We need to have more programs like this.

For the kids that have these kind of opportunities is just no comparison.

We get all walks alive.

You got people that actually are in college that maybe to be able to get to a bigger, higher level.

You have people that are not in college that actually gets in because of this program.

It's something that this is a need.

All of us need it.

It's a good thing for all of the communities because you got some real competition out here.

You got a lot of dudes that's upskill and their basketball talent.

These are the kind of things that we try to provide and have these young men come together and have a good time.

The city's emergency management department is making sure a new generation is prepared.

And it's Camp Ready LA.

Young Angelinos got insight into emergency response procedures and the opportunity to check out careers in the field.

We're here at the City of Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center, and this week is our fourth annual Camp Ready LA week in the City of LA.

So Camp Ready LA is a week-long program that we facilitate here at the emergency management department.

It's designed to expose 18 to 24 year olds about the profession of emergency management and other public safety sectors and disciplines.

The campers go through a number of different activities over the course of the week that will familiarize them with the emergency management planning topics, emergency response procedures like fire extinguishers and first aid, and ultimately they'll leave at the end of the week with a better skill set and familiarization with the emergency management profession.

I've enjoyed learning more about emergency management, about CRT, the crisis, a response team.

I didn't know that existed, especially here in Los Angeles.

We had a course on the bleed out, we put out a fire, we learned how to use the fire extinguisher.

Just very interesting, very rewarding.

I wanted to know how else the city of LA, like all of them help each other out.

I wasn't too familiar with uh all of that, so I wanted to get a deeper understanding of what goes on behind the scenes.

We also just been uh talking about what the uh emergency operations center does and how it helps out the community, and there's just so much that I I'm learning about that I didn't know about before.

I actually have a better idea of all the different things that uh city employees do.

I mean, it's not just like the things you see with, you know, LA F LEPD, like there's people like in the background, and so it's really exciting to see.

So I actually started as a camper here.

I was a participant of the Camp Ready LA program, and from there I got interested in emergency management, and I applied to be a fellow here at the emergency management department.

When I was a camper, I was just interested in what emergency management could be, and now that I have the experience doing emergency operations center activations, I know what it's like to be behind the scenes and actually help the community, and I think that's what's the most rewarding about this.

I would definitely recommend any student, i school, I think it's 18 to 24, anybody in the age range that qualifies or that could take this program to definitely apply and do this program.

It definitely opens up a lot of doors.

You get to meet a lot of people.

I've met a lot of great people here so far.

Even if you're not entirely sure what you want to do, or if you're studying something unrelated, this is great to kind of just get your foot in the door and kind of really start that like next part of adult life.

We caught up with the office of LA City Attorney Heidi Felstein Soto.

The team are meeting with seniors to connect them with available resources and get feedback on services they would like to see in their neighborhood.

The city attorney's office is today.

We are here in Council District 10, specifically at Jim Gillian Park, and we are meeting with our seniors in the community.

This is a program that the city attorney's office has been doing for the past about five months now.

We have visited various council districts.

This is our sixth day event today, and essentially the goal is to bring services and to introduce our seniors to the various departments and services that the city of LA as well as nonprofits across the city provide.

A lot of the times as seniors, they're retired, they're out the loop.

So when you have an opportunity to bring the information and services directly to them, they feel a lot more empowered.

And it's one of the best ways of how we build community is to inform each other, keep each other in the loop with what's happening, and you have an opportunity to mastermind different ways that we can get the information to them in ways that they can contribute to what they also want to see and not just what we want to offer.

We've received some great feedback from community members, and we are happy to continue hosting these events.

Right now, we are aiming to host at least one event at a different council district each month.

It's really essential for all programs if we're gonna thrive and provide services that are well meaning.

A lot of times people are interested in doing one off events, but I think when you can have a web, it generates that real care that can grow, and you can be so creative, and then when you combine the resources, I think the sky is the limit.

Mayor Bass issues an emergency executive order related to the Palisades.

A new guide will support City of LA child care providers, and the LA Zoo now has two Tasmanian Devils on view.

The stories up next on City Beat.

Following an executive order by California Governor Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass has issued an emergency executive order to prohibit Senate Bill 9 within a very high fire hazard severity zone.

Bass noted developers could have changed single family lots into multiple residences, further challenging ingress and egress in the fire damage palisades.

According to Bass, Senate Bill 9 was not originally intended to be used in the rebuilding of a community decimated by the worst natural disaster LA has ever seen.

Under this emergency executive order, the City of LA will not accept or process applications for projects within the Palisades Fire Area.

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

The community investment for families department has partnered with Councilmember Nithya Rahman to launch a new child care toolkit.

The starting strong guide is designed to help in the process of beginning and growing child care businesses and to give support to existing child care operations.

The community investment for families department reports that in the last decade, the city of LA has had a significant shortage in licensed child care, with only 22% of children up to age five having licensed care.

According to Council Member Raman, this community investment in child care providers will have an impact on future generations of Angelinos.

For more information, visit communityinvestment.lacity.gov/slash articles.

In partnership with the Australian government, the LA Zoo has received two Tasmanian devils named Danny Zuko and Crush.

Tasmanian devils are indigenous only to Tasmania, an island state of Australia where they are the top predator.

According to LA Zoo, Tasmanian devils are marsupials with the strongest fight force relative to body size of any mammal.

This is the first time in five years that the zoo has Tasmanian devils, and they can now be seen in the animals of Australia Habitat.

For more information, visit lazoo.org.

This small garden at the fire station in Woodland Hills is really only a patch, but into this patch goes a lot of community hearts, and the seeds that have been planted there are now yielding some real fruits and veggies.

So we are here at Fire Station 84.

We are going to be taking a look at the very abundant summer garden that we first started about a year ago.

We've had four seasons now, and everything's thriving.

So this seemed like a good time to show everyone what we're up to here at Station 84 in Woodland Hills.

Okay, well, there were a bunch of rose bushes that were not being taken care of.

I went around, I asked everyone, does anyone care about them?

And the response I got commonly was do whatever you want with them.

I fortunately teamed up with one of the local community members named Jill.

She called her the plant lady, and she had a pretty heavy hand in making this garden happen.

So we kind of immediately got to work planning the concept, and it's just gone so much better than we could have even hoped for.

A lot of people are surprised how small the garden is, but it produces a big volume of produce and vegetables, and I think it's great.

So it supplements what the firefighters are already cooking.

I mean, we kind of all know a pound of tomatoes is kind of expensive.

So it does offset the cost of their food bills a little bit.

Having fresh fruits and vegetables does taste different and it's rewarding.

It brings me joy.

I think it's great for all of us mentally.

It helps us out.

It also builds community, and I think that's something really special about gardens.

It brings people together, and that's something that this garden has also been doing where the community is coming out.

So we are inspiring people.

First it wasn't easy, but it's come together in such a magical way that I'm pretty stoked about it.

Hearse is a lasting legacy, which began with her wish to learn how to read.

The extraordinary life of Dr.

Mary McLeod Bethune was honored by the Los Angeles Public Library at the branch that bears her name.

Today we're celebrating the memory of Dr.

Mary McLeod Bethune.

We've been dedicated to her memory.

I really thought this would be a great time.

Her 150th birthday.

We have a library that's named for our founder, and it does such wonderful work here in the community, and it's been here for a while.

We were so proud and so happy to get that invitation to come and do this presentation here at this library.

And we have uh four or five readers talking to us about the legacy of Dr.

Bethun and the work they're doing for the community.

You're happy to see all these smiling faces.

But then I'm gonna let the other ladies kind of share some input from their own personal experiences.

I look at her as a role model whose legacy transcended decades after decades after decades.

What I uh really like to say in reading about um Mary McCloud Ladoo was uh a full-circled moment for us as women right now.

To honor this woman who I don't even know what is just amazing, and the more I've grown with NCNW, the more I learns about her.

Her parents were slaves, and she was told that she could never be educated, and her one wish was to learn to read.

Once she learned to read, the world was open to her, and she just went from there.

She was the first um African American lady who worked with a number of different organizations.

She was actually president of the NAACP one time.

She was president of the Urban League one time.

She figured out that there was power in numbers.

So she wanted to put everyone together so that they could have one voice.

And that rest still resonates today because the issues that we had then are the issues that we still have now.

The sun's out, and there's no better time for getting the community together and hanging out at the Rec Center, especially when water's involved.

Everyone gets to jump in before the summer slides away.

This is our summer kickoff bash, so we're welcoming the summer to our community.

We've got water jumpers, we've got food, we've got icy's.

Basically, what this is is we're telling the community the summer's here.

We want to get the community members together at the Rec Center.

We're here with Resilient.

It's a community outreach program.

And again, it's all about making wonderful safe summer for our community.

We're offering goodie bags for the kids, including backpacks and school supplies for back to school.

All our kids are going back to school in a month or so.

Um, and we have a lot of activities here for the kids: water slides, jumpers, face painting, and we're serving lunch for all the members of the community to come by here.

In spite of recent events, we just want people to know that the city of Los Angeles is still here for them.

It cares about them.

It wants them to know that we have resources, we have numbers they can call, we have programs that can help them.

Unfortunately, a lot of them might not know about this, and we just are here today spreading the word, letting them know that it's here for them.

Hey, you guys come over here.

It's a great opportunity to bring people from the community together.

You know, a lot of times in these kind of neighborhoods, we might be neighbors, but we might not be friends, and this is a perfect opportunity for us to come and meet each other and get together and break bread all in one place.

The Los Angeles Public Library has a lot more than books on offer.

Step in to the Mid Valley Branch Library, and you could be stepping up your physical and mental health.

