City of Westside is an exploratory civic initiative, not an existing city, government agency, ballot measure, service provider, emergency service, or official source.
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Build the public campaign

Bring what you know. Build what comes next.

A credible campaign needs neighbors who organize, experts who test the hard questions, institutions willing to open doors, and funders ready to discuss the work ahead.

Choose your lane See founding-team roles
Status / organizing invitationThis is a chance to help test and organize an idea—not a claim that a city already exists.

City of Westside is an exploratory civic initiative, not an existing city, government agency, ballot measure, service provider, emergency service, or official source.

Four ways to move the work

Choose the contribution you can make now.

You do not need to agree with every proposal. Useful participation includes hard questions, local knowledge, careful research, practical introductions, and clearly bounded help.

What happens when you choose a lane? A prefilled email draft opens on your device. Your email provider sends the message after you review and send it. The site does not collect or transmit an on-site form.

01 / Give time

Volunteer

Take on a practical role that fits your time, neighborhood knowledge, and interests.

Ways to contribute

  • Neighborhood organizer or volunteer coordinator
  • Community listening, event, or local business outreach
  • Research, public records, or source checking
  • Communications, social media, photography, or video
  • Design, web, accessibility, translation, or meeting support
Tell us how you want to volunteer
02 / Lend skill or resources

Contribute expertise and resources

Offer pro bono professional work, a useful introduction, public data, or a bounded in-kind resource.

Expertise the work could use

  • Municipal law and public administration
  • Public finance, accounting, and fundraising readiness
  • GIS, mapping, surveying, public records, and data
  • Public safety, emergency planning, infrastructure, and mobility
  • Community engagement, accessibility, language access, communications, and technology

Offering help does not imply endorsement, appointment, public authority, acceptance of advice, or a professional relationship.

Offer expertise or a resource
03 / Open a door

Partner with the initiative

Start a conversation about community reach, a venue, a resource, public information, or a future event.

Who should start a conversation?

Neighborhood groups, business associations, civic organizations, schools or universities, nonprofits, labor or community organizations, community media, and aligned institutions.

Possible ways to help

  • Host a listening session or future public forum
  • Share neutral public information or community expertise
  • Offer a venue, translation, printing, production, public data, or technical resource

An inquiry is not a partnership. No organization will be identified publicly as a partner without written permission.

Start a partner conversation
04 / Discuss future support

Help fund the campaign

Money is not yet being accepted online. This lane is for a prospective donor or sponsor conversation—not a contribution or checkout.

Priorities to discuss

  1. Community outreach, language access, accessibility, and events
  2. Public records, data, conceptual mapping, and research
  3. Communications, printing, media, and campaign infrastructure
  4. Coordination of pro bono work and, only if funded and approved, bounded specialist work
  5. Required filing or public-process costs if the initiative lawfully reaches those stages

No contribution is being solicited or accepted on this page. The initiative does not represent that any future contribution would be tax-deductible and does not claim nonprofit, tax-exempt, campaign-committee, or official status. A lawful receiving structure, terms, disclosures, and controls would have to be established before money could be accepted.

Start a donor or sponsor conversation

Founding team invitation

Join the founding team.

Help turn an exploratory website into disciplined resident organizing. Titles and responsibilities will be campaign or initiative roles—not city offices.

Ask about a founding-team role
  1. 01Volunteer and neighborhood organizing
  2. 02Partnerships and community institutions
  3. 03Communications, press, and social media
  4. 04Research and public evidence
  5. 05Fundraising readiness and donor relations
  6. 06Events and public listening
  7. 07Accessibility and language access
  8. 08Technology and data operations

A repeatable working pattern

A weekly rhythm for useful work.

This is the rhythm the founding team is invited to establish. It is not a claim that these meetings, events, or volunteer roles already exist.

  1. MondaySet priorities and owners

    Name the week’s concrete work and who is responsible.

  2. MidweekFollow up on outreach

    Move volunteer, expert, partner, and funding conversations forward.

  3. WeeklyHold a 45-minute founding-team call

    Resolve blockers, check facts, and leave with clear next actions.

  4. FridayPublish a verified public update—when there is one

    Report only work that can be supported by facts and records.

Keep the invitation honest

Interest is a beginning—not an official act.

Inquiry status. Email inquiries are not petition signatures, votes, endorsements, official filings, or confirmed partnerships. Sending an email does not guarantee a response, review, assignment, acceptance, or relationship.

Conceptual geography. The maps are illustrations, not legal or property-by-property boundaries. No boundary is settled. A lawful proposal would require detailed property, service, financial, and environmental review through LA LAFCO, the county agency that reviews proposed city boundaries.

No live systems. This initiative is not connected to any police, fire, EMS, 911, utility, or agency system. Any future connection would require legal authority, written agreements, privacy and security protections, and emergency coordination agreements.