This is a great opportunity to engage with the public and close that gap and build that bridge between community member and also police officer and explain to them what it is that we do in regards with immigration and go ahead and brief them on our policy and at the same time give them information.

We have them in English and in Spanish, these booklets that stick with the policy of the Los Angeles Police Department with respect to immigration, and we also have a QR code where that information can be downloaded on the cell phone.

The past couple of months have been a little bit of a strain, but by us doing these events frequently, it gives us the opportunity to go ahead and speak to the community member so they know not to be in fear of the police department and let them know that we are here to support them, but at the same time educate them so they understand what the role of law enforcement is with respect to immigration instead of listening to the false narratives that keep getting past.

We're so excited to be at the grand opening of brand new affordable supportive housing community here in the heart of South LA.

A hundred and twenty-seven units that will welcome individuals that are exiting homelessness thanks to a partnership between Link Housing, the City of LA, the Housing Authority, and the County.

But more than that, every time you do one of these buildings, you talk to someone who has a story, and the story usually goes something like I thought I might die living in that alley, or I didn't know if I was ever gonna make it out of living out of my car.

Seeing people have hope who've been at their lowest points is absolutely by far the best part of these buildings.

Being homeless, living in a shelter, recovering from making bad decisions and what have you.

And this is like a big relief from roughly 2005.

Jack right now.

You know, I'm just eternally forever be grateful.

The Housing Authority of the City of LA provides affordable housing to Angelinos across our city.

So 110 vouchers have been committed to this site, and that will allow uh individuals that are extremely low income to be able to live here.

Across the city, we have about 38 projects that will come online uh in 2025, about 2,000 units, and this is how we will continue to end homelessness in our city.

Well, you know, in Council District A, we're very excited.

We are confronting the housing crisis head on.

We're building as much or more housing than anywhere else, but we're also trying to do it in a way that makes our neighborhoods even more livable than they are.

So traffic and safety improvements, making sure we do things like bring in new grocery stores and many, many other amenities for the neighborhood that makes this a whole place where we can all first and foremost live indoors, but secondly have a good quality of life.

The opportunities are limitless.

Any obstacles that's in front of me, I plan the face today at all.

Delivering hope as well as homes in South LA.

Learning more even before starting school with the Los Angeles Public Library.

The library has thought of everything.

Their programs are for everyone, and that means all Los Angeles families and children, including preschoolers.

At the Los Angeles Public Library.

We have resources for we like to say birth through infinity, but in terms of back to school specifically, we have a program for pre-kindergarten little ones called Get Ready for Kindergarten.

We also have story times to help support early literacy across our 72 branch locations as well as at our central library.

Each one is different depending on the children's librarian who's hosting it.

Sometimes there's a song.

If you're wearing reading, please spend up.

There's definitely reading a picture books, and usually there's a theme.

Maybe it's numbers, maybe it's letters, maybe it's colors to help little ones just get used to talking, reading, singing, playing, all of those early literacy skills that will help them with reading in the future.

One of our mottos is the library welcomes everyone.

We really encourage all families, all students of any background to come to the library to take advantage of our resources.

They are by the city, for the city.

Why not?

Because it's made for everyone.

So we have both in-person and online programming too, depending on how people prefer to access our resources.

That's really important to us too.

That it's not only in person, it's not only online.

We're always looking to make our resources more available to more people.

The best place to go for more information is your local library, but also online.

Our website is lapl.org and for littler ones, the website that has the children's resources is LAPL.org slash kidspath.

There's a new City of LA film industry liaison.

September is National Preparedness Month, and the City Attorney settles short-term rental and party house lawsuits.

These stories up next on City Beat.

Mayor Karen Bass has announced her appointment of Steve Kang, president of LA City's Board of Public Works as the liaison to the film and television industry.

According to Bass, Kang's deep knowledge of city's infrastructure and permitting will help improve local film processes and experiences for the entertainment industry.

Kang is the official who oversees the city's contract with Film LA, balancing film industry needs with community impact.

Kang said filming is vital to the city's economy and city departments must prioritize their success.

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

September is National Preparedness Month.

An LA City's emergency management department has advice to follow if you haven't yet made an emergency plan.

According to the department, steps include making a family emergency plan, building a kit, preparing for disasters, and teaching youth about preparedness.

Sign up for Notify LA to get city alerts or Ready LA County for emergency notifications across the Greater Los Angeles area.

LA City Emergency Management Department has disaster and emergency preparedness resources available online.

For more information, visit emergency.lacity.gov.

LA City Attorney Heidi Feldstein Soto announced her office has settled lawsuits involving violations of the city's short-term rental and party house ordinances.

Since late 2020, illegal short-term rentals were facilitated at one complex for over 3,000 nights, resulting in increased nuisance activity and complaints from neighbors.

This housing falls under the LA Rent Stabilization Ordnance, which bars it from the city's home sharing ordinance.

As part of the settlement, the litigants are to pay civil penalties and are prohibited from violating the home sharing ordinance at any properties they manage or own.

For more information, click the news tab at cityatorney.lacity.gov.

The Department of Cultural Affairs runs art centers throughout Los Angeles.

But wait, there's more.

They also support three multidisciplinary artists who connect even more directly with the communities, bringing ideas to life through art.

What is the outreach and engagement for DCA?

Community Arts has been active for a long time with our art centers all across Los Angeles.

Community engagement has been, I would say, augmented by our community engagement outreach team.

We have three art instructors.

They are amazing, talented, creative, multidisciplinary artists who go out into the community and are providing true meaningful arts activities with the community.

What inspired me to become a teaching artist for DCA was uh number one, their mission.

I loved DCA's mission as far as giving back to my community.

I love the idea of spreading out going throughout LA and going to all the different communities and giving them opportunities, grants, all sorts of amazing things that we offer.

It really aligned with my morals as an artist.

When I heard about DCA and I saw the opportunity of them having this outreach team that was going straight to the community, it felt like a perfect place for me to give back and to share what art is to me.

But I like to think that me as a person, I can be an example.

You know, I'd rather be an example more than an impact, I suppose.

And what I mean by that is like while I'm working with the community, while I'm teaching, while I'm talking, sharing ideas, exploring ideas through the medium of art.

I like to think that maybe somewhere out there, like while I'm working on the field, I'm able to interact with somebody, and that me being an example to them opens up their mind to like other possibilities in their lives and in their community.

As we know, Los Angeles is huge, and a lot of folks do not have that access.

And so we really want to make sure that we're bringing that arts access as far reaching as possible to as many people as possible, regardless of age, background.

We're really trying to have people participate in activities that they might not be used to that might be interesting and engaging for them, getting people to think about the arts in different ways, and um just bringing it to as many people as we can.

The library is so much more than a building.

It's a community hub.

So when the Venice Branch Library is celebrating 30 years, they feature the 30 community members who've helped the Venice branch become the unique place it is today.

We are here at the Venice Branch Library, and we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of this beautiful branch library, this beautiful building.

This library is such a hub to the community.

We wanted to honor a lot of people in the Venice community who've kind of made this place what it is.

We selected 30 of the most influential people for the Venice 30th, and we've had several people from this healthster.

They are here today to help us celebrate.

And it's been a wonderful day of celebration.

We have B.

Coleman unveiling of her artwork, which is in the children's section.

We're doing swing dancing, we're doing a zine program today.

It brings in an incredibly diverse population.

You know, people who really need the services, and then people who like a little extra.

The extra is also where the friends of the Venice Library come in because we fund, I'd say about 98% of the programs that happen at the library.

This is much more than just a place to go to get your book or to be on the computer for a bit.

This is a real community place, and it is an honor to serve it and honor the people who serve the community.

I think what we're really celebrating with the people.

The people in this community who have benefited from this library all of these years, the incredible city staff who work for the library department and the LA Public Library who provide outstanding service at this library and all of the lives that are changed, whether it's a young person who develops a lifelong love of reading by coming to Story Times and craft programs here at this library, whether it's a senior that comes to a book club here or someone who comes to explore our collections and just make use of this incredible space to our wonderful friends of the library who are signing new members up today and who are providing extra treats for a reception.

And it's just a very celebratory day, and it's a reminder of how important libraries are.

From the neighborhood block where it began to a city rooftop, the Lamert Park Jazz Festival is now in its sixth year.

While rooted in the black cultural hub of Lamert Park, the festival encompasses the best jazz in the country.

It started in the neighborhood.

And look what it's grown to.

We're right here at Ball and Crenta Plaza, upstairs on the parking lot.

It's been transformed into a festival with folks that are selling hats and rings, earrings, clothes.

And we also have all these food vendors.

It is really wonderful.

Top notch musicians are playing.

And even we have our local drums that are all women that come from LaMarque Park Village.

Music, joy, beautiful handcrafted goods, artwork, lots of booths from your city departments, and a sense of community.

We are rooted here in LaVerte Park, but people are coming from all over the city because the jazz is hot.

One of the nice things about this event is this isn't the idea of the city or the mayor or the Department of Cultural Affairs or the Council members.

This is the idea of the community.

They did the work, they came to us for help.

We helped, and here you see what we have.

Well, every year it gets bigger and bigger, but what it does is it anchors our community as one of the jazz centers, not just in Southern California and California, but in the country.

And that's what they'll walk away knowing for sure that black aspirants lives here.

Shutting down Los Angeles and Main Street in the heart of downtown isn't normally a cause for celebration.

But when it comes to a classic car show, El Pueblo got some traffic stopping models and celebrated the pride of Lowrider culture.

We're really lucky to have this for the third year where we shut down Los Angeles and Mainstream here in the heart of downtown LA to have showcards on display.

For us, it's more like a religion.

You know, we like to bring the Chicano style back to Los Angeles and especially Albera Street.

It is an art.

And it's very difficult.

