WelcomeNANDC 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! 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 Contact other elected representatives Sign up for our newsletter on the right side of this page Our mailing address is: |
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[For seven years our NANDC Public Safety Committee has worked hand-in-hand with the deputy city attorney (DCA) who works as Neighborhood Prosecutor for the Southwest Community Police Station. Since January 2004 this has been Jan De Andrade. This relationship has been crucial to our success in closing more than 230 cases of blighted properties in our community. While we report cases to Building and Safety and the Housing Department, the Neighborhood Prosecutor also has monthly meetings with the inspectors, which strongly motivates them to take action. And where property owners simply refuse to comply, our most difficult cases have been won by the DCA taking the outlaws to court. The City Attorney's office because of the city's financial crisis has drastically cut back the Neighborhood Prosecutor program, mostly from one per each of the nineteen police stations to only one for each of the five bureaus. As of the first week of August Jan De Andrade is transferring to the City Attorney's civil division, leaving Southwest without a Neighborhood Prosecutor. Our remaining legal resource is DCA Sharee Sanders, who is based at the South Bureau headquarters in the 77th