NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Regarding: Neighborhood Council Certification Application Received From

OLD NORTHRIDGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL

NORTHRIDGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL

request recognition as a Los Angeles City Certified Neighborhood Council

Department of Neighborhood Empowerment File Number: 01-013 and 01-016

City Ordinance #174006 established regulations to implement the Plan for a Citywide System of Neighborhood Councils. It requires that a notice be prepared telling you that the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners will conduct a public hearing as follows:

DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2002 TIME: 6:30 p.m.

PLACE: NORTHRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

17960 CHASE STREET, NORTHRIDGE, CA 91325

The purpose of the hearing is to discuss, receive public comments, and vote on this application. The application from OLD NORTHRIDGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL and NORTHRIDGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL ask that they be formally certified and recognized as Los Angeles City Neighborhood Councils. The public is strongly encouraged to participate.

SUMMARY OF THE LOS ANGELES CITY NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL SYSTEM
In June 1999, the voters of the City of Los Angeles approved a new City Charter that created the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE), whose purpose is to promote more citizen participation in government, and make government more responsive to local needs through a citywide network of independent neighborhood councils. DONE, and its Board of Neighborhood Commissioners, developed a Plan for a Citywide System of Neighborhood Councils ("The Plan"). The Plan expects that the neighborhood councils system will, among other things, 

(1) promote public participation in City governance and decision-making, so that government will be more responsive to neighborhood needs; 

(2) promote and improve communication, interaction, and collaboration among all Neighborhood Councils regarding matters that divide them, and matters that will bring them together,

(3) improve the delivery of City services and City government responses to Neighborhood Councils’ problems; 

(4) helps the Neighborhood Councils list their needs in priority order; 

(5) ensure the equal opportunity of all neighborhoods to form Neighborhood Councils; 

(6) ensure that each Neighborhood Council reflects the diversity of their area, and ensure that no single group will dominate their decision-making; 

(7) ensure that the public has an opportunity to receive the earliest possible notice about matters that will eventually be voted upon within City government, so that the public has time to understand, discuss, and take a position on items of importance to them; and 

(8) provide the Neighborhood Councils with the training and resources they need to be a strong and influential forces in the governmental decision-making process.

If you are unable to attend the public hearing, you may submit your comments in writing at least ten(10) calendar days before the public hearing date, so that it can be distributed to the Board in advance of the hearing. Please submit your written comments to: Board of Neighborhood Commissioners, 305 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. You may also send your comments electronically using the e-mail address or fax number listed on this letterhead. Include the name of the applicant, and the file number listed above. All correspondence submitted to the Board will become part of the official file and will not be returned. The file is available for public review by contacting the Commission Executive Assistant. Translators, sign language interpreters, and listening devices for the hard-of-hearing are available upon request. To ensure the availability of services, please make your request at least three (3) working days before the scheduled hearing date. If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact (213) 485-1360.

FINALIZATION OF BOARD ACTION:

Per City Charter Section 245, the Board’s determination shall become final at the expiration of the next five meeting days of the Council during which the City Council has convened in regular session, unless the City Council acts within that timeframe by two-thirds vote to bring the action before them or to waive review of the action.

EXHAUSTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES:

If you challenge these agenda items in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing or in written correspondence on these matters delivered to this agency at or prior to the public hearing.  California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1094.6 governs the time in which a party may seek judicial review of this determination.  Under that provision, a petitioner may seek judicial review of any decision of the City pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1094.5 only if the petition for Writ of Mandate pursuant to that section is filed no later than the 90th day following the date on which the City's decision became final.

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