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Community
Action Board (CAB)
The Community Action Board (CAB) presents an opportunity for residents, service providers, educational institutions and business interests serving Los Angeles' low income people and neighborhoods to actively participate and be involved in resolving issues relating to the use of federal Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds received by the City. An advisory body to the Community Development Department, the City Council and the Mayor on such matters, the CAB draws its 21 members in equal numbers from three distinct sectors of the community: poverty, public and private. While the City Council and the Mayor comprise the final authority on the conduct and administration of the City's Community Action Program which the CSBG funds the CAB is an important medium through which community concerns can be aired.
Membership on the CAB is achieved either by appointment or through a democratic selection process. The President of the City Council appoints Council Members, or their respective designees, to serve as public sector representatives. The Mayor selects the private sector representatives from business, institutions and organizations that reflect the broad Los Angeles community. The poverty and public sector members must confirm private sector nominees to the CAB. Poverty sector representatives are elected from each of the City's seven (7) Community Improvement Planning Areas (CIPAs), or neighborhood service areas.
Become a member of CAB - run for a Representative seat!
Application for Community Action Agency (CAA) Candidacy
for
POVERTY SECTOR REPRESENTATIVE and POVERTY SECTOR REPRESENTATIVE ALTERNATE
The application period will be open until a sufficient number of candidates have replied. Voting locations and times will be determined at a later date and made available on this website.
The Community Development Department (CDD) administers the Community Services Block Grant contract with the State of California, through which CSBG funds are allocated to the City. The CDD, acting through its Human Services and Family Development Division, is designated as the City's Community Action Agency (CAA) for this purpose.
The CAB regularly meets at the CDD headquarters in the Garland Building located just west of downtown at 1200 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017. CAB meetings are held on the second Thursday of the following months: February, April, June, August, October and December. Poverty sector representatives to the CAB preside at meetings intended to encourage community input and participation that are held in their respective Community Improvement Planning Areas (CIPA) in January, March, May, July, September and November.
Executive Board:
Lily Y. Lee, Chair
Arcelia Arce, Vice Chair
Robert Jimenez, Secretary
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