Round around the kind of the radius around those those areas is a is is is critical.

Meaning that those areas ensuring that they're more walkable, more bikeable, that folks feel more comfortable getting there on their two feet or on their bikes.

That's what we wanna want to look at um especially closely.

Well, Randall, thank you so much for joining us today.

So glad to have you on.

Do you have a couple websites you'd like to share with folks at home?

I do, I do, and thank you again.

Uh so first the mayor's website, where you can learn more all about the mayor's activities, press releases, what what we're up to across the city.

That's mayor.lacity.gov.

Um, and then second, the recovery.

Uh uh folks can look at the movement of debris, how quickly folks are rebuilding, um, and just are tracking our progress as well as resources, resources for those impacted by uh the fires um uh both today and looking into the future, and that is uh recovery.lacity.gov.

Very good.

We uh have those up for folks to see and access again.

Thanks, Randall, for coming in.

Really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

And that does it for LA Currents I Man Police.

Thank you for joining us.

We'll see you next time.

Hello everyone, I'm Susan Huckle, and here's what's happening in LA this week.

It's clear the Americans with Disabilities Act led to dramatic improvements in accessibility standards.

The Department on Disability marked 35 years of the ADA, and the city pledged even greater accessibility when it hosts the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

We are here celebrating the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and we're not only celebrating the ADA and how important it is to the city, but how that's going to change how the Olympic and Paralympic games come together.

In the 6th district, we are so excited that we are going to be hosting a multitude of games at the Sepulveda Basin.

So while that isn't a location for the Paralympics, we are looking forward to making sure that every single location, including at the basin, it's accessible for everyone who wants to attend.

And that's part of the conversation today as we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the ADA.

Mayor Best signed a host city accessibility commitment, and this is extremely important.

The mayor has just said to all city departments to all our partners that accessibility is a prime requirement of the games, and that we all need to get behind it.

We all need to work together with our partners, our community partners, the IPC, LA 28, and that's what we're all about.

So I think today is really a sea change for how the city addresses accessibility.

The ADA Act is such an important piece, not only in the city of Los Angeles, but really for our department, the Department of Recreational Parks.

We've been trying very hard to make sure all of our programs are inclusive, uh and so that every Angelino whether they have uh disabilities or not can participate in our programs.

We have an amazing adaptive program that just addresses those types of needs.

And so we're very excited to be here in a supportive role uh to the Department of Disability.

Our city recognizes that we have persons with disabilities who need to be represented, their needs being met, and that's what our commission does.

So it's come a long way, but still there's a lot of work to do.

It's a challenge, but we're gonna do it, right, George?

Yeah.

Learning the community and the rule.

Welcome to come.

Well, you say wood or not.

Los Angeles has a group.

I very much hope that the next three years we'll be focusing on preparation for those games in a way that will lead a lasting legacy for generations in the development of our infrastructure, improvements to our public right-of-way, and also changing hearts and minds about the disabled community as well.

See our website, learn about our work, learn about our commission, learn about our major projects, and join us as a community partner to make LA the most accessible big city in America.

Calfire recently updated the Los Angeles Fire Hazard Maps, and that means new ordinances for homeowners to follow.

The Los Angeles Fire Department explained what's new with brush clearance requirements and enforcements.

We facilitate those inspections to make sure that every fire season, the community and the constituents are safe from wildfire.

The start of every season in brush clearance begins with an informational mailer.

A lot of people get this confused with a notice.

It's not a notice, it's not a violation.

It's information.

None of that information is being enforced.

And when I say enforced, we are not citing a violation.

We're not giving you a fiscal penalty for non-compliance.

It's to get everyone involved.

Start changing your thinking on the way brush clearance has been done for the last 60 years.

The previous model for brush clearance has always been an assessment of your property within 200 feet of a structure.

Everything from maintaining your grass and weeds down to three inches, maintaining 10 feet of roadside clearance, making an assessment of trees, making sure they're lifted six feet off the ground, making sure you have five feet of vertical clearance over a roof.

Why five feet?

That's for us.

Something happens, we need to get on that roof and have it be unobstructed.

If you are unsure what all of those learnth requirements are, you can go on to VMS3.org.

Click on the tab that says clearance requirements.

You will see 14 items that are bulleted.

Those are all of the clearance requirements that are in effect.

That is what you are responsible for in 2025.

The Calfire maps have been around since 2014.

That was the last time they are updated.

That map has now been updated by the state.

This new model uses science-based technology to drive a new map.

This new map encompasses data that accounts for fire embers, it accounts for fire behavior, previous fire history, topography, all things that we here internally in the LA City Fire Department know about, but have not been part of generating the map until now.

And it is now identified as a fire hazard severity zone.

And that zone is broken up into three different zones.

Everything from a moderate to high and very high.

The very high zone for the city of Los Angeles has expanded about 20,000 properties.

But when you account for the high and the moderate, we're looking at adding an additional 16 million acres of property in the city of Los Angeles.

A lot of this is going to take place on the east side of the city.

We're also seeing a lot of it in the valley as you push north down to Ventura Boulevard.

You'll also see it in Hollywood as you push south down to sunset.

So if you're looking at the state's data right now and you find yourself in an area that hasn't been inspected before, don't worry, you are okay in 2025.

We are not coming out to inspect those properties until 2026.

The having the conversations about looking at your property in a different way.

None of those changes are taking effect until 2026.

Everything that you have been doing for your properties in 2024 and previously is the same requirements in 2025.

The Los Angeles Police Department highlighted its custody services division.

For anyone who has been arrested, this division is the first line of contact.

Being a detention officer entails a bunch of different things.

We'll start off with processing, processing, going in, bringing in an arrestee, fingerprinting them, taking their pictures.

We're the first line of contact when it comes down to somebody coming in the jail because they're gonna come in and they're gonna be asking a lot of questions.

Hey, how long are we gonna be in here?

And it's all about basically going and telling them the process through.

Everybody's different when they come in, and it's all about talking to somebody, being able to like understand them.

I like working with people.

So I love the people.

I mean, we get such a wide variety of people here, and we get them at some people at their worst moment in their lives, right?

So it's an opportunity to really uplift some people.

That compassion and professional care that we give them really hopefully will turn their lives around.

A lot of times, people that get arrested, they only get arrested once.

They come here and they don't want to come back.

A lot of people that are here are here just for mistakes they may have made, and they won't make it again.

Biggest misconception about LAPD is that we don't care about the community.

We really care about the community.

We care about all citizens.

Uh, we care about our visitors, we care about immigrants, we care about everyone here, you know.

And when I got here, I saw why people can get that conception.

Because once you're under arrest or you're dealing with an investigation with LAPD, they are very thorough, right?

So you could feel maybe uncomfortable sometimes with that.

But Indiana, just regular human beings just trying to take care of the citizens of Los Angeles as best we can.

I don't necessarily want this job to be a necessity, but it is.

And I come into work every day hoping that there's less and less people that come in that I have to see.

