A refuge and a path forward for people who might not have otherwise had that.

If you are a homeless woman in Skid Row, you are not being violated occasionally.

It is a regular occurrence for you.

So it's really important that we created a space that feels safe and warm and welcoming and creates a sense of family and community.

Coming in here to the Claire E.

Women's Recovery Center run by the Midnight Mission is a dream coming true, at least for 24 women at a time.

The Department of Transportation begins a new traffic and parking project.

Girls build LA at Los Angeles World Airports.

And fall registration for recreation and parks programs.

These stories up next on City Beat.

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, LA D O T has begun phase one removal of peak hour traffic lanes in low traffic areas.

According to LADOT, the project will enhance safety, improve access, and support surrounding businesses with additional parking.

Future phases of the project will include dedicated bus lanes, protected bike lanes, and expanded pedestrian zones.

The map and full list of corridors selected for phase one is available on the website.

For more information, visit LADOT.lacity.gov.

Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles World Airports, Lawa, celebrated the completion of the Girls Build LA program.

The three-week program introduces high school girls to careers in construction, engineering, and other in-demand aviation trades.

Program participants toured aviation and infrastructure projects at airports and gained hands-on experience with women in the field.

According to Mayor Bass, Girls Build LA expands the possibilities for young Angelinos and is an investment in the future of the city.

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

Registration is now open for the fall season of play LA at all LA City pools and recreation centers.

LA City's Department of Recreation and Parks provides play LA programs for youth ages five to seventeen, and the programs are open and adaptable to all abilities.

Fall sessions are beginning as soon as September 8th.

For more information, visit LA Parks.org/slash play-la.

With renovations completed, it's time to celebrate as Play Day can now be every day at a park in South LA.

Council President Marquis Harris Dawson joined Wreckin Parks and the community to declare this park ready for play.

Today we're opening up the playground here at St.

Andrew's Park.

We've been working on this playground since before the pandemic.

So back in the 2010s, we've been working on it.

We're very excited.

The park is beautiful.

We're having movies tonight.

We got our families here.

We got the police department here.

We got a sports league here brought to us by the Wreckin Parks and the Balmer Group.

Inside safe, the mayor's program made sure everybody that was homeless around this area got housing and so the streets are clear.

So we're just very excited.

We couldn't be happier this evening.

Every Thursday through Saturday, we have some of our lights going on, basketball, games, free food, uh, music, jumpers, the community coming together uh for a positive cause.

I encourage the parents to just come out and just see for themselves.

You know, other people always think that this park is a bad park, but at the end of the day, we have fun.

We have good coaches that are here, you know, to teach the kids the fundamental and just come out and just see for yourself and trust and believe every staff here they care and love the kids.

We encourage the parents to come out, bring their kids out, and uh not just bring them and drop them off, but participate as well.

We have a lot of fabulous programs going on, after school program, the football, baseball, the basketball, the seniors with the line dancing.

It's a real safe, fun place to be.

We uh come out and we have a good time, seven days a week.

Another park, but a different story in the Pacific Palisades.

After the wildfires, the ribbon cutting and joy here, Marcus Stepping Stone on the road to the community's recovery.

We are so excited to be back home at Palisades Rec Center with our community that we love so much.

We have our brand new playground that we're gonna do the ribbon cutting for today.

We are coming back.

This space brings community together, it brings love together, it brings joy.

We get to sit and talk and reconnect like we did in the old days.

It's a stepping stone of the future of the Palisade.

Make no doubt, we are back, and we are coming back even more so.

So it's an exciting day with the opening of the playground and the other facilities that are available.

So meaningful to us.

The Rex Board and everybody who's committed their time and their heart and soul to it.

We can appreciate you more.

The kids love it.

The kids will flock to it, and uh we're so happy and so grateful that we got the donation to build this.

This is the center of the community.

This is our town square.

We need to keep it going, keep it alive, keep it open during construction.

As people repopulate and rebuild, we'll see more and more people.

We need hope and inspiration.

We need to know that we're gonna come back.

Today's critical.

These are the wins that we need as a community.

So, very important day, and just feel great.

I'm honored to be a part of this process.

Running this park has been one of the greatest joys of my life, and just getting to know this community and watching the kids grow up.

It being taken away like the way it was was truly heartbreaking, and to be a part of this rebuild and this reinvention is something I'm really excited about.

A new monthly series at the Barnesdall Gallery Theater is pulling focus to movies not represented in the mainstream.

Lens on Life is highlighting independent movies in the heart of Hollywood.

We are here at the Barnstall Art Gallery Theater, right in the heart of CD 13.

This is the second monthly edition of our Lens on Life series where we come together and highlight a different theme, a different movie, a different kind of conversation.

So in City 13, we know it's home to Hollywood.

Uh, it's home to a lot of creative, a lot of artists.

Uh, and this space that we are in uh was pretty underutilized, and so it's a beautiful space that belongs to the city of Los Angeles.

My team and I are gonna be showing a movie here every third Wednesday of the month.

So we want to bring people from all across the city to come and enjoy the space and watch the movies.

So tonight's event is open to the public.

It is a partnership with several different organizations, including the new filmmakers of Los Angeles to highlight and showcase films made by members in our community.

Tonight's movies are highlighting the queer identity and something that's so important as we're coming off the heels of LGBTQ Plus Heritage Month as a way to further continue that celebration and those discussions around queer identity.

So, New Forming in Los Angeles, we're a nonprofit organization.

Really, our mission is to bridge the gap between independent filmmakers to the film industry at large.

So through our various programs, we're mostly known for our monthly film festival hosted in downtown LA, but we also have other programs throughout the year, and really we're having a spotlight on those kind of independent filmmakers who are not represented in mainstream media.

So I think it's just a great way to build community, a great way to get connected and show representation.

I feel very grateful and honored.

I was invited to be a part of this.

So Sunflower Nikki is a story about freedom of expression and young black boys.

It follows the eight-year-old boy Nicholas and his journey of wanting to own a doll and the implications that brings into his conservative black household.

