BudgetLA convenes "Budget Crisis - Next Steps #2"
NC proposals for Partnership and Solutions
NC proposals for Partnership and Solutions
LOS ANGELES – BudgetLA convenes this Saturday, January 30, at 10 am
with Neighborhood Council representatives and Community leaders coming
together to meet with the experts in a focused session that is designed
to educate, to empower, and to continue delivering budget
recommendations that come from a community-based commitment to working
toward immediate, short-term and long-term solutions to LA's budget
crisis.
The "Budget Crisis - Next Steps #2" session will focus on answering the question "Is Pension Reform the solution to LA's Budget Crisis?" and features a guest speaker who is a recognized and respected expert in pension funding. This session is the follow-up to the powerful Budget Advisory Committee session that generated 15 "pension reform" actions that were presented to the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee this past Monday at the Van Nuys City Hall.
Saturday's workshop will include breakout sessions that will provide attendees with the opportunity to grapple with the issues and to work on specific solutions, all of which will be integrated in the second round of community recommendations that the BudgetLA community will present to the neighborhood councils for endorsement and for implementation.
To that end, NC leaders will be conducting short presentations on how neighborhood councils can best evaluate the city's budget, how to best use Board resolutions, how to file Community Impact Statements that resonate, and how they can mobilize the community to engage the Mayor and the City Council.
The fundamental position of the BudgetLA movement is that "everything is on the table and must be considered as we work together to solve the budget crisis and that neighborhood councils and community groups must be at that table as partners in the process."
BudgetLA will be meeting three times in the upcoming days, starting with Saturday, January 30 at 10 am, then Saturday, February 13 at 10 am, then again on Saturday, February 27 at 10 am. All meetings will take place at the Hollywood City Hall, 6501 Fountain Ave., Hollywood 90028.
LA's Budget Crisis is of such epic proportions that City Council President Eric Garcetti has announced that beginning next week, the Council would devote two of their three meetings each week to the budget crisis and job creation.
The NC reps have taken a full-spectrum approach to the budget crisis and believe that it is essential that the community engage with our elected officials as well as city staff to pursue Revenue innovations along with Pension reform while maintaining prioritized delivery of City Services and the implementation of Organizational improvements, all of which work together to guarantee that Los Angeles take its place as a Great City.
Through it all, the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee has committed to holding four community budget meetings around the city in preparation of the 2010-2011 Budget. The first meeting took place this past Monday and the next meeting is on Monday, February 22nd at 6:00 pm at Hamilton High School, 955 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles 90034.
The "Budget Crisis - Next Steps #2" session will focus on answering the question "Is Pension Reform the solution to LA's Budget Crisis?" and features a guest speaker who is a recognized and respected expert in pension funding. This session is the follow-up to the powerful Budget Advisory Committee session that generated 15 "pension reform" actions that were presented to the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee this past Monday at the Van Nuys City Hall.
Saturday's workshop will include breakout sessions that will provide attendees with the opportunity to grapple with the issues and to work on specific solutions, all of which will be integrated in the second round of community recommendations that the BudgetLA community will present to the neighborhood councils for endorsement and for implementation.
To that end, NC leaders will be conducting short presentations on how neighborhood councils can best evaluate the city's budget, how to best use Board resolutions, how to file Community Impact Statements that resonate, and how they can mobilize the community to engage the Mayor and the City Council.
The fundamental position of the BudgetLA movement is that "everything is on the table and must be considered as we work together to solve the budget crisis and that neighborhood councils and community groups must be at that table as partners in the process."
BudgetLA will be meeting three times in the upcoming days, starting with Saturday, January 30 at 10 am, then Saturday, February 13 at 10 am, then again on Saturday, February 27 at 10 am. All meetings will take place at the Hollywood City Hall, 6501 Fountain Ave., Hollywood 90028.
LA's Budget Crisis is of such epic proportions that City Council President Eric Garcetti has announced that beginning next week, the Council would devote two of their three meetings each week to the budget crisis and job creation.
The NC reps have taken a full-spectrum approach to the budget crisis and believe that it is essential that the community engage with our elected officials as well as city staff to pursue Revenue innovations along with Pension reform while maintaining prioritized delivery of City Services and the implementation of Organizational improvements, all of which work together to guarantee that Los Angeles take its place as a Great City.
Through it all, the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee has committed to holding four community budget meetings around the city in preparation of the 2010-2011 Budget. The first meeting took place this past Monday and the next meeting is on Monday, February 22nd at 6:00 pm at Hamilton High School, 955 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles 90034.
