It's considered these items and they can be voted on open session, sir.

Should I read the settlement amounts?

Yes, please.

Yes, sir.

Item 24.

In the case entitled Dory Batong Bacal versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 150,000 in settlement.

For item 25, in the case of Agavni Kachatrian versus City of Los Angeles, there's a recommendation to expend 175,000 in cent settlement.

Item 26 in the case entitled Navid Ascarini versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 150,000 in settlement.

Item 27 in the case entitled Caesar Chavez 888 LLC versus City of Los Angeles.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 750,000 in settlement.

Item 28 in the case entitled Rosalina Reyes et al.

versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 2,625,000 in settlement.

Item 29 in the case entitled Robert Mark Evans versus City of Los Angeles, there's a recommendation to expend up to 750,000 in settlement.

Item 30 in the case entitled Magdalena Sacarian versus City of Los Angeles.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 475,000.

Finally, item 31 in the case entitled Juan Velasquez et al.

versus Daniel Stephen Oriana et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 185,000 in settlement, sir.

All right.

Those items are now before us.

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

Also, Mr.

President, item 32, uh on the continuation agenda, public hearing has been held.

Council may now vote on this item also, sir.

All right.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Alright, what's next?

Uh next, council could go into public comment if it wishes, sir.

All right.

Uh before we go into public comment, I want to call on Councilmember Soto Martinez for a special announcement.

Yes.

Thank you so much, Council President.

Uh, just like to uh let everyone here, my colleagues know that we want to recognize a few guests that we have here from the rotary, different rotary clubs, uh, in District 13.

You can just stand up and be recognized.

The rotary clubs, yeah.

We do a lot of great work in the district.

Uh and just uh we worked with them a few days ago to make October 24th uh be recognized as World Polio Day as an effort to eradicate that uh uh globally.

So I just want to uh acknowledge them and thank you for coming here, and I think our staff is gonna give you a little tour of the of the building.

And anyway, that's it.

Thank you so much, Council.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Soto Martinez.

Thank you all for being here, and thank you for your work in our community, but especially your work on polio.

Uh and enjoy uh Los Angeles City Hall and the view from the Tom Bradley Tower uh this afternoon.

All right, uh Madam Clerk, Mr.

City Attorney, if we can prepare us for public comment.

Thank you, Ms.

Mr.

President.

For people providing public comment when it's your turn to speak at the podium.

Please state which of the agenda items you'd like to speak to.

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

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 on any of the other items or anything else within subject matter jurisdiction of the city.

We'll tell you when your time's up.

When speaking on the agenda items, you need to be on topic.

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

If you're not on topic, or if we can't tell whether you're on topic, you'll get one brief warning from me or the president.

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

If you don't, unfortunately, you'll forfeit your speaking time, and we'll move on to the next speaker.

The items that are open for public comment are items 15 through 23.

That's 15 through 23.

And if the interpreter would be kind enough to um say on the speakers, for anyone wishing Spanish translation, uh, please stop every few sentences so that we can have the translator translate.

The clock will be stopped when the translating occurs occurs, so you'll get as much speaking time as anyone else.

And with that, Mr.

President, ready to take public comment.

Alright, we have 23 speakers on the queue, so we're gonna allow for about 40 minutes of public comment this morning.

So we should conclude public comment at 11 a.m.

sharp.

So that means we want to get to as many folks as we can.

As soon as your name is called, line up, come to the podium and start your presentation.

Thanks so much.

I will begin by calling the following speakers.

And when your name's called, if you would be kind enough to go to your left, um, it doesn't matter which order you speak in as long as your name was called.

Hi, Speaker, which items or general public comment would you s like to speak on?

Oh, hi.

Um I'm speaking on the uh resolution about A B 1088, the ban on a Kratom in 7-0.

It's general, please go ahead.

Okay, thank you.

Um, so my name is Dr.

Michelle Ross.

I'm an addiction neuroscientist and chief scientific advisor of the nonprofit based in Los Angeles called the Seven Hope Alliance.

I want to tell you that uh the resolution to pass uh uh AB 1088 is wrong.

If you ban 7-0 and if you also ban Kratom, you will have Los Angeles residents dying.

So about um 236,000 people in California use 7-0, which is an alkaloid in Kratum.

Uh they use it for pain relief.

75% use it for pain relief, and without it, they will not be able to function.

They will not be able to go to work.

Um, and I did the largest survey of 7-0 consumers in the nation, and what we found was that 25% of them will go to the illicit market and buy illegal fentanyl and other dangerous opioids.

If 7-0 is banned, that means that they will die.

You will have an increase in opioid deaths.

Thank you.

Thank you, speaker.

If you'd um exit to your right, thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Rabbi Neil Combs Daniels, Veronica Gonzalez, Sonia Ceron, Lauren Robles, Chi Navarro, and Jackie Subic.