This is the spot for welcoming and enthusiastic community class of Zumba.

Here at the Mid Valley Library today, we have our weekly Zumba class on Saturday mornings.

The 9:30 class is for adults, and we have a 1030 session for children.

It's sponsored by our friends of the Midnight Alley Library.

We love to come, my daughter and I, because we like to help our help.

We feel more comfortable, more happy after the class.

We have an enthusiastic group of adults that come every week for the class.

They like to get out, they like to meet people in the community.

It helps them move around and exercise and stay sharp and stay fit.

And it's all free here at the library too.

I'm so happy the community is actually providing this.

This is something that everybody needs to step in because actually you get socialization and you get to exercise.

Everybody in the class bonds.

We have a great enthusiastic instructor that's here.

She is actually the best instructor.

It makes you feel like you're a family.

There's no requirements for the class for you to show up, walk in, sign a waiver form, and you're all good to go.

Just come ready to exercise, come with your sneakers.

It's also really nice to enjoy with other people.

We meet people, we enjoy, we laugh.

So come on and join us.

Why are you missing out?

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is located at Barnstall Art Park.

The park has five different entities.

We have the Hollyhawk House, we have Residence Ape, we have the Junior Arts Center, we have the gallery theater, and we have the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

So the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery was established in 1954.

And they had a number of exhibitions in here until 1971, when the current building was constructed, and this 10,000 square foot gallery is now able to exhibit even more artists.

The gallery continues after 1971 to really focus on Los Angeles artists.

And in actuality, it is the first institution in Los Angeles that is dedicated to exhibiting only art.

We actually predate LACMA in becoming a museum of art.

One of our unique qualities is that we do not have a collection.

We are always changing exhibitions.

All the exhibitions at the Municipal Art Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting the art of Los Angeles artists.

We have three exhibition periods a year.

We have summer, fall, and spring.

Every year, we also exhibit the annual Cola Exhibition, which is the Department of Cultural Affairs award to mid-career artists.

The gallery is free, so you're able to come in and see these exhibitions and learn about new artists sometimes before they've even been featured in a gallery.

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery provides this space as an outlet for artists, and it's so important to continue to support the art as a medium for our community to respond to the issues that are occurring in our world today.

The arts are incredibly important.

They provide that additional outlet for our community to express themselves and to learn from others.

The municipal art gallery can be a place where dialogue can occur between different groups and learning about diverse issues that are happening in our society today.

It is so inspiring to see the visitors coming into the gallery and engaging with the art.

How do the visitors get to learn about something new, uh, be challenged by ideas that different artworks promote and also see beauty.

To really honor and promote the arts and local artists.org or following us on Instagram at Lamag Barnstall.

We are very prominent on uh social media.

In this week's things to do, enjoy open-air theater in Griffith Park.

Catch some kitshi culture and history at the Central Library and dig in for an LA Sanitation Home Composting Workshop.

All the subnects on things to do.

If it's summer, it must be the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival.

This year, the independent Shakespeare Company also presents Marlowe's Dr.

Faustus.

In the play, a mysterious scholar wishes to master the dark arts and strikes a deal with the devil to make it happen.

Dr.

Fossus takes to the stage from Wednesday through Sunday, beginning on August 6th.

Enjoy theater under the stars at the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival with Dr.

Faustus, playing Wednesdays through Sundays at 7 p.m.

from August the 6th until the 31st.

Find out more at culture.lacity.gov slash events.

Join LA's public library for a fun-filled afternoon of storytelling with pop culture author Charles Phoenix.

Known as the King of Retro.

Phoenix is a mid-century pop culture expert, performer, and collector celebrating classic and kitschy American life and style.

On Sunday, August 17th, Phoenix is bringing some of today's most vibrant historians together, including Foo Hauser, Merch Motel, and The Hood Historian.

Come and learn something new about the city you live in.

Or Charles Phoenix with special guests on Sunday, August 17th at two PM.

For more information, visit LAPL.org slash events.

LA Sanitation and Environment presents a series of local workshops and on Saturday, August 16th.

Learn how easy it is to compost at home.

Head to the South LA Wetlands for home composting and urban gardening on Saturday, August 16th at nine a.m.

For more information, visit Sanitation.gov.

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

And that's all for this week.

I'm Natalia Belvale, and from all of us here in LA this week, thank you so much for joining us.

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

See you next time for more LA This Week.

Sobre All right, good morning and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting here at Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Wednesday, the thirteenth day of August of the year twenty twenty five.

Public comment for today's meeting will be taken in person in this chamber during this morning's meeting.

Mr.

Clerk must begin our proceedings by calling a role.

Yes, Mr.

President Blumenfilm, Herr Stassen, Hernandez, Hutt, Jurado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Patilla, Park, Price, Ramen, Rodriguez, Sor Martinez, Yaroslavski, ten members present in the corner, Mr.

President.

First order of business.

Approval of the minutes of August twelfth, two thousand twenty-five.

Mr.

McCosker moves, Mr.

Blumenville seconds.

What's next?

Coming to our resolutions for approval.

Council Member Buddy moves, Councilmember Rodriguez, seconds.

What's next?

Mr.

President, items one through twenty-eight are items notice for public hearing.

Items twenty nine through fifty-four are items for which public hearings have been held.

The Arts Parks Libraries and Community Enrichment Committee Report has been submitted for item 54 and is available online in council file number two five-eight one nine.

Items fifty-five through seventy-two are items for which public hearings have not been held.

Item seventy two is for a verbal update with no action to be taken.

Council may resist into closed session for this item.

Item seventy three through eighty are closed session items considered by the budget and finance committee.

Item eighty one is a closed session item considered by the public works committee.

Items eighty two and eighty-three are closed session items for which public hearings have not been held.

All right, those items are now before us.

And for the record for item 16, that would be continued to Wednesday, February 11th, 2026.

Is there a second to the motions to receive and file items 10 and 15?

Second.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

And then also item 51 for uh separate vote and remarks.

All right, item 5-1.

All right, Councilmember Park.

Thank you.

Council President.

Um, on 19, I would like to receive and file the lead.

All right.

Is there a second to this motion?

Thank you.

Councilmember Hernandez.

Thanks, Council President.

I would like to call items 40, 41, and 42 for a separate vote.

And I would like to continue item number one to October 17th.

And I have a technical amendment for item 67 to change the date from September 16th to September 15th.

Is there a second to this motion?

Thank you.

Councilmember Woodall?

Thank you.

Councilmember Hutt.

Good morning, Mr.

Chair.

I'd like to continue item number 18 to October 15.

October 15?

That's right.

Without objection.

Thank you.

All right.

Councilmember.

Thank you, Council President.

I would like to receive and file item 25.

I also move to adopt the H and H report dated July 30th for item 37.

And for item 25, is there a second to this motion to receive and file the leave?

Thank you.

All right, Councilmember Nazarian.

Thank you, Council President.

Uh, move to receive and file item number two.

All right.

Is there a second to this motion?

Thank you.

All right.

Uh what's next, Ms.

Clerk?

Mr.

President, the council may now vote on items 29 through 39.

43 through 50.

And 52 through 54.

Alright, those items are now before us.

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

139.

All right, what's next?

Mr.

President, the council may now move on to closed session items 73 through 80 considered by the budget and finance committee.

Alright, Councilmember Yarosowski.

Thank you, Council President.

Budget and Finance considered and approved items 73 through 80 in committee on August 5th.

I recommend we approve these items.

Alright.

So those items are now before us.

And if I may sir uh read the settlement amounts, thank you, Mr.

President.

For item 73 in the case entitled Robert Sargizian versus Marvin Gonzalez et al.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 200,000 in settlement.

For item 74 in the case entitled Sarkiz Collagen et al.

versus City of Los Angeles, that's all.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 425,000 in settlement.

For item 75 in the case entitled Matthew Parenti versus City of Los Angeles at all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 349,999.99 cents in settlement.

For item 76 in the case entitled David Kingolan's at all versus Edwin Sanchez at all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to $340,000 in settlement.

For item 77 in the case entitled Lehia Ramirez et al.

versus City of Los Angeles at all.

There is a recommendation to expend up to $895,000 in settlement.

For item 78 in the case entitled Anthony Doyen versus City of Los Angeles.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 1,150,000 in settlement.

For item 79 in the case entitled Lee Newsom versus City of Los Angeles at all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 2,811,353.

And for item 80 in the case entitled Morner Kelly et al.

versus City of Los Angeles at all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 120,000 in settlement.

All right, those items are now before us.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Nice.

All right, what's next?

Mr.

President, the council may now move on to closed session item 81 considered by the public works committee.

All right.

Do we have a recommendation from the Public Works committee.

Who's to continue the item?

Actually, it would be 81, uh considered by the Public Works committee in closed session.

And uh for item 81 in the case uh relative to the federal highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation, Administrative Case Numbers 2021-0226, and 2023-0106.

There's a recommendation to approve the city attorney's recommendation.

Alright, uh that item is before us.

Let's open the roll, close the roll.

Tabulate to vote.

All right, what's next?

The council may now move on to public comment.

All right.

Uh Mr.

Clerk, I have a uh motion to continue item one three, which we may have already voted on for six months, in as much a payment plan has been agreed to.

And sir, uh that would be item one, sir.

Item one, three, thirteen.

Thank you.

And that would be Wednesday, February 11, 2026.

All right.

Before we go to public comment, uh we have a very special announcement from Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Colleagues, uh, today I'm honored to recognize the upcoming 80th anniversary of Korean Independence Day.

I should say Councilmember Hutt and I are recognizing the upcoming 80th anniversary of Korean Independence Day on August 15th.

