Welcome! This is the official website of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition (LANCC). We are a large coalition of Neighborhood Councils and welcome everyone to this open process. Don't be left out! Join the LA NC Coalition! Send a delegate from your Neighborhood Council to represent you in this important process in Los Angeles.
About Us
Neighborhood Councils in Los Angeles came about with the revision of the City Charter in 1999. Article IX, Section 901(c) of that Charter states that the Neighborhood Councils should come together as a Congress of Neighborhoods. Why a "Congress of Neighborhoods"? What did the members of the Revision Commission mean when they used that term? According to the members of the Revision Commission, it was envisioned that Neighborhood Councils would come together to communicate with one another and to discuss and decide major issues affecting the citizens of Los Angeles. The formation of the Congress was to be left up to the Neighborhood Councils themselves.Now, that time has come! The Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition is intended to enhance the ability of NCs, as well as their clout and influence, giving a larger voice on issues affecting more than one neighborhood. The Coalition is not intended to usurp or interfere with the role of an individual Neighborhood Council in their own neighborhood.
Chair: Terrence Gomes
Vice-Chair: David Uebersax
Secretary: (vacant - could be YOU!)
Next LANCC Meeting:
Saturday, February 2, 2019
10:00 am
Free parking: Enter from Hope Street, advise parking attendant that you are attending the Neighborhood Council meeting.
Bicycle racks are in front of the lower entrance.
Public Transit: Civic Center Station of the Red and Purple subway lines is two blocks to the east.
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Previous Meeting Agenda 1/5/19
PRESENTATIONS
- Christopher Garcia, Office of City Clerk, updates on NC elections, CANDIDATE FILING HAS OPENED.
- Aneesa Andrabi and Wajenda Chambeshi, Great Streets, Office of the Mayor, to announce Mayor Eric Garcetti’s 2019 Great Streets Challenge, a $2 million partnership program between Angelenos and the City of Los Angeles to transform streets into community public spaces, as part of the Mayor’s Great Streets Initiative. The Mayor challenges you and your community to re-imagine our streets! This upcoming year, we’re awarding a total of $2 million to communities to develop creative and impactful ways of using our Great Streets as public spaces. Successful grants will focus on community engagement, creativity, and long-term impacts. Angelenos can apply to pitch the City on a street that they would like to receive transformative improvements. The City will award selected community partners up to $15,000 per project to lead community outreach on a street transformation, along with implementation investments and technical assistance from transportation, economic development, and creative consultants. Applications are due on February 8, 2019. Angelenos can go to LAGreatStreets.org/2018-
challenge to submit their project proposals. Partners will be selected according to their organizational capacity to conduct outreach and their proposed project area’s alignment with citywide policy goals for accessibility, mobility, and equity.
LEGISLATIVE- The Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition (LANCC) (XXXXXX Neighborhood Council) takes the position that there shall be no blanket prohibition of road diets; some are beneficial and some are not. The Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition (LANCC) (XXXXXX Neighborhood Council) recognizes the beneficial effects of a road diet along certain corridors, but road diets create confusing, negative effects along other corridors. Communities that will be impacted with a potential road diet, including neighborhood councils, shall be consulted extensively both before and after road diets are proposed.
- Whereas, active transportation includes a range of transportation modes of travel and these modes are basic rights that are formally articulated in the California Vehicle Code: and Whereas, pedestrians and cyclists are considered to be the “indicator species” of a healthy community: and Whereas, communities that embrace the full range of transportation options demonstrate a commitment to environmental, equity, and traffic congestion solutions: and Whereas, all those who travel on the sidewalks and streets are, first and foremost, people, deserving of the full support of our electeds, appointed, departments, commissions, agencies, and authorities as they conduct their lives in the public space: and
Now, therefore, we the active transportation community, do hereby claim the following rights:- People have the right to travel safely and free of fear.
- People have the right to fair access.
- People have the right to the full support of law enforcement.
- People have the right to the full support of our judicial system.
- People have the right to routine accommodations in all roadway projects.
- People have the right to full consideration in all roadway development.
- People have the right to effective signage, signals, and maintenance standards.
- People have the right to be actively engaged as a constituent group.
- People have the right to roadway planning based science, data, industry innovations, and emerging technologies.
- People have the right to be treated fairly and equitably.
And further, we claim and assert these rights by embracing the public space of our communities and proclaiming that “Streets are for People!”
REPORTS- NCD- Grayce Liu/Mike Fong
- City Clerk- 2019 NC Election Updates
- Budget Advocates
- Congress of Neighborhoods
- Board of Neighborhood Commissioners-Len Shaffer
- Speed Round/ Announcements/ Alliances’ Updates
- Adjournment
NOTE: Next month's LANCC and DWP meetings will be held on
Saturday, February 2, 2019
at the usual DWP location and times.
And meeting just prior to LANCC:
8:45 am DWP MOU Oversight Committee (even months) or DWP Advocacy Committee (odd months)
8:45 am DWP MOU Oversight Committee (even months) or DWP Advocacy Committee (odd months)
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2019
Location: LA DWP Headquarters Building, Cafeteria Level, 111 N. Hope St., Los Angeles 90012
Previous meeting topics 1/5/19:
- (1) Environmental groups are pressuring LADWP to shut down the three coastal power plants that produce almost one-third of the city's power. An industry consultant's study says that these power plants are essential to power reliability in the city. DWP agrees with that assessment. An overview of the consultant's study will be presented. Both DWP and the Ratepayer Advocate's office will contribute to the discussion.
- (2) The City Council's last rate ordinance set LADWP's water and power price structure for a five year period. Thanks to the insistence of the Ratepayer Advocate's office, the ordinance provides for a mid-term rate review. That review is due from DWP on February 1, and the report from the Office of Public Accountability (OPA, the Ratepayer Advocate's office) is due on April 1. Dr. Fred Pickel, who was recently reappointed as Executive Director of the OPA for a new five-year term, will discuss the structure of the DWP rate system and the elements that are subject to review.
As always, bring your own coffee.
LANCC is in the process of revising its Bylaws. At the May 4, 2013 LANCC meeting, it was agreed that a revised version (Draft D dated May 2, 2013) would be forwarded to NCs for their approval. After your NC acts, please forward your meeting agenda and vote to: LANCC@EmpowerLA.org
The current LANCC Charter dated February 2008 may be downloaded here.
(Updated 5/30/13)
Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils
There are presently 96 Neighborhood Councils in Los Angeles, with a few more in the works. Click here to view the list of all NCs, then click on the individual NC name to view its EmpowerLA webpage including the list of Board members.
The City Charter endows our Neighborhood Councils
with the right and the responsibility
for holding periodic joint meetings
of all Neighborhood Councils.
with the right and the responsibility
for holding periodic joint meetings
of all Neighborhood Councils.