://www.cert-la.com/calendar/calendar.cgi?calendar=basic

The CERT syllabus is at http://www.cert-la.com/cert-syllabus.pdf

More course information is at http://www.cert-la.com/cert-marketing-flyer.htm

Neighborhood Council (NC) Election Alternatives Survey

The Los Angeles City Clerk has said that the next Neighborhood Council Elections will be delayed until 2014 because there is no funding to conduct an election in 2012. The City Council removed the funding from its 2011-2012 budget to save money. If no Neighborhood Council election is held in 2012, the next available date for the City Clerk to hold an election would come in the Spring of 2014, extending the terms of current VNC Board Members by 2 years.

The removal of funds for a 2012 election is awkward for the City, since current statute requires that Neighborhood Council board member elections shall be held by the City Clerk: “during the months of March, April, May and June of each even-numbered year…” The City Council has asked the City Attorney to draft language cancelling the election in 2012; at the same time, the Council has requested the City Clerk to “report on an opt-out program whereby Neighborhood Councils would conduct their own elections.”

The Venice Neighborhood Council is already on record supporting removal of elections from the City Clerk and returning them to the Neighborhood Councils because the amount of money they would charge NC’s is projected to be over $13,000.

Neighborhood Councils and individual stakeholders are requested to fill out surveys stating their position.For more information and access to the surveys and backing material please follow this link.

Green Living Workshops in Venice

For more information, click here.

Recycle at S.A.F.E. Collection Centers

Recycle batteries, light bulbs, electronic devices & items containing mercury at S.A.F.E. centers throughout the city:

http://lacitysan.org/solid_resources/special/hhw/safe_centers/index.htm

What You Can Do For Your City Does For You

For more information, see: http://shoplacity.com/index.html

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Approval of relocation.pdf	92.34 KB
07.28.11PostOfficeLetterRelocatonAppeal.pdf	104.58 KB
07.28.11VNC_post_office_Motion.pdf	112.16 KB
11_NC_Election_Alternative_Study_Regional_Meetings_Flyer.pdf	190.21 KB
Spanishversion_Sept12thWRACTownHall_MayorVillaraigosa.pdf	28.68 KB
COMMUNITY_IMPROVEMENT_PROJECT_APP_2012.pdf	323.63 KB