Up there and just to see any companies open and to see any opportunities for me to um apply to.

Right now I see people of all ages, people, people of all walks of life.

This is a resource that's very valuable for our community and our community members.

Wonderful opportunity here, guys.

You know, when I first started applying for the job, we didn't have the internet.

So they couldn't do a background search on site or you know, all the things that they need to do.

Here today it's very different.

There are rooms you can walk in, do an interview, wait 30 minutes, and they'll tell you to come to work on Wednesday or come to work next week Saturday.

And that includes people who have a record, uh a criminal justice record, uh, people who may have been laid off, or people who have a job but think they can get a better job.

The economy right now, you know, and and for the next three years, we don't know where it's gonna go.

We really don't know that it's unstable.

Precisely for that reason is why we need events such as this that are no cost to the community members, and it's just all gain.

No, no one loses here.

It's all gain here at this event.

The national government is just doing everything they can to ruin our economy.

We say don't look at the news, come talk to the people who are actually hiring to see if there's an opportunity for you.

At this moment in time, it's very difficult to find a job, especially like in like something I want to do.

But uh what I will tell you, um, stay confident.

Don't stop trying, uh, always put your name out there.

Um I've been rejected from thousands of jobs, and I've been applying to four thousands of jobs.

So I just don't get knocked down, don't get too low on the lows, don't get too high on the highs.

Uh and then when you get your foot in the door, just make sure uh you're doing everything you're supposed to to keep uh succeeding.

Look, this is what we say to everybody.

If you believe in yourself and you work hard today, we promise you, promise you, promise tomorrow will be better than yesterday.

And the day after that will be better than today.

And so we just say keep pressing, wake up every morning, 10 toes down, get out there, get at it.

The world needs you.

The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation unveiled a new lineup of scholars for 2025.

These chosen winners are headed to college and sure to become future academic all-stars.

Today is very exciting.

It's a very rewarding day for us as we think about awarding yet another class of scholars to our LADF Legacy Scholarship program.

Um we started this scholarship on the heels of the 2022 MLB All-Star Game that we hosted here at the stadium and to have made that commitment then and to be sticking to doing a 10 10 new scholars every single year since then is very, very special.

I was really excited, uh a little shocked.

I think I was going to get picked.

Um I was really hopeful and excited because like gave me an opportunity to like pay for college and pursue a higher education.

The boys and girls club of Metro Link going to UCLA.

So we got a USC and the new CLA that we love easily.

Congratulations, I.

As I went through and gone through different parts of my life, understanding financial, understanding how the world works, really works, understanding what it's like to be on your own and stuff like that.

Uh education's the key to really getting yourself through that and getting yourself back on your feet and and you know, making making something out of yourself.

It means everything, to be honest.

Like college already is like very expensive, and I'm from like a low-income community.

So I was a little nervous like going to college, especially a UC and having to pay like a lot of debt afterwards because college isn't cheap.

And the scholarship paying for anything is amazing.

When I think about my own experience and the fact that I get to sit here as a CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, I know that scholarships afforded me the opportunity to attend college, but also to have access and opportunity to networks and experiences like these that lead to success in life.

And so it's extremely special to be a part of this.

It's sort of the passion behind a lot of what I do, but I know that many of our students today are sitting in the same shoes and that it will help change the trajectory of their families.

Congratulations.

Education is important to everybody, you know, and uh it's it's fun and it's exciting to represent that and it's exciting to acknowledge the people that are coming behind you that are doing the same things that you did that you were striving for.

So it's all about giving back, really, honestly, and then that's what I truly enjoy the most.

I'm excited, I can't lie.

I never had a Dodgers tour.

So I'm very excited and to be honored is amazing, especially by the Dodgers.

Um yeah, I'm very excited.

Mayor Karen Bass celebrated 818 Day, marking the contributions of all those in the 818 area code.

The annual spotlight on the San Fernando Valley and Northern Los Angeles took place on August 18th.

Bass visited local businesses and held a round table with her new Valley Advisory Board, comprised of local leaders from the San Fernando Valley.

According to Bass, 818 Day highlights all that makes the valley special and recognizes the neighborhoods, communities, and businesses that make Los Angeles a great city.

