Volume 3, Number 1 * Post-Election 2005 * www.cd13.com Councilmember Eric Garcetti A Word From Eric Welcome back to the e-news! As I wrote last year, city election rules prohibited me from sending out mass mailings, whether on paper or via e-mail for the past three months. But the CD13 staff and I have been very busy while the e-news has been dark, and a full neighborhood-by-neighborhood edition will be in your inbox within a week with progress reports on all the work we've been doing. In the meantime, you are welcome to catch up on the last e-news, which only had a limited distribution due to those constraints. This note is just to check in and to say a quick thank you to everyone for your partnership and your ideas in improving our CD13 neighborhoods and our city for the past four years. Because of our work together, I was reelected as your councilmember yesterday with 13,521 votes. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I had the great fortune to run unchallenged for my second term. Instead of coasting until election day, I spent the last four months actively campaigning for your votes (see this article in L.A. CityBeat about our campaign). Thank you to everyone who came out to have pancakes with me in your neighborhood. Thank you to everyone who sent back a survey or a volunteer card. And thank you to everyone who took one of the 1,000 voter registration forms that we put out into CD13. Registering new voters in CD13 is paramount. Our district typically votes at one third the rate of, for example, the 12th District in the northwest San Fernando Valley. In order for our communities' voices to be heard and our needs to be met, we must increase our participation. For the upcoming mayoral runoff, voters must register by Monday, May 2nd, 2005; the election is on Tuesday, May 17th. Please contact me if you would like some registration forms for your neighborhood. The last four years have been incredible. I can't express how much it means to me to have another four years to continue the work we've started for to create a safer, a more livable, and a more just city. Breakfast on the campaign trail with an East Hollywood family. Greeting the Los Angeles County Black History Celebration with Rev. Chip Murray and Victoria Pipkin. Meeting the children who play at Lake Street Park after a press conference to announce safety cameras. CONTACT US Tell us what you think. ..... garcetti@council.lacity.org Councilmember Eric Garcetti represents the Thirteenth Council District which includes all or part of the communities of Glassell Park, Atwater Village, Elysian Valley, Echo Park, Historic Filipinotown, Silver Lake, East Hollywood and Hollywood. Councilmember Garcetti serves as Assistant President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council. He chairs the Council‘s Housing, Community, and Economic Development Committee, is the Vice-Chair of the Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee, and sits on the Information Technology and General Services and Budget and Finance Committees. He also sits on the Council‘s Ad Hoc Stadium Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on the Los Angeles River. Councilmember Garcetti and his staff can be reached via e-mail at garcetti@council.lacity.org or by mail or phone at City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street, Room 470, Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 473 7013 and 3525 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90026, 323/913-4693. www.cd13.com

This message was sent to you by: Los Angeles Council District 13 200 North Spring Street, Room 470 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 473-7013