Uh normally uh we would hold this event and host this event on Friday uh to for a bigger celebration, but because it's the 80th anniversary, uh, there are events planned around the Korea town area, and because this is an incredibly special day for Koreans across the globe as it commemorates the day on which Koreans regain sovereignty from colonial rule.

For Koreans everywhere, this day represents the courage, resilience, and sacrifice of those who secured Korea's independence after decades of colonial rule.

Every year, but especially this year, on its 80th anniversary, we proudly remember resistance leaders, activists, and everyday citizens who refuse to let their nation's identity be erased.

Today, uh Korea's presence on the world's trade stage is stronger than ever.

From K-pop to K-beauty, Korean culture has become a vibrant part of everyday life for millions around the globe.

These cultural achievements not only showcase the creativity and innovation of Korean people, but also foster connections that transcend borders.

As we recognize this important milestone, let us honor the struggles that won Korea's freedom, celebrate the achievements of Korean people everywhere, and reaffirm our commitment to building connections across cultures.

I also want to acknowledge the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles for its decades of dedicated service to our community, including preserving Korean heritage, amplifying our voices, and bringing generations together across Los Angeles.

And I personally like to thank Councilmember Hutt for her involvement in the different activities and putting up the banners to announce the celebration of our 80th anniversary.

And I'm also proud to be joined by Kafla, Korean American Federation of Los Angeles President Robert On, who leads this incredible organization and works day in and day out to keep Los Angeles and our Korean community moving forward.

Mr.

On, do you mind saying a few words?

Thank you, Councilmember.

Uh Council Member Lee, first of all, I want to thank you always for uh representing Korean Americans so well.

Uh, we're very proud of you, and we we uh always appreciate your your support.

Councilmember Hutt, uh, thank you so much for the banners and for providing the support for the event we have this coming Friday.

Uh Council President, thank you for accommodating us today um each and every year on 8 15 Korean Independence Day, Koreans all over the world.

We celebrate and commemorate Korea's liberation 80 years ago.

We honor the freedom fighters and all those individuals that fought for independence and for freedom and which paved the way for future generations and modern day Korea as we know it today.

So we thank you again for allowing us to be here today for joining in on the commemoration.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Commissioner On, Councilmember Lee.

Council Member Hutt.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I would like to invite everyone out on Friday night at 9 30 at 200th spring, where we will be able to see the illumination.

Councilmember Lee is uh illuminating on the 14th.

I am illuminating on the 15th.

So we will have a strong celebration.

Please join me at 200 North Spring, 9 30 p.m., so that we can see the illumination.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Uh Mr.

Quirks, Clerk's city attorney, if you can prepare us for public comment.

Which uh members in the gallery, it is now uh 25 minutes after 10 a.m.

Excuse me, Mr.

President.

Uh, there is a request to reconsider item 35 for consideration of a motion to adopt the housing homelessness committee report.

All right, can we do that without objection or do we need a vote?

Uh we need a uh introduction of the motion and a second sir.

So I would need to vote on the reconsideration for first, all right.

So is there a motion to reconsider?

Thank you, Council President.

I put forward a motion to reconsider item 35.

All right, seconded by council member Raman.

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

Nice.

Alright, and and uh so now what's before us?

Before us before the council is the motion to adopt the housing and homelessness committee report, sir.

Is there first and a second?

First, Raman seconds.

Thank you.

All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote, 14 nice, all right.

And if the council would like to vote on item 37 now, sir.

Um, okay, let's open the roll on 37, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 eyes.

All right, what's next?

Council may now vote on items 40, 41, and 42.

Call special by council member Hernandez for a separate vote.

All right.

Let's open the roll on those items.

Call special by council member Hernandez for a separate vote.

Open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Raw rise, two nose.

Alright, what's next?

The council may now consider item 51, call special by council member Rodriguez for a separate vote and remarks.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Thank you, colleagues.

And um, I want to thank Mr.

Blumenfield for his amendment to ensuring that uh the lot that is going to be made available by this action is actually going to be accessible to all of us uh in the city and not limited to uh any one particular operation.

But colleagues, I I just wanted to again flag because one of the frustrations that I know so many taxpayers continue to uh reflect on is the fact that we need to really get our hands around the expenditures associated with the work uh on homelessness, and unfortunately, as I've continued to request, and I appreciated that there's been some substantial report backs that have come as a result of the inside safe operations, what continues to be left blank and pending, dating back to 2023, is an accounting for how these dollars are being spent.

So going back to 2023, we're still not getting a detailed report of the expenditures associated with Inside Safe.

We're not getting an accounting for how much each uh facility and what the uh services that are being provided, we're not getting a detailed accounting, and this goes back to 2023.

Now, we don't have to remind ourselves of the fiscal crisis that we're in, but how are we going to have an honest conversation about how we get our hands around this about how much is being spent on this effort?

What it's truly costing at a time when we are watching so many taxpayers and so many residents in Los Angeles that continue to struggle to make ends meet.

So I say this to you to say that I I recognize that you know this is a report, there's procedurally um advancing some marked progress in terms of identifying facilities that we can utilize for the disposition and temporary placement of RVs.

However, one of the issues that continues to just rub me the wrong way, is that the centralized effort in the mayor's office for this boutique program is not delivering the accountability for the dollars that it's been afforded to implement this program.

And so when everyone asks, where's the money, we should be able to have a detailed accounting.

And going back to 2023, we're still not getting it.

There's been ample time to update these records, and the mayor's office continues to just thumb their nose at us.

So I'm going to continue to vote no because this report is incomplete, and we should not be accepting non-answers in reports to the council when it comes to fiscal accountability.

So I will be casting a no vote.

Thank you.

All right.

Let's uh open the roll on this item.

Close the roll.

So I would like to vote.

13 nice.

One no.

Alright, what's next?

Mr.

President, the council may not proceed to public comment.

Alright, it's uh 10 30 now, so we will uh take public comment up to 11 30 and a.

We'll take as many people as we can.

So please, speakers, uh be respectful of the other speakers here.

Get to the mic as quickly as you can and start and uh leave the podium as soon as your time is done so the next person can start.

Mr.

Clerk, Mr.

City Attorney.

Yes, Mr.

President.

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.

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 are on topic, you will get one 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 are items two through twelve, items fourteen fifteen.

Mr.

Herman, this is your first and only formal warning.

Do not disrupt me trying to give instructions to the room and letting everybody, including yourself, know which items are open for public comment.

If you disrupt this meeting again, you'll be subject to removal pursuant to rule seven and rule twelve.

Apologies.

The items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items two through twelve, fourteen through fifteen, seventeen, nineteen through twenty-eight, fifty-five through seventy-two, and eighty-two through eighty and eighty-three.

So again, let me repeat the items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items two through twelve, fourteen and fifteen, seventeen, nineteen through twenty-eight, fifty-five through seventy-two, and eighty-two and eighty-three.

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 a city's subject matter jurisdiction.

A couple more announcements if I could have the interpreters make this first one aloud for 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 as the council president has stated, we are going to take public comment until 11:30 or until if we exhaust before that, then we will end before that.

In order to help us run an efficient public comment, we would ask that you please wait until you hear the name you signed up under called aloud over the speakers before lining up.

The order in which the names are called are at random.

It is randomly generated.

So again, please wait till you hear your name called aloud.

Once you do so, once you hear that name, you can line up in any order on your left-hand side of the council chambers.

Thank you.

I'll begin calling names.

George Buzzetti, Dana, and Dynapoli.

Good morning, speaker.

Which items would you like to speak to?

You don't mean good morning to me.

Because you guys hate my ass.

So are 38 and 39 open to speak to?

Come on, give me an answer.

No, they are not.

The public comment was already held.

Switch to what I signed up again on uh wings one through six.

Something I have a lot of expertise with.

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

Please begin with the items.

Are you guys aware that in your joint powers authority?

Five year plan that you budgeted to take 500 pieces of property.

Any of you aware of that?

I know you're not.

But I have that plan.

And that's what you're up to doing.

You took my friend's $550,000 piece of property, made her and her husband homeless.

Police found him when he got lost in a trash can head first down in it.

You're so nice, aren't you?

And you, Mr.

City Attorney, we're gonna take your damn bar license and put you in jail with criminal charges.

So you're more than welcome to talk about it during general public comment, but for the agenda items comment, please stick to the agenda items.

This is your first one.

I think it has to do with it because you're a party to this action on liens, bud.

So maybe you need to learn the law since you don't know it.

Okay, we've polite you ask you to stick to the agenda items.

You failed to do so.

I'm gonna move you to general public comment.

Uh, one minute.

I still have item 72 here since you don't pay attention to nothing.

You don't know the law, you got no concentration in your brain.

You're acting like Trumpler.

So how is it that you so-called smart ass people do a deal with Gibson Dunn and Crutcher for 900 grand for three years, and you let them run up 1.8 million in two weeks.

Everything in this agenda item in your agenda, under have you analyzed any fiscal responsibility?

You're so smart that you can't even figure out what it takes me an hour or two to figure out financially.

When we were in court, we heard your city attorney slime that judge, Judge Carter, his people, the federal court systems nationally, every federal job.

Speaker, your time is expired.

Next speaker.

Speaker, you were warned to get on topic for the agenda items.

You failed to do so.

So we moved you to general public comment.

Your time is expired.

You are now disrupting this meeting, so I'm gonna ask politely, please vacate the podium so we can move on to the next speaker.

This is your first and only formal warning.

Do not continue to disrupt this meeting, or else you'll be subject to removal and exclusion pursuant to rule seven and rule twelve.

So, Mr.