For more information, visit Mayor.lacity.

Councilmember Tim McCosker, LA Harbor Commissioners, and the Port of Los Angeles.

Welcome the public to the reopening ceremony of the Fanfair Fountain in San Pedro.

The festivities kicked off with a musical performance followed by officials launching the fountain's first public show since it closed for repairs.

The Fanfair Fountain creates a dancing water show using recycled water, which jets up to 100 feet into the air.

The fanfare fountain at Gateway Plaza is open from 10 a.m.

until 10 p.m.

with water displays every 30 minutes.

For more information, visit LAWaterfront.org.

These are the last two remaining buildings of a Japanese American community that played a pivotal role in LA's fishing industry.

Before World War II, more than 3,000 Japanese Americans lived on Terminal Island, which had a busy commercial center on Tuna Street.

The Terminal Islanders Preservation Initiative said protecting these structures will ensure Japanese American stories of immigration and resilience will be formally commemorated.

For more information, visit CD15.lacity.gov.

All the world's a stage for these Angelinos.

Summer camp at Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center introduced the campers to musical instruments, movement, and visual arts.

And it all led to a stage performance for their families.

Today was the final culminating event for the Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center's summer camp for the summer of 2025.

We had a very large showcase go on today consisting of all of the campers, including multiple disciplines that they learned throughout the entire summer.

So at the youth center here in Lincoln Heights, what we do is we try to teach the kids as many different disciplines of art as we can to create well-rounded creative individuals to lead us through the future.

Romper is a zona de confort to say, okay, we're intent and loyal to the theater musical because I can't bail, I can project.

Because they help me when I feel sad and they're nice to me.

We did a performance and our whole family got to see it.

It was really nice.

They have been having so much fun with us the last five weeks.

And we went on two beautiful field excursions.

One to the Autry, where they got to see contemporary art done by native indigenous artists.

And we also took them to the Getty.

So there they saw, of course, classical art by different European artists.

And it's important that we expose our kids to all of the arts and to show them that they themselves create art and they matter.

El tema era Dare to Dream.

Outdoor movies and summertime are a so cal stable.

Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez and the city's Department of Recreation and Parks have taken it to a new level.

Let's dive into a movie night at the pool.

Today we are at Hanson Dam.

This is our summer movie night.

We're showing Milana 2 today.

It's a great event for families to come out together, especially in this heat, enjoy the sun, enjoy the water, and have a good time.

This event is for everybody, right?

That's my six months or 106.

It's for everybody.

You know, this facility is so large, capacity is like over 3,000.

We have two water slides.

We have a with it, the obstacle ports right in the middle of the pool.

There's food trucks, there's DJ.

We have paddle boats in the recreation lake.

Also behind me, we have a different community booth.

You know, we want to make sure that you come and see what we have to offer, right?

I hope that everyone gathers a sense of community and knowing that there's so many people like them and so many people who support them and come out and just enjoy events like this.

And these events are put on for the community and for it here.

I'm happy when I see members of my community.

They're excited to be here and appreciative of the opportunity to come together and especially during a heat wave to be able to take some time off to do something free with the whole family and cool off in the pool, and it's in their backyard.

I'm just happy to be in a position to offer my community these types of events.

We're heading to the Harbor City Rec Center to find out more.

We are here at Harvard City Recreation, Summer Night Lights, uh, Harbor City Recreation Summer Night Lights Grand Finale celebration.

Summer Night Lights is an activity that we uh recreation and parks um collabs with through the summer.

For us, it's really more about community engagement, about creating safe spaces for community occupied uh during the summer months.

We offer food, activities, arts and crafts, rifles, giveaways, music.

It's an assortment of things to try to draw the community in during the summer.

Summer night lights is a great opportunity for families to come out with their kids.

They have free activities for the kids, they do crafts, they do sports.

It's a good way to keep kids off the street and keep them active and in a good community, away from gang life and away from danger, just being here with all the fun activities that they have.

We have so many different ethnicities and people from different communities that come here specifically to enjoy our classes, to enjoy our sports.