So it truly uh discusses topics of freedom of expression, uh vulnerability, and um gender norms in young black boys, you know, getting people to understand the differences in human beings by finding that little piece of connectivity.

Because like in Sunflower Nikki, it's about freedom of expression and young boys, but a lot of different kids, whether you are born male, born female, black, white, whatever, you understand what it's like to have your freedom infringed upon.

You understand what it's like to be told that you cannot behave or act a certain way because you are perceived a certain way.

So that's something that everyone can connect to, and that's what I hope to continue to create in my art.

Looks like a home to me is a vibrant exhibition at LA Public Libraries' Getty Gallery, which is drawing visitors and praise.

The studio supports 80 artists whose work invites everyone into their creative home.

We are in the beautiful Getty Gallery here in Central Library.

It is our major exhibit space, and I am so excited about our newest exhibit, and it is uh called looks like home to me inside the Progressive Art Studios.

Progressive Art Studios are inclusive spaces where um artists, um, people with any kind of disability, intellectual developmental disability, are given tools to create and get inspired with no pressure or expectation.

And it features incredibly beautiful, vibrant, wonderful artwork by over a hundred artists.

Anyone who walks into this exhibition is uh just blown away by the vibrancy of the exhibition and the joy.

As you can see, we have murals that were created specifically for this exhibition.

The artist came and drew them on our walls here.

I love the textiles, I love these ceramics.

We have representations of all kinds of art forms.

I just love the photos of the artists proudly pointing to their piece on the wall or in a display case.

I've gotten so much feedback from this exhibition already, which isn't the norm.

Um, I literally got a call yesterday from someone from the Los Virgines School District who uh who is a teacher of um uh students with developmental disabilities, and she was so heartened by this exhibit and wanted to bring a field trip in.

I think you know, thinking about the title, it looks like a home to me.

I think that creates feelings of warmth, certainly, and being at home and sort of arms wrapped around, and I think there's a certain special feeling about this exhibit given the story of how the art was created and the artists themselves, and I think it will leave people inspired and with a sense of warmth.

I hope all Angelinos will find time between now and December the 7th to be able to come and explore this beautiful exhibit and experience it for themselves and also wander through uh this incredible gem of a library here in downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Fire Department's interim chief Ronnie Villa Nueva shares his career journey.

A veteran firefighter who had just retired.

Via Nueva answered the call and returned to serving Angelinos as the interim chief of the LAFD.

Former chief deputy and as an interfire.

Los Angeles is back with the most destructive wildfires in its history.

These fires happened, and I was asked to come back to help, and I said, Well, of course, I'm not gonna say no.

During that time, the mayor asked me to come back as the interim chief, and here I am.

Our heroic firefighters are in the experienced and expert hands of Chief Villa Nueva.

I have to tell you, when she asked me to do that, it was a great honor for me.

Uh, my family, even at the Swearing Inn, you know, we're in tears uh and just so proud.

The love that I have for this department is the reason I'm coming back.

Leading them is an honor of a lifetime, I have a radio in my office.

So I monitor just about everything.

First thing that pops in my head is safety.

For the young firefighters are out there.

Know your profession, be passionate about it, and be very good at it because a lot of people are relying on you.

The public, your family, and your comrades.

We average 1,500 calls a day, 600 transports.

That's just an average.

I know there's days that we have over 2,000 calls a day, and we have over 750 transports.

We want to make sure that we respond quickly, that we're well trained, we're prepared, we're calm, we're able to be decisive in our actions to take care of ourselves, our fellow workers, and the public that we served.

The fire service is a dangerous job.

It could be glamorous at times, you know, to where, oh, you're the firefighters and everybody's waving at you and it's all great.

Um, but I had a friend of mine, actually grew up with him.

His name was Ben Pennell.

And uh he died in a proud bird fire.

1984.

I think it was five o'clock in the morning, and then you get that phone call.

There was a firefighter fatality, and Ben died.

What goes through my mind is that I see his daughter all the time.

She was just a baby at that time.

From the past, we would never ever say that we needed help.

We could see the most gruesome things, and I'm good.

No cat might come in and say, hey, you guys good?

We just saw this, you know, pretty bad incident here.

We're all good.

Today, the firefighter, the captains, all the all the members.

They're much more aware that we have behavioral health.

We have department psychologists, we have therapists, we have people that can help you, and people are more courageous and brave today to say, I need help.

And that to me, that's off to you.

In this week's things to do, celebrate Lamert Park and Jazz, take a story walk at the LA Zoo, and Flex at the Muscle Beach Championship on Labor Day.

All this up next on things to do.

Celebrate jazz community and the cultural heritage of a historic neighborhood at the Lamert Park Jazz Festival.

What began as a block party is now in its sixth year as a family-friendly community festival taking place on Saturday, August 30th.

Enjoy a wide variety of jazz acts, including We Exist, the DD Bridgewater Quartet, Sasha Berliner, the Melanin Horns, and the World Stage Big Band.

And your festival co-hosts are Rhonda Hamilton and Jose Rizzo.

Head to Baldwin Hills Mall to celebrate the LaMert Park Jazz Festival on Saturday, August 30th, beginning at 12 30 p.m.

and running until 8 30 p.m.

For more on the lineup and the concert, visit Lamert Park Jazz Festival.org.

On Saturday, August 30th and Sunday, August 31st, discover a new story or two at the Los Angeles Zoo with the Los Angeles Public Library.

Stop by the Winnick Family Children's Zoo on your next zoo visit and follow the pages of Signorita Mariposa and Nana Monster for a self-directed story walk.

Zoo admission is required for this activity, but City of Los Angeles residents may be able to reserve free tickets to the zoo through the Los Angeles Libraries Explore LA program.

Enjoy a story walk at the Los Angeles Zoo on Saturday, August 30th, and Sunday, August thirty-first.

For more information, visit LAPL.org/slash events.

On Labor Day, Monday, September first.

It will be all muscle with bodybuilding.