President, the speaker is refusing to leave the podium and is continuing to disrupt public comment.

He is eligible for removal as he has been warned previously.

Next speaker.

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

Nigeria, Ron, and Christine Rodriguez.

Good morning, speaker.

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

Go ahead.

Number 64 is about providing more tree planting services.

I'm here to support this item because me and my friend Dana, we always like to play on the trees.

But however, right now we are struggling in the city of LA because we have no more trees to climb onto.

So right now, this item is specifically working with the community partners uh to make sure we are extending the contract.

We are planting more trees.

So people like me, people like Dana, people like me and Dana, we can continue to go on on top of the trees and we can play on top of the trees.

So, yes.

Second of all, I want to add on this item that I want to make sure uh there should be another at least the minimum 25,000 trees in the city of LA because City of LA is a so big, big city.

We need a 25,000 more trees.

Now let's move on to item number um let's try item number 66.

Uh the item number 66 is for two additional security officers for the Runyang Kanye Park.

Yes, I am here to support this item, but however, um I am here to advocate.

We want five LAPD officers in this park, security officers does not work because your security officer just stand right there doing nothing.

We want to make sure we have five fully armed uh LAPD officers running, protecting securing this park.

Because last time, me and Dana, we were playing on the on this park.

There are so many people, gang bangers, cartel.

They jump on us, and uh all of both of us, me and Dana, we gotta beat up.

So we need more safety on this part.

So me and Dana, we can continue to go back to this park to play now.

Let's move on to item number um item number 67.

Item number 67.

It is about the uh Mexican Independence Day.

Um, I am here to disagree with this item because um because this is this country is the United States of America, and then I am here to advocate the American Independence Day, but however, our council member, like for example, Eunicis Hernandez, our council member Soto Martinez, they are continuing to recognize the Mexican holiday.

I think you both of them chose the wrong job, they are supposed to be the Mexican council member, not the American council member.

That's the part I'm confused because Dana and I, we are trying to acknowledge the American tradition.

We are here to observe the American holiday.

We don't really care about whatever Mexican cartel or whatever whatsoever.

Now, during the general public comment, um I am here uh to inform our uh family from uh smoking scan that to make sure we are going to elect council member Spindler into the office.

We are going to defeat Hernandez, we're gonna win win win win win to the point that you got tired of winning, and now what President Trump is saying, like, oh no, we haven't even got started, but we're gonna continue win win win win win.

That's the what that that's exactly what is going to happen in 2026.

Uh Council District 1 uh election uh council member Spindler will take over the city council.

We're gonna make sure to eliminate all of the woke, all of the corrupt, all of the criminal from the city council.

Make sure council member Spindler will clean house.

Uh, uh at least I received the sunglasses from Dana, very pink.

Uh, I love it.

I received the shirt from Dana, uh, very pink.

I love it.

Uh, thank you very much, Dana, for your support, and I will continue to support you and support your family smoking scan.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning, speaker.

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

Go ahead.

God bless America.

God bless Donald J.

Trump.

So, this is your first only warning.

I need you to stick to the agenda items for your first three minutes.

You know the rules, you're here at almost every meeting.

I should be able to provide an introduction to my topic, a number 67 without your further introduction.

Then please speak to item 67.

Now, if you're here to pr protect Mexican Day, well, that tells me you're against Donald J.

Trump, our president.

So stop interfering.

Let me try to comprehend my intelligence before your ignorance and stupidity of an idiot gets involved in my public.

So you're welcome to insult me during general public comment, but for now, please stick to the agenda item.

Now to the dumbass to my left here, everyone and smoking scan, there she is.

CD6, the property located at 7-708 North Beck Avenue, Miss Padilla.

What are you gonna do about it?

That's a lot of money to make someone homeless.

That's a lot of money for one Hispanic or black or minority to come with.

If you're here with the lien, I demand you come here on this podium and put on record your lien and ask for a receipt.

Because if not, these douchebags like that douchebag over there, that dumbass is CD6 will do the same.

And by the way, look at three items.

Three items 15, 16, and 17, you moron.

Current price.

A convicted felon.

Why is he?

He was all over the news last night, smeared by his manipulation of bad development and corruption with his two fucking wives.

Why is that smoking scam?

I'm gonna ask that your last chance to connect the two items or you can speak to it during general public comment.

Is located at 423 East 25th Street.

So I am on topic.

Fuck you.

My last item regarding the goddamn motherfucking bullshit about alliance versus rights on the city of Los Angeles for one point eight million taxpayers dollars.

Thank yourself.

Thank yourself for paying these assholes for two weeks of work because that moron up there can't do business on behalf of the public's interest.

You dumbass, big head with that dot on your first smoking scan.

Brandenburg versus Ohio.

A Supreme Court warning, everyone, under 395, 1969, specifically states, send the Jews back to Israel.

Why is that?

Because they control the money tree in this city and my pants.

But when we get Ms.

Hernandez on a district one, everyone in Los Angeles.

Everyone is smoking scat.

Every white MF like me is gonna say, vote for Wayne Spindler, and not for Duarte, the three-inch dick over there, sergeant, because we know fat burger is nothing without cheese, and won't grill her onion fat ass.

So everyone in the roll knows, and your time is expired.

Please vacate the podium so we can move on to the next speaker.

I would note that you've already been warned.

So if you disrupt this meeting again, you'll be subject to removal and exclusion.

Good morning, speaker.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I wanted to speak on 35.

Can I still do that?

So 35 is not open for public comment because we took it at committee, but you can speak to it during general.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Okay.

Got it.

My name is Christine.

I'm a renter in Pasadena.

I work for tenants who are going through evictions.

I also am in the Pasadena Housing Rental Board.

I'm coming here as an individual on behalf of the rental brigade.

We've been tracking rent gouging after the fires.

And regarding item number 35, I just really want to encourage you folks to uh work with the city attorney so that we can get some data about what's going on with rent couching.

I feel like there has not been a lot of data, so it's hard to make informed decisions about how to enforce rent couching.

I'm hoping that with the data that is able to be gathered about who is getting rent gouged, how much and how long that's been going on, we can really be able to hold uh landlords accountable for you know increasing the prices for rents uh after a traumatic event such as losing your home in a fire or having to be displaced in the fire.

Um, I want to thank the city council for again putting this item on the agenda, and really want to encourage you to let's get that data.

Let's see what's going on so that we can make informed decisions and hold people accountable.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

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

Edward Flores, Young Chun, Adam Smith, and Carlos Campero.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Groat, could you get a hold of this room?

Because everybody was talking over the last speaker, and that's just completely rude.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Uh, and for the record, I signed up as Ronar Test.

I would like to speak on items 16, 17, 62 in general comment.

Okay, so item 17 isn't open for public comment, but you have three item minutes, you can obviously speak during general.

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

Go ahead.

Still a lot of chatter going on, but I'll move on.

Items 16, 17, 62 are all related to council district nine.

And in light of the new charges, I hereby ask for a complete and total shutdown of current prices items until we figure out what the hell is going on.

Uh the most fascinating part about this and why we have to wonder about these items is when he failed to recuse himself, apparently prices staff had flagged the items of interest prior to the votes.

Weird.

And I just think you should know that a little birdie is informed me that there might be more to come regarding CD9.

Uh, the people of LA started calling you out as the clown show because you don't pay attention, because you can't sit in your seats, and because one by one by one, you keep on dropping like flies.

We're Englander, Ridley Thomas, Martinez, Sadio, DeLeon, Price, Lee.

All in just five years.

And you want to talk about other people being a circus, a clown show.

Some people around here pretend to have a hokey dokey Ned Flanders energy, and really got a sideshow Bob energy.

And on that note, I have to have a heart to heart with Councilmember Blumenfield, wherever he is.

I worry he's on the wrong path.

And then I'm gonna have to expose the true nature of Sideshow Bob to a wider audience.

General comment.

Bro, you have a modest the audacity of this guy to appoint a closeted Trump supporter to the Charter Commission for the sole purpose of rigging it to the far right, appointing a blind bull in a China shop who will do nothing more than serve as a kamikaze for anything good, to appoint someone who's repeatedly referred to a full third of this council as being part of the crazy train.

And that crazy train doesn't just include the lefties, it includes people like our esteemed and honorable council president.

I'd really prefer not to get messy, but if you leave me no choice, so be it.

We will have a side show.

You may be termed out, but this will follow you and anyone around here who goes along with it.

Some of you, Councilmember Park, just to make an example, might be a conservative Democrat, but she's not really in a position right now to associate someone who talks about illegal aliens and peeling back special order 40.

You might have to start asking, I might have to start asking how your anointed successor in CD3 feels about this choice.

I'm not gonna wait around long.

I'll give you a couple days to clean it up.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

My name is Edward Flores.

I'm speaking only general public comment off the agenda.

One minute, go ahead.

Very good, thank you.

My name is Edward Flores.

I am a member of the Alberta Street Merchants Association, also a merchant on Alberta Street owner of Juanitas Cafe, which is 81 years old this year.

And I'm also a neighborhood council member.

The reason I'm here is because I've never seen the visitorship so down on Albera Street since the height of COVID, and that's because of two factors.

The Ice Rates have diminished the visitorship from the Hispanic community, but also because of the use reutilization of Albera Street as a staging ground for protest.

I understand that the intentions are well.

However, utilizing that space for that purpose constantly, as it's been happening for the last couple of months, has scared away many of the visitors, many foreigners and people that would otherwise come to Albera Street and visit that place.

People that don't want to be involved with activism, and so I'm asking that you put a halt to that.

It's also been very neglected.

We have a lot of mental illness there, insufficient funding for marketing and other events.

