The Los Angeles City Council met on July 1, 2025, to consider a 151-item agenda. The meeting included a special presentation honoring Colonel Eric Swenson for his leadership in the Palisades fire recovery, numerous public comments on immigration enforcement, rent control, and free speech, and votes on key ordinances including a ban on renovictions, a public bank feasibility study, and emergency declarations.
And resources needed by the community during these trying times. The immigrant community as well as African Americans and other groups, Chinese Americans, actually have gone on the ground since the wildfires because of ICE, the fear of ICE rates. We are gonna stand in solidarity with those families. We will stand up for those families, and as you need resources, we will make sure that you have the help that you need to move forward in the community. We are here to support our immigrants with know your rights trainings. We have food resources, mental health support, and other resources for their children in these tough and challenging times. We know with the recent uh raids and the ICE presence, families are afraid. They're concerned for their safety, for their rights, and what tomorrow may bring. And so we have assembled our team here to make sure that families are aware of their rights. We have a know your rights campaign and are issuing red cards. We are conducting workshops and trainings for service providers as well as community residents so that they too are aware of what rights they have. And so we have put together measures in place, and you'll see across the city a number of organizations are finding ways to distribute food directly to families without putting them in harm's way. Improving safety for transit riders starts on the sidewalk. A citywide improvement program is giving bus shelters the upgrades needed to connect people to their bus. In Koreatown, the 150th bus shelter transformation was a cause for celebration. We're here in Koreatown at the intersection of Olympic and Vermont Boulevard, celebrating the 150th installation of our staff bus shelter. Koreatown is the most densely populated neighborhood in all of Los Angeles with over 100,000 residents. And we're so excited to celebrate with the community a phenomenal transformation of an existing bus shelter from a static to a much more modern amenity featured bus shelter. Welcome to Not Your Mother's Bus Stop, right? This is not what the bus stops look like when I was in school and depended on them. It has lighting, it has Wi-Fi. If you've ever been on a bus stop and missed your bus, that surge of frustration is not knowing when the next one's gonna arrive. But this tells you, it tells you when your next bus is coming. That's a sigh of relief. We're talking about improved infrastructure for transit-dependent riders, many essential workers in a 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. 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 here? 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.