People from Long Beach and Torrance and Carson come out here because of the things that we offer and how diverse and how welcoming that we are as a staff and as a community are.

So I say come, please join us.

We have so many things to offer here.

Beautiful.

I don't know if we use that word well enough to explain what programs like this do for people.

This is a beautiful site.

This is a beautiful feeling.

It enriches lives across the board.

So for me, I would just add that as long as we can continue to have this, we'll continue to strive.

Mayor Bass, Council President Harris Dawson, and Council members Soto Martinez show their support for South LA Pride.

It's a special celebration for the community when they can feel fully accepted in their own neighborhood.

Today we're at South LA Pride.

This is the seventh year in a row we've done it.

The beautiful Michelle Obama Park.

The whole community of elected officials is out in South LA.

The wonderful thing about our city and our state is that there's some issues that are just not debatable.

And nobody's debating the rights of the LGBTQ plus community.

Nobody's debating that.

And the community where I grew up from is just extra special.

When I was in LA, you served home.

Yeah.

Unity in this event shows that we can be who we are, love who we are, and still acknowledge and accept everybody.

This is a space for everybody, children, young, old, allies across the board.

This is what pride is.

Pride is not just about an orientation or identity.

It's about being who you are at all times.

Oh my God.

There's so many things changing from people if being able to express themselves to people just enjoying life in general.

But before it, there were times where we were discriminating.

We weren't able to be.

All right, so we wanted to express ourselves.

So here we are in 2025, and we're making it better.

This shows the development of the community, both the LGBTQ community and allies.

Because so many allies are here today to support each other and do so in public.

Woo!

This is the eighth month of the year.

I feel like we've been through three years.

But you know what, though?

We're not gonna let anybody divide us.

We're not gonna let anybody divide us, whether you're talking about immigration or whether you are talking about people's human rights and civil rights.

And that's what the issue is today.

That to me is what pride is all about.

It's just another reminder.

Love your neighbor, whoever your neighbor is, make sure that you look out for them.

And we gotta stand together now, tomorrow, and forever.

There's something unique about a space dedicated to young people, especially when it also nurtures growing self-expression and creativity.

While the building is almost a hundred years old, it's young Angelinos who benefit at the Canoga Park Youth Arts Center.

The Canoga Park Youth Arts Center is an after-school music and art program operated by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles.

We offer music and visual arts classes to youth in the area, mostly from 6 to 17.

However, we also have pre-K classes to introduce young children to music.

All the teachers here have been involved in the arts their whole lives.

So this historic building was first built in 1929 as the first operator-assisted phone company in the San Fernando Valley.

After the building was abandoned by the phone company, it fell into disrepair.

So this is a dedicated youth arts center.

During the year, local schools walk to us during their school day to supplement or to include an arts program, which they may not be able to receive at their school.

The importance of arts education, I don't think can be overstated.

I think by now, hopefully everybody knows that arts education helps children to work together in groups.

It helps them to focus, critically think.

Self-expression is also incredibly important.

Creativity, and also it could be a path to a career for many young people.

For example, all of the staff here are involved in the arts in their art form outside of uh teaching here.

So we see how the arts is shaping these kids.

Having a healthy societies, having healthy uh investment in the arts.

We have an Instagram page at Canoga Park Youth Arts.

We have a Facebook page, Canoga Park Youth Arts Center.

Bye everyone.

VC Archives is one of the largest photo and moving image archives on the Asian Pacific Experience in America.

On Sunday, September 7th, the event Stories and Conversations Across Generations will celebrate the cultural legacies passed down through Asian Pacific families.

Head to the Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium for stories and conversations across generations.

On Sunday, September 7th at 2 p.m.

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

Head to the William Grant Still Arts Center to view the Art of the Covenant and the Mushroom Symphony Exhibit, opening September 6th through November 15th.

For more information, go to WGSAC dot wordpress.

Providing a supportive studio environment for contemporary art has allowed for the inclusion of artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Now through December 7th.

Open daily with varying hours.

For more information, visit lapl.org slash events slash exhibits.org, and we're also on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

See you next time for more LA This Week.

Okay.

Okay.

Good morning.

