Public Works Updates

Good morning, 

Some updates and upcoming events for your consideration. 

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City of Los Angeles Career Fair

Thursday, November 2nd

1700 Stadium Way

Learn more about job opportunities with the City of Los Angeles. 

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Great Pumpkin Bash

Sunday, November 5th

Pan Pacific Park

Join us for a fun-filled day of activities including a Pumpkin Smash Zone, face-painting for kids, free bike repairs, and electronic waste collection. Learn about gardening and composting from experts and grab some freebies like compost kitchen pails and trees. Don't miss your chance to win epic prizes like rain barrels and compost bins.

Learn more HERE

Free Bulky Item Drop

November 18

LA Sanitation & Environment will be accepting bulky items at five locations around the City monthly. Furniture, carpet, yard trimmings, shelving, and wood will be accepted.

Learn more HERE

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Sepulveda Basin Vision Plan Draft

The City of Los Angeles has released the Draft Sepulveda Basin Vision Plan and is asking the public to share comments and other feedback. The draft plan will be available online for two months.

Read the draft HERE

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ICYMI: Mayor Bass Led Historic Delegation to DC

A historic delegation consisting of Mayor Karen Bass and members of the Los Angeles City Council visited Washington, DC this week to continue efforts to deliver for the people of Los Angeles through unprecedented partnership with the federal government.

During the visit, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) would be receiving $48 million in federal dollars to enhance LADWP’s grid flexibility, improve the resilience of the power system against growing threats of extreme weather and climate change, and ensure Los Angeles has access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity throughout all areas of the City.

Learn more HERE

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ICYMI: Inside Safe

Inside Safe operation in Koreatown and surrounding areas, including near Virgil Middle School focused on four different clusters of encampments, brought more than 100 unhoused Angelenos inside. 

This is the 28th Inside Safe encampment operation in Los Angeles. The initiative is responsible for bringing more than 1,600 Angelenos inside. Mayor Bass is moving Los Angeles forward with an urgent and strategic approach to confronting the homelessness crisis, which includes declaring a state of emergency, taking action to dramatically accelerate and lowering the cost of building affordable and temporary housing, moving to maximize the use of City-owned property for temporary and permanent housing and cutting through red tape to move people into permanent housing. 

Learn more HERE

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City of Los Angeles Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights),

Event Details 

• Event: Second Annual Law Day
• Date: Saturday, October 28, 2023
• Time: 9am - 1pm
• Location: Virtual 

Click on this link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItceCvqDsvGNzQbrM0Dez2nzUNz8BC2DG4#/registration

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Sepulveda Combined Project Fall Meetings (STC/TRS/I-405 EL) #2 

October 28, 10am to 12pm, Marvin Braude Center

Metro is pursuing three projects that offer a comprehensive, multimodal approach to address travel in the Sepulveda Pass and mountain range. The Traffic Reduction Study, Sepulveda Transit Corridor, and I-405 Sepulveda Pass ExpressLanes Projects are each under study and have timely information to share with stakeholders who live near and travel through the area. Please join us this fall for in-person and virtual meetings.

This in-person meeting will include a formal presentation by Sepulveda Transit Corridor, Q&A session, and an open house with information for all three projects.
The Sepulveda Transit Corridor presentation will focus on travel times and boardings for the six project alternatives.

Learn more HERE

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Did you know…

LA Sanitation and Environment is a vital part of the city’s water preservation plan?

Proposition O authorized the City of Los Angeles to fund projects (up to $500 million) designed to prevent and remove pollutants from our regional waterways and ocean, consequently protecting public safety while meeting Federal Clean Water Act regulations. Los Angeles voters overwhelmingly passed the measure in 2004.

Proposition O funds projects are represented in one or  more of the following categories:  

• Water-quality protection of rivers, lakes, beaches, bays and the ocean
• Water conservation, drinking water and source protection
• Flood water reduction, river and neighborhood parks that prevent polluted runoff and improve water quality
• Stormwater capture, cleanup and re-use and maintenance of the City’s street lighting system.

Learn more about these projects HERE

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Have you used MyLA311 to report a pothole?

Download the MyLA311 app to immediately report any and all potholes.

Between October 8 and October 14 StreetsLA crews repaired 1,086 potholes.

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