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 Laban'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, very much for this day.

I mean, man, you know what?

Tom would be here.

For him, this is what LA is all about.

Number 35 on the channel, number one in our hearts.

My family and I are really honored every year.

Uh four years later, it started in 2021.

And to be here now and to see the turnout and the leadership, the partnership with other city departments is really special.

And that's what my dad was all about.

He knew the names or at least the streets that he lived on of every person you work with.

You know, he was really interested in connecting with people.

He didn't always stay within the boundaries of his own council district.

He loved all of the city and he really cared about making sure people who lived here and who were visiting saw that love and felt it for themselves.

And so in his memory, in his spirit, we're gonna go about because LA is for everyone.

And let me just say, for everybody, have a wonderful shine.

LA Day.

Thank you very much.

Councilmember Isabel Herado joined city leaders and legal enforcers to highlight copper wire theft.

This ongoing and pervasive crime drains city resources and has a huge impact on public safety for Angelinos.

We're here today at the 6th Street Bridge to urge Governor Newstone to sign AB 476 that would make sure that folks that are stealing copper wires and selling them ensure that there's accountability there that recyclers won't be accepting the stolen copper wire that's keeping our city in the dark.

We have to increase the penalties to folks who are stealing copper wire in this bridge alone.

38,000 square feet was stolen.

11,000 was cashed in on it, but it cost taxpayers 2.3 million dollars just to repair, and the lights are still out today.

What makes our communities and our cities greater is its people, right?

First and foremost.

What supports its people though is infrastructure.

And us having intact infrastructure that then is able to do the things that it's supposed to do, light up its streets to make our neighborhood safer, to then power the future by having EV chargers in order for us to make sure that we're ready for the future.

We have to protect it today and make sure that foundation stays in place.

Uh folks watching this sort of activity, the less value that the Copper Hour Wire actually has, and we can keep our communities connected and safe.

Mayor Bass signs a new executive directive.

A decade of revitalization is celebrated at Jordan Downs.

And October is Cyber Security Awareness Month.

These stories up next on City Beat.

Projects underway include the convention center expansion, rebuilding the Palisades, LAX airfield and terminal upgrades, and modernization at the port.

The executive directive aims to save time and money for the airport and port as they carry out complex infrastructure and logistics projects.

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

Ten years of development has brought $664 million of investment into the Watts neighborhood, resulting in 787 affordable homes.

At the event, HACLA also announced $6.1 million for a new children's park with the building set to begin in November.

According to HACLA, their commitment to Watts continues and includes building more homes for rent and ownership, creating jobs, and expanding green space.

For more information, visit Hackla.org.

LA City Emergency Management Department is highlighting that October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Staying secure online includes using strong passwords, updating software, turning on multi-factor authentication, and recognizing fishing attacks.

In addition, the department advises being cautious of unsolicited messages and to avoid sharing sensitive information or credentials with unknown sources.

According to the Emergency Management Department, small consistent actions can protect your privacy.

For more information, visit emergency.lacity.gov.

Over to Wilmington now, where Sparky, the mascot of the Los Angeles Sparks, continue their outreach journey.

The LA Sparks basketball team and the city's Department of Aging are working together to bring movement and joy to seniors in the community.

We are at the Wilmington Senior Center, and we are doing a outreach basically.

They excitedly said yes.

And so here we are.

We started off in August at the Sparks Game.

So for a lot of our seniors, the first time at a WNBA game.

They had a lot of fun.

A lot of those same seniors are here today.

And generations came together.

So we had the children of the seniors, adult children, grandchildren, families, friends, neighbors.

They were all there.

And we had a great time.

We'll do some line dancing, make some good memories.

But then we're also going to play some bingo.

We have our mascot here, Sparky.

He's going to walk around and take some great photos.

Oh, we got a special guest.

Hold on now.

Oh, shoot.

That's my guy.

So yeah, he's gonna bring some excitement today.

So I think that's part of what we really enjoy about being at these centers is making sure that everybody feels remembered, uh warm, welcomed.

And so we're trying to come in and not only pick up on some of that energy and that that excitement and that wisdom, but also provide some youth to them as well and make sure that they feel uh welcomed and loved.

It's been fun.

It's been fun.

They are really energetic and yeah, they did give a spark to everybody here at the center.

It's uplifting.

It does.

So I mean I passar un tiempo maravilloso.

To me, it makes them still feel like they belong, you know, and to get them out here and get them doing stuff as a community.

They're having a great time and they feel wanted and still feel youthful.

We just are so thankful to be here.

We're thankful that the seniors get a chance to know that they are heard, they're seen, they're valued, they're valuable member of society.

So we're just so thankful, and we're looking forward to more.

Bringing the sounds and sights of the Caribbean to South LA was all part of this heritage celebration.

Council President Marquis Harris Dawson joined the community at the eighth annual Caribbean Heritage Festival.

We're here at the Crunchyal Maldonus Plaza for the eighth annual Caribbean cultural festival here in Los Angeles, goes along with Hollywood carnival that we have every year.

This year is so important.

Uh when ICE is out there and our communities are being raided, and we're being terrorized by our own federal government.

This immigrant community said we're gonna be outside.

We're gonna be loud and we're gonna be together.

And we're gonna stand tall for our heritage, also stand tall for our place as Americans and as Angelinos.

Festival was excellent.

All the artists perform brilliantly, excellent food.

We had a wonderful time.

Well, I think it's great to have the whole community, Africans, Trinidad, all the islands, all the Caribbean islands come together and have this, the whole neighborhood.

That's wonderful.

Bless it.

The Caribbean community is a part of the tapestry of Los Angeles and Southern California, the United States.

And so Los Angeles is a very important place to have a celebration.

We've got so many people from every country in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, the Americas that originate in uh the Caribbean.

Every year you can count on us being here, celebrating Caribbean heritage here in South LA in the heart of the African American community, celebrating this very beautiful, important and strong diaspora.

We would love to have you next year to join us for this fun event and create great memories with these wonderful performers and great people having the time of the life.

The theme for the fourth annual LA for all campaign is a simple one that bears repeating.

We belong.

LA's civil rights department celebrated in the city with inclusive events to help give that feeling of belonging to everyone.

We are so excited to have the LA is for everyone campaign, branch out to the We Belong campaign.

This week we are celebrating LA for all week and we are launching the Belonging Campaign during Latino Heritage Month to send a strong message that all of us belong here.

Especially in this moment where so many attacks are coming from the federal government.

They're part of the family.

People need to relax and just enjoy the arts, and that's what we're doing with master musicians.

We don't mess around.

All of these musicians are local musicians and master musicians.

And today, with the day of the drum, we've had many different cultures, and that's what we do.

We have to introduce each other to other cultures so we can not only appreciate our own festival, but appreciate other cultures.

I mean, it's important for me to be here and we love doing it.

And this is over 40 years we've been doing the day of the drone festival.

We love it.

This is my uh second time I perform on Watch Tower Festival.

And today I brought my uh procussion group with me from Iran from the Middle East.

Now they hear like full ethnic procussion.

This is part of our heartbeat.

This is part of the groom for Brazil.

I think it's very important to come in person and bring live music, live drumming, celebrate afro rhythm.

So come on down to the Watchtowers Arts Center campus because we got a lot of love for you.

Nita Hug?

Come on down.

And the beat goes on for the 43rd year at Watts Towers.

100 years of lighting the way for LA.

In this week's feature story, our Maria Hall Brown is in conversation with Miguel Songalong, the head of LA Street Lighting, which is celebrating 100 years in the city.

I'm delighted to be joined today by the executive director of the Bureau of LA Streetlighting, Miguel Sangalong.

Thank you for having me.

Lovely to have you here.

The mission of the Bureau of Street Lighting is to light the way for Los Angeles.

I love that mission.

Alright, so let's actually talk about the Bureau legitimately.

A quarter of a million lamps.

Yeah.

That seems like a lot of light bulbs to change.

Yeah.

It it is.

So quarter of a million lights connected by 9,000 miles of underground conduit, 27,000 miles of copper wire that power the whole system.

We cover almost every neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles.

You know, two out of three streets in Los Angeles will have a street light on it that we manage.

This must be a really fun celebration to celebrate 100 years and all the stories that these lamps tell.

The street light today is uh part of the background, right?

It's something that we know is there.

It provides the service, but the genesis of it, the history is far more kind of creative and innovative than I think one might think.

It's my understanding that each neighborhood kind of was responsible for the design of their own lamps in order to represent the neighborhood.

So there's an enormous diversity of style and artisanal qualities to all of these.

That's right, that's right.

And and what we have now is a unique collection of over 400 different designs.

Um, and that's spread throughout the 470 square miles of the city, right?

And it pretty much, as you said, kind of grew up with the city, different neighborhoods as they would rise and they would want street lights, they would design their own, so you have Wilshire specials, you would have things like the Broadway special, Hollywood special, Van I's special, uh so there's just different ones that the neighborhoods would kind of adopt and say this is this is the one that we wanted.

I think they could legitimately be called art.