Welcome to yet another meeting of the LA City Council.

Today is not yet.

Oh, we need one more?

No, we have people.

Oh, we're waiting on one.

Oh, okay.

We're waiting for one more minute before we can get started.

Yes.

Okay, great.

Welcome to another meeting.

Today is Wednesday, September third, twenty twenty-five.

I am Nitya Raman, Assistant President Pro Tem of the City Council.

Running today's meeting.

Public comment will be taken in person in the council chamber only for today's meeting.

Bloominfield, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hut, Hierado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarene, Padilla, Park, Price, Rahman, Rodriguez, Soto Martinez, Yaroslavsky, ten members present in quorum, Madam President.

Okay, let's move to our first order of business.

Approval of minutes of September second, twenty twenty-five.

Okay, Councilmember Jorado moves.

Councilmember Hutt seconds.

Next commendatory resolutions for approval.

Great.

Councilmember Price moves.

Council Member McCosker seconds.

Next.

Madam Clerk, let's run through the agenda.

Yes, Madam President.

Item one is an item notes for public hearing.

Items two through thirty are I switched public hearings have been held.

For item seven, the Los Feless Neighborhood Council submitted a community impact statement in support of this matter.

For item thirty, the energy and environment committee report has been submitted and is available online under Council file two four one zero zero six.

Items thirty-one through thirty-six are items which public carings have not been held.

Ten votes are required for for consideration.

Okay, without objection, those items are now before us.

Members, do you have any items you'd like to call special today?

Councilmember Horado.

Yes.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I'd like to call item twenty-three through twenty-eight for a separate vote.

Twenty-three through twenty-eight for a separate vote.

Yes, please.

Okay.

Um and I would like to hold item 22 on the desk for to be voted on after public comment.

Okay, any other specials today, members.

Okay, Madam Clerk, what is next?

Um, Madam President.

The council may now vote on items 20.

Uh I'm sorry, items two through 21, as well as 29 and 30.

Okay, two through 21, 29 and 30.

Okay, please open the roll on these items.

Close the roll and tabulate the vote.

Madam President, there is a request to send item 30 forthwith.

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

What's next?

Madam President, Council may now go into public comment now.

Okay, great.

Thank you, members.

We're now moving on to public comment on agenda items noticed for public hearing and items for which public hearings have not been held.

Public comment will be taken in person in the council chamber only.

Mr.

City Attorney, can you please explain the speaking rules to members of the public who are in council chamber wishing to speak today?

Yes, madam 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.

We will tell you when your time is up.

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

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

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

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

If you do not do so, or if you again stay 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 31 through 36.

So again, the items open for public comment on the agenda are items number one and 31 through 36.

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

During general public comment, members of the public may speak to any of the items or anything else in the city's subject matter jurisdiction.

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.

Okay, great.

And since there are so few public speakers today, I'm just gonna ask anyone who wants to make public comment to move to your left side, and the sergeants will guide you to the podium.

And the city attorney will help you make your comments.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Hello, I'm speaking to general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Excellent.

Hello, I'm Arned Peter Castelline.

I'm a resident of CD CD1.

All right, hold hold on just a second.

We'll get the timer going, don't worry.

Go up go ahead.

Hello, I'm Arn Peter Castelline.

I'm a resident of CD1, and I'm also the LA chapter chair for the Equal Vote Coalition, where we advocate for a voting method called STAR voting.

The Charter Commission has nominated both star voting and ranked choice voting as topics for their further study.

So today I want to share why I recommend star voting over um ranked choice voting.

Under star voting, voters would give each candidate a score from zero to five.

This way voters get to express their full and honest opinion on their ballot, and that allows them to have equal influence in the election, regardless of how many candidates are running under their party.

I used to be an RCV supporter, but then switched after learning more.

Both STAR and RCV offer expressive ballot and positive campaigning.

We saw that in New York City most recently.

But RCV still has many of the problems under the current system.

In particular, the still vote splitting and spoiler candidates.

I built a website at RCV Change Alaska.com, breaking down how this impacted Alaska's election and how gatekeeping came back in uh subsequent elections.

Next speaker.

Thank you very much.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh, this is a general comment.

