Nominate Sylmar • 2025 EmpowerLA Awards

The 2025 EmpowerLA Awards, presented by the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners, will recognize seven Neighborhood Councils—one from each region—that demonstrate excellence in civic engagement and responsiveness to local needs. This includes efforts to engage the public, improve City responsiveness, and uphold transparency, inclusiveness, and independence.

While YOUR Sylmar Neighborhood Council could nominate itself, we would love to have the community do so.

Here are some examples that come to mind, but please feel free to use your own ideas - Our Social Media presence is more active than all other Neighborhood Councils by over 85%. The Sylmar Neighborhood Council is one of the extreme few that has an office for the community. Sylmar does not have a community center. We have opened the Sylmar Council office to serve the needs of the community, Cooling Site & Warming Location during Sylmar's heat, cold, and windy weather events. We open as an Evacuation Site within minutes of reports of all local fires or other disasters. Act as a meeting space for town-halls and educational trainings such as C.P.R., First Aid, CERT, Active Shooter, Meet & Greets, Community Watch, and more! We created "Bark-Tober," a free animal resource fair to address the needs of our pets and local animals. (2024 had attendance of over 5,000 people and pets!) We connect our community members to all other City, County, State, and Federal representatives, departments, and agencies to help address their individual needs or the needs of our entire greater community. All of the Sylmar Neighborhood Council's meetings are offered not only just in person but also live online by ZOOM to ensure everyone has the opportunity to participate and engage. We also alternate the monthly Main/General meeting between two different parts of Sylmar to help make sure our entire community is represented! 

Your Sylmar Neighborhood Council members and ALL members of the 98 other neighborhood councils in Los Angeles are Volunteers.

For more information about YOUR Sylmar Neighborhood Council - https://www.sylmarneighborhoodcouncil.org/page/viewPage/about-us

To submit a Nomination for the 2025 EmpowerLA Awards -

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