I mean, some of them have turned into art pieces.

Obviously, I think most people know Urban Light, which is in front of LACMA.

Are there other art installations that have been done with former practical lights that are now not practical but still worth our attention?

Yes, Sheila Klein's Vermonica that actually shows the progression, the time progression of all the different street lights.

With all of the diversity of street lamps to choose from, what is as the executive director your favorite?

Well, if you're gonna put me on the spot like that, I would say the the Wilshire special that we have is is an amazing piece again just because it kind of harkens back to that origin of us.

Uh and it's it's huge.

You would never expect they have we have them in the field right now.

You would never expect that while you're walking on a sidewalk, there's this five foot tall, you know, two foot wide, like gargantuan street light.

When you when you have it next to you, it's that big, right?

But when it's up there, it just looks like any other street light, not to say nondescript, but yeah, you know, like unassuming kind of uh light that has a great history.

Well, people want to learn more about the hundredth anniversary, or just about how to call in if they need some help with the lighting on their streets, or just have any questions.

What's the best way for people to get in touch?

The best way for people to get in touch, well, two things, right?

If if there's any issues that you have with street lighting, please log your service request with Mile A311 or call three one itself for for all the things, and if you're inquisitive about our history, please visit LA Lights.la City.org.

Thank you so much.

This is really really fun.

Taste of Soul is back for its twentieth year.

Get your spook on at Boo at the LA Zoo.

And enjoy the original Beetlejuice movie at the port.

All this up next on Things to Do.

And we won't argue with that.

On Saturday, October eighteenth.

Join in the fun at this family-friendly festival along Crenshaw Boulevard between Barack Obama Boulevard and Stalker Avenue.

Don't forget your appetite, as there will be over 150 delicious food offerings.

Enjoy live entertainment on the music stage, including headliner Montel Jordan.

Head to Historic Crenshaw Boulevard for all the action at Taste of Soul 2025 on Saturday, October 18th from 10 a.m.

until 7 p.m.

For more information, visit Taste of Soul LA.org.

Get ready for the spooky season with Boo at the LA Zoo.

The Halloween spirit will be in full swing for two frightfully fun weekends at LA Zoo beginning on Saturday, October eighteenth, and Sunday, October 19th.

There will be trigger treat stations featuring premium candy giveaways while stocks last.

See the animal pumpkin feedings, enjoy themed photo ops around the zoo, and enjoy the interactive education stations.

If you dare, you can head to the lair to see scary snakes, frogs, and lizards.

Boo at the LA Zoo is free with admission or your LA Zoo membership.

For more information, visit LAZoo.org.

On Friday, October 17th, join the Port of Los Angeles for a free family-friendly fall movie night.

The movie is the original Beetlejuice, where a ghostly couple try and scare away the new occupants of their home.

Starting at 6 p.m., there'll be games and arts and crafts and the outdoor courtyard.org slash events.

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 LACityview.org.

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

See you next time for more LA This Week.

All right, good morning, and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of your Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Wednesday, the fifteenth day of October in the year twenty twenty-five.

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

Madam Clerk, we begin by calling the role.

Blumenthal, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt, Herado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Rahman, Rodriguez, Sonomartinez, Yaravosovsky, 11 members present, and a quorum, Mr.

President.

All right, first order of business.

Approval, the minutes of October 14, 2025.

Councilmember Judato moves.

Councilmember Rodriguez seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Nazarian moves.

Councilmember Soto Martinez seconds.

What's next?

I'll run through the agenda, sir.

Item one is an item notice for public hearing.

Items two through 12 are items which public hearings have been held.

Items 13 through 22 are items which public hearings have not been held.

Items 23 through 26 are closed session items considered by the budget and finance committee.

Ten votes are required for consideration, sir.

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

Specials members.

Any specials?

Mr.

Nazarian.

Wanted to uh for item number 13 for a friendly amendment.

All right.

Zara second.

Go ahead.

Councilmember.

You know, uh my colleague uh is not here right now from the fifth district.

Oh, there she is.

Okay.

All right, so we'll hold that one until the uh amendment is circulated.

Uh Councilmember Hutt.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, I would like to continue item number one for 30 days.

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

What's the date on that, Madam Clerk?

Uh that would be November 14, 2025, sir.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh any other special members.

All right.

CD two.

Councilmember Nazarian.

On the amendment, I thought I could just read it at this point so that we can make it easier.

Okay.

Uh clerk, is that in order?

Uh uh yes, sir.

Okay, you're on.

Thank you.

So friendly amendment to the second instruction for item 13 to change the timeline for the report back to 30 days instead of 90 days.

And the maker of the motion is uh I'm the second.

You're the second.

Okay.

I'm making the motion.

All right.

Uh well, the the what's your amending?

Is it no the maker of the motion is got it right on.

Got it.

So it's a friendly amendment, and it's been uh accepted and and uh so we'll vote on that one as is.

All right.

Uh uh and Mr.

President, just for the record, the friendly amendment is item 13, and that is amending the housing and homelessness committee report.

So recommendation number two is to direct CLA with the input of housing department to report to council within 30 days instead of 90.

Correct, sir.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Right on.

All right, that's been made and seconded by Councilmember Yar Soski, who's the maker of the motion, accepts it as friendly.

Um other specials members.

All right.

Um, before we go to our um votes, I want to call on the council district five.

Um we uh members, you know, we committed some time ago to having um a platform for residents of our city, business owners, uh organization leaders, uh, to be able to share with us what's happening on the ground in our city with regard to the so-called immigration enforcement actions from the federal government.

And so tomorrow this morning, I'm uh very happy that CD5 is organized uh a good discussion uh for us uh that we will uh begin at this moment.

Councilmember Yaroslavsky.

Thank you, Council President.

Uh good morning, everyone.

Uh, over the past few weeks we've all been deeply moved, or months rather, uh deeply moved by testimony from immigrant rights groups like Chirla, Khessen, and the ACLU about the impact of the Trump administration's unconstitutional ice raids across our city and our region.

Today we're gonna hear from faith leaders about how these raids have affected their congregations and the work they're doing as part of a broader interfaith coalition to support immigrant communities during this extraordinarily difficult, extraordinarily difficult time.

One of the most meaningful things to emerge from this horrific moment is seeing the strength of our city reflected in how faith communities have come together to protect and uplift one another.

Uh, the most ancient teachings of all of our cultures and religions are to welcome and honor the stranger and to treat them with justice and compassion.

So I'm really honored today to welcome our guests, the esteemed men and women who carry on that sacred tradition each and every day across our city.

I also want to thank Janet Hirsch and One LA IAF for helping to organize today's presentation.

With that, I'd like to introduce one LA's lead organizer, Robert Who, to make a few remarks.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good morning, Council President, City Council.

We are honored to speak before you to testify to the impact of the immigration raids on the faith community in Los Angeles.

I'm Robert Who, the lead organizer of 1 LA IAF.

One LA is a network of faith and community-based organizations across Los Angeles committed to building power for social and economic justice.

Through leadership development, organizing and advocacy, one LA empowers individuals and communities to create lasting change.

A period when war raged in Europe, fascism was on the rise at home and abroad, and there was a real question about whether democracy would survive.

And some would say that was a time not unlike our own.

The onset of this latest phase of immigration raids in Los Angeles on June 6th and the ensuing deployment of the National Guard and U.S.

Marines have terrorized families in communities across Southern California.

Every day brings news stories of people who've been grabbed off the street, whisked away in vans, and transported to whereabouts unknown.

A few of these stories appear in mainstream media.

Others are posted on social media, and many are only shared in person to person accounts.

And so we are honored to be invited to share just a few of these stories of people who have been impacted by the raids in our community.

And we applaud the City Council for your leadership in documenting these stories.

Thank you to Councilmember Yaroslowski for inviting us.

Immigrants need a forum for their stories and voices to be heard.

The city of Los Angeles needs a forum to exercise its local powers guaranteed under our system of federalism and to protect the constitutional constitutional rights of all Angelinos.

And community institutions need a way to stand together and live out their missions.

Official public hearings such as these can provide justice, public accountability, and prophetic expression for Los Angeles.

During the civil rights movement and at other moments in our nation's history, it was the federal government that stepped in to ensure that the constitutional and civil rights of its citizens were not violated by state and local governments.

Unfortunately, we are in a situation where it appears that that has been reversed.

It is the federal government and its agents who are accused of violating people's civil and constitutional rights, and it falls upon state and local governments, such as the city of Los Angeles, to respond.

Los Angeles did not ask to be targeted in these ice raids, but we have been targeted.

And so it is our responsibility and our obligation to respond, and it is imperative that we document these stories of the men, women, and children who have been impacted and respond to the challenges so that our constitutional and civil and human rights do not perish.

I'm honored to be joined by my colleagues, Father Joey Evangelista, who is a priest at Precious Blood Catholic Church in MacArthur Park, CD1, as well as St.

Kevin Catholic Church in Koreatown, CD 10, along with Rabbi Dara Frimer from Temple Isaiah in Rancho Park, CD5, and Sheila Thomas, a longtime parishioner and lay leader at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in Jefferson Park in CD 10.

