We invite you to help clean up our community Monday, January 16, 8:30 am as we partner with Councilmember Krekorian. Tools will be provided. Meet at LAFD 89.
We invite you to help clean up our community Monday, January 16, 8:30 am as we partner with Councilmember Krekorian. Tools will be provided. Meet at LAFD 89.
The North Hollywood North East Neighborhood Council hosted the Holiday in the Oaks -Holiday Event, Saturday, December 10th. The event, organized by Outreach Vice Chair Judy Harris, was in partnership with the Office of Paul Krekorian, North Hollywood West Neighborhood Council, LA Recreation and Parks, and the Upward Bound Program and North Hollywood High and Polytechnic High Schools. The event featured various acts, food, drinks, and live music was provided by our Council Vice President, Chuck Loring!
LOS ANGELES — The City of Los Angeles launched “Safe Sidewalks LA” –its comprehensive 30-year sidewalk repair program, an unprecedented City investment of $1.4 billion to fix its sidewalks, making them accessible to everyone and renewing them as a center of civic life and pride.
The program was approved unanimously by the Los Angeles City Council after nearly three years of public dialogue, led by the Council’s Budget and Finance and Public Works and Gang Reduction Committees in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office, and bolstered by input from hundreds of residents from across the City. Safe Sidewalks LA is spearheaded by the City’s Bureau of Engineering (BOE) in close coordination with many departments and agencies, notably the Department on Disability, which will play a vital role in the program’s implementation.
“Safe and restored sidewalks make our neighborhoods more livable and our city more beautiful,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “Working with the City Council, we took on a 40-year-old challenge to repair our broken sidewalks. We can now redouble those efforts, and I encourage all Angelenos to take advantage of this historic program. Together we are going to improve access and safety, boost property values and give people across Los Angeles reason to feel good about our public walkways.”
While repairs surrounding City facilities, such as fire stations, police stations, parks, libraries and recreation centers, are currently in progress, this next phase is an expansion of the repair program that will address broken sidewalks and will prioritize repair requests from people with disabilities, their families and caretakers. Through a cost-sharing initiative, this next phase will also offer a limited number of rebates to property owners who are willing to fix their own sidewalks.
“For decades, the City of Los Angeles lacked a coherent plan to deal with crumbling sidewalks in our neighborhoods,” said Councilmember Paul Krekorian, chair of the City’s Budget and Finance Committee. “That’s all changing with Safe Sidewalks LA, an equitable and sustainable plan to repair every sidewalk in the city that needs it. The plan makes good on the city’s promise to improve our neighborhoods and make walkways safe and accessible to everyone, while also offering a limited rebate to home and business owners who want the freedom to initiate repairs themselves. It’s going to completely renew our sidewalk infrastructure in the years to come.”
“Today we are moving one step closer to efficiently and effectively fixing every sidewalk in LA,” said Councilmember Joe Buscaino. “The Sidewalk Rebate program is a limited opportunity for LA property owners to accelerate their sidewalk repair by completing the work themselves and receiving a 50% rebate from the City as well as a warranty on the work.”
“In leading the public-private partnership that is implementing the City’s Sidewalk Repair Program, we are delivering these improvements to the highest standards possible as we work together to make sidewalks accessible to everyone in Los Angeles” said Gary Lee Moore, City Engineer.
Specifically, Safe Sidewalks LA includes:
*Access Request Program: People with a mobility disability who encounter physical barriers due to broken sidewalks, missing curb ramps or other barriers in the public right of way can request a repair.
*Rebate Program: A limited-time rebate for eligible property owners willing to pay for their own sidewalk repairs and get them fixed in an accelerated time. Owners can receive up to $2,000 for a residential lot or $4,000 for a commercial lot. The rebate program will be available for three years.
*Also, the general public can report a sidewalk in need of repair.
To submit a sidewalk repair request and for more information on Safe Sidewalks LA, go to www.sidewalks.lacity.org or call 3-1-1.
We kick off our first of our forum series tackling issues in our community, starting Wednesday, November 30th. Councilman Paul Krekorian, Deputy City Attorney Diego Edber and more will join us in the Arminta Elementary School Auditorium at 7:00pm to discuss a range of topics like gang violence, immigration issues, community policing, and more!
Have a question for our panelists? Send our moderator, Outreach Chair Drexel Heard your question or topic of interest and we’ll make sure to add it to our list of questions! Email all questions to dheard@nhnenc.org by Monday, November 28th!
NoHo North East and NoHo West co-sponsored the Valley Plaza Recreation Center’s 2016 Halloween Carnival on Saturday, October 29th. Recreational Center Coordinator, Brenda Shaw and her team did a phenomenal job of putting together games like Graveyard Jenga, Ghost Toss, Chocolate Eating contests, costume contests and more! Council Vice President, Chuck Loring, Outreach Chair Drexel Heard, Judy Harris, and Eric Freedner joined the recreational team to hand jive and shake through the ‘Grease’ themed event!
The Village Family Services is a great resource for families, youth, and those who need help getting back on their feet. We were proud to be a part of their Annual Village Run/Walk this year with organizations and city officials. Congrats to all the participants!
Community Policing is incredibly important to building stronger relationships with our families and our police departments. So proud to have partnered with the LAPD Foothill Community Police Station and getting out to Strathern and Arminta Elementary Schools to pass out after-school popsicles to students on October 13, 2016!
For 61 years, it stood as a symbol of the postwar building boom.
The freestanding May Co. department store, which would later serve as the anchor for North Hollywood’s Laurel Plaza shopping center, was in its early years a popular destination for San Fernando Valley residents who wanted to escape the heat and have a little fun.
The department store marketed itself as one of the biggest in the country, advertising air conditioning and parking for 3,000 cars.
Now the store, which was converted to a Macy’s in 2006, is shutting its doors for good.
Read the full article on LA Times.com
Article and image from the LA Times
Join us as we relax under the stars with a movie in the park this summer:
NHNENC honors the memory of our long time Board Member Florence Dorick who passed on May 29, 2016. She served our Board and community with a generous heart and a cheerful spirit. She created a sense of home in North Hollywood with our NHNENC banners and always took the lead in providing hospitality at our meetings and events, coordinating the food and greeting guests. “She was the living heart of our Council, the sweetest part,” reminisced NHNENC President Ernie Moscoso.
She championed efforts for the homeless, working with the Hope of the Valley Mission and encouraging others to support the Misison. She worked tirelessly on the Whitsett Slope Beautification project and ably represented us by speaking at the Dedication Ceremony and was a member of our delegation at City Hall to accept our achievement certification. She will be missed by us all.