Classic physique and wellness happening at the Venice Beach Recreation Center on Ocean Front Walk.

This annual contest is in conjunction with the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation of Parks.

Competitors paid to take part, but the contest is free to view.

And that's all for this week.org.

We're also on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

See you next time for more LA this week.

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

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

Yes, sir.

Blue and Phil, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt, Herado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Raman, Rodriguez, Sona Martinez Arosowski, 12 members present in a core, Mr.

President.

Alright, first order of business.

Approval, the minutes of August 26, 2025.

Councilmember Park moves.

Councilmember Lee seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Soto Martinez moves.

Councilmember Rodriguez seconds.

What's next?

Item number one is an item notice for public hearing.

Items two through 34 or items which public hearings have been held.

For item number two, the arts parks library and community enrichment committee report has been submitted and is available online under Council File 25-1200-s35.

Items 21 is uh has uh community impact statements submitted by the Coastal San Pedro and West Side Neighborhood Councils.

Uh item 34 is a transportation committee report, has been submitted and council for council consideration and is available online under council file 25-097.

Um items 35 through 40 are items which public hearings have not been held.

Item 41 is a closed session item for which public hearing has been held.

And for the record, item 21 on today's agenda is a public works committee report.

The correction is uh it's a resolution, Nazarium McCosker.

Uh 10 votes are required for consideration, sir.

All right, without objection, those items are now before us.

Uh specials members, I see council member Rodriguez.

Yes, I'd like to uh hold item eight for comments and item 39 for comments and a separate vote.

All right, uh councilmember Park.

I'm sorry, go ahead, Council President.

Um, item 33 uh for a substitute resolution, it should be circulating shortly.

Got it.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh any other stressors on this side.

Where's Mr.

Price?

Don't see him.

All right.

Uh on this side, I have Councilmember Hernandez.

Yes, Council President.

I would like to call uh item 31 special for comments, please.

All right, uh Councilmember Jurado.

I move that item one be received and file, and I'd like item two hold item two special for comments.

All right, without objection.

Uh is there a second to Councilmember Herado's uh item number one received and file?

Councilmember McCosker seconds.

All right, uh Councilmember McCosker.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

On item 13.

I would like to continue that for 30 days.

And on item 32, I would like to also continue that for 30 days.

On item 21, I have an amendment.

That will be circulated.

And that is item 21 for amendment.

Yes.

Okay, and for the record, item 13 and 32 continued 30 days.

That would be September 26, 2025.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh any other specials members.

Any other specials?

Mr.

Nazarian?

No.

Oh, no, special.

Thank you.

Just stretching.

Got it.

All right.

Uh, which items are available for uh votes.

All right.

While we're doing that, madam clerk, is it okay if we call item two?

Uh yes, item two.

Uh that was called special by Councilmember Herado.

Councilmember Jurado.

Thank you so much, Council President.

Uh, you know, I'm excited today uh that we're voting on the mayoral appointment of Dominica Lynch as the general manager for El Pueblo as uh the chair of Arts Parks uh community enrichment.

I'm so excited to present her here today and ask for your yes vote.

She comes with a wealth of knowledge of uh, you know, as a young girl at USC walking through El Pueblo and now bringing her own uh child to walk through the neighborhood and see it's it's promise.

And she brings a lot of optimism to this department in the vision to make sure that not only is it commercially sustainable, right?

Um, but it also uh you know supports the rich history that it has, and so um just wanted to say thank you for stepping up and if you wanted to say a few words at the table uh to introduce yourself to our colleagues and I'll ask you all for an I vote.

All right, come on forward, can you hear me?

Good morning, everyone.

I am Dominica Lynch, Council President Harris Dawson, Council members.

It is such an incredible honor to be here to accept this opportunity and thank you for the opportunity to serve as general manager of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument.

I want to take a moment to thank our council committee chair uh jurado and uh council members Nasiran and Hernandez for a really thoughtful uh committee review yesterday.

I walked away energized and inspired, and a little bit about me.

I have ties to a pueblo as the councilwoman shared in the 80s and the 90s, it was a buzzling marketplace where people went to create memories, uh, to really enjoy the ambience, celebrate family, uh food, culture.

Uh it's the kind of place that made you feel connected to the city of Los Angeles.

And for me, it's an opportunity to come back and tap into those memories, make it a place of belonging.

Um, why am I now prepared to lead El Pueblo?

Well, I have 25 years of experience uh really building coalitions, working with cross-sector leaders, uh, to really envision more opportunities where people can fulfill their American dream.

Currently, I lead uh the Aspen Institute, the Latinos and Society program, where we're focused on economic mobility of American Latinos.

Previously, um, let me go back.

So at the Aspen Institute, one of the things I think has prepared me very well during the pandemic, when I was hired at Aspen, we brought together different city leaders to think through what strategies could be deployed to maximize federal investments and to help build back the small business community.

Um the experience around events and fundraising, that's what I'm excited about because there are some really key things that we have to do.

Not only do we need to have a strategy, we need to have partnerships, we need to have the fundraising and the ability to implement on that vision, and that is the expertise that I bring to El Pueblo.

My vision is that El Pueblo becomes a campus of connection.

We are all facing, we know that across America, an epidemic of loneliness, and what more than a public space that invites people to get to know one another, different cultures.

So I'm excited to work with the merchants, with the cultural leaders, with the civic community, with many of you here to ensure that we're part of that reinvestment and re-energizing of El Pueblo.

So I do have an ask, and that is that every single council member, please, please, one day a month, come break bread with us.

Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and bring someone because your district has a tie to El Pueblo.

Let's discover that together.

I'm so grateful, Councilwoman Hernandez yesterday shared how there could be opportunities to bring her constituencies through shuttling.

And so please trust us that big vision, but my expertise is to fund that vision, and we're gonna do that together.

So I also want to ensure that we're working towards the big games that are before us the World Cup, the Olympics, and so we have a timeline to meet, and I'm grateful for the staff and grateful to all of you and of course at Pueblo Commissioners as well.

