An LA 28 offered young Angelinos the chance to get in on the action.

At the LA20A Day of Sports, over 300 kids got to experience new and adaptive Olympic sports.

The Olympics are gonna be right here in our hometown.

Today we're here at the world famous South Park in South Los Angeles.

We have 300 kids from local recreation centers, and these kids get to experience some of the Olympic sports that can be held in the Olympics that's gonna be here in three years.

We have flag football, we have soccer, we have blind soccer, we have cricket.

Here at this event, we have many other sports.

Ours is the adoptive section.

We're playing blind soccer, a sport that mostly relies on hearing for us to hear the ball.

They have eyeshadows that they wear over their eyes, and they listen to the sound of the ball.

It's important that we offer programs for both able bodies and individuals, youth with disabilities.

I was that kid that was like very in her show, was intimidated by sports.

My family doesn't have any sports background whatsoever.

Um, and as a personal, like with disabilities, I didn't even know that sports was a possibility for me.

I completely changed my life through sports, and play LA is basically just opening the doors for these kids to do the same.

Sports has been a part of my life my entire life, and it's just given me so many opportunities, you know, opportunity to represent the United States at the Olympics.

The friends that I've met, the lessons that I've learned, it's really shaped me into the person that I am, and I just feel like every kid deserves that opportunity, and so they're getting that chance here today.

Even though I have a disability, I can still be active.

I can still play sports with my friends.

I could still, in a sense, be human like the rest of you guys.

I can go out there, be active, just overall have fun.

Everybody ready for the big surprise.

Are you really ready for the big surprise?

All right, here we go.

Today, kids will be able to receive uh Olympic medal as well as a pair of tennis shoes.

Thanks to our sponsor, Nike and LA28.

The 160 million dollars that LA 28 donated to us, it allows all kids regardless of economical background or disabilities to participate in youth sports within Los Angeles.

I lived in so many different places, and nowhere have seen a program like this.

This is something that is life-changing.

If you want to find out more about our play LA program, go to LA Parks.org.

We love play LA, more city support for immigrant communities.

How to learn more about red flag parking restrictions, and an AI tool that will help the rebuilding process in the Palisades.

The stories up next on City Beat.

The directive instructs city departments to boost protocols and training to prepare for federal immigration activity occurring on city property.

Bass will establish a working group with the LA police department, immigrants' rights organizations, and community leaders to give additional guidance to police when responding to immigration sweeps.

Under the order, the mayor will pursue records from federal agencies on their activities, their use of masks to obscure identities, and the reasons for detaining Angelinos.

For more information, visit mayor.lacity.gov slash press.

The zones include areas where parked vehicles can block emergency access and trap residents during evacuation.

LA residents can opt into the alert system to receive notifications of red flag parking restrictions via text, phone, or email.

For more information, visit LAFD.org slash red flag.

The city of Los Angeles has begun beta testing an AI tool which will help the rebuilding process in the Pacific Palisades.

This AI pilot has been provided to LA City and County through a state and philanthropic partnership.

The tool can be used to review building plans for compliance prior to submitting them to LA City's Department of Building and Safety.

During the beta testing phase, anyone working on rebuilding a single family home in Pacific Palisades can become an early adopter of the tech and help train the AI tool.

For more information, visit mayor.lacity.gov slash press summer heat presents a number of challenges for the non-human members of our families.

We're talking about our dogs and what we can do to take care of them when it's hot outside.

LA Animal Services has some advice for day-to-day dog care in the heat.

To protect your dogs during the summer you should make sure that you're not walking them during the mid heat of the day.

Walk them early in the morning or in the evening after it's cooled off because the concrete and sidewalks can be extremely hot and can cause burns to your pet.

Also make sure that they have plenty of water available to them and if they're outdoors they need to have access to shade or a dog house as well.

You can tell if your dog is overheated if it begins to pant and breathe heavily and if its tongue starts to look a purplish color.

So you need to make sure that you stop any exercise that they're engaging in.

Water should be changed at least once daily to make sure that it's clean the bowl should be cleaned out and fresh water provided in the summer it's a great idea to provide some ice cubes in their water as well.

Metal dishes should be kept out of the sun because they actually reflect the heat and can become extremely hotable for your pet.

It's really important to make sure that you keep your pets at home during the heat and you don't leave them in an unattended vehicle even with the windows rolled down the car can get extremely hot and cause heat distress for your pet.

You can find additional information about pet tips by going to LAanimalservices owning a pet is a big responsibility.

Thanks to LA Animal Services for that helpful heat advice a family recipe passed down through the generations makes for more than a meal it becomes a treasured cultural story.

The city's department of aging began a project to collect home recipes and the resulting cookbook has just been launched with a flavorful celebration today we are at the official launch of From My Family to Yours cookbook as part of the collaboration we decided to bring the bookstore 72 libraries so anybody that has a library car can go and check out the book at the ANOF72 Libraries we actually have some of the books today for people to check out so if they have their library card they can come to our table and check out a book and if they don't have a library card they can get one with us today.

Today's event was just really about celebrating all of the amazing recipes and stories of all of our Angelinos our older adults our high school students our middle school students and with that at the beginning we showed a presentation of how everything came about through a cookbook challenge intergenerational multicultural cookbook challenge and then how we transition into a panel discussion about you know really capturing the stories from some of the people that were in the book and some of the people that were involved in the project and how important food was to them and their families and the people that they serve and they go to blends nicely together.

Look at that.

The amazing thing about it is being able to actually share a recipe that first of all is from the family, right?

The whole thing itself.

Growing up, uh, growing up in Toronto with my, you know, my mother would make uh a dish it's off with a rice, rising chicken.

So what I wanted to do is incorporate it because I'm still having rising chicken.

And I went to share that with uh with everybody else in the cookbook.

Part of my culture.

I think what's really important here with regards to this book is that we often forget that meals and food bring families together and bring strangers together.

The opportunity to share a meal to share a recipe will have long-lasting impacts on the lives of many generations to come.

Our biggest hope with this entire cookbook project from my family to yours is for people to share food experiences, food memories, and be able to connect with one another.

I'm just excited to be part of this, part of this project that was put together because the shared ideas and sharing food and sharing recipes with uh with everybody else in different cultures is one of the most important things.

Uh, the recipe that I prepared was a recipe my mom had taught me as a child.

And it is it was a challenge for me to prepare this recipe because my mom showed me the recipe by a touch of this, a touch of that, a little here, a little there.

And trying to take that and put it into a recipe was really, really hard.

But I think the hardest part was also as I was preparing the meal, remembering all the lessons my mom taught me.

We hope that people can read this book and be inspired to cook together, to eat together, and break bread together, share life experiences together.

Cappy cooking.

From my family to yours, cookbook can now be borrowed from the LA Public Library.

To celebrate National Day of Play, kids gather to try different sports, move around, and play.

The activities were supported by the 1984 Olympic Games, whose legacy continues to give to Angelinos.

Lady Four Foundation and the Clay Equity Fund is hosting our National Day of Play, Clay Day Block Party here in Historic West Adams, in partnership with Council District 10, Council Member Heather Hunt.

The LA4 Foundation is a legacy of the 84 Olympic games, and our mission for the last 41 years has been to keep the Olympic legacy alive in Los Angeles.

Uh, ensuring that all kids have access to spare play and movement, and that's sort of the vision we have in terms of bringing people together.

So play LA definitely invites you to participate for future events.

Uh we want to make sure that all the communities, all the kids and everybody participates as coaches, as you know, just future Olympians.

We have over 20 activations from squash to archery to baseball to soccer.

Really celebrating the power of sport.

We also have food, music, art, and culture.

And so we're just really trying to get all of our communities preparing for the LA 28 Olympic sports or paralympic sports.

What is going to bring to this type of event is just an amazing energy, just future Olympians.

We're trying to go ahead and build up those skills for future soccer players, future skateboarders.

Happy play day.

Jobs, not jails.

It's not just a catchphrase at homeboy industries.

They know the value of education, and a decade ago, they began encouraging their members to complete their studies.

Now they are celebrating their largest number of academic graduates.

We are at Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention rehab, re-entry program on the planet Earth, and today was our graduation.

We had 109 graduates.

We've never had that many.

Our first graduation here was just only 10 years ago.

We had one graduate, Natalie.

I remember that graduation 10 years ago with one person to see this.

It's so inspiring.

