Press Events For Monday

8:00 AM -- LA County Claims Board meeting. Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple St., room 648.

9:30 AM -- LA Board of Public Works meeting. City Hall, 200 N. Spring St., Room 350,

10:00 AM -- Councilman Ed Reyes will host a holiday party for
nearly 300 children from his district. Grace Simons Lodge, 1025 Elysian Park Drive.

1:00 PM -- Mayor Villaraigosa will participate in a ceremony celebrating the renovation of the Hollywood sign, where he is scheduled to discuss the importance of keeping the film industry in Los Angeles.

1:30 PM -- LA Airport Commission meeting. Clifton Moore Administration Building, LAX, #1 World Way, Board room

7:00 PM -- Neighborhood Council President and State Assembly candidate Jim Alger, D-Northridge, will unveil a community-based emergency response system called L.E.A.R.R.S., or Los Angeles Emergency Amateur Radio Response System. Contact says the system ties each participating council into each other using a network of amateur radio operators, or "Ham''
radio. Marvin Braude Center, 6262 Van Nuys Blvd. Room B1

7:00 PM -- North Hills East Neighborhood Council, 7 p.m. Dec. 5 in the library at Sepulveda Middle School, 15330 Plummer St., North Hills. Call (818) 891-0060.

7:00 PM -- Reseda Neighborhood Council will hold a board meeting at 7 p.m. Dec. 5 at Magnolia Science Academy, 18238 Sherman Way, Reseda. Call (818) 832-7540 or see www.resedacouncil.org.

From the Daily News -- Neighborhood Meetings (Updated 12/05/05):