Los Angeles Municipal Code
Sec. 22.810.1. Regulations Implementing the Plan for a Citywide System of Neighborhood Councils (Plan).
ation where a neighborhood council requires that a stakeholders to provide proof of eligibility, that proof of stakeholder status for community interest stakeholders must be consistent with and substantially equivalent to the evidentiary proof required of stakeholders who live, work or own property. (2) Terms of members of the governing body shall be for two or four years, to be decided upon by individual Neighborhood Councils. Neighborhood Councils may limit the total number of terms that a member of the governing body may serve, if the term limitations are set forth in the Neighborhood Council’s bylaws after the effective date of this ordinance. (3) The governing body shall include an officer named “Treasurer”, whose duties shall include, but not be limited to, maintaining the Neighborhood Council's book of accounts and submitting account statements to the Department no less than once but not more than three times during the fiscal year, as prescribed by the Department. (iv) A description of its meeting procedures which shall include provisions that each Neighborhood Council shall do the following: (1) Meet at least once per calendar quarter. (2) Obey any or all applicable sections of the state’s Ralph M. Brown Act. (3) Establish procedures for communicating with all Neighborhood Council community stakeholders on a regular basis in a manner that ensures that information is disseminated throughout and in a timely manner. (4) Adopt procedures for running meetings, including provisions that identify: the number of governing body members that constitute a majority and a quorum; the number of votes by which a governing body may take an action on a matter before it; the manner in which an action by the governing body can be reconsidered, if at all. (v) The method it will use to address grievances and resolve disputes by which an individual community stakeholder or group of community stakeholders of a Neighborhood Council may express concerns to their Neighborhood Council about its actions. (D) A description of its system of financial accountability that meets the requirements set forth in Article III, Section 2(d) of the Plan.