It's an incredible honor as an immigrant myself to serve you and to serve our community and to collaborate.

So thank you so much for the opportunity to introduce that vision to you.

Thank you so much.

Uh, and thank you, Councilmember Jurado.

While you're still sitting there, and can see us all and look us all in the eye.

Uh can we open the roll on this item?

Yes, sir.

Close the roll.

Tabulate to vote.

Congratulations.

All right.

Madam Clerk, what's next?

Mr.

President, Council may now vote on items three through seven, nine through twelve, fourteen through twenty, twenty two through thirty, and thirty-four, sir.

All right.

Let's open the roll on those items.

Close the roll.

Tabulate to vote.

Alright.

So we'll now go to public comment.

I'll ask the city attorney to read the rules into the uh record.

Uh and uh just members of the public, we will uh plan to go until five minutes of eleven for public comment.

So that gives about 35 minutes.

So folks get to the mic as quickly as you can and begin as quickly as you can so we can get through as many speakers as possible.

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 were on topic, you will get one brief warning from me or the council president.

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

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

The items open for public comment on the agenda are items number one and items 35 through 41.

Again, the items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items number one and items 35 through 41.

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.

I have a couple more announcements.

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

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

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

Thank you.

In order to help us run an efficient public comment period, please wait until you hear your name read aloud or the name you signed up under read aloud before lining up.

After you hear that name called out, you can line up in any order on your left-hand side of the council chambers.

Thank you.

Hello, testing.

Thank you.

Okay.

I will begin by calling names.

Dana Melissa, Dave, Batista, Vanessa B.

James O, and Ray Mysterio.

Good morning.

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

Go ahead.

Um start with uh item number uh thirty-five.

Now move on to item number thirty-six.

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But however, without any surprise, our city attorney, no response, and then our uh council member Hernandez, no response.

But I'm glad my friend Dana was came into my rescue last night.

Uh Dana came into my dream last night.

Actually, Dana came over and over again in my dream last night.

So I was able to have a good sleep.

So I want to thank Dana that I was able to sleep really well in your arm, sleep very well under your shoulder, and then your hair smells so good like Korean barbecue.

Thank you for helping me to go to sleep.

I can never go to sleep without you, Dana.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I will call three more names.

Amber H.

Andrew, G, Christina, M.

Hi, hello for just for general public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Um, hi, uh, council members.

My name is Vanessa Baltista.

I am with Best Friends Los Angeles.

I am here to highlight an important event we had this last past weekend in collaboration with uh the South LA and East Valley shelters.

We uh we joined forces to have an adventure buddy day where residents were able to um check out a shelter dog for the day, giving them a fun outing while also reducing kennel stress and helping shelter staff learn more about their personality.

Uh best friend sends staff to each shelter to assist.

Upon arrival, there were hundreds of people lined up waiting to meet their adventure buddy for the day.

In total, East Valley sent out 106 dogs, and South LA sent out 78.

Um a huge shout out to the staff and volunteers at both shelters for doing amazing work, which is usually like very tough to do uh within a day.

Uh, this was an um we are hopeful that this is just the beginning of their adventure buddy program, and we hope we can do it again.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I will call Amber Heard, Andrew Gravener, Christina Morris, Elizabeth Hernandez, Eloisa Galindo, and Genesis Coronado.

All items in general public comment.

Okay, good morning.

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

Go ahead.

Okay, so item 36 is related to installing a new crosswalk in CD9.

Of course, that's current price, so hopefully there's no corruption going on.

I do think that for this crosswalk, you should look into whether you into the possibility of making this a rainbow crosswalk to honor the LGBTQ community, to protest Trump, and to help show that we will we will fight this legally, we will make sure that the city will have a rainbow crosswalk and resist any efforts from Trump to try to force removal of it because rainbow crosswalks are good.

It helps honor the LGBTQ community.

Okay, let's move on to item.

Let's see.

So we have item 39, which is related to installing a sign district at the convention center.

So it looks like more advertising or something.

Um, maybe you should, but where's this money gonna go once you get them all that money for the advertising?

That's a good question.

Okay, I don't really see anything else.

Let's go to general comment.

So for general public comment.

So I was noting I went to the Olympics committee meeting this morning, and I noted that you had the LA 28 representatives there, but none of you had any questions related to the possibility, not really possibility, the certainty at this point of Trump's fascism seeping into the Olympics.

You know, Trump set up this.

They even mentioned this whole task force that Trump created, and none of you had any questions about it.

The one that Trump's using to centralize, you know, targeting immigrants, targeting unhoused people at the Olympics.

None of you have had anything to say about him targeting trans people, trans athletes.

Where are your statements on that?

I mean, you and I noticed you didn't have you didn't have your state presentation today on honoring immigrants.

Usually you've had that.

You no longer care, or what?

Cancel the Olympics.

Before the next speaker begins, I will call five more names Jamie Cusick, Jason Reedy, Joe Hernandez, Katie Herman, and Kelly.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Item 36.

I'm sorry.

Good morning, honorable chair and members of the city council.

My name is Genesis Coronado, and I am here on behalf of board member Carly Gregal representing the Los Angeles Unified School Board.

I'm here to urge your support of item 36, which would support the funding to build where over a year ago one of our students at Carver Middle School tragically lost their life as a result of a vehicle impact.

And so this funding would support the creation of a full traffic signal in that same intersection.

Um as we know this this full traffic signal has actually come as a result of strong parent and community engagement outreach and pressure to the city council.

So I also want to make sure to thank the office of council member price and CD9 staff for finding the necessary discretionary funding to make this a reality.

Students already back in school about a week and a half ago, so I urge LEDOT and the office um to make sure that this is implemented as soon as possible.

We are looking forward to working together with uh Council Member Price's office and LADOT to make this a reality.

Thank you.

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

My name is Tomasa Martinez.

I am a proud member of ACE.

I'm working with the schools, and I'm here to speak about the tragic accident that occurred with the poor student named Derek Serrano.

