DWP Oversight Committee Meeting / Saturday, April 4 @ 0845 via Webex / Online

Hope all is well and all are safe during this crisis.

The Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition is moving forward with hosting a meeting this Saturday, April 4, 2020. We need you to attend so that you and your Neighborhood Council can learn how to host a meeting for your next Neighborhood Council meetings and committee meetings. Our jobs under the direction of the City Charter as Neighborhood Council leaders is to be a conduit between City Hall and our Stakeholders and to direct city services to our communities. We need to push forward to have meetings.

As LANCC, we are here to help Neighborhood Councils that may need help during this crisis to get up and running.

Come join us on Saturday!
Links and Agenda to come.
Many Neighborhood Councils are not sending information to their stakeholders via their websites or email lists. Please start sending out information to your stakeholders. Information links are below.

Best practices would be to share information from the County through email blasts and posting on your Neighborhood Council websites.

The County has a FAQ in thirteen languages that can be found here.

http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/

A what you need to know information graph can be found here.

http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/CoronavirusInfographicEnglish.pdf

The information graph contains a How it is spread? What are the symptoms? and How to protect yourself?
Working together, we can educate our stakeholders, provide up to date information on the Novel Coronavirus to our stakeholders that is affecting our city and county, and protect our stakeholders.

 Refer back to the http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/ website as needed.
 

Stay Strong Los Angeles.

Our stakeholders are looking to the Neighborhood Councils for leadership to lead them out of this potential crisis.

CANCELLATION NOTICE

The Board of Airport Commissioners Regular Meeting

for Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 10:00am

has been cancelled.

Samuel Greenberg Board Room No. 107/116

Clifton A. Moore Administration Building

Los Angeles International Airport

1 World Way, Los Angeles, California 90045

www.lawa.org

The next Board of Airport Commissioners Meeting

is scheduled for

Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 10:00am

Valley Municipal Building

2nd floor City Chambers

14410 Sylvan Street

Van Nuys, California 91401

Thursday: Rally for Playa Del Rey Gas Storage Shutdown

“Be Our Valentine!" - Local Officials, Community Leaders to Call on Garcetti to Close Dangerous Facility

Playa Del Rey —  One year from Mayor Eric Garcetti’s declaration of “the beginning of the end” of natural gas in LA, environmental organizations from across LA’s Westside will come together to demand action from the Mayor in shutting down SoCalGas’s gas storage facility - located in the heart of Playa Del Rey and within the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. The call comes after recent actions taken by the City Council and County Boards of Supervisors around investigating the site and charting a path towards its closure. 

WHAT: Residents will gather at an intersection in Playa Del Rey, down the road from the SoCalGas facility, to rally and hand out Valentine’s Day flowers to motorists, along with information urging them to call Garcetti.

WHEN: Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 4:30pm

WHERE: Lincoln Blvd. and Jefferson Blvd., Playa Del Rey, CA, 90094

WHO: Residents from Playa Del Rey and across Los Angeles. Protect Playa Now, Climate Reality, Food & Water Action, Ballona Institute, Indivisible 43, Sierra Club, SoCal350 and more.

VISUALS/AUDIO: Protestors, dressed in red, will hold large pink and red “valentine hearts” and “broken-hearts” signs, while cheering and chanting. Protesters will pass out flowers and flyers to cars stopped at the intersection. Protesters will speak to the crowd with Megaphones.

BACKGROUND:

Following the 2015 blowout of the Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Facility in the north San Fernando Valley, demand has been building for the closure of a similar facility, located in the heart of Playa Del Rey. The 90 year old SoCalGas facility threatens the health and safety of the PDR neighborhood and surrounding area, having already been the site of a number of accidents, including a vent stack explosion in 2013 which set flames shooting hundreds of feet into the air.

The storage facility sits within and underneath the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. Environmentalist groups have pointed to a proposed “restoration” project currently being considered for the reserve as an means for SoCalGas to embed new fossil-fuel infrastructure underneath the wetlands, and as being destructive to the reserve’s fragile animal and plant habitat. 

