Hello everyone.

I'm Susan Huckle, and here's what's happening in LA this week.

On a special field trip to the police academy, the LAPD was joined by a group of children whose lives are impacted by cancer.

It's a meaningful trip for the kids, but they are also inspiring to the Los Angeles police.

We're at the Los Angeles Police Academy or Legion Park facility.

And this is the 19th year we've been able to celebrate with the Sunshine Kids, a nonprofit organization that brings kids from around the country to Los Angeles for a week to be able to give them a view of Los Angeles, Disneyland, Universal Studios, and so many other iconic sites here.

To a person, we've heard year after year that of all the great things they get to see here, they really enjoy this uh as much as anything else.

They have for years hosted Sunshine Kids Foundation, Children with Cancer on this magnificent day that brings so much of the community together to create an impactful day for the kids outside of the hospital walls and allow them to form friendships with each other and also introduce them to the incredible things in the community that law enforcement does.

When I look out and I see all of your faces, I see bravery, I see confidence, pride, and compassion.

The inspiration we get from watching people who were going through significant life challenges and are staying positive and are moving forward, are working with their doctors, working with their caregivers and parents to be able to have successful outcomes down the road.

And when you put it in perspective and see what others are dealing with, they think that's healthy for all of us to be able to appreciate what we have.

They have few robots that they use for safety precautions and a diving unit over here that I'd like to get to at some point.

So it's it's awesome to have that.

The Board of Public Works and the Department of Public Works are here at Augustus Hawkins High School located in Council District 9 for our Public Works Town Hall with Council Member Kern Price.

Having current Deep Price, our council member in front of us for him to hear our concerns, our complaints is very important.

We hear from all of our residents issues related to our lights, our sidewalks, streets, trees, uh, everything that encompasses infrastructure.

And we have all of our bureaus here in one sitting.

So you have a one-stop shop opportunity to get your voices heard and to get many of your answers related to your 311 questions as well.

Good evening, everyone.

So this is the first uh town hall of this kind here in Council District 9.

But with the new Board of Public Works here uh at the City of LA, we're going around the city in all 15 council districts to present our ideas and listen to our constituents.

And we're so excited to be here at Augustus High School in CD 9 to listen to some of the concerns related to public works.

And our next one will be in November, hopefully in a neighborhood close to you.

So please follow our social media and our website for additional information.

And so if you have any questions, problems or concerns, don't hesitate to contact the council office.

There are many barriers to re-entering the workforce after serving a prison sentence.

So today we are having a second chance job fair for individuals who are just as involved and have been on probation or parole and are looking for that second opportunity back into the workforce.

So currently today, my involvement with this program would be I'm here to assist the participants that come in looking for a job.

We have more than 10, 15 employers giving job opportunities to individuals who come in looking for employment.

They just need to know what they want to start and we're here to help.

Along with the help of EWDD, we want to make sure that we're able to help them become self-sufficient, help them land a good paying job, and then be able to support themselves.

Councilmember John Lee, Chair of the Public Safety Committee, said the directive will ensure efficiencies in LAPD hiring and aligned with commitments to a safe city.

Currently, the LAPD has over 8,000 officers, around two officers for every 1,000 Los Angeles residents.

For more information, visit Mayor.gov slash press.

Councilwoman Heather Hutt announced that a portion of Coliseum Place from Victoria Avenue to Crenshaw Boulevard will be co-named as Diane Watson Corridor.

Diane Watson is a retired Congresswoman whose legacy led to significant advancement in civil rights, health care, education, and humanitarian efforts.

Watson was the first African American woman elected to the California State Senate.

And later, she represented the 32nd and 33rd California Congressional Districts.gov.

Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez announced that she has secured funding to replenish the grant relief program for those impacted by ICE rates in her district.

According to Rodriguez, the relief program is for individuals and families she represents who have faced financial hardship due to current immigration activity.gov.

The grants will be awarded on a first come, first served basis for as long as funds allow.

For more information, visit the social media links at cd7.lacity.gov.

Since LA's inception, multiple cultures have been intertwined with the city.

Councilmember Eunys Hernandez led this year's city celebrations of El Grito and Mexican independence, addressing the current challenges and meeting the moment with joy.

The people of Los Angeles El Grito is something that it's been celebrated all over the city all my life.

Years ago, it got brought to City Hall, and it's one of our biggest celebrations of the year.

We know we have to work together, otherwise we're gonna all fall together.

Los Angeles is the home of the largest concentration of people of Mexican origin outside Mexico City.

I am honored to be the Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles and to come and celebrate our independence, our pride in our identity, our culture.

Today for the city of Los Angeles, I think it's so fitting that one of our toughest Mexican Americans on the council, Eunicis Hernandez, is running El Grito this year, a year where there's so much fear, so much uncertainty, and so much creative thinking related to how we protect our community nowadays.

But today was supposed to be a day of celebration, a day of happiness, and we're making that happen.

The diversity of our city is seen in the folks that are here, and I'm just happy to be a part of it.

Much congratulations to Council District One Sernandez.

We've had over 12 weeks of federal immigration raids on our city, and we wanted to show today especially what it looks like to resist, and that is through joy, through culture, through food, through being a community.

That's what's gonna free fill our batteries so that we can continue this fight to protect our communities here in Los Angeles.

Viva.

It has a new meaning now.

It's stronger than ever that we reinforce that belief.

I think it's a really beautiful event, especially to have in the time right now.

Um I know that a lot of people were scared to come, but I wanted to show that you know I can be here and represent the people who may not have the ability to have come.

And so yeah, I'm really glad that I was able to show up and that they had such beautiful music, such beautiful food, and the people were really amazing.

I think that's wonderful because I really like those scholars.

I like the energy here.

It's so positive and so like it, even despite I'm from another country.

I don't speak Spanish, but I feel so cozy like at home.

I just was walking around.

I heard some music.

I thought I have to check it.

So here I am.

And I'm glad that it's happened like this.

We should keep fighting for our rice because we made a difference in Los Angeles, the Mexican community because we're here to stay, and we're gonna continue making and building and making Los Angeles beautiful.

You know, I'm really proud that as a city we're continuing to show up for our community, even with moments of celebration because this is what they're trying to erase and stop us from doing.

They're trying to prevent us from being authentically who we are.

And this event with everyone that's turned out is a reflection that we are in fact here and we will stay here.

Imagine celebrating in two languages.

That's the joy of the Los Angeles Libros Festival held at the Central Library.

This family celebration of bilingualism puts pride at the heart of Latino heritage.

The Los Angeles Libros Festival is a fabulous festival for the whole family.

It's a celebration of bilingualism for all Angelinos, where we re-dream and celebrate in Los Idiomas.

It's so important to celebrate languages.

To be able to share music and community in English and Espanol.

Because it's the city, not only this city, but this country is bilingual, bicultural.

And that's what we bring.

We want to make children feel excited about learning a language and feel proud of their heritage.

This is very important because this is also a celebration of Latino culture and the Spanish language, with almost half of Angelinos being Spanish speakers.

So I came for the Libros events.

It's a great crowd.

And it's a bilingual event.

So I get to speak in Spanish and English, which I don't get to do a lot in Canada.

Hola.

But I think celebramos el Espanyol.

Celebramos la familia.

Celebramos nuestra cultura.

I would like to invite everybody to visit your local library and get a library card.

It's easy, it's fun, and there are a lot of books, both in English and Spanish, audio, digital, and physical formats.

This end of summer celebration here in Herman Park in Council District 14 is so important for our communities.

You know, our Fourth of July events were postponed in part due to the ice raids.

And this was a symbol of us getting together, showing that we're gonna stay strong and be brave in light of all that's still happening in our communities and really a coming together for CD14.

This area is so important to me because I grew up here.

And this is home to us.