It takes thousands and thousands of dollars to keep these cars to look original and classic and original look.

The motivation more, it's just for the young generation, you know.

You know, um, they love coming out here seeing the cars, and one day they're going to want to build a car themselves, or we just hand our cars down to our kids.

They love it.

Well, I loved it growing up as a kid too, watching my dad driving his low rider.

And Pueblo is really special because we always pride ourselves on having our museums free and also most of our programming free as well.

So having a third annual car show just shows support to the community and to draw more visitors and to celebrate the history of Los Angeles and low riding culture.

An LA car show wouldn't be complete without going low and slow with the lowriders.

LA City's Department of Aging is on the ball with a new program in conjunction with the Los Angeles Sparks.

The women's basketball team and the department got together to take a senior to the game.

And the result?

Well, it's a win-win.

Take a senior to the game is our first um initiative of working with the Department of Aging.

The game is just the first step, but we will be out visiting the seniors at their facility and just giving them an opportunity just to have some fun and to be on the move.

When the seniors found out about it, they're super excited to have a night out and um enjoy this WNBA game.

So we're really excited.

For the Department of Aging to put on an event like this is really means a lot to us.

They always take us on different events, and now we're here at the crypto.com to see this work, and they're gonna give us a win.

I could be jumping up and down for a sponsor.

Obviously, these are the benefactors, right?

Our older adults, they need to know that we're a very active community.

Uh we get involved in all sorts of community events and they love to have a lot of fun.

It's not just sitting around playing games and stuff all day.

We like to get out and move.

This keeps us active, so we don't want to be sitting at home, you know, maybe watching TV or whatever.

Them providing outside activities for us is great for us because you know we don't want to just be sitting around.

These are our golden gears, and we would like to keep them golden.

Exactly.

And very active.

We are fighting for a playoff spot.

So I hope they are ready to cheer loud.

I hope they're ready to catch some t-shirts, but we're gonna spotlight them.

So the department of aging is our community spotlight for tonight.

We will put the camera on them in their seats.

You know, just catch them having fun.

It just shows how the Los Angeles Sparks and the Department of Aging, how we're bringing the community together.

No matter the age, you know, everybody can have fun.

In this week's things to do, get to Central Avenue for the Jazz Festival, head to San Pedro for its festival of the arts, and pull some strings for puppets in the park at Hollyhawk House.

All this up next on Things to Do.

Thousands of toes will be tapping throughout the day on Saturday, September 20th.

Celebrating its 30th year with four pavilions and three stages of live music.

It's the Central Avenue Jazz Festival.

The festival is presented by Council Member Curran Price and pays tribute to Jazz Greats while also shining a spotlight on emerging artists.

Enjoy hot, cool, and swinging jazz sounds with over a dozen performances taking place along Central Avenue from MLK Boulevard to Vernon Avenue.

Central Avenue Jazz Festival is on Saturday, September 20th, from 11 a.m.

to 7 p.m.

For more details, visit Central Av Jazzfest.com.

On September 20th, Los Angeles choreographers and dancers present the San Pedro Festival of the Arts in the heart of the harbor.

Enjoy performances from nineteen vibrant dance companies to mark the nineteenth year of the festival.

Bring a picnic and get set to join in, try a Bollywood step or a flamenco turn, or simply enjoy the mix of dance performances by local companies.

Head to the Upper Green at Peck Park for the San Pedro Festival of the Arts on Saturday, September twentieth, beginning at one PM.

For more details, visit TryArtSP.com.

Bring a blanket, sing along, and make art at Puppets in the Park.

Puppets in the Park is presented by the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Bob Barker Marionette Theater.

On Sunday, September twenty first, enjoy two performances of Fiesta.

There will also be art activities led by Barnes Dall Junior Art Center instructors.

Gates open at nine A.M.

Each performance will be followed by art activities.

It's all happening on the West Lawn outside Hollyhawk House.

Head to Barnesdall Park for Puppets in the Park on Sunday, September twenty first, with performances at nine thirty AM and eleven AM.

For more information, visit Hollyhawk House.

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

And that's all for this week.

I'm Susan Huckle, and from all of us here at LA this week, thank you so much for joining us.

Remember that you can watch us online anytime at LA Cityview.

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See you next time for more LA this week.

Sibio, as a salt, and see the water is like a little bit of a little bit of a little bit.

What is it?

Well, I'll Good morning and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of real Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Tuesday, the sixteenth day of September in the year twenty twenty-five.

So Mexican Independence Day.

Yes, Mr.

President.

Bloomfield, Herr Stason, Hernandez, Jurado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Raman, Rodriguez, Sotomartin, Zaroslavski, 14 members present in our core, Mr.

President.

All right, first order of business.

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

Councilmember Raman moves, Councilmember Park seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Rodriguez moves, Councilmember Nazarian seconds.

What's next?

Mr.

President, today is Tuesday, and it's time for the flag salute.

All right, I'll ask everyone in the chambers to rise and follow along with Councilmember Rodriguez of the 7th District in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

I'm gonna move that we um send item 17 back to committee if if the chair is amenable.

The chair is willing to hear it.

Well, all right.

Without objection, item 18 will go back to committee.

Um, for this uh morning.

Uh all right.

Uh Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, uh Ms.

President.

Uh I'd like to call it 28 for a separate vote.

All right.

Councilmember Jurado.

Thank you, Council President.

I'd like to call item thirty-three for a separate vote.

All right.

Uh, item twelve for questions to the chief.

All right.

Item twelve for questions to the chief.

All right.

Any other specials members.

Uh, and I'll call item 18 special for comments.

Um, with that, uh, Mr.

Clerk, what items are available for vote at this time?

Mr.

President, there's a request to continue item 14th, Friday, September 26th, 2025.

The council may now vote on items 2 through 11.

13, 15, 16.

19.

Through 27.

Alright, without objection, those items are before us.

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

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council may now proceed to item 18.

Item uh number 18.

Uh, we have a very, very special appointment.

I'll ask uh Miss Lattimore if she'll just join us at the desk.

She's uh come uh nominated by the mayor through committee uh to serve as our clerk uh for the city, which is important to all of us, especially when we're in this room.

Um so if you could just uh introduce yourself to the full council, who I'm sure you know all of us, uh, and let us know a little bit about your experience and uh uh how you plan to change the world as our new new clerk.

Well, thank you, council member, thank council president.

Uh good morning, members.

Uh first off, I'd like to thank uh Mayor Bass for this incredible opportunity to be able to serve as a city clerk for the city of Los Angeles.

I also want to thank the government government operations committee members for recommending approval for my confirmation and the council president for having me here today.

I've had the pleasure of being with the city for 26 years and with the office of the city clerk for 24 of those years, and so I'm well acquainted with the task ahead of me.

As city clerk, um, I will be continue to be committed to achieving excellence within our department.

I will ensure we consistently operate with the highest standards of efficiency and responsiveness by leveraging modern-day technology and optimizing all available resources.

It's important to me that we streamline service delivery, particularly in critical areas such as contract management and processing payments.

Uh my goal is to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and to ensure that the city clerk's office leads in municipal service and effectively addresses our community's evolving needs.

I thank you for your time and consideration today, and I'm grateful and excited to partner with all of you in serving the city and our residents.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh, and thank you for your service.

Uh, you've been sitting somewhere around this front dais for every day that I've been on council, and I'm sure you were here long before that.

Um, so it's uh nice to see you in this uh formal capacity.

Councilmember Hutt.

Thank you.

I'm uh excited about the future with us collaborating all together.

I just want to say publicly, congratulations, and we're looking forward to working with you.

Councilmember Padilla, I also just want to thank you for your presentation that you just had in government operations and for being so accessible.

And you know, I also am looking forward to the future.

I'm excited when I uh know there's someone that's going to be at the clerk's office that supports technology and improving systems and improving efficiency.

So congratulations and uh thank you for your willingness to serve and again congratulations after all these years to make it to this position.

You must be ecstatic.

Thank you.

Yes, I am.

Uh thank you so much, and uh thank you to your family who's joined us today.

Uh and thank you for sharing her with the city of Los Angeles and and uh all of our people and making this go.

And I'll just leave you with this before we ask for an I vote.

Still 35 copies, paper copies, every time we want to make a motion.

I if you can walk away saying you've dealt with that, I feel like you that's a win for all of us.

So uh with that uh members, I'll request an aye vote on this item.

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

All right.

What's next, Mr.

Clerk?

Mr.

President, the council may now vote on item 28, call special by council member Lee for a separate vote.

All right.

Let's uh you ready, Mr.

Lee?

Alright, let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

12 ayes, two no's.

Alright.

What's next?

The council may now move on to public comment.

Alright, before we go to public comments as we do uh every morning since the siege of our city began about uh 90 days ago almost.

Uh we get reports uh from the front lines of our neighborhoods about uh what's happening with ice and the federal uh so-called enforcement of immigration laws in our city uh that has uh damaged our economy, uh disturbed our peace, uh, and disrupted our way of life.

And today we'll hear from Councilmember Nazarian from the second district.

Thank you, Council President, and thank you for also uh creating this forum and continuing it, because as we've seen, it's a tenuous situation and it has its ebbs and flows, and we don't know when it's gonna end.

So it's important for us to continue highlighting it.

Uh, as such, this federal administration continues to threaten our communities, disrupting workplaces, schools, places of worship.

With the recent Supreme Court ruling, who knows how much worse these raids will become.

People need to know what impact this arbitrary enforcement is having on our local economy and on immigrants who are law-abiding citizens and residents trying to provide for their families.

This is why it's so crucial to hearing stories from those who are active in our community.

I'd like to introduce you to Brenda, Marnie, Cindy, who will be speaking, and Chantel will be joining them from Hope the Mission, a leading provider of services to our unhoused residents.