Not because I don't want to work, but because I that's the compassion I have for people.

A lot of times when I'm releasing someone, I tell them, hey, no offense, but I don't want to ever see you again.

Especially here.

If anyone's looking for additional information to apply for a custody service division, they can go on to our Instagram, and you can there's a link there that you can follow, as well as LEPD online.

Follow or governmentjobs.com and they'll give you more information.

In the wake of ICE raids across the city, many street vendors are too afraid to sell their wares.

At a recent event, Homeboy Industries offered a safe space and hope when they hosted the puestos in support of street vendors.

Today we're here in Council District 1 with Homeboy Industries.

Homeboy Industries and their members have organized what's called Hope Alley.

So they're bringing out here vendors, street vendors who have been impacted by the federal migration raids to do a food sellout.

You have vendors here selling flowers, selling uh esquitas, selling ice cream.

And the point is to give vendors and their families a safe place to vent because the situation right now in our streets is very difficult and very terrifying for a lot of our street vendors.

We're seeing people being kidnapped off our street by mass federal agents who are not identified.

So this is such a beautiful moment to see homeboy industries, so the members here stepping up to stand up for their communities.

We wanted to offer for members of the community who are too frightened by the ice raids and fear of detentions and deportations, are staying inside their homes.

And so we said, well, we'll have your puestos and we'll sell on your behalf.

You know, if fear is what keeps them in their homes, and then hope is kind of the alternative to that.

At Homeboy, we always talk about hope has an address, and so we're we're trying to offer to the city of LA.

We also want to announce how morally reprehensible it is that folks are being separated and children from their parents and families ripped apart.

So that's why we're doing this.

And to just see what's happening and how they're being impacted, it's so beautiful to see the community come out and support.

And so we're out here with Brown Issue selling some t-shirts.

It is our hope that people come out and buy these t-shirts so we can fundraise $5,000 that will go straight to Homeboys Industries Hope Alley event.

So far, I see the community coming together, which is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

And I mean, everything, you know, selling out, and it's amazing.

And with everything going on right now, I know some people are in fear.

But for all of us to be able to come out today and show up and show out for LA, we're standing for what's right, and we're standing to support the people's.

Because everybody's looking for ways to resist the cruelty of this moment.

And then this feels like homies and homegirls from again different neighborhoods who are connected to a higher love, a higher purpose, and something beyond themselves.

And so that's it's win-win-win all over the place.

New Street Smart program for sidewalk repairs.

Lawa awards airlines in the LAX Fly Quiet program and the Veterans Employer of the Year.

The story is up next on City Beat.

Council Member John Lee has officially launched a new pilot program to address sidewalk repairs in the Northwest San Fernando Valley.

The pilot program known as Street Smart will begin in Granada Hills with an initial investment of 200,000.

The pilot will take on sidewalk repairs through the council members' office using small crews to deliver faster and more affordable results.

According to Lee, the program is proactive, fixing damage before it worsens or becomes more expensive to repair.

Lee added that the Street Smart Pilot would reduce trip hazards, lower long-term costs, and make neighborhoods safer for everyone.

For more information, visit CD12.lacity.gov.

Los Angeles World Airport's Lawa has announced the winners for the 2024 LAX Fly Quieter Program.

The program is designed to encourage airlines to pursue noise abatement and take voluntary noise reduction measures where feasible.

Noise levels are monitored in residential communities, and carriers must limit their early turns, certain nighttime departures, and maintenance engine run-up at night.

According to Lawa, choosing to fly quieter supports a shared commitment to safe, efficient, and sustainable operations at Los Angeles International Airport, LAX.

In the major airline category, United, American, and Southwest were awarded gold, silver, and bronze, respectively.

For more information, visit Lawa.org/slash news-releases.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, LADWP, has been recognized as the 2025 Veterans Employer of the Year.

The award from the California Employer Advisory Council commended the LADWP for hiring, training, promoting, and retaining U.S.

military veterans.

According to the LADWP, military training fosters discipline, leadership, and a work ethic that can transfer to utility roles.

In addition, flexible work arrangements are made for those in the military reserves.

In 2024, the LADWP established the Veterans Alliance for Leadership, Outreach, and Recognition for Valor.

To focus on veteran employees, the group now has 200 members.

For more information, visit LADWP News.com.

At a time when reading is in decline, the big read wants to bring everyone together over a good book.

It's like one big book club or reading group, which connects everyone to the larger cultural themes of life in Los Angeles.

The NEA Big Read Program is the National Endowment for the Arts Program.

The National Endowment for the Arts is a federal agency that supports and advocates and advances culture, art in the United States.

The goal of the big read is to inspire reading and to bring communities together through a shared good book.

The NEA commissioned a study of literacy and reading in the United States, and it was noted that reading was on the decline.

As we know currently, reading is a lifelong skill that's going to benefit each of us.

How the program works.

And really, what is our programming potential?

So what we do is that we offer a book for free to every single reader in Los Angeles that wants to read the book.

The program is really divided into two phases.

The first program is reading.

We have like the largest, most exciting, fun, dynamic book club in Los Angeles.

We host reading groups at different community spaces.

We have focused on novels, poetry, essays.

After the book is read, then our partners host public programs throughout Los Angeles.

So for example, if you're reading a book and you want to go to a museum, that museum likely has an activity that is tied thematically to the book.

There are music festivals, book festivals, film screenings, art workshops, exhibitions, concerts.

What the program really wants to do in Los Angeles is that we want to offer readers the opportunity to read a good book, to connect with each other, and then to go visit places that are cultural places, historic places where they can connect and have an even more rich and intense experience of the story, the author, or the book's themes.

The way that Angelinos can participate is they call Cultural Affairs or they check out our website and they have information about where the big read is.

They can ask for a book.

The books are free.

They can go to any of our program partners which are throughout Los Angeles, including the library, the public schools.

We have a program that not only offers reading for pleasure, but we seek to bring people in civically to make them aware of city programs, how we connect with one another, to be more mindful about the world around them.

It's time to say on young to one of LA's favorite celebrations, the Lotus Festival.

This year's special focus was on South Korea, highlighting activities, performances, and cultural showcases for all to enjoy.

So we are here at Echo Park Lake in the heart of CD 13, celebrating another edition of the Lotus Festival.

And this year we are celebrating South Korea, part of the culture.

We love the food, we love the cake pop dramas.

So we're here to celebrate everything they bring to the city.

This is a big event for the city, the Department of Recreation and Parks.

So it's something we do every year.

It's supported by our console office, CD 13, CD1 and CD 10 this year.

So we're very happy to bring this event free for the whole community and whole public.

The event includes two stages with a variety of entertainment from the Asian and Pacific Irelander communities, as well as various food vendors.

We have a children's area, as well as various vendor booths.

So this is an annual event.

Just really just bring out the community to celebrate the diverse cultures within the city of Los Angeles.

So the Dragon Boat races are a big event.

They're always very competitive through our council offices.

