City Challenges

The 'City Challenges' section is where we invite your ideas on how to tackle the biggest issues facing the City of Los Angeles. Review the subject categories and submit your idea or rate and comment on ideas others have submitted.

Extending the Useful Life of Sewers

Idea Creator: Luis Zaldivar

City Challenge: Infrastructure Improvement

Last week a major sewer collapsed in the San Fernando Valley. Two cars were totaled and fortunately, no lives were lost. However, the emergency repair will be very expensive and will caused major traffic delays to commuters in the area. The residents in the surrounding area will have to deal with an aggressive construction schedule and nuisance odors from the failed sewer while it is being repaired. This scenario can and will happen again due to deteriorated sewer lines.

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EVP Business Development

Idea Creator: Jim Rice

City Challenge: Improving Public Safety

Cities want to be "Smart Cities". "Smart Cities" need to deploy "Smart City" technology. "Smart City" technology typically is deployed at street level and intersections. Where can all that equipment go without wrecking the cityscape? "Smart City" technology such as small cells and edge computing for driverless cars, transportation management automation and security need secure and unobtrusive containment and concealment at street intersections and sidwalks. Cities also are reconstructing roads, intersections and sidewalks every year.

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Fine Art and Design Services for Low Income/Minority Students and Adults :Including Veterans, The Mentally Ill and People with Developmental Disabilities.

Idea Creator: Joshua J. Ramirez

City Challenge: Creating a Business-Friendly LA

In the early part of the depression, the Government passed something Known as the "Works Progress Administration". A program designed to provide economic relief ; mainly getting artists to work in their field, while getting paid a fair salary. Such artists that benefited from this Program, included Pollock, Rothko and DeKooning.

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Stop wild fires across California

Idea Creator: David P. Sarmiento

City Challenge: Improving Public Safety

I wrote a paper called "Falling Trees to Living Trees," Copyrighted it on caring for forests a community effort. I submitted ideas to DARPA on a cannon fire suppression system turning aircraft into aerial gunners firing golf ball size and softball size fire retardants through a cannon for military gunners to be fire fighters in peace time. Powders bombarding trees and tough to access areas by cannon fire from skilled gunners working with coordinate pointing ground fire fighters on the ground.

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Waterless Car Wash Tunnel System

Idea Creator: Christi Love~Curtis

City Challenge: Reducing Government Waste

Hello, We are Aqua~Free Waterless Car Wash Tunnel Systems. My name is Christi Love~Curtis. We are one of the Sustainability Innovation Companies fortunate enough to have been chosen to participate in this years, CleanTech Open Academy and LACI, the Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator. Our technology saves millions of gallons of water and we aim to team up with the Mayor’s Office and the Cities, “Save the Drop” and “Adopt the Plan, initiatives in introducing our technology.

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Waterless Car Wash Tunnel System

Idea Creator: Christi Love~Curtis

City Challenge: Environental Sustainability

Hello, My name is (Christi Love~Curtis, CEO,) of Aqua~Free Waterless. We are one of the Sustainability Innovation Companies fortunate enough to have been chosen to participate in this years, CleanTech Open Academy and LACI, the Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator. Our technology saves millions of gallons of water and we aim to team up with the Mayor’s Office and the Cities, “Save the Drop” and “Adopt the Plan, initiatives in introducing our technology.

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