They can shed light on the ongoing impact of this assault on our community and share the stories of those who are directly impacted by this unfettered federal administration.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Brenda Lopez, and I'm here as a representative of our Hispanic community, part of the CD2 council district.

Um, many of you know how many families are being affected.

Most of us have seen it.

A lot of us have friends that have are going through it, but we are currently experiencing a hardship that's taking a toll emotionally, mentally, and physically in a lot of our community.

We have a lot of mothers who are scared to go out to work.

They're scared to walk their kids to school.

We have a lot of dads that can't go to work.

They can't go to their medical appointments, they can't be at their kids' graduations.

We have a lot of people who are serving our country, and their parents can't go see them during their graduations.

And I understand that this world needs change, but not like this.

But not separating families, not separating kids.

Not by doing it the way that it's being done now, and not by forcing themselves to be arrested, arresting other individuals, not by pulling people out of their cars, or being threatened with guns, rifles, and any other violent ways that it's being done.

I know so many people are refugeing in this country, and it's for the same reason that back in their country they're going through the same situation that is happening now.

They're coming here to be heard, they're coming here for a better life, and right now the better life is not happening to them.

They're getting the they're getting the worst end of it, and we're starting to see this affect our community a lot.

We used to see kids at the park, we used to see families having barbecues outside in their front yard, and right now it's starting to look like a ghost town.

I thank CD2 for all the support that they're giving us.

Uh, Councilmember Adrian Nassarian is helping us, putting out his voice, giving us the many resources that we have right now, helping us look out for each other.

Hi, my name is Cindy Vigil, and I'm here today to speak on behalf of the Hispanic community to share the pain I've witnessed from ice raids.

When those raids began, panic spread through the community.

Families hidden fear, people I know personally.

Hardworking mothers and fathers who give everything to this country to give their kids a better life that came over here with the hopes of a better future for their kids, and that is not the that is not what they have been given.

Simply because of their skin color.

I know of some people that were so afraid that they even left the city, and not just undocumented immigrants, but also U.S.

citizens too.

I want to thank council member from CD2, Audrey Nazarian, who has been very supportive, supportive and has shown our community that he truly cares.

His leadership, his presence has helped bring a sense of peace in a time of fear, and that matters.

It shows families that they are not alone, but we need more.

When families don't know if they'll see each other again.

That is not what this country promised.

I personally come from a line of parents that came over here to in hopes of a better dream.

And unfortunately, because of all of this, uncles, aunts, cousins, they're afraid to go home.

They're afraid that they kiss their kids goodbye every day, not knowing if they're gonna come back and see their families.

I just hope that you guys realize and see that Mr.

Nazarian is truly making a change, and he's trying to show the Hispanic community that he is there, but we need more support.

We need more.

So thank you.

Hello, my name is Marnie de la Cruz, and um I'm here to speak for those that currently don't have a voice, who've been um muted by the ice raids that are happening.

Um so many families are being torn apart left and right.

There's parents like they've mentioned, they don't know if they're coming home to their kids, but let's not forget the kids that don't know if they can go to school because schools are being sieged by ice, children are being removed from their schools, parents don't know where their children are, children don't know where their parents are.

People are getting picked up and treated like if they're enemy of the state and they've committed treason.

They're disappearing.

We don't know where to find our family members.

We don't know how to find them, how to locate them.

They're missing for hours, days, if not just indefinitely.

We've seen so many families be torn apart while they're yelling, they just want to go home.

They just want to be with their family.

They're out there making a difference, trying to work.

And they're getting that right taken away.

Our council member in CD2, Adriana Zarian has been so helpful.

Every time we run into a challenge where we know there's a report of ice, we immediately call the council office, and he's showing up, not in person, not just his staff.

He shows up in person.

We have been able to help families get groceries, pay their rent because you know, the person that was standing in Home Depot, trying to make a living, trying to be able to feed their family and go home with less than what we call a day's wage, minimum wage.

That right was taken away.

Their family members are sitting at home and they have no idea what has happened.

It's not like you can call the local police department and say, hey, somebody's missing.

It's not like you can call the hospitals around the surrounding cities and say, hey, do you have somebody that looks like this?

People are disappearing off of our streets, and we need to do something, something, please, to help everybody that's suffering in these situations just because their skin color is brown.

Thank you, Brenda, Marnie, and Cindy, for highlighting and bringing your voices to our horseshoe to our decision-making body.

Chantal, also thank you for being here and lending your support as well.

These four individuals have helped run four centers that support our most vulnerable populations.

And on multiple occasions, I've had to run over there and see what's going on because of reports of agents wanting to actually penetrate their facilities, which I find pretty abhorrent when there's already people who are living in such precarious circumstances, for them to also be threatened by this situation.

It just tells you of the desperation and the continuous effort to constantly thwart our way of living and be disruptive to the flow that we want to have here.

That's all this is.

Thank you very much, Council President, for affording me this time and giving me the opportunity and giving all of us the voice to highlight these issues.

Appreciate it.

Thank you so much, and thank all of you for coming to City Hall to share with us.

It's very, very important that we document this time in our city, this pivotal moment in the history of our city, and you all are a part of that and a part of our process.

So thank you for uh what you have done.

And we will like you all describe, continue to look out for each other and have each other's back.

That's the only way we're gonna make it through this.

It's the only way we've ever made it through anything.

So thank you so much offer them.

And a big round of applause for for those folks for showing up and Mr.

Zarian.

All right, uh, Mr.

Clerk, do we have any other items that we can vote on at this time?

Mr.

President, the council may not consider item 12.

Call special by council member Nazarian for questions.

All right.

Uh item number 12.

Uh, we'll ask our uh interim chief to join us at the center table.

And uh, welcome to the chambers, all of our friends from our firehouses and from uh the mighty UFLAC.

All right.

Um thank you for being here today.

Mr.

Nazarian.

This item uh you call special for questions.

Thank you, Council President.

Good morning, Chief Ellenueva.

First and foremost, I want to take a minute and just thank you for stepping into the role that you did.

Uh just give and and treating the circumstance and the situation you've walked into with the utmost professionalism and dignity.

Because at the end of the day, regardless of all the barrage of noise outside, the work that you do is so critical on a day-to-day basis.

It's it's the reason why government exists.

Your role, police officers' roles, are the reason why government exists first and foremost.

Um I have enormous admiration for what LAFD has done in the past nine months, uh, risking your lives on a daily basis, especially with with the harrowing experience of what happened during the wildfires.

Um, my colleagues in public safety committee asked about your priorities for the next six months of what resources department needs to keep up with the ever growing demand for firefighter expertise in Los Angeles.

Part of your duty as fire chief is to engage with this council, the policy making body of the city, and advise us on issues that require your expertise on the from your department standpoint.

One of the items on today's agenda, which was now referred back to committee, um, the single stairway ordinance, will directly affect firefighters.

And with respect, I have to say that so far the LAFD has taken an extremely passive role.

Hold on, let me sort of in advising on this piece of uh pretty crucial policy.

We've learned, we've established patterns, we've been doing something a certain way for a long time, and then all of a sudden, we're cutting and pasting, literally during one of the committee hearings, it was said we just duplicated what Seattle was doing.

So if we're gonna make policy by cutting and pasting, that's one thing.

But I just want to know how can you ensure that LAFD is engaging the city council more actively and judiciously, providing life expertise, life-saving expertise, because you see things that no normal human beings should see on an hourly basis.

So you develop a certain sense of what needs to happen and what shouldn't happen.

So I want you to discuss that if you if you don't mind, Chief.

First of all, I'd like to thank uh council president and all the council members uh for taking this time with me.

Uh Councilmember Nazarian.

Uh, your question is the LEFD will continue to engage and collaborate with all council offices.

I have personally met with each and every one of you.

I understand the concerns.

Councilwoman Park, I hear you loud and clear.

And Councilmember Padilla, all of you that I've spoken to, and that you know that the LEFD was my main priority is to provide the best safety professionalism to the public that we serve.

So I will continue to collaborate and to meet with each one of you.

Now that the budget season's coming in, we'll be making more conscience of effort to visit each and single one of you.

Thank you, Chief.

More conversations to come.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Any other questions, comments?

All right.

Uh with that, thank you, Chief.

Let's uh open the roll on this item, close the roll.

Tab you like to vote.

14 ayes.

Thank you so much.

Congratulations.

All right, Mr.

York, what's next?

Mr.

President, the council may now proceed to public comment.

Alright, uh, city attorney, Mr.

Clerk, you prepare for public comment.

Yes, Mr.

President.

To people providing public comment, when it's your turn to speak, please state which of the agenda items you'd like to speak to.

You will have one minute per item, up to three minutes total for the items open for public comment.

We will tell you when your time is up.

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

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

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

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

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

The items open for public comment on the agenda are items number one and items 29 through 46.

So again, the items open for public comment on the agenda are items number one and items 29 through 46.

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 other items or anything else in the city's subject matter jurisdiction.

I have a couple more announcements.

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Please make sure to pause every few sentences so the interpreters can interpret.

So you will get the same amount of time as everyone else.

Thank you.

Gracias.

Uh, in order to accommodate as many people as possible, we would ask that you please wait until you hear the name that you signed up under, read aloud or called aloud through the speakers.

Please keep in mind the order in which names are called is randomly generated.

So once you hear your name called or the name you signed up under called, please feel free to line up in any order on your left-hand side of the council chambers.

Thank you.

I will begin by calling the following names.

Let's move on to item number 43.

Was she want me?

Thank you very much.

So I am aware that they are so many political violence occurring nationwide, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

However, our city council continue to be silent about it.

Now, Mr.

City Attorney, I remember that during the woke Democrats, George Floyd was murdered, and then somehow you get on your knees, you bow down to the five-time criminal, you get on your knees over and over again.