When we started this with high school, it's never even a thing, or graduating wasn't a thing, but now it is.

Some have a hard time even reading, so we help with remedial reading.

And then some go on and get a PhD.

You know, so we have the whole gamut.

I hope they feel celebrated.

You know, we always say you are the accomplishment, you know, not the diploma in your hand, but you are the accomplishment.

So the more that they can uh feel the dignity of that and the nobility in that, and the more they can inhabit that truth, then the more they will become that truth, and then they're solid and resilient, and nothing can touch them.

When I got some homeboys, I was in rehab on probation.

Now I had two and a half years clean.

And a special thanks to a man whose vision who made this all possible.

I don't think what would I be if I've been at his place.

Pleasure.

Thank you, President.

Congratulations, Class of 2025.

We did it.

What I've gained from this experience is total confidence.

I myself uh work ethic, discipline, and um I've gained a lot of new friends and family.

So always alongside whatever they're else they're doing here, which is the number one thing is to heal and their therapy and groups and all sorts of things.

And they work side by side with enemies, people they used to shoot at.

And then along with that, we want them to always be dedicated to some kind of further education.

Well, I'm celebrated I finally fulfilled my one of my my goals when I was a little kid.

And I believe my destiny since I strongly believe that I was born to be a brewery, and I didn't stop till I got to UCLA.

I completed my Bachelor of Art in Sociology and Chicano and Central American Studies.

We have so many different programs here.

We have education.

We also have the cafe, the bakery, so we got a lot of different job opportunities that can help you get on your feet.

We're a gang intervention program, folks who have been previously incarcerated or a gang involved, and so folks come out of prison and they join us.

And uh, or you know, when they're tired of being tired, they join us.

Or it takes what it takes, you know.

It can be the birth of a son, the death of a friend, a long stretch in prison, they come to us, and we always welcome them.

This is a place where resources are limited.

So you want to do something with your life, like like turn around with education, job or a vocational coming to homeboy.

You know what I mean?

Like just be ready, like take a step forward.

Amy Jones, a homeboys high school graduate.

Frida Collis said she painted flowers so they wouldn't die.

Pinto Flores para que no muera.

Her life story is an inspiration to other artists, and the reason there is the Friedrich Hollow Theater in LA.

The Department of Cultural Affairs shows us around a center that supports the local community's creativity.

And uh to create a cultural center where we can discuss our ideas, and we've been here now 31 years.

We are located in Westlake, MacArthur Park.

The population is mainly Latinos.

About 65-70% of what we do is in Spanish because of the community that surrounds us.

We've been able to offer our community programming that otherwise they would not have.

What we do is theater.

We have classes for children, for adults, and theater.

We have a film classes, photography classes, and animation classes for children.

Those are completely free.

Those are mainly the programs we have.

Originally, as I was told, this building was an ASO ASO dance hall for the servicemen during second world war.

In 1960, the city took over the Department of Park and Rec.

In 1980, when the Department of Cultural Affairs was created, the management of the building went to the department.

We came here in 1994.

And the reason we called the place, uh the Frida Caro Theater, was because we were very well known for a play I wrote and directed in 1993 about Frida Kahlo.

Excellent reviews.

So we continue doing the show, and we decided to call the theater the Frida Carlo Theater because people identified us with that play.

And we've done close to 700 performances of that play.

We have also a couple of programs.

One of them is the 10-minute theater festival that we've been doing for now 13 years.

Last year we did four months of it.

There were 40 plays.

This year we did 30.

And the other program is the stage readings.

Every year we chose 12 new plays by Latino writers, and we staged them.

We have probably about 45 weekends of performances every year.

If you are a Latino writer, there are not that many places where you can showcase your work.

So for us was very important to create that outlet.

What people will remember from us in 200 years, it will be the art that art will represent us into the future.

Our website is Frida Kalotheater.org.

And that's where you can find all the information.

In this week's things to do, cruise over to El Pueblo's car show.

Summer night lights are on at Hazard Wreck.

And enjoy a grand performance of poetry with Jessica Salgado and guests.

All this up next on things to do.

Join El Pueblo Historical Monument for the annual car show on Saturday, August 2nd.

Head to Alvera Street and enjoy 300 cars on display along with vendors, food, music, raffles, and awards for the cars.

Enjoy a look under the hood and appreciate those gleaming details.

The day will be a ton of fun and a chance to celebrate the low rider culture and community.

Cruise on down to the El Pueblo Car Show all day on Saturday, August 2nd from 10 a.m.

until 5 p.m.

For more information, visit El Pueblo.lacity.gov slash events.

It's the season for summer night lights.

This program by Mayor Karen Bass, the Department of Recreation and Parks, and the city's gang reduction and youth development program connects the community to their park at Hazard Rec Center.

From now until August 8th, Hazard Rec Center will be offering extended hours on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 6 p.m.

until 10 p.m.

The program promises food, sports, and activities for the whole community.

Head to Hazard Rec Center for Summer Night Lights on Thursday, July 31st, Friday, August 1st, and Saturday, August 2nd from 6 p.m.

For more information, see the Summer Night Lights tab at LA Parks.org/slash events.

Join the Department of Cultural Affairs for a night of poetry as part of Grand Performances Summer Events.

These free performances are taking place at California Plaza, and on Friday, August 1st, it's She Speaks.

The last word with Yesica Salgado.

LA born Salvadoran poet Salgado blends heart and unapologetic honesty in her work.

On this curated evening, she brings together poets whose stories demand to be celebrated and honored.

Head to California Plaza for this grand performance.

She speaks the last word with Jessica Salgado on Friday, August 1st, beginning at six PM.

For more information, visit Grand Performances.org.

And that's a look at some things to do.

And that's all for this week.

I'm Natalia Balbao, and from all of us here at LA This Week, thank you so much for joining us.

Remember that you can watch us online anytime at LACityview.org, and we're also on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

See you next time for more LA this week.

You're arriving at Los Angeles International Airport in beautiful Southern California.

One of the first things you will see as you are landing is the ever iconic LAX Theme Building.

The LAX Theme Building is a modern icon and recognized worldwide as the Space Age landmark of one of the world's youngest and most influential cities.

Designed by architectural firm Pierre and Luckman, the building was completed in 1961 and features an observation deck and the Bob Hope USL.

The spider-like appearance of the building is a playful and futuristic design illusion created by topping four steel reinforced concrete legs with stucco.

The building received cultural historic status from the city of Los Angeles for its distinguishing characteristics, which are valuable to the study of that period's style and method of construction.

It is also an example of mid-century modern Googie artist.

The LAX theme building serves as the symbolic gateway to Los Angeles, and the futuristic design is intended to convey new prosperity and the embrace of technological innovation.

It has been and continues to be a constant reminder of Los Angeles' drive to be the city of tomorrow.

What does it take to move a mountain?

Then no one wants to climb.

When they tell you there's no answer.

When the past is in your way, in the darkness of the night, future may be hard to find.

But I believe that there's a day.

Good morning.

Everyone, and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting for Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Wednesday, the thirtieth day of July in the year twenty twenty-five.

A public comment for this morning's meeting will be taken in this council chamber in person only.

Mr.

Clark, let's begin our proceedings by calling the role.

Yes, let's.

President.

Blumentfeld, Herr Stason, Hernandez, Hutt, Jurado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Raman, Rajigas, Sor Martinez, Yaroslavsky.

10 members present in that corner, Mr.

President.

All right.

First order of business.

Approval of the minutes of July 1st, two thousand twenty five.

Councilmember McCosker moves.

Councilmember Raman seconds.

What's next?

Combinatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Soto Martinez moves.

Councilmember Hutt seconds.

We run through our agenda.

Mr.

President, there's a request to hold item 30 on the desk.

Without objection, that'll be the order.

Items 1 and 2 are items notice for public hearing.

Items 3 through 32 are items for which public hearings have been held.

A corrected budget and finance committee report for item 9 has been submitted and uploaded to the council file number 22-0392-s1.

Items 33 through 70 are items for which public hearings have not been held.

Item 71 through 81 are closed session items considered by the budget and finance committee.

10 votes are required for consideration.

Alright, without objection, those items are before us.

Specials members, I see council member ramen on the queue.

Yes.

Could we hold item five on the desk for an amendment which will be circulated in shortly?

Alright, Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Can I have uh item number 20 for a separate vote and uh brief comments?

Alright, 20.

Councilmember Jurado.

Thank you, Council President.