You know, if it wasn't for programs like this, we wouldn't have been exposed to so much music and community that now make me personally want to give back.

So Create Now is an art-based nonprofit.

What we do is provide free art programming for Underserved Youth all throughout LA County.

We've been doing this for almost 30 years now.

And today we're out here with our biggest mural board that we've ever done before, allowing kids to paint on it and to see our new mascot characters that we're developing on top of giving away squishmallows.

All the kids love squish mealows and they love what we're doing.

I'm here singing with Pacific Opera Project, and it's very important for people to come out and support their local government and take part in the free events.

It's a time where you get to see locally what artists are doing, such as opera companies or small businesses.

And it has been a joy to come out here and sing for the community today.

I fully encourage you know all these events that are going on.

You know, I think it brings us together.

It brings different communities together.

It makes us more stronger.

You can tell that a lot of this community, we care about each other.

We all facing the similar uh problems and issues, and the more that we can do for our most vulnerable people in our communities is even better.

That includes a lot of small businesses that you know are facing outrageous uh rent increases besides the fact that sales are slow with with the current ice rates.

So uh me uh I took this as an opportunity to promote my tour and to have a couple of sales and also give us some free items for the community.

It is so important for you to join us here this year, next year, and the years to come with your family because this is part of the community, and this is not only what drives the artist but brings us closer together.

We are so excited to share this experience with you, and we hope that next year you come on by City's Department of Cultural Affairs encompasses a diverse portfolio of landmarks, and none can claim to be as unique as the Watts Towers.

These folk art structures were built from almost nothing, from scraps, but they now mark a place for the community, arts education, and excellence.

Oh, that's my plate, that's my cup.

It's wonderful to see them go through and show that ownership.

The history of the Watts Towers is uh over a hundred years old.

Sam Rodia started building these towers in the early 20s, and over a course of 33 years, the towers went up.

And from there, this grassroots effort in providing arts education grew.

Classes were started in 1961.

Lucille Krasney taught the first classes on the burned out foundation of Simon Rodia's house.

We're now 64 years old.

In 1970, they were able to build this art center that we're in now.

In 1975, the city of Los Angeles took over.

The Watts Towers complements all of the artistic people that come from Watts.

More artists come from this area than any other place in Los Angeles.

And we can say that we have access to master artists here.

We have access to master musicians to teach our young people here.

One of our mottos is we don't do mediocre because we don't have to.

Our community can't afford to pay for piano classes or music classes or voice classes or art classes.

They can't afford that.

We provide museum and art education for our community when they can't get to Lacma, when they can't get to Mocha, but they can come to the Watchtowers Art Center campus to get fine arts.

It really represents the city on so many levels.

It's called Nuestro Pueblo.

San Rodia called it nuestro pueblo, which is in Spanish, is our our town, our people, our community.

Our community has been very, very involved from the inception, which is a phenomenal thing.

It shows what you can do with nothing.

And our community does a lot with nothing sometimes.

And uh, but we're resilient.

We're still here.

We're not going anywhere.

You can't you can't get rid of us.

In this week's things to do, art in the heart of the valley at the Resita Rising Art Walk.

Celebrate 50 years of Jaws with a screening and party.

And head to El Pueblo for the Muertos Art Walk.

All this up next on Things to Do.

Join the Department of Cultural Affairs for Council Member Bob Bloominfield's Resita Rising Art Walk 2025.

Head to Sherman Way in Lindley for this all ages celebration in the heart of the West Valley.

Enjoy a wide variety of artwork on display from projections and installations to costume figure drawing, live painting, and an aerosol station.

Local artists will be presenting their work for the community to appreciate.

Enjoy dance and DJ battles as well as music performances.

Support local artists and organizations, food trucks, and street vendors.

Experience all this year's Resetarizing Art Walk has to offer on Saturday, October 4th from 5 p.m.

to 10 p.m.

For more information, visit Rosita Artwalk.com.

Jaws.

Just hearing the name brings the iconic music to mind.

Now imagine watching the movie from the water.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws at a movie night and beach party at the Hansen Dam Aquatic Center.

Join Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez at this free movie screening on Saturday, October 4th, where there will also be food trucks, kids' activities, and more.

Dip your toe in the water for Jaws movie night and beach party on Saturday, October 4th.

Doors open at 3 p.m.

and the movie screening begins at sunset.

For more information, visit CD7.gov.

Join Opuebola Historical Monument and the Elvera Street Merchants Association Foundation for the annual Mirtos Art Walk.

This event showcases the work of over 30 local artists in the run-up to the cultural celebrations for Dia de los Muertos.

Enjoy original artwork, jewelry, accessories, clothing, and more at Vender Stalls in El Pueblo, the birthplace of Los Angeles.

Join in the celebrations at this family-friendly event, which will also feature live music and performances.

Head to the historical heart of LA from Rertos Art Walk on Saturday, October 4th from 10 a.m.

to 7 p.m.

For more details, check out OveraEvents.com.

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.

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Good morning, everyone.

Okay, good morning, everyone.

Welcome to another meeting of the Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Tuesday, September thirtieth.

I'm Nitya Rahman.

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

Can we please have quiet in the chambers?

Mr.

Clerk, can you please call the roll?

Yes, Madam President.

Bloomfield, Herr Stason, Hernandez, huh?

Huralo, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla Park, Price, Raman, Rodriguez, Soto Martinez, Yaroslavsky, twelve members present in a quorum, Mr.

President.

What's our first order of business?

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

Okay, great.

Councilmember Price moves, Councilmember Hernandez seconds.

Great, Councilmember Rodriguez moves, Councilmember Soto Martinez seconds.

Today is Tuesday, and it's time for the flag suite.

Wonderful.

Would everyone please rise for the flag salute and Councilmember Park, would you please lead us today?

Please stand if you're able.

Great.

Without objection, those items are now before us.

Do members have items that they want to call special today.

See, okay, Councilmember Rodriguez.

Item 10 for a separate vote.

Item 10.

Okay.

Councilmember Park.

28 for an amendment.

It has been submitted.

Okay, 28 for an amendment that will be circulated.

Councilmember Price.

I'll remember bonus of caution, Madam President.

I'm accusing myself from item 10 because my wife's employers worked with one of the organizations listed on the in the past.

I'm also accusing myself from item 45 45 because I'm a landlord.

Sorry, Mr.

Price.

Was that items 10 and 45?

Correct.

Okay, great.

Thank you very much.

Um Councilmember Horado.

Oh, are you waiting?

Thank you, Madam President.

I have an amendment for item 36 that should be circulating.

I'd also like to call item 27 special for comments.

Okay.

Thank you.

Item 36 and 27 for comments.

Councilmember Yaroslotsky.

Thank you.

I'd like to call 47 for a separate vote, please.

Sorry, can you repeat that item number again?

47.

47.

Okay.

Okay.

Uh Councilmember Hott.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Uh, I'd like to call Madam Clerk.

Madam Chair.

Not the clerk.

Sorry.

I'd like to um call item 33 as special for an amendment.

I believe that's being uh circulated.

Item 33, Councilmember.

That's right.

Yes, okay.

Great.

Any other specials?

And I would also like to hold 27 for brief comments before we vote on it.

Okay.

So Mr.

Clerk.

What can we vote on?

Or what's next?

Madam President, the council may now vote on items three through nine.

Eleven through twenty six.

Excuse me.

Uh I will reiterate uh items three through nine, eleven through twenty-six.

Three through nine and eleven through twenty-six are available for us to vote on.

That is correct, madam president.

Oh, Councilmember Yarcelovsky, go ahead.

Um sorry about this, but can I call five uh with an amending motion?

So you want to hold five for an amendment for the circulating.

Yes.

Okay, great.

So Mr.

Clerk, uh, what is now available to vote on?

Yes, madam president.

The council may now vote on items three, four, six, through nine.