Hi, speaker.

Which items or general public comment did you want to speak on?

Um the same one she was speaking.

So that you got a minute.

Please go ahead.

Yeah, so I'm I guess one of the people that she's referring to.

I have Crohn's disease and have been let down by our health care system for 25 years now.

And uh finally I found something that was better than opiates.

And now, after a year of kind of enjoying that, and I'm finding out that it's like in danger of being banned again.

And uh I'm love to hear suggestions as to like what people expect me to go to when you know I'm just seeing options being shut in front of me.

I'm just trying to be a you know productive member of society, but I live with excruciating pain.

And uh, yeah, I'm I'm hearing just like doors shutting in front of me.

And the only people that I can see that would benefit from 7-0 being banned is gonna be the cartels.

So if that's kind of, you know, who we're trying to benefit, that's who's gonna benefit from this.

So, that's all I have.

Thank you, speaker.

Hello, speaker.

Um, what did you want to speak on?

An item or general public comment?

Bueno Dias.

Good good morning.

My name is Sonia Cerro, and I'm speaking for general public comment.

Please go ahead.

Yes, I work for flying Food Group, uh packaging and preparing uh airline food for LAX.

Necessitamos maintenance.

Saying that if we don't do as as they say, that there will be bad consequences.

Yeah, don't let these these companies get away with it.

They lost.

And they have to obey the law of the Olympic wage.

Please don't be tricked.

Thank you, Speaker.

Hello, Speaker.

Which uh item or general public comment did you want to speak on?

Um, also the Olympic wage.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Please go ahead.

You have a minute.

Good morning.

My name is Rabbi Neil Comas Daniels.

I am the emeritus rabbi of Bethshear Shalom Synagogue in Santa Monica, and for the past 40 years I've lived in Mar Vista.

Ms.

Park is my councilwoman.

I have three things to share.

One is uh in Hebrew um uh from Pierkeo Vote, uh, from the ethics of our sages.

If in the end you want something understood, say it so people can understand you.

Um we had a commitment, a clear commitment on both sides.

These workers will work hard to create an atmosphere in Los Angeles that will welcome the world in 2028.

They're sticking to their commitment.

We expect the city to stick to theirs.

Um and secondly, um, it's also said in Pierkevo that above all things is a good name.

Your reputation in the city of of Los Angeles, our reputation rides on this uh this law.

Thank you.

Hello, speaker.

What did you want to speak on?

Thank you.

I'm speaking in general comment.

Please go ahead.

Good.

My name is Jackie Subek.

I am the founder of Seven Hope Alliance Foundation.

We are a nonprofit in support of public education on seven hydroxymetragene and Kratum.

Uh there's an item right now on consent that we urge you to pull back from consent.

Do not support the bill in Sacramento.

It is not what you think it is.

We would love to have an educational moment with you and opportunity to discuss what all of this is, but we absolutely believe in regulation over prohibition.

Please pull this item from consent and give us the opportunity to educate you about this these products that are helping tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people in Los Angeles alone.

Um this is the wrong thing to do to blindly just vote to support this bill in Sacramento.

The bill in Sacramento is a mess.

Please, please pull it from consent.

Thank you.

Thank you, Speaker.

Hi, Speaker.

Uh, which item or general public comment.

Please go ahead.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Lauren Robles, and I am the current policy associate for the Translatina Coalition.

I'm here to advocate for the Translatina community, a vastly underserved community in Los Angeles.

Myself and the coalition urge the city council to help protect and serve our most vulnerable.

As you move forward with today's agenda, we ask that you take into consideration the heightened risk and current attacks that the TGI community is facing from our federal government.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Fatima Murieta, Max Mitchell, Josh Nichols, Matthew Holm, and Reverend Yoshi Kuromato.

Hello, Speaker.

What did you want to speak to?

Hello, um, I will be commenting on item two.

Okay, so that's um general public comment.

So if you would please begin, you have a minute.

Okay, good morning.

My name is Veronica Gonzalez.

I'm a proud and gelino and an organizer with Starbucks Workers United and a former Starbucks Priest.

I'm here today because the workers who make this city run deserve dignity and respect.

Starbucks was named the official coffee partner of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games.

That means Starbucks will represent Los Angeles to the world.

But Starbucks has not earned that privilege.

Starbucks workers are unionizing across the country, but instead of respecting our rights, Starbucks has become the worst labor law violator in modern US history, including here in Los Angeles.

Starbucks' supply chain has been tied to allegations of forced labor in dangerous working conditions in Mexico, China, Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, Guatemalo, and beyond.

Starbucks Workers United is proud to be part of the Fair Games Coalition, standing with other unions and community members to hold the Olympics accountable to their own values.

We urge the City Council to demand that Starbucks be denied a seat at the Olympic table until it stops union busting, signs fair contracts, and respects workers everywhere.

Thank you.

