The Los Angeles City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting on Friday, May 30, 2025, at 9:33 AM in the John Ferraro Council Chambers. The meeting featured multiple presentations honoring community achievements, public comment on the fiscal year 2025-26 budget, and votes on several items including the annual budget resolution.
We are here in City Hall commemorating the 10 years of the Day of Religious Pluralism to honor, to acknowledge the beautiful tapestry of our faith communities, more so to reaffirm the sacredness that exists in all of humanity because that's what our city is about. Pluralism is a recognition that there are different religions. We have to go beyond just a mere recognition that yes, there are different religions. We have to go towards that genuine feeling of warm heartedness towards each other, a genuine feeling of community, that we are all seekers of the sacred, manifesting something higher in our lives. Faith leaders do work together. And there's really the best example of what it means to be building bridges, serving the community at a greater expanse. But to do this today, it just should have flow outward and outwards. The ripple effect when you drop the little stone where those ripples go. So starting here and then out the doors of City Hall into our communities. City Council uh declarations, for example, are not just something done in the vacuum and then forgotten about. For 10 years now, we've tried to live this declaration to show the city of Los Angeles. We're all different pieces of mosaic. And we put together pluralistically, we make a beautiful image. It takes effort to reach across to try to understand each other more deeply and to create space for each other and making sure that we truly are paying attention and listening so that we're lifting each other up. Unfortunately, there are parts not just here in the U.S. but different parts of the world where we see religion as a source of violence and sectarianism when in fact religion is a source of love. And that's why this is really important. Manhattan Place Elementary School unveiled a new outdoor literacy corner. We know that reading is always a good idea, but just in case the kids don't know that yet, the school drafted a Dodger Star to help them catch the reading habit. Today we are celebrating our partnership with the LA Dodgers and the Will and Carol Smith Foundation. We are bailing our outdoor literacy corner. This provides our students with multiple opportunities to develop their love for literacy and a love for reading. And it also shows the students that reading is fun and that reading doesn't only take place inside the classroom, but reading actually can take place outdoors. Alright, so we're gonna read the Birdsteen Bears, go out for the tea. Today is really special because we're partnering with Manhattan Place Elementary, and they are actually the second school this year that we're doing a literacy corner renovation. When we were in the World Series, we launched our first literacy corner as part of our MLB World Series Legacy Initiative. And we did so in partnership with our catcher Will Smith and his wife Kara and their foundation Catching Hope. So all four organizations came together and we committed to doing three unveilings during the 2025 season, and this is the second of three. And that's why we are partner with people like Will Smith and his foundation, just to show our students like you matter. We see you, we hear you, and you are important. Will deal.lacity.gov slash press. The Coliseum was first host to the Olympics in 1932, again in 1984, and in 2028, it will become the first venue in history to host the Olympic Games for a third time.lacity.gov slash press. Angelinos celebrating with metallic balloons should keep them secure and prevent them from floating into power lines, according to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, LADWP. The utility said that recently metallic balloons hitting equipment had caused five outages in one week, leaving nearly 3,000 customers without power.com. Mayor Karen Bass and the Economic and Workforce Development Department invite business owners to attend the 2025 Procure LA Summit. The summit will highlight working with the city's big three, the LA Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles World Airports, and the Port of Los Angeles. Attendees will gain insight into accessing capital and procurement opportunities for upcoming major events like the World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the 2028 Olympic Games. According to Procure LA, the summit will include networking with over 30 government agencies and prime vendors, training workshops, and on-site support from its team. The 2025 Procure LA Summit, working with the big three, takes place on Thursday, May 29th, beginning at 8 a.m. For more information, visit Procure LA.com. Whether sworn or civilian, Asian American representation has grown in the ranks of LA's police department. At a recent cultural celebration, the department gathered to celebrate all that makes Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month a special occasion. I'm here and honored and thrilled again to come back to MC, the LAPD, AAN HPI celebration. As we know, we're in Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Month, and this is just a wonderful event that the LAPD hosts each and every year. Along with Leap, that's short for Law Enforcement Association of Asian American Pacific. We have the Korean American Law Enforcement Organization. We're co-hosting this event. We have broad Filipino Americans, the Chinese American, Korean Americans, Japanese American Thai. We've also brought in a lot of food because I think that's how you best connect people. So we have Chinese food, Korean food, and some Filipino food as well.