Eleven through twenty-six.

Okay.

Three, four, six through nine, and eleven through twenty-six.

Mr.

Clerk, please open the roll on those items.

Close the roll and tabulate the vote.

Thirteen ayes.

Okay, so now let's move on to item 48, which is a closed session item.

That I believe was considered by the public works committee.

Councilmember Hernandez, do you have any guidance for us on this item?

Yes, Council President.

The public works committee consider this item in closed session.

I recommend that we approve the city attorney's recommendations.

Okay, Mr.

Clerk, can you please read the settlement or um and the public works committee?

Yes, madam president.

Recommendations for item 48.

For item 48 in the case entitled Citizens for a Better Los Angeles versus City of Los Angeles.

There is a recommendation to improve recommendation number one contained in the confidential city attorney report number R25-0423.

Okay, so let's unless there's any speakers on this item.

Let's open the roll for item 48.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

Okay.

Let's move on to closed session items 49 through 56, which have, I believe, already been considered by the budget and finance committee.

But I'll turn to Councilmember Yaroslavsky, who is our budget and finance committee chair for guidance.

Councilmember?

So this is asking 34.

Yaroslovski.

Items 49 through 56.

Thank you.

Uh budget and finance committee considered and approved.

Items 49 through 56 in committee on September 16th, and I recommend we approve these items.

Okay.

Mr.

Clerk, can you please read the settlement items for these uh items 49 through 56?

Yes, madam president.

For item 49 in the case relative to Hazelwood Patients Collective.

For item 49 in the case relative to Hazelwood Patents Collective, there's a recommendation to approve the payment to the city in the amount of 498,665 dollars and forty-six cents, inclusive of interest to effectuate settlement.

For item 50 in the case relative to ACOM Technical Services Incorporated, there is a recommendation to refund the overpayment of business taxes of 105,691 dollars and ninety-two cents plus accrued interest for item 51 in the case entitled Sylvia Elizabeth Hornquist versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 725,000 dollars in settlement.

For item 52 in the case entitled Ignez Cabezas versus City of Los Angeles et al, there's a recommendation to expend up to 125,000 dollars in settlement.

For item 53 in the case entitled Marta Romero versus City of Los Angeles, that's all.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 175,000 dollars in settlement.

For item 54 in the case entitled Alexandra Gutierrez, that's all versus City of Los Angeles, that's all.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 195,000 dollars in settlement.

For item 55 in the case entitled Sylvia Perez versus City of Los Angeles, that's all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 235,000 in settlement.

And for item 56 and the case entitled Sylvia Ann Malton versus County of Los Angeles at all.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 250,000 in settlement.

Okay.

Um provided there's no additional comments.

Mr.

Clark, can you please open the roll on these items?

Close the roll and tabulate the vote.

Fourteen eyes.

Okay, what's next?

The council may not move on to public comment.

Okay, great.

Thank you, members.

We are now going to move on to public comment on agenda items that are noticed for public hearing and any items for which public hearings have not already been held.

Public comment is going to be taken in person in the council chambers only.

Yes, give me just one moment, please.

If you do not do so, review 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 one and two and items 29 through 47.

So again, the items open for public comment on the agenda are items one and two and items 29 through 47.

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

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

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

So once you hear the name that you signed up under called aloud, you can line up in any order on your left-hand side of the council chambers.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I'll speak on all items in general public comment.

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

Please begin with the items.

Go ahead.

All the items on this agenda, like one and two are just these clowns going through the motion and pretending they are doing something when they are only sitting there collecting their 25,000 per month salaries and creating even more homelessness by their incompetence.

Item number one should be taken off the agenda because it does not solve any city problems.

For example, it is a proposed adjustment to the sanitation department.

How is this item number one by incompetent and corrupt Marquisi Dawson and the rest of the clowns going to solve the city's problems like the tens of thousands of homeless?

Item number one should be taken off the agenda.

It should receive a no vote.

Indicted criminals out on bail and on trial for voting on his wife's business with the city should not be allowed to vote.

Item two is just a worthless in.

And it's for a liquor license.

This item should be removed off the agenda of these incompetent clowns.

These clowns have absolutely no idea how to increase the commerce and thereby the prosperity and jobs of the city.

So they put alcohol licenses on the agenda.

Marquisi Dawson is incompetent and corrupt.

I formally protest this item being on the agenda with tens of thousands of homeless in the city.

And it's officially broke.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Okay.

Public, when you hire clowns, you get a circus.

With all the massive city problems, this is how these clowns have run the city into the ground by just sitting there collecting their 20 to 30,000 per month salary.

One billion dollar budget emergency by giving one billion dollar increase to LAPD last year.

And Sleazy D and the rest of these clowns sit, they're giving stupid presentations with nothing on the agenda.

No plan at all.

Nothing.

The circus of incompetence is unbelievable.

Sleazy Marquisi Dawson CD8 has the highest incarceration rate, the highest homeless rate, the highest unemployment rate in the entire United States.

Over twelve and a half percent.

CD eight is a near complete food desert.

Sleasy D has spent over ten million dollars on luxury offices.

And which items would you like to speak to?

I want to speak about the uh raise and utilities in the city.

I believe it's number one.

So you have one minute for item number one.

Go ahead.

Okay.

Yes, I'm here to speak because I'm from Project Pastoral, and uh us older people are struggling with the increases in prices.

Ah, no stamuzia porque somos personas mayores y ya receivemos.

Entonces es una tarifa que siempre stand.

And honestly, we're honestly we're just basically at risk of just being on the out on the street.

Gracias.

And I am telling you this, please analyze this problem well because we do not want uh any more families out on the streets.

There are already plenty of families that are now homeless.

So please analyze this well.

Uh do your job well.

Thank you.

Good morning.

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

Please begin with the items.

Uh thank you very much, attorney smoking scan.

Let's start with uh item number 31.

Boo co ego, egg no, you haipa ji more what a shingle changed the deal.

Uh item number thirty-two.

I chased no haula, push suola, you let's go, homie.

Yo shumay on the ching, you'll shuma young the eye, young shumayang the eye, what shumay on the jai.

What you don't need the shell, you'll just shang food, what a shiny young trench.

Now let's move on to item number thirty-three.

Item number thirty-three.

Oh that's what makes you beautiful.

Now let's move on to general public comment.

Yes.

Uh right now I am aware that um our city uh is in a budget crisis, city attorney.

But however, uh, we are 800 million dollar uh in deficit, but you are continuing to purchase special LA convention center project.

Uh right now we are losing so much money, and our city attorney uh continue to offering uh special services for illegal criminals, and then we are losing so much money, and our city attorney uh continue to refuse, uh continue to lay off LECD worker, continue to fire people, and then we are in a huge, huge budget uh deficit, but and then our crime are high as being skyrocketed, and our city attorney still not doing anything.

What's the what's the solution for that?

We can make sure that Mr.

Spiller uh elected for the city one, including every single smoking scam member, uh elect spiller, council district one 2026.

Let's go, Spiller.

And before the next speaker comes up and begins, um, for people who are just tuning in, I see a lot of new faces.

Uh, that you are not watching the voice or America's got talent.

Uh people express themselves in many different ways.

I promise you that it gets it can get much worse than that.

Uh, to the last speaker, just uh again, we'll make the offer.

If you would like a foreign language interpreter, if you let us know, roughly 48 hours in advance, we will do our best to get that for you.

Mr.

Herman, you are up as discussed earlier.

There's no reason for you to bring all of your items up.

Do not disrupt or delay this meeting.

You this is your first and only formal warning.

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

Go ahead.

Wow.

Wow.

No prior impermissible verdict here.

Well, let's read into the verdict here, smoking scan.

Why during our Great Bureau of Sanitation people here, who should be given a raise effectively immediately as I speak, because they got a lot of shit and trash to pick up in our streets.