They will share the stories of our how our community has been impacted and how we are responding through our 1 LA Freedom School strategy.

LA is a city of some four million people.

We have all been affected by the immigration raids, and these are just a few of our stories.

Father Joey.

In one of the parishes, the parishioners have decided to close the gates of the church 15 minutes into the Mass on Sundays to prevent ICE agents from entering if they raid the church during the Mass.

One of our parish, one of the parishes has three parishioners who have been detained by ICE that we know of.

Two parishioners were picked up by ICE in their place of work in June 2025, one in the Fashion District in downtown LA, and the other at a factory in Huntington Park.

The third parishioner was picked up by ICE at a home depot in August.

Out of the three parishioners detained, one of them was able to post bail, but is not allowed to work.

He is routinely checked by ICE through a phone app.

When he was first released, he was monitored through an ankle monitor, which was later replaced by the phone app.

His next court hearing is scheduled for 2028.

But immigration officers told him that he that he can still be detained if he is caught by ice outside his house, and this is why he no longer leaves the house.

His wife has not left the house since June.

He has four children, the youngest being eight years old and the other three in their twenties.

Two of the older children are employed.

One of the detained parishioners is a mother of a six-year-old.

She is still in Adelanto.

Her court hearing was moved to December due to an illness.

The husband claims that the wife had fallen seriously ill while in detention, but was not attended to immediately by detention officials.

Only the husband is looking after the daughter.

The husband is only able to work three days a week.

The third parishioner has two sons in their twenties.

He is still in detention in Adelanto.

News from a friend yesterday said that they were there may be a possibility of being able to post bail this week.

In both parishes, we have two parishioners who had opted to self-deport for fear of being taken violently by ICE agents.

Several parishioners who are legally here no longer go out with family as frequently as they used to because they are either Hispanic or Filipino.

On a personal note, as a missionary, I served in the Congo in Mozambique in Africa and in various parts of the Philippines.

In these locations, I worked primarily with the poor and indigenous communities, a role that frequently brought me into contact with uniformed personnel like soldiers and police officers.

While these encounters were mostly confrontational, they were non-violent, and I consistent consistently spoke out on behalf of the poor and indigenous peoples.

These experiences have less have left such a deep mark on me that the first emotion I now feel upon encountering uniformed personnel is fear, immediately followed by the urge to flee.

I slowly began to manage this fear after arriving in California in February 2024 last year.

In time I grew used to seeing the LAPD around our neighborhood, for example, and even had a friendly conversation, even had friendly conversations with them when the parishes requested assistance.

That initial fear, however, immediately returned when the raids began.

In June, parishioners told me that ICE agents were just two blocks away from our parish, which was the reason local restaurants had closed even before noon.

I went for a walk in that direction to see for myself.

Seeing the masked uniformed men with their guns from a distance, I froze and was afraid to go any further.

The realization that struck me was that I am not white, and based on everything being reported in the news, it seemed that even my Roman collar would not be of any help.

Despite finding it uncomfortable, I have been wearing the collar more often each time I go out.

I have convinced myself that it can provide a level protection for a foreigner like me, however flimsy it may be.

During one of those visits, I saw a man arrested by four or five ICE agents twice his size as he stepped out of the courtroom.

I could not believe what I was seeing.

The man's only fault was wanting a better life for himself and his family.

I looked on helplessly, struggling to make sense of this of the scene unfolding before my eyes in the land of the brave and the free.

The whole situation feels dystopian.

I sometimes jokingly say that it's beginning to feel like the Philippines.

I sincerely hope no officials from the Philippine consulate are here present here.

Or that the word of this comment doesn't reach them, or I might be hearing from them.

But I but since it's on YouTube, I think they'll get wind of it anyhow.

I could eventually get used to this.

This is after all not new to me.

But last I checked, this is the United States of America.

This should not be happening.

So one of the many roles of a rabbi is to tell the story of our people, and I am going to share several of those stories on behalf of one LA and our member institutions.

On a weekly basis, one LA IAF member institutions across Los Angeles County host a total of 37 Spanish language religious services, which were attended by over 10,000 parishioners on average.

Since the June 2025 immigration raids in Los Angeles, these institutions have seen a 30 to 40% decline of their mass attendance and participation.

And in addition to Spanish, our institutions also celebrate religious services in Vietnamese, Tagalong, and Korean.

In downtown Los Angeles, the following stories have been shared with us.

A one LA IAF member institution ministers to thousands of weekly parishioners.

They host seven masses every Sunday, all of which are in Spanish.

Their parishioners are primarily Latino, many of whom are immigrants from Latin America.

Known as a key institution for immigrants in Los Angeles, they have seen a visible change in attendance and participation in weekly masses.

Since the raids began, they have seen a 30 to 40% drop in attendance each week.

In the Roman Catholic tradition, the rite of baptism is the sacrament that incorporates a person into the community of faith.

According to religious teaching, it is done in front of parents, godparents, extended family, and the larger church community.

The church in downtown LA normally celebrates 300 baptisms each week, bringing in large groups of families from across the city, county, and state.

This church has seen a 30% decline in weekly baptisms since the onset of the immigration raids in June.

And the baptisms that are still being performed have seen a substantial drop in attendance, over 50%.

These celebrations, which would usually fill up all the pews with relatives and church members have now seen a dramatic drop in attendance, with only the first few pews of the church filled during the service.

They have reported that a sacramental service, which typically would bring in a whole family to worship, now has only the parents and godparents attending.

Families have canceled scheduled baptisms to wait and see if it becomes safe enough to attend church amidst the ongoing raids.

The cancellation of baptisms and the drop in attendance for weekly services have contributed to a significant loss of financial support to the church.

Baptisms are the largest source of income for this church.

Religious education coordinators have reported an increase in anxiety and fear amongst their students, directly related to the increase in immigration raids.

Students have shared they are afraid of their parents being deported, while some making plans to drop out of school in case they need to become the primary caregivers for their younger siblings.

Religious coordinators have had to utilize religious instruction time to instead host workshops on family preparation plans for families with undocumented parents instead of time to study scripture.

That is in the religious realm.

And as we all know, in the secular world of education, enrollment is significantly down in LAUSD.

Our parishioners and congregants tell us that their schools are uh declined by as much as 30%, with north of the 10 freeway being identified as such a particular area.

A congregant recently told me that at a staff training, the UTLA rep mentioned that families are scared that ICE is in disguise at their children's bus stops, and they are wary of unfamiliar faces in the neighborhood.

As we know, many teachers and principals have gotten training on what to do if I comes to their school.

And these efforts to help and pay attention, setting up a rep at each school to address these issues, both confirms the greatest fears of parents and of their students, even as they lean in to help, but it continually says to all families involved: truly there is no longer a safe space for you.

At a graduation in June, a congregant mentioned that the teachers regretted not live streaming the graduation because many Latino families did not show up because they heard that ICE was patrolling the neighborhood and the surrounding areas that day.

Larger LAUSD schools, which had overflow spaces for graduation, barely filled half of the first hall to begin with.

As we know, teachers are not only educators, they are the pastoral presence for their families.

And they continually hold a sense of powerlessness as they wonder: will we be able to protect our students?

And how will we provide extra mental health support for our students who are already experiencing trauma in their homes and in their cities and in their neighborhoods due to the immigration experience, exacerbated now by ice raids and presence and are afraid to travel to school.

We know the incredible effort that our teachers and administrators are making, and still all it reminds us is that we are not in control and we need to find a way to be.

Parishioners share that the apartment buildings next to the church have been visited by ICE agents on multiple occasions.

They have seen ICE operations occur within one mile of the church at bus stops, stores, and other public areas.

In July 2025, military presence at MacArthur Park sparked huge fears amongst parishioners in the area, leading to continued drop in attendance and participation in church services.

These church have faced a 3040 to 30 to 40% drop in attendance of weekly mass services.

Kincenera cancellations because family members and guests were afraid of attending services, also due to the high rise, high volume of ICE sightings.

They canceled a neighborhood procession that would have honored the 102nd year of the founding anniversary of the church due to the risk it would pose for parishioners who are afraid of being seen in public.

And the cancellation upended a year's worth of planning and altered church fundraising plans.

At this church, a longtime member has been arrested and detained during the ICE raids in the fashion district of Los Angeles.

Increased ICE sightings and immigration arrests have led the community and the church to use its own funding to print out hundreds of know your rights materials.

They continue to stress, they continue to emphasize the stress and anxiety caused by the militarized and aggressive raids in the area, which have led to many instances of self-deportation amongst longtime and key parishioners.

The church hosted private farewell blessings for ministry leaders who had over 20 years of service to the church, but were deciding to self-deport out of fear for immigration raids.

These ministry leaders held invaluable roles related to sacramental and financial responsibilities inside of the church.

With a drop in attendance, loss of longtime leader parishioners, and a reduction of celebrations, the churches have been harmed financially and administratively.

