Things have been heating up and the risk of rolling blackouts is more than triple that of last year, according to the state’s power grid operator California Independent System Operator.
While the WHWCNC DWP reps work to ensure that our service providers fulfill their mandate to provide safe, sufficient and affordable energy to our community, this is also an important time to take a look at our emergency preparedness and to evaluate any efficiency measures we can take to conserve energy.
Categories: Power · Preparedness
Woodland Hills is a great place to live and, based on the statistics, one of the most popular places to work.
As for tourism, it doesn’t rank so high and, as a result of the Mayor’s Budget “crisis” things probably won’t be changing in the near future.
Villaraigosa had originally pledged almost $2 million to fund the effort to bring more tourists to the San Fernando Valley but a year and a half into the three year program and no money has been allocated.
Categories: Woodland Hills
Senior Deputy Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, with less than a month on the job, has hit the ground running, first jumping into the mix at the NC Town Hall held at Taft High School and now by promising to reconsider offers of classroom space to the CHAMPS Charter School.
Categories: LAUSD
Los Angeles residents enjoy the nation’s tastiest water, at least they should, according to the judges of the 18th Annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Competition.
Unfortunately, this is not the case for the students of the LAUSD who could be drinking water containing unsafe amounts of lead.
A few months ago, the City Council held an all-day session to address the Los Angeles Transportation Strategic Plan. It was at this all-day, one topic session that a couple of Councilmembers had epiphanies and began to ponder, “Do you think that Transportation and Land Use are related?” One Councilmember went so far as to ask “Why do we have separate departments for Planning and Transportation?” The only response was the sound of crickets in an otherwise silent Council Chambers.
Categories: Campaigns · Density · Development · Housing
Los Angeles City Librarian Fontayne Holmes received over 800 emails urging her to abandon the proposed $1 fee for inter-branch books. As a result, she has gone on record as opposing the fee and will instead propose that the late charge fine be increased by a nickel to 30¢ per day.
Categories: Library
The WHWCNC Board convened a Special Meeting/Town Hall that drew a standing-room-only crowd of 800 parents, teachers, students and community members who turned out in force to address the LAUSD’s offer of Taft High School classrooms to the CHAMPS Charter School.
Categories: LAUSD · Neighborhood Council · Town Hall
On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, the Board will be convening at 6 pm at the Taft High School Campus for a very important SPECIAL FULL BOARD MEETING and TOWN HALL MEETING. (5461 Winnetka Ave, Woodland Hills, CA 91364)
The SPECIAL Board Meeting (6pm) will address Budget issues, Public Safety issues and PLUM issues, all detailed in the attached Agenda. (pdf)
The TOWN HALL Meeting (7pm) will address the LAUSD’s proposal to house CHAMPS Charter School on the Taft High School campus. Board of Education member Marlene Canter, LAUSD Senior Deputy Superintendent Ramon Cortines, UTLA President A.J.Duffy will all be there to participate in the Town Hall Meeting.
Categories: Special Meeting · Town Hall
The LAUSD is currently on the road, meeting with Neighborhood Councils and Homeowner Associations to present their “Closed School Master Plan.” The West Valley has six school campuses that are “dormant” and the Master Plan (ppoint) addresses the District’s priorities for the properties.
Shifting demographics resulted in a reduced demand for the facilities but the District is reluctant to turn loose of assets that may be needed in the future as demographics continue to shift. For that reason, the District looks at creative ways to maintain possession of the property and to look for uses that are prioritized in accordance with District policy and State mandate.
The City of Los Angeles is currently in the process of updating the Housing Element of the City’s General Plan. The Housing Element is referred to as “the blueprint for meeting the City’s housing needs and guiding where housing will be built across the City’s neighborhoods.”
California state law requires every city and county within California to prepare and adopt a long-term comprehensive GENERAL PLAN for its future development. Within that General Plan there are 7 mandatory Elements, one of which is the Housing Element.
Categories: Development · Housing · Workshop
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