What is Walk to School Day? Walk to School Day is a yearly national event that encourages physical activity among children and youth. It is a way for parents, students, school personnel and other community members to directly experience the walk to school as they walk with students on the day of the event. It often generates wider […]

Hi, Everybody -- Welcome to September, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS MONTH!    I hope you all have plans to further your plans and preparations for emergencies/disasters, AND that you are planning to attend our Emergency Preparedness and Communications Meeting this coming Saturday morning, 9:00 AM, September 14th, at the Flyaway, 2nd Floor, northeast corner of Saticoy and Woodley Avenues in Lake Balboa.  This should […]

On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Congressman Tony Cárdenas will  be hosting a Forum on the Affordable Care Act.  The goal of this informational forum is to educate and inform those in their understanding of the Affordable Care Act and the changes that will be made to the act as of October 1.  In this session, […]

When your friends visit L.A., where do you take them? Sure, they're excited to see our world famous landmarks, but tell me about your Los Angeles: the places your friends never knew about until you showed them. When your friends arrive at LAX, the "Welcome to L.A." photos at the airport are their first impression of our […]

Next Tuesday, July 23rd the voters of City Council District 6 will elect a new Council member to fill the vacancy left by Tony Cardenas. In an effort to connect our residents and stakeholders with local government, the Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council’s Secretary and Youth Outreach Chair, Bethany Harris, interviewed both candidates, Nury Martinez and […]

A new Mayor, a new City Attorney, a new City Controller, and six new Councilmembers join two incumbent Councilmembers in guiding the largest city in the most populated state in the most powerful country in the world and they need your feedback. The quickest way to check in is by emailing them.  Tell them who […]

EmpowerLA Yearbooks are being delivered to Neighborhood Council Boards, neighborhood partners, City Departments, and elected officials.

In the last few months there have been a few instances of individuals approaching small business customers with LADWP’s CLEO application, asking for cash up front to perform lighting retrofit work, and then never returning to perform the installations that were promised. Please urge community members to note that LADWP does not charge for energy […]

From galatzangazette.com More than 85 people crowded into the Daniel Pearl Magnet High School auditorium on a recent Monday night to learn more about Governor Brown’s proposed Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), and what it will mean for the Valley and Los Angeles public schools. Tamar and District officials, Matt Hill and Edgar Zazueta, answer audience […]

Do you or your kids play soccer, tennis,  baseball, basketball, or play at the playground at Balboa Sports Center? Do you take part in one of the many classes held there?  If so,  you know the wonderful sports and youth programs supported by the Sports Center.    The Balboa Sports Center is forming an advisory […]

Eric Garcetti triumphs in the LA mayoral race (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty) It's official: Eric Garcetti has won the race for Los Angeles mayor over Wendy Greuel, who conceded this morning. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Garcetti earned 54 percent of the votes and Greuel had 46 percent, ABC News reports. Garcetti is both LA's […]

The City of Los Angeles is proposing to adopt and implement an ordinance to ban single-use plastic carryout bags, charge a fee on paper bags, and promote the use of reusable bags at specified retailers in the City of Los Angeles.  The Final EIR is available at City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, 1149 S. […]

L.A. full of roads to ruin for cars The city gives its road network an average grade of C. But a Times analysis finds wide disparities, and they're not driven by wealth or political power. Explore pavement quality ratings for each of the 68,000 street segments in L.A., graded from A to F. From the […]

The Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council has invited all candidates for the L.A. City Council District 6 election to a candidates forum during our  regular meeting on Wednesday, May 1st.   The Candidate Forum will be held at the beginning of the meeting.   Each candidate will have an opportunity to tell us why they deserve our […]

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined with the US Geological Survey and the Los Angeles/Long Beach Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Approval Authority members to announce $5 million in federal funds for the region’s Earthquake Early Warning System. “Our partners at the US Geological Survey and Caltech have been working on the development of a cutting-edge early […]

In a city the size of Los Angeles, one of the fastest routes to City Hall is the internet. In the time it takes to find your car keys, you can be online and communicating with the Mayor and the City Council. Effective Neighborhood Council advocates typically know three things; they know the issue, they […]

The 279 candidates for MyLA2050 are vying for a piece of a $1 million pot that aims to underwrite 10 of the best ideas for changing life here for the better.
It’s crowdsourcing with a conscience. And to scroll through the entries is to peer into the idealistic, entrepreneurial, only-in-L.A. psyche of a metropolis in transition.n

The April edition of the Lake Balboa NC Newsletter is packed with information about your community, including: A Food Forward Earth Day event; Worldfest 2013 at Woodley Park; Council District 6 Election Candidates; California Native Plant Week; and more! Click here to download your copy of the latest Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council Newsletter.

Click here for the questions with answers and the regional budget powerpoint results. Additionally, the Citywide results are posted at budget.lacity.org.