So it's a good way to come out here and show the community that we can still have one.

Really emphasizes harmony.

That's why all our instruments are around.

That's because it really wants to connect everyone together.

I just really want to appreciate the Lotus Festival for recognizing our country.

If you look around, it's not just the Korean community that's here, but we see Latinos, we see all kinds of folks.

To really celebrate one culture and show the diversity of Los Angeles.

It's really important to uplift our diversity because that's what makes the city of Los Angeles what it is.

Walking in our light is just one of many imaginative expressions emanating from the Tasco Theater.

Angelinos taking part express gratitude for those who nurture the light within, and nourishing that creativity can be said to be the Tascos Reson d'Etraus.

Folks do annual Dia de los Muertos festivals.

There is art walks, there's musical events, there's jazz, and I feel like we have the privilege to be added in that offering.

And so when the city came in to renovate the space, it was offered another chance to breathe new life into the arts here.

The Tosco Theater is here for everyone.

It is here for young artists who are just starting out, to the professional artists who are here to dream up their new vision.

And we're here for the community at large at all of our community events.

One of our signature events is called Walking in Our Light.

This idea of how we help people to encourage them to think about the light that they bring and to show appreciation for those who help to nurture that light.

So from that idea, we thought, well, let's let's walk in our light.

Let us have uh stories along the way where people can stop and hear performances and storytelling of other people saying, This is my light, this is how I shine it, and these are the people I want to show appreciation to.

So we we do this walk around the block, and then we end up with a little gathering, performances inside, and lots of time to just reflect on, yeah, this is my light, you know, and and these are the people who've helped me get there.

Our communities don't always see what the city of Los Angeles provides them.

Providing access to the arts.

Says to me that's a city that's proud of the stories it wants to tell, the people who want to tell them, and the ways that they want to tell them.

A space like this gives opportunity for folks of all ages, cultures, experience to say, I can be seen, I can be heard.

And I'm walking in these doors, and it feels welcoming, it feels nurturing, and people are excited to listen to me and to hear me.

We don't have that all the time.

So it's a it's a live space that's here to welcome and nurture those sparks of inspiration and vision.

There's a few ways to find us.

We are always on social media.

So we are on Instagram, we have a Facebook page, you can go to the Department of Cultural Affairs, their website, you find the Tosco Theater.

It may take a few clicks here and there, but we try to stay present in any way that we can.

In this week's Things to Do, head to Little Tokyo for the Nisei Week Grand Parade.

Learn more about LA's Aqueduct and catch up on the movie adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.

All this up next on Things To Do.

Join the Nisei Week Japanese Festival for a showcase of cultural events happening in and around Little Tokyo.

On Sunday, August 10th, it's the Nisei Week Grand Parade.

LA City's Department of Cultural Affairs is the float sponsor, and spectators will see the festival Queen and her court and enjoy a host of music, dance, and parade performances with community involvement.

Line up along Central Avenue for the parade starting at 4 p.m.

or take your place along 2nd Street, San Pedro, or First Street.

Celebrate Japanese culture in Little Tokyo at Nisei Week Grand Parade on Sunday, August 10th at 4 p.m.

For more information, visit NiseiWeek.org.

Granada Hills is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with a series of events.

On Saturday, August 9th, join the Los Angeles Public Library at the Granada Hills Branch to learn all about the LA Aqueduct and how water has shaped the growth of LA.

Guest speaker Jack Feldman will tell the story of the aqueduct and the challenges to bringing water to the city.

Feldman retired after 36 years with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and is an avid local historian.

Join LA Public Library at the Granada Hills Branch to learn about the Aqueduct on Saturday, August 9th at 10 a.m.

For more, visit LAPL.org slash events.

Join Councilmember Adreen Nazarian for a free community movie screening at Tiara Street Park.

On Sunday, August 10th, the free movie is Sonic 3.

This 2024 action adventure comedy film is based on the Sonic video game series.

Head to Tiara Street Park for free screening of Sonic 3 on Sunday, August 10th at 7.30.

For more information, visit the Instagram of Councilmember Nazarian at CD2 Los Angeles.

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

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Taking a five minute or less shower saves up to fifteen gallons of water.

Washing only full loads of laundry saves up to thirty gallons of water.

And fixing a running toilet can save up to fifty gallons of water.

Good morning, and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of your Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Wednesday, the sixth day of August in the year twenty twenty-five.

My name is Marquis Harris Dawson.

And we will plan on an hour of public counsel.

So uh public comment, sixty minutes of public comment.

Uh so folks uh be aware of that.

Uh Madam Clerk, if we could can begin our proceedings by calling a roll.

Yes, sir.

Bloomenville, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt, Herado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarene, Padilla, Park, Price, Rahmen, Rodriguez, Sotomartinez, Yarosowski, eleven members present in corn, Mr.

President.

All right.

First order of business.

Approval the minutes of August fifth, twenty twenty-five.

Councilmember Raman moves.

Councilmember Jurado seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Blumenfield moves, Councilmember Nazarene seconds.

We run through our agenda.

Yes, sir.

Items one and two are items which public hearings have been held.

Items three through twenty-three are items which public hearings have not been held.

Item twenty-four is a closed session item for which public hearing has been held.

And finally, items twenty-five through twenty-eight are closed session items for which public hearings have not been held.

Ten votes are required for consideration.

Item two for comments from Mr.

Price.

Okay.

Item two for two members.

Any other specials on this side?

Uh, any specials on this side, Councilmember Jurado.

Thank you, Council President.

I'd like to continue item three and item four to August 13th.

All right.

Thank you.

Without objection.

Those items will be continued.

Any other specials, Councilmember Hernandez?

Seventeen and twenty-two for a separate vote.

Seventeen and twenty-two for a separate vote.

Council Member Raman.

Could I please continue item five to September twenty-third?

Item five, continue to September 23rd without objection.

That'll be the order.

Any other specials members?

All right.

Seeing no other specials, Madam Clerk, what items are available to vote on at this time.

Right now, council may now vote on item number one, sir.

All right.

Let's open the roll on item number one.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Fourteen eyes.

All right, what's next?

Um that is all available for council to vote on at this moment.

So including the separate votes and comments once.

Oh, um, yes, because uh 17 and 22 are separate votes.

However, public comment has not been satisfied for those items.

Got it.

All right.

All right, so what's next?

Um council can go into public comment if it wishes.

All right, let's go to public comment.

Uh uh, Mr.

President, uh, I apologize.

Item two it uh is available uh for counsel to vote on, and Mr.

Price and Mr.

Soto Martinez have comments on item two, sir.

All right, we'll open up item number two and hear from Mr.

Price.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Colleagues, I want to take a moment to highlight uh item two this morning.

A few years ago, with your support, we launched the largest guaranteed basic income program in the country, reaching over 3,000 individuals who were on the brink of homelessness.

It was a bold and necessary step to provide stability and dignity to our most vulnerable residents.

Which we have before you today represents the next phase of that monumental work.

