The Los Angeles City Council convened on August 15, 2025, for a meeting focused on honoring city employees, addressing a recent ICE raid in Little Tokyo, and conducting routine administrative business. The session was marked by public testimony decrying federal immigration enforcement actions and a ceremonial celebration of the Bureau of Street Lighting's centennial. The council also heard from community leaders about the impact of the raid during Nisei Week.
Safety. During a heat wave here in Los Angeles, we average about 200 more medical emergencies per day. The leading cause of death for children ages one to four is drowning. And the second cause of death for children ages four till fourteen is also drowning. It's very important to keep your eyes on your children when they're in water at all times. Even things such as innocuous as a bucket or a bathtub. One to two inches of water can be dangerous. Children have drowned while parents are replying to a text, checking a fishing line, or applying lotion. So never leave a child alone and unattended, especially when they're in rivers, lakes, ponds, or the ocean. Leaving pets or seniors or any person inside of a vehicle is very dangerous. The ambient temperature outside is usually 30 degrees hotter inside of a vehicle. Many times children are left in vehicles with the air conditioning on, but a car can malfunction and stop, and then you'll will have a person unattended in a vehicle that may not be able to save themselves, especially if they're older or their young children. It is a potentially dangerous situation. So there's a differentiation between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Heat exhaustion can be reversed versus heat stroke. You need to go to an emergency room and have the intervention to help you come back from those symptoms. When someone's experiencing heat exhaustion, they typically have nausea, dizziness, fatigue, they feel muscle cramps, they have abdominal pain. So those can be reversed by finding a shady spot, sipping some water, using ice packs in the armpits or in the groin. When you have heat stroke, the person can't drink or sip water anymore. They are unconscious, they could be having a stroke. Stepping up to celebrate local improvements and heating the call to keep moving. This was a block party that began with getting some steps in. Uh, to uh exercise and to understand the importance of open space. The Black Fly is going to feature games, information for kids and for families. There's gonna be some food, and just a real chance to celebrate. I'm from this area, so the city of the city beautified like today. I couldn't I couldn't help but be a part of what's going on. I think it's important to walk at my age to get out and continuously moving and being involved versus sitting down doing nothing and just getting older is so important to continue to move. I wrote my bicycle here. I live right down the street, and so I want to really encourage folks to uh appreciate and enjoy the open space. So come on, get your body moving. Let's have a great one. Schools are back this week, but there was just enough time for one more event on summer break. Council members Eunicius Hernandez and Isabel Herado gathered with their local community to help everyone get ready for that return to school. Today we are on the border of CD1 and CD 14, celebrating our annual Lincoln Heights backpack giveaway, where we are giving over 1,200 backpacks out to community and families here in Lincoln Heights, as well as have over 30 resources and organizations here providing access to health care, access to food. We're doing everything we can to support our families, and we're doing it in partnership with our neighboring districts. I want to let all the families and our students or children know that get ready for school because our schools are ready for you. Our teachers, your principals, everyone in schools are ready for you to come back and start learning. Start connecting and playing with your classmates, and you know, making sure that you're safe. So all the families and parents, I want to let you know that the safest place for your children is in site school. So they will be safe. We will protect them, and everybody's ready for the first day of school. I know these are hard times, and our communities are afraid, and rightly so. But in these moments, getting together and seeing one another and sharing space makes me feel safe, and I hope you all too. No matter what, our community has to continue showing up, and that's what our offices are doing. We're providing backpacks, a safe space. We haven't had free haircuts down the way, and that's the kind of thing our community members want to feel right now. I know Councilmember Hernandez and I are committed to making sure that you have more safe spaces here in the city of LA, Lincoln Heights, and beyond. Council Member Adrian Zarian has broken ground on new tiny homes in Van Ise, which he says will add 100 beds and help give unhoused neighbors a path to stability. The 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count reported that the unsheltered homeless population in Nazarion's district had decreased by 36% since 2024, according to Nazarian.