Keep an eye on your Neighborhood Council

Remember when I wrote about the deafening sillence from the city's Neighborhood Councils, specifically the Van Nuys NC?

It turns out the city of Los Angeles, and the wonderful thing called the Internet, are here to help. Just go to the Early Notification System page for Neighborhood Councils and start your e-mail subscription. Here's how it works:

Listed below are the certified Neighborhoods Councils that have elected governing boards and which are holding formal meetings that require the posting of agendas. Each of these certified Neighborhood Councils have been offered an opportunity to post its agenda on the Early Notification System so that people may subscribe and have them delivered automatically to their e-mail systems. One-by-one, certified Neighborhood Councils will decide whether or not to become part of this unique system. View a list of participating certified Neighborhood Councils. If a certified Neighborhood Council is not yet participating, feel free to subscribe now, and its agendas will be sent to you if the Neighborhood Council decides to make its agendas available.

"Decides to make it available"? What the hell is that? It's a public meeting, public money, and public-frickin'-office, so the agendas should ALL be there. No "decision" needed. It should be there. End of story.

I just subscribed to 25 of them. Yes 25, because I'm here for you. I'll report back.

Shouldn't all of these agendas be on the Internet, going way back, for us to peruse? Yes. Are they there? No. As always, the city's Neighborhood Empowerment Web page can sort of, kind of help

My favorite is the events calendar that's completely empty. Yeah ...