At another congregation, undocumented employees in that organization who are essential for making the faith-based community work each and every day, have injuries that they are trying to treat on their own because the fear of accessing health care or asking for disability is so great that they worry that it is on the brink of deportation, so they would sooner bear their pain and suffering and continue to ask to be employed than seek the health care they ask for and need.

And this faith community in particular is struggling how to live by the values of compassion and care which we afford to all of our members and employees while still being able to respect the rights and the decisions of our employees that they want to stay essentially invisible and make their pain invisible and stay employed for the sake of their family.

Finally, in South Los Angeles, one final congregation reported that with a mix of black and Latino parishioners, as they held a graduation ceremony for their young adults on the church property, they realized that due to fears of immigration raids throughout the area, the families of the graduates for all of the community members felt uneasy about holding that celebration publicly, even though it was within their church community.

And this church has had to increase security measures and organize a more secure perimeter around the church and events such as these.

Last but not least, before I pass it on to Sheila Thomas, as a council member Yaroslavsky said, the commandment not to oppress the stranger is mentioned throughout our faith tradition, particularly in the Torah 36 times.

It tells us not to oppress the stranger.

It is built into the foundation of how God expects us to build ethical and holy societies.

We are judged by how we treat the weakest and most vulnerable, the orphan, the widow, the poor, and yes, the stranger who lives with you and by your side.

Faith communities cannot be the only ones in this city to struggle and speak out in our effort to build what we call in Judaism a kahila khedosha, a holy and sacred community.

This responsibility is upon all of us, and I want to thank you, council members, for partnering with us as we continue to strive to build our holy and sacred community.

I turn it over to Sheila Thomas for our closing comments.

My name is Sheila Thomas.

I grew up in South LA.

I am a member of Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church.

We are enriched with Hispanic culture, Belizean culture, and Hispanic culture and African and Belizean.

We are predominantly black Catholic church.

We share the pain that everyone that you heard of these stories.

We are so used to a racial profiling because of through what the spirit of Jim Crow.

Growing up in South LA, I knew the pain of my brothers or my father leaving the house, driving while being black and being profiled.

So today we stand here in solidarity with all of our sisters and brothers who are suffering the same pain that we did through the Jim Crow laws, which the Jim Crow laws still live in spirit.

So, as you heard all the stories here, this is how we became with our freedom schools.

Our freedom skirts birth out of a July 4th celebration.

Myself, I never celebrated July the 4th because I didn't believe in our freedom story.

But to the effect of all of this, one LA launched a countrywide freedom school strategy at St.

Gabriel Mission on July the 4th, 2025.

Over 200 people attended from across 20 community institutions, schools, churches, congregations, labor unions, and nonprofits.

The goal of one lay freedom school is to empower people by informing and training them to understand and assert their constitutional rights in the face of the ice raids that are undermining civil liberties and terrorizing families.

Standing in solidarity helps us raise awareness and provides hope and courage to act by instilling a sense of agency and civic engagement in the pursuit of human dignity and rights.

What is a freedom school?

One LA freedom schools are inspired by the freedom schools of the civil rights movement, which were organized beginning in the summer of 1964 to educate and empower communities as response to civic inequalities.

The decentralized flexibility, flexible, community-based model that these schools pioneer engage community members based on the barriers impacting them.

Exactly what 1 LA has done throughout the Los Angeles County since July the 4th with Freedom Schools.

This is a long-term strategy expected to build and grow through the coming years and throughout this creating ongoing civic formation.

In the use of the train the trainer model to teach community leaders the curriculum so that we can continue to learn, teaching others inside the freedom schools and community institutions.

Current sessions have included introduction to freedom schools, knowing your rights, family preparedness, access to health care, constitutional law 101, and how to respond to ICE, which was in the form of creative thinking, skids, role playing.

What are the impacts of freedom schools?

Since the launch of July the 4th, one has held over 25 freedom schools across the Los Angeles County with a thousand participants at church basements, synagogues, backyards, school classrooms, living rooms, and small community theater.

One of H freedom Schools are forming community leaders to engage and preserve democracy.

We're overcoming fear and isolation.

We're building power.

We're reinforcing community institution missions, leadership development.

Within the last week, one of our sister parishioners was faced with another ice raid.

Democracy, do we call this democracy?

No, because on Friday, October the 10th, Dan Jose saw ICE agents warm a car wash with employees with agents masking their faces and lacking forms of identification.

They were armed, wore bulletproof vests, military-style clothing, and proceeded to chase most of the employees.

All too familiar, detaining several of them, treating some of them with extreme violence.

Don Ozay immediately sent out a text to other parishes to let them know of this ice age.

Eight employees at that time were detained.

One of the eight employees was a U.S.

citizen, and two of them had work permits, but they were detained anyway, shackled, and transported in white, unmarked vans.

Help all of us practice democracy.

Come to St.

Bridges one day to a 1 LA meeting and all others that are here to come to a 1 LA freedom school.

So see you all soon.

Thank you, Sheila.

Thank you.

I'll just briefly close.

Um Ms.

Thomas said the purpose of freedom schools is to cultivate habits of free thinking and ideas of how a free society works when people are afraid to go to worship when people are afraid to take their children to school, when people are afraid to go out in public.

A free society is at risk.

And so we have our freedom school strategy, which is about civic formation, and we applaud the city council again for organizing public hearings like this.

It reminds us of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

We would be happy to partner with the City Council to organize more of these hearings to partner with other community organizations throughout Los Angeles to document the ongoing rights violations.

And we welcome your questions.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

To all of you, let's give them another big round of applause for stepping up.

Councilmember Yaroslowski.

Thank you so much to the four of you for being here and for the work you do every day on behalf of your communities.

Sheila Thomas's church is in CD1, so we'll start with you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilwoman Yarsowski.

I believe uh pure uh that one's in C D 10.

Yes.

Sheila, right?

You're in C D 10.

Yes.

Um and Father, you're in CD1.

And you're 102 years old, right?

The church is a hundred has been serving Los Angeles.

So not you, you look great.

No, no, no.

No, but your church, your church has been serving the city for 102 years.

So it's seen the waves, right?

It's seen um the different situations that the city has been in.

And I would just would like to both thank you all for being here and organizing this in partnership with the city.

I think it's important that we see how these raids are impacting all sectors of our community, especially one that is been a safe place and a safeguard for our communities all over the world.

And so it's critical that communities hear from you all because they will continue to go to you, even if I know that parishioners attending uh different classes and and church has gone down.

And I can also say that there's some churches in my district where you still see hundreds of people show up because that is the only place where they they feel safe and they get their batteries refilled to be able to continue to do the work.

And so I'm just grateful for this opportunity.

And I and is it is it okay to ask a question or two?

Thank you, Councilwoman.

Um Father, what do you say to those who claim to be people of faith while supporting policies that criminalize migration and separate fam uh parents from their children?

That's a difficult question because they always get angry at me when I remind when I remind them of of what Jesus has has been has taught and and what the Pope even has been teaching us.

And I just keep reminding them that we are children of God and we are disciples of Jesus Christ, and we're we're followers of Jesus and not of our political leaders.

And I just ask them to pray and reflect and and and re-examine themselves who indeed is their Lord.

Is it their political leaders or is it Jesus?

And it's just up to there.

I'm it's it has it's useless to debate with people because it's it's not going to get anywhere.

So just remind them to uh well ask them to pray and reflect and and uh examine themselves who indeed they consider God.

Thank you.

And in this moment where it feels like why is why is this happening?

Why has the universe allowed it?

Why is why is God allowing this to happen?

Can you please share some words for people who are looking for faith who are looking to lean on uh on their faith at this time?

What words can you share to invite people in uh to your to the to the faith community?

Well, what what I tell them is um this is not the will of God.

This is people hurting each other, and because the relations that we have is not based on on God's love, it's based on greed and selfishness.

And I always ask them, and this is I I just don't I don't only tell people, I tell myself as well to count your blessings and look at the little blessings that we have, people volunteering to donate something for the family, for example, whose mother is on in adelanto.

Uh for example, someone who who all of a sudden warns people to better hide because ice agents are nearby.

That's where God is.

Don't look for for for God in the big things where big ice raids, but God is in the people trying to help each other in the midst of all this struggles.

Thank you so much, Father.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

Thank you so much.

Uh Councilwoman, we have a couple more folks on the queue.

Um Councilmember Nazarian.

You're on the queue.

Uh can you please come back to me?

Okay.

Thank you.

I also have Councilmember Hutt.

Thank you, Mr.

Thank you, Mr.

President, and thank you.

Councilwoman uh Yarzlaski for bringing in our faith leaders that are so well connected to our community.

Actually, have two, because you're at St.

Kevin's as well, right?

Yes, that's right, and C D 10.

We we know that um Holy Name and St.

Kevin's are havens for people in our community.

Folks go to church there comfortably, safely, and they bring their children because they know that they will get like my colleagues said, re-energized, and also help.

And and I want to appreciate you for being a helpmate in this situation to people in the most need, and also a place where folks that uh are not in jeopardy, but they want to give for being a repository for those things.

