Neighborhood Council Budget Day 2024

The Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates are an elected body under the Neighborhood Council system that represents the interests of stakeholders across Los Angeles with a focus on City services and how well they are funded.

The City is composed of departments that provide services. Each fiscal year every City department creates a budget that covers its projected costs based on parameters set by the Mayor. The department budgets are assembled into the full City budget.

Members of the Budget Advocates meet yearly with the City departments to discuss how stakeholder concerns can be addressed within the department budgets. They draw up a list of recommendations and, after presenting them to the Mayor, they release them as part of the Budget Advocates’ annual White Paper.

The Budget Advocates sponsor Budget Day, an annual opportunity for Neighborhood Council board members and Los Angeles stakeholders to learn more about how the City operates and to give input on their budgetary and City Services concerns.

The Budget Advocates are elected regionally by the Budget Representatives from each Neighborhood Council to ensure local concerns about services and spending are relayed to the Budget Advocates throughout the year. These grassroots concerns are given voice when the Budget Advocates call for changes to the City’s budget so individual quality of life is maintained.

The only way to achieve change is to speak up.

All meetings of the Budget Advocates and its committees are open to the public. Come and join us. Visit our web page at https://www.BudgetAdvocates.org/ for more information.