Thank you, Speaker.

Hello, Speaker.

Uh, which item or general public comment did you want?

Hi, buenos dias.

My name is Chi Chi.

I'll be speaking on general public comment.

Excellent.

You have a minute.

Please go ahead.

Thank you.

So I am here today as a representative of the Transatina Coalition.

Uh, our community faces heightened attacks from rising hate crimes to anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigrant policies.

Los Angeles County recently declared a state of emergency for immigrants, a clear sign of how vulnerable our families and neighbors have become.

As the city prepares for the Olympics, we know from history that this event brings increased policing, displacement, and uh surveillance that will deepen harms for all vulnerable groups, especially transgender, gender-expensive immigrant and working class people who have already been struggling to access housing and services.

The spectacle of the gains must not uh come at the cost of communities' safety and dignity.

So I ask you all to please put in policies that will make sure that you protect the most vulnerable communities of uh that are here today.

Uh I stand in solidarity with all of the workers who are making things happen that are moving this city along, and I urge you to support them as well and to make sure that the city of Los Angeles is indeed open for everyone and welcoming to everyone.

Gracias.

Thank you.

Hi, Speaker.

Uh, what do you want to speak on?

Hi, my name is Joshua Nichols.

I'm going to be speaking on a general comment.

Great.

Go ahead.

Uh I am uh I'm a consumer at Arias at LAX, and I personally feel it is disgusting to see Delta United and other hotel associations lobbying and trying to hold the city hostage.

We won our Olympic wage, and we will not back down.

Or we will not go back.

Don't let Olympic sponsors like Delta get away with this.

Defend the wage.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi, Speaker.

Which item or general public comment did you want to speak to?

My name is Max Mitchell, general public comment.

Please go ahead.

Honorable members of the Los Angeles City Council.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak.

I'm a proud Californian husband, father, and entrepreneur.

7-0 didn't just save my life, it gave me one worth living.

Research confirms its power with minimal respiratory depression.

7-0 shows less abuse potential than traditional opioids.

Sure, it is addictive, but not nearly as addictive as alcohol or nicotine, both legal products.

Here in Los Angeles, Spentanil, pure poisonous pedaled openly in our streets, claiming thousands.

Meanwhile, regulators I 7-0 with suspicion, ignoring its proven benefits.

Ignoring the science and the facts.

This is madness.

While cartels flood Skid Row with death, we risk banning a lifeline.

Recent tragedies involve traditional kratom mixed with alcohol and other drugs, not pure 7-0 use.

Council members, be bold.

Protect 7-0 access.

This ban will kill people.

Regulate for purity, not prohibition.

I urge you not to fall victim to the propaganda created by groups that are only serving their financial interests while spreading outright lies.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Jordan Long, Jono Boyer, and Nicholas Gardner.

Hello, speaker.

Which item or general public comment?

Did you want to speak to you?

General public comment.

Please go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Fatima Murieta.

I'm a senior organizer with jobs to move America.

I've been organizing alongside tourism workers for over two and a half years for the Olympic wage.

It passed in September, and that was no easy feat.

Tourism workers have stood strong against every attack from Delta United and the Hotel Lodging Association.

This summer, I spoke with voters across many of your districts as these companies launched the referendum campaign.

And Heleno saw through their corporate deception and stood with workers.

And guess what?

We won again.

Live up to one Helimbo's mandate.

Continue to stand with workers by defending the wage, and don't fall for corporate pressure tactics.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up the last few names we have.

Ariana Matuks Predo, Joseph Marino, Victor Sanchez, and Shannon O'Leary.

Hello, Speaker.

What did you want to speak to?

General, general public comment, please.

Excellent.

You have a minute.

Please begin.

My name is Yoshi.

I'm the pastor at San Pedro United Methodist Church.

I'm representing Clue today.

And I like to speak to my council member, Mr.

McCosker, because I've felt uh represented these past few months.

Ever since our violent uh invasion of the city and occupation by ICE, you've been a voice of the people and immigrants.

I see this Olympic wage as an issue that is deeply intersectional, and so therefore I just call on you to be consistent to represent us, to represent our people, and to defend the Olympic wage.

Fascism is only capitalism showing its teeth when it faces a moment of crisis.

Therefore, I believe that in order to resist fascism, we have to place power in the working people, and so this defending of wage represents something broader to better this country and this world.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Speaker.

Hello, Speaker.

Did you want to speak on general public comment or an item?

General public comment.

Please begin.

Honorable members of the City Council, I respectfully urge you to reconsider the proposed ban on seven hydroxy metagrenine or 70H, a naturally occurring component of Kratom.

While recent headlines have linked it to several overdose deaths in Los Angeles County, coroner reports confirmed that not every case involved that every case involved multiple substances, not 70H alone.

Since 70H products entered the market roughly two years ago, national overdose deaths have declined by nearly 24%.