Yes, we have been working collecting more than two thousand signatures to approve of the traffic light, and we are very thankful for the council member who was able to make it happen.

We would like to schedule a meeting to know the timeline.

Thank you.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Elizabeth Hernandez, item 36 and public comment.

Okay, you'll have one minute for the item and one minute for general public comment.

Well uh unfortunately uh my name is Elizabeth Hernandez, I'm an ACE member as well as an organizer and part of Reclaimer Schools LA.

Uh, Derek's dead, we had been working really hard on collecting signatures, knocking on doors, talking to the family, uh giving them the support.

And you know, we want to tend council member for actually uh committing to uh put a full traffic lie after but we want to make sure that is what he's saying because he had said he was gonna put a hawk.

And I did find this respectful that they uh they met, they said they were gonna meet up with the mom last week on the 20th, and as soon as they see me walking into her house, they left, and then they got an excuse of they had an emergency.

Uh without any further notice, um, until later on when she got a call that they were gonna put a light on a memory of Derek.

Uh it's kind of sad that the staff from current price has been doing that and not being able to actually uh be in our meetings.

I don't know what's going on on his staff, but they need better communication because we have been trying to do it.

My public comment.

Okay, one minute for public comment.

So it's important that, you know, the staff of every council member here actually listens to the community because I can say that the people that was collecting the signatures are people who was volunteering their time, you know, putting aside their own things to be out there in the streets collecting the signatures, and for them to just say, Oh, we did this.

It's not like that.

We were the ones out there on the field in front of his office.

You know, when you know they have the farmers market, we were doing all that work, and it isn't fair that they're trying to say that they just did the work when they didn't even show up on the last minute to let us know an update.

And I want to tell Council Member McCosker because he's taking an initiative on the smoke shops around our schools, and now we just find out that Carver, that right where they're gonna put the light, they're gonna open, they just open a new smoke shop.

It isn't fair for our children to be passing by these schools and having that temptation there.

Um, amazing press conference, Mr.

McCosker, and I'm I'm seeing that you actually care for the children, uh not like other uh of our council members.

Thank you.

And Susan C.

Speaker, which time would you like to speak to?

Buenos días.

36 and public comment.

Hey, you'll have one minute for item number 36 and one minute for general public comment.

Hello, yes, my name is Aloisa Galindo.

I am a proud member of Ace and also a member of uh reclaiming our schools in Los Angeles.

The day of the tragic accident involving Derek, us from our organization of reclaiming our schools, we were close to the mother.

The mother has been suffering a lot.

And she joined our fight in cause of uh supporting the cause for the light.

She is asking for you guys to confirm or to be able to secure safe streets so that we can avoid tragic deaths like the one that happened to her son.

And to the people who decided to put the street light, we thank you.

But we want to schedule a meeting with them so that they can confirm that it's actually gonna be a real street light, not just a flashing light.

As members of Ace who have been a part of this fight, we want to uh be sure that you guys are telling us the truth.

And we hope that you guys can put the name of Derek on the street light.

General public comment?

Commentario publico general.

La mama sigue suffriendo mucho.

The mother is still suffering a lot.

She's thinking of moving to another place.

Because she's not seeing the results of her voice being heard and them putting a new light.

But she hasn't done it because the rent is way too high.

And as part of reclamando nuestras escuelas or reclaiming our schools, we are telling all of the council members who haven't supported Larso.

To do it.

And the six percent of LAUSD students are homeless.

And many parents of these families have been deported.

And many families from LAUSD are taking uh shelter in their houses as due to fear.

It's time for you to support Lars, so we need laws that protect the working community.

The working community that has made California the fourth largest economy in the world.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak about?

Oh my name is Rodney Brown.

Uh we're uh wanting to address some of the cleanup green up initiatives that's going on, and we're look seeing a lot of evictions that are going on.

We're blowing up to my LA 311, and I don't think the city can keep up, but we have crews that are already out there doing it as volunteers.

With the evictions going on, uh is compounded by the lot of the uh properties that are on the DBS uh baited and vacant list.

If we could uh work together to clean up some of those areas, I don't think anyone uh has been in throughout any of the 15 city council districts to uh address those um vacant and abated blighted um sites that are in your district.

So we're ready to uh step up and help the um cleanup green up.

Um so Rodney Brown Project New Life.us.

Thank you.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Public comment, general public comment.

You'll have one minute.

Public, when you hire clowns, you get the city council circus of corrupt incompetence.

This is your sleezy council president, Sleezy Marquisie Dawson of Council District 8.

CD 8, the highest incarceration eight.

CD8, the highest homeless rate, has the highest unemployment rate not in the city or the country, but in the entire United States at over 12 and a half percent.

CD 8 is a food desert.

Sleazy Marquisi attempted to procure black communities unemployment office for his personal luxury office.

He has spent over 10 million dollars of our money on luxury offices for himself while the people starve and die homeless.

Dawson was appointed by the Petty Pink Face corrupt Armenian dictator Paul Kluk Recorrian, a legendary fool.

This LA Council is an incumbent corrupt enterprise of organized crime.

Professional criminal current price is facing more charges for voting on his wife's city council.

Good morning.

Susan Collins, and I would like to speak on all available items in general public comment.

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

Go ahead.

Thank you.

I'm here today to ask this board to please oppose the city attorney's request for almost six million dollars for a team of attorneys billing thirteen hundred dollars per attorney per hour to oppose Judge Carter's remedy to the abject failure we all call Lhasa.

Since its inception, Lhasa has admitted to being ineffective and incapable of producing accurate data.

The review order by Judge Carter found that over a two-year period of time, the city spent 2.3 billion and most of it is unaccounted for.

So he appointed a monitor to oversee Losses program performance.

The city and their attorneys are not disputing the findings of that audit.

Instead, they want to spend six million dollars to prevent accountability.

That alone should make everyone here question why are they opposing this?

Currently, the city is laying off workers and discontinuing city services.

Families with young children are being told the city can't afford to house them.

