About neighborhood
councils...
Neighborhood Councils are locally-elected advisory bodies
to the City of Los Angeles. They were formed for the purpose
of making city government more responsive to its citizens,
and to encourage the cohesiveness of neighborhoods. These
advisory councils were first proposed by city council member
Joel Wachs in 1996 and were incorporated in the Charter Reform
of 1999. Read about the City’s Plan
for a Citywide System of Neighborhood Councils,
Neighborhood
Councils are official governmental bodies and so must abide
by the Brown
Act that strictly governs the meetings of public deliberative
assemblies. Read about ethics
for neighborhood councils prepared by the City’s
Ethics Commission.
More
than 90 neighborhood councils have been certified. The South
or Harbor Area of the city was at the forefront of this movement,
representing four of the first six councils certified. Central
San Pedro was certified on February 12, 2002, representing
approximately 32,000 residents. The University of Southern
California has made a continuous study of the neighborhood
council movement - read their 2004
Midterm Report.
City
Charter Section 912 provided for a review of the neighborhood
council system within 7 years of its inception. The Mayor
is currently selecting the members of the “912 Commission”
to carry out this task.
(May 2006)
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