That's not a coincidence.

It reflects the role 70H plays as a harm reduction alternative, helping people avoid far deadlier substances like fentanyl.

Millions of Americans, including many veterans living with chronic pain or PTSD, rely on cratom and its derivatives to remain stable, employed, and out of danger.

Banning 70H will not enhance safety.

It will drive consumers toward illicit markets, eliminate American jobs, and reverse this progress.

Let's ground policy in data, compassion, and harm reduction, not fear.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you, sir.

Hello, speaker.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh good morning, uh, General Public Comment.

Greg, please go ahead.

All right, good morning, Council members.

My name is Nico Gardner.

I'm speaking on behalf of United Teachers Los Angeles, and on behalf of the 38,000 public school educators in Los Angeles, we are proud to stand in solidarity with tourism workers everywhere fighting for the Olympic wage.

Uh this just passed two and a half years ago.

Or sorry, it just passed in September, and I'm just heartbroken to hear that again, Delta United and the Hotel and Lodging Association are trying to overturn the Olympic whale.

Olympic uh wage, sorry.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

Council members, in a time of rising economic crisis, of rising in affordability, we urge you not to give in to corporate greed and corporate blackmail and stand strong with workers and stand strong for the Olympic wage.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Hello, Speaker.

Um, what would you like to speak on?

Uh, item two, sir.

Okay, so that's gonna be general, so please go ahead.

Yes, sir.

So, my name is Jordan Long.

I'm a bartender at the Delta One Lounge at LAX, and I am here after another closing shift, very tired.

I am personally disgusted to see my company spending millions to stop hardworking Angelinos and their families from earning a better living wage.

Now, Delta, partner of the LA 28, along with the hotel lobbies and United is seeking to undermine the very workers of the city who will make the Olympic games even possible, and by denying them a living wage and threatening the city with an attack on its budget.

So I urge you, we urge you.

Please do not be fooled.

Please stand strong and defend our Olympic wage.

This is my city.

I was born here, I was raised here, and I'm going to be here forever.

I love this city.

Please do the right thing for my people.

Please.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Speaker.

Hi, which item or items would you like to speak to?

Uh general public comment.

Great.

Please go ahead.

Good afternoon, council members.

My name is Joseph Marino and I operate a small business in Ventura County.

My company employs local residents and helps support many families.

I'm here today because the proposed ban on seven hydroxy concerns me deeply.

Since this compound entered the market back in 2023, drug-related overdoses in the US have decreased, not increased.

And that's a fact no one can deny.

Meanwhile, our country continues to face an undeniable crisis.

Fentanyl and street drugs are taking lives every single day, yet there's almost no clear evidence leaking 7 hydroxy to fatal overdoses.

Most reported cases involve multiple substances.

Instead of an outright ban, you should focus on reasonable regulation and safe access.

This industry supports standards, testing, and transparency.

Banning this compound will only push people back towards the illicit market and far more dangerous alternatives.

This is not gas station heroin or a new wave of the opioid epidemic.

It's a harm reduction tool that has helped many thousands reclaim stability and quality of life.

Thank you for the time and considering the real facts before making this decision.

Hi, Speaker.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Please go ahead.

Today I'm here to speak up as a communication and technology management student at UCSV and full-time employee.

I'm constantly navigating high pressure deadlines, presentations, and long work hours.

Today I stand to support seven hydroxymitragine or 7-0, the Kratom compound that's been a lifeline.

The anxiety from balancing school and a full-time job used to overwhelm me.

Sleepless nights, racing thoughts, and fear of falling short.

Using 7-0 at the recommended dose, I found clarity and calmness, allowing me to craft compelling messages in my communication courses as well as research and innovate in tech management projects without the mental fog.

As a former athlete with injuries, 7-0 has been my go-to for pain relief.

It's kept me from slipping back into old struggles with alcohol and nicotine, which were far more addictive and harder to quit than 7-0 has ever been for me.

This natural option has kept me focused, productive, and in control.

Let's advocate for access to responsible, safe alternatives like 7-0.

They empower students like me to thrive and provide a safe alternative to buying dangerous substances on the street.

Thank you.

Thank you, Speaker.

Good morning, General Public Comment.

Very good.

Please go ahead.

Uh my name is Victor Sanchez.

I'm the executive director of the Los Angeles Alliance for New Economy Lane.

I have a more detailed uh letter that I can share with council members, and I can give it to the appropriate person uh when it when it's right.

But in May, this council and the mayor made history by standing with tourism workers to raise wages and secure quality health care.

With the support of over 500 coalition members, we fought for more than two years so that no one making hotel beds or welcoming guests at LEX would have to sleep in their car or fall behind on medical bills.

After that victory and after Angelino stood with us in defeating a referendum funded by Delta United and the hotel lobby.

These same billion dollar corporations are again trying to bully our city instead of paying fair wages.