Yet the city attorney is here today to ask for six million dollars to oppose accountability measures for the very programs those families depend on.

This is a disgrace, and I am begging this council to oppose spending six million dollars on litigation instead of on solutions and oppose agenda item 41.

On May 20th, this council amended the initial approval of $900,000 for this litigation to state, quote, request the city attorney to regularly inform and engage the city council as the client in control of litigation prior to taking action.

The city then paid Gibson and Dunn double the amount she was authorized to do so without providing any prior notice.

This action, ironically, perfectly illustrates the need for the monitor as directed by Judge Carter.

Gibson and Dunn has already been paid almost a million dollars per week on a three-year contract.

So what is six million dollars gonna get us?

Roughly seven weeks of representation?

Wasteful spending cannot possibly get any more repugnant than this.

Please vote no on agenda item 41.

Thank you.

Please begin with the items.

That's right.

CD 14, the demon Gerardo.

He's trying to do a lean.

What is she doing here?

$3,800 and CD fucking 14.

Nobody can afford that.

I thought I thought Usa Bell was for the people.

I don't even see her in a fucking chair.

She here?

Look at that.

She's here on the board, but she's not on the fucking meeting.

So I don't understand how you can go and find people for shit and not even be attending your meeting, even though the clerk lies and says you're in the fucking meeting when you're not.

And then we have leasing assignment with Express News.

Number two.

Well, let's see here.

155A South Main Street.

So let's see what this is about.

The city will continue to receive annual rent revenue of eleven thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.

What the fuck is this about?

How do you lease on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, a large commercial entity for under $12,000 a year?

That's under a thousand dollars a month.

Rents around there go for two three hundred dollars a square foot.

What's going on, Money Cow?

How come you're allowing favorable terms?

How about that?

Who does this guy know that you have this goddamn sweetheart deal lease?

Why can't the rest of the black people in the city have a lease like that?

How come Jews can't have a lease?

No, only this guy can somehow pull this off.

Now, I want to ask blah blah blah and blow.

How much money did you get paid?

The voice of council, I'm taking the fifth.

That's right.

And then of course we have CD 11, the worst thing in the world, the evil one, Tracy Park.

And of course, fire station number two.

What are we doing here?

We're gonna the friends of historic fire station two for a lease agreement.

So what you do is you take multi-million dollar city properties, and rather than sell it and put it in our treasury, you keep it and lease it to your friends for almost a dollar a year.

This is called what?

Money laundering.

And why is it mundy laundering?

Because they're getting campaign donations and they're getting donations to their nonprofits in exchange for a quid pro quo.

Fuck this shit.

So I have very, very bad news.

I read Rule 7 and Rule 11 and 13.

The N-word was not banned from meetings.

And I didn't know that.

I was not aware.

So unfortunately, for Sleazy Marquisi, people can come up here and say the N-word all they want, but only one time.

You get to do it one time per meeting, and they can't throw you out, Bob.

And I'm gonna demonstrate how this works.

See, now what I'm gonna do is gonna upset the stomachs of so many city attorney scumbag pieces of shit like this guy, Pumpkin Head.

They are not gonna know how to fucking sleep when I do this.

And you see, the reason I'm doing this is because I don't know what your topic is on.

I'm talking about your city rules.

You don't have to raise your voice.

I'm talking about your fucking rules.

I'm gonna demonstrate.

Okay, I just wanted to be clear about what you were talking about.

So anyway, you can use the N-word one time per meeting.

I'm gonna show this.

So long duty nigger.

I will call more speakers.

Shaikita, smoking scan, Tammy B.

Tammy C.

Uh, Mr.

Madam Clerk, uh, just for the record, this speaker has used uh the forbidden N-word, which is a violation of rule seven.

This is your only warning that this uh word, as you pointed out, is a violation of council rules, specifically rule seven and may not be used again in any meeting or uh council committee meetings.

If you violate this rule again, you will be removed from this meeting, come on.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General comment.

As I started to say yesterday, a child could verify that your rules on bad words violate the constitution.

The message that should send you is not that you have clever lawyers, the message you should be getting is that the law is not being enforced, and that is the only reason you aren't in deep trouble already.

Violating free speech rights might not cause immediate harm, but the police's ongoing violation of equal protection is causing massive harm and is getting people killed.

The Brown Act does not allow you to respond to these comments here, but it does allow you to correspond with me.

So have a staffer get my email if you want.

But I prefer that you not waste time and instead ask the governor for National Guard oversight over the police.

Thank you.

Council President, all of the speakers on the queue have been called.

All right.

Uh public comment has uh been exhausted from this meeting.

We've called on all of our speakers uh that have signed up.

Uh Madam Clerk, what items are before us, Mr.

President, council may now vote on items one, as well as 35 through thirty-eight, sir.

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

Let's close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Alright, what's next?

Next would be item eight, and that was called special by council member Rodriguez for comments.

Alright, I have uh Councilmember Rodriguez down for comments on eight and thirty-nine.

Uh so if we can take those one after the other, Councilmember Rodriguez.

Okay, terrific.

Uh, colleagues, my LA 311 system has served as one of the most important access points for constituents in the city of Los Angeles to be able to access the services that Angelinos depend on, but most importantly, for the purposes of helping to maintain and improve quality of life from non-emergency issues from graffiti removal to bulky item pickup, illegal dumping, that platform is imperative to connecting Angelinos, business owners to all the city services that help make LA function, including, and of course, I forgot one of the other most popular uh calls for pothole repairs and street repairs.

But while it's widely used, we've continued to hear increasing concerns about some of the challenges with the newer system.

And I want to thank uh Mr.

Lee for joining me in co-presenting uh this motion because we're having some operational issues with respect to the GPS system, and that's important because it's part of how we're going to functionally accelerate people's reporting and locating where these items are occurring.

Most importantly, I know that's a challenge that we've had, for example, in the Latuna Canyon area in my district, but it's happened across the city.