Right.

And without the process of getting their ass to work, it does no good or justice in this system at a time when we're looking to cut off jobs, save the deficit, and create a budget that we can't control.

So you decide what we do for the great men and women who pick up your shit and trash and bulky items, big head.

Now, item number two, asshole.

Bar license number 317-217 for the record.

I'm talking.

Hey, Korean boy.

I'm talking.

Now gotta stay on topic, Mr.

Herman.

That's right, Sambo.

I am relative to the fucking application for the fucking determination of public convenience.

I find no necessity for more indulgence in the fucking alcohol that can create inability to work, inability to fuck, inability to do what the fuck you're supposed to do as a citizen of the United States of America, and that is to control your fucking drinking habit.

Did you know that drinking is a drug?

Did you know that drinking can cause you to have a big head with a dot on your face, like you, Korean boy?

And you've exhausted your one minute on item number two.

Please move on to another item.

Well, I haven't finished on the alcohol sale and beverages for the off-site consumption.

You've concluded your time on that item.

It's your first warning.

What number you want me to be on?

How about the Olympics on 28, Uncle Tom?

Yeah, the Olympics.

Sorry, you said item 28.

Item number 28 is not open for public comment.

You've been warned multiple times.

This is your last warning.

Stick to the items that are open for public comment, or I'm gonna move you to general public comment.

Well, smoking scan said I should be like an item 34 or 35.

Let's see, is you right?

Those are fine.

Uh smoking scan, those are fine.

I got so much fucking time on my mind.

Matter of fact, 34 motion by Fat Hernandez and Giordo.

Fuck you and C D 14.

Clean up your act.

Now until my non-agenda public comment.

One minute.

Prior impermissible restraints means that I cannot say fuck.

Prior impermissible restraint means that you, I and the public behind me can't say fuck you too.

But according to Cohen versus California, vulgarity is one man's interrupt.

And it is another man's lyric.

Now, what do I mean by that?

Big head attorney, bar license 317-217.

It means that, yes, Baghdazarian versus United States.

Wiki versus California, and the United States Supreme Court under 42SC 1983, grants me that privilege as the first motherfucker, badass nigga, to say fuck you.

Mr.

Clerk, please pause this speaker's time.

Speaker, you have used the N-word, which is violation of Council Rule 7.

This is your only warning, and any use of this word in any of its variations is described in Rule 7.

May not be used in this council meeting again by you or any other member that which is to speak.

Any future council member or any future council committee meeting, if you violate this rule again, you will forfeit your speaking time, and you could be subject to removal pursuant to council rules seven and twelve.

Mr.

Clerk, please, for the record, uh make a note that Mr.

Herman is a habitual violator of this rule and has had several warnings across several meetings, including um a handful of dismissals.

Rad uh good morning, you have three minutes for the items and one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

So today is the biggest fucking ass of everything we've ever seen in life.

The KKK Katie Yaroslavsky John Grant increases in the trash fees.

Now, you see, under the law, you can only fucking have fees where it is enough to use the service.

But what KKK Katie and the rest of these criminals here in the in this place did they triple the trash fees.

So starting October the first, you're gonna get your bill.

It ain't gonna say 78 dollars.

It's gonna say 380 bucking dollars.

That's right.

And they're raising and raising the motherfucking money because the city's bankrupt, because they can't stop fucking talking and not paying attention to public comment, buckethead.

So now we get to the Olympics.

See, now what you're gonna do is you're gonna put bonds without a vote of the voters.

Hundred and thirty million dollars a year for the next 30 fucking years.

Alone in the interest payments, not including the overrun charges, because if there's overruns, you have to increase the authorization by Mekla to sell more bonds.

Now, if Buckethead over there would have waited till January, the Fed is gonna reduce interest rates two more times.

It would have saved the city how much buckethead 99.4 million dollars in ten years, but he don't give a fucking shit.

It's not his money.

So you've exhausted your one on item 47.

Please move on to another item.

You go have a hard time.

Or you can move on to general public comment.

Now you get to the nickel license by Bob Blobenbleld in honor of young Kippur.

He takes off his yarmulca and stuffs the cash underneath his little tiny hat.

And he says, I want 5960 Canoga Avenue to sell more liquor so you can beat both bitches.

Because you see, you gotta get drunk.

You think I got copy in here, motherfucker?

Mm-mm.

Mm-hmm.

And so I get a cutting up of this shit.

I slap any bitch in front of me, fool.

That's right.

Why don't I have a TRO?

Because when you have a problem with the TRO, contact Jacobian Myers.

Jacobian Myers for all your legal.

You have one minute for general public comment.

Let's get to that fat little Arlita Parrot bitch over there, Amilda Luisa Padilla that can't even show up to her own fucking meeting Friday after a goddamn week of vacation.

Down 200 fucking feet from her office we met on Friday.

And she drug Marquise, a known black man, all the way out of South Central to risk his life to drive into Van Heis past all the gang, just so he could hold a meeting.

And you know what happened?

He ran his little ass out to his car.

He said, I gotta get out of here.

I'm in the ghetto.

That's right, fool.

So you see Amilda don't show up to her own goddamn meeting.

And then of course, Kern Price showed up because I had to congratulate him on his 12 felony charges.

Let's give him ahead.

And then finally, everybody, you have Board of Public World Commissioner, Mr.

Grant, and Mr.

Grant is will testify to you.

Finally, you have a good day, niggas and kins.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call upon the case.

I'm sorry, can you hold sorry before you wrote Mr.

Spindler?

This is your first and only formal warning.

Do not disrupt this meeting by yelling out.

The staff are trying to read out names so we can continue with public comment.

If you do it again, you'll be subject to removal.

I'm sorry, can you start reading those names over again?

Apologies.

Yes, thank you.

So before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Fatima Bigum, Julian Markowitz, Lorna Paisley, Smoking Scan, and Damon Henyard.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

We have one minute for the item and one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

And not only that, but also people who need devices.

And so this increase on gas is too much for us.

We have other things to pay for.

We have to pay for trash.

We have to pay for insurance just in case there's anything that needs to be maintained.

What we make, you know, it it doesn't match our expenses or this increase in electricity and waste management.

So I ask personally and I ask on behalf of the residents of public housing for you guys to come up to a resolution to put a stop to this increases.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That's all.

Thank you.

Good morning.

I assume all items and general public comment.

Yes, sir.

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

Just as a reminder to everybody in the room, uh, the items that are currently open for public comment are items one and two and items 29 through 47.

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

Go ahead and begin with the items.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um, but Mr.

President, I just want to let you know like I have a hard time, and Mr.

Attorney focusing on what to speak on with the agenda items, because Mr.

Lee owes me an apology and he still hasn't done it.

So I'm gonna ask that you you can speak to that during general, but for the first time.

Okay, well, I just want to say uh, you know, so if I get off topic, smoke and scan understands, but that's the reason why.

Understood.

Please stay on topic.

We'll try to get on topic here.

Um, so first of all, I do want to say anything that Mr.

Lee is uh proposed proposing in these open con available things, I'm gonna say vote no because he owes me an apology.

So, Mr.

President, until he gives me that apology, vote no on all his items, please.

Um now the one on a serious note, the one where you want to put um the the lights out for human trafficking and child trafficking.

I a hundred percent support that but I'm here to remind you that there's all different kinds of trafficking.

There's um there's there's sex trafficking, there's labor trafficking.

And I'm here to mention that the labor trafficking happens allegedly.

I'll say that just for legal you know, clarification, by Scientology, okay, trafficking children from all different parts of the world, okay, and bringing them here, and then they end up in labor uh situations, and they end up many victims have come forward saying that they were trafficked and they had to do hard labor, and then they were also sexually assaulted because of the lack of protection.