This week neighborhood councils were blindsided by the Mayor's office.  The Mayor said that because the Proposition A sales tax measure failed to pass, he will not include funding for 2014 neighborhood council elections in his proposed budget.  If neighborhood councils want elections, they will need to collectively surrender 20 percent of their proposed $37,000 allocations to pay for it. […]

What is Walk to School Day? Walk to School Day is a yearly national event that encourages physical activity among children and youth. It is a way for parents, students, school personnel and other community members to directly experience the walk to school as they walk with students on the day of the event. It often generates wider […]

Hi, Everybody -- Welcome to September, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS MONTH!    I hope you all have plans to further your plans and preparations for emergencies/disasters, AND that you are planning to attend our Emergency Preparedness and Communications Meeting this coming Saturday morning, 9:00 AM, September 14th, at the Flyaway, 2nd Floor, northeast corner of Saticoy and Woodley Avenues in Lake Balboa.  This should […]

On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Congressman Tony Cárdenas will  be hosting a Forum on the Affordable Care Act.  The goal of this informational forum is to educate and inform those in their understanding of the Affordable Care Act and the changes that will be made to the act as of October 1.  In this session, […]

When your friends visit L.A., where do you take them? Sure, they're excited to see our world famous landmarks, but tell me about your Los Angeles: the places your friends never knew about until you showed them. When your friends arrive at LAX, the "Welcome to L.A." photos at the airport are their first impression of our […]

Next Tuesday, July 23rd the voters of City Council District 6 will elect a new Council member to fill the vacancy left by Tony Cardenas. In an effort to connect our residents and stakeholders with local government, the Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council’s Secretary and Youth Outreach Chair, Bethany Harris, interviewed both candidates, Nury Martinez and […]

A new Mayor, a new City Attorney, a new City Controller, and six new Councilmembers join two incumbent Councilmembers in guiding the largest city in the most populated state in the most powerful country in the world and they need your feedback. The quickest way to check in is by emailing them.  Tell them who […]

EmpowerLA Yearbooks are being delivered to Neighborhood Council Boards, neighborhood partners, City Departments, and elected officials.

In the last few months there have been a few instances of individuals approaching small business customers with LADWP’s CLEO application, asking for cash up front to perform lighting retrofit work, and then never returning to perform the installations that were promised. Please urge community members to note that LADWP does not charge for energy […]

From galatzangazette.com More than 85 people crowded into the Daniel Pearl Magnet High School auditorium on a recent Monday night to learn more about Governor Brown’s proposed Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), and what it will mean for the Valley and Los Angeles public schools. Tamar and District officials, Matt Hill and Edgar Zazueta, answer audience […]

Do you or your kids play soccer, tennis,  baseball, basketball, or play at the playground at Balboa Sports Center? Do you take part in one of the many classes held there?  If so,  you know the wonderful sports and youth programs supported by the Sports Center.    The Balboa Sports Center is forming an advisory […]

Eric Garcetti triumphs in the LA mayoral race (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty) It's official: Eric Garcetti has won the race for Los Angeles mayor over Wendy Greuel, who conceded this morning. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Garcetti earned 54 percent of the votes and Greuel had 46 percent, ABC News reports. Garcetti is both LA's […]

The City of Los Angeles is proposing to adopt and implement an ordinance to ban single-use plastic carryout bags, charge a fee on paper bags, and promote the use of reusable bags at specified retailers in the City of Los Angeles.  The Final EIR is available at City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, 1149 S. […]

L.A. full of roads to ruin for cars The city gives its road network an average grade of C. But a Times analysis finds wide disparities, and they're not driven by wealth or political power. Explore pavement quality ratings for each of the 68,000 street segments in L.A., graded from A to F. From the […]

The Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council has invited all candidates for the L.A. City Council District 6 election to a candidates forum during our  regular meeting on Wednesday, May 1st.   The Candidate Forum will be held at the beginning of the meeting.   Each candidate will have an opportunity to tell us why they deserve our […]

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined with the US Geological Survey and the Los Angeles/Long Beach Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Approval Authority members to announce $5 million in federal funds for the region’s Earthquake Early Warning System. “Our partners at the US Geological Survey and Caltech have been working on the development of a cutting-edge early […]

In a city the size of Los Angeles, one of the fastest routes to City Hall is the internet. In the time it takes to find your car keys, you can be online and communicating with the Mayor and the City Council. Effective Neighborhood Council advocates typically know three things; they know the issue, they […]

The 279 candidates for MyLA2050 are vying for a piece of a $1 million pot that aims to underwrite 10 of the best ideas for changing life here for the better.
It’s crowdsourcing with a conscience. And to scroll through the entries is to peer into the idealistic, entrepreneurial, only-in-L.A. psyche of a metropolis in transition.n

The April edition of the Lake Balboa NC Newsletter is packed with information about your community, including: A Food Forward Earth Day event; Worldfest 2013 at Woodley Park; Council District 6 Election Candidates; California Native Plant Week; and more! Click here to download your copy of the latest Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council Newsletter.

Click here for the questions with answers and the regional budget powerpoint results. Additionally, the Citywide results are posted at budget.lacity.org.

This week neighborhood councils were blindsided by the Mayor's office.  The Mayor said that because the Proposition A sales tax measure failed to pass, he will not include funding for 2014 neighborhood council elections in his proposed budget.  If neighborhood councils want elections, they will need to collectively surrender 20 percent of their proposed $37,000 allocations to pay for it. […]