Los Angeles City Council Regular Meeting - June 24, 2025
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Los Angeles City Council Regular Meeting – June 24, 2025
The Los Angeles City Council convened on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 9:34 AM in the John Ferraro City Council Chambers. The meeting included approval of consent items, public testimony on ICE enforcement impacts, and extensive public comment urging the extension and full funding of the Stay House LA tenant protection program. Several votes were taken on ordinances and resolutions, with key outcomes including approval of most items and a split vote on a measure related to LAPD funding for protest response.
Consent Calendar
- Items 12–17, 19–25, 27–35, 37–42, 45–47 were approved unanimously (13 ayes).
- Items 1–9, 51–57, and 60 were approved later (14 ayes).
- Item 11 was continued to July 1, 2025.
Public Comments & Testimony
- ICE Impact Testimony: Jose Escada Esqueda (Asian American Drug Abuse Program) reported that streets are empty, community events saw less than 50% attendance, and services have reverted to virtual. Gregory Perez (Burton Tech High School) shared stories of students dropping out due to fear, a valedictorian whose mother could not attend graduation, and families leaving ceremonies early after nearby ICE arrests. Both called for united, actionable support from the city.
- Stay House LA (Items 48, 59, and General Comment): Dozens of speakers—tenants, legal aid providers, and community organizations—demanded the Council extend and fully fund the Stay House LA contract for at least one year. They warned that without a signed contract, legal representation, rental assistance, and know-your-rights workshops would cease on July 1, 2025, worsening the housing crisis amid ongoing ICE operations. Councilmember Raman stated that Friday’s agenda would address funding continuity.
- Other Comments: Speakers addressed a streetlight placement (item 3), criticized the proposed $17.3 million loan to LAPD for protest response (item 59), and opposed removing campaign matching funds (item 60). One speaker noted the lack of telephonic public comment access.
Discussion Items
- Technical Amendments: Councilmember Hernandez corrected item 36’s directive to refer to the “West Lake Redevelopment Project Area for the Maya Corridor project.”
- Recusals: Councilmember Price recused himself from items 18, 26, 44, and 48 due to his wife’s employer’s past work and his status as a landlord.
- Committee Referral: Item 43 was referred to the Budget and Finance Committee per Councilmember Yaroslavsky.
- Council President’s Announcement: The Council will hear testimony from directly affected residents on ICE enforcement at each remaining meeting, district by district.
Key Outcomes
- Item 18: Approved 12-1.
- Items 26, 44, 48: Approved 13-0 (Price recused).
- Item 50: Approved 12-2 (separate vote).
- Item 59 (LAPD loan for protest response): Initially passed 12-2 after a recount, then upon reconsideration passed 11-3, with Councilmembers Jurado, Soto Martinez, and Hernandez voting no. The item was called special by Jurado and Hernandez.
- Item 10: Approved 14-0 (as amended).
- Item 36: Approved 14-0 (as amended).
- Item 58: Approved 14-0 (as amended).
- Adjournment Motions: The Council adjourned in memory of Ramon Rey Jose Madrigal, Antonio Castillo Concordia, Martin Ludlow II, and LAPD Sergeant Ding, who died in the line of duty.
Meeting Transcript
Neighborhood that's been overlooked for too long. The technology aspect of this investment is huge. But as summers get warmer, sometimes the most important thing is shade. A shelter to catch a bus and make our constituents' lives a little bit easier. Moving forward, I'd like to see more public and private partnership. When the city does the good work, we as a community need to amplify that message and let people know what's happening in the city of LA in particular things that affect public transportation and infrastructure. We want to help get the message out. Let them know that it's safe to be on the streets and taking public transportation once again. So STAP program is a very community-driven process. It was born out of the need to provide shelters to many of our seniors and our young people riding the bus and other public infrastructure, but also in communities like Koreatown, where it's been very underserved for many, many generations, that the community of Koreatown has requested for these types of infrastructure being made here. And we're hoping to install many, many more across this community. Find out how bus shelters across the city are being improved at streetsla.lacity.org. From bus shelter glow-ups to making improvements elsewhere. Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez wants Angelinos to give their evaluations to the Department of Wreck and Parks. That feedback will help to assess future needs for city parks. Welcome. Thank you all for being here. What is a really important opportunity for us. Today we're at Lakeview Terrace Rec Center where we are engaging in the park needs assessment. Something that I fought for while I was on the budget and finance committee because I want Angelinos to be able to give direct feedback to the city of Los Angeles about their priorities and needs for their local parks. Olin is a landscape architecture planning and urban design firm. And we're supporting the city this year in the parks needs assessments. As a consultant, we help survey the community to help do drawings to help provide clarity and to bring all of this data from the community engagement together to really help form a vision for the next 25 years under the direction of the Department of Wreck and Parks. Really, what we've been hearing is that people really want to see a lot of unprogrammed spaces to do recreational activities. They want to see the department focus on things like festivals. So we want a park system that reflects what we're hearing from the community, but also what we think they want to do going forward into the future. We have a team, 13 different firms that are working to help the city on this under our leadership, and all of them are coming together with different knowledge sets and different expertise. So we have people that are experts at water, we have people that are experts at equity, we have people that are experts around public art, we have people that are experts around stormwater. And when that is coming together, we're able to map around the city where different priorities really show up. It's really great data, but then when we support it with what we're hearing directly from the community, I think that's where it's most interesting. Everyone comes to their parks for different reasons. Some might come for youth recreational sports, some might come for child care. So there's a number of needs that need to be met at our parks facilities, and we want to encourage families to be able to give their input so that we design a system that works for them. It's really important for people to be able to voice their concerns, and this is giving them that space and for us to prioritize the funding so that we can invest in those improvements. It's a college signing day celebration that means a bit more. Many students at this event are the first in their families to go to college. So the community investment for families department is adding some support into the festivities. We're thrilled to celebrate our second annual college signing day brought to you by the community investment for families department in partnership with the youth development department in our network of family source centers. We have 19 centers throughout the city, and one of our signature programs within the Family Source system is the College Corner Program. The College Corner Program helps young people apply for college. They help them apply for financial aid. They organize campus visits and they do so much more to encourage not just the students but their families to pursue a post-secondary education. The College Corner Program is a program that is available to any student that resides in the city of Los Angeles. So that is really the only criteria. It's open to every student. And we want more students to take advantage of these resources. I didn't feel confident in where I was going to go, but they helped me a lot. I've gotten more help than I feel like I deserve. Today we gathered with over 200 students, and they are uh attending some of the top universities, not just in the state of California, but we have students that will be enrolled at Yale University, at all of our top universities in California, such as UCLA, our Cal State system, our community colleges. So we're just so excited and thrilled to continue to support them as they move into this next chapter.
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