It's so important.

Both of you churches, I've been at their hundred years, both of them, and and so now you're 102, 103, 102.

What is uh holy name?

Oh, okay, great.

School is a hundred years.

And and I just went to that anniversary a couple weeks ago.

We know that people in the church are celebrating each other and celebrating their community.

So I just want to appreciate the hard work you're doing.

And and I'll get on the calendar so I can come to a freedom school.

Thank you again, uh, Councilwoman Yarzloski for bringing in our clergy leaders and reminding us where love and where God is.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh Councilmember McCosker.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Yaroslavsky, for bringing in these faith leaders.

I just want to thank you so much for your testimony and your witness to a faith tradition that I share.

I'm born and raised as a Roman Catholic, and um I was raised post-Vatican II uh in a time when we spent a lot of time talking about uh Catholic social teaching.

And um, you know, I've seen the ebb and flow over 60 years of a church going from Vatican II to in some segments of the church moving away from Vatican II.

Uh and I will say that your witness is an example of what when I was in college and studying theology, Catholic theology, we talked about the church of the cathedral and the church of the village, and sometimes there was a separation between the two.

And I think we are living at a time when our holy father has been somewhat clear on this issue and probably going to get clearer.

And we know that in our churches and the churches in my the Roman Catholic churches in my district, the sentiment that you've described is that is the sentiment of faith leadership, stewardship that the lay leaders and the religious leaders are giving to their community.

So I thank you for that.

But I will also point out that when one looks at the pastoral letters of the U.S.

Catholic bishops, there is really no separation between what you're saying and what they are saying.

Going back to strangers no longer, the encyclical or the pastoral letter of about 20 years ago, it was very clear then.

And I think it remains clear that the U.S.

Catholic bishops say unequivocally that people have a right to thrive in their land.

People have a right to migrate, and while governments have a right to protect their borders, they have an obligation to treat people with dignity and with respect.

And I think the U.S.

Catholic bishops have also been very clear and remain clear that enforcement needs to be proportional.

That's an important Catholic social teaching word, proportional to the value that they're to the safety that they're trying to provide for their residents, balance with the dignity that they owe to every single human being.

So this is a moment, I hope, where for the billion Catholics on this planet that it is very clear that we as a country are acting outside of Catholic teaching.

And we need to act within Catholic teaching, just for the Roman Catholics.

But I don't see a separation between our many faiths.

So thank you so much for being here.

Amen.

Thank you so much, uh, members, and thank you, Councilmember Yarosowski, and thank you to all of you who uh shared uh with us today.

I you know uh can't help but give a special shout out to Holy Name uh Catholic Church uh there in the community.

I remember stories of my family talking about migrating from Louisiana to Los Angeles and Holy Name being one of the places that they could go uh and that people from Louisiana would gather uh because it wasn't exactly safe in Los Angeles for folks coming in the 30s and 40s uh from southern states uh to escape the racism there for the less subtle uh or or the more subtle racism here.

Uh and so it's really heartening to see Holy Name continuing that tradition and being part of a community of faith in the entire uh Los Angeles region uh, which again will make Los Angeles the light or or uh as as as a rabbi said the holy hot spot.

Uh yes, that's exactly what you said.

Uh making Los Angeles a holy hot spot in uh in this country while we're going through this very, very difficult time.

So thank you all so much.

And uh with that, if Councilmember Yarosovsky has no more comments, we will move on to the next section.

Councilmember Yaroslovski.

No.

Oh, you're good?

All right, thank you all so much.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, uh, which items are available for us to vote on at this time.

Mr.

President, Council may now vote on items two through twelve, sir.

All right, let's open the roll on those items, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 eyes.

All right, what's next?

Next would be items 23 through 26, and those were heard by budget and finance committee.

If we can just catch Councilmember Yarosovsky for items 23 to 26 before photos.

Budget and finance committee uh considered and approved items 23 through 26 in committee on October 7th.

And I recommend we approve these items.

All right.

If we can uh read the details into the record and uh call the roll on this item.

Yes, sir.

Item 23 is in the case entitled Armene Araquisian versus City of Los Angeles et toll.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 495,000 in settlement.

Item 24, in the case of Joseph Marcantonio versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There's a recommendation to expand up to 125,000 in settlement.

For item 25 in the case entitled Abir Al Schumali versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 125,000 in settlement.

For item 26 in the case entitled Vincent Albano versus City of Los Angeles, there's a recommendation to expend up to 1,789,448.

All right.

Those items are now before us.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

13 eyes.

All right, what's next?

Next, uh counsel may go into public comment, sir.

All right.

Uh we'll go into public comment, and just for the record, we're gonna ask everyone when your name is called, please get to the line as quickly as possible.

We're gonna have 45 minutes of uh public comment, so that should just take us slightly after uh 40 minutes after 11 a.m.

City attorney, madam clerk.

Yes.

Uh 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're 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 13 through 22.

So again, the items open for public comment on the agenda are items 13 through 22.

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.

I have a couple more announcements if I could have the interpreters make this first one aloud to the room.

If you require a Spanish language interpreter, 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.

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

Uh the order in which the names are called is randomly generated.

Thank you.

Kayleigh Ortega, Nancy Villanueva, Christina Boyer, Tomasa Martinez, Eloisa Galindo, and SIBA.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh speaking in general public comment.

Okay.

And if you'd like, you can adjust the microphone as you see fit.

You have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Good afternoon.

My name is Keely, and I'm with Inner City Struggle as a young adult leader and renter from District 14.

It is time to reform Larso and cap the rent at 3%.

I specifically want to call on Council President Harris Dawson to champion your working class constituents by prioritizing Larso with the end of the year approaching and many council recess in the near future.

It is imperative that Larso is agendized in full council immediately after being passed out of housing and homelessness, which we hope to happen next week.

Right now, renter constitutes across your district and the city are drowning under high rents, ice rates, and losing income.

Both of my parents struggled to pay rent already, so we cannot afford another rent increase.

We cannot wait until next year for this update to be passed.

We also invite council members Nazarian, Mike Oscar, and Yaros Baski to commit your support to Class Larcel Platform.

Cap rent and 3%.

Please keep in mind the working class.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

General public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Hello, Christina Boyer here from Public Council and Keep LA Housed here again to talk about Larsa.

I want to impress upon the importance of getting this done as soon as possible.

Most people are on a February rent increase schedule because that's when the COVID protection sunset.

So if we have any shot at all for those tenants getting a fair rent increase, we have to act immediately.

Agendize this in housing and homelessness and please agendize it as soon as possible after in full council.

I want to say how this will be the single most effective cost neutral uh method to combat homelessness.

I want to also point out we have all been showing up for almost two years because this is dire to our communities.

Uh, even beacon economics, commissioned by the California Apartment Association, say that the annual rent increase adjustment isn't the main source of their profits, it's vacancy de control.

Um this won't uh negatively affect development nor small landlords.

We are in community with them.

Please do write by your constituents, adopt the keep LA House recommendations.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

Items 13, all items and then general public comment.

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

Please begin with the items.

Go ahead.

Uh, item 13 is for another worthless 90-day homeless feasibility study.

This sounds like uh one of the countless so-called feasibility studies Raman has introduced.

Raman has done absolutely nothing on her time on the Sleazy Council along with Padilla, and it's another Raman type worthless motion.

But to suggest feasibility studies and sit there shuffling papers, collecting their $25,000 per month while homelessness rages on year after year after year.

The fact is that these incompetent clowns like Raman and Padilla don't have any homeless or any other type of solutions, and the feasibility study of item 13 is just more clown show activity.

Just like the 40 people standing around doing nothing in this chamber of homeless horror's four hours per day, three days a week.

In my opinion, item 13 should include funding that will produce a feasibility study due in 90 days as to why homeless funds are being siphoned off to fund the over 40 people standing around in the chamber of incompetent homeless horror, doing absolutely nothing four hours a day, three days per week.

Item 14 is another worthless item for a political appointment to the ULA Oversight Committee.

Another political appointment that will produce absolutely nothing but the continued raging homelessness of tens of thousands of people dying slowly on our streets daily.

These homeless political appointments are just the best their clowns can do versus competently increasing the commerce and jobs of the city to increase productive prosperity.

Instead, we have the incompetent Dawson sleazy council of corruption sitting there voting on political appointments in order to direct the ULA homeless funds to their political friends and to themselves versus to the people of LA.

I demand a no vote from this worthless sleazy council on this worthless I item ULA funds appointment item.

There are no meaningful items on this agenda because these clowns bankrupt the city by giving LAPD one billion dollar budget increase.

Take the money back, clowns.

This items should receive a no vote if out on bail.

Twelve count indicted and on trial embezzling polygamous criminal current price is allowed to vote on his wife's business with the city.

Because these clowns bankrupt the city, giving one billion dollar increase to LAPD.

The clowns won't take the money back because LAPD makes tremendous campaign contributions to Sleezy Dawson, Monica Lewinsky Rodriguez, and racist Asian John Lee.

