The decisions closest to your front door are made in rooms with public comment, and most of those rooms are nearly empty. This calendar lists the real upcoming meetings where your city, your county and your representatives decide, so you can show up, in person or online, and be on the record.
Each meeting below lets you RSVP to attend, download a reminder for your own calendar, open the official agenda, and read exactly where and how to give public comment. The calendar covers LA, Orange and Ventura counties, with a focus on the Southeast LA cities, the City of Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Anaheim and Garden Grove.
Public comment is your legal right to speak at a government meeting. You do not need to be a citizen, you do not need to register to vote, and you do not need to be an expert. Here is the shape of it, the same at almost every meeting:
One. Find the agenda, linked on each meeting below. Decide if you are speaking on a specific agenda item or during general public comment.
Two. When you arrive, fill out a speaker card, or use the raise-hand option if you join online. Some bodies ask you to sign up before the meeting starts.
Three. When your name is called, you usually have one to three minutes. Say your name, say your city, say the one thing you came to say, and say what you want the body to do.
Four. That is it. Your comment goes into the official record whether or not anyone replies. A handful of steady voices changes what a body treats as urgent.
This calendar grows by community help. If you know of a meeting, town hall or public comment window that belongs here, send it in. Submissions are reviewed before they are added.
If you are signed in to your member account, your submission saves to the network for review. If not, this opens a prefilled message to barriopower@gmail.com so it still reaches us.
Back to the Action Hub to find your representatives and take a call to action, or open the Campaign Toolkit to build a campaign around a meeting on this calendar.