And so I hope that you'll work in revitalizing Almera Street.

Thank you.

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

Angela Birdsong, Solis, Christopher Dorner, and Audit LA.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

64.

Good morning, Council.

My name is Carlos Campero, and I'm the executive director of City Plants.

Uh, I want to thank uh all of you actually for your support.

Uh I've actually physically planted trees with some of you throughout the city of Los Angeles, both as in my time as executive director of city plants, but also during my 35 years at the LA Conservation Court.

And I'm here today just to um ask you if you would please consider approving our extension through December 31st.

And then another item that I hope I don't get in trouble for mentioning.

Um, there is a request from the city attorney's office to start a request for proposal, uh, an RFP process.

Unfortunately, there isn't an RFP in place, and there isn't an agency within the city to start the RFP, which unfortunately will cause a pause of up to potentially a year, and services of trees.

And these are trees that we plant and provide to residents of the city of Los Angeles, specifically uh to uh underserved communities.

Sorry, good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I will be speaking to items uh number seventy-two and general comment, please.

Okay, so you have one minute for the item and one minute for general.

So you'll see one minute on the clock.

That's for the item.

Once that's done, we'll give you an additional minute for general public comment.

So go ahead.

It'll be a continuous talking point.

Thank you.

Okay, hello.

My name is Angela Birdsong.

I'm speaking on item 72 and general comment.

I'm a housing rights coordinator for Los Angeles Community Action Network, better known as LA Can.

While the city attorney is happily paying 1.8 million dollars to a private law firm pursuant to a sole source contract for 13 days of work, at the same time, the city attorney blew up the say Stay House LA sole source contract with several negative consequences, including there is no rental assistance for tenants because the 2025 to 2026 ULA budget has been allocated to Stay House LA.

There's no rental assistance.

Tenants are being displaced needlessly, while 3.7 million in ULA rental assistance sits in the city coffers and can't be used for anything else.

There is not enough money to provide legal services for seven months while the RFP is in process.

This will mean Stay House LA would have to stop providing legal services for before the seven months is up.

Even though there is 39 million dollars of ULA eviction defense money sitting in the city coffers that can't be used for anything else.

The city attorney is present presently right now auditing legal aid foundation of Los Angeles.

Legal services for poor people, but signing a blank check for a white shoe law firm to represent the city.

Why is the city so willing to pay private attorneys 1,295 per hour, but not pay for services approved with money that was specifically allocated for that purpose?

1.8 million could pay rental assistance for approximately 150 households and eviction defense for services for approximately 240 households.

This reverse Robin Hood is an unnecessary evil action by the city attorney.

Thank you.

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

Michael Ackerman, Jason Reedy, Zakotel, Josie McCoy, Miyasha, Smoking Skin, Sabra, and King Chong.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Um, I'll just say all items and general public comment.

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

Thank you.

Where did Grote go?

I was gonna tell him how much I missed him over the break.

Uh let's start with item 66.

Um, so apparently, when Councilmember Raman was calling to defund the police in her campaign, she meant defund the police and give that money to private security.

Um we also have item 72 regarding LA Alliance for Human Rights at all versus City of Los Angeles.

While I disagree with the motives of the plaintiffs in this case, um, I do feel strongly that the way this city has used the issue of our unhoused resident population to funnel money into the hands of highly paid administers, and in a lot of ways it seems tantamount to embezzlement.

Um, I'm I'm glad that the city council is having to reckon with, and I want to thank council member Rodriguez for her thoughtful words and for her no vote on accepting the report from the Housing and Homelessness Committee, um, because we are lacking details, and this is just one example of how refusing to simply provide housing to the unhoused and to take drastic steps to make existing homes affordable, is costing the city leaps and bounds more than it would to just house people and keep folks in their apartments.

Um, but if we did that, then these administrators wouldn't have the opportunity to make six-figure salaries on the taxpayers' time.

So I guess that's why we continue to do that.

Um, item 65, lighting up city hall for quote unquote El Grito, which is like the Spanish term for their independence day, but also interestingly enough, um, a traditional call to arms to fight for their independence.

So while I disagree with spending 438 dollars to throw lights on a building in a fiscal crisis, I do agree that we should be echoing a call to arms.

Um this uh dovetails into 67, which is seemingly redundant because again, we're lighting up City Hall for Mexican Independence Day, um, which I think that that is something good to honor, especially while um our city is in cahoots with the federal government as much as it would like to pretend like it's not.

The status of the national special security event renders anything you say against these ice raids useless because the federal government has complete jurisdiction under that status.

Um we shouldn't be throwing 438 dollars to light up city hall in a fiscal emergency.

64 is for tree planting.

Let's plant more trees, but also let's not um bulldoze and uproot trees to build um gentrifying buildings like the one that plum committee discussed uh in Lincoln Heights yesterday.

Let's let's focus on empty commercial space instead.

Holding us back, the president's holding us back, and I thought Krikorion was bad.

Compared to Marquis, he's a Chad.

When we're speaking, the council is not listening if they even stay in the room.

They're with each other chatting.

Oh the disrespect you give to us.

The president is a word that rhymes with hunt, and each of you who ignores us.

Can you think of a word that rhymes with Hunt?

Rhymes with Hunt.

You know that you're that name.

Leave home, come downtown.

Money another weekday now, just to have the city council ignoring us.

Is this America where you censor us?

You wonder why they say that you rhyme with Hunt.

Shout out Smoking Scan, and thank you very much to uh Mr.

McCosker and Nazarian for paying attention.

I appreciate you very much.

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

Donald Harlan, Rob Kwan, Amy Ho, Damian Martin, Andrew Grabner, Tanny Ling, Sophie Hanks, John Christensen, Ellie Oraga, Amara Jackson, Duarte, Scott, Rodney, Phyllis, Stacy, and Mike.

Good morning, Speaker.

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

Go ahead.

Let's see here.

Adam number seventy-two.

We have the Ellie Alliance and your motherfucking outside council.

Let's give Gibson Donut Crutch a big hand for raping Nithya Rama Noodle in the city council on that lawsuit.

Yeah, that's right.

A shout out to Noodle for fucking the city on homelessness.

And a special shout out on the alliance for Moni Cow Contregus.

For willing to testify.

She was willing to testify against the city and give up her colleagues.

Let's give her a hand.

Thank you, Meg.

Now the FBA is gonna call you tomorrow.

Oh, sorry.

We can hold uh Mr.

Spindler's time.

Yes, go ahead, sir.

Yes, sir.

Mr.

Spindler.

What?

You have used one of our forbidden words in violation of Council Rule 7.

This is your only word warning that this word or any variations as described in Rule 7.

When you interrupt me, you're disrupting the meeting.

Mr.

City Attorney, Mr.

Spinner has his first warning for disrupting the meeting.

This word nor any of its uh variations can be rule used in our in this council meeting or any future council meeting or council committee meetings.

If you violate Rule 7 again, you will forfeit your speaking time.

You'll be subject to removal pursuant to rule 7 and 12.

Uh, please start the timer again and do note you have been warned, uh Mr.

Spendler.

And to be clear, that is for the use of the C word.

Go ahead.

So in item seven, on the advice of my counsel, I am exercising my privilege to remain silent under the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, and 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.

On item six, I would love to talk about Amelda and her fraud, but on the advice of counsel, now that I have been accused of a crime, I am hereby exercising my right to remain silent under the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution.

On item number four, I may be called as a witness, possibly against Councilwoman Amilda Padilla, and I hereby exercise my right to privilege to counsel, the right to confidentiality under federal whistleball protections, and under protections under the fourth, fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution.

I would like to talk about Bob Blebenble and the fraud that he's committing on number three.

However, on the advice of council, I will have to exercise my right to remain silent under the Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

I would like to talk about ball headed Nazarian, the goat herder on number two.

However, unfortunately, I will have to remain silent under the former.

And I believe that they are applicable is not on the agenda.

I am touching.

So if you'd like to speak to item number two, you can.

If you do not wish to speak to it, you do not have to do so.

I just stick to the agenda.

I'm going to move you to general public comment.

Go ahead.

Please, I just did.

I am telling you why I have to express my comments the way that I'm doing.

On item number one, regarding hamburger Hernandez and her lean for $3,800.

I would love to talk about the fraud and corruption.

However, on the advice of counsel, I have to remain silent on the matter under the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.

Now, for my general comment, guess who got indicted?

Ha!

Look, he's not here, that little bitch.

That little N-I-G-G-E-R bitch is not here today.

What a fucking shame.

What a loser and word.

I can't believe it.

How do you get indicted when you have government immunity?

I have friends that killed people, and they had government immunity and were never charged.

Did you know that, Eunice?

How can this man with government immunity be charged?

And of course, I brought Eunice a snack.

So in her honor, I will eat this delicious trait.

Mmm.

And I encourage all of you council members to eat this because I want you to work your way up to a stroke, heart disease, AIDS, pancreatic cancer, and lung cancer so that your seats get vacant faster.

So again, fuck you all.

I told you there's two more defendants coming in the case.

Am I on?

People know very well that they're being harmed as a result of police nonfeasance.

And I really don't understand why council members won't take the modest step of asking the governor to intervene.

I think you do it only if.

Excuse me.

I think you'd do it only to show that you're being diligent and so you don't get blamed.

As I've said, the only legitimate excuse for not requesting the National Guard investigators for police oversight is if you are under duress, and that is not an acceptable situation.

Please tell the public why you are refusing to take this zero cost action.

And finally, shout out to Smoking Skin for his unique take.

You have one minute.

Hi, my name is uh King Chung.