Council members, what kind of a city do we want to live in?

One where corporations strong arm our leaders into keeping Angelinos in poverty.

Do not let them gut the Olympic wage.

We can't let these corporations drag our city backward.

Thank you.

Thank you, Speaker.

Hello.

Hi.

Hi.

Um, do you want to speak on general public comment or general and public comment?

Please go ahead.

Uh yes, I wanted to speak uh today regarding the uh proposed ban on uh uh creatum and and seven uh my tragenine uh seven commonly referred to as 70H.

Um I am a uh 70H and Kratom user, and it would uh it has created a great deal of stability in my life.

Um as many of the speakers before have said it's uh enabled me to uh stay away from uh drugs that would be far more harmful.

Um and I I think that this ban is short-sighted and humbly ask that the council uh reconsider um and study the issue further uh before um uh marching in lockstep with another ban um and thank you thank you for um hearing me out.

Thank you.

Hello, speaker.

Which item or general public comment would you like to speak to?

Good morning, general public comment.

Please go ahead.

Mr.

Marquise, how long have you been having an affair on your wife?

Oh, now I have your attention, huh?

The moment I say that the president has been sleeping with his assistant, everybody's heads turn.

But when I talk about the corruption, housing, and food insecurity, and the copious amounts of money wasted, all I have is crickets and nobody paying attention, as you can see.

Isn't it funny that we only care about the betrayal when it's personal but not when it's systemic?

Because this isn't about one man cheating on his wife.

This is about an entire system, cheating the people of our city, hiding the truth behind polished smiles and press conferences like our mayor.

So, yeah, if I have to start with gossip to make you look up Mr.

Marquise, then so be it.

But make no mistake that the real affair is between power and profit.

Next speaker.

Hello, speaker.

Which item or general public comment you would like to speak on?

General public comment.

Please go ahead.

My name is Sheila Richardson, exclusive systems.

I am from the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, and I am president and founder of Exclusive Systems, formerly exclusive auto corp.

I am also commissioner with the city of Carson.

On Friday, I came over to your wonderful entity to make sure that Karen Bass and all 15 of your districts have a copy of my constituents' concerns this forms.

We all know how important it is to meet the needs in our districts of our constituents.

And we understand that the diverse languages that we have are numerous.

And so with that being said, I encourage each and every one of you to review the documentation that I did submit to your office and contact me for any questions that you have.

There is a forms request tutorial that is available that you can review as well if you have any questions or concerns.

And I do have information for each and every one of you to review as well.

And by all means be sure and contact my office if you have any questions.

This one I'd like to give to city clerk for Mayor Karen Bass.

Sure.

Thank you very much, Speaker.

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

All right.

Uh thank everybody who came to share with us this morning.

Uh Madam Clerk, what items are before us.

Mr.

President, Council may now vote on items 15 through 21 as well as 23, sir.

All right.

Uh Councilmember Padia.

Colleagues, I would like for us to um reconsider item 32 and be moved to this Friday because I actually wanted um because we're gonna be in Van I City Hall, I want to be able to give the community the opportunity to speak on the item.

I got you.

Thank you.

All right, so madam clerk, we had items before us.

Let's vote on those items and then we'll come back to it.

Yes.

Uh so those would be sure.

Yes.

Okay.

Uh those would be um items 15 through 21 as well as 23, uh, is available to vote now, sir, and then uh we could address uh council can address uh council member Padilla's request on item 23.

But right now it's 1521 as well as 23, sir.

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

Well, all right.

What's next?

Next would be the reconsideration of item 32, and that was uh uh motion made by Ms.

Padilla.

Is there a second to reconsider?

Oh, seconded by Mr.

Bumenfield.

Uh all right, so uh if council can vote to reconsider 32.

Alright, let's open the roll on reconsideration, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

12 eyes.

All right, and then we'll open the roll on uh, so it's continued till Friday.

Yes, continue to Friday, October 31st, 2025.

Right on.

What's next?

Next would be item three, and that was called special for amendment uh made by councilmember McCosker and uh seconded by Councilmember Hutt.

The amendment has been circulated and is before council now.

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

All right, what's next?

The final item is called special by council member Herado for a separate vote, and that is item 22, sir.

All right, item number 22.

Any comments, council member curado?

It's a separate vote.

Okay, all right.

Let's open the roll on that item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

No, all right.

What's next?

Uh council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and referred.

The desk is clear, sir.

All right, announcements members, any announcements.

Councilmember Hutt.

Thank you so much, Mr.

President.

Um, this Saturday, West Adams.

We have Dia de los Muertes, a celebration of culture and heritage.

Actually, the address is 5640 West Adams Boulevard, and we'll be from 12 p.m.

to 8 p.m.

There'll be an altar and there'll be fun and cultural dance and music.

So come out and uh join us for our third annual Dia de los Muertes Festival Block Party.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hutt.