My office, along with council member Soto Martinez, have each committed one million dollars from our discretionary funds to expand the setting.

The next round of GPI will provide a thousand dollars per month for two years to transitional age youth and survivors of intimate um partner violence.

These groups are were carefully chosen based on the findings from independent research institutions that evaluated our first program.

The data show that these populations were among the most vulnerable and also saw the greatest positive outcomes.

This would not have been possible without the leadership and dedication of the community investment families department and their fearless leader, Abigail Warquez.

We are deeply grateful for their continued commitment to uplifting families and preventing homelessness.

And colleagues, I ask for your I vote on this issue.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Soto Martinez.

Yes, thank you so much, Council President.

Uh, and thank you so much, Councilmember Price, for giving uh a brief summary of some of the work that was done uh before I I was I got here, and let me just say it's been wonderful to build off of that work, and I'm very happy to partner with you uh on this issue.

And you know, this motion is about continuing an incredibly successful uh guaranteed basic income program as council member price mentioned, it's one of the largest in the country in 2022 and 2023.

A group of low-income Angelinos were given 1,000 a month for 12 months with no strings attached, and we saw life-changing results.

Families were able to put food on the table, workers finally had the flexibility to leave dead-end jobs and have economic um uh uh movement to a better job.

And something that gave me a lot of hope was survivors of intimate partner violence were finally able to leave those abusive relationships because they had the means to do it.

And so today we are building on the success of that program with a new a new two million dollar investment.

And this next phase will continue to support uh survivors of intimate partner violence, the group that saw the most dramatic improvements in that pilot program, and expand something I feel very personal, uh personally connected to because of my district.

Expand to include transitional aged youth, including queer and trans youth who face significant system barriers to stability and employment, and we know many of these folks are exiting the foster care system and maybe just need a little bit of support.

And for the first time, we're pairing these direct payments with job training through the hospitality training academy, which has a near 100% success rate in placing their graduates into high quality, good paying union jobs.

Colleagues, that has a that's the potential of have truly transformative life-changing uh things happen for people.

So I want to thank uh CIFD department.

We're here we're with our uh general managers and uh assistant general managers who have led much of this work and the folks that are not here today from your team.

Please give them a big thanks and and so much recognition for that the work they do.

And so again, uh I just really want to thank uh councilmember price, his team, and everyone who's worked on the first pilot program, because now we have the know-how and know what to do in this next phase, and I hope that uh as this program continues, we can look at poverty in a very different light.

Many folks uh did not were not born into this country with many of the privileges that a lot of the lot of people have, including myself, I have I have a lot of privilege.

And so giving folks an opportunity to to move up through life, have a just a little bit uh economic stability can have really life-changing effects, and it could be good for the city and good for so many people.

So uh so I also urge for your I vote, and I look forward to seeing this report uh evolve in the coming in the coming years.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, uh Mr.

Soto Martinez, and uh another uh bit of praise for council member Price for bringing this to the city of Los Angeles.

Uh you know, this uh program uh was pioneered by Mayor Mayor Tubbs in Stockton, California.

They had incredible resorts here.

Our program was much bigger.

I was happy to participate, be able to participate in it in the first go round uh that we did.

And in addition to all the things that Mr.

Price and Mr.

Soto Martinez pointed out, the other thing that we sought to measure uh in the study was the effect on the neighborhood that people that we invested in.

Because you invest in one family in a neighborhood, we all know one family, one household on a block can make a difference for that whole block, and one block can make a difference for a neighborhood.

And so we we noticed that community violence, which we all pay for in our public safety budget, which takes up you know nearly 60 two-thirds of our budget.

Uh, it reduces the strain on those resources when we invest in those families, and we saw that here in a very clear way.

In addition to the fact the number one thing people did was either stop their dead-end job and took a class or got a certification to allow them to get a better job.

Uh, we know that the people, and this is not rocket science at all.

The people with the best quality of life in our society are the people who have economic security.

It's not complicated at all.

And so, to the extent that we can provide that to people, uh, I think we do better as uh not just for those families and those individuals, but we do better as a city, as a community and as a neighborhood.

So thank you both.

And uh I join you in requesting an I vote in this item.

Uh seeing no other comments on this, uh, let's open the roll, close the roll tab you'd like to vote.

14 ayes.

All right, and now we'll go to uh public comment and we will go with public comment, folks.

So everybody knows we will go until 1125.

So everybody here, if somebody comes in and they're wondering, we're going to with public comment to 1125.

We'll take as many speakers as we can between now and 1125.

Thank you so much.

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.

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 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 open for public comment on the agenda are items six through twenty three and items twenty-five through twenty-eight.

So again, the items open for public comment are items six through twenty-three and items twenty-five through twenty eight.

Please note that items three, four, and five have been continued and are not 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.

Have a couple more announcements if I gotta 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.

Okay.

As the council president has stated, we will go until 1125 for public comment.

So in order to help us run an efficient public comment and uh include as many people as possible, please follow these instructions.

Uh the order in which public commenters are called up is at random.

It is randomly generated.

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

After you hear the name that you signed up under read aloud, you can line up in any order on your left-hand side of the council chambers.

And I believe the clerk's office has one announcement that's not related to the public comment instructions.

Go ahead.

Uh, just a point of clarification uh for the continuance on item number five.

Uh Council Member Rahmen.

Uh the 23rd, September 23rd.

You want to change it to September 19, 2025.

That's new continuation date.

Thank you.

I'll begin calling names.

Raw, Elizabeth Hernandez, and Jessica Melendez.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Yeah.

Due to the refusal of any accountability, transparency, cruel and unusual punishment, and the lack of any decency at all.

All of the juvenile detention centers and men's central jail need to be closed immediately.

To further get rid of the California Peace Officers Bill of Rights.

It protects lewd and abusive cops and as a threat to our neighborhoods.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh, general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Jessica Melendez with Trust South LA from District 9.

This year, Los Angeles has been hit by several disasters from the devastating wildfires to the ongoing terrorist terrorizing and kidnapping of Angelinos, which undocumented or not, they deserve protections at such a critical moment.

As a result, these disaster of these disasters, low-income workers have lost their jobs, making them more economically insecure and closer to eviction and homelessness.

I also see that you all have raised the Olympic flags.

A reminder that all eyes will be on the city of LA in the coming years.

They already are.

Speaker, are you here for general public comment?

Yes.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Sorry.

And uh just before you start our time.

Just for if you're here just for general public comment, it is helpful if you let us know which items you're here for.

Um, once we know, we will set the time.

Go ahead.

Sorry, you have one minute for general public comment.

My name is Elizabeth Hernandez, and please I'm asking you guys to stop having side uh conversations because everyone here is taking time from their family, from their jobs, from their daily life for you guys to listen to them.

And we want you guys to uh bring the large little formula and adopt it and vote on it.

The residents of LA needs it.

And on the side, uh please uh uh I want to talk to Mr.

Curren Price.

We have not heard from your office.

