Region: North East Los Angeles

Establishing a separate HERMON Neighborhood Council will allow stakeholders to focus their attention and volunteer efforts primarily on the issues and concerns of their own, home community (this has been the desire of the overwhelming majority of all previous Hermon stakeholder participants in the City’s NC system), while being more inclusive of Hermon’s diverse population and community interests. Further, subdivision will allow an even greater number of Hermon stakeholders to take part in the NC system (without the limitations inherent in the existing, regional council) in order to “promote public participation in City governance. “ Hermon stakeholders will also — once again — be able to determine their own priorities for the funds available to a certified neighborhood council. Most importantly, for the first time the consensus view of Hermon neighborhood stakeholders can be sent directly to City Hall without first having to be approved by stakeholders in surrounding neighborhood’s who have little or no sense of Hermon or its needs and specific issues. All this will, ideally, help make “government more responsive to (Hermon’s unique) local needs.”