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.
What We Do
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.
How To Get Involved
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
The USC Specific Plan will bring many much needed updates to our community but currently the draft plan which has been negotiated by the City Council calls for a number of benefits to END at VERMONT, thereby cutting our natural community nearly in half, creating further inequities to the face of our neighborhood. Speak up! Read more on this and use our sample letter to make your opinions known.
Join us for our Board Meeting, Thursday, February 2, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at MLK Park Gymnasium, 39th Street and Western Ave. We will be discussing City Council Redistricting, the Mayor's Budget Survey and a Health Fair proposed for this spring. Agenda
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.
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.
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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