Sylmar Neighborhood Council - Your City

The purpose of the Council is to participate as a body on issues concerning the Sylmar community and on issues regarding the governance of the City of Los Angeles in a transparent, inclusive, collaborative, accountable, and viable manner. 

As your Neighborhood Council, we may not always have the answer or solution, so we hope that the following directory links may be useful.

• LA City Directory - (Elected Officials, Departments & Bureaus, Boards & Commissions)

https://lacity.gov/directory

• City Services - (New Requests, All Service Requests, Resources, Accessibility)

https://myla311.lacity.gov/s/

• LA City SERVICES Directory - (Search all City Services Directory)

https://myla311.lacity.gov/s/faq

• Support for Residents - (Community Assistance, Culture & Recreation)

https://lacity.gov/residents

• Meet your Government - (Find your elected officials, watch or attend meetings, and access agendas.)

https://lacity.gov/government

• LA City Job Openings - (Job Openings All City Departments)

https://lacity.gov/jobs/openings

• LA CityView TV - (The City of Los Angeles’ official TV channel.)

https://lacity.gov/tv

• Your Sylmar Neighborhood Council 

https://www.sylmarneighborhoodcouncil.org/page/Board

WHAT ARE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS?

LA’s 99 Neighborhood Councils together form the grassroots level of the Los Angeles City government. The system was created to connect LA’s diverse communities to City Hall, and was established in 1999 by an amendment to the City Charter. While Neighborhood Council board members are volunteers, they are public officials elected to office by the members of their community.

The Neighborhood Council system tailors LA’s municipal government to the City’s communities, ensuring that recognition and accommodation of these communities’ diversity is built into City governance.

As a result, each Council is unique. Though every Neighborhood Council is held to the local, state, and federal standards that other City officials and agencies must observe, each Council has its own board structure, with seats representing the particular type of stakeholders which that Council serves. For example, some Councils have seats for renters, while some have seats for equestrians. Others have seats that represent internal districts. Boards range in size from 7 to 35 members. Most board members serve two-year terms; a few Councils have four-year terms, staggered so that half the board is elected every two years.