So when you are um lighting city hall for the victims of human trafficking, can you please remember that it's still going on under your nose because this pro this has not stopped?

There is still human trafficking going on, and there's still people coming forward about it, and just remember that.

Um I guess I can't talk about all the firefighter stuff because I'm like, yeah, about time you guys are putting in for the firefighters because you know we should have done this before the big fire, but I know that's off topic.

So, like I said, I'm a little distracted.

Smoke and scan gets it because Mr.

Lee owes me an apology.

Okay, let's go to the one where um number where you're trying to hire an expert.

I think that's number two.

And yes, you guys need expert advice up in here.

Um isn't that the one that's items three or five, which are not open for public comment.

Item number two is a good idea.

And application for determination of public convenience or necessity.

I told you I'm off.

Uh okay, so I um one and two.

Okay, we'll we'll figure it out.

We'll get there.

Smoke and scan will be patient with me.

Uh, hopefully you will too.

Um, anyway, okay.

Number one.

No, you should not be raising any fees on anyone.

Not the ambulance fees, not this fees, not any fees.

Why do the people get punished for your ineptitude to hey?

How about listening to the CAO?

Mr.

Zambo is sits here all the time saying, No, we don't have the money for this.

We don't have the money for that.

Do you guys listen?

No.

So we have to pay for it.

Why?

Okay.

Public comment.

Again, shout out to Smoke and Scan.

Thank you for being I I love that he's there here that smoke and scans here is watching all this nonsense.

Mr.

Lee, you still owe me an apology.

We're not forgetting you being on vacation for a week.

I did not forget.

Mr.

President, you're not listening.

And see, you're you're setting a bad example, sir.

You're setting a bad you owe me an apology now again.

Mr.

President, come on.

So can we do that?

You were leading a good example.

So members of the public apology.

Hold on.

You're apologies.

Okay.

Um, members of the hold on, speaker.

Your time is paused.

Members of the public, please do not disrupt other people's public comment period.

If you have, if you want to clap, if you want to boo, please hold that until after the public speaker is finished.

I'm sorry.

We paused your time.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Okay, so banging a gavel, so Mr.

Lee has to do the right thing.

All right, I'm here to talk about um the faith in and blue event coming on October 11th this year.

Okay.

LAPD is joining forces, and I get it.

It it's it's a national event.

I don't have a problem with the event itself.

But you guys are doing it with Scientology this year and Hollywood division.

How many times?

How often I've been here for a year telling you about what's going on and why you should not be in bed with Scientology anymore.

So I don't understand why that's going on, especially since victims want to feel safe to come forward.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh good morning.

I was talking about item one.

And number one.

Okay, so you have one minute for the item.

Go ahead.

All right, uh, my name is Julian Zuniga.

I'm RCTO with the City of LA.

Uh, I'm here to express my support for the proposed rate increase.

Uh I'm a shop steer representing the workers in sanitation.

And I know that these increases are to support not just residential collections, but the full suite of programs, such as the multi-family bulky item pickup, the Christmas tree recycling, the move in move out support, and other work that sanitation workers do.

This uh this is an important and necessary raise.

Thank you.

Before the next P speaker begins, I would like to call up Kirsten Peterson, Paul Morales, Kelly, John Norton, and Maribel.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I want to speak to item um the number one.

Okay, so you have one minute for the item.

Go ahead.

Okay.

I'm my name is Lorna Paisley.

I live in Lake Balboa.

I think the increases on pickup is too high.

20 months, 20 dollars extra in a month, and then by the 2029, it'll almost be double.

Uh food's going up every day, insurance goes up, health care goes up, everything goes up.

And then I was on one of the Zoom meetings, and they said what would be the consequence of not passing the bill.

And uh somebody said, Well, then you probably would lose your street cleaning.

Well, guess what?

I've been here 12 years, and I've seen one street sweeper go by my house, so I don't care.

I'll keep cleaning my streets for not having a big increase in pickup.

And I think you need to find better ways to help people recycle.

I belong to something called RID Well, and I recycle a lot of goods through them so it doesn't go into the garbage can, and you should be able to find something too.

Be innovative, be creative, find some other way to lower the garbage.

And I also am a little skeptical about the price increase because I saw what they did with the homeless money.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh, this is a general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

And good morning, council.

My name is Julian Markwoods.

I'm here today to ask for your assistance and to raise serious concerns about my landlord grub properties and their management firm, Avenue 5 property management.

I'd like to commend my council member, uh, Councilmember Soto Martinez, as his office was the first to respond to a series of letters I wrote to various public officials on this subject.

His office dispatched a young staffer, Nicholas, to my building earlier this month.

I'm the tenants uh association chairman in my building, and my neighbors and I have experienced endless issues.

On September 19th, the Los Angeles Department of Housing cited my building for three different violations.

Since I started my tenants association, I've been the object of threats and retaliation from my landlord.

Of course, I can't share the details of our situation in this forum, but I humbly ask that you take my remarks to heart and follow up with me uh on this matter.

Thank you.

My name is Mary Bol Gonzalez.

I'm asking for Mr.

Moore Keith Harris attention point.

So which items would you have to be able to do that?

Many times I have presented myself in your office.

Speaker, all right, one minute for general public comment.

Constituent office, and you do not accept your constituents.

You don't have public hearing meetings, but yet you want to raise trash.

My streets smells like pee because you take your money to the west side of Los Angeles and WAS is like shit.

What do you do for our community?

Just talk.

All of you guys, all you have done is just talk amongst yourselves.

You're not hearing the public.

Why are you here?

Why don't you take off it?

I visited your office, I emailed you, I spoken to your people, and you are nowhere to be found.

More or less, you don't even respond to my issues that I have.

No unlifting utilities, trash.

It is steal.

You want to raise trash three times as much.

I am talking to you, sir.

We pay you.

We pay you.

We pay all of you.

Taxes.

You do want to charge on time that you have to provide services on time.

Homeless.

Speaker, your time is expired.

We have to move on to the next speaker.

And before we do, we've been very patient, but the woman on the left-hand side of the council chambers near the pillar who was holding up the sign.

Please do not.

Yes, please do not disrupt the public comment.

This is your first and only formal warning.

Same with the gentleman who's standing next to you in the black jacket and the black uh thick rimmed glasses.

Please do not disrupt other people's public comment.

Good morning.

So which items would you like to speak to?

Item one.

Okay, so you have one minute for the item.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Paul Morales.

I am here to express my support for the proposed rate increase as a proud worker for the City of Los Angeles Sanitation Department.

I know these fees cover more than just trash.

They also pay for services like unlimited bulky pickup, Christmas tree collection, and safe centers for disposal.

Waste.

That's it.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

I believe there's only one way to solve persistent problem problems with the police in this city and elsewhere, and that is to have investigators from the National Guard look into police misconduct.

There are basic nuts and bolts reasons why this is true.

Fortunately for us, it costs residents nothing for our representatives to ask the governor for this highest level of police oversight.

Unfortunately, though, the city council won't do it and they won't explain why.

If anyone else thinks we're entitled to this highest level of police oversight, please say so.

Whether it's obvious or not, police are being threatened and excuse me.

People are being threatened and worse.

And if anyone thinks I'm getting something wrong, please go to my Twitter and educate me.

And that's for anyone here or anyone on smoke and scan or whatever.

It's at MACKERM2.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Hi.

Uh number one.

Okay.

So you have one minute for the item.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh I I realize our uh city state and um country face uh larger issues than um trash uh increases.

However, um before the city considers raising rates for the same level of trash and recycling services.

I'd like to suggest exploring an additional recycling option that could repu uh re improve outcomes for Los Angeles residents.

Um it's widely held perception that much of what goes in the blue bins ultimately ends up in landfills.

Um this perception erodes public trust in our system and makes future increase rates harder to justify.

Um I'm asking uh instead of asking Angelinos to pay more for the same service.