Good morning, everybody.

I'd like to um hold nine for questions.

For item seven, I am moving the Arts Parks report for item sixty-five and seventy.

I would like to continue these one week to August 6th, and I'd like to speak on item 27.

All right, excuse me, Councilmember Jurado.

Uh you would like to continue items 65 and 70.

Yes.

Uh, for how long, man?

Uh until August 6.

August 6th, please.

Thank you.

Thank you, City Clerk.

All right, council member Soto Martinez.

Hello, everyone.

Uh I'd like to uh hold item number 32 for comments, please.

All right.

Councilmember Raman.

I also continue item 62 for one week.

Item 62 to August 6th.

All right, uh Council Member Yoslowski.

Thank you, Council President.

Um, I request that we move item 11.

Move approval of the BNF report uh from item 11.

Is there a second to this motion?

Second.

Also for item number seven, council members jurado's motion to adopt the arts parks libraries and committee enrichment committee report.

Is there a second to this motion?

Second by Hernandez.

Thank you.

Alright, Councilmember Hernandez.

Thank you, Council President.

I'd like to call item 28 special for an amendment and to continue.

Item 54 and 56 for two weeks, please.

Five six for two weeks.

Yes, five, four and five, six.

All right.

And that would be Wednesday, August 13, 2025.

All right.

Any other specials members?

All right.

Mr.

President, there's a request to hold item 35 on the desk.

Uh okay.

Without objection, that'll be the order.

Uh Mr.

Clerk, what items are available for consideration at this time?

Mr.

President, the council may now vote on items three, four, six, eight, ten, twelve through nineteen, twenty-one, twenty through, twenty-two through twenty-seven, twenty-nine, and item thirty-one.

All right.

Uh you've heard those items.

I want to give uh a last chance for anybody to pull any of those items.

Or uh Mr.

Price, I want to make sure you've had a minute to look over things to see that we're okay.

Good to go.

All right.

And I apologize.

Uh Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Was item number which item did you call for special for comments?

Was that 27 or was that?

30 32.

32.

Okay, thank you.

All right.

Alright.

Alright, so those items are now before us.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

13 eyes.

All right.

What's next?

The council may now consider item seven, uh, for which a motion.

Jurado Hernandez has been introduced to adopt the Arts Parks Library and Committee and Enrichment Committee Report.

Alright.

Let's open on open the roll on that item as amended.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Alright, what's next?

The council may now consider item 11 for which motion.

Yaroslavski.

Has been introduced to adopt the budget and finance committee report.

Alright, let's open the roll on that item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 ayes.

Alright, what's next?

The council may now consider item 20, called special by council member Lee for a separate vote and comments.

Council Member Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh colleagues, I'm calling on number 20 for a separate vote because I really don't know what the impact is going to be to the different districts.

I wish we had some sort of idea of how this would affect the crossing guards in my district.

And it says this is supposed to start for the year uh the fall coming up in 2025.

That's two weeks from now that the school start.

And so that that concerns me that I might have crossing guards and somehow the city then takes them away because of some some new formula.

So until I see back the uh effects of this, I'm gonna have to be a no vote.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lee, Councilmember Park.

Thank you, Council President.

Uh, without knowing which schools in my district might lose their crossing guards as a result of this new methodology, I can't support the proposal.

Um our crossing guard program is beloved by our parents and needed by our students, and in a tough budget year where we know there are going to be impacts to delivery of our programs and services across the city.

I have real concerns about taking away existing programs and services at our local schools.

So when we discuss this methodology for other DOT programs like speed humps, we were talking about installation of new speed humps, not reallocating speed humps from one area to another.

Um, in this case, we're not talking about new crossing guards, we're talking about schools that may lose their longtime crossing guards.

And if we were to use this methodology for new funding for the crossing guard program as it becomes available, I could consider supporting that, but not as currently proposed.

Thank you.

All right, Councilmember Jurado.

Council President, uh, it's I'm not requesting to speak for this item.

All right.

Uh any other speakers on this item.

All right, seeing none, let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Eleven eyes, two nose.

Alright.

We got a new system up here, folks.

So you might get your name called uh when you're not asking to speak.

What's next, Mr.

Clerk?

Mr.

President, the council may now consider item 32, call special by Councilmember Soto Martinez for comments.

Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Thank you so much, Council President.

Um, so uh I want to just give a little bit of explanation uh about what we're voting on.

This is a motion that I introduced, and thank you for the T committee for passing this unanimously.

Uh, you know, in my district uh and across the city, we're seeing ghost kitchens pop up in areas that were not built to handle dozens of uh and hundreds of vehicles coming in and out, idling in neighborhoods, uh, causing nuisances to neighborhoods, backing up traffic, uh, and creating unsafe conditions for walking or for people walking or driving around the area.

And uh I support small businesses and entrepreneurial spirit, and uh we should encourage that as much as possible.

Uh and this is simply a report.

We're asking for a report to look at how we can better manage uh a system that works for everyone for restaurants, drivers, delivery companies, uh, and most importantly, our residents.

And part of the issue is that many of these ghost kitchens are uh coded as catering locations.

Uh, when we think of catering, we think of you know big party or quincineta or something like that.

That catering uh does not have uh hundreds of cars coming in and out every single day.

And so this report will look at what what technology we can use uh to maybe create a buffer zone around the ghost kitchens uh so that maybe folks can wait a few blocks away and not cause that congestion and other ideas to see how we can try to find the balance uh between uh those small businesses and also our neighborhoods.

And so um I have a few ghost kitchens uh in my neighborhood, and believe me, I get complaints about them every single day.

Uh and since we're not gonna get rid of uh meal delivery, I think this is a good way to start to ask for a report and see what we can do as a city to try to uh the balance uh everyone's interest in this.

And so I urge an I vote and I look forward to engaging in this discussion with the rest of my colleagues uh to try to find a balance uh for this new technology.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Mr.

So Martinez.

Seeing no other speakers on this item, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

139.

All right, what's next?

Mr.

President, the council may now consider item nine, call special by council member jurado for questions.

Councilmember Judah.

Thank you, Council President.

Um I don't know who can answer my questions about this about the TCN, but there's a formula that's put in place, and I would love to hear more about it in terms of where the share how the shared revenue is allocated.

So is that from the budget and finance committee or the city attorney?

I don't know the answer to that question.

How about we hold this item on the desk?

Or I see someone coming forward, so maybe this person can rescue us.

Council member, uh, we will reach out to the city attorney's office.

They're the ones who drafted the ordinance.

Okay.

Um, we can calm down right now and okay, that's great.

Thank you.

All right, so we'll hold this item on the desk uh and hear it after uh hear it later in our meeting.

Uh Mr.

Clark, what's next?

Mr.

President, items five and twenty-eight are held on the desk for amendments, and I, as well as item 30, which was held on the desk.

Um the council may now consider.

Yeah, it's because I read it last night.

Closed session item closed session items 71 through 81 considered by the budget and finance committee.

All right.

Uh councilmember Yarosovsky.

For the closed session item 71 to 81.

Um, thank you, Council President.

We in budget and finance considered items 71 through 81 in committee, and I recommend we approve these items.

All right.

We read those uh details into the record.

Yes, Mr.

President.

For item 71 in the matter regarding Trinity J L R L A L L C.

There's a recommendation to refund the business tax overpayment of 100,802.58 cents plus interest for item 72 and the case entitled Michael Ruiz versus Alba Susanna Enriquez at all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 125,000 plus accrued interest and settlement for item 73 in the matter regarding Chatsworth Mobile Home Park LLC.

There's a recommendation to refund the United to House LA tax overpayment of 1,265,000 plus accrued interest for item 74 in the matter regarding San Fernando Valley Hebrew High School.

There's a recommendation to refund the United to House LA tax overpayment of $390,000 plus accrued interest for item 75 in the matter regarding 2130 oxen master site LP, there's a recommendation to refund the United to House LA tax overpayment of 894,300 plus accrued interest.

For item 76 in the case of title Lees Dupuy versus City of Los Angeles at all, there's a recommendation to expend up to 1,750,000 in settlement for item 77 in the case entitled Cheryl Christensen versus the Los Angeles Fire Department at all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to $950,000 in settlement.

For item 78 in the case entitled RB Mangasar versus City of Los Angeles at all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to $500,000 in settlement.

For item 79 in the case entitled Amen Hussein Zaran versus Los Angeles Police Department et al.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 450,000 in settlement.