Okay, and if you need to adjust the microphone, you can.

I don't know how I'll go, but you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Okay.

I'm Bruce Dixon with equal.vote and star voting.

In a few months, the CRC Commission will likely recommend a voting method for district elections.

The goal of elections ought to be locating the center of the majority's preference for change.

Anyone reading electionscience.org understands there is no perfect voting system.

All methods score under 100%.

Yeah.

Two methods continue to score highest.

Approval voting and star voting.

What about rank choice?

17 states have now banned RCV.

Also, Germany's Supreme Court ruled RCV unconstitutional because of non-monotonicity.

That's big in election science.

Published academic papers show RCV only a slight improvement over plurality of voting.

We welcome anyone interested in improving the health of elections.

Thank you very much for your comment.

Next speaker, please make your way to the podium.

General public comments?

You've one minute.

Go ahead.

I want to emphasize that I am asking you to take action as individuals, not as a group.

I'm not calling for a council vote.

Just because the person beside you is slacking off doesn't mean that you shouldn't represent your constituents by writing to the governor.

People know very well that they are victims of sickening crimes.

They know very well that the police are deliberately in the ignoring these crimes.

People know very well that they are being intimidated from coming forward, and they know very well that you are refusing to protect them by demanding actual oversight.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Public general general public comment.

Okay, so we have one minute.

Go ahead.

Okay, hi.

I'm a Taylor, I'm a protester.

I'm district one as well.

Um I came here to talk about two things.

One, Jim McDonnell, and two, there's a fence at 535 New Philomena Street that DHS put up.

Uh, let's talk about Jim for a second.

I went to the police commission meeting and I told them about our 24 hour protests and how LAPD has been a little less than warm than welcoming.

And literally immediately after the police commission meeting, LAPD has pretty much nonstop, pretty heavily been on our butts out there.

So I want to put that on the record.

I know it takes two thirds of you to remove him.

Let's work on that.

Um, and then DHS and ICE put up a gate around 535 New Valameter Street because we're protesting there.

It is a hazard.

Um, people can't walk by as freely as they used to.

It takes up about half the sidewalk.

Um, and now they're macing us because of it and tear gassing us because of it.

Um just putting it on the record.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I'd like to speak on items 131, 32, 33, and general public comment speaks.

So you have Yeah, sorry, speaker.

Could you um also just make sure that you're moving the microphone so we can hear you?

Thank you so much.

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

Please begin with the items.

Go ahead.

Okay, all items on this agenda look like a kindergarten class.

Put it together as none of these items are of any transformative significance due to the incompetence of these $20,000 per month council circus clowns.

Number one is for corrupt sleeve mapquizy dawson and indicted current price currently on trial, corrupt current price, putting a lien on citizens' property at 6212 Corbin Avenue for nuisance abatement cost in hopes of Dawson and Price confiscating the citizens' property via current prices, family business and future instead of assisting the property owner.

Oh, when the incompetence of all these city council clowns sitting here because 16,000 city structures caught to burn.

In my opinion, these motions should state that the Sleazy Council is the nuisance instead of the property owner.

Further, in my opinion, indicted with additional corruption charges and out on bail in on trial corruption.

Corruption.

Current price should not be allowed to represent the city by voting on any item.

I demand that Sleazy Dawson and on trial, current price be investigated by the Attorney General regarding this item.

Item 3132 and 33 are all for properties to be removed from the REAP program.

In my opinion, these property owners should be reimbursed from current prices.

Attempts to confiscate these properties through his wife's business.

In my opinion, sleazy corrupt incompetent Dawson and indicted on trial current price should not be allowed to vote because Price is being in convicted and Dawson is indicted for corruption in my opinion.

Excuse me.

In my opinion, these reap items are indicative of the twisted priorities of this sleazy council.

When black women are only 4% of the population, but nearly 50% of the aggravated assaults and rapes in Los Angeles.

This is our black leadership at least 20,000 per month.

Black clowns and all the rest, too.

The only have these reap accounts on the agenda while items of thousands are homeless.

In my opinion, all these reap items should include some homeless solutions, but these incompetent 20,000 per month clowns have none.

