Northridge East Neighborhood Council · Held · Special

Northridge East Neighborhood Council special meeting, October 11, 2026

October 11, 2026, 3:30 p.m. · Updated October 12, 2026

On the agenda: The Northridge East Neighborhood Council's Executive Committee and board were scheduled to meet jointly online on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, and the main item on the 13-item agenda was setting the agenda for the Oct. 21 board meeting. Items listed for that meeting included a possible Community Impact Statement on the Council's Oct. 7 reactivation of a 2002 community borough proposal (CF 26-1382), a Charter reform update (CF 26-0489) and a request from United Firefighters of Los Angeles City to present on the Fire Department and Measure FD, with an opposition speaker invited. Possible motions on the Oct. 11 agenda included a budget revision using rollover funds, a Dec. 7 homelessness town hall for which the council previously authorized up to $400, and a response to a domain name similar to NENC-LA.org. Minutes were not posted on the council's agendas and minutes page as of Oct. 12, 2026.

Agenda only. As of October 12, 2026, minutes for the October 11, 2026 meeting of the Northridge East Neighborhood Council had not been posted. This summary is based on the agenda and does not report what was decided.

The agenda set the special joint meeting for Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, at 3:30 p.m. on Zoom, with adjournment by 5 p.m. It listed Executive Committee members Bailey, Diamond, Mills and Steinbrenner and alternate De Mucha Flores. It said every item was an action item on which a vote could be taken, and that items not reached would carry over to the next committee meeting or to the Oct. 21 board meeting. Public comment on non-agenda items was two minutes per speaker.

5. Draft board minutes

• What it asks: Review of draft minutes for nine 2026 board meetings (Sept. 16, Aug. 19, July 15, June 17, May 20, April 15, Feb. 18, the Jan. 26 special meeting and Jan. 21), each marked “pending,” and a revised draft for July 16, 2025, plus an update on engaging a different company to take board meeting minutes (agenda).

8. Earlier board adjournment

• What it asks: Discussion of how to carry out an earlier board adjournment time of 9:30 p.m., including a requirement that recommendations be vetted first by an NENC committee or come as a request from a neighborhood council alliance or a City department. The agenda lists the item for discussion (agenda). The same topic was on the Sept. 7 agenda.

9. Setting the Oct. 21 board agenda

• What it asks: Set the agenda for the virtual Oct. 21, 2026 board meeting. The posting deadline is Oct. 15 at 4 p.m. (agenda).
• Presentations listed: An update on Charter reform (CF 26-0489), a file the Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Charter Review continued on Sept. 30, 2026 to a date to be determined (CF 26-0489); a possible update on the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s homeless count; 2027 neighborhood council election dates and deadlines; and a request from United Firefighters of Los Angeles City for an informational presentation on the state of LAFD and Measure FD, with an opposition spokesperson invited (agenda). The UFLAC request was also on the Sept. 7 agenda.
• Council file: For a possible Community Impact Statement, the agenda lists a McOsker-Hutt motion on a Community Borough System that it says the Council approved on Oct. 7, 2026 to reactivate Council File 02-1011, and prints the number as CF 26-1182 (agenda). That number belongs to a different file, a City Attorney report on a lawsuit (CF 26-1182). The borough motion is CF 26-1382: Tim McOsker, seconded by Bob Blumenfield and Heather Hutt, moved on Sept. 30, 2026 to reactivate CF 02-1011, a 2002 resolution asking the City Attorney to draft a Charter amendment for a community borough system and an implementing commission, and to restore it to its last legislative status (motion). The Council’s roll call on Oct. 7 was 14-0, Yaroslavsky absent (CF 26-1382). No neighborhood council had filed a statement on the file as of Oct. 12, 2026 (CF 26-1382).
• Other items: A public comment period on 18444 Plummer St., the former Rite Aid site at Reseda Boulevard and Plummer Street, open through Oct. 28, 2026; the agenda does not say what is proposed there or which agency is taking comments (agenda). Committee items from Beautification/Weed Abatement, Education (which met Oct. 6), Outreach, Planning and Land Use, Public Safety and Sustainability, and an update to the Standing Rules for referral to the Bylaws committee. Informational items include voting center and ballot drop box information and a Department of Neighborhood Empowerment and Sanitation webinar on Oct. 14. Possible future speakers are the Urban Forestry Division, the Museum of the SFV, LADWP’s Shared Solar Program, the CSUN Institute of Sustainability and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (agenda).

10.c.ii. Rollover funding and budget revision

• What it asks: Review of the fiscal 2026-27 administrative packet the board approved on May 20, 2026, a rollover funding update and a possible motion on a budget revision (agenda).
• Money: The Sept. 16 board agenda printed an Executive Committee recommendation, passed 3-0-0, to use the $32,636.71 rollover to bring the Neighborhood Purposes Grant and Community Improvement Project categories to $16,000 each and add the remaining $636.71 to outreach. The Oct. 11 agenda also notes the City Clerk’s revised funding Policies and Guidelines and Financial Officers Handbook, effective April 1, 2026, and lists the $10,000 Community Improvement Project with the City for parkway tree services for an update (agenda).

10.c.vi. Pending grant requests

• What it asks: Updates on two Neighborhood Purposes Grant requests: Save Porter Ranch, $1,850 for community outreach, with the Outreach Committee recommending $1,000 on Sept. 11, 2026; and the Glowing Note Foundation’s “Voice of the Valley” youth singers project, $500, referred to the Education Committee (agenda). The Sept. 7 agenda listed both along with requests from Holmes Middle School ($5,000) and the North Valley YMCA ($2,500), which are not on the Oct. 11 agenda.

10.e.iii. Homelessness town hall

• What it asks: An update and possible motion on a Homelessness Town Hall sponsored by the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council, scheduled for Dec. 7, 2026 or a date to be determined. The agenda says the council previously authorized up to $400 (agenda).

Routine items

• Call to order, the Sept. 7 committee minutes, public comment and training compliance: the agenda says all board members must take the new funding training by Oct. 16, 2026, with two members pending (agenda).
• The Executive Committee’s regular meeting day and time, listed for discussion, and the date of its next meeting, listed for a possible motion (agenda).
• Reports: a possible motion on the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment’s update on Senate Bill 707, in effect since Jan. 1, 2026; a possible motion on a domain name similar to NENC-LA.org; and the president’s report on 2027 election poll worker applications, campaign activity guidance, a board retreat, Council District 12’s “Conversations with Councils” on Oct. 26 and a Northridge South Neighborhood Council town hall on new state housing laws on Oct. 19 (agenda).
• Outreach: one of four bus bench ads placed July 15, 2025 remains as of Oct. 8, 2026, at Etiwanda and Devonshire; advertising on new bus shelters was referred to the Election and Outreach committees (agenda).
• Land use: the agenda asks to schedule a Planning and Land Use Committee meeting as soon as possible on a new application, Case No. VTT-85221-SH-HCA, a proposed six-lot subdivision with accessory dwelling units at 18220 Superior St. under SB 684 and SB 1123 (agenda).
• Announcements: the Granada Hills Street Faire on Oct. 17, the Valley Art Fair on Nov. 1, the ONEgeneration Senior Health Fair on Nov. 6 and the CSUN Powwow on Nov. 28 (agenda).

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