Any other announcements?

Councilmember Judato?

Uh yes, I would like to be recorded as a no vote for item 22, for which I called for a separate vote.

All that, and we didn't get your no vote in.

Yes, sir.

All right, I shall review the rules once more.

All right, that doesn't change the outcome.

Uh uh, yes, sir.

Uh, just for the record, then, uh, you are correct, uh, Mr.

President.

It does not change the outcome.

However, the final vote is now nine to three, sir.

Got it, okay.

Any other announcements, members?

All right, I'll ask everyone in the chambers to stand for adjourning motions.

Sorry, Councilmember Yaroslavsky.

I'm sorry, I have an announcement.

Um, colleagues, I'd like to invite everyone to join us uh this Saturday, November 1st, from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

Uh at Pan Pacific Park for our third annual Great Pumpkin Bash, which is hosted by my office in partnership with the Board of Public Works and Recreation and Parks.

Uh, the Great Pumpkin Bash is a free family friendly fall festival that gives Angelinos a really fun way in a sustainable way too to wrap up the Halloween season.

Uh instead of tossing your old pumpkins in the trash.

Families can bring their old jack-o'-lanterns to the pumpkin smash zone where we're smash them.

I'm telling you, it's very cathartic to do this.

Um, my kids like it.

My husband likes it, I like it.

You should come do it.

Um, we smash them for fun and then we turn them into compost for local gardens.

We're giving out a whole bunch of stuff.

We're gonna have fruit trees, we're giving out compost pins bales, there's all there's free food, there's music, there's bouncy houses, uh, there's gonna be candy for kids, a costume parade, pumpkin themed food from local favorites like Cafe Notted, Angelini Osteria, and DuPars, music activities, giveaways throughout the afternoon, including Dodgers merchandise and a visit from former Dodgers pitcher Dennis Powell.

Uh it's a great way to celebrate the season and spend time with neighbors and take part in a small but meaningful effort to keep our city greener and cleaner, and I hope you all will join us on Saturday from 11 to 2.

All right.

Thank you so much for that announcement, Councilmember Yaroslavsky.

Councilmember Padilla.

Colleagues, I wanted to also invite all of you to Panorama City this weekend.

We are having a our second annual Day of the Dead, the de los muertos event, um, in partnership with Casa Esperanza, the San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Partnership, San Fernando Valley Car Club Council, and many more will be there.

It's gonna be a resource fair, altars dedicated to uh social issues that have cost people their lives, uh, jumpers, and so much more.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hutt.

Mr.

Chair.

Um, on item 23.

Can we send this emergency forth with, please?

I don't know if there's such a thing as emergency forthwith, but for you, yes, urgent, urgent forthwith.

Okay, I need emergency urgency.

All of it, all of it, okay.

So I'm sorry.

Thank you.

All right, um, just a moment, sir.

Sorry.

Uh so item 23 is urgent forthwith.

Uh, correct?

Uh so that requires a vote, please.

All right, let's open the roll on emergency urgent forthwith.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right, thank you, sir.

Mr.

Blumenfield.

I was gonna wait till Friday to make this announcement, but since everybody's announcing their Dia de los Muertos events, I figured I would I would chime in because we are having a huge one, which we do every year.

It's the 25th annual Dia de los Muertos event, and it's in Codoga Park on Sunday.

So come on, that we have a car show, we have vendors, we have all sorts of amazing things.

It's a great community event, it's been going on for a quarter century.

Uh everyone's invited.

All right.

Uh Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

And uh certainly last but not least on the Día de los Muertos celebration.

I'm actually very proud to announce that for the first time we are moving the annual Pocoima Día de los Muertos celebration to do it at the San Fernando Cemetery in partnership with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

And so this is uh our effort to really take out what others have commercialized and really bring it back to the true roots of the celebration, and so uh working with the Archdiocese and uh the Archdiocese Cemeteries.

Uh, I'm really proud to that we're gonna be having the annual Dia de los Muertos on the first, uh, and uh doing this in uh partnership for free for residents to come on out and honor their loved ones.

Thank you so much.

Uh and I'll just add uh in council's districts eight and one, we'll be having our Dia de los Muertos celebration at the corner of Hoover and Adams, where District One, District Eight, and District Nine uh meet there.

And uh we'll have an 80-foot uh story, 80 foot, 85-foot Ferris wheel there that you'll be able to see from the freeway, which we're very excited about.

Food, games.

We'll have uh a um altar there, a large, very large altar.

This is also the location of the one of the country's only active puppet theaters.

Is on the it's called the 24th Street Theater, uh, right there in the in the uh right there at that intersection, and they're the sponsors for it, and also just a great LA story that warms my heart.

The Avula Brothers will be performing.

The Alvila brothers are from Boyle Heights.

Their father was a session musician for Motown when they were growing up.