Internally, staff have reported and have noted that the data are often difficult to access, and so uh in some cases we have requests that have been marked closed when they're in fact not closed, and that is such an important functional part of how we hold our departments accountable to making sure that when these calls are being made to our to our or when these uh calls for service are being made through the 311 app, that we are actually able to measure the effectiveness of our departments and the timeliness of them responding to close out these calls for service, and that's why Mr.

Lee and I have introduced this motion together.

It's about ensuring that the modernization truly delivers on its promise, and so if my LA 311 is to remain one of the most important, most relied upon services and digital platforms in our city, then we have to do we have to guarantee the transparency and the efficiency and user friendliness for both the public and our employees to ensure that it works so that everyone is able to do their job.

And so I ask for your I vote so that we can move this forward and strengthen the system that is vital to our residents and the services that they depend on every day, and I ask for your I vote.

All right, so Mr.

President, just for clarification, uh while uh council member Rodriguez can vote on uh can speak on eight and thirty-nine together.

Councilmember, did you want to uh separate vote on 39?

Okay, so you can hear it together.

Okay, thank you.

But no, you know, she doesn't want a special separate vote on both, she just was commenting on both.

So the uh for the record, the vote is on eight.

All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate to vote.

All right, now we'll do 39.

Yes, thank you, colleagues.

So I rise today to express my concerns related to A B 770, particularly in light of uh the recent report we just received from the city attorney.

And so, you know, I'm eager to see opportunities for us to really maximize revenue generation so that we can help to fulfill some of the goals that we have.

But currently, as it's been relayed to us, I've have some real reservations about putting another target on ourselves that potentially jeopardize and potentially cause can cause more harm than good.

And so uh with the highway with the federal highway administration making clear that exemptions like this uh will push us out of compliance with federal law.

I want to ensure that there are amendments to AB 7770 that help to ensure that we wouldn't further jeopardize ourselves as it's currently proposed.

And so it really the the way it's currently written, that the bill would shift the liability from the state to the city of Los Angeles and giving us greater exposure.

So I have concerns with the way it's currently being presented.

I actually also uh just this morning had a conversation with uh the sponsor, assembly member Mark Gonzalez, just to raise more of the concerns and letting him know.

And so at this juncture, based on how it's currently presented, I cannot be in support of 770 because it does currently raise those uh those issues.

Uh my conversation with him reflected that if there are amendments, and I know that hasn't currently been adopted, but should there be amendments, and that is something that I would uh I would like to see because for me the greater concern is the potential liability for the city of Los Angeles on this issue, and that's not liability risk that I think we can afford to take.

And so uh absent amendments.

I have to voice my opposition.

Thank you so much, Councilman Rodriguez.

Any other speakers on this item?

All right, seeing none.

Let's open the roll on 39, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes, one no.

All right, we can go to 31.

Councilmember Hernandez, item 31.

Thank you, Council President.

Um, colleagues, this motion is about common sense and making sure street sweeping actually works and that our constituents are treated fairly in the process because right now our constituents are frustrated and they have every right to be.

In some neighborhoods, they're getting tickets even when no sweeper shows up.

In other neighborhoods, the sweeper does come through, but can't clean the street because cars are blocking the way and there's no enforcement.

And this is because of a lack of resources, the way that our system is set up.

But right now, this system no one's winning.

And so my motion asks BSS and DOT to come back with concrete steps on how to fix this, including better coordination between sweepers and enforcement, exploring technology to track when and where sweeping happens, and stopping tickets when no sweeping occurs or once the sweeper has already passed.

We're also asking for data to see uh who's being impacted in the city, working class families, I'm sure are being impacted.

Constituents in all our districts, I'm sure, are being impacted.

Um, and other cities are already doing this.

Some pair enforcement directly with sweepers, others stop using citations once the streets have been cleaned.

We don't need to rent reinvent the wheel here.

We just need to fix our current process.

At the end of the day, our residents deserve clean streets and fair treatment, not a system that punishes them for the problems of lack of a coordination and a system that we need we can be fixing and hopefully with this data we will be able to fix.

So I urge you all to please vote yes on item 31.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hernandez.

Let's open the roll on 31, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

15 ayes.

Alright, what's next?

Next would be item 21, and that was called special.

There is an amendment.

Uh motion McCosker Lee that has been submitted and circulated.

All right.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

15 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Next would be item 33, and that was called special due to an amendment.

Uh, amendment motion Park McCosker has been submitted and circulated and is before council now.

All right, and just to triple check this, this is an amended item, not a replacement.

The amendment was to amend the transportation committee report.

Got it to adopt the substitute resolution.

So basically, it's still an amendment.

Okay, all right.

Let's open on open the roll on this item as amended, close the roll, tabulate to vote.

15 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Next would be uh item 41, and that is closed session, sir.

Alright.

Yeah, um, members and uh sergeants will ask that we prepare the chamber for closed session.

It's 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 Mars 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.com or call eight six six six oh two eight eight six one today and get rolling.com or yamel ocho sea dos, ocho och seis uno.

Celebrate jazz community and the cultural heritage of a historic neighborhood at the Lamert Park Jazz Festival.

What began as a block party is now in its sixth year as a family friendly community festival taking place on Saturday, August thirtieth.

Enjoy a wide variety of jazz acts, including We Exist, the DD Bridgewater Quartet, Sasha Berliner, the Melanin Horns, and the World Stage Big Band.

And your festival co-hosts are Rhonda Hamilton and Jose Rizzo.

Head to Baldwin Hills Mall to celebrate the Lamert Park Jazz Festival on Saturday, August thirtieth, beginning at twelve thirty PM and running until eight thirty PM.

For more on the lineup and the concert, visit Lamert Park Jazz Festival.

On Saturday, August 30th, and Sunday, August 31st, discover a new story or two at the Los Angeles Zoo with the Los Angeles Public Library.

Stop by the Winnick Family Children's Zoo on your next zoo visit and follow the pages of Signorita Mariposa and Not a Monster for a self-directed story walk.