I urge the city council to partner with the company Terracycle, T-E-R-R-A-C-Y-C-L-E.com.

Terracycle um specializes in truly hard to recycle materials and already partners with municipalities and corporations across the country.

Um by exploring a partnership, Los Angeles could demonstrate leadership.

Thank you, appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right, that concludes public comment for this uh morning's meeting.

We've uh exhausted our time for public comment.

It's 1105.

This morning, Mr.

Clerk, what's before us?

Mr.

President, the public hearing for item one is now closed.

No action is required for this item.

All right, what's next?

So council may now vote on items two, twenty nine through thirty two, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-seven through forty-four, and forty-six.

All right, let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

Fourteen eyes.

Uh, this gentleman in the black glasses and black t-shirt.

I believe Mr.

Grote, he's been warned.

Yes, Mr.

President.

If not, this is your first warning.

So, Mr.

President, he is he has been warned and is eligible for removal if you're all right.

He's ordered removes pursuant to rule seven and rule twelve.

So, speaker, you have been public comment has been closed.

You were previously warned for disrupting another speaker.

You have now been ordered removed from this council chamber for disrupting the proceedings.

Our first amendments are not doing nothing about it.

Mr.

President, for the record, the ordinance for item 46 will be held over to Friday, October 31st, 2025 for second consideration.

Pursuant to Charter Section 1168A.

All right.

Uh can we go to item number 47?

Yes, sir.

Item 47 was called special by Councilmember Yaroslavsky for a separate vote.

All right.

Uh comments, council member.

No, no comment.

All right, let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll.

Tabulate to vote.

Eleven ayes, three no's.

Mr.

President, for the record, the ordinances for item 47 will be held over to Tuesday, October 7, 2025 for second consideration.

Due to the lack of a unanimous vote.

All right, what's next?

The council may not consider item 23.

I'm sorry, Mr.

Clerk, Councilmember Rodriguez.

I'd also like to be registered as a no vote.

All right.

And for the record, that would be 10 ayes and four no's.

All right.

What's next?

The council may not consider item 27.

Call special by council members who are all the enrollment for comments.

Councilmember Hudado.

Thank you, Council President.

Sorry, uh, I'm sorry, Ms.

Horado.

Sir, you've been removed.

Pursuant to the council rules.

Madam in the black tank top, you've been warned.

Mr.

City Attorney.

Yes.

So, Mr.

President, the woman in the black uh tank top has also been warned and is eligible for removal for continuing to disrupt this meeting.

Take my fucking microphone.

Take my two micro away.

And Mr.

President, would you also like to have the woman in the black tank top removed as well?

She has been warned multiple times at this point.

Sir, you removed you continue to disrupt the meeting.

I don't know if it's possible for have a to have a multi-day suspension, Mr.

City Attorney, but this person has certainly earned it.

Councilmember Hudano.

Thank you, Council President.

Colleagues, I supported this item in committee because we were assured by the CAO that there's meaningful flexibility to revisit and update the bed plan as needed.

But I do have serious concerns about how we're defining which beds count, the lack of clarity around La Casa funding eligibility, and the sustainability of the TLS approach.

If we're creating time-limited placements without a plan for what happens after two years, especially for residents on fixed incomes, we're simply kicking the can down the road.

But I expect this council to stay vigilant and proactive in holding our partners accountable to long-term equitable outcomes.

Thank you.

Councilmember Raman.

Thank you so much.

Colleagues, I wanted to just flag what we are approving today.

Please note that I've also submitted a letter to the county, which is undertaking a similar assessment in Council 525-002-s8, asking them to do the same thing.

Because right now they are proposing to make cuts without any data about outcomes or performance of their interventions, nor without any information about costs.

To cut these beds without asking these questions would be a disservice to our housed and unhoused residents alike.

So colleagues, I hope that you join me in supporting these altered recommendations and in ensuring that we have an analysis of our entire bed inventory that meets this moment.

Thank you.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

And I just wanted to chime in on the TLS uh situation because what we do have is a dynamic where it's been reported some of the challenges with Lhasa and how they have mismanaged uh the TLS dollars in implementing this.

It is an important method to help ensure that we can accelerate, and they it's actually demonstrated its ability to help facilitate more individuals getting into a permanent solution.

So we know it it's functionally it works.

Uh however, it could be better when we have a trusted partner that could help to administer it in such a manner that we could actually trust that our dollars are being used in a prudent fashion.

That being said, as we look ahead to the use of the TLS program to help fulfill our obligations, not just with respect to the alliance agreement, but more so as a cost-effective way to us ensure that we can house more people quickly and more successfully.

I want to make sure that we flag something that we haven't really addressed, is that we have continued to see an increase among families that are falling into homelessness.

And one of the issues that TLS has, or most of our efforts have really focused on, have been on the single individual solutions, which I understand that works for the numbers.

But in terms of broadening our impact with more families that are falling into homelessness, we could actually get more bang for our buck when we talk about TLS being applied for families, and making sure that we stretch our dollars, because so many of the programs and so many of the housing solutions that are being developed and are in the pipeline are addressing single individuals, but it absolutely misses the mark on addressing the more growing and chronic problem that we're facing in this city, and that is more families that are falling into homelessness as well.

So for the families, the students, uh, I know in my district, so many uh young people that have uh at school have had to self-identify and let the schools know that they're falling into homelessness.

We have an obligation to have comprehensive conversations about the solutions that we're deploying, and making sure that we have external partners that are actually effective and transparent about the use of our taxpayer dollars in helping to fulfill these goals.

So I look forward to the continued work on this and making sure that we address it in a timely and expedited fashion.

Uh but and again, I'm I'm happy to see that we're finally making some progress in addressing what is an actual cost-effective solution with taxpayer dollars and not squandering it on programs that frankly are upwards of a hundred thousand dollars for a single individual annually.

Thank you.

Mr.

Bloomfield.

Great, thank you.

I just want to echo what all my colleagues have said on this and emphasize that this is sort of a floor, not a ceiling.

This is uh getting getting this bed plan together, but we have the ability to revisit it in terms of families.

I think that's really important.

And the other aspect of that, just when you were talking, is that shared housing can be part of this too.

If TLS is flexible, that's one of the most cost-effective ways that we've been able to get people off the streets.

Um, and if we use TLS properly, we could we could actually extend the time of TLS using shared housing and other creative solutions.

So my hope is uh that this conversation will continue and we will come up with creative solutions to help our our families that promote shared housing, uh, and at the end of the day that we can we can again revisit this as we get as we narrow in on uh other solutions.

So thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right, no other speakers.

Let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Fourteen eyes.

All right, what's next?

Mr.

President of the Council may now consider item five, call special by councilmember Yaroslavsky for which amending motion five A Yaroslavsky Park has been introduced, circulated and posted on the bulletin board.

All right.

Uh comments, Councilmember Yurosovsky.

Councilmember, yeah.

So we wave no need to say, all right.

Hearing no comments, seeing no comments, let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Fourteen ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council may not consider item 28, call special by council member park for which amending motion 28A Park Rodriguez has been introduced, submitted, and circulated and posted on the bulletin board.

All right, let's open the roll on this item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Fourteen eyes.

All right, what's next?

The council may not consider item 33, call special by council member Hutt, for which amending motion 33A has been introduced, circulated and posted on the bulletin board.

All right, let's open the roll on this item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council may now consider item 36, call special by Councilmember Juralo, for which amending motion 36A, Jurado Soda Martinez has been introduced, circulated and posted on the bulletin board.

All right, let's open the roll on this item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council may now consider item 10, call special by council member price for recusal and by council member Rodriguez for a separate vote.

All right.

Councilmember Price is recusing, and we're looking for Councilmember Rodriguez.

All right.

Uh there she is.

All right, let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Twelve eyes, one no.