How many more children do it has to die?

How many more accidents do we have to have at Vernon and Wasworth?

We try to reach out to your office.

We had a meeting on the fourth.

Nobody from your office uh happened to show up to our meeting.

I don't know what's going on with your staff.

They're ignoring our calls, they're ignoring our our community.

Community has been calling directly to your office.

We had collector signatures, we had door knock everywhere in the around the neighborhood.

We've been in the farmers market outside your office, and we have no response.

Please reach out back to Ace and the education chapter.

Thank you.

So before the next speaker begins, uh just we appreciate appreciate your patience.

I expect us or suspect that we will hear some highly offensive comments.

Um the quickest way to get through it is to not disrupt us public comment after the next speaker finishes, then they will not be allowed to speak during the rest of the meeting.

Good morning, Mr.

Herman.

You have three minutes for the items and one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Impermissible prior restraint for the record.

So would you like to begin with your general public comment or do you want to speak to the items?

Please stick to the items for your first three minutes.

Go ahead.

Fuck the fire.

Item number one is not open for public comment.

Public comment was previously held at the end.

Number six talks about weed abatement.

And many of us already know that smoking weed is good for you.

And cleaning up after you smoke a blunt like smoking scan.

This has nothing to do with the item on the agenda.

You have been warned previously to stick to the agendas.

It is about weed abatement.

You've now forfeited your your comment on the items.

Move to general public comment.

You've been warned multiple times.

One minute for general public comment.

Oh, oh, oh so now we see that the United States under Brandenburg versus Ohio.

Get ready, everybody.

Brandenburg versus Ohio for the record.

Yes.

It's very well noted that the courts, and this is a Supreme Court decision based on not racial dog eating Korean attorney.

This is about Koreans that eat dog that don't understand the dog language that I'm about to say for the case.

So this is your general public comment, but you are the Brown Act does not allow you to be repetitive.

I'm on the clocks.

I'm on the clock.

I'm on the fucking clock.

Shut the fuck up.

Now the significant portions that could be understood were how far is the nigger going to yell.

US 395 444 1969, everybody.

And here it is for the record.

Mr.

Herman, we're gonna hold your time.

You were previously warned for using the N-word in any of its variations, which is a violation of Council Rule 7.

You continue to use the N-word.

You actually disrupted this meeting, and I've had to stop the meeting to warn you to not violate Rule 7.

You have forfeited your speaking time.

If you disrupt the meeting again, you will be subject to removal.

And again, thank you everyone for your patience.

Next speaker.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hello, my name is Sophia Mendoza, and I'm gonna give public comment.

I'm a member of ACE living in District 9.

The increasing ice rates uh due to uh on behalf of the federal government.

Yeah, I'm trying and the budget constraints on lower income people.

Continue.

Have made this crisis even more grave.

The city should be taking as many measures as possible to stabilize the citizens right now.

Una action concreta que el consejo deve tomar ahora mismo is actualizar la formula de aumento de renta del arso para que no suba la renta mas del threes sin limite minimo.

So one of the things that the city should be doing is adopting the Larso ordinance so that the rent is capped at no more than three percent.

We are asking specifically the South Central representatives to approve this because we've been calling you we've been emailing you and you won't answer.

I'd like to call a few more names first.

Maria Raphael, Peter V, and Jonathan Diaz.

My name is Dominguez Solorsano, and I need uh translation.

Okay, so you have one is it general public comment?

Yes.

So you'll have one minute, and if you could let the speaker know, uh you can adjust the mic even more if you'd like whatever's comfortable.

Limite minimum.

Ay, por favor.

The city needs to uh take measures to stabilize the renters, and one of those measures that the city can take is by approving the Larso rank cap at three percent.

I am asking me I'm asking you as a mother as a low income mother, uh tenant of district nine.

I am asking you please to put this on the agenda because I am being very impacted.

Um my husband is low income as well.

I'm very impacted and very anxious with everything that could happen as both me and my husband are low income.

Good morning.

My name is Maria Breones, and I'm a proud member of AIS.

Um that we need to agendize Larso ASAP, not tomorrow, not next year.

It is very urgent that we get the rent cap to three percent.

We keep it that way, because landlords have benefited for years and years and years and years.

It's almost 40 years that that hasn't changed.

And we, the tenants have no profit at all.

We cannot continue doing this.

We have to stop it.

We have to at some time level, you know, the situation between the tenants and the landlords.

Only it's only the the uh big corporations that are paying your seats right here, your votes, no, right?

Or yes, maybe yes.

So it is important that you guys pay attention to what the tenants are asking.

We are not asking for something that is trivial or something that we cannot do.

You can do it.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to.

My name is Irma Martinez and I am a member of ACE.

So you one minute for General Public Home.

Well, I am you know I am an older person, and as you guys know there's a lot of difficulty in being able to work.

I am ill, but as you know, I'm still fighting to be able to work to be able to survive.

But the problem is that right now you can't even make ends meet to afford rent.

And you know you want to do the best you can working as hard as you can, but it's just not possible.

We're asking you to please support the Larso campaign.

To update uh Larso the Larso formula to cap the rent at 3% with no floor.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Peter.

I'm here to speak on uh RSO and the need for greater rent control.

Los Angeles is a city of renters where people's ability to live in RSO rent control departments is the only thing keeping the keeping a roof over their heads in a city where nearly one hundred thousand people receive eviction notices over the last year, indexing RSO increases to sixty percent CPI and creating a three percent hard cap on rent increases is essential to prevent thousands of thousands of more people being pushed onto the streets of this city.

We need adoption of the Larso uh rent cap now.

Thank you.

I am here as a as a as a senior citizen, as a person here asking you guys for a favor for everyone that is here and everyone that was not able to be present for people of lower income.

So member para que no subban la renta in the district.

And I am a member of ACE and I live in District 8, and they are here to support us, and so I'm uh giving thanks to all of the people that have arrived here to uh lend us support.

Your time is expired.

We have to move on to the next slide.

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

Brendan Fisher, 24 hours, and Kevin Ramsey.

Good morning.

You have three minutes for the items and one minute for general.

Go ahead.

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Good Morning.

Which Items Would You Like To Speak to General Public Comment.

Okay.

So You're One Minute.

Hi, City Council.

My name is Brendan, and I'm a Resident Here in Council District 14.

And I'm here in support of the Keep LA House Coalition's demands for Larsa reform, specifically to lower the allowable range of rent increase from three to eight percent down to zero to three percent and to get rid of the additional utility and new occupant bumps.

You know, we look at the fires, we look at the ice rates, it really becomes apparent that the only groups who are actively looking out for the community are the communities themselves.

And so especially in the context of the ice raids and the uh uh Larsa reform and your inaction on both of those fronts, it really begs the question whether or not you truly believe yourselves to be representatives of the people, or if you're content to, according to Kenneth Mahia, rake in a two hundred nearly two hundred and fifty thousand dollar salary and act as in effect aristocrats in waiting, trying not to disrupt the status quo that has benefited your wealthy donors so much.