The City Council passed a resolution supporting SB 71 in May.

But before the end was tried, a dirty hand inside section three into the proposed lord to support a billionaire.

Do they think the people of Los Angeles are morons?

That we do not see this corruption, and the billionaires are using the money and power to photo benefit themselves.

As you can see, the people finding back.

We want the city to oppose SB 71 unless section three is removed.

Will the city council supported people or supported billionaires?

Please do the right thing.

David Martin, general public comment.

Yeah, one minute.

Thank you.

Good morning, Council President, Council, staff, public.

My name is Damian Martin.

I'm a co-founder and attorney for Catalyst Cannabis Co.

In that role, I spent a great deal of time working on the problem of smoke shops illegally selling cannabis.

So here's my general public comment.

I just wanted to thank Councilmember McCosker for his motion to place a moratorium on smoke shops near sensitive uses in CD 15.

It's a real problem.

These smoke shops sell weed.

They sell nitrous oxide, attracted to children, giant cans of whipped cream, they park right next to schools, they got the doors wide open.

You don't even have to check in, show your ID, nothing.

They sell hot Cheetos, sodas, our things that are attractive to children.

So the real problem related to that.

My son in another city goes to a middle school.

It's right next to one of these smoke shops.

I told the principals that I was working on this problem.

They were so happy about it.

So, you know, there's gonna be a lot of happy principals, teachers, and parents in CD 15.

They should be happy citywide.

This should be a citywide policy.

Thank you very much.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I'm here to speak on item 71.

I'm John Christensen.

I teach and do research in UCLA and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Leskin Center for Innovation.

The resolution at item 71 is a necessary correction of a flawed and surreptitious policy making process with no transparency or any public input that has led to a bad policy in Senate Bill 71, which is now before the state assembly.

This council supported SB 71, a CEQR reform bill on May 23rd.

Six days later, on May 29th, lobbyist Scott Langwich inserted that grants special favor to one project in the entire state.

It also expenses the special status way beyond CEQA to any and all approvals of the local level.

If the city wants to do that, it should be done here in this council, not in Sacramento.

The council is uh can correct this flaw by passing this motion rescinding its support for SB 71, unless section three uh is removed.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh item number 71.

Okay, so you have one minute for the item.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

My name's Tani Ling.

I am a Chinatown resident.

I'm here to speak in support of council item 71.

The motion to rescind support for Senate Bill 71, unless section three is removed.

It's pretty simple.

SP 71 started as a really good transportation bill that would expedite bus lanes, bike lanes, and pedestrian enhancements, and that's what you voted unanimously to support.

Um now it contains a third amendment that allows a fast tracking of a billionaire's private project.

It also undermines local land use rights authorities and decision making, and it's a state legislation that was snuck in and it just targets three areas CD1, 13 and 14.

This is an attack, another attack on our local communities and local control.

So I think this is a no-brainer vote to support council item 71, which asks to rescind support for Senate Bill 71 unless section three is removed.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

71.

Okay, so you have one minute for the item.

Go ahead.

My name is Phyllis Ling.

I'm a resident in Chinatown speaking in support of item 71, the motion to rescind support for SB 71, unless amended to remove section three.

Section three is a special favor for one billionaire, Frank McCort, who spent over 500,000 lobbying Sacramento for it.

Section three doesn't just fast track CEQA review, it would fast track decisions at the city level.

That's not what you voted for when you voted to support SB 71 on May 23rd.

And it was just six days later on May 29th when Section 3 was added.

Now the same people who lobbied for Section 3 are claiming the city supports it.

Don't let them get away with this corrupt and sleazy lie.

It's don't be complicit.

I want to thank council members Hernandez and Gerado for this motion.

Please, Councilmember, support this motion because it's the right thing to do.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Item 71.

Yeah.

My name is Sochin Manzanilla, and I'm a resident of William Holmes.

And I'm see I'm speaking in support of item 71.

The motion to take away support for SB 71 unless Section 3 is removed.

Section 3 is the special favor for one billionaire Frank Macord who spent over 500,000 loving Sacramento for it.

It's really dirty what they are doing.

Trying to go around our communities and take away local control.

That's why Section 3 does in you can let them do that.

You can let them lie about it.

They've been saying that the city supports section three, and that's not true.

Please pass the motion one.

Want to thank Council Member UNICES Hernandez and Council Member Jurado as the other council members to support us.

Thank you.

Hi, morning.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

71.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thanks.

I my name is Amy.

Last name is Hall H O.

And I'm here to support item 71.

And I'm here to beg all our dearest.

And respectful council member, please remove section three.

I'm here.

You know, please focus more on our people's livelihood issues, such as the hospital, facilities, supermarket, and parking, but not to praise to the McCourt, the dynasty, the billionaire.

We don't need him here.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Uh thank you so much, everybody.

Okay, that concludes public comment.

We will uh have a couple quick announcements before we go for business, and a very very special one first from our own council member Raman.

Thank you so much.

I just wanted to welcome my parents, Venkett and Sudar Rahman here to the chambers.

There, they are visiting from uh Boston for a week, and uh they've never seen council in action, so I'm really excited for them to see all the delights and all the oddities.

Thank you.

Thank you so much and welcome, welcome, welcome, enjoy Los Angeles.

Um Councilmember McCosker.

Welcome.

Here's one of those exciting actions.

Uh for items 27 and 28.

I would like to move that we waive the late fees and the interest for both properties.

Property owners came and settled their account.

I'd ask for a second on that motion, all right.

Second it, thank you.

Alright, council member Padilla.

Yes, I'd like to um continue items four and seven till September 10th.

Alright, without objection, Councilmember Park.

Thank you, Council President.

Um, earlier I moved to receive and file item 19.

Um, I'd like to add an additional instruction to waive the late fees and interest.

One more time into the mic, an additional instruction to waive the late fees and interest on item nine.

All right, without objection.

All right.

Um councilmember Rodriguez.

Yes, I'd like to continue item eight to September 10th.

All right, cool.

It's great how these things get worked out.

Uh all right.

What's before us?

Uh Ms.

Court.

Mr.

President, the council may now vote on items two, three, five, six, nine, eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, nineteen through twenty-three, and twenty-five and twenty-six.

Alright, let's open the rolls on those items.

Hold on.

I apologize, Mr.

President.

I believe that there is a new request to continue item three.

One week.

And for the record, that would be Wednesday, August 20th, 2025.

All right.

Let's open the roll on the remaining items.

Close the roll.

Tab you like the vote.

13.

All right, what's next?

Mr.

President, there's a request to continue items eight to once a September 10, 2025.

Without objection.

Thank you, sir.

Item 24 to Wednesday August 27, 2025.

And items 82 and 83 to Friday, August 15, 2025.

Alright, without objection, those would be the orders.

What's next?

The council may now vote on item sixty-seven, call special by council member Hernandez for which an amending motion has been introduced.

Hernandez Jurado to change the date.

All right.

Let's open the roll on that item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Thirteen eyes.

All right, what's next?

The council may now move on to item seventy two for an verbal update.

All right.

Uh, do we have representatives of the city attorney?

Present.

Does it need to be closed?

All right.

Councilmember McCosker.

This is your item 72.

We can do it in open session or closed session.

I think this is a closed session item, please.

All right.

With that, we'll go into closed session.

Thank you.

I'll ask uh the sergeants to prepare the room for closed session.

So that is council members, uh, staff and staff of uh city elected.

Following an executive order by California Governor Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass has issued an emergency executive order to prohibit Senate Bill 9 within a very high fire hazard severity zone.

Bass noted developers could have changed single family lots into multiple residences, further challenging ingress and egress in the fire damage palisades.

According to Bass, Senate Bill 9 was not originally intended to be used in the rebuilding of a community decimated by the worst natural disaster LA has ever seen.

Under this emergency executive order, the city of LA will not accept or process applications for projects within the Palisades fire area.

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

The community investment for families department has partnered with Councilmember Nithia Raman to launch a new child care toolkit.

The Starting Strong Guide is designed to help in the process of beginning and growing child care businesses and to give support to existing child care operations.

The community investment for families department reports that in the last decade, the city of LA has had a significant shortage in licensed child care, with only 22% of children up to age five having licensed care.

According to Councilmember Raman, this community investment in child care providers will have an impact on future generations of Angelinos.

For more information, visit community investment.la city.gov slash articles.

In partnership with the Australian government, the LA Zoo has received two Tasmanian devils named Danny Zuko and Crush.

Tasmanian devils are indigenous only to Tasmania, an island state of Australia where they are the top predator.

According to LAZU, Tasmanian devils are marsupials with the strongest by force relative to body size of any mammal.

This is the first time in five years that the zoo has Tasmanian devils, and they can now be seen in the animals of Australia Habitat.

For more information, visit LAZU.org.

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This is LA Current.

This is about all of us.

It's about choosing to believe in our city again and proving it with action.

And no matter what our city faces, LA never ever gives up.

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Locate the bleeding injury and remove any clothing covering the area so you can see the injury.

It isn't flashy.

It isn't loud.

Safe to say it's not for everyone.

But since eighteen sixty-nine, it's been our way.

To be unrivaled means being the best of the best of the best.

The Lancasham Arts Center was constructed in nineteen thirty nine.

When it was opened in nineteen thirty-nine, uh, it was originally a LA Department of Water and Power building.

The City of LA became the owner of the Lancasham Arts Center when it was declared as a historical cultural monument.

On the plaque, its purpose was that it is an example of adaptive reuse.

And then if you come here after I think it's like five or six o'clock, there's like lighting panels that will turn on, and then you get to see the full kind of marquee of the Lancashire Marts Center.

