Elections for Los Angeles’ 90 neighborhood councils have moved closer to the neighborhood level. The LA City Council’s voted today to transfer authority for those elections from the city clerk ...

The city of Los Angeles administers 89 Neighborhood Councils. Each receives about 45-thousand dollars a year for outreach, local projects, and operating expenses. But the city has never formally ...

The neighborhood councils were established back in the mid-1990s, at a time when neighborhoods across town had lost confidence in the responsiveness of the city-manager form of government.