On March 5, 2025, the Los Angeles City Council convened a regular meeting with 14 members present, later 15 after closed session. The meeting covered routine approvals, public comment on pending items, and debate on an interim control ordinance to halt substantial remodel evictions. Key actions included approving consent items, holding over a controversial ordinance for amendment, and entering closed session.
Know about your culture. This event is always coming together. We have great food here. Like, you know, it's like a family working here. Come through. Uh, St. Andrews is a really great part. The more we come together, the more that we can accomplish. Black is loud, black is beautiful, black is everything. And thanks to St. Andrew's Rec Center for those highlights. STEM, skills of science, technology, engineering, and math are foundational for building the future. To encourage the next generation to think of becoming engineers, Councilmember Eunices Hernandez led Engineers Week for Elementary Students. Councilmember Hernandez is hosting Engineers Week as the chair of the Public Work Committee. It's a week-long celebration to really encourage the next generation of welcome them into chambers and remind them to think critically about the city that they live in and how to make it better, and to also thank them for reminding us that we have the power to build our future. As the chair of the Public Works Committee, I'm pleased to host this week-long celebration organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers of Los Angeles, Younger Member Forum, which is all about inspiring the next generation of engineers. Engineering is all about having curiosity, being able to be creative. The students are building spaghetti marshmallow towers. They're gonna test their towers to make sure their towers are earthquake resistant, and this way they learn more about engineering. They learn more about the seismic conditions around LA and just get an idea of the engineering of the world around us today. You see, how far it's actually a triangle and it's not going anywhere. Look how sturdy that is. You see, I can touch it, bring it down, and it doesn't break. These are really important events to get kids exposed to engineering and STEM fields, and these kids are doing great. Yeah, we're very excited to have them here, and hopefully this inspires them to an engineering fields in the future. This is built up from this. Like this is perfect the nozzle up. I say that this is the fun part of doing the work, but it has real intention where our decisions in City Hall has consequences. It impacts this youth, and so it's a good reminder of like why we are doing what we're doing at City Hall and doing that hard work in that community and in chamber with the rest of council members. Again, thank you everybody for being here and reminding us that we have the power to design our future and build a world that works for everybody. Stay curious, keep exploring, and never stop asking questions. These are all the qualities of great engineers and leaders here. Those could be some future engineers. Even before the recent wildfires impacted LA, food insecurity was a growing concern. Councilwoman Heather Hutt joined with local organizations for a community food distribution event to help fill the supply gap and get food onto everyone's table. We are here with Councilwoman Heather Hutt, right here in the heart of the African American community on Crenshaw Boulevard, home of the Los Angeles Sentinel, and we are providing food and other goods to the residents of our community. We have partnered with the Los Angeles Sentinel, Brother Crusade, LA County Federation of Labor, mothers in action to bring much needed food for people in need. Councilwoman Heather Hutt spearheaded this amazing food drive to ensure that members in her community, members in the Brotherhood State community, members of the Los Angeles Sentinel community, has a way to have some good food for the entire week. We've been doing these across the city because we know that there's food insecurity. We know that there's a lot of people who can't make is meat. This is our opportunity to get back to our community. Folks are struggling when eggs are $15 or a dozen. How can people survive? Increases of food is going up, up and up. So today is about sharing some goodness to our community. We're here to give. Over 7,000 of our union members were impacted negatively by the fire. So we were able to provide for them as well. This is a celebration of our community. This is love for our brothers and sisters.