Scenes From a Pandemic: Part 28
Alive! continues its documentation of City employees as they take a multitude of measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic...
City responds to climate crisis, giving special attention to underserved areas.
The City’s response to the growing climate crisis – and the way the crisis unfairly affects underserved areas – is heating up, so to speak. LA’s new Climate Emergency Mobility Office (CEMO) is on its feet and hard at work addressing these growing needs. Alive! first reported on the CEMO office in May 2021 after its creation in January that year.
Ambassador program shares the recycling message.
Public Works’ Sanitation and Environment has been re-introducing its Ambassador Program over the last several months. They recently...
Law Is New Digital Chief
On May 9, Ian Law was appointed Chief Digital Transformation Officer for Airports. Chief Executive Officer Justin Erbacci made the appointment...
Engineering’s Natalie Moore is honored.
Natalie Moore, Engineer on the Sixth Street Viaduct Replacement Project, is the 2022 recipient of Engineering’s Rory M. Shaw Outstanding Employee Award...
Sanitation’s clothing drive donates 75 tons of clothes to the poor.
On May 5, Sanitation and Environment concluded its spring clothing drive by delivering more than 75 tons of clothe...
Sr. PSR Todd Austin passes away after 23 years of City service.
Todd Austin, Sr. PSR II and police communications instructor and innovator, passed away May 2...
Todd Gaydowski, longtime historian, passes away.
Roy “Todd” Gaydowski, Records Management Officer in the City Clerk’s Office and noted historian, passed away April 12...
Chief Moore thanks Custodians assigned to Police Dept.
On March 3, LAPD Chief Michel Moore publicly thanked 12 General Services Custodians who are assigned to the Police Dept. He thanked those who work day and..
Innovating to Lower LA’s Temperature, One City Neighborhood at a Time
Cool Neighborhoods LA – comprised of the Cool Team (transformative repaving and urban forestry) – is an initiative bringing 200 blocks of cool pavement and nearly 2,000 new trees to eight neighborhoods across Los Angeles’ hottest residential areas.