All right, what's next?

The council may not consider item 45.

Call special by council member price for recusal.

All right, Mr.

Price is recused.

Uh Councilmember Judato, do you have a comment on this?

Can we well after we vote?

Can we send it forthwith?

After this vote, okay.

Keep standing, we'll go we'll do that.

Uh let's open the roll on this item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 eyes.

Mr.

President, uh, there's a request to send item 45, urgent forthwith, for which a separate vote is required.

All right, let's open the roll on urgent forthwith, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 ayes.

All right.

What's next?

I think Mr.

Price can return.

Council has motions for posting and referral.

They're posted and referred.

Mr.

Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Can I ask that item uh 46 go forth with, please?

All right, without objection, that'll be the order.

The and for the record, the ordinance for item 46 is held over to October 31st, 2025.

All right.

We have motions that have been posted and referred announcements members.

Any announcements?

Councilmember Padilla.

Come on over.

Council colleagues, I would like to take a moment today to recognize the very important community figure from the valley, Mary Rossas.

Can we give her a round of applause?

Mary has Mary has recently announced her very well-deserved retirement, and I would like to highlight the impact of her career.

She made the decision to retire after 31 years in community and government affairs.

Her story is similar to many of those who grew up in the in the valley.

She was raised in the San Fernando Valley by non-English speaking parents who worked tirelessly to provide for seven children.

Mary has never forgotten where she comes from.

Over three decades, she built a career at the intersection of community health and public service, beginning in Contra Costa County, supporting Latino leaders while working with Barbara Lee and serving with Kaiser Permanente in Northern California.

She pioneered the first advocacy role focus on the Latino community at Eli Lilly, covering California, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

As a gubernatorial appointee, Mary served as deputy director at the California Department of Consumer Affairs, where she launched a fraud prevention initiative that partnered with cities and community leaders.

She led a statewide team of more than 120 Californians to protect our senior and residents with limited English proficiency, delivering real tools and trusted information to people who need it most.

She has served as a commissioner for the LA County Department of Public Social Services and on the board of directors for Vision Compromiso, one of my favorite organizations, the masterminds behind the Promotora Model.

And most recently, she deserved an appointment appointment, appoint yeah, under Mayor Bass, as she now leads as board president of the new Academy of Arts and Science.

A round of applause for that too.

So throughout her career, Mary built stronger bridges between low-income neighborhoods and the institutions that serve them.

For more culturally sensitive outreach that meets families where they are to better to better consumer protection education for our seniors and immigrant communities, and a stronger pipeline of students and parents connected through schools.

Mary, your leadership turned advocacy into outcomes for the valley and beyond.

So on behalf of the city of Los Angeles, we thank you for the sit the three decades of service.

Congratulations on your well-earned retirement.

And also I want to personally thank you for all of your support and my career and everything that I've seen you uh do to create more leaders in your work with Latinas Lead.

And thank you to the friends from the Latinas Lead Network that are here to support you in this in this next step.

But just know that it's it's a big deal for Los Angeles, big deal for you, but it's also very important to me.

So thank you for everything.

Thank you.

Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President, and thank you, Councilmember Padilla.

Mary, uh, just want to say congratulations on your retirement.

Uh, you know, if you've been to any event in the valley over the last couple decades, we saw your bright smiling face there, and you've been so involved in so many different ways.

And I know even though you are retiring, you will stay uh very active in the CD 12 community.

I know you live in Granada Hills, and just want to say congratulations, it's well earned, and I look forward to your next adventure and whatever we can do together in Council District 12.

Councilmember McCosker.

Thank you so much, Councilmember, for bringing Mary in on the other side of the city.

I want to thank you for your great work.

Uh, we have a store in Watts that is not just a great store in Freedom Plaza, but it's also a training center.

And so we have a number of our youth coming through and learning to be baristas, and so and also has a community room, which I appreciate.

But the story that you will remember is early on, I said you're not opening another Starbucks in San Peter until you open one in Wilmington.

And I thought I was gonna have a fight, and I was she was like, sure, we got that, we got you.

And so that store in Wilmington is just about ready to open.

So thank you so much for your commitment to all of our communities.

Thank you so much.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you, Amelda, for bringing in our dear friend Mary.

Um, I know we got to celebrate your retirement uh a few weeks ago, but you know, you are someone when I when I think about the Latinas that have uh broken into the corporate sector in high profile roles, you're among those trailblazers in the history of our community, and you make us all proud.

From your days with Barbara Lee to coming down here in your hometown and helping to not just you know, not just Starbucks, uh all of the work that you've done over the course of your corporate life, but more importantly, everything you've done in your civic life.

Uh, from our work together on Latinas Lead, California, and its proceeding Hope Pack.

Uh, you have been among the individuals that put your money in your time where your mouth is, where you actually showed up for so many of us, and you have been an incredible role model in nurturing so many other young female professionals into helping to ascend in their professional career.

So, on behalf of you know, all of I'm privileged and proud to call you a friend and have known you for gosh, I've been 20 something years, and really grateful for you and very excited about your retirement and what good trouble you might get in during this time.

And I will be right there with you every step of the way.

God bless you and love you and congratulations.

And thank you so much.

Uh Councilmember Conster Lee, Councilmember Rodriguez, and thank you, Councilmember Padilla, uh, for making sure we give we give this uh retirement the recommendation it deserves.

Um this is the kind of individual, this is the kind of angels that makes this a city of angels.

It's uh, you know, in between the valley and the harbor is South LA, and your fingerprints are all over all kinds of good work in that district, and I'm sitting here in this chamber and in this chair, uh, partly because you you saw young leaders, young black and brown leaders at the community coalition.

You said, let me let me help you guys figure this out.

Uh and uh not just us but so many other places around uh South LA and around the city of Los Angeles.

So thank you for everything you done you have done.

The city is so grateful, and uh we congratulate you on your retirement.

All right, any other announcements, members?

All right, Mr.

President.

Yes.

Please be advised that amending motion 33B, Herr Stason Hernandez has just been introduced, circulated and posted on the bulletin board.

Therefore, council uh would have to reconsider item 33.

All right, uh open the roll for reconsideration.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right, and for the record, sir, amending motion um 33b, Herr Stassen Hernandez and amending motion 338, jurado have been introduced for this item.

All right, let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

And for the record, item 33 is amended by amending motions 33A and 33B.

All right.

What's next?

There's a request to send item 343 forthwith.

Without objection.

What's next?

The council may now proceed to adjourning motions.

All right.

I'll ask everybody in the chambers for adjourning motion to rise for adjourning motions.

I'm gonna go to you last.

Last.

All right, adjourning motions to my left.

Mr.

Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Colleagues today.

I respectfully ask that we adjourn in the memory of Reverend Barko Oshana Bethawood, a man whose life was defined by faith, service, and devotion to both his family and his community.

Reverend Betalud, uh Bataud, was born on July 1st, 1947 and entered eternal rest on September 20th, 2025.

For more than 60 years, he faithfully served the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East.

And through his ministry, he embodied humility, devotion, and an unwavering commitment to his church and his community.

As proud Assyrians, when he and his wife first immigrated to the United States nearly six decades ago, upon their arrival, their greatest priority was to become United States citizens, an achievement they pursued immediately and with pride.

Reverend Betawood cherished this country and all that it represents, embracing the values of freedom, opportunity, and community while honoring the rich traditions of his Assyrian heritage.

He is survived by his beloved wife, his two daughters, and three cherished granddaughters whose lives he profoundly touched with his love, guidance, and faith.

His first daughter, Natalie Kuda, a member of the executive board of the Granada Hills Chamber of Commerce, is a dedicated community leader known throughout Granada Hills and the San Fernando Valley as the community connector.

She continues her father's legacy of service and devotion to others, a reflection of the values he instilled in his family.