Uh, be it dance productions, music productions, sometimes we'll have a film screening, uh, art.

I think that sort of flexibility is something that brings me back every time.

It really feels like you're just right up in front of the talent when you come watch a show here.

We work with uh different local artists to be able to provide free programming for children to learn how to sew.

Uh, we have a fashion class, uh, we have uh music classes specifically for uh percussion and drums.

We also have uh another music class for piano, and then uh we also have a dance studio.

Uh, it's in our mezzanine.

That is for our dance class that we have here.

So whether it be someone trying to uh bring out their own original productions, or like sometimes we even have uh different groups come in to teach after school classes.

Uh, being able to grow the performing arts in a community is is what makes Lancashire Arts Center stand out.

The city investing into places like this is because it gives a place for people that were not as confident, the ability to express themselves and uh give a space for people that are a little bit different, another space to play because uh being able to play is so important just for our mental health as well as uh for the like the health of the community and uh it just makes the world a better place.

We look forward to having you here at Lancashire Marts Center, uh, whether it be taking part in our free programming as well as uh being able to come and just watch a movie or watch a show.

We look forward to having you over here.

On Instagram, our Instagram handle is DCA underscore L N K.

You can also find out uh more about us on culture.lacity.gov, that's our website.

The Tosco Theater is located in Canoga Park.

There is so much already here to offer, cultural events, performances, 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.

The space had been left a little bit weary, 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 have 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'll find the Tosco Theater.

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

Operating a fleet of over 700 collection trucks, LA SAN provides collection of approximately two million containers of trash, yard clippings, food waste, and recyclables per week.

All these services are paid for by the Solid Resources fee, also known as the trash fee on your LADWP bill.

But now, rising costs mean changes are needed.

Expand food waste and organic recycling, and ensure equity and service across all our neighborhoods.

And this fee covers more than just trash, like unlimited bulky item collection, safe centers for household hazardous waste, a twenty-four seven customer care center, and much more.

If it's summer, it must be the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival.

This year, the Independent Shakespeare Company also presents Marlowe's Dr.

Faustus.

In the play, a mysterious scholar wishes to master the dark arts and strikes a deal with the devil to make it happen.

Dr.

Faustus takes to the stage from Wednesday through Sunday beginning on August 6th.

Enjoy theater under the stars at the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival with Dr.

Fostus, playing Wednesdays through Sundays at seven p.m.

from August the sixth until the thirty-first.

Find out more at culture.la city.gov slash events.

Join LA's public library for a fun filled afternoon of storytelling with pop culture author Charles Phoenix.

Known as the King of Retro, Phoenix is a mid-century pop culture expert, performer, and collector celebrating classic and kitschy American life and style.

On Sunday, August 17th, Phoenix is bringing some of today's most vibrant historians together, including Foo Houser, Merch Motel, and the Hood Historian.

Come and learn something new about the city you live in.

Visit the Mark Taper Auditorium at Downtown LA's Central Library or Charles Phoenix with special guests on Sunday, August 17th at two PM.

For more information, visit LAPL.org slash events.

Learn how easy it is to compost at home, and LA Sanitation Green Waste Specialist will show you how to turn kitchen scraps and yard trimmings into nutrients for your soil.

Register on Eventbrite for your spot, which includes a plant giveaway for each attendee.

Head to the South LA wetlands for home composting and urban gardening on Saturday, August sixteenth at nine A.M.

For more information, visit Sanitation.gov.

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

Okay.com.

Learn how you can protect your home from second-hand smoke.

Following an executive order for California Governor Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass has issued an emergency executive order to prohibit Senate Bill Nine within a very high fire hazard severity zone.

Bass noted developers could have changed single family lots into multiple residences, further challenging ingress and egress in the fire damage palisades.

According to Bass, Senate Bill Nine was not originally intended to be used in the rebuilding of a community decimated by the worst natural disaster LA has ever seen.

Under this emergency executive order, the city of LA will not accept or process applications for projects within the Palisades Fire area.

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

The community investment for families department has partnered with Council Member Nithia Raman to launch a new child care toolkit.

The starting strong guide is designed to help in the process of beginning and growing child care businesses and to give support to existing child care operations.

The community investment for families department reports that in the last decade, the city of LA has had a significant shortage in licensed child care, with only 22% of children up to age five having licensed care.

According to Council Member Raman, this community investment in child care providers will have an impact on future generations of Angelinos.

For more information, visit Community Investment.la City.gov slash articles.

In partnership with the Australian government, the LA Zoo has received two Tasmanian devils named Danny Zuko and Crush.

Tasmanian devils are indigenous only to Tasmania, an island state of Australia where they are the top predator.

According to LA Zoo, Tasmanian devils are marsupials with the strongest bite force relative to body size of any mammal.

This is the first time in five years that the zoo has Tasmanian devils, and they can now be seen in the animals of Australia Habitat.

For more information, visit LAZU.org.

Scheduled meeting of the Los Angeles City Council.

Here's what's happening in LA this week.

This is LA Currents.

This is about all of us.

It's about choosing to believe in our city again and proving it with action.

And no matter what our city faces, LA never ever gives up on it.

Someone who is severely bleeding can bleed to death in as little as five minutes.

If someone has an injury with blood spurting out of the wound, clothing soaked in blood, bleeding that won't stop, or loss of any part of an arm or leg, you need to act quickly.

It isn't flashy.

It isn't loud.

Safe to say, it's not for everyone.

But since eighteen sixty-nine, it's been our way.

To be unrivaled means being the best of the best of the best.

We set the table for what it takes to be the most highly regarded law enforcement agency in the world.

Surrounded by like-minded souls.

The Lancasham Arts Center was constructed in nineteen thirty nine.

When it was opened in nineteen thirty-nine, uh, it was originally a LA Department of Water and Power building.

The City of LA became the owner of the Lancasham Arts Center when it was declared as a historical cultural monument.

On the plaque, its purpose was that it is an example of adaptive reuse.

The front building is actually an example of streamlined modern design.

Sometimes we'll have a film screening, uh, art.

I think that sort of flexibility is something that brings me back every time.

It really feels like you're just right up in front of the talent when you come watch a show here.

We work with uh different local artists to be able to provide free programming for children to learn how to sew.

Uh, we have a fashion class.

Uh, we have uh music classes specifically for uh percussion and drums.

We also have uh another music class for piano, and then uh we also have a dance studio.

Uh, it's in our mezzanine.

That is for our dance class that we have here.

Our mission here is just to grow the performing arts, really.

So whether it be someone trying to uh bring out their own original productions or like sometimes we even have uh different groups come in to teach after school classes.

Uh, being able to grow the performing arts in a community is is what makes Lancashire Arts Center stand out.

The city investing into places like this is because it gives a place for people that were not as confident, the ability to express themselves and uh give a space for people that are a little bit different, another space to play because uh being able to play is so important just for our mental health as well as uh for the like the health of the community and uh it just makes the world a better place.

We look forward to having you here at Lancasham Arts Center, uh, whether it be taking part in our free programming as well as uh being able to come and just watch a movie or watch a show.

We look forward to having you over here.

On Instagram, our Instagram handle is DCA underscore L N K.

You can also find out uh more about us on culture.lacity.gov.

That's our website.

The Tosco Theater is located in Canoga Park.

There is so much already here to offer, cultural events, performances, 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.

The space had been left a little bit weary, 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'll find the Tosco Theater.

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

Operating a fleet of over 700 collection trucks, LA SAN provides collection of approximately two million containers of trash, yard clippings, food waste, and recyclables per week.

All these services are paid for by the solid resources fee, also known as the trash fee on your LADWP bill.

But now, rising costs mean changes are needed.

If it's summer, it must be the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival.

This year, the independent Shakespeare Company also presents Marlowe's Dr.

Faustus.

In the play, a mysterious scholar wishes to master the dark arts and strikes a deal with the devil to make it happen.

Dr.

Fossus takes to the stage from Wednesday through Sunday, beginning on August 6th.

Enjoy theater under the stars at the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival with Dr.

Faustus, playing Wednesdays through Sundays at seven PM from August the sixth until the thirty first.gov slash events.

Known as the King of Retro.

On Sunday, August 17th, Phoenix is bringing some of today's most vibrant historians together, including Foo Hauser, Merch Motel, and the Hood Historian.

Come and learn something new about the city you live in.

Visit the Mark Tabor Auditorium at downtown LA's Central Library for Charles Phoenix with special guests on Sunday, August 17th at two PM.

For more information, visit LAPL.org.

Head to the South LA Wetlands for home composting and urban gardening on Saturday, August sixteenth at nine AM.

For more information, visit Sanitation.gov.

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

Okay.

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Following an executive order for California Governor Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass has issued an emergency executive order to prohibit Senate Bill Nine within a very high fire hazard severity zone.

Bass noted developers could have changed single family lots into multiple residences, further challenging ingress and egress in the fire damage palisades.

According to Bass, Senate Bill Nine was not originally intended to be used in the rebuilding of a community decimated by the worst natural disaster LA has ever seen.

Under this emergency executive order, the city of LA will not accept or process applications for projects within the Palisades Fire area.

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

The community investment for families department has partnered with Council Member Nithia Raman to launch a new child care toolkit.

The starting strong guide is designed to help in the process of beginning and growing child care businesses and to give support to existing child care operations.

The community investment for families department reports that in the last decade the city of LA has had a significant shortage in licensed child care, with only twenty-two percent of children up to age five having licensed care.

According to Council Member Raman, this community investment in child care providers will have an impact on future generations of Angelinos.

For more information, visit Community Investment.la City.gov slash articles in partnership with the Australian government, the LA Zoo has received two Tasmanian devils named Danny Zuko and Crush.

