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Subject: GM's Message + 2028 Games, Purposeful Aging Survey, and Civic Hacking

From: EmpowerLA (empowerla@lacity.org)

To: katherine.trees@yahoo.com;

Date: Friday, September 22, 2017 1:44 PM

GM's Message 9.22.17

I hope our newsletter finds you well. City Council is scheduled to take action on September 26th on
the Health, Education and Neighborhood Councils Committee recommendations for CF 15-1022-
S2 regarding Neighborhood Council election timing and online voting. The Board of Neighborhood
Commissioners voted to write a letter that supported the continued development of online voting under
conditions that would improve performance, security and ease of use. Thanks to all Neighborhood
Councils who have weighed in on this matter with Community Impact Statements!

We have some staffing updates at EmpowerLA to

share. Congratulations to Neighborhood Empowerment
Advocate, Barry Stone, for promoting to Los Angeles
World Airports this week after 10 years in our
department! We wish him well there. We're happy to
promote our staffer, Jose Galdamez, from our IT team
to a Neighborhood Empowerment Advocate. Jose will
be joining the Valley team along with new staffer,
Kimberly Rodriguez, who worked with us to develop the
Neighborhood Council Civic Youth Program when she
was working with the Mayor's Innovation Team.
Kimberly will continue to work on outreach projects with
EmpowerLA. Congratulations as well to Arin Abedian,
our Outreach Coordinator, who promoted from a Project
Assistant position to a Project Coordinator position! Arin
will continue to work on our outreach materials and also
develop online classes for Neighborhood Councils on
the Personnel Department's platform for easy tracking
and on demand use. We're also lucky to have one of
our former election assistants, Kyle Stone, join our
admin team. In a few weeks, we'll be welcoming our
FUSE Corp Fellow, Aparna Mukherjee, who is
relocating from New York to spend a year with us
developing outreach and civic engagement techniques
and trainings for the City. Lotsa neat stuff coming up this
year!

Don't forget the Neighborhood Council Emergency Preparedness Alliance meets tomorrow. Next week,
the City Council Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee will discuss multiple
Council Files on cannabis on Monday, September 25th, at 11 am in City Council Chambers. Tuesday,

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September 26th, is National Voter Registration Day so register to vote if you haven't already done so
and register a friend or family member while you're at it.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,

Grayce Liu,
General Manager
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (aka) EmpowerLA
Empower Yourself, Empower Your Community, EmpowerLA

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Mayor's Message
The Olympics are returning to America for the first time in a generation. We reflect
on the incredible journey that led us to this point and what lies ahead on the road to
the 2028 Games...

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Make an Emergency Plan for Your

Housing + Community Investment
Pets
Department LA SURVEY
Emergencies can happen any time LA
As part of its community outreach and
Animal Services reminds pet owners to
needs assessment, HCIDLA is conducting
make a plan September is National
an online survey to measure the needs of
Preparedness Month and the best way
various communities in Los Angeles and
to handle any emergency or disaster is
allow the City to determine what projects
by being prepared. Our pets are family
would have the greatest positive impact in
members to us and they depend on us
upcoming years...
for...
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National Day of Civic Hacking: LA Countywide Purposeful Aging Los

City Recyclathon Angeles (PALA) Survey

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LA City Recyclation This Saturday 9/23 "LAST DAY TO TAKE SURVEY IS

Join us to celebrate National Day of Civic OCTOBER 1st" To take the survey, click
Hacking by competing in the LA City here: https://purposeful-
Reyclathon! You'll get to work with LA aging.squarespace.com/ Purposeful
Sanitation recycling experts and civic tech Aging Los Angeles (PALA) seeks to
mentors to compete for cash prizes and prepare the Los Angeles region for a
incubation. Problem: Recycling... rapidly aging population through an
innovative, sustained initiative...
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FREE Home Improvements in Your

Do A Door-To-Door Halloween
Neighborhood!
Outreach Campaign For Your NC
A new State of California program will
Halloween is coming - what better time for
provide FREE rooftop solar and energy
a door-to-door outreach campaign for your
efficiency home improvements to more
Neighborhood Council than a night when
than 5,000 homes in Los Angeles
people are home waiting for their doorbell
County. Will your neighborhood get its
to ring? You'll have fun, and seeing your
fair share before funds run out? The
board in costume will make meeting you
Neighborhood Council Sustainability
fun and memorable...
Alliance...
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City of Los Angeles, Dept. of Neighborhood Empowerment, City Hall,

200 N. Spring Street, 20th FL, Los Angeles, CA 90012

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