One billion dollar budget emergency, tens of thousands homeless epidemic emergency.

275 billion fire damage emergency.

Sleezy D C D eight has the highest incarceration rate, homeless rate, unemployment rate in the entire country, over 12 and a half percent.

CD8 is a food desert.

Sleasy D has spent over 10 million dollars on luxury offices for himself while tens of thousands are homeless.

Okay.

And I would like to talk about uh item number five and also general public comment.

Okay, so item number five is not open for public comment, but you can speak to it during general.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

I am here today in support of item five.

For uh programs and legal assistance for renters.

I am also here to support Larso.

It's time.

Uh teen it's time for Nazareth 10, Kathy.

It's time for them to do something about rent control.

Yes, especially um Harris.

And especially Harris.

It's time for you to work for the working class.

I'm gonna tell you something.

You guys were here listening to these religious leaders.

One time when we were uh doing some action for ACE, we saw like three, four billionaires that are basically now they're the owners of Los Angeles.

One of them knew that even public education was in danger.

And he is colluding with the Charter Association of California.

Speaker, your time has expired.

We have to move on to the next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

El punto numero cinco public.

Five in general public comment.

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

Go ahead.

Yeah, I'm here to support item number five, and I'm trying to ask you to do the same.

My name is Tomasa Martinez.

Soy member of Ace.

I am a member of ACE.

I live in District 14 in Boyle Heights.

Is it member of the Concilio Vecinal de mi communidad?

I am a member of the neighborhood council of my community.

Do something about this.

Just like the father, the father said, you guys aren't gods.

You guys are here because the people put you here.

So do something because people are gonna end up on the street.

I am at risk of being on the street, even though I've been here for 15 years.

Right now I'm getting psychological therapy due to the harassment that I had to live through while living in my apartment.

I'm asking you to be a champion for the working class people.

I am asking you to please implement this for Larso, which is coming up, and to do this by the end of the year, given that we are going to face many pauses and recess.

Speaker, your time has expired.

General public comment, please.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Today I'm talking about the infiltration and corruption of the city by Scientology and the Scientology's illegal tactics and policies regarding the safe pointing of the city of the members of the city.

Last time I was here, I as part of my comment, I distributed books to specific people who I hope you had somebody here.

I hope one of you read that book, Child X.

This is literally evidence of children from the beginning of Scientology here in Los Angeles, like myself, born and raised in a slave trafficking cult organization hiding behind a religious status.

So here you want to have a right and a rule for all religions to be protected while Scientology is literally trafficking children under the city's eyes through permits.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Okay, so um four, five, and six are open for public comment because we took public comment and satisfied it at committee, but you can speak to them during general.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Well, in that case, um twelve and um after twelve.

So the items that are open for public comment are and this for everyone in the room.

So the items that are open for public comment are items 13 through 22.

Uh, I would note that items 15 through 22 are reap items.

Okay, all of those except for eight.

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

Go ahead.

Okay.

Oh, I didn't say my name.

My name is Susan Price.

Life expectancy for the unhoused is 48 is 48 years compared to 78 years for the housed.

Um 60% greater than the poor that are housed.

I know that every single one of you are horrified, absolutely shocked and dismayed that disgust and dis with disgust that genocide has become a matter of fact.

Tell me, do you realize that it's happening in the U.S.?

Streets of LA County every day.

The largest county in the US, 4,000 five uh 58 square miles.

Okay, let's look at that vacant space where people could live.

The city owns outright some of it, could obtain more.

CRE, our commercial commercial real estate, is showing a significant downturn, uh downward trim tr uh trend.

The highest vacancy rate in decades.

That condition says conversion to housing, and it is the cheapest, fastest way.

And the governor sign SB 79.

Let's uh that's a match.

Uh Alliance VLA, encampment reduction, housing, housed um the unhoused must be moved off the streets to shelter or housing.

That's as fast and cheap as possible.

Like interim housing, okay.

Uh not overnight shelter, permanent supportive housing uh that leads to social housing and homeowners, homeownership.

You you've spoken on items uh 13 and 14, uh, but the remainder of the items are reap items, that's rent escrow account program items.

So if you'd like to, you can speak to the reap items.

If not, I'm gonna move you to general public comment where you still have one minute.

Okay.

The pressure is on.

Stop the genocide in LA.

Next speaker.

Oh, hello.

Hi.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Is one open still or no?

Nope.

The items that are open for public comment are 13 through 22.

You guys make so many changes.

Okay, well, I'll take all of those post public comment, please.

Okay.

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

Please begin with the items.

Go ahead.

Okay.

Well, the first one is anything that Mr.

Lee has put up, like sometimes I agree with him, but I'm gonna say vote no because he owes me an apology, and he should know how to be polite by now.

He's had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing.

So we're still waiting.

Um then the one about the guy, the gentleman who is being uh appointed for the housing committee or housing commission.

I just want him to know one thing.

Well, I want him to know a lot of things, but one thing I really want the city to do is find a way to do a certain loophole in the lull.

Okay, like I don't know if any of you have ever heard of Serge O'Blinsky.

He is somebody who at 19, he played with some fireworks and blew off his hands and his eye while he was a C org member with Scientology.

So you would expect a certain uh religion or a church, whatever, to have compassion on him.

I'm not seeing how this is connected to the other.

Because I want I I want to educate the Mr.

Saya, if he's here on something that needs to be done because this person, I'll get to it real quick.

He became unhoused because he was kicked out for being injured, because now he's a degraded being.

You're not a degraded being because you're injured or def um, you know, you have a disability, but they believe so.

So how do people get kicked out with $500 for because now you're disabled, and now he became homeless for 10 years on the streets of Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard.

Okay, you've exhausted your one minute on item 14.

Okay, so you think he got you think he got the message?

Um, same thing with all the different um re houses or whatever you want to call it.

Um there's a lot of housing, like these houses could be turned into people, turned in four people like Mr.

O'Blensky, because like I said, he ended up on the streets, okay, with 500 and um no arms and no and missing an eye and couldn't fend for himself.

Okay, so the city could turn into these houses, right?

As you're getting them off escrow or whatever, right?

And turn it into housing for people who are tossed to the curb.

It's not just Scientology.

I'm sure there's other agencies, but they're this is the only one that I know of.

They um, you know, and and you know, like you know, like if it was today, it would be like Kirsten Peterson and Kendrick Moxon approving all of this, and it's not right.

Um so it's so uh I could go through all the repo ones, right?

So the next house I would say too, you can really help.

Oh, can I ask a question about the the um council the are you am I allowed to speak on the group that spoke, the religious group, or is that not allowed?

So you can speak to that during general public comment if you don't want to.

I want to see if I could do it as part of my because they were up here, they're just not on the agenda, but you had them in front of you.

Stick to the items or movie to general public comment.

Okay, well, I I think I should be able to talk to them, but if not, I I want to know if smoke and scamble it things so we should be able to talk about them.

Okay, all right.

Okay, I'm here to say I went to the Faith in Blue event, okay, uh with Laura on Saturday.

And it was at Hollywood Presbyterian and it was a LA County clergy association.

Well, no, it really wasn't.

It was apparently a Scientology event.

And when we just walked into the event, didn't do anything or anything.

We weren't playing we weren't planning on doing anything.

We're just there to enjoy it, even though we knew Scientology was there, but here they ran it.

They told the police to kick us out because they didn't want us there.

And guess what?

We were kicked out for viewpoint discrimination because we are critics, and mind you, she was born and raised in this.

And um the city's being held, they are opening themselves up to liability because you cannot kick people out of event when they haven't done anything.

I wasn't trespassed, we're not trespassed, and it was a public event.

And I we were kicked out.

I mean the supervisor in LAPD and Hollywood division fixed it, got we came in and had a lovely day.

But you guys by allowing all this, you are leaving yourselves liable to a lawsuit.

Next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Amparo Ibara, Aida Rivera, Elizabeth Garcia, Florida Estrada, Duarte Shrimp, Marcus Smart, and Cash Patel.

Good morning, everyone.

I am going to need interpretation, please.

Um here to give general public comment.

My name is Inner City Strugo.

So in Quilina del Este de Los Angeles and Member Communitaria del District 14.

I'm a member of any city uh inner city struggle.

I live in East LA and I am part of uh señor.

It's time to limit already.

Limit rent to three percent.

I'm calling specifically on President Harris Dawson to be a champion for working class people and to make Larsa priority.

We are asking for Larsa to be agendized as soon as possible after l after leaving the housing and homelessness committee.

We are also asking for council members McCosker, Yeroslavsky, and Nazarian to agree to support it.

I would also like to hand out this information from keep LA House that talks why this is that speaks about why this is so important.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Why this is so important?

Thank you so much.

Good morning.

So you have one minute, go ahead.

Because we don't need any more uh renters ending up evicted on the streets.

Due to the rising cost of health care, rent, and also what's happening with ICE, I don't want to just be another renter that ends up on the street.

Thank you so much.

I hope that you cap it at three percent and please support Larsa.