For item 80 in the case in title, Miriam Schwartz versus City of Los Angeles, deserves a recommendation to expend up to $382,500,000 in settlement.

And for item 81 in the case in title, Joseph Woolley versus Los Angeles Police Department at all.

There is a commendation to expend up to $375,000 in settlement.

Alright.

Without objection, those items are before us.

Let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 eyes.

Alright, what's next?

Mr.

President, the council may now proceed to public comment.

All right.

This is our first session back from our summer recess.

We start on a Wednesday instead of a Tuesday.

So we want to take the opportunity to recite in this moment in this nation's history to a recite and affirm our nation's pledge of allegiance.

I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise and face the flag and follow along with Councilmember McCosker of the 1-5.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

As we face the flag, place your right hand over your heart or other form of reverence.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, members.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

McCosker.

Okay, I'll ask the clerk and city attorney to read the instructions for public comment into the record, and we will proceed.

Uh and today we will plan to do uh public comment from now until five minutes uh after 11 a.m.

Thank you.

Sir, in the green, in the green hat, you're disrupting the meeting, the blue sunglasses on uh attached to your Afropuff, you're disrupting the meeting.

That is both of your first uh and last warnings.

Thank you.

And Mr.

President, I just need a minute to see which items are open for public comment because a lot of items were continued.

So just one second, please.

To people providing public comment, when it's your turn to speak, please state which of the agenda items you'd like to speak to.

You will have one minute per item, up to three minutes total for the items open for public comment.

Members of the public may also speak for up to one minute for general public comment during general public comment.

Members of the public may speak to any of the items or anything else in the city's subject matter jurisdiction.

We will tell you when your time is up.

When speaking on the agenda items, you must be on topic.

Our goal is to get through as many speakers as we can.

If you are not on topic, or if we cannot tell whether you were on topic, you will get one brief warning from me or the council president.

At that point, you need to get immediately on and clearly on topic.

If you do not do so, or if you again stray off topic, you will forfeit the rest of your speaking time, and we will move on to the next speaker.

The items on today's agenda that are open for public comment are items one and two, items 33 through 53, items 55, and items 57 through 61, items 63 and 64, and items 66 through 69.

So I'm gonna repeat that because a lot of items were continued.

Again, the items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items one and two, thirty-three through fifty-three, fifty-five, fifty-seven through sixty-one, sixty-three and sixty-four, and sixty-six through sixty-nine.

I have a couple more announcements.

If I can have the interpreters make this first one aloud to the room, please.

If you require a Spanish language interpreter, please make sure to pause every few sentences so the interpreters can interpret.

Don't worry, we will pause your time while the interpreters are interpreting, so you will get the same amount of time as everyone else.

Thank you.

One final announcement before we begin.

So the order in which we take public comment is at random.

So I would ask that you please wait until you hear your name, the name you signed up under read aloud before lining up.

So after you hear the name that you signed up under read aloud, then you can line up on your left-hand side of the council chambers.

Again, the order is randomly generated.

Thank you.

I'll begin calling names.

Daniel Strand, George Buzzetti, and Dana Scan.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

41.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Daniel Strand.

I'm a homeowner within Green Meadows for 34 years.

And I'm speaking in strong support of Council members McCosker's motion number 41.

What's happening at 23 416 South President Avenue is not just a zoning issue, it's a betrayal of zoning, it's a betrayal of community trust.

A developer has taken advantage of our loopholes, built for more than built more than what was approved and ignored basic standards for safety, access, and transparency.

Meanwhile, families who live nearby are been left in the dark.

Photos and drone footage shows that violations have been happening, but not one time as LA D BS has been on site.

ADA parking was removed, utilities were shoved into setback zones, the plans were misleading, inconsistent, and manipulated to get fast tracked approval.

This RV park was dropped into a single family neighborhood with no oversight, no accountability, no respect for the people that live there.

Speaker, your time is expired.

And as we're waiting for the next speaker to come up, uh just a quick announcement.

Obviously, there's a lot of people in the room.

If you run out of time to speak, or if we are unable to take you because we run we run out of time, uh, please remember that you can always provide additional written comment at LA Council Comment.com.

Again, that's LA Council Comment.com.

You can find that URL at the top of every council agenda.

You can also do a quick Google search, and it should be the first thing that comes up.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I'm speaking to uh 13, 30, and 45.

Sorry, you said 1330 and 45?

That's right.

Okay, so item 13 is not open for public comment, but you for you can speak to it during the ground.

You can speaker to any agenda.

Your time is not started.

This is your first and only warning.

Do not disrupt me while I'm trying to give you instructions so that you can provide public comment.

Again, this is your first and only warning.

So item 13, which you have requested, is not open for public comment.

But you can speak to it during general.

So you have two minutes for the other items you requested.

And you'll have one minute for general public comment.

You've already been warned.

Go ahead and start.

That is not the Brown Act.

I challenge you.

Parliamentary inquiry.

You're challenged, bud.

Okay, so your time is starting on the item.

You are not on top.

Please get on to on topic.

I'm gonna move you to general public comment.

It says that we can't speak to any agenda items.

Can you please reset the clock?

He's gonna have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

You're just an illegal piece of junk, aren't you?

So anyway, go ahead and try to do 30 again.

I got you a large thing here.

Here's the zoomadog case, the Michael Hunt case, and a whole list of sociopathy, which is exactly what you people are.

Let me start reading some of sociopathy, lack of empathy, manipulating behavior, impulsive, disregard for social norms and laws, you deceitfulness, you irresponsibility, you aggression, you, lack of remorse, you, superficial relations, and reckless behavior.

I got it all in.

How about that?

So, speaker, your time is expensive.

Next speaker.

You are now disrupting the meeting because we need to move on to the next speaker.

So I'm gonna ask politely, please vacate the podium so we can continue with public comment.

You have already been issued a warning on our eligible for removal if you continue to disrupt this meeting.

So, Mr.

President George has been warned already and is continuing to disrupt this meeting.

He is eligible for removal if you would like.

So uh you have three minutes for the items and one minute for general.

Please begin with the items first.

Go ahead.

Yes.

Um, thank you very much.

Uh starting with the uh item 39 is about the uh LGBT uh crosswalk on council 11.

Um I am here to support our uh council president um about the LGBT crosswalk.

Um I am here to advocate every single crosswalk in the city of Los Angeles has to be LGBT crosswalk.

I'm here to advocate that every single um uh council meeting has to recognize LGBT people, and that every single intersection uh has to be recognized because there are so many attacks against our LGBT community.

Enough is enough.

Okay, so maybe Harry Stalsen doesn't care that a transgender people getting attacked, and then maybe our city attorney does not care, but I'm telling you that I do care, okay?

I'm proud to be the LGBT, I'm proud to be a transgender.

I'm supporting every single aspect of our LGBT.

Now, let's move on to item number 38.

Item number 38.

Now let's move on to item number 40.

Um item number 40.

Shui Shan Wanzoan May Shang Fonkha Xiao Linto be to me.

Young Guang Tan Lan.

Young Guangel.

So Yo Dong.

Fong Yi So Bia Liao.

Shu Tchau Loan Chong.

Tim Young Dun Show Gay Lom and General Public Comment.

Tong Young D Coong Woman Tong.

Now let's move on to General.

So I am here.

I want to give a shout out to our uh future council member Spindler.

And I want to inform every single uh family member of the smoking scan, especially my uh best friend Dana, Dana from Smoking Scan, that let's make sure uh do not forget about our council uh candidate, uh Mr.

Spindler in Council District One, and then we are going to make sure we're gonna bring law and order back into council D Street One.

We're gonna get rid of all of the corruption, illegal money spending in Council D Street one.

We're gonna get rid of all of the crimes on the street.

So I want to make sure smoking scan, my best friend Dana, thank you very much.

And then let's remember uh council president uh uh Spindler, Council D.

I'd like to call a few more names.

Alex Scott, Fernando Ochoa, and Gus Torres, good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Um, just general public comment on the uh Larsa reform.

So you have one minute, go ahead.

Right, uh hello everyone, name is Alex Scott.

I am an attorney with the California Center for Movement Legal Services.

I am here to speak in support of the keep LA House reforms to the RSO formula.

We are asking for a 3% cap on uh yearly rent increases that are distributed uh with 60% of CPIs given to tenants.

Um this change is very wonky, but it is incredibly important.