Zoo admission is required for this activity, but City of Los Angeles residents may be able to reserve free tickets to the zoo through the Los Angeles Libraries Explore LA program.

Enjoy a story walk at the Los Angeles Zoo on Saturday, August thirtieth, and Sunday, August thirty first.

For more information, visit LAPL.

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Every day, over one hundred Americans die from second-hand smoke.

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

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 on it.

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, LADOT, has begun phase one removal of peak hour traffic lanes in low traffic areas.

According to LADOT, the project will enhance safety, improve access, and support surrounding businesses with additional parking.

Future phases of the project will include dedicated bus lanes, protected bike lanes, and expanded pedestrian zones.

The map and full list of corridors selected for phase one is available on the website.

For more information, visit LADOT.lacity.gov.

Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles World Airports, Lawa celebrated the completion of the girls build LA program.

The three-week program introduces high school girls to careers in construction, engineering, and other in-demand aviation trades.

Program participants toured aviation and infrastructure projects at airports and gain hands-on experience with women in the field.

According to Mayor Bass, Girls Build LA expands the possibilities for young Angelinos and is an investment in the future of the city.

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

Registration is now open for the fall season of play LA at all LA City pools and recreation centers.

LA City's Department of Recreation and Parks provides play LA programs for youth ages five to seventeen, and the programs are open and adaptable to all abilities.

Eighty-eight recreation centers and thirty-six city pools offer programs for a ten-dollar registration fee while other sites have fee waivers available for qualified Angelinos.

Fall sessions are beginning as soon as September 8th.

For more information, visit LA Parks.org slash play-la.

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.

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If the injury is to the leg or arm, prepare to use the tourniquet.

Unwrap the tourniquet and apply it two to three inches above the wound.

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Go above the joint if necessary.

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Note the time the tourniquet was applied and write it down if you can or tell first responders when they arrive.

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A marriage between a calling and a lifestyle.

A decoration we live by day in and day out.

It's doing the work expecting nothing in return.

It's training relentlessly to save one more life.

It's upholding justice.

No matter the cost.

It demands your all.

That protects the city of dreams.

LAPD unrivaled since eighteen sixty-nine.

LA Sanitation and Environment's team of solid resources workers are up with the sunrise to tackle the vital task of keeping LA clean and sustainable.

Operating a fleet of over seven hundred 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.

The city is proposing an increase to the solid resources fee, the first in 17 years.

This adjustment is necessary to ensure that LA SAN can maintain reliable collection services and comply with updated environmental mandates.

These updated fees will help maintain weekly trash, recycling, and composting service, 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.

Everything we do is to help better our communities.

We are all in this together, LA.

Let's help build a cleaner, greener city for everyone.

Because a cleaner LA isn't just a service, it's a promise.

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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.

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 Lancasham Arts Center.

We host the bevy of productions, 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.

The theater is very intimate here.

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

We also do youth programming 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 Lancasham 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 the loss 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 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 do that.

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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.

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 Lancasham Arts Center.

We host the Bebby of productions 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 the theater's very intimate here it really feels like you're just right up in front of the talent when you come watch a show here we also do youth programming 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 Lancasham Art 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 lnk uh you can also find out uh more about us on culture dot la city.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 and 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.

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Alright.

Uh Mr.

City Attorney, anything to report out of closed session?

So, Mr.

President, there's nothing to report out of closed session on item forty-one.

Uh no action was taken and no action was contemplated on the agenda.

Um, item forty, on the other hand, is still um on the agenda.

And it's being referred to committee.

Uh yes, and for the record, item 40 was ref uh will be referred to the budget and finance committee for cons uh further consideration.

All right.

And Mr.

President, there is a request to have items 38 and 39.

Uh go forth with, sir.

Without objection, that'll be the order.

And next would be the reconsideration of item 21, sir.

Councilmember Yarsowski.

Um, and I'm sorry, colleagues, but I had an amendment.

I would like to request that we reconsider item 21, which is the digital kiosk motion.

It's a friendly amendment that Mr.

McCosker has agreed to second.

Um, and it's been circulated basically just as explicitly in direction around two areas.

One is uh uh stakeholder outreach, um, and then the second is to get into some of the details on profit on how the profit to the city is gonna be split.

There was some talk early on about council districts getting some of that, not having it all go to the general fund.

So the the amendment asks for that to also be reported back on.

All right.

So it was two votes, right, Madam Court?

Uh yes, Mr.

President.

First vote, uh, there needs to be a second to uh Councilmember Yarosovsky reconsideration of 21.

Mr.

McCosker seconds.

Okay, so the uh that vote should occur now, sir.

All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate to vote.

Fifteen ayes.

All right, and the next vote would be item twenty-one that was amended both by amendment twenty-one A, uh, motion McCosker Lee, as well as 21B, motion Yaroslavsky McCosker.

All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate to vote.

That was adopted and amended, and uh council has motions for posting referral, sir.

They are posted and referred.

The desk is clear.

Announcements members, any announcements?

All right, seeing no announcements, all us.

Mr.

Desarian, I'm so sorry.

All good, Council President.

Wanted to let my colleagues and the general public know this Friday, August 29, is admission day.

What is admission day, you ask?

It's the day California was admitted into the union.

What does that mean?

It means that LAUSD schools are all closed, which makes it a perfect opportunity to have a family outing Thursday night and come to the Valley Plaza Recreational Center from 7 30 to 9 30 p.m.

Uh we'll be showing uh live action Lillo and Stitch, and we will be having offering free popcorn, snow cones for everyone.

So bring family, friends, and a chair and blanket and enjoy the movie under the stars.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Desarian.

And in recognition of uh what what's the day again?

Inclusion?

Admission day.

Admission day.

Uh LA City Council will celebrate by holding our meeting in at the Van I City Hall in the San Fernando Valley.

So there you go.

All right.

See you all on Friday in the Valley.

Uh I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise for adjourning motions.

All right.

Any adjourning motions to my right?

Any adjourning motions to my left?

All right, we're adjourned.

Thank you so much, everybody.

I have a point.