The Los Angeles City Council convened on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 9:34 AM in the John Ferraro Council Chambers. The meeting began with roll call, approval of minutes from March 25, 2025, and commendatory resolutions. The council then heard presentations honoring the César Chavez Foundation and the Black Business Association, followed by public comment on multiple agenda items. The council voted on routine consent items, closed session settlements, and several motions, including immigration-related measures and funding for homelessness services.
Center. The one-stop hub provides comprehensive connections to help those hurt by the wildfires. Two months after the devastation, the devastation, and the grief continues for too many people. We are here at one of our four impacted worker and family recovery centers. We have four throughout the city of Los Angeles, one in Culver City in the Valley and Boyle Heights, and this one here in South Los Angeles, helping families and businesses, individuals who are impacted or displaced because of the wildfires. People have lost their homes, but people have also lost significant income. There's been people who have lost their jobs and their livelihoods. And so what we're doing today is offering a one-stop hub to connect people to multiple resources so that they don't have to navigate, you know, all of the red tape and the bureaucracy. We're really trying to streamline that process for everyone impacted. We have a range of services that we're making available for families. We are offering comprehensive services from financial assistance to financial coaching. Uh, if they are behind on their rent or they're behind on their utility bills, we're helping to connect them with those resources. We're also, if they're a business, they're helping to apply for a business, a grant. If they were displaced and they've lost income, we're helping people apply for their impacted worker relief fund, and then also connecting people that are uh interested in other employment opportunities to the workforce development system to help them there. So the youth development department is here today to do a couple things. One is to help connect young people to employment opportunities. We're also here to make referrals to young people who are seeking services such as uh access to mental health services, after school program information, homework assistance. We can help them with that. We're also uh making sure that folks are aware of our Earn Learn Play website where they can find out about the programs and activities the city has to offer through our 18 different departments that serve young people. We had a session today with the survivors, people who've lost their homes, and they talked about this being one of the most comprehensive meetings that they've been that they have attended. You look at the census data and information about what the community needs. Somebody has to do it. And it's beautiful when we can find a group of folk who are committed to meeting the needs, the relevant needs of families from uh clothing to shelter to jobs. So our organization, Community Bill, you know, we're a boots on the ground organization, and I've had a chance to look in the eyes of people who are hurting. And I can do something about it. Whether it's through influence, financial resources, or leveraging our corporate partners who have supported us greatly in this effort to help more people, and that's exactly what we do. For more information, people can visit recovery.gov. Although it's closed for regular activities, Pacific Palisades Rec Center has become central to utility operations in the neighborhood. Residents who are rebuilding will get reconnected here. And in the meantime, there's some good news about the water supply. We're here at Unify Utilities Rebuild Operations Center and the Pacific Polices Rec Center. We move into this location week one after the fires. We brought our water and power crews here. We had an incident command post here with an incident commander, and from here we deploy our power crews and our water crews to ensure that we were able to rebuild the power system and restore the water system. And we just share the great news that we're lifting the do not drink advisory for all of Polestate's effective tomorrow. For those that are fortunate to have returned to their homes and businesses here in the Palisades, before using the water, we encourage you to run the water from all faucets for 10 minutes. We are also offering a $50 credit on their bill because of the water they're gonna use to flush the system. We are leaving dog hungers in their doors with specific instructions on how to do so. We have restored power to thousands of homes and businesses, and as of yesterday, we are down to 143 customers that are located in very hard-to-reach areas. We're happy to be able to support our communities here. This is a center where you can come in when you're ready to rebuild and connect your utilities, and we have people here to support you. As LA's heroes, our firefighters, police officers, and first responders fought tirelessly to protect our city. And two months since we have launched the largest disaster recovery operation in the history of the city of Los Angeles. Getting greener and making the switch to EVs is an important decision for the city. At the South Coast Air Quality Management District, they keep up with the latest in clean air technologies. And their recent showcase aimed to help others do the same. This is the South Coast ACMD Technology Showcase. This event really is all about showcasing some of the latest clean air technologies to help us reduce emissions than to advance our goals of clean air. There's a variety of different types of technologies and equipment that are here. Some examples would be things like battery electric trucks, battery electric police vehicles, zero emission and battery electric lawn and garden equipment, as well as air filtration units that help reduce residents' exposure to emissions.