With a grassroots campaign by the community to shut down the facility growing, local officials have begun to call for action. In October 2019, the LA City Council passed Councilmember Mike Bonin’s motion to investigate the facility’s operations, and in January 2020, the LA County Board of Supervisors, led by Supervisor Janice Hahn, called on the Governor to initiate a feasibility study on shutting down the site.

But despite the launch of his “Green New Deal” and declaration of the “beginning of the end of natural gas” in Los Angeles one year ago, Mayor Garcetti has yet to take action on the Playa Del Rey site. Community members are calling for the Mayor to revoke the city’s 1955 Conditional Use Permit for the facility, and for the Mayor to call publically on Governor Gavin Newsom to shut the facility down and withdraw the state's application for the restoration project.

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Food & Water Action is the political advocacy arm of the research and education organization Food & Water Watch. We mobilize people to build political power to move bold and uncompromised solutions to the most pressing food, water and climate problems of our time

City of West Hollywood and Hollywood NOW Present
The Vagina Monologues
 
Eve Ensler’s Play Sparked V-Day, the Global Activist Movement to
End Violence against Women and Girls
 
Performances will Take Place on
Saturday, February 15 and Sunday, February 16
 
Tickets and Details:
vaginamonologuesweho.eventbrite.com

WEST HOLLYWOOD, February 4, 2020 – In commemoration of the 22nd Anniversary of V‐Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, the City of West Hollywood and Hollywood NOW will host a two-day production of The Vagina Monologues.

The Vagina Monologues will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2020 and Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 2 p.m. at the City of West Hollywood’s Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room at the West Hollywood Library, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard. It will be performed by local grassroots activists and leaders, and will feature original material that spotlights the significant diversity of women’s voices and their stories.

Twenty-two years ago, Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day bringing widespread attention to issues of harassment, rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation, and sex slavery. Every year around the world, The Vagina Monologues is performed by local activists to raise awareness and funds for organizations supporting women. To date, these events have raised more than $100 million for grassroots anti-violence groups and safe houses worldwide.

The cast for this production includes The Honorable Abbe Land, Toni Sawyer, Connor Kelly-Eiding, Deshon Gray, The Honorable Lindsey Horvath, Myra ‘Mikie’ Friedman, Chela Demuir Cartier, Minzi, Zekiah Wright, Kristina Mitchell, Marie Cartier, Gia Ryan, Jackie Steele, Alexis Sanchez, and Melaney Noll Lubey.  The production is directed by Shaina Rosenthal and produced by Karen Eyres and John Erickson. 

As part of the City of West Hollywood’s annual commemoration of V-Day, attendees will be encouraged to add their voices to the global effort to end violence against women via the hashtag #vday. Violence prevention and awareness information will also be available including the City’s Only Yes Means Yes public awareness campaign about sexual assault, which promotes the important message of consent.

This event is endorsed by the City of West Hollywood’s Women’s Advisory Board, Transgender Advisory Board; Pacific Shore NOW; V-Day; and One Billion Rising - Los Angeles.

Tickets are $15 and proceeds benefit Hollywood NOW and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. Validated parking will be provided in the adjacent five-story West Hollywood Park structure.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit vaginamonologuesweho.eventbrite.com. For questions, please call (323) 596-7389 or email [email protected].

Immediately following the performance on Sunday, February 16, there will be an afterparty at the Kimpton La Peer Hotel (627 N. La Peer Dr., West Hollywood, CA 90069).  All are welcome to attend.  

For additional information, please call the City of West Hollywood’s Event and File Services Division at (323) 848-6307. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496. For up-to-date news and events, follow the City of West Hollywood on social media @WeHoCity and sign up for news updates at www.weho.org/email.
 
About Hollywood NOW
Hollywood NOW is a membership organization committed to institutionalizing intersectional gender equity. Our work transgresses over social boundaries and walls built to imprint, reinforce and protect implicit stereotype biases that damage all of us. As a progressive, intersectional feminist organization, we advocate for solutions that recognize that individuals face multiple intersecting discriminations/privileges based on race, sex, gender, sexuality, and other statuses. We stand to work to eliminate institutional privilege, discrimination, and bias.
 
For more information, please visit: www.hollywoodnow.org