General public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Public, when you hire clowns, you get these circus of corrupt incompetence.

Sleazy Marquisi Dawson, uh Asian also Lee.

Nonconformative items on today's agenda.

Oh goodness.

CD 8, the highest homeless rate, the highest unemployment rate, and the entire United States.

Over 12 and a half percent CD 8 is a near complete food desert.

Sleazy Dawson has spent over 10 million dollars on luxury offices for himself while items of thousands are homeless.

Dawson has appointed by was appointed by Petty Pink Face corrupt Armenian and dictator Paul Klu Kluft Gakoran, a legendary fool.

Criminally insane, Kern Price has been indicted on additional charges for voting on his wife's city contracts and polygamy.

One billion dollar budget emergency, homeless epidemic emergency, 275 billion fire damage emergency, and sleazy among general comment the and these speaker.

Your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Next speaker, and you can start this individual's time because he's clearly delaying May I finish my banana, please.

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

Go ahead.

So this is not on the agenda.

This is your first and only warning.

If you stay up straight off topic again, I'm gonna move you to general public comment.

Listen, uh, Mr.

Attorney, with your transparency bullshit.

What about what Bob Bloomfield is doing regarding the North Corbin Avenue Street?

What is he doing there?

Why is the Jew enforcing people through your so-called broken window of transparency, not behind the doors that you do your dirty work, putting a lien against this individual at this property located at 6212 North Corbin Avenue?

You know why?

It's for your comment and what you said about me right now.

You you initially attacked me on my first amendment.

Okay, not on the agenda.

You're welcome to speak to it during general, and now you're on general public comment.

You were previously warned.

You have one minute.

So now I'm going on to item number of transper transportation, fool.

Hey, foo.

Transportation.

Did you know that the city of Los Angeles has a project to spend?

And don't get me wrong.

I maybe I don't know how to read numbers.

Help me out, smoking scan.

Uh it's 11.789.6.00.

Is that millions of dollars for a project in just one black area?

What about all the other black neighborhoods that need their projects repaired, Mr.

Transparency Attorney?

Aren't you the one hiding behind closed doors illegally conducting bad business on transparency of our transportation?

That makes you a criminal.

Supporting these type of actions, Mr.

Jonathan Phillip Grote on item 23 and item 24, you dumbass.

Yeah, look at it.

Yeah, sip it down.

Foo.

And my last two seconds, fuck you.

Nope.

You're you were already warned.

You were on general public comment just now.

I would also remind you you're on probation, so please vacate the podium.

And take your banana peel, sir.

Mr.

Herman, take your banana with you.

You can't leave your garbage on the podium.

Littering is not permitted here.

This is your first and only warning.

Do not disrupt this meeting.

You're here every day.

You try and break the rules every day.

Vacate the podium.

And I believe, madam president, we are told that there are no other speakers.

And this is exhausted.

There's some individuals who came in later.

If anyone is here who didn't hear our announcement initially who wants to make public comment, please make your way to the left side of the chamber.

Going once, going twice.

Okay.

I think at this point we can close public comment.

Okay.

Madam Clerk, what items can council vote on now?

Madam President, Council may now vote on items one as well as 31 through 36.

We can also add item 22 to that.

As well as 22.

Yes.

So that's 122, 31 through 36.

Let's open the roll on those items.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13.

Okay, what's next?

Next would be items 23 through 28.

And that was called special by Councilmember Jorado for a separate vote.

Okay, great.

If Councilmember Corado doesn't have any comments, let's open the roll on those items.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

10 ayes, three no's.

Okay, great.

What is next on the agenda, Madam Clerk?

Madam President.

Council has motions for posting a referral.

Okay, those are posted and referred.

The desk is clear.

Members.

Any announcements?

Councilmember Hernandez.

I have a couple of announcements.

Good morning, everyone.

What a wonderful day to be here all together.

My first announcement is that we have started Latino Heritage Month.

We have an art exhibit curated by Artura Art Gallery on the third floor bridge, where uh the theme of this year is Viva La Resistencia.

I'm also the Madrina of El Rito this year, and the theme is also Viva la Resistencia, and that is taking place September 13th at Gloria Molina Park.