But somehow, a law-abiding citizen, a white Caucasian member was killed, ruthlessly killed, murdered, shot, and then our city attorney, our council member does not say a word.

I really want to give you a mouthful, but however, Dana does not allow me to give you a mouthful because Dana said if I use profanity, she will not go to sleep with me tonight.

So therefore, I will not call you names, but I will call you disgusting, woke, pathetic, and then failure.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call the following names Sabrina M.

Mary Dana, Kamala Harris, Joseph Cohen May.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Um, good morning.

Uh I'm Ben Pasno, and I'd like to speak to items, I believe it's 17 and 28.

But those are not on the agenda, so it'd just be a correct.

So public comment has been satisfied at committee.

Thank you.

Uh, but you can speak to them during general.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Thank you, sir.

Um, good morning.

Um, I just wanted to uh speak uh to the validity of single stair.

Um, it's been already mentioned here today that um Seattle um does have six story single stair, and it's been working great.

Um, also the Pew Institute uh released a study showing that um it is more safe because single stair allows the feasibility of smaller buildings, which means that you can get out of the building faster.

So that's the single stair comment, and then I just wanted to say um thank you all to everyone for putting the um the parking requirements on the consent agenda.

Um as we know, off street parking increases the cost of housing.

So thank you for your work in uh making LA more affordable.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh, general public comic.

The other items were pulled.

So you have one minute, go ahead.

Freddie Escobar, elected president of UFLAC, local 112.

I've been silent since May 5th, 2025, and I'm done being silent.

I'm here to do the right thing and fight for what is right.

I want to remind everyone in attendance today and the residents of Los Angeles City that the LAFD is a woefully understaffed under fire department.

We have a robust standard of cover that says we need over 60 new fire stations in the city of Los Angeles, but no word has come out since the conservatorship.

We had a budget that removed our EITs, putting our members' lives in jeopardy as well as the residents of Los Angeles.

Let me remind everyone of the Joe Dupe fire.

My friend lost his life, paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Anexus to it was the loss of our EITs and the loss of our inside man.

Members are going to perish, and residents are going to die if we continue doing the business we're doing in the Los Angeles fire department.

Thank you for your time.

Next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Frank Lima and Rich Ramirez and Michael Williams.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Hello, good morning.

It's for public comment.

Okay.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, City Council members.

I'm here today, along with my colleagues, to raise concerns regarding the Los Angeles Homeless Authority Housing Initiative and the mishandling of critical funds, including allocations such as Long Beach funding.

Many of us have been pushed out of the organization we work for after alarming about the misuse of funds by upper management.

Despite the risk of our livelihoods, we feel it is our responsibility to speak out.

Our duty is to protect the most vulnerable in our communities, those experiencing homelessness who suffer the most when unethical practices are allowed to continue.

Troubling contradictions at the program level, conversations about budget cuts and exiting clients due to funding shortages happening daily while upper management has allegedly diverted funds for personal use.

This is unacceptable.

As service providers are arose to be the voices of those who have none.

Yet when we speak up for accountability, we face retaliation.

Can I continue, please?

So we have to unfortunately we have to give everybody the same amount of time.

So I can't allow you to continue.

Um if you have additional comments that you'd like to make in writing, uh you can always do so uh at la councilcomment.com.

That's la councilcomment.com.

You can also come to the meeting tomorrow.

Uh but we have to give everyone the same amount of time.

So I'm gonna ask that you please vacate the podium and we'll move on to the next speaker.

Thank you for your patience.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh, general public comment because the items are speaking on with Paul.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hello, my name is Joseph Cohen May from the Los Angeles Housing Production Institute.

First of all, I want to uh say that I completely agree with UFLAC that we need to be increasing the resources to the fire department.

I want to talk about some specific data uh related to single stale buildings.

In 2023, there were around 400 deaths in all apartments in the entire United States, which is about half the number of people that died just from traffic accidents just in LA County of those 400 deaths, the vast majority occurred in old buildings that were not built to modern safety standards with things like fire spring clothes.

Single stale buildings built to modern safety standards have a proven safety record that every study that has looked at it has shown they are safe and egress is uh acceptable.

Um, every comparison study has shown they have no greater risk of injury or death um than two stale buildings, and they actually can reduce the evacuation time because they are required to be much smaller buildings.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Ryan Quigley, Jesse Zwick, Big Amy, Tony Gamboa.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Um, public comment.

Okay, so we have one minute.

Go ahead.

So I saw that you pulled item 14, which was the reappointment of um Errol Southers as a police commissioner.

And I hope that's a good sign.

I hope that's that you're actually thinking about that decision.

But I want to bring to attention just the fact that your colleagues in the public safety committee, even though after hearing the words that Errol Southers said, Price, Park, McCosker, and Lee, decided to push this to y'all, instead of stopping him, after it was read out by their colleague, by their colleague, Councilmember Soto Martinez, and this is what he read.

From the words of Errol Southers, an American who embraces a Muslim identity or ideology within the United States is a homegrown violent.

Okay.

So, speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning, just general public comment.

Okay, so we have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, good morning.

My name is Lara Anderson.

I was born in the cult of Scientology as a child.

We did indentured slave work 24-7.

There are many, many programs and uh institutional things that were done that we were trained to do toward the city to infiltrate or to save point the members.

And for example, you have members on your CPAP boards.

You have Scientology members.

This isn't a hate about Scientology and the religion.

This is about Scientology, specifically safe pointing positions in the city so that they can take over and rule out certain things so that Scientology gets benefits.

But Scientology is only in the city safe pointing and holding positions on these boards on neighborhood council boards on city boards, so that they can infiltrate and get what they want done while they're hiding their crimes, their child abuse, their child trafficking.

Speaker, you can have Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Hello, hello.

Yes, we can hear you.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General public and all items, please.

So you have three minutes for the items.

Please begin with the items and then uh you can move on to general public comment after that.

You'll have one minute.

Go ahead.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Um, I want to start what first with the nuisance abatements.

Um, I uh you know, I see all these, and I don't know what all these different properties are, you know, nuisance abatement issues, but we've been coming here for a long time from here and especially to public works about the nuisance of what's going on on El Ron Hubbard Way with uh the uh with Scientology.

You have numerous neighbors complaining about absolute like loud noise and woofers from their events that shatter that you know rock their walls, and they have been crying out to CD 13, and Mr.

Hugo, you know this is true, begging for help and remediation with the noise.

That is nuisance.

So I don't understand why 4810 was that 40 or 4810 Sunset Boulevard Cross Street, El Ron Hubbard Way, is not listed here.

Um also it's a nuisance that they keep having events where like they like this recently where they this past week.

We've exhausted you want to make it on item one.

I'm gonna ask that you please.

There's another one right for abatements.

Uh right, there's another um nuisance one in there.

So we're gonna see another one that's open for public comment.

Okay, well, let's talk about the appointments then.

People who are being appointed to any city uh service or anything should be aware of there's how many people, how many times have we been coming and trying to tell you that you've been safe pointed, that you have too much influence, that Scientology has too much influence over the city.

So anyone coming in for any event here, I mean, for any position here, needs to be aware of all the allegations, everything that is being discussed, especially the slave labor.

Okay.

They are, you know, like when it comes to public streets, you're not there's no religious exemption for fair pay for prevailing wages, and we and we have known for time after time that the city is looking a blind eye at the at Scientology working on the this is for the people who are being.

Okay, please move on to another item.

Okay, then the other one is Samirkin Skin, help me out.

What's the next uh one?

Because I was over at the police, you guys put this all together and I forget the last one.

Um, street lighting, okay.

The city is very dark.

Um, and that's true, and I have to navigate it, and I just lost a tire because you can't, even with the street light thing I have on my chair.

I keep falling, you know, like it keeps going into you can't see where you're going.

And I lost the actual tire on a chair.

Okay, so you guys are horrible with the lighting.

I appreciate that you're trying to do something, but you know, we need more, and um, you know, uh so I'll this let me go to public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Okay, all right.

First of all, I want to give a shout out to Smoke and Scan because I'm grateful that he's here helping to watch everything that's going on and all the shenanigans.

Mr.

Lee, you still owe me an apology.

We will not be forgetting that anytime soon, because even now, see it's the rudeness and the disrespect.

It's not we don't tolerate it.

Thank you, Mr.

President, for acknowledging, you know.

I appreciate it.

See, thank you.

Shout out to the Mr.

President who gets it.

You know, when you you know, it's simple, right?

You just apologize when you're wrong.

Um, but I'm here to back up Miss Laura FM, somebody born and raised in Scientology, and she's why uh she's the first one to help me that I started to advocate for when I heard her story.

And now there's a book that we're passed out today to the police um as part of her testimony to the police commission.

We will be passing it out here too, talking about different another child's experience and the crimes against children that have gone on under our noses for a decades, and why her um situation matters.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Frank, Doug Coates, Harriet Elliott, Zachary Pitts, RKO.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh, just general public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute, go ahead.

Hi, my name is Jesse Zwick.

I'm the Southern California Director for the Housing Action Coalition.

Our membership spans 20 industries, including affordable and market rate home builders, architects and designers, engineers, and attorneys, all devoted to solving our statewide housing crisis.

Uh single stair reform uh could be truly transformative for creating more affordable and livable housing in the city of LA if we get the details right, and I support the decision to send this back to committee today to get them right.

Speaking as a fellow elected for the city of Santa Monica, who is contemplating a policy that is far less restrictive than the one that is before you today.

Uh, I ask that you be brave and follow the science and the data on this for context.

Seattle has allowed six story single stair buildings without incident since the 70s.

Same with New York City, Honolulu legalized it in 2012.

In just the past few years, Memphis and Austin have followed suit.