Thank you.

Our dead bodies are literally on the line in this epidemic of black femicide that extends from South LA across the nation.

So Councilmember Harris Dawson, we are asking again that you stand for black girls and work with the community utilizing all those destination crenshaw millions to create a safe youth space in honor of 16-year-old CD8 murder victim Tiani Thias that provides provincial education services and programming for black women girls and queer youth.

Stand for black girls and prioritize our lives.

Put your money where your damn mouth is.

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

Uh public commentation.

So you have one.

Uh I held it in uh more than three days.

So I will wish I don't wish this to anyone affected in my housing.

Uh like uh many others.

We also here in the homes and uh low income.

I cannot work at the moment.

I have a bracelet in my food.

We need to cover rent bills, so we look at and we're asking for your support because uh how we affected we are.

We asked that a more uh fair formula during increased many of us who we're affected and low-income people cannot cover this expense.

And we also uh we ask that for you schedule we support the rent control campaigning from zero percent maximum three percent, uh maximum increases.

Is it the time for consul consuling to updated rent increase formula to better protect teen uh teenmates and promote housing stability?

Los Angeles can at Columbia be central city of his uh time is expired.

Next speaker, true centrality means keeping the people in.

So speaker, we have to move on to the next speaker, and as the next speaker is coming up, so members of the audience, uh the Brown Act requires us to treat everybody equally, so it's not that we don't want to hear from you, it's just we have to adhere very closely to the uh amount of time prescribed uh in the council rules.

Uh if for any reason uh you are unable to uh finish your public comment, or if you have if we are run out of time to hear from you today, you can always come to a future meeting.

You can also provide written public comment at LA Council.com.

Again, that's la council.com.

That URL is at the uh top of every council agenda, and I'm told that you do not need a council file number to provide general public comment.

So good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to.

Hi, good morning.

My name is Mateo Cristaval, and I have a uh general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

I'm here because I am a victim of the raids.

I was detained for six weeks in Adelanto, California.

And now I'm concerned about the other effects that I'm facing.

I have to pay my rent.

And I'm here for your support for you to support us.

I am a member of ACE.

And uh what has happened to us is horrible, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I am a resident of District 9, and I'm low income, and I don't have enough money to be able to support myself.

And unfortunately, I'm not able to work.

So I need your help.

Thank you.

That's it.

I'd like to call a few more names.

Maria Ponce, uh Gloria Santos, and Brian Odega.

So I see those people coming up.

As we wait, just FYI.

We've taken about 30 minutes of public comment already.

Um, as previously stated for anybody who has just now come into the rooms.

We are going to take public comment all the way up to 1125.

So we're about halfway done.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Hi, good morning.

My name is Gloria Santos, and I need translation, please.

And I have a general public comment.

Okay.

I am a resident of District 14, and I come here with uh in support of ACE.

And I'm here to come and talk about the rent situation.

And we're all here to ask for the rent to not continue going up.

In this moment, in this moment, not those estamos trabajando.

In our community, we're being attacked and we're being targeted.

And not everyone in our community is able to work at this point.

So you as a government are saying you don't want more homeless people, but you're not helping with this problem.

Because what's going on is as the rent continues to increase, you're gonna have people who aren't gonna have be able to pay any more.

Hi, good morning.

General public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

All right, my name is Brian Todega.

I live in Council District 15.

Hey Tim.

Uh I am a teacher, uh renter, member of United Los Angeles, working families party, and I'm here with ACE.

Working families are under attack.

Our communities are being raided by ice.

Kids are afraid to come to school, and families are being priced out of the neighborhoods that they've known all their lives.

The least city council can do is adopt the demands of the Keep LA House Coalition, stabilise the rents, keep it at 3%, no rent banking, and no bumps for utilities and additional occupants.

Schools are on the front lines of these crises.

What happens outside the schools impacts what happens inside.

Over 20 students are experiencing homelessness.

Not a single uh first year teacher, bus driver, caps year worker can afford to live and to rent in LA.

That's an unjust injustice.

It's an injustice.

Cap the rent at 3%, keep families together, and protect our most marginalized communities.

Thank you.

Okay.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh public comic police.

Okay, before you begin, I'm gonna ask the whoever's yelling out, please do not yell out when somebody's at the podium to uh provide their public comment.

I'm seeing fingers pointing, is that at the gentleman with the white beard?

Okay.

So, sir, in the white beard in the black t-shirt.

This is your first and only warning.

Please do not disrupt this meeting.

Um, I've heard you yell out multiple times.

I'm sorry.

So can you can you repeat which item just a general public comment?

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Okay.

Hello, my name is Amora Jackson.

I'm a student at Keen Drew High School, and I'm a member of the Standing for a Black Girls Correlation.

I urge the council, specifically council members Harris Dawson, Hutt, and Mick Oscar to create a dedicated funding program for targeted provision programs, mental health support, and safe spaces in South LA, along with access to affordable and healthy food resources for black and brown queer youth.

As a teenage black girl, I have struggled to gain access to therapy and affordable food.

Too many people of color, people of color can afford or gain access to a mental health center or high quality food and C D A and C D 15.

When I go to the store, I shouldn't have to choose processed snacks or overpriced vegetables or go through a mental breakdown with nowhere to go.

Listen to the voices in your community.

We deserve better.

Thank you.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh item 22.

Is it still can I speak on that?

Yes.

So is it just item 22 or no general public comment?

Okay.

So you have one minute for item 22 and one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Okay.

So yesterday we met with uh Johan and Martin in our president, council president's office, who promised that we would get a meeting with the community and with Keep LA House.

So we're hoping that that'll happen.

ASAP.

Um also we it's been a year and we have not heard the position of council president on Larso.

We need our South Los Angeles Central leaders to stand with us.

As you said, I don't know where he is, Marquise Harris Dawson.

You said when something affects one family, it can affect an entire community.

You said something like that just a minute ago.

So cap the rent at 3%.

These rent increases are causing evictions.

They're also that causes the 9% increase in homelessness.

And we know we're trying to end homelessness in the city.

Uh we door knocked and we got petitions signed.

We have over 300 petitions signed to cap the rent at 3%.

These were small landlords as well as tenants.

So we are asking that our agendize this meeting, Nidhya Raman and Marquise Harris Alsa and the community.

We need your support right now.

Before the next speaker.

Well, I still have time to do that.

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

Just so you know, uh, do I still have more time?

I have 50 one more minute.

Okay, so as as if you still have your general public comment.

So you have one minute for general.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

And then after which we will read out more names.

So you go ahead.

Okay, where I live in my building, this is causing a lot of problems.

One of my neighbors literally just self-evicted.

She is just tired of getting the rent increases.

It's not gonna help to self-evict.

You're gonna go somewhere and end up with another one, and it keeps the cycle going.

These you these um lie tech buildings and these landlords that um that abuse this system, it's it's a really big problem.

People are suffering, and then with the raids, it's not making it any better.