We're gonna have lucha libre, uh fantastic artists, uh vendors, and fun activities for your family, and it's all free, so make sure you come on by.

And again, if you haven't taken a moment to check out the art, uh it's a beautiful representation of what resistance looks like in different forms, uh in photography, through paintings, through uh items such as uh t-shirts, um, as well as representing different generations and their type of resistance.

So I welcome you all.

I welcome everybody.

It's free.

It's gonna be all throughout the month of September.

And uh want to thank Altura Art Gallery in Lincoln Heights and Council District One for creating this phenomenal exhibit.

Uh, thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hernandez.

Councilmember Herado, do you have a comment?

An announcement.

Uh yes.

Um I would like to announce that there is an art exhibit also uh the gallery that council member is putting forth.

Um, and I forgot that I wanted to give comments for item eight.

That's what I was actually coming up to talk about.

If I may make comments on item eight.

Sorry.

You were supposed to make comments on item eight.

Yes.

Do you want to make those comments now during the announcement?

Okay, please.

Well, she's just making a general announcement.

Okay.

So these are you're fine making them after.

So the vote we're not going to reconsider is all.

That's yeah, we don't need to redo the vote.

I could just speak.

Please go ahead, Councilmember.

Okay, thank you.

And so, you know, this motion is between me and Councilmember Price for immigration-related financial assistance.

And despite the motion not having been acted on yet, EWDD and CAO submitted reports.

Uh, pursuant to the motion to ask for more information.

And EWDD actually recommended uh launching the DTLA resilient legacy business grant to support 130 existing DTLA legacy businesses within the curfew map uh with five thousand dollars in cash grants.

Uh they're also leveraging LA Rise and Youth Jobs Corps to support the graffiti removal from all the things that have happened.

Um and the CAO additionally highlighted a program that CIFD put forth to provide cash assistance.

And the instruction that came out of EDJ was for CIFD to report on cash assistance, including conversations with philanthropy, and um, you know, a microenterprise grant lottery with EWDD and CIFD.

And this is an example of departments coming together, um, taking initiative.

You know, initially, when we brought this motion forward, uh, there was no money that could be found by the CAO.

But I really commend these departments for making something happen.

Okay.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Corrado.

And that's really um, I think it's one of the few instances I've heard of departments proactively submitting reports.

And I imagine that that's due to the diligence of you and your fellow council members in pushing that forward.

So thank you.

Councilmember Padilla.

Uh good morning, Council members.

Uh, today I just wanted to stand and uh make a for all of my uh Sun Valley community members who are watching and following.

I just wanted to let them know that items 21, 25, and 26 are for you.

I want to thank everyone who attended from Sun Valley, the uh town hall that we had related to potentially constructing uh tiny homes at our underutilized Metrolink station.

They told us what their fears were, what they were excited about, and what else they'd like to see, and what would make them feel like it could be a better project.

And these motions uh indicate exactly that feedback.

So uh for those that are watching, like I said, these are for you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Councilmember Padia.

I'm sure the community will be glad to hear that they're being listened to.

Um other members, announcements?

No.

Okay, seeing none, please rise for adjourning motions.

And if I could get everyone in the chambers to rise if you're able, members, any adjourning motions on my left?

Any adjourning motions on my right?

Okay, seeing none, an efficient meeting.

This meeting is adjourned.

Thank you.

Commitment and the love of the Southside Church of Christ family.

And so with that, uh congratulations, everybody.

I can't wait to get downstairs with my scissors and cut the ribbon on this building once and for all.

Thanks, Council President.

Appreciate it, and thanks for all your support, and particularly the staff.

Thanks so much.

Uh, my name is Saki Middleton, the president of John Stanley.

John Stanley is a private real estate development company focused on multifamily housing.

Um wanted to talk specifically about the project today and kind of give you an overview of what we have here and what you're gonna see as you walk around.

So Serenia is a public-private partnership between the city of Los Angeles and us as developer Southside and John Snelly.

Um it's a faith based partnership with South Side Church of Christ and Serenity is 50 units, seniors, permanent supportive housing, and independent.