Tasmanian devils are indigenous only to Tasmania, an island state of Australia where they are the top predator.

According to LA Zoo, Tasmanian Devils are marsupials with the strongest bite force relative to body size of any mammal.

This is the first time in five years that the zoo has Tasmanian devils, and they can now be seen in the animals of Australia Habitat.

For more information, visit LAZU.org.

And if I may serve, I've got to call the role, my bad.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Blumefield, Herr Stason, Hernandez, Hutt, Jurado, Lee, McCosker, Nazaren, Padilla, Park, Price, Raman, Regis, Sotomartinius, Yaroslavsky, thirteen members, present, and a court, Mr.

President.

So Mr.

President, as the agenda says, the closed session was for a verbal update only, and no action was taken in closed, and no action can be taken in open session.

Therefore, there is nothing to report out of closed session at this time, Mr.

President.

Alright, what's next, Mr.

Clerk?

Mr.

President, the council may now vote on items 10, which is to receive and file the lien, and items twenty-seven and twenty-eight, for which motion McCoscar Harris Thoughtson has been introduced to waive the interest and late penalty fees.

All right, those items are now before us.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 ayes.

Alright, what's next?

The council may now vote on items 55 through 66 and 68 through 71.

All right, let's open the roll on those items.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the votes.

All right, what's next?

Council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and they are referred.

Announcements members, Councilmember Hernandez.

Can we move item 71 fourth with, please?

Without objection.

Thank you.

Any other announcements members?

Councilmember Jurado.

I will I will need two more minutes.

I'm sorry.

Any other announcements members?

Councilmember McCosker.

I have an announcement.

I know that Liberation Day is going to be mostly celebrated in Koreatown as well it should.

But for those of us who are not in City Council on Friday at 11 a.m.

I invite everyone to the beautiful Korean friendship bell in San Pedro, where at 11 o'clock there will be a ceremony with our local community, uh, our local um uh Korean leaders uh to celebrate Liberation Day for the Republic of Korea.

And I do want to say that we've renamed the bell, one big beautiful bell.

Too soon, too soon.

Way too soon.

Okay.

Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Oh, you know, okay.

Councilmember uh Jurado, you ready?

Councilmember Hernandez.

Yes, thank you, uh, Council President.

So this past weekend, Councilmember Isabel Jurado and I hosted a backpack giveaway in Lincoln Heights.

It was uh a phenomenal event where we had over 35 resources and organizations uh providing those resources.

We had CIFD providing helmets and car seats.

We had free haircuts, we gave out over 1,400 backpacks with school supplies, and we had a magicians, we had musicians, and our peace ambassadors there.

And it's just a beautiful example of collaborating between districts and helping multiple neighborhoods at once.

And I can't wait to do it again for the holiday season.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Jurado.

Yes, thank you so much to my council colleagues for the collaboration and announcements.

Before we adjourn today's meeting, I'd like to take a moment to recognize and thank three incredible interns who brought their talent commitment and drive to CD 14 this summer.

Yes, clap for them.

Kathy, Kyle, and Ranya.

Come closer.

They brought to life what this work is all about building something better for the people of Los Angeles.

Kathy is a master's student in urban planning and regional planning at UCLA, concentrating on housing.

Her passion for equitable development and cleared-eyed insight made Kathy an invaluable part of the team.

Kyle just graduated from USC with a degree in public policy, and now he's headed to law school this fall.

Boo, but he'll be a great judge, he said.

His creativity, sharp thinking, and quick wit made him a go-to in the office.

Ranya is a recent graduate of Bishop Alamaney High School and will be starting at Columbia University this fall.

We lost her to New York, everybody.

She's quick on her feet, curious as can be, and always eager to dive into whatever challenge comes her way, and a proud CD12 resident.

She's getting her water back.

Kathy, Kyle, Ranya, thank you for choosing public service for bringing your talents to CD 14.

We're excited to see what you do next.

And uh on behalf of the city of Los Angeles, we prevent you with this.

We present you with the certificate.

So thank you.

Congratulations and thank you so much.

Any other announcements members?

Councilmember Padilla.

I just want to uh remind everyone that tomorrow uh LAUSD kids are back at school.

I hope all of you received the invitation to adopt the campus by our friends over at UTLA.

I know I will be making it to two.

Hopefully, you, your staff, and leaders in your community are there to support the campuses as well.

Thank you.

All right.

Alright, any other announcements, members?

Alright, seeing that I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise for adjourning motions and ask members.

If they have adjourning motions, I see Mr.

Lee.

We'll start with Council District 12.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Colleagues, today I rise to adjourn in the memory of Charles Johnson, a devoted public servant, a United States Navy veteran, and a beloved member of our Los Angeles City community.

Charles was born on April 26, 1944 here in Los Angeles, the youngest of six children, born to Joseph and Ethel Johnson.

He attended Hobart Elementary, Morendo Junior High, and graduated from Manual Arts High School.

In 1962, at just 18 years old, Charles enlisted in the United States Navy, serving his country with honor until 1968.

And then not long after that, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department on August 10, 1970.

Charles began his LAPD career in Central Division working in the narcotics by program and later served in Newton Division.

Within three years, he rose to Police Officer 3.

Driven by a passion for traffic enforcement and motorcycle work, he completed motor officer school in 1978 and joined South Traffic Division, a role that he loved.

Over his distinguished career, Charles earned the respect of colleagues and the trust of the community.

He promoted the sergeant in 1993, serving in the 77th Division, West Traffic, and ultimately returning to South Traffic Division, where he remained until his retirement in 2008, closing out an extraordinary 37 years and nine months of service.

More than his titles or assignments, Charles was known for his friendships that he built over the years.

Many of those bonds forged on the job lasted a lifetime.

On the morning of August 1st, 2025, Charles Johnson passed away peacefully.

He leaves behind his children Kevin and Adrian and their families, his grandchildren and great grandchildren, his brothers Joseph and Harold, and a large extended family of nieces, nephews, and lifelong friends.

Charles Johnson lived a life of service first to his country, then to a city, and always to the people around him.

May his memory be a blessing and may we honor his legacy through our own commitment to service and community.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lee, and thank you, Mr.

Johnson.

Any other adjourning motions?

Councilmember Park.

Thank you, Council President.

As we adjourn, I'd like to take a moment to recognize and honor the life and memory of former ambassador Frank Edward Baxter, a 33 resident, 33-year resident of the Pacific Palisades.

Ambassador Baxter passed away on July 15th.

He was born in Auburn, California, on November 20th, 1936, to Irwin and Alice Byrne Baxter.

After grade school in Grass Valley, California, he graduated from Corning High School, spent four years in the U.S.

Air Force flying a typewriter in Guam.

There, he learned how bureaucracy worked.

Then after a year at Sacramento State University, he graduated from UC Berkeley with honors in economics in 1961.

While at Berkeley, he met Catherine Stacy, a student at Mills College in Oakland.

They were married a year later in Manhattan, Kansas.

Frank started his professional career at the Bank of California in San Francisco, going on to work for J.S.

Strauss, a pioneer in over the counter stock trading.

He and Kathy were soon sent to New York, but not before they had a daughter.

They lived in Boonton, New Jersey, so Frank took a train and a ferry to get to work in Manhattan.

They had two more children there, and in 1969, returned to California.

In 1974, Frank began working for Jefferson Company in New York, London, and LA.

And in 1986, he became the chairman and CEO, retiring in 2001.

The people of our city have benefited in many ways from Frank's work.

He and Kathy had an I have a dream group of children from 1987 to 1992.

He chaired after school all stars, served as president of the LA Opera Board, and was on the LACMA board, working hard on planning the current expansion.

With others, he imagined the start of the Alliance for College Ready Public Schools, a group that has given thousands of students a better future.

He also worked hard for the schools of the diocese, particularly St.

Monica Preparatory.

He worked tirelessly on those and other projects, always collaborating with groups that offered programming for children.

From 2006 to 2009, Frank was the United States ambassador to the Republic of Uruguay, where his smile and generosity of spirit were famous.

He loved Uruquay, and they loved him.

It was a high point in life for him and Kathy.

Everywhere he went and in everything he did, Frank was kind and generous and inventive.

His big smile led the way.

He also climbed Mount Rainier and Mount Kilmanjaro, walked the Inca Trail, and swam in the Antarctic Ocean after he was 70.

Frank loved and cared for his family most of all, and he was dearly loved by them.

He always introduced Kathy as the love of his life, or the ambassadorable.

At his memorial service at St.

Monica's over the weekend, friend after friend, family member after family member, shared stories of his sage advice, his mentorship, his generosity, and his service to our community.

Frank cared for his five younger siblings and also for Kathy's younger siblings and both sets of parents.

He's survived by his wife Kathy, his children, Stacey Bell, Matthew Baxter, and Keith Silva, his grandchildren, Vanessa Bell, Nicholas Bell, Joseph Baxter V, Sid Baxter, Teresa Baxter McGraw, and Matoska Silva, and great-grandchildren Isabella Hernandez and Rose and Alex Rodriguez, two sisters, Genevieve Dum and Mary Baxter Simmons, and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and brothers and sisters-in-law.

His life was well lived.

May he rest in peace.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Wells said.

And with your permission, I'd like to be added to the ambassador's adjourning motion, Mr.

McCosker.

I too would like to be added, Ambassador Baxter and his family benefited the San Pedro community with the Alice M.

Baxter School, which I believe he told me once was named for his dear mother.

So thank you so much for this, and I would love to be on your memorial.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no other adjourning motions, we are adjourned for today.