Welcome
NANDC is a self-governed, self-directed and independent organization empowered by the Los Angeles City Charter. This charter offers neighborhood councils a role in the City's decision-making process. We as citizens are given the opportunity and obligation to stay involved with developments in our area that affect us. Come get involved! After all, it's your community!
Take a few moments to find out who we are, what we do and how you can become involved.
We promote public participation in city governance and decision making processes, to make government more responsive to our local needs and requests, creating more opportunities to build partnerships with government and private entities to create more opportunities for our neighborhood. We work with stakeholders to make a difference in the community with such projects as I Hablo U, the Pet Park Project, and the Community Involvement Program.
Anyone who lives, works or owns property in our boundaries is welcome to get involved. View the Boundary Map. Opportunities include:
Come to a meeting! We meet First Thursday of the month from 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Park gymnasium, 39th and Western Avenue, the building just south of the Exposition Park Library, entrance on the south side.
Join a committee: Go to the Committee list under What We Do on the top menu
Contact a board member
Contact other elected representatives
Sign up for our newsletter on the right side of this page
Our mailing address is:
PO Box 77367
Los Angeles, CA 90007
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Meetings are the first Thursday of the month
February 2, 2012 Agenda
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Live West of Vermont? Do Not Miss This Meeting! |
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What is the USC community? For over two years we have been meeting and discussing the USC Specific Plan as it relates to our community. We have gone into great detail to define reasonable boundaries of this community, and have expressed our ideas, opinions and concerns with the University and the Council Office.
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Trying to Fix L.A.'s Animal Death Row |
How is our new head of Animal Services doing in her effort to stop the killing?
By Leslie Evans
Brenda Barnette was sworn in as head of the Los Angeles Animal Services Department in August 2010. She had a long history of efforts to halt, or at least slow down, the mass government killing of lost and abandoned pets. Most recently she had been CEO of the Seattle Humane Society, where in 2009 they found homes for 6,091 animals and raised the save rate from 77 to 92 percent. Barnette at her swearing in said she would try to match the Seattle numbers in Los Angeles within five years. Before Seattle she had run the Tony La Russa Animal Rescue Foundation and been Development Director of the San Francisco SPCA.
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Expo Line Safety - Be Safe |
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Please be advised that system and gated crossing testing for the Expo Rail Line schedule can be found on the Expo Line website. You may sign up for email notices about testing.
Please note that train testing is dynamic and subject to change.
Please follow these important Safety Tips:
- Please obey ALL warning signs and traffic signals when crossing the tracks.
- Always look both ways before crossing the street.
- NEVER walk on railroad tracks.
- Watch for trains from both directions.
- Use the crosswalks.
- Do not jaywalk across the tracks or use the tracks as a shortcut.
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Neighborhood Pride: Ten Ideas To Boost Block Spirit |
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From Good Magazine: Is it just me or, is the modern urban neighborhood getting remarkably old-fashioned? In the Los Feliz (locals pronounce this los-FEE-liz) community of Los Angeles where I live, it feels like everything that was old is new (and smart) again. Things my grandparents in Kentucky have always done-checking in on neighbors, sharing a new crop of tomatoes-seem not so much folksy as generally just a good way to live, even if you are in the big city. Most ambitions way to improve your corner of town...
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Our Name
The early Eighth District Empowerment Congress, created by now Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas was a community-based education and mobilization program. It has been acknowledged as the model for the Los Angeles citywide neighborhood council system created by the change City Charter.
We still proudly carry the early moniker in our name as the 'Empowerment Congress North Area Neighborhood Development Council'. You may call us NANDC for short!
Our Community
NANDC is located in West Adams, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, with most of its buildings erected between 1880 and 1925. It was once the wealthiest district in the city, with its Victorian mansions and sturdy Craftsman bungalows home to Downtown businessmen and professors and academicians at USC. In the 1990s, three areas of West Adams were designated as Historic Preservation Overlay Zones by the city of Los Angeles, in recognition of their outstanding architectural heritage.
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