Thank you so much.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

My name is Amparo, and I'm here with Ace.

And General Public Comment.

And I would like to make generally public comment.

Okay.

Number five.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

And article five.

It's time to reform the Lars.

To the three percent.

So the champion.

Your working class.

And cap the rent.

And strongly supports.

Speaker, you your time has expired.

We have to move on to the next speaker.

If I I'm gonna make one quick announcement, if I could have the interpreters sort of synthesize it and make it allowed to the room.

So we have to give everyone an equal amount of time.

A couple things to note.com.comment.com.

And if you require a foreign language interpreter, if you let us know ahead of time, we will do our best to accommodate.

And if you are uh would like to request additional accommodations due to a disability, you can let us know as well.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh for the record, I signed up as Marcus Smart.

I would like to address all items and general public comment.

Okay.

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

Go ahead.

So uh morning growth.

I'd like to do that thing where I ask you rhetorical questions that I know you're not at liberty to respond to even if the brown elect weren't applying.

Uh why is it that we're looking at item number 14 on this agenda?

No knock on this particular appointee, but back in June, this council voted on this exact appointee for this exact term running through 2020 2030.

Why has the mayor reappointed them?

Why are we having a second vote four months later?

The only difference I see here is this individual is now finally submitted their required ethics disclosures.

Thanks to Councilmember Rodriguez and the voters of Los Angeles, our charter was amended last fall to require these filings before the council votes on these appointees.

Yet for some reason until last month, y'all just ignored that.

You rubber stamped appointees, regardless of whether or not they followed the charter.

What does it say that 14 out of our 15 council members are willing to rubber stamp appointees who violate our charter?

I know you're all scared of the gruesome Tucson and Marquise and Karen, but come on.

Come on.

I know you all love to wait until the last minute to take things seriously, but you do need to wake up.

Um our city is broke and broken, and the people running it into the ground are trying and succeeding in rat fucking the charter reform commission that's been commit set up to help you.

What which item are you speaking to?

Uh reap.

Okay.

I'm gonna ask you to speak to the reap items, or you can continue in general if you'd like.

I'm just kidding, I'll go to general.

Okay.

One minute, go ahead.

I don't know if you read the LAST article last week about the Charter Reform Commission.

There are a lot of things I try to set up.

That wasn't me.

That was the commissioners.

They got that in there because they are sick and fucking tired of this.

This council required that Charter Reform Commission to provide an outreach plan that this council could give feedback on, and that they would have a meeting in every single district.

That outreach plan was provided two and a half months ago, and the council president has yet to bring it to the full council.

So you can all talk about it.

That document is now irrelevant because a bunch of the commission meetings have been converted to committee meetings.

What does that mean?

We'll be in C D 7 this weekend, but only three of the commissioners will be there.

Same applies to CD1, CD3, CD 9.

What do we what do we see with all those districts?

What's the difference between that district and Tracy's district, Nidhia's Tim's, John's?

We say that poorer districts, the Latino districts, don't get the full fucking commission in front of them.

Karen Bass appointed the least qualified executive director imaginable.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Buenos días, Pinchi Abolalo Baboso.

Good morning, please pause his time for a second.

I'm sorry, I'll let you continue in just a second.

Mr.

Spindler, I know he's your friend.

That doesn't give you the right to disrupt his time.

So do not disrupt public comment.

This is your first and only formal warning.

If you do it again, you may be subject to to exclusion and removal pursuant to rule seven and rule twelve.

Go ahead.

Good morning, stupid fucking lawyer.

Gracias Pinche Balboso.

The mendigos.

Now to translate into Google.

Smoking scan, you got it?

Good.

Um, who is this Charlie Sia?

And why is it taking four months and a second vote by this fucked up charter for filing your fucked up rubber asshole stamp to this appointee?

Why is that?

Does anybody know?

How about you, FBI?

Are you listening?

Cash Patel, what these people are doing in Los Angeles?

Where's Donald J.

Trump?

So this is your last opportunity.

I need you to stick to the items, or I'm gonna move you to general public comment.

Well, sir, I'm I'm on housing.

And uh, like I said, I'll put it in English.

Fucking housing and homelessness, landlord fucking notice for your fucking assigning to the Los Angeles fucking housing department, you fucking cavron puto to enforce your fucking staff, you fucking asshole, idiot moron, stupid, incoherent fool that the housing providers are here to assist me to navigate, you asshole to understand that Padulia.

Who is Pedelia?

That's her.

Am I right?

And what about the Juju that's not in her seat?

Where is she at?

Because this is to direct you about the LAHD fucking report, you fucking moron, idiot, stupid, incoherent, jackass.

So you're welcome to insult me, but at this point it is repetitive, which is not allowed under the rounds.

Getting to the feasibilities, jackass.

Let me finish my.

And you've exhausted your one minute on item 13.

So please move on to another item.

All right, escrow asshole.

How about those four points?

Where is current price, you jackass?

On the agenda.

Yes, he is.

There are two items on the escrow and in district nine.

So speak to the rescue.

I'm speaking to the absentee councilman who faked his sickness.

Okay, I'm gonna move you to general public comment.

You have one minute.

Go ahead.

Now into my non-agenda public comment.

Going back to the N and C word, everybody.

Hey, smoking scan.

Figure this out.

In Watts off 103rd, there's a community there in the ghetto called Nickerson Garden.

Why was it that I was accused of using bad language by Juju Bob smoking scan?

Why Bob did that idiot macawker, who's a cocksucker, run up there and tell that big fat head pumpkin head that I was saying something totally irrelevant to my constitutional civil rights of protection of my free speech.

Because again, audience of Compton and Dominguez Hills, that fat piece of shit attorney up there under bar license 317-217 is a stupid jackass, a dirty motherfucker, and as bad.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Um general public comment.

And item number five.

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

Go ahead.

Yes, my name is Aira Araceli Hivera.

Uh I am a member of ACE, and I am a small landlord in my district.

It's time to reform Larso and to limit the rent to three percent.

Legiamo specific al President del Consejo, Senior Harris Dawson.

I'm calling specifically on the president of the council, Mr.

Harris Dawson.

To be a champion for the working class of his district and to make Larso work.

For this to be put agenda on the city council after being approved by the housing and homelessness committee.

Uh X L A H Larso.

Uh we have been grateful to work with you for these uh for for this.

Thank you very much.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Public comment for you, one minute, go ahead.

Yes, hello, my name is Domingo Solorzano member of Ace.

Uh Legamo specificamente al President del Consejo, Señor Harris Downson for Campion de la classe Travadora de su distrito prioridad Larso.

Yeah, it's time to to reform Larso.

I'm I'm calling on the president of the council, Mr.

Harris Dawson, to be a champion for the working class people and to prioritize Larso.

With the end of the year approaching and plenty of council recesses approaching as well, it's important for Larso to be on the agenda and for it to be put in the city council agenda forthwith immediately after being approved by the housing and homelessness committee.

Thank you.

29th of October.

This thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up the last two speakers for today, Victoria Enriquez and Tyler Robinson.

Good morning.

You have three minutes for the audience.

So let's see here.

We have number 14, Charlie Kirksia to the United House Citizens Oversight Committee.

What the fuck is he doing?

You got three men and 11 ladies out of 14 people.

Where's the goddamn man?

Is that what it is?

You can't be united to house.

You're not allowed to have a penis to serve on this committee.

Is that what it is?

Is this the DEI dick?

Is that what it is?

How come do so many goddamn women?

11 to 3 in the goddamn commission.

I don't understand that.

I thought this council was about equality.

That's what a Melda keeps telling me every day.

Every fucking day.

Then we get number 15.

Nazarian on a rent escrow camp on West Riverside Drive.

He's gonna allow the landlord to get fucking paid.

Let's give him a hint.

Okay, good.

Right on.

And another one.

He emancipated another one.

This is on North Limp Avenue.

That's a fucking nice area.

So next time, when you're paying $3,000 a month rent and you see rats in your bathroom, call Jacobian Myers.

Jacobian Myers, isn't it about time?

And then you have, let me see, C D three.

Why that's Blah Blobin Blair, the evil Jew.

So he's over there getting West Roscoe.

Oh, that's a shithole.

Look at this.

19962 West Roscoe.

That is a dirty, filthy, shitty street.

You should pay people to live in that fucking shithole.

So let's see.

C D 9, the 12-time indicted council member current price.

Okay, man!

Wow.

Holy shit!

He's got 12 felony charges.

He goes back to court November the third, and he's still getting paid.

I love speaker.

This is your only warning.

Please take the agenda items.

I am.

What the fuck does number 18 say?

Fucking C D fucking nine.

And who the fuck will you do?

So then speak to the item.

You can speak to the storing general.

Who the fuck runs C D 9?

Current milk price, the people versus.

And who gets to decide who gets paid off on the item?

Current milk price junior.

That's why it's on topic, Blob.

Will you tell your lawyer to stop interrupting?

And then we get numbers CD 15.

Number 19.

Well, that's the bucket head.

Then we get another one on 20.

They fooled everybody.

