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VNC Elections

Venice Neighborhood Council Board elections have been set for April 11, 2010 by LA’s City Clerk.

The terms of all twenty-one board members are expiring, so all positions are up for grabs! Thirty-eight individuals have accepted this opportunity to get involved in Venice as Neighborhood Council officers. That’s more candidates than anyone can remember in the history of the VNC!

Congratulations to everyone who is running for office! CLICK HERE to see who they are!

If you wanted to run but missed the deadline, you can still run as a write in candidate!

Click www.VeniceNC.org/BoardElections to learn more about the election and how to file as a candidate!

It’s YOUR Venice – Get involved!

A Challenge & A Request

DONE, the Department Of Neighborhood Empowerment, is done.

The Neighborhood Council System is in jeopardy as the City Council struggles to find ways to close the budget gap in the City of LA. The first step is dismantling DONE (see Daily News article: http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_14458944).

The second? Cutting our budget by 2/3rds. The proposal is to cut off access to our roll-over funds (last year’s unspent allocation – while varying from year to year, approximately 20 thousand dollars) AND cut our annual allocation in half, from $45,000 to $22,500. So a budget cut to the VNC from $65,000 to $22,500.

At that reduced level we won’t be able to function very well. The Newsletter would be discontinued. Community Improvement Projects curtailed. Other activities crippled.

Help us think of ways to keep the VNC solvent and keep the citywide NC movement viable and alive. We rose to the occasion last year when our budget was threatened and kept all but 10% of our funds. A concerted effort will be needed again to maintain our autonomy. The great work of our Land Use and Planning Committee alone is enough to justify the effort to keep our voice alive. Don’t lose your input to City Hall! Don’t lose the quarterly Town Halls! Don’t lose your forum to air Venice issues! Don’t lose our great committees!

The fight will be hard, but worth it. Our NC spends less than 5% on overhead, has 100% compliance with Ethics training and has done much to better our community.

Send an email with your ideas for saving the VNC to Vice-President@VeniceNC.org!

The Venice Neighborhood Council is on Facebook!

Our web community is growing at www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=99879567635. We’re looking for new members, pictures and discussion – so come visit us and join up!

Suspension of forum posts on VNC website

Due to an ongoing issue with spam being posted to the VNC forums. We will be shutting down the forum section of the website temporarily in order to launch it again with the spam issues resolved.

We sincerely appreciate your understanding while we work to make the website better for all shareholders and further our ability to have open channels of communication.

It is estimated that the down-time will be no more than 1 month and we will keep you up-to-date as we move through the process.

Thanks again.