Housing insecurity and food insecurity, and then health um insurance insecurity is causing a big problem.

Something has to be done.

I we are expecting our city council.

We look to y'all, we look to you.

You are our community leaders.

We uh we voted you in.

We look to you for an answer for help for for relief from the suffering.

It is difficult to watch my neighbors to literally self-evict because they are they can't afford where they live, so they go move in with a family member.

That's called being homeless, even on somebody's couch is homeless.

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

Sophia Mendoza, Robert Arnett, and Amma Botag.

Okay, so good morning.

Before we begin.

Uh, the gentleman who just stood up in the white beard.

This is your second warning.

You are now, Mr.

Pres uh uh uh Madam President, uh, eligible for removal, if you would like.

Do not disrupt this meeting.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I would like to speak to General Republic.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Adrian Gomez.

I live in C D8, and I'm an Ace member.

LA is a city of renters, and rent is more unaffordable than ever.

We need to do more to prevent the homelessness crisis from worn worsening, especially in the wake of increasing natural disasters and economic uncertainty.

Despite months of warnings and a clear economic report showing the formula is unfair to tenants.

Council continues continues to delay a vote to update the city's decades old rent control rules.

As a result, LA renters, many of them, low income and immigrants are stuck with unnecessary rent hikes during both a political crisis and a housing and affordability crisis.

We can't let city leaders prioritize landlords and developers over protecting the 60% of Angelinos who rent.

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

Dorcia White, George Harrod, and Joey Mendez.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay, so we have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Ama Boating.

I am a 17-year-old student at Hamilton High School and a man a member of the Standing for Black Girls Coalition.

I'm deeply concerned about the lack of culturally responsive community responsors assigned to handle domestic violence calls.

Social norms deem African American women as masculine, strong, and resilient.

So in cases of intimate partner violence, they are often dismissed or seen as deserving of their abuse, leading to repet repeated behaviors by their abusers.

The presence of police officers when caused often escalates the violence, leading to black women being arrested and criminalized.

This instills the fear that is often already prevalent in black women who are survivors of domestic violence.

Though you fled coalitions like ours are trying to change the culture over incarceration of disproportionate arrests of black women.

We are often we are often eradic this should be eradicated.

And the city council should allocate funding for gender-based violence and prevention so our communities can thrive.

Thank you, and we will be continuing to show to hold you accountable for black women and girls.

I think good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

First of all, good morning.

And which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

Mr.

Pancake would like to address the city council and speak on general public comments.

Okay.

So we have one minute.

Go ahead.

Black August all 1979.

Y'all know the history here in California.

My name is Mr.

Pancake Housing Organizer.

Um Los Angeles Community Action Network.

Um here in um Council District 14, native of Los Angeles.

As you know, Los Angeles is the fourth largest economy in the world.

We should not have you know housing challenges that we have, the lack of affordable housing in our city in our city.

Here today to urge city council to adopt, keep and keep LA housed demands for resident for rent stabilization ordinance, ordinance formula.

Let's get real, LA.

Rent is to what supporting affordable housing for all people, people over profits in homelessness now.

I'd like to call a few more names.

Uh Grace, Denise Selena, and William Good.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Joey Mendes, and I am with organization ACE, an education chapter from District 9.

Rent in LA is dangerously high.

It's not fair that we, the citizens are struggling to make ends meet, especially after the raids and fires.

They save for rent instead of food for their families.

But fires took businesses and the raids took families, family members who were the only source of income for their for their kids.

I now address current price.

We urge you that you put an actual traffic light on Vernon and Wadsworth, not a hawk light.

We have been trying to contact you and your staff for a while.

We have not heard from from you or anyone since February.

The school year is about to begin, and children will use that crosslight because we'll use that cross because it's the fastest way to get to Carver Middle School.

Drivers will not are on that street or reckless despite the being a school zone.

How many children have to die before we get that light?

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

Robert, Mario Jose Leones, and Maria Briones.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi everyone.

My name is Grace.

I'm a community organizer at Lane, and I am a resident of District One.

People are losing their housing all across Los Angeles.

We are in the middle of an affordability crisis, let alone the effects of the horrific wildfires earlier this year and immigration raids scaring working families from going outside, and also now federal budget cuts impacting low-income residents the most.

People are losing their income streams and get closer to eviction and homelessness every day.

Okay.

You have one minute.

Go ahead.

Alright, yeah.

So um I'm a community organizer with scope, um, a community organization down in South Central Los Angeles.

I could say from uh secondhand and firsthand experience that the rent is really is ridiculously high.

Um uh when Mayor Bass first got into office, she said um that um declared in state of emergency on the homelessness crisis.

Um that's why we urge the city council to adopt the keep a uh keep a house demands for the RSL uh formula.

That is uh increase based off a sixty percent CPI on all items, a rent cap of three percent with no floor, um, no rent banking and no bumps for utilities and um additional occupants.

Once again, this is a crisis that needs to be addressed.

Thank you.

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

Tanya Ramon, Angelica Estrella, and Maria Sanchez.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

All right.

Good morning.

I'm Maria José Leones, and I'm an 18-year-old member of the hashtag Sang for Black Girls Coalition.

I'm here to urge the council to distribute funding to create South LA youth serving centers that provide prevention, education, mental health, and leadership initiatives for black and brown women and girls and LGBTQ plus people of color.

We demand that the many empty CD8 and C D 15 buildings that surround our community be turned to facilities that that can support vulnerable youth and women of color.

I live on the border of South Central and Watts.

I witness the struggle many black and brown women face due to a lack of resources.

Being unhoused can cause instability in the lives of LGBTQ plus youth.

I know of friends who fear of coming out to their families because of the threat of becoming a homeless.

If LGBTQ plus youth can't find support in their homes, these youth serving centers can help support LGBTQ plus youth who are forced to escape their dangerous situations.

You were all voted in to serve Angelinos and use taxpayer money to help our communities.

You are being watched.

Those who do not take action, stay silent.

You will be held accountable as election time approaches.

Thank you for your time.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Commentario publico, buenos y yes.

Public comment.

Good morning.

My name is Maria Sanchez, I'm from District 9, and I'm from the ACE organization.

I am asking the council to adopt the uh the RSO uh ordinance for keep LA housed.

I am also gonna ask the representative of District 9 and his uh personnel to please speak with us.

We have been asking for a meeting.

And this would be regarding uh the installation of a traffic light on Vernon and Wattsworth.

So how many more lives need to be lost until something is done about that?

Gracias y queremos ver su esforço porque queremos que no pierdas y más estudiantes porque stan perdido estudiantes inesa area porque yo también vivo y cruzzo in esa area y mi ha pasado.

Gracias.

So yes, we're asking you to approve this because we don't want to see any more lives lost, any more students live lost.

Uh you know, I've had to live through it myself.

So thank you so much.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

My name is Jose Clatenchi.

And I'm gonna give a general public comment.

We don't want another rent increase, cap it at 3%.

