03-10-10

Toluca Lake
Tom LaBonge News
Greetings! Councilmember LaBonge is holding a series of emergency community meetings to discuss the city’s budget shortfall for the current fiscal year.  Thank you to everyone who attended the meetings on Monday and Tuesday evening in Hollywood.  The next meeting will also cover issues in the Los Feliz-Silver Lake Area and will [...]

03-03-10

Toluca Lake
Tom LaBonge News
The City Council continued daily budget meetings all week in an effort to find ways to close the $212 million shortfall in the city budget this fiscal year.  Councilmembers voted to turn $800,000 each from council funds – or $12 million altogether – back to offset part of the shortfall, which was [...]

02-24-10

Toluca Lake
Tom LaBonge News

The City Council grappled with serious budgetary issues all week and on Thursday, voted to eliminate 4,000 city staff positions to close a $212 million budget shortfall for the current fiscal year.  A serious decline in anticipated revenue caused the current budget shortfall.   The city faces a $484 million shortfall in the [...]

02-17-10

Toluca Lake
Tom LaBonge News

If you look up at the Hollywood sign, you’ll see a rare message from the City of Los Angeles to its residents: Save the Peak. Councilmember LaBonge and the Trust for Public Land launched a fundraising campaign this week to purchase Cahuenga Peak, the pristine hillside above and to the west of [...]

02-10-10

Toluca Lake
Tom LaBonge News
The City Council devoted most of this week to budget hearings.  If you want to tell Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa how you think the city should balance it’s budget, please participate in the survey at:  http://labudgetchallenge.lacity.org/budgetchallenge/sim/budget_master.html.
The Los Feliz Improvement Association is hosting new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck at a neighborhood forum on public [...]

02-03-10

Toluca Lake
Tom LaBonge News
On Thursday, Councilmember Tom LaBonge spoke at the dedication of Randal D. Simmons Park in Reseda. Officer Simmons was a 20-year veteran of the LAPD’s elite SWAT team, and was killed in the line of duty in February 2008. He was remembered by the assembled as a loving father, husband, and friend. [...]

01-27-10

Glendale
AARP Mature Driving Class at Glendale Memorial Hospital
Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is proud to host “AARP Mature Driving Class.” Classes consist of two days of 4 hours each day and is $12 for AARP members and $14 for non-members. The classes are held on the second and third Monday of the month from [...]

01-20-10

Toluca Lake
Tom LaBonge News
The City Council unanimously approved Tom’s motion encouraging all Los Angeles residents to support relief efforts in Haiti after this week’s devastating earthquake.
Tom joined Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in announcing the appointment of Austin Beutner, former president of Evercore Partners, as First Deputy Mayor and Chief Executive for Economic and Business Policy. Mr. [...]

01-13-10

Toluca Lake
Tom LaBonge News
Tom commemorated what would have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday on Friday, by laying a wreath at his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Tom, who chairs the City Council’s Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee, help-ed launch Los Angeles Arts Month on Monday at the Red Cat Theater in Walt Disney [...]

01-06-10

Burbank
Basics of Estate Planning Free Seminar
Attorney Christopher B. Johnson conducts this free informative seminar at the Joslyn Center. All are welcome. Call to reserve a seat.
Mon. Jan 11, 6:30pm
Joslyn Adult Center
1301 W. Olive Ave., Burbank, CA
(818) 238-5353
Welcome to Medicare Sponsored by the Center for Healthcare Rights
A must for those who are preparing to sign up [...]