So they're you know, they would they kind of grew up in the studio and learned how to do music, and now they are producers for people like Usher and Janet Jackson and Bruno Mars and all the rest.

They don't normally perform, uh, but we asked them if they would come out and do something for the neighborhood themselves, and they're gonna do that on Sunday night at our Dia de los Meltons celebration.

So we're very excited.

Everybody's invited.

We will announce this again on Friday.

Uh, so everybody act like you're hearing it for the first time.

Alright, any other announcements, members?

Alright, seeing none, we'll go to our journey motions.

Any adjourning motions to my left?

And to my right, Councilmember Yarosowski.

No, no adjourning motion.

Yeah, but they're coming.

Oh, they're still coming.

Okay.

You have one, Councilmember Padilla.

They're not here yet.

Councilmember McCosker had an announcement, which I'll now ask him to make.

I'll use the one that I was gonna make uh when I was hoping for my motion to get delivered and it has been delivered.

But I will call out an event that we uh that I'm doing with Assemblymember Mike Gibson tomorrow.

It's gonna be really nice.

Um Mike Gibson is really the originator of this, but it's going to be called Roots of Resilience, a vigil for unity in Wilmington.

We're going to meet at the Wilmington Town Square, and we're inviting the community to come out.

And as you know, that's a predominantly Latino community, one that is really close knit and supportive.

We're going to have some resources in the town square, and we're going to take a march to uh in vigil style to St.

Peter and Paul Church.

We're going to have a beautiful mass at St.

Peter and Paul with the entire community.

So folks are invited out tomorrow, Thursday, to come to the town square at 6 p.m.

And we'll have you in and out of Mass by 8 p.m.

Right on.

All right.

Mr.

Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh happy to announce that this Saturday is our annual CD12 drive-in uh movie experience at Chattel Ranch Park.

Every year we bring back drive-ins to the district to remind everybody the sort of history of the drive-ins and what you know they were so popular in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles.

We will be showing uh Shrek, and uh hope everyone can join us.

But you do need two RSVPs, so please make sure to give Council District 12's office a call, and we will save a space for you.

All right, Mr.

Soto Martinez.

Thank you so much, Mr.

President.

Well, I want to take this moment to uh mention this since we're not gonna be here on Friday, but I would encourage every council office uh and folks here in our city family to please have some treats ready for the Joy Picas Daycare Center, who's gonna be doing their annual trick-or-treat here at City Hall.

Uh we have a lot of kids that are gonna be coming going door-to-door uh trick-or-treating, but instead of candy, we're asking folks to do some healthy snacks such as raisins, uh, some crackers, man, uh some cuties or some small mandarins, uh, have those ready for the children.

I know, I know.

People want the good stuff, but we want to teach folks that they can have good fun uh and also be healthy at the same time.

So, so even though we won't be here on Friday, I'm encouraging every council office to get some healthy snacks for these wonderful kids.

Yes, it's got our office, right?

What goodies we can get for the kids without it being sweets, and somebody said crayons, and I said if you do crayons and no coloring books, we're gonna have a bunch of angry parents because we'll have crayons on the walls.

And so having raised five kids myself, I said you gotta give them crayons and something to do with those crayons because they will figure out something that we don't want them to do.

How about you do crayons coloring books?

There we go.

I have enough.

Councilmember Hernandez.

Thank you.

Um, so there I have a bunch of Halloween events to one at William Meet today.

Um, but also um I want to uplift some incredible work that my team and I have been doing.

So we applied for a six million dollar encampment resolution grant from the state of California to house people that are experiencing homelessness along the 110 freeway and the Los Angeles Riverbed from Dodger Stadium all the way to Avenue 52.

Uh we have locked in the leases that we need to begin housing folks.

We have done our first uh housing operation at Lacey Street Park next to our animal uh set uh animal shelter on Lacey Street there, and we're gonna begin going up the riverbed and the freeway.

And this is uh this is a lot of people that we're talking about who have been there for a long time, and so I just want to give a shout out to my team for one locking down this money from the state, um, locking down the beds so we can take people and now conducting the operations that are cleaning up and also housing people in stable and interim housing.

So that's the biggest shout I wanted to give, but also um this Friday, we're gonna be at Milo's spectacular trunk retreat fest on Broadway and Lincoln Heights.

We have uh spectacular event at Cypress Park Rec Center on Friday as well, and another Halloween event uh Halloween event at Ramona Hall, also on Friday.

And you can find this all on our Instagram.

And then on Sunday, we have an a Halloween event.

It's a Dio de los Muertos event organized by Avenue 50 Studios in my district.

We're working in partnership with them at the Heritage Square Museum.

So I'm not sure if y'all ever drive on the 110 north, but you see a bunch of Victorian houses by Highland Park.

That's Heritage Square.

So they're gonna be having a Dio de los Muertos event there.