Um rent increases have outpaced inflation and the entirety of that cost has been borne by tenants this entire time.

Um the majority of tenants in this city are rent burdened, um, and as we know, an increase in rent um by a hundred dollars, increases uh homelessness by nine percent, and we have thousands of people on the street that are facing homelessness as it is.

We've been pushing for this reform for over a year at this point.

It is past due, please.

Uh Catherine at 3%, thank you.

Before the next speaker, I'd like to call a few more names.

Garcia Wendy, George Wright, and Jody Woo.

Again, you do not have to line up in the order in which you sign or in which you hear the names called.

Uh, once you hear your name called or the name that you signed up under, uh, feel free to line up in any order on the left-hand side of council chambers.

Before the next speaker, I'd like to call a few more names.

Lionel Madis, P and Eddie Morris.

Okay, next speaker.

I see some people coming up.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I want to speak on the N and C word on number two, foo.

You ready?

Foo?

So the And number 43, nigger, and the cunt on 45, nigga.

Now you hear me.

Item number 30 is not open for public comment, but I'll tell you that it's not.

Hold on.

It is not your turn to speak.

So if you disrupt me again, I'm gonna give you a warning.

So you have three minutes for the items.

Again, just for everybody who's here.

That's items one and two, items 33 through 53, item 55, items 57 through 61, 63 and 64, and 66 through 69.

And you have one minute for general public comment.

Please begin.

Um, in consideration of this motion on building and safety reports.

I'm here to confirm that the lien is unconstitutional and violates a person's civil right of humanity when you place them in the negative manner into the sidewalks and streets where they do not belong with the rest of the motherfucking homeless people that you disregard.

You listening, you're Roski, you dumb cunt.

Are you listening, fat burger Hernandez?

This is item number 10 regarding Los Angeles administrative code and your fucking dumbass attorney up there for the property located at 1097 West Ostego Street.

I'm in opposition and I oppose this motion 42 as C 1983, Mr.

McCocker.

Fuck you.

Now into 43 regarding the juju money tree.

Bob Bloomfield, the Jew, is talking about this issue here regarding ADAX complaints.

What is a complaint on access?

It means that there should be no fucking barriers, no fucking curb ramps, and my fucking disabled life depends on the curb ramps and all issues under the American Disability Act, Barden versus Sacramento.

Fuck you, Mr.

Attorney.

You heard me.

Barden versus Sacramento.

I don't eat dog.

You eat shit, Mr.

Attorney, because Barden versus.

You are welcome to speak to this during general public home if you'd like, but it is not on the agenda.

I'm talking about the ramp improvements, you jackass.

Didn't speak to the ramp improvements, please.

That's right.

I want you, the attorney, to involve yourself under Barding Backs of Sacramento to come up with a plan to fix the motherfucking curves and sidewalks.

As oh, now into item 45, since I was rudely interrupted by that fucking Hong Kong dog eater up there, attorney.

No, regarding mental health and homelessness on item 45, Mr.

Zazarian.

Where is the fucking money for homeless services?

Do I sound like a fucking crazy asshole like the rest of you dumb fucks sitting there not paying attention?

Do I look like a dumb fuck sitting there with my bald head scratching my nuts, trying to figure out why the fuck I'm so stupid?

So now into my formality of the constitutional rights on item number 30.

For the record, the significant portion that could be understood were how far is a nigger going to, yeah.

This is what we're going to do to the niggers and I G G E R S.

A dirty nigger.

Send the Jews back to Israel, Bob.

Let's give them back to the dark garden.

Save America with 45.

47, because that's the only America of constitutional bettermen.

Bury the niggers.

We intend to do our part.

Give us our state rights.

Freedom for every fucking white nigga will fight for every itchy cat from now on.

Thank you.

So now you know, in my petitioner for you jackasses.

This is my testimony for the record on item number 30.

Fuck the city attorney.

Fuck all you against the First Amendment.

And fuck you.

So your time has expired.

Uh, if I hear you again, you'll be issued a warning.

Uh, please do not leave anything on the podium.

Uh, if you have something to circulate, please provide it to the side sergeants.

So, next speaker.

Thank you to members of the audience for your continued patience.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning, City Council.

Welcome back from recess.

Just say hello, just say hello campaign.

Thanks to Capri Maddox, getting her public comment.

And um, I'd like to thank Kabri Maddox for our wonderful event this morning.

She's a wonderful executive director.

We're not the best city departments in LA City.

So just say hello.

Hola, banjor, aloha.

Um, here because I want to speak on city charter reform commission.

I've attended all of their meetings, submitted public comment, and I think once they make their recommendations to the city council, the city council should strongly consider their recommendations by the public, um, by constituents, by advocates, and by a commission, but strengthening neighborhood councils, reforming the civil service to expedite hiring, um, independent redistricting, um, city council expansion, and to um a two-year budget.

Mayor Bass was there earlier this morning to give a brief um comment at the Baldwin Hill Library in District 10, Heather Hutz District.

Thank you.

And I look forward to working to make an LA work for everybody because democracy needs to be heard, and I will fight for our communities for democracy and from tyranny, and I want to thank you.

Before the next speaker, I'd like to call a few more names.

Estrea, Randy Orton, and Natty Casanova.

Sorry, can you repeat those names one more time?

Those were Estrella, Randy Orton, and Natty Casanova.

I see someone coming up, and I believe the speaker in the center of the aisle has been given the microphone.

So good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Oh.

Good morning.

So you have three minimum items.

Okay, you have three minutes for the items and one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

So again, we want to thank Tracy Park and Item 39 for coming up.

Thank you, Tracy.

So now you can go down to the crosswalk and Abbott Kenny.

Once you do, you are certified.

LGBTQ plus once you cross that sidewalk in District 11.

Tracy Park's dream.

That's right.

And of course, why would Tracy Park be on this motion?

Because she wants to be LGBTQ plus.

This is a way to raise more fucking money on top of the 384,000 she's already raised according to the last filing, right?

So again, if you cross that crosswalk, you gay.

If you ain't gonna play, you gay.

And of course, I want to see you, Marquis, cross that crosswalk because we got doubts about you.

So now let's get over to this budget emergency.

See, somebody called me this morning about this, and apparently the mayor is hiding no bid contracts in the agenda today.

And we just want to know which one of you council criminals put that in there because obviously she couldn't put it in there, right?

So you'd have a declared emergency, then you do no bid contracts.

After you get paid, you funnel the money back into office holder account donations, donations to re-election campaigns, donations to nonprofits, and then you get a tax break on top of it.

The U.S.

attorney's office calls this money laundering.

And again, you don't want to be wandering money with a Republican in the U.S.

attorney's office, right, you nissus?

Of course you're gonna take the fifth.

And let's not forget the biggest fucking the ass lane by that motherfucker, Nazarian the goat herder, and this poor man over at the goddamn odd seago street.

One for eighty-eight thousand dollars, and then he's got another lane for 78,000.

Why is this ball headed retard having two lanes on the same landlord?

What the fuck is going on here?

Look at him.

He's losing more hair every day.

Look at that.

I mean, my God, I gotta go like this because this is not on the agenda.

I'm gonna ask you to the agenda.

You gotta stop interrupting.

I'm not done yet, doghead.

So now we got these other items, which are you're getting people off the rip.

Again, if you want to get off parade, donate to the office holder account, right, Nithya?

That's what we're doing.

Finally, number 30.

General public comment.

This will be the last time that we will say the council president's favorite word, nigger, and his second favorite word cunt.

That's right.

Item 30, banning free speech, banning rap music.

And of course, after you do the ban, I'm gonna walk in here with a list of two pack Shakur's greatest hits and all start with the N-word.

Every one of these songs, nigga's this, nigga's that, nigger this, bitch this, cunt that, motherfucking nigger this, motherfucking nigger that.

And I'm just gonna read it.

Then you're gonna throw me out of here and have me arrested by LAPD, and then I'm gonna file my 400 million dollar lawsuit that I already have ready, prepared, and ready to file.

So again, if you wanna make me the next millionaire, pass number 30.

You're guaranteeing riches.

Thank you, Tracy Park vote.

Yes, for my million dollars.

I need the million dollars, so I can't wait.

I don't know if I misses the I'm actually.

I would appreciate your undivided attention.

My name is Estella, and I'm a Los Angeles native.

Um, this is for the mayor and the council members.

