Los Angeles City Council Meeting – October 14, 2025
Los Angeles City Council Meeting – October 14, 2025
The Los Angeles City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, with 10 members present. The meeting included approval of previous minutes, consideration of various agenda items, public comment, and votes on ordinances and settlements.
Consent Calendar
- Approval of the minutes of October 7, 2025, and approval of communative solutions were moved and seconded, passing unanimously.
- Items 1–14, 27, and 29–40 were voted on together and passed 13 ayes.
- Items 16–20, 22, 25, and 26 were voted on and passed 10 ayes (with item 25 sent forthwith).
Public Comments & Testimony
- A representative from the Central City Association spoke in strong support of items 24 (metal and wire theft reward program) and 35 (copper wire theft prevention), emphasizing the public safety and economic impact of copper wire theft, particularly in downtown Los Angeles.
- A speaker criticized item 25 for lack of legal review, stating that the city council is a designated public forum and that rules should be content-neutral; they also raised concerns about Brown Act violations and lack of oversight.
- Another speaker expressed concerns about item 27 (traffic control services for protests) potentially involving police brutality, and criticized other items such as the "Just Say Hello" campaign, domestic violence awareness month (citing statistic that 40% of cops beat their wives), and the closure of public restrooms. They also called for fixing street lights and firing LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell for assisting ICE.
- A fast food worker (Lisetta Aguilar) spoke in support of an ordinance for fair wages for fast food workers, emphasizing the need for training on workers' rights.
- A speaker read from a text about directed energy attacks, suggesting the city is hiding information.
Discussion Items
- Items 23 and 24 were called special for separate votes. Councilmember Soto Martinez explained his "no" vote on item 24, noting that private companies offer $25,000 rewards for wire theft which don't work, and that 60% of street light outages are due to regular maintenance neglect, not theft. He also noted the city hasn't assessed street lighting fines since 1996. The motion for item 24 passed with 8 ayes and 2 no's, but lacked a majority vote, so the ordinance was held over to Tuesday, October 21, 2025, for second consideration.
- Item 15 (ordinance) was called special by Councilmember Nazarian and received 11 ayes and 2 no's, but required 12 votes, so it was held over to October 21, 2025. Item 15B was sent forthwith.
- Item 21 (with amendment by Yaroslowski) and item 28 (with amendment by Bloomfield/Ramen) were voted on and passed 13 ayes after amendments were circulated.
- Closed session items 41–44 (settlements) were approved 13 ayes after Budget and Finance Committee recommendation. Settlements: Cynthia Manchaka ($112,500), Stella Tenin ($150,000), Naritsa Garrixion ($280,000), Maria del Carmen Gonzalez ($375,000).
Key Outcomes
- The council approved the consent calendar and routine items.
- Several ordinances were held over due to lack of required votes: item 15 (needed 12 votes, got 11) and item 24 (needed a majority, got 8 ayes and 2 no's, held over for second consideration).
- The council approved four lawsuit settlements totaling $917,500.
- The council adopted amendments to items 21 and 28.
- Announcements included an international visitor (rapper Red Child) and the upcoming Music Am Poemas festival in Highland Park.
Meeting Transcript
I was traveling westbound on Roscoe Boulevard in a vehicle traveling eastbound in the wrong way of traffic. Collided head on with me. I went 50 feet on the pavement into a park vehicle where I ended up and I ended up breaking my left ankle, hurting both knees, my back. Many people don't live to receive this award, so I'm honored to have it. The Purple Heart is presented to Officer Joseph Gaw. So we're at the hospital with my partner and I on an unrelated incident when we were approached by hospital staff alerting us that a male individual was alleging that he had a firearm. At that point, my partner and I made contact with the uh individual who was uh uncooperative, kept his arm behind his back and stated multiple times he had a firearm. And for us to back off. Could have turned into a deadly situation. We were able to de-escalate the situation and take him into custody without uh using much force. That situation was very dynamic, uh considering we had patients, we had hospital staff nearby. So we have to think about everybody's safety at the same time, thinking about the suspect's safety as long along with our safety. So we did the best to keep calm, give them concise directions, and pretty much come up with a plan that would mitigate the use of deadly force. And we were able to do that successfully, which was a turnout that we wanted. For the career, it's great. It's nice to be recognized by the department. Um it is just we did our job. It was just nice for the department to see how well the job went. But personally, it's even better. I have two little children who got to see me receive this award. So to have my family get to see how great it is to work for the department and how things are was uh probably better than the uh professional was the personal. I think these are everyday heroes, and I think everybody can relate to that. We love our heroes, and the incredible bravery of our LAPD officers is commendable, and I wish more people in our community could see this so that they can see that yes, you call the LAPD when you need help. I wish we could take what we saw today and be able to spread it out to the community overall because the type of things that our officers are doing day in and day out on behalf of people they don't even know is pretty impressive. And so I want the public to be able to know that if they need help, we're here for them. Councilmember Adrian Nazarian joined LA civil rights and community members at a recent Shine LA event. While these cleanups look to the city's future hosting of the Olympics, this one also paid tribute to a former council member whose love of LA always shone through. Thank you so much for coming out to Shine LA. Today we had the kickoff of Shine LA in North Hollywood, and it's gonna be going throughout the eastern San Fernando Valley. It was wonderful to have the mayor here, the mayor's team here, and we were joined by multiple different nonprofit organizations in the community, all in the spirit of cleaning up our parks, our public spaces, uh getting them ready for the major world events that we have coming up, but at the same time making sure that we keep it clean as well. It's a beautiful day to make LA shine, right? Absolutely. We are building a better and a cleaner Los Angeles with Mayor Karen Bass and Council Member Nazarian. Uh we are very grateful for the support of Wreckham Parks as well as the public works, the apartment, and the good folks at community beautification for helping us to bring better and cleaner Los Angeles. We want the world to come and see a beautiful clean Los Angeles. The Department of Civil Rights has started a wonderful campaign, re-energize the new campaign of I belong, you belong, we all belong. Because the reality is this country, this city, this state was built on immigrant power. It doesn't make sense to pick out any one individual group and say you don't belong. We all belong. We're the very fabric that makes this city great. We send a powerful message that when it comes to our climate, when it comes to our environment, when it comes to the political environment that may sometimes seem overwhelming. We are not powerless. We come together. We step up for our community, we stand up for our community, and we are here. Today we are celebrating Tom LeBon's Day of Service at the Shine LA event. We are intentional to send a strong message that Los Angeles is united, when we work together, we play together, we live together, and we lift a better Los Angeles. Thank you very much for this day. I mean, man, you know what? Tom would be here. For him, this is what LA is all about.
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