Again, number 20, the 12th time felony indicted council member current price.

And let's see.

How much did 635 East 29 have to pay him off?

So let's see here.

You can't talk at the fucking meeting without this fucking lawyer interrupting you.

You can't use the N-word.

You can't use the C word.

You get banned from one meeting.

You get kicked out two days' meetings.

When is the federal court gonna step in with the injunction?

When will this council be enjoyed by a federal district judge?

And when will this criminal lawyer up here be taken in front of the state bar and suspended pending an investigation?

When the fuck are you gonna do your jobs?

Are you just gonna sit here and let a poor innocent little goat herder like myself sit here and be violated like this?

Is that what it is?

And finally, thank you, Omelda, for not wiping your nose all day.

I I'm glad you get next.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Hello, item five.

Oh, and general public comment.

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

Go ahead.

Okay.

My name is Florestrada.

I am an organizer with ACE, and I want to say to C D 9, C D 8, and C D 10.

I've been door knocking, and I've been hearing the number one issue for renters is rent.

If they're worried there's a state of emergency, they're scared to come out to work.

So I want to invite you, Council members or your staff to come door knocking with us so that you can hear it directly from your constituents that it is a state of emergency at this point.

So please put this on the agenda.

AICE members and A's will always be here every chance we get, and we will get public comment so that you guys can put this on the agenda and realize that this is a big issue for renters in LA.

Uh I also uh from door knocking experience, uh State House delayed program.

We need you to fund it and to keep it alive because this helps so many renters in LA.

I see my time.

Good morning.

So you'll have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

So you in Kili in Kilino Pro Enkel in order.

Is our Larson illimitar la renta in three percent?

Hello, yes.

My name is Victoria Enriquez.

I am a member of ACE.

I am a renter.

The time to reform Larso is right now to limit the rent to three percent.

Yeah, I am calling on the president of the council, Mr.

Harris Dawson, to be a champion for the working class people of his district and to prioritize Larso.

Approved Committee de Vivienda.

And to have it be placed immediately on the council agenda, right after having been approved by the housing and homelessness committee.

Speaker, your time has expired.

So, madam clerk, what item what items are before us?

Mr.

President, Council may now vote on items 14 through 22, sir.

All right, let's open the roll on those items, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 minutes.

All right, what's next?

And the last item is item 13, and that was uh homeless and housing committee report as amended by motion Nazari and Yaroslavsky.

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

13 eyes.

All right, sir.

Come on up, come on up quickly, stop disrupting the meeting and come on up to the thing.

Podium.

Thank you.

You have you have one minute to speak.

One minute.

Um John Parker from the Harriet Tubman Center and on the steering committee of the community self-defense coalition.

Why is it that Los Angeles has a sister city in Israel?

A genocidal city.

Uh, and it's not just any city, it's a city that facilitates the military terror and holocaust that's going on against the Palestinian people right now.

So why does LA City have a relationship with them?

Uh you know, there's a mini Holocaust going on in the global south, and the one that we know so well in Germany.

And people are saying now, why didn't you do something?

Why didn't you stop try to stop a holocaust?

And the genocide is still going on, even though there's a supposed ceasefire.

People are being still starving to death, dying of health things.

So you can sit there and do nothing, or you can put up post a rest put a resolution to say stop the city, uh the city thing.

Or you can put up post a rest put a resolution to say stop the city, uh, the city thing.

Thank you.

All right, Madam Clerk, what's before us?

Council has motions or posting and referral.

They're posted and referred.

The desk is clear, sir.

All right, with the clear desk, I'll ask if there are any announcements, members.

Any announcements.

Council District 11, Councilmember Park.

Thank you, Council President.

I actually have a couple of announcements today.

Uh, one really exciting one I want to start with is a project that is a true collaboration between Council District 5, Council District 11, and the Department of Cultural Affairs, whose partnership and leadership has made this possible.

Um, DCA really helped guide this process and make sure that art continues in the public spaces that connect our communities.

So it is my honor today to get to introduce the artist that was selected to create the new Mar Vista Gateway mural, which is a vibrant new welcome point that will greet everyone traveling along Venice Boulevard near the 405, right on the border between CD 11 and CD5.

And this was a place that prior to a massive cross-jurisdictional intervention that involved Culver City, C D 5, CD 11, Inside Safe, and the County was the site of one of the most notorious encampments in all of Los Angeles.

And now, as we complete our work and return this area fully to the community, this mural is going to serve as a placemaking icon for the Mar Vista, celebrating communal strength and restoration in the wake of the Palisades fire, as well as a visual icon to usher in the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics.

So we're here this morning with Julia Fortis, an extraordinary LA-based multimedia artist and muralist whose work captures human connection, empowerment, and the shared spirit of our communities.

She has completed more than 30 large scale public murals across California and the country, transforming everyday walls into windows of imagination and belonging.

Through her work, she really invites all of us to take a pause and see ourselves and our neighbors and our city in color and in motion.

Her process is deeply collaborative, and she has graciously agreed to do community workshops in Mar Vista to make sure their input and their stories are being captured here.

So we all know that public art does more than beautify, it actually unites.

It tells a story, and I know, Julia, that in your hands, this mural is going to be a reflection of Mar Vista's creativity, its diversity, its history, and its sense of welcome for everyone that passes through.

So congratulations and thank you for sharing your gifts with our community.

Thank you.

Council Alberta.

Thank you so much.

Excellent work.

Councilmember Yosassi.

Thank you so much, Councilman Park, uh, for your partnership and for bringing uh us together today.

This is really exciting.

I want to thank the Department of Cultural Affairs team and the Mar Vista Community Council for your really hard work and commitment to the project.

Public art reflects who we are as a community and it brings people together, it sparks connection and makes our shared spaces more vibrant and meaningful.

Uh I am so excited to have Julia Fortis leading the Mar Vista mural.

Your work celebrates human connection and the beauty of everyday life.

Julia's murals invite people to pause and reflect and feel part of something larger, which is what art's all about.

If you're unfamiliar with your work, I encourage you to go to her website, take a look.

It's really remarkable stuff.

I know that Julia's vision will capture the spirit of this neighborhood.

Um I used to live in this neighborhood, uh, so it's particularly meaningful for me.

Uh, and the people who make it special.

So thank you to everyone who helped bring this collaboration to life.

I'm really looking forward to seeing it become part of a lasting part of Mar Vista.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilwoman.

Thank you, thank you.

We are really, really excited for this.

Thank you, Julia.

And in another really exciting announcement, I wanted to take a moment and welcome Mark Rago and highlight a brand new board game, Venisopoly.

Um, this game is so great.

It takes a colorful journey through the iconic streets and canals and beaches of Venice.

It's a course inspired by one of the most vibrant and eclectic neighborhoods in America.

And it really lets players experience the true spirit of Venice from Muscle Beach and the historic Venice sign to the buzzing ocean front walk and Abbott Kinney Boulevard.

Businesses included in the game are properties that were chosen because they were the oldest businesses in Venice that have kept the same names dating back to 1911.

And then there are really cool, interesting historical facts on the back of each one of the cards.

Almost all of the artists and photographers are Venice artists, and everything Venice is represented.

Bodybuilding, architecture, surfing, skateboarding, artists, writers, the beatniks from the 50s, activism, punk bands, tattoo parlors, the canals, Oakwood, Lincoln Place, historical landmark marks, and so so much more.

The tokens also a nod to Venice's unique culture.

We have a surfboard, a laptop, gondola, bicycle, lowrider, and a skateboard.

It took over three years to design, put together, secure the necessary rights, and produce the game.

And best of all, 10% of every purchase goes to the Venice Heritage Museum.

The uh museum is actually doing a launch event for the game on Saturday, November 8th.

And you can go to uh Venisopoly.com for more information about this.

We are super excited.

Venice is the first neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles to get its very own Monopoly game.

So thank you and congratulations.

We couldn't be more excited.

All right.

Any other announcements, members?

All right, seeing none, I'll ask everybody in the uh chamber to rise for adjourning motions.

Your journey motions to my left.

Colleagues, today I asked that we adjourn uh today's meeting in the memory of a member of the LA City family, LA DOT traffic officer Denovius Gist.

He was born uh a son of Los Angeles in the early 1990s in late 1980s.

Uh he was the tender age of 35 when he passed this past August.

Uh he was working as a uh traffic officer, uh, began his work in 2019, working out of the Southern office on uh Figaroa in District 8.

He lived in the neighborhood and enjoyed working for uh LA DOT.

Today is survived by his daughter Kaya, his wife Tori, uh Pierre, and a host of family and friends.

Uh Danovius was uh another unfortunate uh and tragic victim of gun violence uh in the neighborhood uh and got caught in crossfire uh between two separate individuals uh that he was not involved with.

And so we asked uh the city to remember his gift to us and to be vigilant in the fight against gun violence in his name going forward.

May he rest in peace and power.

Thank you.

All right, with that we're adjourned.

Oh, Councilmember Hutt.

Please add my name to the Absolutely Mush.

Thank you.

Thank you.