Los Angeles, oh sorry, this yeah, sorry, general topic.

Okay, so you have one minute, go ahead.

Yeah.

Uh Los Angeles today faces an unprecedented and dangerous federal operation.

Massed agents of DHS, including ICE Border Patrol, FBI, and Vortec have conducted sweeping up sweeping arrests across the city, targeting individuals based primarily on race, language, accent, location, or occupation, especially Spanish-speaking Latinx communities.

On July 11th, U.S.

District Judge Mam.

I'm sorry, I'm not gonna pronounce this correctly.

The other guarantees detainees have access to legal counsel seven days a week, including confidential phone calls.

Despite these clear judicial orders, LAPD continues to assist DHS and protesters, are being convicted for no reason.

Providing crowd control, arrest support, tactical deployment, even as city officials have condemned the federal operations.

This collaboration.

Speaker, your time is up.

Before the next speaker, I'd like to call a few more names.

Speaker, your time is up.

We have to move on to the next speaker.

Speaker, you're disrupting this meeting.

You've been warned.

Please stop disrupting this meeting.

Before the next speaker, I'd like to call a few more names.

Jana Brennan, Amy, and Bill Thompson.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Sorry?

Which items would you like to speak to?

Um I'd like to speak to 35, 37, and 40 and general public comment.

Okay, you'll have three minutes for the items and one minute for general public comment.

Please start with the items.

Okay, agenda item 35.

Also, I'm Nati.

I am a constituent of CD 14, Isabel Jurado.

Um, I'm downtown.

I was here last month before your recess speaking about police brutality and my personal experience with it.

Um it has not stopped.

It has only escalated.

It has affected all of Angelinos, not just people protesting and exercising their First Amendment rights, but especially those who are peacefully protesting.

Not that it matters if it's peaceful or nonviolent, whatever.

It's being escalated constantly by LAPD.

They are constantly trying to instigate and shoot protesters despite there not being any threat of imminent physical danger, they are not following their own statutes and regulations, and they're abusing people, and every day for just speaking out against these kidnappings of our neighbors, friends, and families, for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza, for speaking out for humanity, for empathy.

People are being brutalized every single day by LAPD.

This city is broke because of LAPD and their police brutality.

Hundreds of millions of dollars already have been settled, have been spent.

And you know how we already know there's gonna be over a hundred and other hundred million more dollars spent on these lawsuits on these liability lawsuits.

I'm somebody who's gonna be suing as well because I have been shot twice for exercising my First Amendment right.

And I was brutalized and false arrested for violating curfew, and I'm a downtown resident, which I was exempt.

And you know, I don't know if you know this, but the sergeant who instructed his men to brutalize me, was killed by a car, was hit by a car the next week.

That was wild to me.

It said it seemed like cosmic karma.

The corrupt police, the gangs within the police department, the gangs within the LASD need to be checked.

I know there's an independent investigations, but something needs to be done.

We need to move on to your next item.

These lawsuits need to come out of their budget or their pensions.

This needs to stop.

It has to stop.

This cannot go on any longer.

We are so broke.

The city's services that are serving us that we need are being cut because of this stuff.

There, they have no accountability.

As far as spending money on art development, you know, sanitation, cleaning up graffiti, it's a it's a fight that you're gonna lose.

There are passionate artists out there.

Why not commission art from the local Angelinos?

That would prevent more of the unsightly tagging that you don't like, but it's all art, it's a part of our culture, it's a part of our city.

And speaking of art, at the Occupy ICE LA protest, art has been repeatedly stolen by LAPD and by DHS officers to try and break down morale from people who are just standing there trying to show empathy, trying to stand up for our neighbors and our friends and family being kidnapped.

There's also a budget to celebrate Ukrainian independence.

Our freedoms are literally being violated every single day.

Every single day we are being told that we can't speak out, we can't express our First Amendment right, we can't do this, we can't do that.

They're pointing guns at us for just doing what we're supposed to do, what people pride America about.

We don't have freedoms here.

The police aren't protecting people.

They're working with ICE.

We've seen them have secret meetings, pulling up cars next to each other, working with ICE.

This is a sanctuary city, it's supposed to be, anyways, and they're working with ICE.

They are trying their hardest.

I know that they're trained by the IOF, and they are trained in these brutalization tactics and these intimidation tactics.

And a lot of the protesters that come out are new to this, and they don't know that they're just being instigated.

And to protect ourselves, we have to teach each other.

Try not to panic.

And that's a hard thing to do when you have a gun in your face.

We shouldn't have to be teaching these things.

They shouldn't be pointing guns in our faces.

Period.

Before the next speaker, I'd like to call another name.

Zaeta De Broy.

Okay.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

General public comment and item seven, please.

So item number seven is not open for public comment, but you can speak to it during general.

And feel free to adjust the microphone as you see fit.

Okay, we'll do.

So go ahead.

You have one minute.

Thank you.

My name is Jana Brennan.

I manage the Spay and Neuter Initiative at Michelson Center for Public Policy.

I'm here today to say that the budget and finance recommendation of the fully funded spay and neuter voucher increase, including on-site providers for the shelter animals as well as the citywide cat program, has never been more critical.

Without the increase for all providers, we will see closures for low-cost clinics due to rising veterinary costs.

With recent strains on pet families due to deportations, income loss, and lack of pet inclusive housing, it's never been more dire.

If on-site providers are excluded from the increase, it means adopted animals will also be subject to long wait times inside the shelter before they can be released to their adopted homes.

Less providers will be doing these procedures and the population will increase.

A recent national study from Shelter Animals Count showcases the effect that the lack of affordable spay neuter has on the shelter system.

Since 2009, there's been, or 2019, there's been an 11% decline in sterilized animal intake and length of stay has increased.

Thank you.

I'd like to call another name.

Matilda Schumacher.

Hello?

Hello?

Okay.

Yes, uh, okay.

Can we make sure that the remote mic is or wireless mic is live?

Oh, uh, what?

Hello?

Hello?

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Um, all of them and public comment, please.

So you have what three minutes for the items and one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

And it's great to be back in the people's house with smoke and scan.

And I hope y'all are listening.

Although I see bad behaviors, Mr.

McCosker.

Come on.

We're back to work now.

We gotta listen.

Okay, so the first one I want to talk about is Mr.

Hugo's.

Um, there's numerous, I could just talk on all three minutes for all the the ask for those uh taxpayers to pay for this and for that.

And the reason why Mr.

Hugo is so desperate for taxpayer funds for these items is because he has a boatload of um properties that are tax exempt and are not paying taxes.

They all belong to the Church of Scientology under their um, I guess, you know, shell thing, building management services.

So he's dealing with a lot of properties that do not pay taxes, but demand an exuberant amount of services.

They are constantly calling the police, and you know, and and you know, and whoever is around, they're just you know, they're they have absorb cert, they absorb services without paying taxes, like the rest of everyone else is paying taxes.

So he's here and he needs us to pay for all these things.

So I hope that changes.

Take away their tax exemption.

They're really a business, you know.

Um, the other one about the mental health.

We desperately need mental health in this city.

Um, and again, I'm gonna bring up Scientology.

They don't believe in mental health.

They don't believe in psychiatry.

They don't believe in therapy.

They don't believe in any of that, but yet you keep partnering with them in all these events.

Um, you know, you you go to their events and and they don't believe in psychiatry, which is what we need, so please fund mental health.

And when it comes to immigration, where's um, you know, when it comes to ice, you know, here's another thing about what Scientology does.

They abuse the R1 permit.

They trick people to come to America saying we're gonna have and they teach them how to lie to get their R1 permit.

But instead of coming for a better life, like they were promised by Scientology, they are held captive pretty much in their buildings, and they're forced labor under C org, working 110 hours a week for 47 a week or less.

That doesn't sound like uh you know a new beginning and a new life, but do you guys look into this abuse?

No, you don't.

Um I'm just gonna go to uh public comment.

Okay, uh public comment, or we're just talking, I would just wait it out.

You know what?

No, we're not gonna.

Hello, okay, there we go.

General public comment.

Okay, yeah.

Well, we're gonna stick on the topic of um Scientology.

Okay, that you guys gave them.

Not only did you change their street name to the name of a criminal, um, El Ron Hubbard, but you gave them an R permit to privatize that street.

And mind you, it is against the law for anyone to work on a public street for slave labor wages.

Now, the tra Scientology wants you to believe that you know it's it's well, we have religious exemption.

