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 really what we want to do as a part of our second phase of outreach is to talk more about those types of amenities and things that they'd like to see in their park system because again, for the next 25 years, we're really setting the standard for what we want to do.

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.

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.

I am the first in my family and the first out of three siblings to go to university, and the university that I will be attending is Yale University.

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 gonna go, but they helped me a lot.

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.

I'm really looking forward to be able to go and explore a new environment, new people, new culture, everything, and just be able to grow alongside so many people who aspire to learn and do something and change the world for the better.

Today we also announced the creation of a new scholarship program, the Olivia Mitchell Scholarship Program, and we awarded them with $500 each to help support them in their college journey.

We are sending a strong message to all of the families that were here.

We're here to support them, and we want them to break through all of the glass ceilings and be able to accomplish all of their goals and aspirations.

To learn more about the Family Source System, we encourage people to visit our website.

Mayor Bass, Councilwoman Katie Yaroslavsky, and volunteers all got busy at the recent AAPI Day of Service.

With LA hosting major events in the coming years, volunteering to do good has the extra benefit of showing the city in a positive light.

You're ready to go out and beautify our city.

So we're here at one of 10 locations across the city for Shine LA, which is a community beautification effort.

So we're here in Koreatown with a bunch of volunteers from across the community to help clean it up and make it beautiful.

I want you to know this gathering here.

This is not the only one.

Throughout the city of Los Angeles today, over a thousand Angelinos are participating in the Shine LA Day of Service.

We need to get Angelinos in every neighborhood involved in beautifying our neighborhoods and preparing for major global events that are just around the corner.

Shine LA is the mayor's program to emphasize cleaning Los Angeles and getting ready for all these international visitors that we are expecting in 26, 27, 28, culminating in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

So we're here to basically get our house ready because when you expect company, you clean.

And one thing that is especially inspiring to me is to see so many young people here.

And I hope this is the beginning of a lifetime of service.

Reach out to us if you have ideas on projects you want to work on.

We're literally the thing that connects this neighborhood to City Hall.

We've all been living in this community for almost like our entire lives, so we want to beautify our community and where we reside.