So hop off the freeway, go have some fun, check out the Victorian homes.

But it's gonna be a great time, and that's gonna be on Sunday from 11 to 4.

Thank you.

For those of us who are old people, that location is where the famous thriller video was shot.

Yeah in that uh at those Victorian homes.

Uh all right.

Uh Councilmember Jurado.

Oh, if we still need work, okay.

Oh, okay.

Uh, thank you so much.

November 1st, this Saturday.

I'm joining the chorus to promote our city, which is so beautiful.

It's also Vernando Valenzuela's day and remembering him in Boa Heights in front of the mural.

We're having a small celebration of life.

Um, come join us with Robert Vargas, the infamous muralist, who's gonna be in the Guinness Book of Records someday for having the biggest mural here in downtown and with the family to honor his life.

So thank you.

All right.

Any other announcements, members?

All right, I think we can go to Councilmember Padilla.

I believe there should be a slide.

So colleagues, today I ask that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Rogelia Bernal, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and the pillar of her family, who passed away unexpectedly on September 6, 2025.

She was born on August 2nd, 1956 in Ayutla, Jalisco, Mexico, a neighboring town to my mother's town.

At the age of 16, she came to Los Angeles alongside her brothers in search of a better life.

Just a few years later, at 19, she married her lifelong partner Ignacio Tornacho, whom she shared um 50 beautiful years of marriage with.

Together they built their life in Los Angeles, first in South LA, then in Pocoima, and finally in Sun Valley, where they purchased their forever home in 1993 and raised their five children.

Family was at the center of Ms.

Rohelia's world.

She expressed her love through her cooking, especially her famous Viria, and found her greatest joy surrounded by her five children and 14 grandchildren, who affectionately knew her as La Walama's chingona.

And this is how I knew her.

And to me, this is she is uh exactly the type of story of the type of mothers and grandmothers that we have in the San Fernando Valley, who really are the matriarch that make things happen.

I know her through through of through two of her uh daughter-in-laws, Lorena and Leti, and it's their kids that are now uh a part of who I'm seeing grow.

Um I met through here, the city family, and the other I know because she's the sister of one of my best friends from high school.

Very much part of my network.

Very sad to see her go.

Outside of her home, Rohelia loved the outdoors and often joined her husband on camping and hunting trips, creating countless cherished memories together.

Her legacy lives on in the love she poured into her family and the worth she brought to everyone around her.

She is now survived by her husband Ignacio, her children Alejandra, Ismael, Nacho, Jesus Arnulfo, and Cristian, her 14 grandchildren, whose ages range from one to 24, and her siblings, Javier Jorge, Bernabé, Socorro, Arcelia, and Rosario.

Today we honor the life of Ms.

Mrs.

Mrs.

Rohelia Bernal, a remarkable woman whose memory will continue to live on in the hearts of her family, her neighbors, and everyone who knew her, and was blessed to be part of her circle.

May she rest in peace, and will we keep may we keep her loved ones in our thoughts during this difficult time, especially with November 1st around the corner.

May she rest in peace.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Petty, and thank you for being here with us in the gift.

Councilmember Yarosowski.

I'm told they're walking in.

So let me.

Today I rise to adjourn in memory of Gary Wendell Nelson, a respected member of the Hancock Park community who was tragically killed on June 11th, 2025 during a burglary at his home.

Gary's death has been devastating for his family, friends, neighbors, and broader community.

But while his life ended in violence, what defines him most is how he lived, with integrity, generosity, and a deep commitment to those around him.

Gary built a long and successful career in the aerospace industry, real estate, and is a co-founder of a mortgage banking firm.

But foremost, he was a devoted husband and father, a man of faith and someone who found peace and meaning in nature's way.

He was generous with his time and energy.

As a member of the Hancock Park Homeowners Association, he took pride in improving and beautifying his neighborhood.

At the Wilshire Country Club, he enjoyed time with family and friends, and at Hollywood Presbyterian Church, he served as a deacon and greeter, welcoming congregants each week with his signature smile and kind words.

He also led the Los Angeles chapter of Lambda Alpha International and most recently chaired the board of Franklin Wireless.

Gary believed in doing what was right even when it was hard.

He valued hard work and supported those who gave of themselves for others.

Today we're joined in Council Chambers by his daughter Jennifer Nelson, her partner Emmanuel Utomo, and Gary's dear friend and neighbor Jim Zephyrus.

On behalf of the Los Angeles City Council, I expend extend our condolences to everyone who mourns his huge loss.

I ask that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Gary Nelson.

May his memory be a blessing, and may his legacy of generosity, kindness, and community service continue to inspire us all.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Yarosowski.

Any other adjourning motions?

Alright, seeing none, we're adjourned.

Thank you so much.

So 76% is meeting that demand, and that happens every day.

I check it probably once a week in California's regularly at 80, 90, even sometimes a hundred percent.