The law says there is no religious exemption, and you guys are allowing them to work on the street, build their sets, do all these things, and you keep giving them uh permits to do so, and they are getting slave labor that is illegal in LA.

So you guys are not getting it together with anything.

You guys are feeling in every way possible, it seems.

You know, where can we turn to you that you're doing the right thing?

You don't even listen.

So now I'm like this is all falling on deaf ears, except the no smoke and scans listening.

So shout out to smoke and scan.

You know, I'm glad to be back with them.

All right, and as much as that was our last speaker, that concludes public comment for today's meeting, Mr.

Clerk.

What items are available.

Mr.

President, please just stop disrupting the meeting.

Let us be all speaking, let us speak.

So we need to continue with city business.

If you do not stop disrupting this meeting, then all of you will be subject to warning and removal.

So please stop disrupting this meeting.

Let us speak, let us speak, let us speak, let us speak, let us speak, let us speak, let us speak, let us speak, let us believe.

This is your final warning to everybody who's yelling out.

I currently see basically the entire right side of the room.

Please do not continue disrupting this meeting.

We'll be subject to removal.

We're so it's rule seven and rule 12.

All right, Mr.

Clerk, what items are available for us to vote on?

Mr.

President, the council may now vote on items one, two, nine, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-six through fifty-three, fifty-five, fifty-seven through sixty-one, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-six through sixty-nine.

Okay, so I'm gonna start calling individually.

Uh, I see the woman who's standing up in the white t-shirt, you've already been warned and are eligible.

The woman in the white t-shirt standing up, you've been warned.

The woman next to you, you this is your last warning on a ordering you removed from the meeting, subject to rule seven.

You went full number the woman next to her as well.

I think it's a flag t-shirt and the glasses in her hair.

This is your final warning.

Do not disrupt this meeting.

You already cut vote admissions.

It's able to do this.

All right, Mr.

Clark, can we repeat the items that we're voting on at this time?

Yes, president.

The council may now vote on items one, two, nine, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-six through fifty-three, fifty-five, fifty-seven through sixty-one, sixty-three, sixty-four, and sixty-six through sixty-nine.

I'm sorry.

All right.

Let's open the roll on these items.

Close the roll.

Tabulate to vote.

139.

All right.

There's a request to send items 30 and 41 forthwith.

And also I have item 41 request to go forth with.

Yes, sir.

Alright, without objection, that'll be the order.

What's next?

The council may now consider item five, call special by council member Raman, for which amending motion 5A, Roman Price has been introduced, circulated, and posted on the bulletin board.

Alright, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

This item is adopted as amended.

Just for the record for everyone's here.

I can barely hear the city clerk, and he is sitting right next to me.

Mr.

President, I believe the man in the Luigi hat, the woman and the blue vest, the woman who was standing up in the white shirt, and the woman sitting next to her with the glasses in her hair and the flag t-shirt have all already been warned and are continuing to disrupt this meeting.

They are eligible for removal if you would like.

All right, Mr.

Clerk, we're on item number 28.

Yes, sir.

Uh for council may not consider item 28.

Call special by Councilmember Hernandez for which amending motion 28A.

Hernandez is there and has been introduced, circulated and posted on the bulletin board.

Alright, let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Ma'am, in the white t-shirt, you've been ordered removed from this meeting.

It's been five minutes since you've defied that order.

We'll ask you to exit expeditiously.

All right, Mr.

Clerk.

I understand clearly that you believe the rules don't apply to you, but they do.

You're removed from this meeting.

Yeah.

Out.

Yes.

All right, Mr.

Clerk, what's next?

Mr.

President, for the record, item 28 was adopted as amended by amending motion 28A with the vote of 140.

Alright, let's open the roll on that item.

Uh sir.

That roll call has already been taken.

The vote has been taken, sir.

The council may now move on to item 35.

Pursuant to council rule number 53.

Item 35 will be held on the desk and will be added to the next council meeting agenda, which is Friday, August 1st, 2025.

Without objection, that'll be the order.

What's next?

Council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and they are referred.

The desk, sir, sir.

Announcements, members.

Any announcements?

All right, seeing no announcements, I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise.

Oh, Mr.

Lee.

Mr.

Lee has an announcement.

I'll go after you.

So thank you, Mr.

President.

Colleagues, it's with great sadness that we are losing a team member, a part of CD 12, someone who is going off to do great things, even though she's been here just a short time.

She's made a huge impact on our Mr.

Lee, hold on.

This gentleman in the fluorescent green hat.

You've removed from this meeting.

Please leave immediately.

All right, Mr.

Lee.

So I just want to invite Ms.

Hannah Wangner to come up and join us.

Hannah joined us, and uh, you know, for a short time, and but she's made such a huge mark on not only in this office but on our entire district.

But she recently gave me the good news that she got accepted to the law program at American University in Washington, DC.

I know she's gonna do incredible things because I've seen it firsthand, and we just wanted to say, Hannah, we are going to miss you, but thank you for everything you've done for our office.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Okay, okay.

Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I wanted to give a quick update on the opening of the EOC this weekend.

As many of you know, with the earthquake, the gigantic earthquake that occurred off the Pacific coast of Russia, it caused a number of the tsunami monitors on our Pacific coast to go.

Sorry, Mr.

McCosker.

The gentleman in the sea foam uh polo shirt in the back, your order removed from this meeting.

Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you so much.

With the earthquake, the very large earthquake that occurred off the coast of Russia, and our hearts go out to any folks who are injured or harmed by that earthquake.

But because it happened in the ocean, it caused the potential for a tsunami.

And I want to just report really quickly that we have a series of tsunami monitors down the Pacific coast of the Americas.

The alarms went off, and I want to commend our emergency operations center and all of the folks that do emergency operations for us.

We had an exercise that could have been very real, and it was real for folks in Hawaii and for folks farther up the coast for us of a tsunami warning to hit uh the California coast and LA County.

And I think it's important to acknowledge when the monitors work, the announcement went out, the mayor's office activated, the EOC opened at a certain level.

Calls came in to our respective offices who have constituents on the coast.

It was at first in a tsunami watch, which is the lowest form, and then it was an advisory, which is the next level.

We were able to get information out to our constituents.

Folks in LA County who are live aboard on boats were able to make a decision whether they want to exit their boats and not stay over the night.

Workers, very importantly, workers who worked at the waterline were given notification.

And last night, a little after midnight, the additional waves came in, and they were only about half a foot larger, which doesn't sound like much, but in an industrial port that's quite a bit, and it was good to have the notice.

So I'm really just here to say that this morning, the tsunami watch or advisory was called off, was ended, I should say, and folks were advised that everything was safe, but it was good to be warned.

I just like to make an announcement that when the system works and folks are kept safe, we should acknowledge that.

That's right.

And it's also important for folks to know that the higher currents and rip tides because of the additional waves will exist for the next several hours.

So over the course of today, folks are advised not to go into the water and to be careful along the waterline.

And I just wanted to acknowledge and thank the first responders, like the mayor's office, like the EOC, uh, like my office, uh, but most importantly, like the port police, LAPD, LAFD, uh they all did a great job of getting information out and keeping us safe.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Mr.

McCosker.

That is a situation where things work the way they should, and a special shout out to to your office in Council District 11.

You all were up on social media right away, letting people know what was going uh to happen.

Uh, Mr.

Clerk, we have additional motions uh that need to be posted and referred.

Yes, sir.

The council motions are posted and referred.

All right, without objection, I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise.

For adjourning motions.

So members of the public sergeants, sergeants.

So specifically the woman in the front row has been worn multiple times and is eligible for removal with the glasses in her hair.

I would just like to ask the public we are now moving on to adjourning motions in memorial of people who have passed away.

So out of respect for those individuals and their families I would ask that you please do not disrupt this meeting or exit the room.

All right we're prepared to begin our adjourning motions I've asked everyone in the chamber to rise in respect for people who have passed away.

Whose lives we are going to recognize at this moment Mr.

President it's the two people in the first and second row I believe that are disrupting this meeting.

So we'll order those two individuals removed at this time they have been order them removed.

Okay.

So the woman who's wearing the up the shirt with the upside down American flag and glasses you have been ordered removed and the uh woman in behind her in the turquoise or teal shirt and green scarf and gray hat you are continuing to disrupt this meeting you have been worn and the council president has ordered you removed.

Yes both of them the woman in the hat and the woman with the glasses on her head.