Because we're not getting an increase in social security.

More of us are gonna end up on the streets.

Gracias.

And you guys are gonna be just as much uh at fault as Gavin Newsom, the governor if you don't help us.

Thank you so much.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning, my name is Tony Ramon with the East Side Leeds Coalition, and I live in Council District 10.

The rent stabilization ordinance is an incredibly important law that helps keep millions of Angelino stay housed.

Rent increases allowed right now are too high and unaffordable for Angelinos who are already struggling to pay rent.

Personally, I will not be able to stay home if my rent keeps increasing at the current rate.

Because of the immigration raids, my family has been deeply affected and has impacted my ability to meet the cost of our bills, and I'm also the main contributor of my family's rent.

I have a younger brother who depends on me and my ability to make rent on time.

And my story is just one of many.

And I already see my neighbors' belongings piling up across my street, so it's devastating.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Spanish.

From district one.

Because he's so afraid.

So I'm asking you guys to help the families like mine who are living in fear, and I'm helping you also to cap the rent at 3%.

He's already paying 5%, and it's too much.

It's too difficult.

So I'm asking you guys to help us.

Thank you so much.

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

Andrew Grabenner, Justin Curran, and Roberta Stewart.

Hi, sing it up.

Silvia Kos.

My name is Savia Cos, I'm from District 1 and I am from Chile.

So I'm here asking the members of the council to please update the Larso ordinance to keep the rent at 3% with no floor.

Adelante.

This year in the building that I live in, they've already raised my rent twice.

It's a building without rent control.

My rent went up $300.

I am an immigrant and I am a lawyer.

And I need help from the council to put a stop to this.

Thank you very much.

Good boy.

Hi, item 22 and general public comment, please.

Hi, Mr.

Newzarian.

With all due respect, sir, these 4118 ordinances are not the way to solve homelessness in our neighborhood.

These are our neighbors.

Move from neighborhood to neighborhood.

You know, a week and a half ago, you uh broke ground on a hundred new tiny homes, and we celebrated that.

That was really good work.

Um that's what we need.

You know, we need more places to put people.

We don't need to be criminalizing them.

Um so I I want to say I'm against this uh motion of yours.

I don't think we should be doing 4118 zones in our neighborhood to our neighbors.

Um moving on to public general public comment.

Um, you know, it would be really helpful, you know.

You you said at that speech when you opened the tiny homes that this these tiny homes are just one chapter in our book of fighting homelessness, right?

That was your words.

Um you want to end that book, you want to make that book shorter rather than having it keep getting longer and longer, you need to lower the rent.

You know, until we lower the rent until we make living in LA affordable again, we're not gonna ever end homelessness.

They fought really hard for a three-year contract that only raised the over three years they're gonna get a six percent raise.

Rent and one of these uh RSO units, you can go up five percent this year.

So they're getting a six percent raise in their wages and getting a five percent raise in one year versus three years.

We need to stop that.

We need to cap the rent at three percent.

I gave your uh workers a whole packet about our asks at Larso.

So please I uh I urge you to vote yes on that.

I'm gonna trim my comment down to just general comments, so hopefully you have the reasonableness to at least take one more person's comment here.

Okay, you have one minute, go ahead.

Okay, so we've got a street banner for the just say hello program.

So I guess that's that's all you're gonna do for the meanwhile, while you have this civil rights campaign promoting civil rights.

Um, and then you've got meanwhile in the city.

So we've got discrimination against trans people.

Are any of you going to say anything about that?

Any of you?

That concludes public comment for this morning's meeting.

Uh, we're at eleven twenty-five.

We took sixty-five minutes of public comment for this morning's meeting, Madam Clerk.

What items are available for consideration at this time.

Uh, Mr.

President, Councilman, now vote on items six through sixteen.

Let's open the roll on those items.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

Fourteen eye.

What's next?

Next would be the item seventy.

Bloom and Phil, Harris Stassen, Hernandez, Hut, Herado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarene, Padilla, Park, Price, Rahmen, Rodriguez, so Martinez Yaroslavsky, fourteen members, and corn Mr.

President.

All right, what item is before us.

Item seventeen and twenty-two were called special for a separate vote, sir.

All right, items seventeen and twenty-two called special for a separate vote by Councilmember Hernandez.

Okay, Councilman Bernandez.

Oh no, I just want to vote on these.

All right.

So let's open the roll of these items.

Close the roll.

Tabulate to vote.

All right.

What's next?

Next would be the closed session items, sir.

So that would be twenty-four through twenty-eight, sir.

All right.

Let's uh uh sergeants and uh staff let's prepare for the room for closed session.

So that uh includes staff of the council offices, uh, the pertinent departments, uh, and the other citywide elected offices, and we will begin our closed session as soon as the room has been prepared for such.

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I believe they're the extent they have not been items twenty-seven and twenty-eight are being continued.

Yes.

Somebody just wanted that right.

That's fine.

That's fine.

We'll continue item 24.

We'll continue item 24 till next week, Friday.

No, no.

And for the record, Mr.

President, item 24 is also uncontinued one week to August 13, 2025.

So again, 24, 27, 28, continued to August 13, 2025, sir.

All right, what's next?

Uh motions for posting a referral.

They are posted and referred.

Announcements members.

Seeing no announcement, I'll ask everyone to rise for adjourning motions.

Any adjourning motions to my left.

All right, we have one announcement.

You could use Mr.

Nazarian's desk if you like.

Oh no.

Thank you.

I don't want to get it wrong.

Hi, everybody.

Uh, thank you, Council President.

Uh, this morning, federal immigration enforcement conducted a raid at the Westlake Home Depot.

Uh, the video footage shows agents hiding in the back of an unarmed rental Penske truck and then ambushing and arresting day laborers.

We're trying to get confirmation on the numbers, but it appears it was about 10 to 15 people.

These are my constituents, human beings, targeted and terrorized with no warrant, no due process, and in clear violation of a federal court order.

There's currently a temporary restraining order in place that prohibits indiscriminate immigration enforcement.

And still, this administration looks eager to violate that order, due process, and basic human dignity.

I'm calling on all Angelinos to assist in ensuring that we can hold the federal government accountable for this transgression.

If you witness federal immigration actions and you are safe and able to do so, record the action and then afterwards write down or record yourself detailing everything you witness.

The sooner you do you can do this, the better.

Please share the video evidence and your contact information with your local city representatives.

We are especially interested in videos that are original and not those that have been shared on social media, which will assist the city in our investigation.

Let me be clear, your safety comes first.

But if you can document what's happening, know that you are helping protect our neighbors and strengthen our case against unlawful federal overreach.

We will hold this administration accountable, but we need to do it together.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for that uh reminder, and I think all of us saw that video, and so we would need to remain vigilant uh because we're not dealing with administration that's necessarily gonna follow the courts.

So uh thank you for that reminder and that report, Councilmember Hernandez.

And with that, we are adjourned.

Thank you so much, everybody.