Around the world, Germany and Singapore allow single stair buildings as tall as 20 stories.

Switzerland and South Korea have no height limit at all.

This is a proven safe, effective way to get better, more affordable apartments that will improve people's lives.

Thank you so much.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

My item was already voted on, so I have to go to public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Okay.

Purging and altering memory.

This is from Project Soulcatcher Volume 2 of Robert Duncan.

Uh the DOD is now investigating drugs that will purge memory.

You can imagine how it'll be used.

They would seduce bright young scientists to do work for them and erase part of their soul from national security reasons, of course.

Um electronic dissolution of memory.

By the way, if you don't think this is going on, it's going on every week for me.

Edom is a CIA program that utilizes various electromagnetic techniques to fade memories.

It involves many of the same techniques as previously discussed, but also includes includes dream manipulation in hypnotic states.

By the way, before I finish, I want to encourage everybody to call uh Senator Ron Johnson at 202 224 5323.

I'm trying to get Herman Herman to do it.

He's the same right wing viewpoint as our senator of Wisconsin.

We need them to get together and talk about their work.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Damian Martin, Dave Burwell.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Okay.

Go ahead.

You have one minute.

My name is Zachary Pitts.

I'm with Yimby Action.

I have a uh personal connection to single stair.

When I was living downtown in a two-bedroom apartment with my family, uh, we had two kids and my partner, and we were just too constrained in where we were living.

When we looked for three-bedroom apartments, we couldn't find any that cost less than the cost of a single-family home or a mortgage.

Luckily, we had the privilege to move into a single-family home, but we wanted to stay downtown.

We wanted to stay in uh accommodations that were denser, uh accommodations that would be a three-bedroom apartment, and we couldn't find that.

Single stair allows this city, allows the flexibility for families like mine to go to the housing that they want to afford the housing that they want.

So I strongly encourage that you uh reform it.

Uh, item uh section 26 and 27 of the current motion needs to be removed and uh and voted on in favor.

Thank you so much.

I would like to call up love Dana and George Buzetti.

We'll also be calling up Jamie Koosk and Taylor.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Item 20 and public comment.

Item 20?

Yeah.

So item 20 is not open for public comment, but you can speak to it during general.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

No problem.

First, get rid of Gibbs and Dunning Crutcher.

Second, do you realize that your police department is lying its rear off about rapes?

2023 to 24.

It went up 62% according to their own page 67 of their latest report by the chief that nobody's talking about.

Then guess what they did then?

What do they report to the state?

Down 6.57%.

They're running two sets of books.

Guess what that means, dumb little city attorney?

Rico, Hobsack and Fraud.

You have an out-of-control police department.

None of you read.

None of you care.

And guess what?

I do what people don't do.

I produce the document, so you gotta put it in a hard file.

So have a bad day.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

A general public.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

So once again, my name is Taylor.

I'm a protester.

I'm an activist.

I've been protesting outside since June.

One minute is not enough to cover all the things I have to say.

Number one, Earl Southers and Jim McDonald, they need to be removed.

They are not none of the people.

We don't want them in power.

They're very dangerous.

The gates at 535 North Alameda, which is District 14.

Um, it's still there, it's a safety hazard, safety violation.

LAPD is still helping ice, really confused as to why these mass men are still driving around with no plates, masks on their faces, and the Supreme Court gave them an open okay to really snatch whomever they want to.

What is the plan with that?

Um, so the federal government is also attacking protesters and anyone on the radical far left, someone like myself, a protester, um, people like Earl Southers and Jim McDonnell, they are expediting fascism here in Los Angeles.

Again, there's a whole lot more to say, but we're fighting for your rights to act accordingly.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Thomas Garnett and Marcel Farmer.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General comment.

Okay, and if you need to, you can move the the microphone is adjustable if you'd like.

Um you have one minute.

Go ahead.

When you Google Errol Southers, the very first words that autofill after his name are FBI agent.

Can we acknowledge the absolute ludicrousness of this man being reconfirmed to serve on a so-called civilian oversight commission?

Southers began his career as a member of the Santa Monica Police Department and subsequently worked for the FBI, where he made a name for himself as a proud Islamophobe and shameless propagandist, authoring pathetic pieces of so-called research that seek to portray black folks, brown folks, and Muslim folks as violent extremists.

You removed the item concerning his confirmation to police commission from the agenda today because you heard we were mobilizing to protest it, and you got scared.

You are scared of hearing from the citizens you're supposed to represent.

You are as pathetic and cowardly as Errol himself and all the rest of the commissioners.

We will be back and you will hear from us.

Block Southers.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Dr.

Melina Abdullah and Megan.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Appreciate it.

I'm here to discuss a matter of uh boots on the ground organization.

That's what we do.

So before we begin his time, I'm gonna ask a couple things.

Um, can you move the microphone up?

It's just we want to make sure we can hear you.

Thank you.

And it sounds can you repeat again what you're here to speak to?

But it'd be public comments.

Okay, so you have one minute uh for public comment.

Go ahead.

Well, thank you.

I'm here to talk about organization.

We have boots on the ground, actually.

For 17 years, we address and have partnership with like W uh JWCH, other agencies that we actually bring right to the uh right to the moment.

We actually had a at our time that we're there, we do maybe three to four hundred people, and we were coordinating with the other organizations and other resources right there on the spot and when needed.

And uh it's about parking.

They're giving tickets to volunteers who come from distances just to be a part of this organization, bringing resources that they can use.

During the wintertime, we have organizations bringing things that they can use in that moment, like jackets, coats, socks, everything they need for the moment.

The coal, whatever it is, not only food, but resources that we partnership with.

And we as we're questioning this every Wednesday from eleven thirty to three o'clock to three o'clock.

It varies.

We have various resources to get things, and we need to keep the partnership going.

And since I only have one minute, that's why I came back.

It's not about just food, it's other things as well.

And I have a card, I want you guys to we send you email.

So if you have anything to provide to us, you can provide it to the sergeants at arms.

And again, if you would like to provide additional public comment, this goes for anybody in writing, you can do so at la councilcomment.com.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh just public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Um, basically, uh, I have uh HMIS number, and I've been currently placed at a location, and uh, it's been I had the number since 2019, and um it's a lesser funded location, and I'm under the impression that everything there is not uh currently being run properly due to the simple fact that uh I have my HMIS number, I know how the system works, they take the information, they put it on the list, they send it up to Washington, Washington makes the budget and they send the money down to the state based upon the names and the social securities that they get.

So, me not receiving my housing yet is just a complete uh fabrication, and also I try to have I pay rent there every month and I try to give them a ten ninety-nine form, which is basically to show the IRS that I'm paying so I can report it.

They told me we don't do that here, and I don't want to be involved in any type of crime because it could be some sort of uh money laundering or whatever's going on.

So I need to speak to an aide.

Speaker, your time is expired, but to the extent you have issues with the IRS that would not be this body or the city.

Um, but I'm gonna ask that you uh please vacate the podium so we can move on to the next speaker.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Uh, so despite you pulling the agenda item today, because the public was mobilized by Black Lives Matter grassroots to speak against it.

I would still like to formally lodge my opposition to Errol Southers being reappointed to the police commission.

Not that the voice of the people carries anyway, anywhere in this fucking city, and especially not in this room.

Errol, and is it is Errol is an Islamophobe, an authoritarian, a wannabe petty tyrant, and a protector of child molesters.

He has no business being in charge of anything, let alone police accountability.

If such a thing wasn't an oxymoron, he's literally the worst qualified candidate available.

Shame on this entire council in advance for your inevitable vote to reappoint him.

Errol has cheered on the LAPD as they actively assist Trump's fascist forces to harass, harass, arrest, and report the residents of Los Angeles.

Fuck the Los Angeles police department and fuck this council too.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Andrew Grabener, Shayla Bates, Joseph Cohen May.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Public comment.

We have one minute, go ahead.

We're here to speak about Errol Southers and how absolutely unfit he is for the LA police commission.

The LA police commission is supposed to be an oversight body, overseeing the police.

Not a body that rubber stamps it or wants to be it.

Errol Southers is a danger to the city.

He's particularly a danger to black people and to Muslims who he dubs homegrown terrorists.

We know that you've cut deals with the mayor.

You've made promises that you're gonna reappoint him, you're gonna vote for her pick.

We're asking you to have more courage and more backbone than that.

We're asking you to stand for the people of the city, people like me who are dubbed terrorists because we converted to Islam.

People like me because we have a consciousness.

People like me who he writes about in his books on homegrown terrorism.

He is a danger.

Stand up and represent the people you're supposed to stop making political deals and make sure that you oppose Errol Southers when it comes up for a vote.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Public comment.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Errol Southers' reappointment represents a betrayal to Angelinos.

Almost 2,500 people signed a petition to remove him.

It was a failure of Karen Bass to appoint him in the first place.

But you all have an opportunity to fix this, despite the failure of public safety committee, with the exception of Hugo, who all voted to advance him here today.

And then you all pulled this item from the agenda because you were scared of community, because you knew that Black Lives Matter Los Angeles was mobilizing people to bring him to bring people here today to oppose an ex-cop who is anti-Muslim and anti-black and has a target on all of our backs.

He should not be on the police oversight commission when he's an ex-cop and when he has an LAPD toy helicopter sitting on his desk.

He's literally a wannabe LAPD cop who thinks that IDF is actually, or IOF is actually something to applaud.

And you all are sitting here considering him for reappointment.

Because what you made promises to the mayor.

What about the promises you made to the constituents?

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

I would like to call up the following names.

William Good, Smoking Scan, Baba Akeele, Sandiwe, Abdullah, We, Ronica Scott, Jackie E, and 31, 33, and general comment.

Okay.

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

Go ahead.

So 31 is related to additional services for unhoused people in CD 13.

