The E-Newsletter of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council · December 2009 In This Issue EHNC's Next Meeting, December 21! Want To Run For The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council? Tree Care Event on MLK Day, January 18 E-Ho-Ho-Ho! Happy Holidays from the EHNC! EHNC's Next Meeting, December 21! Last Neighborhood Council Meeting of 2009 The next monthly meeting of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council will be on Monday, December 21, 7 p.m. at Kingsley Manor Retirement Community, 1055 Kingsley Dr (at Santa Monica Blvd). Click here for map of location. The meeting will be at the Council Room on the 4th Floor. We will have reports from our LAPD Senior Lead Officers, as well as our representative from Council President Eric Garcetti's district office, plus a meeting of the EHNC's Governing Board, where important decisions regarding our neighborhood will be made. Community stakeholders will also have the chance to make announcements on upcoming events or voice their opinions on important issues in the neighborhood. The EHNC meets on the third Monday of each month, but due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Presidents Day holidays, the first two meetings in 2010 will be on January 25 and March 22, respectively. Visit our EHNC Monthly Meeting Website to download the meeting agenda and to get more information on the meeting. Want To Run For The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council? Filing Period For Community Leaders, Concerned Stakeholders Begins Today for March 20 Election Monday, December 21, 2009 is the first day to file as a ballot candidate for the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council's Governing Board for the upcoming March 20, 2010 election. There will be 18 seats up for grabs - 11 of them representing neighborhood districts in our community, six seats representing stakeholder categories (tenant, property owner, business, student, community services and youth) and one at-large seat. Anyone 16 years or older who is a stakeholder of East Hollywood (lives, works, owns property, attends school, is a member of a faith-based organization (church, synagogue, temple, ministry group), is a staff or board member of a non-profit organization serving East Hollywood or has a vested interest in the community). To file, download and fill out the application soon to be available on the Los Angeles City Clerk's Neighborhood Council Election website or on the EHNC's Election website (www.easthollywood.net/vote). The deadline to file as a ballot candidate for the EHNC Governing Board is Tuesday, January 19, 2010. The March 20 election will take place at the Faculty and Staff Center on the Los Angeles City College campus. For more information on the EHNC election, please attend the EHNC December meeting at Kingsley Manor on December 21 or call the Los Angeles City Clerk's office at 213.978.0444. Tree Care Event on MLK Day, January 18 Help Us Maintain Young Trees On Edgemont Street Join us on Monday, January 18, 2010 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (a nationally recognized day of service) as we care for and maintain 20 young trees on Edgemont Street. The event is from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Volunteers will meet at Edgemont Street and Fountain Avenue. Most of the trees were planted by the EHNC and community volunteers in March 2008. Anyone from the neighborhood, children are welcome and can help, to help ensure we have a healthy and abundant urban forest in East Hollywood. This tree care event is sponsored by Tree People, Hope IBF Church and the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council. For more information and to register, please call Tree People at 818.623.4879 or email volunteer@treepeople.org.   E-Ho-Ho-Ho! Happy Holidays from the EHNC! The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council wishes you a joyous Holiday season and a most prosperous 2010 (now, more than ever this time)! East Hollywood Neighborhood News is the monthly E-Newsletter of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council and is distributed to the EHNC's community stakeholders, neighbors and other interested parties. We do not give out your email address to commercial or outside parties. Unsubscribe if you do not wish to receive this newsletter. Our Postal Address: P.O. Box 292359 Los Angeles, CA 90029 Our telephone: 323.717.6112 Our websites: Official Site: www.easthollywood.net MySpace: www.myspace.com/easthollywood YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/easthollywoodnc Facebook: Facebook Page Twitter: www.twitter.com/easthollywoodnc Copyright (C) 2009 East Hollywood Neighborhood Council. All rights reserved.