I think just members have adjourning motions Mr Price Mr Lee any other Mr McCosker any other adjourning motions today all right we'll begin with Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you very much Mr President and thank you colleagues.

I ask as we rise I ask that as we rise and remember the loss of a loved one in our community I'm I'm sorry this woman in the green shirt I know you think whatever you have to say is more important than the loss of this person's life it is not we've ordered your remove we ask you to leave peacefully out of respect and decorum and an absence of narcissism I asked that we rise hold on Mr.

McCosker this uh person's been ordered removed from the meeting and she is not leaving we'll ask her to lease peacefully we have to change the slide.

Arlene.

Arlene.

No.

Tell Marlene, yeah.

All right, Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you.

We're gonna correct the slide.

Thank you, members, colleagues.

There are.

As we know, there are community members who have worked so hard in our community and deserve our respect because they lean in for positive change.

With us, colleagues, I ask that we adjourn today for one such person.

Arlene Porras, Anaya.

Arlene was a beloved Wilmington resident.

She passed away peacefully on July 10th at the age of 87.

She was born on February 6, 1938, in El Monte, but she spent most of her life in Wilmington.

It was her lifelong home.

She graduated from Phineas Banning High, took courses at Harbor College, and worked throughout her life in a variety of meaningful roles.

Arlene always put community and care at the center of her service.

She was a crossing guard to our children.

She worked with special needs.

LA USD students.

She contributed to the Daily Braze and the news pilot back in the day.

She also spent two decades working at the historic Wilmington Cemetery.

From which she retired after 20 years of dedicated service to the community.

Arlene was known for a gentle spirit, a generous heart.

She loved to sew and garden to make blankets for her friends and family.

She was someone who often opened up her home without hesitation to anyone who needed shelter or needed a place to feel safe.

She survived by five of her children, Eddie, Elaine, John, Amador, and Veronica.

She's also survived by 13 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, one great grand, one great great grandchild.

Her legacy lives on through all of them and through those who were lucky enough to know her kindness.

Wilmington is stronger because of people like Arlene.

We thank her for the life that she lived.

We extend sympathy to her family.

May Arlene rest in peace.

God bless her.

This is bullshit.

Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you.

I apologize, Mr.

McCartney.

Before you begin, I just want to issue the final round of warnings.

Mr.

Herman, to the extent that you have not been warned already, this is your first and only warning.

Do not disrupt the adjourning motions.

The same goes for you, Mr.

Spindler.

I saw you yelling out when we were trying to begin adjourning motions.

Ms.

Casanova, this is your first and only warning.

Again, I cannot hear the adjourning motions, which likely means that the public cannot hear the adjourning motions either.

And George, you have already been warned.

So do not disrupt this meeting anymore.

Again, please, out of respect for the individuals who we were trying to honor and their families.

We are not taking any other city actions today.

We understand that people are upset because they'd like to provide additional public comment, but we are on to adjourning motions again.

Again, please, out of respect for these individuals, do not disrupt the rest of this meeting.

Thank you.

Mr.

McCosker.

I'm complete.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Mr.

Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh colleagues, today I rise in journey to adjourn in memory of Philip Leonard, or better known as Phil, a remarkable artist and mentor and community builder who left an indelible mark on the San Fernando Valley and beyond.

Phil had this amazing gift for seeing potential in people, in places, and especially blank walls.

He didn't never wait to make a difference.

He started early and never stopped giving.

When he was in college, he founded a nonprofit called Toolshed, dedicated to empowering youth through art and mentorship.

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, Phil led one of the largest mural projects ever seen at the time, transforming the plywood walls surrounding C Suns rebuilding efforts into vibrant stories of resilience.

In the later part of his life and in it as his health began to decline, Phil continued to push forward.

He started writing on the walls, a project that brought dozens of murals to the San Fernando Valley with the help of fellow artists.

Maybe you've seen Encino, an homage, which after its completion quickly became one of the valley's largest and most meaningful murals, celebrating the history and diversity of Encino, or maybe you've seen the old Granada Village Centennial Wall that was completed just a few months ago in my district to celebrate the hundred years of Granada Hills.

But if you live in the 818, you've probably seen his work, whether you knew it or not.

He lived boldly and fully, but perhaps his greatest act was choosing to focus on love, building life with Alisa, the love of his life, who stood by his side right up to the end.

Philip was a force of creativity, compassion, and conviction.

He leaves behind a legacy, not just of murals and music, but of the lives changed through his example.

May his memory be a blessing.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lee.

Councilmember Price.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Today, colleagues, it's my honor to adjourn counsel in tribute of an extraordinary woman, Miss Ozzy B.

Gonzac, who recently left us at the age of 100.

Ozzy, Aunt Billy, was the epitome of what it means to be a public servant, and her life has been a testament to resilience, integrity, and a commitment to justice.

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and a lifelong resident of Watts for over 80 years, Ozzy's journey was one marked by courage and perseverance.

She stood tall against adversity, including many of the injustices faced by minority communities, but she refused to be silenced.

And she often went back to her mother's words, we cannot solve problems by complaining or blaming others.

Instead, we must set those aside and ask ourselves, what can I do?

She broke barriers as a volunteer at the police station going to conduct sensitivity trainings for officers, and became one of the few minority women serving as a rater and hearing officer with the LAPD's Board of Rights.

Her efforts helped ease racial tensions after the watch riots and led to the improvement of police community relations.

Her advocacy inspired her to coin the term to protect and serve, seen on police vehicles today.

To her, these words are not just merely words for the side of a vehicle, but fundamental, a fundamental moral imperative for law enforcement and a standard that embodies their true purpose.

Inspired by her own experiences with the discriminatory real estate practice of red lighting, she believed everyone deserved to be treated with dignity, particularly in housing.

This dedication to housing justice led her to dedicate herself fully to the cause, serving as a commissioner of housing authority for the city of LA, HACLA, for over 18 years.

Throughout this time, including 11 years as chair, she worked hard to ensure low-income families, seniors, and vulnerable residents had access to safe, affordable housing.

Her legacy endures through Gonzag Village, a public housing site named in her honor, which stands as a lasting symbol of her life's mission to create a community where everyone has a place to call home.

Ozzy Civic Engagement was relentless with a singular goal of uplifting and empowering our communities through action.

Her influence is woven into the fabric of LA, and today I ask that we not only remember her contributions, but also have the courage to carry forward her spirit of service and justice.

Therefore, I move that we adjourn this meeting, Mr.

President, in the honor of Ozzy B.

Gonzac, a fearless esteemed community champion whose enduring legacy of service will continue to inspire us all.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Price.

Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Price, for adjourning this meeting in honor of Mrs.

Gonzac.

She means so much to the city of Los Angeles and so much to the one five.

She spent, I mean, I think it's important for folks to think about this.

She moved to Watts as a young woman, and she lived over 80 years, not just in Watts, but in the same house.

And it is a center of Watts, where so many people before me, before you even sat in her living room and talked about important issues that affected the Watts community.

Such an inspiration.

She tells a great story about the hearings that happened after the Macone Commission, after the Watts uprising, where she literally put in the suggestion box that LAPD's motto on the side of every car should be to protect and serve.

Ozzy Gonzac told LAPD that your motto should be to protect and to serve.

And she truly believed that we may be of different races, we may come from different places, but we all need to be working towards the same thing.

She had such an impact over the course of her life on success of captains for the area and over chiefs, and she certainly had a big impact on me.

She would regularly call in the last few years and just give me a little suggestion about something that's important in the community or something that's important in the city.

And she's such a kind and lovely person.

I I will miss her so greatly.

She could cook a great gumbo, and we go to her backyard and she would host folks.

She would bring over the priests actually from St.

Lawrence, Brendisi.

That's actually her backyard, right there, and a gumbo party, where she brought a bunch of folks over, and she just had such a quiet confidence about her.

And you know, I wish her peace and rest and may eternal light shine upon her.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, members, and thank you, Mr.

Price.

Thank you, Mr.

McCosker.

This is a person who's seen this city through a lot.

Uh I remember my one encounter with her.

Someone was asking, well, what do you think about this guy being the council member for the 8th District?

And she looked and she said, I've seen them come and I've seen them go.

The city will survive.

So with that, uh, I'll join all of you in uh and this this whole council in um wishing Miss Gonzac rest and power and paradise as she deserves.

Thank you all so much.

We're adjourned.