I hope these are actually going to be services that are going to get them housing and such and the help that they need instead of just another way of them to just sit in their cars and do absolutely nothing while the LAPD sweeps people.

You know, those sweeps that Hugo promised he would stop and not do.

Speaking of criminalizing homelessness, we have item 33, which is a motion from Heather Hutt for a bunch of new 4118 zones in CD 10.

Fuck 4118.

4118 does not get unhoused people housing.

It does not get them services.

It just pushes them down the block so rich people don't have to see them.

So that while the city trashes all their stuff and harm takes away all their shelter.

And it's contributing the fact that it's what, six, seven people unhoused people are dying on the streets of LA every single day now.

But you just keep doing this.

More criminalizing poverty, criminalizing homelessness, just like the fascist dictator in the White House once.

You just keep doing this.

It's only just a slightly softer version that you're doing of what he's proposing.

What you could be proposing is actually helping them.

But you don't want to do that because that's not what your rich donors want to see.

So instead, you have this anti-unhoused policy that's just harming everyone.

Okay, let's move on to general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

So for general public comment, I see it sounds like you continued Errol's nomination because you know that the public doesn't support him and you don't want to, you're scared to vote on it.

So Errol Errol's time on the commission was has been awful.

You know, he actually illegally continued serving for another two months after his term expired, even though legally he couldn't go continue to be on the commission.

So he's actually been illegally continuing to serve despite the fact his term expired in June, at the end of June.

But he's still been going to the meetings.

He just skipped missed today.

I don't know where he was today, and like maybe he was here, I don't know.

Or like one other meeting, even though he legally couldn't serve on the commission because he hadn't been reconfirmed or even renominated yet.

So the fuck Errol Southers.

His whole time he's just been enabling the LAPD, helping them.

He's he's not holding them accountable.

He's a really awful person.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call the last name Eddie.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Yeah, I'd like to speak on 31 35 and public comment.

Okay.

So you'll have two minutes for the items and one minute for general public comment.

Please begin with the items.

Yeah, so 31 talking about more homelessness spending in CD 13.

I know that district well.

Hugo does too.

He doesn't do a very good job there.

Now we look at the spending that we're actually doing, it's mostly inside safe spending, right?

And so far we have spent 450 million dollars to permanently house 1,144 people.

450 million dollars to have permanently house 1100 people.

That's an absolute failure.

But that money is going somewhere.

It's not like that money's just falling into the abyss.

That money ends up being somebody's profit, the nonprofit industrial complex who's making a ton of money off of it, and most of those people are politically connected to Hugo and Nithya and Karen Bass, of course, and actually all of you people.

Moving on to 35, talking about street lighting.

I don't know about you guys, but Hugo should know this.

In my neighborhood, there's not a single street light that works in the sixth block area.

You can come to I live on Citrus Avenue between Fountain and DeLongprey.

You go down that street, there's not a light that works.

On Higman, there's not a light that works.

There's not a light that works on DeLongprey from Highland down to Orange.

There's not a light that works on Sycamore.

There's not a light that works on Orange.

There's not a light that works on Leland Way.

You guys are spending so much money on policing.

You want to reduce crime?

How about put some fucking lights on in the city?

It's bad in my neighborhood in Hollywood, it's worse in South Central.

Moving on to public comment, talking about Errol Southers.

You know, I've spoken a couple of times at USC, and I've become pretty close with faculty there.

And they have told me multiple that Errol Southers gloats about beating up people when he was a young cop.

Gloats about beating people.

Who does that?

Who does that?

And that's the guy who we are going to put back on the police commission.

The guy who when we had that lawsuit with Carranza, where it cost us actually cost us close to eight million dollars in total.

Chief Moore says he covered up that sexual harassment case because he didn't want it going viral.

He didn't want to hurt the LAPD brand.

Are you fucking kidding me?

And Errol Southers, when I filed a complaint on Moore for that, said he did nothing wrong.

What message are you guys sending?

If you're going to put this guy back on the police commission, he has no business being there, let alone to 2030.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

Make sure you vote him down.

Hugo, you better make sure.

And this is an Earl Southern's appointment is an example of that.

He is anti-black, he is anti-Muslim.

I was at the campus on you at UCSD when he called the police on protesters.

He denied a Muslim speaker at their commencement ceremonies.

He does not deserve to be on the police commission.

He has demonstrated his anti-blackness and his anti-Muslim.

And you are representatives of the people should listen to the people, support the people, and don't support Earl Southers.

Thank you.

Woo!

Are you with me, Martin?

Are you listening?

Which item would you like to speak to?

I would like to speak to item 31 and have public comment.

Okay, you'll have one minute for item 31 and one minute for general public comment.

Okay, start with the item.

I would like to address the gross misuse of funding with the homeless community.

As service providers, our role is to be the voice for those who have none.

Yet we speak up for accountability.

We have faced retaliation due to the gross misspending of funding.

We have faced intimidation and ultimately been removed from our positions.

Some of us standing here behind me today have left not only because of retaliation, but because of the hostile work environment within our organization, including constant microaggression targeted at employees of color.

Many of us have worked in the system for many years without ever receiving a client complaint.

We have dedicated our careers to supporting people living in poverty, particularly low-income communities of colors who are disproportionately impacted by homelessness.

We know firsthand the systematic barriers they face.

And we also know that when resources are misused.

One minute for general public.

Sorry.

It is these very communities that we are supposed to serve, who are left without housing, who are left without support, and who are left without hope.

Today we ask, as our elected leaders to take immediate steps to investigate these practices and provide the out oversight needed to ensure that all funding, both Lhasa and Long Beach allocation reaches the people it was intended to serve.

Following this meeting, we will provide documentation outlining these concerns, though we must emphasize that we continue to fear retaliation from the organization we are speaking out against.

At this time, we are also in limbo with legal proceedings and are considering our options.

Because of this, we turn to you for guidance and support in enduring this justice.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Public comments.

You'll have one minute.

Good morning, council.

My name is Tandiwe Abdullah.

I'm a former city employee.

I'm a recent graduate of Howard University.

I think I'm very well qualified to say I know exactly what your position and what your role in the city is.

You have to give up your ego.

You have to give up your beliefs, even if your personal beliefs are racist, even if your personal beliefs are anti-Muslim and anti-black.

And we know very well that this city council has a history of racism and racist scandals.

Not even five years ago, this city council was involved in a racist scandal.

Please vote no on Earl Southers.

We need to make a change in the city, and we can't make that change if all of you are scared to be radical and to do something different.

I hope that you can meet the young people's wishes of this moment to be different, to be transformative in the way that we approach the problems in our city when people are being dragged off the streets, and all you can do is say it's sad.

We need to be more creative than that.

Thank you.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Public comment.

You'll have one minute.

Vote no on Earl Southern.

Um, guys, we're gonna lose our First Amendment rights of freedom of speech.

And you guys are gonna do nothing about it.

You're just letting everything happen to us.

You guys have to work together.

I don't care if you're corrupt.

I really don't care.

You guys have to work with each other to beat this fascist regime.

He is going to be a dictator.

All you women are gonna lose your jobs.

You don't realize this, but you will, Marquis.

If they don't remove you, someone in your fucking family is going to suffer the consequences and go to prison and be prison labor.

They're going to bring back slavery.

This is not radical.

This is happening.

You guys have to work with each other.

You guys have to work with the unions.

This is such a big deal, and you guys are not doing enough.

Be creative and do something.

Oh step down.

Step down if you're a pussy.

Council President, all the names have been called for public comment.

Alright, thank you so much.

That concludes the public comment.

Thank you for everyone who came to share with us.

We're gonna have uh a comment by council member Padilla at this time.

Is that you're not on the board?

No, okay.

I want to be recorded as a no on item 28.

Please.

Two eight.

Did we already vote on that?

We did.

We did.

All right.

And Mr.

President, for the record, this request does not change the outcome of the vote.

Uh, the vote tally is now 11 ayes and three no's.

Got it.

All right.

Uh, what's next, Ms.

Cork?

Mr.

President, the council may now consider items one, twenty-nine through thirty-two, and thirty-four through forty-five.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Fourteen eyes, all right.

What's next?

The council may now vote on item 33, call special by council member jurado for a separate vote.

All right.

Councilmember Jurado.

Separate vote.

Councilmember Jurado.

You promise.

All right.

All right, let's open the roll for council member Jurado.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

10 ayes, four no's.

All right.

What's next?

Mr.

President, the council may not proceed to closed session for item 46.

All right, and I just want to confirm with our budget chair that we do need to go to close session on this item.

Has this gone to committee?

Uh Councilmember Yarosowski.

46.

Paper, the paper settlement.

Thank you, Council President.

I think we should go into closed session on paper.

So uh Sergeants, if we can prepare the room for closed session, that means uh no one in the room uh except for staff of uh elected officials and the various departments that are involved in the matter.

I want to recognize before he leaves our former state senator, the one and only Roderick Wright from South LA and Inglewood.

Welcome, welcome, welcome, and see you soon.

We wish you could stay longer, but that way you're gonna pass the fire department's inspection, and you'll avoid a $33 noncompliance fee, and also a time consuming second inspection, which comes with a costly $668 non-compliance fee.

So it's important to note too that there's no need to call for an inspection at any time.

You don't need to call for an inspection.

We're gonna do that automatically.

Our computer system tracks all the properties that are due for an inspection.

So then we'll have an appropriate inspector.

They're gonna be notified that your property is due, and they're gonna come in and inspect and or reinspect if needed.

Now for the first inspection.

That first inspection is done by us, the fire department, and it is in May 1st, and it continues until June 30th.

However, we want people to know that it is a year-round requirement to have brush clearance, and all parcels that are within that very high fire hazard severity zone, they will be initially inspected.