Reverend Bet Daud will be remembered as a devoted husband, father, and grandfather, as well as the faithful servant of God and a proud American citizen.

His life and legacy will continue to inspire those blessed who have known him, and his impact on his family, church, and the community will endure for generations to come.

May we honor the memory of Reverend Barco Oshana Bet Daoud, and may he rest in peace.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lee.

Any other adjourning motions on my left?

My right.

All right.

Councilmember Yarosowski.

Thank you, Council President.

Colleagues, I rise today to adjourn in memory of Umar Hakim Day, who passed on September 12th, 2025.

Umar was a deeply respected Angelina whose life was defined by service, faith, and an unwavering belief in the power of people to change their communities for the better.

Umar grew up in Compton, embraced Islam in 1998, and from that moment lived his faith through action.

He gave his life and energy to uplifting youth, unhoused residents, and working across cultures and religions to bring people together.

He founded the Encouraged Foundation, launched the African American Muslim Insight Council, and served as board chair for LA Voice, where he worked alongside a multiracial, multi-faith coalition, many of whom are here today joining us.

Thank you for being here.

That was dedicated to building people power for equity and inclusion in the city.

He was a man of peace, but more specifically, a man at peace with himself.

So patience and persistence for the work he believed in came readily to him.

For many years, he worked to create a human security resolution for Los Angeles.

In 2024, working with Aziza Hassan, the civil rights department, and my office, we passed the resolution affirming four freedoms for all Angelinos in this chamber.

Freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of expression, and freedom of worship.

Those of us who had the privilege of working with Umar admired his humility, his compassion, and his clarity of vision.

Today, many of his friends, colleagues, and family are here to honor his memory.

I am particularly glad we are joined by his neighbor, Aunt Jan, his wife, Saida, and his son Imad, so they can see how much the city of Los Angeles valued their husband and father.

I hope all of us can follow in Umar's footsteps to work with patience, persistence, and peace to help make our city and world a better place.

Assalamualaykum Shalom.

Peace.

I'd now like to turn it over to my colleague and friend, Councilwoman Raman, who would also like to say a few words.

Thank you, Councilmember Yaroslavski for leading this adjournment, and thank you to so many of you who I've worked with and had the pleasure of getting to know over these last five years for being here today.

I'm really honored to join this adjournment for a man I respected so deeply.

And seeing so many people here is a testament to the work that he did in Los Angeles and to the legacy that he leads.

To know Martin was to know that you were cared for, that you were listened to, that you were supported.

He had your back.

In a single day, you could see him hosting an interfaith breakfast in the morning right here at City Hall, handing out meals on Skid Row at lunch, delivering a rousing sermon in the afternoon, marching against oppression in the evening, all in one day.

He was a noteworthy champion, not just for religious rights, but for criminal justice reform, immigrant rights, true interfaith dialogue, as well as affordable housing.

Among his many lasting legacies, he was also the catalyst behind Humanitarian Day, one of the nation's largest Muslim-led charity efforts during the holy month of Ramadan that provides food and supplies to the unhoused.

And through his work at Encourage, LA Voice, and elsewhere, he inspired younger generations to step into their power and purpose for which I'm very grateful.

I also just wanted to say that I had the privilege of getting to know Umar at a time of rising anti-Muslim rhetoric and at a complex moment in interfaith solidarity, not just in Los Angeles, but across the entire world.

And his approach and mentorship through that moment was one of a person who was rooted in empathy and thoughtfulness and warm-heartedness and generosity.

And I learned from him.

I learned from his approach, and I'm so grateful.

Just like many of you, I was shocked to hear of his passing, and we wish him an easy journey and transition.

May he rest in power and to his family and friends and community who are here.

Um we grieve with you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, uh, Councilmember Yarosowski.

I'm gonna turn it over to you in just a second.

So on behalf of the city of Los Angeles, I move colleagues that we adjourn in celebration of Umar's life with gratitude to him for his contributions and with a commitment to carry forward the work he championed, building a Los Angeles rooted in dignity, justice, and compassion.

Thank you so much, uh, Councilmember Yarosovsky, and thank you, Councilmember Raman and uh to the family and uh many of you who we see in the streets and in our communities uh when we have tough times, when we have celebrations.

Um it is uh with deep sadness that we adjourn in the memory of uh Reverend Umar today.

I watched him uh join the organization when it had, I think, five staff members, it grew to 19, it grew the network of churches and places of worship around the county, including a very tough customer, my own mother's home church uh got organized during that time, which is you know quite a feat uh that uh should not go uh unrecognized, but the importance of relationships with everybody and making sure everybody counts as a human.

Uh, and no room for this idea that some humans count less than others, or some humans aren't worthy of a conversation, or some humans aren't worthy of engagement, really led by example in a way that all Angelinos can and should embrace.

And so we thank you uh for the life of service.

And um again, very, very sadly adjourn in his memory.

The city is grateful.

Thank you all so much.

Any other adjourning motions?

All right.

Oh, Councilmember Park.

Thank you, Council President, colleagues.

It is with deep sadness and profound respect that I ask we adjourn today in memory of Eric Dugdale Jr.

We're joined by his family and friends as we honor his life and legacy.

Eric Dugdale, born April 24th, 1951, passed away August 27th after a three-month bout with pneumonia.

He was 74.

He was the son of Charlotte Dugdale self and Eric Dugdale Sr., a builder from England who came from Canada to build homes in the Palisades.

Eric's mother, Charlotte, fled from Nazi Germany to England, where she met Doug Dale Sr.

And the two eventually settled into Panga Canyon.

They had two children, Eric and Annette.

Eric attended Topanga Elementary, then Taft High School, Pierce Junior College, and then UC Santa Barbara, where he studied English, history, and theater.

After graduation, Eric went on to work for Coldwell Banker as a real estate agent in the San Fernando Valley, and later in Marina Del Rey.

It was there that he bought a 25-foot boat, and in 1998, he became a member of the Pacific Mariners Club.

He also worked for his father's construction company.

That office was located above the now Pearl Dragon.

And in addition to building homes, the company also built establishments such as the King's Head Pub in Santa Monica.

Eric's parents divorced in the 1970s, and his mom bought a house on Hartzill Street.

His mom remarried and passed away in 2019 on August 27th, the same day as Eric.

Eric was a member of the Pacific Palisades Historical Society, serving as president for more than a decade.

On his passing, the society reflected: if you wanted to know what living in the Palisades was like from the late 1950s forward, Eric was your go-to resource for tales informed by his vivid recollection.

He had also done extensive research on the Palisades Topanga region's earlier history, including the role of indigenous peoples.

He also represented the society on the Pacific Palisades Community Council.

Ever a fixture on the Alphabet Streets or stopping for his morning coffee at the Starbucks on the business block.

Eric was among the thousands of Palisadians who lost their homes on January 7th.

Eric is predeceased by his parents.

He survived by his sister Annette and two nephews, James and Chris.

Two memorials were planned.

The first was at the Pacific Mariners Club in Marina Del Rey on September 14th.

The second is being arranged by the family and the Palisades in Topanga Historical Societies.

And in Louis Flowers, the family asks that people donate to the Pacific Palisades Historical Society in Eric's name.

May he rest in peace.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Park and thank you all for joining us, and thank you for the gift.

All right.

Seeing no other adjourney motions, we are adjourned.

Thank you so much, everybody, identities.

We will continue to persist.

And I want to thank all of my colleagues, all of the activists, all of the artists that continue to uplift and tell our stories.

We will not be erased.

We will not be silenced, and we will continue to fight on for our community to ensure that civil rights, that human rights are what this land will continue to uphold.

And here in the city of Los Angeles, we will continue to uphold that.

And I'm grateful to work alongside a group of leaders that are equally engaged in helping to sustain that voice for our community.

To every immigrant community, this is