Those parcels that are found in violation are going to be issued a notice of violation, and they'll be assessed, and that's when you get that $33 non compliance fee.

Then the homeowner has about 30 days to comply with that notice of violation.

And the owner can check the status of their property by registering an account at VMS3.lafd.org.

So now when we come to the second inspection, that means that you, as a homeowner, were issued a notice of violation on the first inspection.

So then you're going to be inspected a second time after that 30 day period.

That gives you that grace period of 30 days to correct the violation.

Then owners can check the status of their property again by registering your account at VMS3.lafd.org.

Now, if the property is not fully in compliance upon initial inspection, that owner is going to be notified via mail or email if it registered within that website that we mentioned.

So it's important to also say there's no need to call the LEFD brush unit when you're ready for your reinspection.

That reinspection will be automatically scheduled as appropriate with their time frames.

That's all computerized.

So if your property remains in noncompliance after a failed reinspection, then it's going to be cleared by city contractors.

And the property owner or you will be invoiced a non-compliance fee of $668 plus an administrative fee of 1,498 on top of the contractor's fee.

So you certainly want to avoid this.

We get asked a lot of questions.

Here is your top seven most frequently asked questions and the answer.

So number one is how can I check the brush status of my own property?

Again, that's that important website that we're driving home, the VMS3.org.

You could register a new brush clearance account there and check the status.

Now use your APN or the assessor parcel number as well as a PIN, which is your personal identification number.

It's going to be printed on the bottom of the owner notification that was mailed to you annually in March.

Often we get asked, well, what is the best way to contact the brush unit?

Simply put, the best way is to send an email.

You send it to LAFD brush at LACity.org.

Now if you incorporate your APN and a brief description of the issue or the problem that you would like to discuss, that greatly assists us determining who you are and what the issue is.

And then a member of our brush unit will respond to you within 48 hours.

Also, you could feel free to call.

If the number is 1800 99 4444, but we do ask for your patience in advance because it's very busy and there's minimal inspectors, so we have a limited resources to take your call.

But the office hours are from 7 a.m.

until 3 p.m.

Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

So what if you received a notice of noncompliance in the mail?

What are you supposed to do then?

Well, start by reading that notice very carefully.

Identify the actual violations that were mentioned on your property.

See what was cited there.

And then you could follow the steps in the frequently asked questions, the first one there to see photos that was taken by the inspector of your property and where the problem is.

Then you want to correct those violations by the due date.

So look at that due date.

It'll be located at the top right corner of your notice.

Here's another question we get.

Okay, you were issued a notice of noncompliance, and now you did the right thing, you finished clearing your property of the violations that you were cited.

Now what?

What's next?

Well, truthfully, you don't have to do anything at this point.

After the allotted 30-day period, a fire inspector is going to reinspect your property.

And if your property is still in non-compliance, then you get that second notice to abate the fire hazard.

That'll be mailed to you.

Now the city will start the process to have your property cleared by a contractor at your expense.

So you want to avoid that.

Some ask if there is a particular contractor that should be used to clear your property.

Well, simply put, the city does not provide a recommendation, nor do we endorse any contractor.

So really it's you as the property owner, it's your responsibility to request the current proof of insurance, if they're bonded, if they have a license, and obtain any other relevant information about that contract.

But we do try to help.

So there is a brush clearance contractor list on the website.

So what do you do if you feel that the inspector is wrong and that your property is in compliance?

And can you file an appeal?

Well, the answer is yes.

Yes, you can.

Visit the LAFD brush website to view the detailed inspection process, and that includes appeals.

However, note that a failed inspection will subject you as the owner to fees that continue to increase with each failed inspection.

All billing is conducted through the city's accounting services section.

So if you have questions about that concerning your fees or your invoices or any fees that even could be attached to a tax bill, you should direct those to the source.

That's accounting.

So you can either call them at 213 978-3424, or you can send an email to LAFD.

ACCTG at LACity.org.

We understand that many people might be worried about their neighbors' property and that they might have a fire hazard because of some overgrown brush.

And how would you report that?

So first off, we want you to know that the fire department wants to hear your concerns so we can provide the clearance necessary for our firefighters to protect your property and your neighborhood.

So you can report a brush fire hazard by email to LAFD Brush at LACity.org.

Now please make sure that you include the exact location of the brush hazards, the address.

If you have the APN, that would be even better.

But of course, you need to put a brief description of what the hazards are and where those hazards are on the property.

And of course, it's best not to go looking at those hazards on that neighbor's property without permission.

You also can make your complaint by phone.

That same phone number we provided before to our brush clearance unit is one-eight hundred nine nine four-444.

And again, we welcome your complaint, but remember too that we have limited resources to take your call, and those hours are from 7 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

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

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

But now, rising costs mean changes are needed.

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 24-7 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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To see if you qualify, visit us using the links in the description below.

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Or call 800-732489.

We're tucked in a corner between the Barnstall Junior Art Center, and then on our other side is the LA Municipal Art Gallery.

I didn't even know this was here.

I'm gonna come back.

And that is the greatest thing we can hear is knowing that we're gonna have Angelina's come back, visit our space, share our space, and enjoy everything that we have to offer here.

So we try and make everyone's dreams come true.

It is incredibly popular with different arts centers and different arts groups, community theaters, professional theaters, we have dance companies who do their concerts.

We have local colleges and high schools and elementary schools that do their graduations and their culminations.

We do film screenings, young artists, emerging artists, groups with very small budgets are treated and welcomed the same way as big commercial productions.

What's super exciting about the Barneslaw Gallery Theater is that everybody has an opportunity to be on the stage.

That you can be a very seasoned veteran and come in here and feel like you're having a wonderful intimate conversation with the audience.

You can be a four-year-old with your first recital and being able to feel like this is your stage, and it's sort of sized for someone little, someone big, whatever you're looking for is perfect.

So many people have told us the Barnstall Gallery Theater, or we call it BGT, feels like home to them.

And that BGT is where they always go.

It's a go-to space for their annual event.

And I think that kind of relationship in a community is so important these days.

The performing arts are intrinsic to the quality of life for Angelinos.

And it's invaluable to have the opportunity to be able to elevate and support the communities in which we are based, who are creating a legacy of artwork that will enrich the city of Los Angeles and its cultural identity in terms of performing arts.

You can always find out information about the Barnstall Gallery Theater by going to our website, and that is the best way to find out more information about who to contact and how to get more information.

Download the My LA 311 app from the App Store or Google Play.

Use Google Translate to view the page in up to 200 languages.

Select the service need.

Either by typing a topic in the new request search box, or select from the most popular service requests, like street pavement issues or potholes.

Answer a few questions.

You can add a comment or even upload a picture.

Keep track of your request via email, text, or create an Angelino account to become a registered user.

Using My LA 311 keeps our city safe and clean.

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.

The city did purchase the building.

It was restored because Proposition K allocated funds to provide programming for youth.

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.

Uh creativity, and also it could be a path to uh a career for many uh 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 that come here as you know, having on healthy societies, having healthy uh investment in the arts.

We have uh several ways of getting into contact with us.

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

Bye everyone, I'll see you next week.

Sheesh.

Thousands of toes will be tapping throughout the day on Saturday, September twentieth, celebrating its thirtieth year with four pavilions and three stages of live music.

It's the Central Avenue Jazz Festival.

The festival is presented by Council Member Curren Price and pays tribute to jazz greats while also shining a spotlight on emerging artists.

Enjoy hot, cool, and swinging jazz sounds with over a dozen performances taking place along Central Avenue from MLK Boulevard to Vernon Avenue.

Enjoy performances from nineteen vibrant dance companies to mark the nineteenth year of the festival.

There'll also be interactive performances and free family fun.

Bring a picnic and get set to join in.

Try a Bollywood step or a flamenco turn, or simply enjoy the mix of dance performances by local companies.

Head to the Upper Green at Peck Park for the San Pedro Festival of the Arts on Saturday, September twentieth, beginning at one PM.

For more details, visit TryArtSP.com.

Puppets in the Park is presented by the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Bob Barker Marionette Theater.

On Sunday, September twenty first, enjoy two performances of Fiesta.

Each performance will be followed by art activities.

It's all happening on the West Lawn outside Hollyhawk House.

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

Sorry.

Thank you.

Sorry, Mr.

President.

Sorry, come on.

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It's about choosing to believe in our city again.

Are we all set for good thumbs up?

All right, Mr.

Clerk, you can call a roll.

Yes, Mr.

President.

Bloomfield, Herr Stalson, Hernandez, Hutt, Jurado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Patillo, Park, Price, Roman, Rodriguez, Soromartinez, Yaroslavski, 11 members present, and a core, Mr.

President.

All right.

Mr.

City Attorney, anything to report out of closed session?

No, Mr.

President.

There is nothing to report out of closed session at this time.

All right.

What items are before us, Ms.

Clark?

Mr.

President, the Tusk is clear.

Council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and referred.

Announcements members.

Any announcements?

Alright.

Seeing none, I'll ask everybody in the chamber to rise for adjourning motions.

Ask for adjourning motions to my love.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I think I have a graphic.

Thank you.

Members and members of the audience, today I rise in adjournment for Marlene Mary Furlough Ruzanne, who was born on January 15, 1935 in Louisiana's Ninth Ward to Theodore Furlett and Manuela Marquez.

As a child in New Orleans, she attended Valina C.

Jones Elementary, Joseph S.

Clark Preparatory School in the Tremay neighborhood of New Orleans, and then Joseph S.

Clark High School.

Marlene enrolled at the Straight Business School in New Orleans, which is now known as the HBCU Dillard University.

In 1943, she met Joseph T.

Ruzanne Jr.

And they got married on February 17th, 1954.

They moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Joe was completing his military service.

Later, Marlene returned to New Orleans, where she gave birth to their first of three children, Joseph Rosanne the Third.

And then Marlene and Joe moved to South Los Angeles, where she gave birth to Sharon and Paul Ruzanne, what we call Paul Terry.

Eventually, Marlene and her husband settled in their forever home in LaDera Heights.

Marlene worked for the state of California as a claims processor and later employed by the Theater and Arts Department of the University of California at Los Angeles, where her love for arts took a big hold on her life.

For over 40 years, Marlene was a licensed real estate agent.

Through her work in real estate, Marlene found homes for hundreds of families in Los Angeles, all while maintaining their own home and being a wife and a mother.

For me, I met Marlene when I was eight years old, and I spent many a night at her house.

She loved to cook, and she also loved to go see live music and see musicals.

On trips to Vegas with her husband, she enjoyed seeing Celine Dion and doing a little slot machine gambling, enjoying numerous Cirque du Soleil shows and comedies.

She really did love to laugh.

She was a loving wife, an unconditional supporter, a loving mother, a community mother for uh football teams and basketball teams, a grandmother, a great great-grandmother, and she leaves behind her son, her husband of 71 years, Joseph T.

Ruzanne Jr., her children, Joe Rosan III, Sharon Ruzanne, Terry Ruzanne, her grandchild children, Janae, Danae, Nicole, Brandon, Joe the Fourth, Bryson, Brianna, and Brian.

In addition, she leaves behind her great-granddaughters, Savannah, Autumn, and Sage.

May she rest in forever power.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Hutt for that uh adjourning motion, and I'd like to be added with your permission, uh, and our condolences to the Roseanne family.

Any other adjourney motions on this site?

Mr.

Nazaria.

Mr.

McCosker.

I would so much like that.

Thank you.

Mr.

Nazareni.

Thank you, Council President.

Colleagues, I wanted to rise today in honor of memories of, in the memory of Robert Radford, a Hollywood icon, an environmental warrior, and a mentor to generations of artists.

With inspiring performances in films such as The Candidate, All of the President's Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and this thing, he was a storyteller who never stopped searching for meaning, truth, and beauty.

His quiet charisma, rugged charm, and unwavering depth have redefined what it meant to be a leading actor.

But in honoring him, we celebrate a life that has given us so much more than those unforgettable films.

What made him extraordinary wasn't just how he was seen on screen, it was what he fought for behind the scenes.

He could have lived his life in the spotlight.

Instead, he chose to use that light to illuminate others, especially young emerging filmmakers.

As the founder of the Sundance Institute and the visionary behind the Sundance Film Festival, Redford fiercely celebrated independent cinema and built a home for it.

He gave bold, unconventional storytellers a place to be seen, to be heard, to be uplifted, and to be believed in.

Because he stood by the fact that art should challenge, not just entertain.

Redford found another calling from the natural world.

He made his home in the mountains of Utah, not for seclusion, but for connection.

He was a tireless advocate for protecting our lands, water, and our planet, speaking out long before it was fashionable, and long after those had grown, others had grown quiet.

Redford led a life guided by principle, not ego, by purpose, not applause.

And because of that, he is left behind more than films.

He has left behind a movement, a festival, a landscape, a legacy.

So today we don't just mourn the loss of a Hollywood legend.

We celebrate the life of an artist who dared to live outside the boundaries, gave voice to the voiceless, and helped all of us make a little more sense of the world and ourselves.

Mr.

Redford, you lived a life with grace, grit, and purpose.

Thank you, and rest well.

Thank you, Mr.

Nazarian.

Councilmember Yarosowski.

Thank you, Council President.

Colleagues, today I rise to adjourn in memory of Roger, John Diamond, a pioneering civil rights and environmental attorney, and remarkable Angelino, who passed away on February 20th, 2025.

Over the course of five decades, Roger never shied away from taking on powerful interests if it meant standing up for justice, equity, and our environment.

He lit it litigated against air pollution, fought to preserve our coastal bluffs from oil drilling, and argued fiercely for constitutional rights.

His work left Los Angeles cleaner, fairer, and more just.

Beyond his legal brilliance, Roger was a devoted family man.

Together with his wife Fran, he built a home in Pacific Palisades that became a gathering place filled with warmth, debate, music, and community.

He nurtured generations of young activists, artists, and advocates who look to him as a model of courage and conviction.

Roger lived fully, with humor, with passion, and with an unshakable belief in the power of people to make change.

His legacy lives on in the communities he defended, the rights he protected, and the family and friends who carry his spirit forward.

Today, on behalf of the city of Los Angeles, I move that we adjourn in his memory with deep gratitude for his life and lasting contributions.

I want to welcome his family here today.

Thank you for being here, and may his memory be a blessing.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Yaroslavsky, and thank you to the family, for being with us today.

Any other adjourning motions to my right, Councilmember Padilla?

Yes, maybe we have a slide.

Uh colleagues.

Colleagues, today I would like to adjourn in memory of the famous Richard Serrano, a dedicated public servant and lifelong Angelino and no stranger to this building at City Hall.

Richard was born in 1969 in downtown Los Angeles, Chinatown, to be specific.

From a young age, he committed himself to service, beginning as a student worker in park and recreations as a junior lifeguard and locker room attendant.

He went on to serve in multiple roles across our region.

First with the city of Beverly Hills as a sanitation worker, then with the city of Los Angeles in street services, and finally with the Department of Water and Power as a maintenance construction helper.

Throughout his life, Richard embodied the values of service, compassion, and community.

He loved his City of Angels deeply, and he dedicated his life to improving it.

He gave his time, his energy, and even his voice to those who felt unseen or unheard.

Richard was the kind of person who showed up, challenged issues whenever they had to be.

When high school students protested at Van Night City Hall, he went to ensure their safety, even buying tacos for them because he was so proud to see young people exercising their rights.

He used the city training as a hazmat first responder to extinguish a neighborhood, a neighbor's house fire.

He helped coordinate emergency responses, including one to an overturned field truck because he wanted to keep his community safe.

And Richard's acts of generosity were constant, even in the simplest moments and in the most difficult issues.

He believed in guiding the younger generation, teaching them that they too can make a difference.

His passion for helping others was enormous.

Richard is now survived by his loving wife of 27 years, Sandra Serrano, his mother Tomasa, his sister Veronica, and his brothers Carlos and Henry.

There are countless stories, countless acts of kindness, and countless people whose lives he touched.

His legacy is one of service, compassion, and courage.

And the city is better for his time with us.

I'm a better elected leader because of how often he used to communicate and check me with my own work.

I will miss him and personally will never forget the debate that he and I had in our lead up during my re-election.

It's definitely one for my own personal books.

Mr.

Serrano, you will be missed.

Always will respect you and to the family.

I'm really sorry for your loss.

May he rest in peace.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Padilla, Councilmember Hernandez.

Yes, I was wondering, Councilmember Padilla, is it possible to make that an all-council one?

Yes.

I think he came and when he spoke, he was always very kind, but always held us accountable.

And he was committed and he was consistent, and it breaks my heart to see this loss for our city.

Such a strong advocate, so thank you for uplifting him.

Thank you.

Without objection, that'll be all members.

Thank you, Councilmember Paddy, and thank you so much for being with us today.

Uh, colleagues, I uh it is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of uh regret and uh strong feelings of inadequacy that I ask um an adjourning adjournment that we should not have to ask.

Uh it is for Michael Kajan Ramon James Smith, affectionately known as M3 or Money Mike.

We lost him this past July 22nd at the age of just 12 years old, to a hit and run driver in South LA on 83rd Street headed towards Maine in the 9th district.

He was on his way to pick up a friend for a bike ride and was struck and instantly killed by a driver going over 75 miles an hour on one of our residential streets.

In fact, today is Michael's 13th heavenly birthday this morning.

He was a brilliant, bold and full of energy young man.

He emulated the best of the best of both his parents, uh Michael and Michael Smith and Miss Atwater, who's with us today.

He uh had the nickname Raman, which was given to him in honor of his uncle, and a symbol of his family's legacy.

He was an extraordinary young man with a passionate for passion for entrepreneurship and travel and creativity.

He was seven years old when he launched a business called Mike's Ice with support of his cousin, an ice cream truck.

And his products became a neighborhood felling neighborhood favorite selling exotic ices and grab bags with rare snacks.

He lived a life full of curiosity, loving bike riding, art, basketball, swimming, video games, and going on trips.

At a young age, he was fortunate enough to be able to travel to places like Big Bear Lake, Mexico, Guatemala, Las Vegas.

And one of his favorite trips was with his mom on her birthday to Cancun this past February.

He was already in the process of planning their next trip to Bali for the next birthday.

He loved family gatherings with crab oils and hot wings and luxury resorts and being surrounded by the people he loved.

He admired and respected his big brother and deeply loved all of his brothers and sisters.

His vibrant spirit, smile, and fearless nature left a lasting impression on every single person he met.

He was raised in the church.

He learned to pray, love God, and seek his guidance, and carried out the lessons he learned in church throughout his life.

He was survived by his devoted parents.

I am joined at the dais here by his mom and siblings.

You see a number of family members in the audience.

There, it's too many to name, but he leaves a legacy of love and energy and potential that we lost.

This is our 51st fatal uh traffic fatality in South Bureau this year.

Many might be surprised to know that that actually exceeds gun deaths in what is uh the part of the city with the most gun deaths by far.

And so uh just another poignant and very tragic reminder when we're behind the wheel.

Anybody who's behind the wheel, no, know where you're going or nothing you're doing is more important than someone's life.

And every time you go over the speed limit, you put someone's life at risk.

And so uh with that, our city extends to you our condolences, and we adjourned this meeting uh in honor of this fine young man, Michael.

Thank you all so much.

If there are no other adjourning motions, this meeting is adjourned.